Musk unveils his plan to make humanity multi-planetary
At a conference in Mexico, Musk laid out the rocket and spaceship he said would carry people to Mars.
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On September 27, 2016, at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, Elon Musk presented a plan titled "Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species."
It described a fully reusable rocket and spaceship, then called the Interplanetary Transport System, designed to carry large numbers of people to Mars and to bring costs down so that a self-sustaining settlement became possible.
The design changed many times. It became the BFR in 2017 and, in 2018, was renamed Starship. The timelines Musk presented were ambitious and have repeatedly slipped.
