Musk mentioned the plan at the StartmeupHK Festival in Hong Kong this week. Berger writes: With NASA’s plans to take us to Mars coming under fire lately, Musk could end up being our best chance to actually get there. At the same time, SpaceX is still trying to improve the reliability of its Falcon 9 rockets after an explosion last year and several near-misses of vertical landings at sea, and the company has only just begun showing test results for its passenger vessel, the Dragon 2 or “Crew Dragon.” Let’s just hope his talk in September goes a little more smoothly than his last conference presentation. [Ars Technica via Popular Mechanics]
