Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Inc. TSLA, has expressed confidence in sending uncrewed Starships to Mars within two years, carrying Tesla Cybertrucks and Optimus robots as payloads.
What Happened: Musk said in a post on X that he is “highly confident” that SpaceX can send “several uncrewed Starships to Mars in 2 years.”
“If those ships don’t increment the crater count on Mars, then crewed ships can be sent in 4 years.”
As far as payloads are concerned, Musk said it will include Cybertrucks and Optimus robots.
This comes after SpaceX’s successful launch of its Starship rocket from Texas, which President-elect Donald Trump attended.
The rocket, designed to transport astronauts to the moon and Mars, saw its first-stage booster detach from the second…
