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ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND Elon Musk to reveal next step in mission to build city on Mars

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Elon Musk is preparing to reveal further details of his hugely ambitious plan to build a city on the surface of Mars.

Tomorrow, the billionaire's SpaceX is holding an event called "Making Humans An Interplanetary Species" which will shed light on the Red Planet exploration scheme.

Tomorrow, the billionaire's SpaceX is holding an event called "Making Humans An Interplanetary Species" which will shed light on the Red Planet exploration scheme.

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Ahead of the event, Musk shared images of a new rocket booster called the Raptor, which will power an "Interplanetary Transport System".

His firm has carried out a test-firing of the device, which is designed to propel a spaceship all the way to the Red Planet.

Musk has previously claimed Mars is "a fixer-upper of a planet" and even suggested dropping nuclear bombs on its surface to heat up the atmosphere and make it suitable for human colonisation.


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