Sep 272016
Elon Musk is scheduled to present his plan on getting humans to Mars and beyond at 2:30 Eastern (12:30 Mountain). The Youtube link below should carry it live, or be available afterwards.
SpaceX has also released a “teaser” video showing the system in action:
The booster is 12 meters in diameter, the spacecraft is 17 meters in diameter and the complete stack is 122 meters tall. This is bigger than the Saturn V. Liftoff thrust is 28,730,000 pounds.
The animation is pretty spiffy, but I can’t help but think that the mission depicted is… ummm… a little simplified.