From Mars to Moon

 First, there was the news that Model S and Model X, two cars of Tesla, the world’s biggest electric vehicle company, were going to be phased out because its visionary founder, Elon Musk, wanted to focus on using the factory space to build robots. Then it was announced that SpaceX, another Musk venture, that rewrote the sector was going to be merged with xAI, his artificial intelligence venture, to create a massive tech company. An IPO is going to be done that will value the combined entity at $1.25 trillion.

And now comes yet another Musk shocker: that he plans to establish a colony on the moon first and not Mars. For about two decades now, Musk has been constantly talking about how all he was interested in was a human outpost on Mars because that is how human consciousness would be preserved if Earth is destroyed. He underpinned all his ventures using this mission statement. And the timelines he gave earlier have already passed. Now, Musk is suddenly stating that Mars is going to be many decades away because the moon is nearer and more practical to establish a self-sustaining city. He is not abandoning Mars and will move on to it too but the priority has now shifted closer to home.