In the future, SpaceX is going to take me anywhere on Earth in ~30 minutes and yeah, to the Moon too.
Instead of cramming into a plane seat for hours, dealing with delays and jet lag, I’ll just be hopping on a Starship rocket… you blast off, make a quick hop through space, and touch down fresh on the other side of the planet.
SpaceX lays it out pretty clearly: most long trips around the world will take 30 minutes or less.
New York to Paris, half an hour instead of seven-plus hours in the air.
LA to New York in about 25 minutes.
Sydney to Singapore in 31.
And the same Starship is what’s going to get us back to the Moon. NASA has officially picked it as the lander for their Artemis missions, so one day soon it’ll be carrying people to the lunar surface for the first time in over fifty years.
This all comes down to SpaceX’s reusable rocket technology, which the team keeps testing and improving with every flight, and being the only company in the world that can do it like this. Reusability is what will eventually make a trip in a rocket more affordable than a plane ticket.
Many call me crazy… but this is going to happen.