Musk showed a crowd of space enthusiasts and reporters at SpaceX’s rocket development site late on Saturday in the remote village of Boca Chica,
Texas, animations of Starship landing on the
moon and
Mars and predicted that the rocket's first orbital flight could come in the next six months, followed by missions to space with humans aboard the next year. "This is basically the holy grail of space," Musk said, standing between a towering, newly assembled Starship rocket and Falcon 1 — the company's first vehicle whose debut orbital mission was celebrated by
SpaceX 11 years ago.