Elon Musk says SpaceX will be ready to fly its Mars rocket in 2019. At the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Musk says the rocket will likely be able to do short "up and down flights" during the first half of next year. He also mentioned last year, that his Mars rocket, could one day fly people from city to city on Earth in rapid amounts of time. Musk touted that it would take 30 minutes to go from New York to Shanghai. The billionaire entrepreneur has always wanted to send humans to live on Mars. He said colonizing Mars will present huge "entrepreneurial opportunity."
Photo: Elon Musk and Ashton Kutcher attend the Sound Ventures 'The Party' at Hotel Van Zandt on March 10, 2018 in Austin. (Photo by Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Sound )