Should the uncrewed ships land safely, Musk anticipates sending crewed missions to Mars during the 2028-29 launch window. If the tests don't succeed, the company will try uncrewed missions again in the 2028 launch window, and push the crewed missions back to the launch window after that.

All the lawsuits Elon Musk and his tech companies Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink and X, formerly Twitter, are facing in Texas.

Elon Musk said through X that Kamala Harris' being elected could doom SpaceX and the Mars program and, by extension, the fate of humanity.

Musk said SpaceX plans to launch five uncrewed Starship rockets to Mars in 2026, followed by the first manned missions either two or four years later.

A new timeline from the billionaire underscores there are increasingly fewer windows to reach the red planet in his lifetime.

Elon Musk has announced his latest ambitious timeline for sending humans to Mars, but some think his head is in the clouds.