Elon Musk's New Vision: Spaceships to Anywhere on Earth in Under One Hour

ELON Musk is planning to use his Mars exploration rockets to carry up to 100 passengers "anywhere on Earth in less than an hour".
The billionaire claimed spaceships could zoom passengers from London to New York in less than half an hour.

This awesome sight would greet passengers as they got off a boat and prepared to blast off

In the picture above, you can see Musk's vision for his futuristic transport system.
First, passengers would take a boat out of a city to a launch pad out in the sea.
They would then board a rocket, blast off into space and then land vertically at their destination less than an hour later.
His SpaceX firm is planning to make its first trip to the red planet in 2022, carrying only cargo, Musk told a space conference in Adelaide this morning.
The billionaire said this would be followed by a manned mission in 2024 - a decade before Nasa is planning its own Red Planet voyage.
“If we are going to places like Mars, why not Earth?” Musk said at the 68th International Astronautical Congress on Friday in Adelaide, according to Bloomberg.

SpaceX rockets could carry out 100 passengers

The rocket would cut back on journey times by flying into space and then landing back on Earth

It's hoped any journey on Earth would take less than an hour

Musk had previously planned to use a suite of space vehicles to support the colonisation of Mars, beginning with an unmanned capsule called Red Dragon in 2018, but he said SpaceX is now focused on a single, slimmer and shorter rocket instead.
"We want to make our current vehicles redundant," he said.
"We want to have one system. If we can do that, then all the resources...can be applied to this system. I feel fairly confident that we can complete the ship and be ready for a launch in about five years."