just above the sand dunes of boca chica beach, one of the world's richest men is building starships to back to the moon and on to mars. elon musk: for the first orbital launch our goal is to make it to orbit without blowing up. to be totally frank, if it takes off without blowing up the stand, or stage zero, that would be a victory.

just above the sand dunes of boca chica beach, one of the world's richest men is building starships to take humans back to the moon and on to mars. elon musk: for the first orbital launch our goal is to make it to orbit without blowing up. to be totally frank, if it takes off without blowing up the stand, or stage zero, that would be a victory. please do not blow up on the stand. eric berger: i think what you're seeing is organized chaos and what you're seeing, really, is the personality of musk writ large. and he doesn't really care if it's messy, he doesn't really care if it appears to be chaotic, he's trying to go forward into the future as fast as possible. sarah: elon musk is building his massive starships through trial and error. elon: oh, god, no, no. oh! elon: starship does not have anyone on board so we can blow things up. that's really helpful. we actually want to push the envelope. and if you don't push e envelope, you cannot achieve the goal of a fully and rapidly reusable rocket. sarah: this year musk won a multibillionollar nasa contract for his starship to be their moon

just above the sand dunes of boca chica beach, one of the world's richest men is building starships toback to the moon and on to mars. elon musk: for the first orbital launch our goal is to make it to orbit without blowing up. to be totally frank, if it takes off without blowing up the stand, or stage zero, that would be a victory.