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CTOnews.com8, July 11, 1969, Apollo 11 was launched, which is not only the fifth manned mission of the Apollo program, but also the first human mission to the moon. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon, and Armstrong left his first human footprints on the moon.

But in recent years, the United States has never landed on the moon again. Musk, the founder of SpaceX, expressed his views on the first moon landing in the United States in 1969.

"it was a very abnormal situation that we were able to land on the moon in 1969," Musk said on the Full Send podcast. "it's like man went into the future and pushed technology forward." Musk stressed that the moon landing was not "the normal pace of technological development, but the United States collectively decided that it must be done." Musk was referring to the space competition between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Musk also said it was "strange" for the podcast host to mention that the United States had not returned to the lunar surface since 1972. In addition, Musk talked about SpaceX's future plans. "We will go to the moon and SpaceX has an asset contract to take astronauts to the moon," he said. And compared with previous rockets, SpaceX's super-heavy launch vehicle Starship is even bigger.

"the super-heavy launch vehicle Starship can send a 100t payload to the moon, which means you can use it to build a lunar base," Musk said. "and we can do much more than the Apollo program because they only have a small lander."

It is worth mentioning that the United States passed the Artemis Program (Artemis Program) in 2017, which aims to send astronauts to the moon by 2024. On July 20 this year, after four previous drills, NASA announced that the new generation of lunar rockets will launch the Orion spacecraft on August 29 at the earliest to carry out the unmanned test mission of Artemis 1 around the moon.

CTOnews.com learned that Musk had been working on going to Mars and building a city on Mars. Musk also reiterated in the podcast: "I think we should build a city on the moon and Mars."

In addition, Musk shared his Mars plan on June 5, saying he would launch thousands of 120-meter-high rockets to Mars to build a modern "Noah's Ark."

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