Musk sketches blueprint for space: to build a city on the moon within ten years, and send humans to Mars within five years.

In a recent program, Musk stated that he hopes to send tens of thousands of people to a lunar base within the next ten years. The goal by the end of this year is to send the first batch of supplies to the Moon and Mars in order to start building a colony. Musk predicts that within the next two to three years, SpaceX will first send astronauts to the Moon, and then rapidly expand from there, sending humans to both the Moon and Mars within the next five years, and establishing a permanent city on the Moon's surface within the next ten years. This lunar city is expected to be fully functional and self-sufficient, allowing people to permanently settle or vacation there. However, Musk also emphasized that sending people to Mars is much more difficult due to the longer journey time, but SpaceX plans to achieve this within the next five years and hopes to send thousands of people there within the next 10 to 12 years. Furthermore, he made a more specific commitment to expanding the space data center, stating that SpaceX will launch the first batch of artificial intelligence satellites next year, followed by large-scale deployment within the next two years.