Musk Unveils New Details of Plans for Mars Colonization

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Tuesday that his company was building a powerful reusable booster rocket and a spaceship with its own engines that would eventually be able to take as many as 100 people and their equipment to Mars. The U.S. entrepreneur, speaking at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, is not letting the explosion of his space exploration company's Falcon 9 rocket a few weeks ago dampen his enthusiasm for interplanetary travel. Instead,...

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