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CTOnews.com SpaceX founder Elon Musk, the world's richest man, attended the International Astronautical Congress in Azerbaijan on Thursday in a video conference to introduce progress on the giant rocket Starship the company is currently developing.

Musk held nearly an hour of Q & A during the meeting. He told Clay Mowry, president of the International Astronautical Federation,"I think it's feasible to have an unmanned test landing there in the next four years." "

According to the New York Times, Musk and SpaceX maintain a good record of "making major breakthroughs" in space flight: including the regular landing and reuse of SpaceX's current Falcon 9 rocket, which has been launched 70 times this year alone.

As early as 2016, Musk first demonstrated the Mars rocket at the International Astronautical Congress that year, followed by a larger rocket called the Interstellar Transportation System. At the time, his prediction was that SpaceX would land on Mars for the first time unmanned in 2022 and complete its first manned flight in 2024.

Although Musk no longer predicts sending humans to Mars in 2024, he has other ambitious technical predictions for Starship spacecraft after that: There is a "considerable chance" of acquiring a booster next year and launching a spacecraft from orbit by the end of next year.

CTOnews.com previously reported that Musk had tweeted in July that he expected to launch an average of 50 rockets every three days in the future, putting more than 1 million tons of payload into orbit every year, enough to build a self-sufficient city on Mars. At the same time, he said last August that he hoped to build "self-sufficient" cities on Mars within 20 years.

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