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John Bett

Elon Musk claims it's 'highly likely' humans will go to Mars in the next decade

With global temperatures rising, ice caps melting, and the Earth getting a bit more tricky to live on, it was inevitable that Elon Musk would start to talk about leaving for greener pastures at some point.

It turns out that day has come, and, to our surprise, the date the Twitter boss has suggested for jetting off is sooner than you might think.

Yesterday, he retweeted a video shared by his aerospace firm SpaceX of Booster Seven - a booster being developed as part of the Starship programme - undergoing a "static fire test".

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