Starship gets FAA approval - but what exactly is Elon Musk's space vehicle?

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Elon Musk氏率いるSpace Ship、 Starshipを 米航空許可(FAA)が航空機として認可したと言う記事からです。

Starshipは将来的にMarsへの有人しかも100名もの搭乗員と共に宇宙航行を目指すSpace Shipです。

何十年か先には実現するんでしょうか？

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Elon Musk is developing a vehicle that could be a game-changer for space travel. Starship, as it's known, will be a fully reusable transport system capable of carrying up to 100 people to the Red Planet.
On Friday, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted a long-awaited license to Elon Musk's private spaceflight company, SpaceX, for the first orbital launch of the massive Starship rocket system.
SpaceX says the first test flight is scheduled for Monday 17 April - but Musk has said he does not know exactly when it will fly.
The founding ethos of Mr Musk's SpaceX was to make life multi-planetary. He says that settling humans on other worlds, such as Mars, could preserve civilisation if Earth were to experience a cataclysm, such as a large asteroid impact.
"History is going to bifurcate along two directions. One path is we stay on Earth forever, and then there will be some eventual extinction event," Musk said in 2016.