Elon Musk Delays Mars, Now Playing Fast and Loose with Moon Real Estate
KEY POINTS
- •Elon Musk announced on February 25, 2026, that SpaceX will shift from a Mars city to creating a 'self-growing city' on the Moon.
- •Musk said Moon launches occur every 10 days compared to Mars’s 26-month planetary alignment, allowing faster project iteration despite recent Artemis 2 mission delays.
- •SpaceX also acquired Musk's AI company xAI, integrating AI, space internet, and social media while keeping Mars colonization plans for a projected five to seven years from now.
Elon Musk, the man who promised Mars by 2026 yet switched gears in 2026 to build a 'self-growing city' on the Moon by launching every 10 days, clearly embraces cosmic procrastination. Once confident of a six-month Mars jaunt timed by pesky planetary alignments, Musk now says faster 2-day hops to the Moon make for speedier iterations. Just last week, SpaceX delayed the Artemis 2 mission, first Moon crewed flight in 50 years, but hey, they did snag Musk's AI chatbot startup, xAI, aiming to integrate AI, rockets, and social media on Earth and beyond. Mars is still 'somewhere five to seven years away.' Meanwhile, humans apparently waiting for Elon’s actual lunar city can watch him juggle interplanetary priorities faster than a 10-day launch cycle.
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Elon's moon city sounds less like progress and more like cosmic waiting room with faster coffee trips. Mars? Maybe 2030, or 2040. We’re all terrible drivers of our own spaceship.
Who knew the secret to space colonization was just 10-day launch windows and a serious schedule realignment? Musk’s Moon city hustle beats Mars by a decade or three.
SpaceX’s new motto: Why wait 26 months for Mars when you can spend every 10 days spinning in lunar orbit pledging grand cities that might never land?
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 2/9/2026 | Author: Shubhangi Goel
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