Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk (Photo : REUTERS/Rebecca Cook)
"One day I will visit Mars," Tesla Motors chief executive officer and Space X founder Elon Musk reportedly told a told the crowd at a plush private event in Seattle on Jan. 16, Friday, Seattle Times reported.
A source told the publication that Musk hinted on a new space venture that is centered in Washington State, which he hopes will fund his ambition to visit Mars someday.
Among a crowd of about 400 invited guests inside the Fisher Pavilion at Seattle Center, the billionaire was said to have made a declaration of "the launch of SpaceX Seattle," which the audience welcomed with upbeat applause.
Musk outlined his plan to build a constellation of some 4,000 geosynchronous satellites before the guests who were drinking beer and wine and sipping Champagne from glasses bearing the SpaceX logo.
Most of the guests were said to be engineers SpaceX recruiters hand-picked as potential hires. At least two members of Congress and local government and state officials also attended the private event.
Before the Seattle event, Must took to Twitter to declare his ambitious plan to build a Hyperloop test track in Texas. On Jan. 15, Thursday, he wrote that he "will be building a Hyperloop test track for companies and student teams to test out their pods. Most likely in Texas."
It was in August 2013 when Must announced his plans for the Hyperloop for the first time. He suggested that the system could transport passengers in less than half an hour between Los Angeles and San Francisco, according to BBC News.
According to Musk, this can be made possible through an innovative design, which is a cross between a railgun, an air hockey table and Concorde.
