Watch ‘Destination Mars’ tonight on Foreign Correspondent, 8pm on ABC TV and iview.

Launching Starship: Inside Elon Musk’s plan to perfect the rocket to take humanity to Mars

In the pre-dawn light on a road that ends at Boca Chica beach in south-east Texas, rocket chasers are setting up cameras at the entrance to Elon Musk’s Starbase.

This is the production site for Starship, the next generation of SpaceX’s orbital spacecraft.

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3D-printed rocket engines: The technology driving the private sector space race

This is a good place to repeat that the movie about the successful Indian rocket to Mars is very much worth watching.

There are quite a few useful innovations there, such as the use of their SMALL rocket, which was woefully underpowered, rather than their more powerful “fat boy” rocket, which kept exploding.

Yes it does have a colourful dance number.