SpaceX’s planned Mars rocket will be reused 1,000 times

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has unveiled the design for the giant rocket booster he wants to build in order to colonize Mars. It is part of what SpaceX is referring to as the "Mars Vehicle" — the rocket booster and the Mars spaceship combined — and Musk announced it on stage in Guadalajara, Mexico at the 67th International Astronautical Conference.

SpaceX teased the rocket in a promo video released shortly before Musk's talk. The massive, single-core rocket will be responsible for launching a huge spaceship filled with 100 metric tons of passengers and cargo from Earth. To do this, it is capable of generating 28,730,000 pounds of thrust at liftoff, resulting in a top speed of about 5,375 miles per hour. It will use 42 of SpaceX's new Raptor...