Elon Musk tells SXSW crowd Mars spaceship will be ready for short flights next year

AUSTIN (KXAN) — We’re coming up on the end of our first full weekend of South by Southwest 2018 and it was a packed one.
Some of the most talked-about news out of Sunday’s festival activities revolves around Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla.
He said in a question-and-answer session that he hopes his company will launch its rocket to Mars next year.
Musk told SXSW attendees that he thinks his company’s interplanetary ship should be able to take short “up and do