Elon Musk Presentation, IAC 2017 - Sep. 29, 2017 (0430 UTC)

[mlindner]

Fly to most places on Earth in under 30 mins and anywhere in under 60. Cost per seat should be about the same as full fare economy in an aircraft. Forgot to mention that.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZnVfWxgdLe/

WOW!

[Ronsmytheiii]

High resolution images from Spacex instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZnSZqaFKQe/

[Chris Bergin]

Chris Gebhardt's feature article!

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/09/the-moon-mars-earth-musk-updates-bfr-plans/

[FutureSpaceTourist]

Even higher-res SpaceX pics!

BFR is capable of transporting satellites to orbit, crew and cargo to the @Space_Station and completing missions to the Moon and Mars.

https://twitter.com/spacex/status/913632410549366784

[FutureSpaceTourist]

I imagine this is on a discussion thread somewhere (haven’t had time to catch up yet) but think worth posting here for reference:

Fly to most places on Earth in under 30 mins and anywhere in under 60. Cost per seat should be… instagram.com/p/BZnVfWxgdLe/ [about the same as full fare economy in an aircraft. Forgot to mention that.]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/913649379281534976

How do you make the high g-forces of rocket liftoff comfortable for every day travel? Will it just become something we get used to?

https://twitter.com/meltingice/status/913772616363716610

Assuming max acceleration of 2 to 3 g's, but in a comfortable direction. Will feel like a mild to moderate amusement park ride on ascent and then smooth, peaceful & silent in zero gravity for most of the trip until landing.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/913775198423408640

[kdhilliard]

Transcript is up at http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/making-life-multiplanetary-elon-musk-adelaide-iac-2017-09-29

Corrections, however trivial, are welcome.  PM me or join the site and make them yourself.

~Kirk

[DOCinCT]

Transcript is up at http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/making-life-multiplanetary-elon-musk-adelaide-iac-2017-09-29

Corrections, however trivial, are welcome.  PM me or join the site and make them yourself.

~Kirk

With Kirk's permission, a conversion to PDF format (with page numbers, couple of cleaned up typos)

[DOCinCT]

There seem to be two cutaway view renderings to the spaceship one with the oxygen fuel tank just below a single cargo deck and one with two cargo decks.
Any idea as to which is the "correct" one?

[Lar]

Discussion posts moved to the correct place, current discussion thread

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=43920.0

[tea monster]

From the look of it, all the bulkheads and tanks appear to be in the same locations.

Initially, I too assumed it was cargo, but packed around the top of the LOX tank.

I took one of the other slides, the 'Refilling' one, and blew it up to get a better look. Based on that, I think that the space around the top of the LOX tank is an equipment bay. This could be the life-support machinery and tankage.

I've blown up and enhanced part of the image to make the structures inside the area clearer. They do appear to be a collection of boxes and spherical tanks. The spherical structures resemble tanks more than regular cargo, that leads me to believe that the area is an equipment bay, rather than a storage area.

[kdhilliard]

SpaceX has put up a large (24.4 MB) PDF containing the slides from the presentation.
http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/making_life_multiplanetary-2017.pdf

~Kirk

[FutureSpaceTourist]

[FutureSpaceTourist]

Higher-res version now on SpaceX website.

The Mars page has now been significantly expanded to include the various videos, animations etc from Elon’s recent IAC presentation: http://www.spacex.com/mars