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Elon Musk announced Friday that SpaceX has broke ground in Cape Canaveral, Florida in construction of its new Starship orbital launch pad.
The site will be located at Kennedy Space Center launch Complex 39, where the firm's Falcon 9 rockets launch into space.
It is not clear how big the pad will be or when it will be finished – DailyMail.com has contacted Musk for more information.
Starship rockets are part of Musk's master plan to send humans to Mars with the goal of colonizing the Red Planet – and Friday's announcement means people could board the vehicles in Florida before heading to the Martian world.
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Elon Musk announced Friday that SpaceX has broke ground in Cape Canaveral, Florida in construction of its new Starship orbital launch pad
In February 2010, SpaceX's first flight stack was set up at at Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral and March 9, 2010, SpaceX performed a static fire test, where the first stage was to be fired without taking off.
Then on December 21, 2015, SpaceX launched
