Elon Musk twitter mistake (Image: GETTY)
Not long after Elon Musk tweeted the wrong celestial body an observant Twitter user replied to his post saying: “That’s the Moon.” To which Mr Musk replied: “Moon too.” He was either quickly covering his mistake as a deliberate message to encourage the colonisation of both the Moon and of Mars.
SpaceX did announce new lunar plans last year.
The company tweeted: “SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle, an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of travelling to space.”
After his Twitter followers quickly noticed that that image wasn’t Mars at all, but an image of the “Blood Moon” taken during a lunar eclipse last summer, Mr Musk took to Twitter to defend his mistake.
In a Twitter reply he suggested that he could land on the Moon before Mars because “it’s only three days away and you don’t need interplanetary orbital synchronisation.”
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Elon Musk tweeted the moon
