Travelling from London to New York will take just 29 minutes under plans by Elon Musk to use his Mars spaceship to cut journey times.
The South African-born magnate and SpaceX founder unveiled details at the weekend for a colony on Mars using a giant rocket which his company aims to start building next year.
Musk said the 29,000km/h rocket could also be used to change the future of travel at home, allowing passengers to reach cities anywhere in the world within an hour.
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Speaking at the International Astronautical Conference in Adelaide, Musk released a video showing travellers in New York being taken by boat to a floating launch pad before blasting off into space, landing in Shanghai, 12,000km away, just 39 minutes later.