Underground or Out to Space Elon Fly's

SpaceX launches 16th flight in 2017

Boring tunnel lengthens to 500 feet

SpaceX | Flickr SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket takes off
on its mission to deliver the EchoStar 105/SES-11
satellite to space.

Elon Musk is all over the place. Literally. His SpaceX rocket launched on Monday, carrying a Korean commercial satellite out to space and returned unscathed, landing on a floating launch pad in the Atlantic Ocean.

And deep underground in subterranean California, his Boring company continued to lurch forward carving out a tunnel heading to LAX.

It is hard to determine which one is more miraculous. The tunnel, designed to create a 17-mile corridor to LAX in a year's time, has moved some 500 feet in the last few weeks. But Musk expects it to pick up a head of steam and be a few miles long in the next few months.

He hopes to complete the stretch, that will begin from highway 110 and go south to LAX, in a year with all systems in place to begin testing the high-velocity vehicle sleds. The 17-mile futuristic trip is expected to take around eight minutes. To drive the stretch currently takes over an hour and a half.

— Uncover 007 (@uncover007) October 28, 2017

500 ft so far. Should be 2 miles long in three or four months and hopefully stretch the whole 405 N-S corridor from LAX to the 101 in a year or so.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2017