The Justice Department said in a Thursday filing it would be dropping its immigration case against Elon Musk's SpaceX after the government accused the company of discrimination.

And Musk's focus on Mars as the next destination for humanity after low Earth orbit should come as no surprise; the billionaire has long had the Red Planet in his sights. In a December X post, for example, he dismissed the moon as "a distraction," saying that "we're going straight to Mars."