Mars Colony Ship The Heart ...

It looks like SpaceX’s first crewed Mars mission will be an epic shout-out to one of the most beloved sci-fi novels of all time.

SpaceX plans to name the first of its many Mars-colonizing ships after “Heart of Gold,” a spaceship in Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” company founder and CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday (Sept. 27).

“I think probably we’ll name the first ship that goes to Mars ‘Heart of Gold,'” Musk said during a presentation at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico. “I like the fact that it’s driven by infinite improbability, because I think our ship is also extremely improbable

The Infinite Improbability Drive allows the fictional “Heart of Gold” — which looks like a giant, white sneaker — to cruise through every point in every universe at the same time. The drive is powered by a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain and a cup of hot tea.