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RIP privately held SpaceX 🫡
March 14th, 2002 - June 11th, 2026
Welcome publicly traded SpaceX, please never forget about this amazing rock👇
Talk is cheap, and politicians babbling incoherently are a dime a dozen... but finding real leaders that can complement this clarity and openness with a great track record both before (entrepreneur, pilot, astronaut) and after (~11 months in charge) taking the job is _very_ rare.
You are moving to a different point now, which is fine. But I want you to know that I was respectful in my reply, as I have been to the critics. You were not correct about the public display of the Moon rocks or about prior presidents having rocks in the Oval Office. Now you have pivoted to the budget request.
The President submitted a budget request that challenged NASA to do more with less. I provided testimony on the budget because, as you would see in OIG reports, there are examples where NASA was not the best at resource allocation and outcomes suffered. But ultimately, Congress appropriated funding, as is its responsibility.
Then we had a year like 2026: the Artemis II mission went very well and we immediately press on to Artemis III, not wasting time or money, six astrophysics missions set records; we held “too big to fail” programs accountable for being over budget and behind schedule; and we launched new initiatives in a logical, iterative way, like Moon Base and SR-1 Freedom. A flagship mission like Roman launched ahead of schedule. X-planes are actually flying again (and on their way to KSC at this moment). We have dramatically rebuilt the workforce, added thousands of civil servants, and put our machine shops back to building hardware. We have taken control of our destiny and put NASA back in the driver seat. And as a result, we have a President who has clearly taken notice and is showing a lot of interest in America’s space program, from Artemis to Roman.
This is how you go from being asked to do more with less to being asked to do more with more.
Time for SpaceX to build another transport ship and name it The Limiting Factor, fits perfectly with the rest of the fleet...
That was the designed thrust for Raptor 2, which was never reached: the numbers SpaceX shared pointed to ~215 tons max for R2. The design thrust for R3 is (was?) 280 tons, though.
The developer team of the future will have only two members, a human and an AI model. The human will be there to prompt the model. The model will be there to keep the human from touching production.
Agree on being partners whenever it makes sense, but... SpaceX already saved NASA's ass *repeatedly* from the embarrassment that the other half of Commercial Crew turned out to be, thanks to the provider strongly favored by both Congress *and* NASA.
And speaking of economics, they saved them money many times over the initial investment, e.g. things like Europa Clipper flying in 2024 at $178M vs some time in the late 20s or later, at the cost of a few billions.
There's no need to be eternally grateful or bend over to go beyond the requirements. NASA itself wants to be "just a customer" of the commercial provider, a customer like any other.
No company is a charity, but given that NASA took a chance on SpaceX and saved them, it would be a nice gesture for one of the most valuable companies in the world to continue being a great partner to NASA.
Give a guarantee of human launch on Starship, and a timeline for standard Starship payload bay. These things would do a lot to ease people’s minds right now, and honestly it’s beneficial to SpaceX anyways. Just move it up a couple years earlier than you’d like and give it some lip service. Boo hoo
Elon has now replied with a (somewhat optimistic?) *much* lower number, but this "22" thing just seems a complete misunderstanding, even assuming good faith.
There was never a point in the HLS program since 2019 where SpaceX's most conservative estimates went above 15 or 16.
Starlink currently growing at a rate of over half a million customers per month. Reached ~13,600,000 subscriptions at the end of September.
Our Q3 2026 earnings report is now public → ir.spacex.com/files/content_…
The live webcast with @ElonMusk, @Gwynne_Shotwell, and @BretWJ will begin in 30 minutes
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Ship 40 has been lifted back to the vertical position inside of Megabay 2!
What do yal think will be its fate after deep inspection is completed?
🎥: @LabPadre
This image of "Eileen Dover" taking a nap in the megabay is such a classic SpaceX moment.
RIP Starship SN9, you died doing the thing you loved most: leaning 🫡
This distinctly felt as the first really "routine" flight of Falcon Heavy.
14 launches in, no big NASA projects this time, and a classified mission so no payload details. Even Mission Control is almost empty. (Nightly boostback views are always gorgeous, tho.)
Did NASA already schedule the inevitable Dragon rescue mission for Woody and his crewmates, too?
BREAKING: @NASAAdmin confirms @Astro_Woody will command Starliner-2 - scheduled to be the first operational crewed flight of the vehicle.
Scheduled for 2028, this will follow the uncrewed Starliner-1 flight, currently NET December 2026.
📷 @NASA
One always stares at this triple-stick monster in complete awe of the power and badassness...
...then you realize you just saw a Super Heavy booster dive into a landing on its minimally required set of 11 engines, *still* giving it almost 20% higher thrust than the mf below 🤯
