The tweet archive.

“@Erdayastronaut @keego73 Absolutely. You’ve touched on a very important point. The ship must be easy to repair on the moon and Mars.”

“@keego73 It’s designed for 100 people on a Mars journey”

“SpaceX documentary actual footage https://t.co/RrEwYwMNgj”

“@JasonHouge @SpaceX @boringcompany These are industrial strength. Not recommended for use at home!”

“Testing metallic heat shield at 1100C (2000F) @SpaceX https://t.co/frP5eZ5a0z”

“@Teslarati ~1750K is peak heating expected on about 20% of Starship for LEO entry, ~1600K on 20%. Rest drops below 1450K, so no heat shield needed. Radiative cooling at T^4 takes care of 60% of the ship. Another reason for steel.”

“@physicsJ Roughly 4 to 20 minutes for light to travel from Earth to Mars”

“@WevolverApp @SpaceX Dragon 2 was originally designed to land with thrusters, but it’s not the right architecture for heavy transport to the moon or Mars, so we decided not to qualify it for thruster landings”

“@musicnick1985 @Teslarati Teslarati is very thoughtful & well-written, but this stems from a miscommunication by SpaceX”

“@nextspaceflight @Teslarati The LA Times has a long track of unreasonable attacks on SpaceX & Tesla, but in this case it was our miscommunication”

“@Teslarati The source info is incorrect. Starship & Raptor development is being done out of our HQ in Hawthorne, CA. We are building the Starship prototypes locally at our launch site in Texas, as their size makes them very difficult to transport.”

“SpaceX Dragon from as seen from @Space_Station viewport https://t.co/WE82irbsmp”

“View of SpaceX Dragon 1 berthed with @Space_Station in the last Cupola opening. Dragon 2 (Crew Dragon) launching soon.”

“Starship Hopper will do vertical flight tests similar to the Falcon 9 Hopper https://t.co/5dCrGFqymR http://youtu.be/NoxiK7K28PU”

“@Sloppy93 @SpaceX Body/tank diameter is 9m or about 30ft”

“Starship test flight rocket just finished assembly at the @SpaceX Texas launch site. This is an actual picture, not a rendering. https://t.co/k1HkueoXaz”

“@MKBHD I’m not. Will use SpaceX cold gas thruster system with ultra high pressure air in a composite over-wrapped pressure vessel in place of the 2 rear seats.”

“Falcon 9 on launch pad with Crew Dragon & new astronaut walkway https://t.co/aopO67qe4F”

“@enn_nafnlaus @TheJewbyrd7777 @DrakeFerroNyalk @13ericralph31 Spiral-winding is great for uniform thickness. We used that for the Hyperloop vacuum tunnel. However, Starship skin thickness will vary considerably according to loads.”

“@FrameshiftShark @SpaceX More on this in a few months”

“Starship test vehicle under assembly will look similar to this illustration when finished. Operational Starships would obv have windows, etc. https://t.co/D8AJ01mjyR”

“@LPAmdee @SpaceX Aiming for 4 weeks, which probably means 8 weeks, due to unforeseen issues”

“Good shot of @SpaceX Starship flight test vehicle being assembled in Boca Chica, Texas”

“@paperclip9000 @renwis1 @thearkadia_ @Grimezsz Engines currently on Starship hopper are a blend of Raptor development & operational parts. First hopper engine to be fired is almost finished assembly in California. Probably fires next month.”

“About a month away from the first orbital test flight of crew Dragon”

“@grafikhure_de @StevenHardison Starship will look like liquid silver”

“Stainless Steel Starship https://t.co/rRoiEKKrYc”

“@Robotbeat @Jon128123 @Diver2441 @Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight @_Synders @John_Gardi @martinengwicht @JeromeJaccard @alan1bernard SpaceX metallurgy team developed SX500 superalloy for 12000 psi, hot oxygen-rich gas. It was hard. Almost any metal turns into a flare in those conditions.”

“@Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight @_Synders @John_Gardi @martinengwicht @JeromeJaccard @Robotbeat @alan1bernard You def don’t want electric pumps on a rocket engine! Raptor turbopumps alone need 100,000 horsepower per engine. That’s not a typo.”

“@Erdayastronaut @ludan27 @JeromeJaccard @Robotbeat @alan1bernard Seriously! We are just on the wrong planet for SSTO. Mars, no problem.”

“@_Synders @John_Gardi @martinengwicht @Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight @JeromeJaccard @Robotbeat @alan1bernard Starlink V1 on Falcon, V2+ on Starship. Basically, all future products will contain either the word “star” or “link” 😀”

“@ludan27 @Erdayastronaut @JeromeJaccard @Robotbeat @alan1bernard Yes, but single stage to orbit with no payload is pointless. Add Super Heavy rocket booster & orbital payload is gigantic. Only need booster on Earth, due to deep gravity well & thick atmosphere. Starship alone on moons & Mars.”

“@Malcolmmarsman @TheMuddySchmuck @martinengwicht @Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight @JeromeJaccard @Robotbeat @alan1bernard This test hopper is at full body diameter of 9m / 30 ft, just not full height. Super Heavy will be full height & diameter.”

“@Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight @JeromeJaccard @Robotbeat @alan1bernard I will do a full technical presentation of Starship after the test vehicle we’re building in Texas flies, so hopefully March/April”

“@Erdayastronaut @JeromeJaccard @Robotbeat @alan1bernard While there are some material similarities, Starship is very different from the Atlas design”

“@Erdayastronaut @JeromeJaccard @Robotbeat @alan1bernard Stainless steel is correct, but different mixture of alloys & new architecture. Unlike Atlas, Starship is buckling stable on launchpad even when unpressurized.”

“Honored to work with amazing teams at SpaceX & Tesla!”

“@realrobcopeland @SpaceX Totally false. Buried in this incredibly misleading WSJ article is the actual statement from Thiel’s Founder’s Fund: “we have no concerns whatsoever.””

“@Malcolmmarsman Seems likely that we’ll be able to reuse fairings that soft-landed in the ocean. May not need net at all. Would still love to see the catch happen though ⚾️ 👍”

“@RenataKonkoly @SpaceX Machete!!”

“@Erdayastronaut @TheGledinator @w00ki33 @Teslarati But cool pics of the demo Starship that will fly suborbital hops coming in ~4 weeks”

“Tracking shot of Falcon water landing https://t.co/6Hv2aZhLjM”

“Engines stabilized rocket spin just in time, enabling an intact landing in water! Ships en route to rescue Falcon. https://t.co/O3h8eCgGJ7”

“@Dragonmaurizio We may use it for an internal SpaceX mission”

“Grid fin hydraulic pump stalled, so Falcon landed just out to sea. Appears to be undamaged & is transmitting data. Recovery ship dispatched.”

“Falcon/Dragon launch to @Space_Station in 9 minutes”

“Falcon fairing halves missed the net, but touched down softly in the water. Mr Steven is picking them up. Plan is to dry them out & launch again. Nothing wrong with a little swim.”

“@johnkrausphotos Incoming rocket & fairing probably visible, but landing itself is over the horizon”

“@dxk_ @ZainRaz4 @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Three things, one of which is CH4”

“@PicklePunchD @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX No”