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Jan 10, 2013

Also, I am not the kale eating overlord of Mars (altho kale has its moments) http://t.co/nCjMgEjC http://www.thejanedough.com/peta-mars-vegan/

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Apr 9, 2012

Interview in Nature describing why we should extend life to Mars http://t.co/6Ux0q4OX http://www.nature.com/news/backing-up-the-biosphere-1.10395

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Jul 12, 2012

@n23mc I think we will see people on Mars in less than 20 years. 12 to 15 years most likely. #OccupyMars

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Aug 29, 2012

@ticketwaxter Extending life to Mars would ensure humanity's survival and be the greatest, most exciting adventure ever!

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May 6, 2013

@bdcs Yup, it is super far. Moon is basically in our back yard relative to Mars.

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May 12, 2013

@danielmarshal15 It can dig up almost anything.

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Apr 3, 2025

First reflight of the Starship Super Heavy rocket booster coming up soon! [@SpaceX] Static fire of the Super Heavy preparing to launch Starship's ninth flight test. This booster previously launched and returned on Flight 7 and 29 of its 33 Raptor engines are flight proven

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Feb 2, 2026

Starship V3 rocket booster [@SpaceX] Booster 19 preparing to begin prelaunch testing

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Oct 13, 2024Viral spike

Starship rocket booster caught by tower https://t.co/aOQmSkt6YE

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Oct 14, 2024Viral spike

Just inspected the Starship booster, which the arms have now placed back in its launch mount. Looks great! A few outer engine nozzles are warped from heating & some other minor issues, but these are easily addressed. Starship is designed to achieve reflight of its rocket… https://t.co/oWZoOOfHmk

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Jun 6, 2024

Successful soft landing of the Starship Super Heavy rocket booster!

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Nov 19, 2024

If you look closely, you can see a human walking around the base of the rocket. Each Raptor rocket engine produces twice as much thrust as all 4 engines on a 747. There are 33 Raptor engines powering the Starship rocket booster. https://t.co/VHLGlJWtoJ

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Mar 2, 2025

This is a real video of a past @SpaceX Starship water landing. Trying again tomorrow. We need to perfect ship reentry at extreme temperatures before attempting to catch the ship with the tower arms, like the booster. https://t.co/tss9Lb4fWr

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Mar 16, 2026

Rocket garden at Starbase. You can see this from the public highway. [@DimaZeniuk] SpaceX Starship rocket garden

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Mar 31, 2024

At 5000 tons, Starship is the largest flying object ever made. Thrust is more than double the Saturn V moon rocket. It is the first spaceship design capable of making life multiplanetary. Goal of the next mission is to make it through the meteorically extreme heat of reentry.

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Feb 11, 2024

Starship Super Heavy Rocket Booster (people for scale) https://t.co/XLRrE0kCZU

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May 28, 2025

Great achievement by the @SpaceX team! [@johnkrausphotos] Hot-stage ring jettison following the first-ever successful re-flight of a Super Heavy booster during Starship Flight 9 today

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Apr 16, 2026

Starship Super Heavy Booster, the most powerful moving object ever made by far [@SpaceX] First 33-engine static fire for Super Heavy V3

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Jan 22, 2025

Staging is so hot rn [@SpaceX] Super Heavy booster going from hot-staging to tower catch on Starship's seventh flight test )

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May 13, 2023

Raptor V3 just achieved 350 bar chamber pressure (269 tons of thrust). Congrats to @SpaceX propulsion team! Starship Super Heavy Booster has 33 Raptors, so total thrust of 8877 tons or 19.5 million pounds. https://t.co/ZlskpCXUmu

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Mar 3, 2025

Starship is the first rocket/spaceship capable of making life multiplanetary, which requires it to be both far more powerful and far more advanced than anything that came before. [@johnkrausphotos] Starship: Humans for scale. Flight 8 today. )

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Nov 10, 2025

So many spaceships will be born in the Starbase Gigabay [@DimaZeniuk] SpaceX is constructing a $250 million GigaBay at Starbase to accelerate Starship production The 700,000-square-foot facility is designed to build up to 1,000 rockets per year

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Oct 11, 2025

Starship flight on Monday ~5pm CT [@SpaceX] Flight-proven Super Heavy booster moved to the pad at Starbase ahead of launch

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May 27, 2025

This talk is postponed until after the Starship Flight 9 launch tonight [@SpaceX] Watch an update from @elonmusk on SpaceX’s plan to make life multiplanetary https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1rmxPyOEBWXKN

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Mar 3, 2025

Yes [@cb_doge] Starship is the first ever rocket design capable of making life multiplanetary. )

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Jun 6, 2024

Why is Starship made of stainless steel? This article from 5 years ago explains the reasons. Worth noting that the ship would have failed on reentry if made of aluminum or carbon fiber, as they can’t take the heat. https://t.co/QVAtv74quq https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a25953663/elon-musk-spacex-bfr-stainless-steel/

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Jan 4, 2026

Yes, at massive volume. Maybe as high as 10,000 ships per year. [@iam_smx] SpaceX is going to produce Starships like they're Aeroplanes With a $250 million Gigabay at Starbase, the company is accelerating Starship production. The 700,000-square-foot facility is designed to manufacture up to 1,000 rockets per year.

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Jan 11, 2019

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

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Jul 23, 2025

Travel anywhere on Earth (that’s willing to allow loud rockets) in half an hour or so at Mach 25! [@MarioNawfal] ELON WANTS TO REPLACE PLANES WITH ROCKETS SpaceX’s Starship could take you from New York to Sydney in under an hour. It skips jetlag by literally launching you into space and back down somewhere else. It’s like teleportation but with fire and Elon energy. Would you ditch

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Oct 19, 2025

Starship is a planet-colonizer class rocket. The magnitude of that task makes every other space transport task trivial. [@ApoStructura] Starship HLS is going to have 135x the living volume of the Apollo LEM! Sci-fi shows from 10y ago imagined future landers would be ~10x larger than the LEM, but we’re skipping over an entire generation and going straight to giant multipurpose ships. SpaceX is 20 years ahead.

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Nov 18, 2024

With Starship, humanity finally has a rocket design capable of making life multiplanetary

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Jul 22, 2025

This is despite @SpaceX competitors increasing their launch rates. SpaceX is an anomaly in the matrix. Nothing can compare to a system designed to make life/consciousness multiplanetary. [@EvaFoxU] SpaceX will launch over 90% of all of Earth’s payload mass to orbit this year! 🤯 When Starship is launching at high rate, SpaceX will probably carry >99% of Earth’s payload mass to orbit!

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Aug 21, 2025

Getting ready to launch Starship 💫 [@SpaceX] Super Heavy booster moved to the launch pad at Starbase ahead of Starship's tenth flight test

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Nov 3, 2025

This is an accurate picture of orbital rocket launches so far this year. 90% Falcon with the massive @SpaceX Starship standing out very clearly. [@ApoStructura] All 258 rockets launched in 2025 so far, chronologically and at scale.

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Mar 3, 2025

Raptor 3 has almost twice the thrust and much higher reliability than Raptor 1, despite costing about four times less! [@SpaceX] Raptor 3 is an unprecedented step forward in rocket engine design, which will help us increase Starship’s efficiency and the amount of mass Starship is able to deliver to space )

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Apr 10, 2021

The Starship launch tower that catches the giant rocket booster is basically Mechazilla

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Feb 10, 2026

Starship Super Heavy testing [@SpaceX] Cryoproof operations complete for the first time with a Super Heavy V3 booster. This multi-day campaign tested the booster's redesigned propellant systems and its structural strength

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Jun 6, 2025

Flight 10 Super Heavy Booster [@SpaceX] Full duration static fire of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship's next flight test

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Jan 17, 2025

Starship is the first rocket design where success in making life multiplanetary is in the set of possible outcomes

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Feb 28, 2025

There is a good chance of achieving full reusability of Starship this year. Full and immediate reflight of Starship, along with orbital refilling, probably happens next year. This is the fundamental breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary. [@cb_doge] BREAKING: Elon Musk says he believes the ship will achieve reusability this year and that the entire stack—ship and booster—will achieve rapid reusability next year. This is the fundamental breakthrough required for life to become multiplanetary. )

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Mar 29, 2025

🚀 [@NASA_LSP] Welcome to the LSP Fleet, Starship! @SpaceX's Starship rocket has been added to our NASA Launch Services II contract as part of the annual on-ramp process, which allows providers to introduce launch services not currently on contract. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-spacex-starship/

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Aug 13, 2025

Best part is no part [@SpaceX] They’ll also be used for vehicle lift and catch, made possible by a new catch point addition and a lower positioning on the booster to align with the tower catch arms. Moving lower reduces the heat they receive from Starship’s engines at hot-staging and places the fin shaft,

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Mar 2, 2025

Lot to learn on this flight [@PettitFrontier] SpaceX’s mission profile for Starship Flight 8. It will be eventful. Booster catch, Starlink deployment, in-space engine relight, entry & flip. I called @astro_Pettit and we’re optimistic the ISS will have brief in-flight visibility. And I will be at Starbase. Let’s do this. )

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Jul 24, 2021

@PPathole Most people have no idea Starship exists or how large this beast is! Body diameter (9m or 30 ft) is bigger than a 747 or A380. Starship thrust & mass are more than double Saturn V moon rocket. Making life multiplanetary means massive rockets. Got to be done.

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Nov 28, 2025

SpaceX is accelerating rapidly. When Starship is launching several times a day in a few years, SpaceX will be ~99% of all Earth payload mass to orbit, even if the others triple their current launch rate. [@FutureJurvetson] 🚀 T͢h͢e͢ ͢Q͢3͢ ͢L͢a͢u͢n͢c͢h͢ ͢R͢e͢p͢o͢r͢t͢ ͢j͢u͢s͢t͢ ͢c͢a͢m͢e͢ ͢o͢u͢t͢🚀 For kg launched to orbit, SpaceX has 97% share for the U.S. and 83% globally. The eight Chinese launchers add up to 8.6%. Looking into the graph's magnifying box, IDF just nudged past Rocket Lab. https://x.com/i/web/status/1994495568291532883

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May 27, 2023

@SpaceX Major launchpad upgrades should be complete in about a month, then another month of rocket testing on pad, then flight 2 of Starship

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Jan 23, 2026

Stretch goal for Starship V4 is 300 tons of thrust per engine with 33 engines, so 10,000 tons of total thrust. That is 3 times the power of the Saturn V Moon rocket. [@XFreeze] SpaceX’s Starship is already one of the biggest flying objects ever built and it’s still getting bigger • With Starship 4, total size could grow ~10–20% • Raptor thrust jumps ~20%, nearing 9,000 tons at sea level • Enough to send 200+ tons to useful orbit • Fully &… https://x.com/i/web/status/2014607481159463407

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Nov 20, 2018

Technically, two parts: Starship is the spaceship/upper stage & Super Heavy is the rocket booster needed to escape Earth’s deep gravity well (not needed for other planets or moons)

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Nov 8, 2021

@Erdayastronaut @thesheetztweetz @BryceSpaceTech @SpaceX @Arianespace @ArianeGroup @roscosmos @northropgrumman @ulalaunch @torybruno @isro @RocketLab The Starship fleet is designed to achieve over 1000 times more payload to orbit than all other rockets on Earth combined. Almost no one understands this.

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