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Jan 19, 2025

Starship is the first ever rocket design capable of making life multiplanetary. Becoming multiplanetary is a milestone that, if achieved, would fit in the top 10 biggest events in the evolution of life. And it would greatly extend the lifespan of civilization, enabling a far… [@cb_doge] For the first time ever, there is a rocket capable of establishing a permanent base on Mars. )

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Dec 31, 2025

Well done, @SpaceX team, on a record year! We grow ever closer to the Moon and Mars. [@SpaceX] Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team for completing 165 Falcon launches and five Starship flight tests this year, all continuing to help pave the way to making life multiplanetary!

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Mar 11, 2021

@PPathole @arstechnica @SciGuySpace If 2021 manifest is met, SpaceX will do ~75% of total Earth payload to orbit with Falcon. A single Starship is designed to do in a day what all rockets on Earth currently do in a year. Even so, ~1000 Starships will take ~20 years to build a self-sustaining city on Mars.

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Aug 6, 2021

@WholeMarsBlog @NASASpaceflight @BBCAmos There is a reason no fully reusable orbital rocket has been built – it’s an insanely hard problem. Moreover, it must be rapidly & completely reusable (like an airplane). This is the only way to make life multiplanetary. Efficiencies of scale is why Starship is so large.

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Nov 17, 2020

@peterrhague It’s designed to make life multiplanetary, otherwise extreme overkill for mere Earth sector activity! Starship fleet mass to orbit per year will be more than 1000 times all current Earth rockets combined, including Falcon. Necessary, for a city on Mars.

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Mar 13, 2025

RT @SawyerMerritt: X is offering a trip to Mars on @SpaceX's Starship rocket if you get a perfect March Madness bracket, or, alternatively,…

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Dec 22, 2018

@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.

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Mar 15, 2025

Starship departs for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Optimus. If those landings go well, then human landings may start as soon as 2029, although 2031 is more likely. [@Teslaconomics] Happy 23rd Anniversary to @SpaceX! Founded on March 14, 2002, and still pushing the limits of what’s possible, here’s to the next chapter of making life multi-planetary!

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Jan 19, 2025

Mars is The New World [@teslaownersSV] The Starship will extend life beyond earth. The first ever designed rocket to go to Mars. )

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Apr 21, 2025

😂 [@iam_smx] Tesla Optimus robots, after learning that Elon Musk will power them with super-advanced Grok AI and send them to Mars on the world’s most powerful rocket, Starship.

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Sep 22, 2024

SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years. If those all land safely, then crewed missions are possible in four years. If we encounter challenges, then the crewed missions will be postponed another two years. It is only possible to travel from…

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Dec 11, 2025

Wouldn’t it be amazing if anyone who wanted to experience the wonder of space, the Moon or Mars could do so? [@SpaceX] For the first time in our existence, we possess the means, technology, and, for the moment, the will to establish a permanent human presence beyond Earth. Starship is designed to make this future a reality → http://spacex.com/updates/#moon-and-beyond

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May 20, 2024

SpaceX might exceed 90% of all Earth payload to orbit later this year. Once Starship is launching at high rate, probably >99%. Has to be or we can’t build a city on Mars or base on moon. We file almost no patents, so nothing stopping competition from copying us.

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May 13, 2025

Just before the Starship flight next week, I will give a company talk explaining the Mars game plan in Starbase, Texas, that will also be live-streamed on 𝕏 [@SpaceX] Starship completed a long duration six-engine static fire and is undergoing final preparations for the ninth flight test

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Aug 6, 2025

Yes [@teslaownersSV] Starship was the first ever fully designed rocket to get us to Mars. It’ll be the vehicle to get it done. Grok imagine made this come to life.

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Feb 15, 2025

🚀🚀 [@palladiummag] Starship, the biggest rocket ever built will not just transform our current space and satellite industry, but power human civilization all the way to Mars. The time has come to settle a second planet. Read the new article by @CJHandmer (link below!): )

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Mar 23, 2021

@flcnhvy @arstechnica @SciGuySpace SpaceX will be landing Starships on Mars well before 2030. The really hard threshold is making Mars Base Alpha self-sustaining.

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Nov 30, 2021

@Tesmanian_com The magnitude of the Starship program is not widely appreciated. It is designed to extend life to Mars (and the moon), which requires ~1000 times more payload to orbit than all current Earth rockets combined.

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Oct 12, 2020

@flcnhvy Good grief! SpaceX is getting zero money for this. Starship is designed to carry people & cargo around Earth (also to moon & Mars). Vast majority of use will be civilian. It’s just like an airline in space. All airlines sometimes carry military cargo, but ~99% is civilian.

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Nov 10, 2025

RT @Teslaconomics: I can’t wait to get a ride on SpaceX’s Starship to Mars before I die… https://t.co/u0q6TZ2997

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Mar 15, 2024

@ashleevance If things go well, SpaceX will put about 50% more tonnage in orbit this year using Falcon, which would be above 90% market share. Once Starship is in full swing building a city on Mars, it will do ~99% of all payload to orbit & beyond, as that objective requires about a megaton…

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Mar 6, 2024

@ID_AA_Carmack @SpaceX Starship will have a small spin on the way to Mars. Even a tiny gravity vector is better than none.

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Jan 30, 2020

@Erdayastronaut @Blamblas @latimes @SpaceX @blueorigin Exactly. Mars propellant production will combine atmospheric CO2 & water (ice) to make CH4 (methane) & O2. Will do same on Earth long-term. Short-term, each Falcon flight uses roughly same fuel mass as a 747 flight. Falcon is ~71% oxygen & Starship is ~78%, so mostly not fuel.

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Aug 7, 2025

RT @Gwynne_Shotwell: Get on board! We are going to Mars! SpaceX is now offering Starship services to the red planet. We’re excited to work…

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Jul 31, 2024

@EPavlic @SpaceX @teslaownersSV @DJpowers69 @NASAMars @TheMarsSociety @WholeMarsBlog @DimaZeniuk @AIXBird @Rainmaker1973 @StarshipGazer We will be there one day

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May 28, 2025

RT @SciGuySpace: With Elon Musk focusing back on SpaceX, I spoke with him this afternoon about the path forward. https://t.co/7tkxdhtoZx https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/elon-musk-turns-his-focus-back-to-space-says-starship-and-mars-matter-most/

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Aug 3, 2025

RT @MarioNawfal: 🇺🇸 HOW ELON WANTS TO TURN STARSHIP INTO A MARS TAXI Starship launches with a Super Heavy booster drops it then refuels wi…

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Sep 7, 2024

SpaceX created the first fully reusable rocket stage and, much more importantly, made the reuse economically viable. Making life multiplanetary is fundamentally a cost per ton to Mars problem. It currently costs about a billion dollars per ton of useful payload to the surface…

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Sep 1, 2025

RT @teslaownersSV: Starship the first ever designed rocket to get us to Mars. https://t.co/bRgAvw7NM8

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Jul 11, 2025

RT @luismbat: Just tested Grok 4’s physics simulation skills. Uploaded a screenshot from SpaceX’s keynote showing Starship’s Earth→Mars orb…

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Aug 20, 2025

RT @ElonClipsX: Elon Musk: Starship is next-level. It's the first rocket that can take us to Mars. “Starship is the most complex and advan…

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Jan 16, 2020

@SPEXcast @SciGuySpace What’s amazing is how non-linear the effect of gravity is. Starship can travel by itself from surface of Mars to surface of Earth, but requires massive booster on Earth with orbital refilling to get to Mars, which is ~38% of Earth gravity.

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May 7, 2025

RT @teslaownersSV: Starship = Hope Starship Reusable rockets will take us to Mars and make us multi planetary https://t.co/4J66AChCaX

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May 27, 2025

RT @TurkeyBeaver: Watch a Falcon launch now as an appetizer for @elonmusk mars talk and starship later today!!! Go @SpaceX!!!

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May 13, 2025

RT @teslaownersSV: Starship = Hope. We get closer to Mars with each new flight test. SpaceX is iterating at an insane rate but this is th…

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Feb 11, 2026

RT @SpaceDavenport: Starship will be able to do both the Moon and Mars. The destination, as I wrote in Rocket Dreams, doesn't matter as muc…

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Jan 8, 2026

RT @teslaownersSV: Engineering is magic Starship is the first ever rocket designed to take us to Mars. https://t.co/SZ8GG6g9xK

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Mar 14, 2024Viral spike

Starship will take humanity to Mars https://t.co/BMBNI2mMKF

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Mar 23, 2021

@TheMarsSociety SpaceX is developing rockets needed to make life multiplanetary — full & rapid reusability at large scale. Even if SpaceX fails in that goal, the rockets will still be most advanced on Earth. Starlink‘s purpose is to provide Internet to the least served & to pay for Mars.

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Sep 7, 2024

The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years. Flight rate will…

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Apr 10, 2025

Starship will hopefully depart for Mars at the end of next year with Optimus explorer robots! [@MAstronomers] This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!

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Dec 29, 2024

The Martians will decide how they are ruled. I recommend direct, rather than representative, democracy. Uncrewed Starships landing on Mars in ~2 years, perhaps with crewed versions passing near Mars, and crewed Starships heading there in ~4 years are all possible.

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May 26, 2025

Starship can reach Mars in 6 months every 26 months when the planets align [@Rainmaker1973] How long commercial airplane would take to reach each planet, if possible (speed ~ 900 km/h or 559 mph)

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Feb 3, 2025

Only if civilization lasts long enough [@teslaownersSV] Starship will take us to Mars. )

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Mar 25, 2026

Yes [@_The_Prophet__] ⚡️Starship is the most important machine on Earth because it is the only serious bridge between a trapped species and a spacefaring one. That is the real truth. Everything else is downstream of lift cost. Moon bases, Mars cities, orbital industry, space solar, off world mining,

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Oct 27, 2024

Many Starships will go to Mars in 2 years, when the transit window opens again. The first wave will be without people and the second wave, 26 months later, with people, provided the first wave does not increment the crater count on Mars.

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