“Currently the cost per ton to the surface of Mars is about a billion dollars. Civilization can't afford to build Mars at a billion dollars a ton. That's insane. Even a million dollars a ton is still high.”Elon Musk https://t.co/xCDLp6dG1X ...

RT DogeDesigner (@cb_doge)"We should send rockets not at each other, but rather to the stars."一 Elon Musk https://t.co/GUFdqgXR6m ...

NASA's Role and Priorities - NASA is transitioning from hardware development to an incubator for the commercial space industry [2] - Proposed drastic cuts to the science budget raise questions about NASA's core role [3] - The fundamental tension lies between opening up the commercial sector and pursuing ambitious "moonshots" [4] Mars Mission and Sample Return - The current plan involves investing in new human missions to Mars to retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover [5] - Sending a robotic spacecraft to retrieve samples from Mars is considered a highly complex technological feat [6] - Putting humans on a vehicle increases the intensity and duration of development, also risks delays [5][6] Funding and Resource Allocation - NASA should focus on extraordinary exploration rather than funding well testing of private companies' engines [1] - NASA should streamline management layers [1]

“Our eventual upgrade path is to build the successor to Saturn V, a super-heavy lift vehicle that could be used for setting up a moon base or doing a Mars mission. That would be the holy grail objective.”Elon Musk in 2003 predicting the Starship https://t.co/JDAmFMbCQ0 ...

Starship looking back at Earth https://t.co/Dx2Uej2R4H ...

“Almost all that matters regarding Starship is that it enables consciousness to extend permanently beyond Earth. Everything else is in the noise.”Elon Musk https://t.co/ZAVDmbHkG3 ...

The Starship will extend life beyond earth.The first ever designed rocket to go to Mars. https://t.co/QhldrEWLwq ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has imaged the sun's south pole for the first time, the first of what's expected to be many new unique views. https://t.co/17dk3JWQLI https://t.co/17dk3JWQLI ...

“Can you imagine how awesome it will be to have 🇺🇸 astronauts plant the flag on another planet for the first time!How inspiring would that be?!"Elon Muskhttps://t.co/5vshz4Yz35 ...

RT Gwynne Shotwell (@Gwynne_Shotwell)SpaceX has hosted hundreds of students this year from 20+ schools across the RGV – including elementary STEM classes, high school rocketry teams & college engineering programs – to see the future of space exploration being built in Texas & to help inspire them to become rocket scientists 😉 ...