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These vehicles are the first of many β made possible by the tireless effort of SpaceX engineers and technicians β and are designed to enable the core revolutionary capabilities of Starship
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Elon Musk: In the absence of breakthrough innovation in the US, China will utterly dominate. We need the humanoid robots, we need real-world AI, we need a million tons a year to orbit. If we get the mass driver on the moon going, I'd call that winning β big time.
Elon Musk: The long-term value of SpaceX is immense β itβs just beyond the planning horizon of most investors.
WSJ: βWho's going to pay for [the Mars colonization]? Are your investors going to put the money up to do that?β
Elon: βI think long-term, the value of it will be incredibly high. It's just beyond the planning horizon of most people or most investors. Obviously, if there's a thriving city on Mars and there's a lot of interplanetary commerce and SpaceX is the primary provider of that, it would be immensely valuable.β
Interview with the WSJ, May 2023
Elon Musk: Raptor 3 is so clean it looks like parts are missing.
βThe next version of the rocket will have the Raptor 3 engines, which are a huge improvement. You may have seen them in the lobby because we've got the Raptor 1, 2 and 3. And you can see the dramatic improvement in simplicity.
We should probably put a plaque there to also show how much we reduced the weight, the cost, and improved the efficiency and the thrust.
The Raptor 3 has almost twice the thrust of Raptor 1. You see, Raptor 3, it looks like it's got parts missing. It's very, very clean.
There's 33 on the booster, and each Raptor engine is producing twice as much thrust as all four engines on a 747. So that engine is smaller than a 747 engine, but it's producing almost 10 times the thrust of a 747 engine.
So extremely high power to weight ratio. We're pushing the limits of physics here.β
The Joe Rogan Experience, October 31, 2025
Elon Musk: My initial plan was not to start a rocket company. I just wanted to fund a one-time Oasis mission to Mars.
βI started off initially with the idea of doing something in the space exploration arena. In fact, it wasn't actually with the idea of creating a company. It was initially with the thought of spurring interest in sending people to Mars. So I put together this idea called Mars Oasis, which was to send a small greenhouse to the surface of Mars and get people excited about the idea of going there and thus increase NASA's budget in order to make it happen.
As I got more and more into that, I discovered that the real issue was that the cost of space transportation was really high, and it was getting worse. So we're used to technology getting better every year, but in some arenas it actually does not. It gets worse, particularly when you consider that in 1969 we were able to go to the moon and then we were unable to go beyond low Earth orbit. And now with the space shuttle retired, we're not even able to go to Earth orbit at all, even with people. That was not the right trajectory. So I actually went to Russia three times to look at buying an ICBM to launch this mission. Just very crazy.
After my third trip of trying to negotiate with the Russians to buy an ICBM and I did actually get a deal, so figured out what it would cost and everything. But I concluded that my initial assumption had been wrong, that it was not a question of trying to generate more will to explore. Because I think the United States in particular is distillation of the human spirit of exploration. Space exploration is fundamental to the American psyche.
But people really need to believe that it can be done and it's not going to break the bank if it does. So that's when I decided to start a rocket company. And I actually didn't think it would succeed and it almost didn't.
We started off developing a small rocket which was kind of a scale model version. It was about 100,000 pounds of thrust. So big, you know, big, big by normal standards, but small for a rocket. And developed the engine and the airframe and the electronics and the guidance control system and then proceeded to have three failed launches in a row. And so for various technical reasons, the first three launches did not succeed in reaching orbit. Launches two and three did get to space, but they didn't achieve enough speed to reach orbital velocity.
So this is 2008. And so we were heading into the recession and we had one rocket left. And fortunately in late 2008, that fourth launch did work and we made it to orbit. And then we won a NASA contract after that. And so fortunately things worked out. But if that fourth launch had not worked, then SpaceX wouldn't be around. So it was very close call. In fact, when I started I thought, okay, I've got enough money, I think I've got enough money for three launches. Fortunately, it was just enough to make that fourth one.β
Montana Jobs Summit, September 16, 2013
Elon Musk: OpenAI stole the non-profit one piece at a time.
βThey basically just decided that the statute of limitations has passed. They did not actually render an opinion on whether, you know, there have been unjust enrichment or if the charity has been stolen, which I think is obviously the case.
But I do think it's somewhat a dubious situation because, you know, what happened was by degrees meaning it wasn't stolen all at once. It was stolen one piece at a time. And so we have to say, like, well, was there really even a basis for legal action before, you know, the non-profit was stolen? I don't think there is, actually.
The first step into adding a for profit thing had a cap for profit and was at a small scale. And also that all stock would revert to the charity upon the invention of artificial general Intelligence. That clause has now been removed, though it will continue to be a for profit after developing artificial general intelligence. That removal was quite recent, just in the last few weeks.
At this point it is whatever an $800 billion for profit company somehow from a nonprofit. And I think this is a dangerous precedent to set because if it means that someone can start take money as a nonprofit, convert that to a for profit when it's successful, it undermines all charitable giving in America. It certainly would. You'd see a lot of people starting to start nonprofits with a path towards for profit. Exactly. What do you got to lose? Right?
I think we necessarily have to appeal because this will become precedent which people can actually then essentially loot charities and use this case as a basis for doing so, which I think would be wrong.β
Interview with Forbes, May 18, 2026
Elon Musk: Neuralink is Jesus-level technology.
βI think some kind of brain machine interface that can give you cybernetic superpowers is probably good.
It could help people that have brain or spine injuries, enable people who've never spoken for years to speak again, which we've done. Give people eyesight who have lost both eyes of the optic nerve or maybe have never even seen at all, blind from birth.
By a direct interface to the optical centers in the brain, you can actually restore eyesight or give people eyesight that they've never had before. And you can enable people to walk again, which I think is profound.
These are kind of Jesus-level things. When technologies are hitting like Jesus-level miracles, that's pretty good.
Interview with Forbes, May 18, 2026
Elon Musk: The age of human-piloted fighter aircraft is coming to an end.
βI'm not sure there's a lot of opportunity for fighter pilots because I think if you've got a drone swarm coming at you, the pilot's a liability in the fighter plane, to be honest.
If you compare a drone versus a fighter plane, how easy is it to make a drone? It's an order of magnitude, maybe, maybe 100 times easier to make the drone. And you can afford to sacrifice the drones, whereas you don't want to sacrifice the pilots. So my guess is that actually the age of human-piloted fighter aircraft is coming to an end.β
Interview at West Point Military Academy, August 16, 2024