Investors are having doubts about Elon Musk's grandiose ambitions

Post by Spooky23 » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 3:58 AM UTC

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Yet Mr Musk does appear to have lunar ambitions for Tesla’s humanoids. He outlined a “super sci-fi” future in which they would operate factories on the Moon building solar panels and radiators for SpaceX’s satellites. Humans may be the advanced guard. Ms Shotwell said SpaceX’s aim was to put “boots on the Moon” as early as 2028. Do company executives really make these sort of claims with a straight face? More importa…

> > Ms Shotwell said SpaceX’s aim was to put “boots on the Moon” as early as 2028. > Do company executives really make these sort of claims with a straight face? More importantly, does anybody in the "public" really believe them? Why do you think this is far-fetched?

Post by cwillu » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 4:16 AM UTC

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skybrian wrote: post #9

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Seems like Starship has a ways to go before carrying human passengers?

> a ways to go before carrying human passengers? SpaceX has safely flown 78 crewmembers from 20 countries across 20 human spaceflight missions using its Crew Dragon spacecraft since May 2020.

Post by andsoitis » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 5:35 AM UTC

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> a ways to go before carrying human passengers? SpaceX has safely flown 78 crewmembers from 20 countries across 20 human spaceflight missions using its Crew Dragon spacecraft since May 2020.

Yes I know, but how do they plan to get to the moon?

Post by andsoitis » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 6:10 AM UTC

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> a ways to go before carrying human passengers? SpaceX has safely flown 78 crewmembers from 20 countries across 20 human spaceflight missions using its Crew Dragon spacecraft since May 2020.

Crew dragon was designed by smart minds. Those smart minds have mostly left spacex now, since musk changed political sides and became much less 'cool' for the brightest to work at. That's why the company is struggling now - few smart minds means little progress.

Post by andsoitis » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 6:35 AM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #18

andsoitis wrote: post #17

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> Those smart minds have mostly left spacex now since musk changed political sides Care to name a few?

Tom Mueller, Chris Thompson, Hans Koenigsmann, Tim Buzza etc have all left. Makes sense - they had been there ~20 years and must have a huge pile of stock. But due to musks political aura (mostly right leaning), the smart minds from universities(which are mostly left leaning) are no longer joining spacex en-mass. In turn, that means the companies are merely ticking along, not racing ahead.