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ELON MUSK TALKS ABOUT MAKING LIFE MULTIPLANETARY, May 27, 2025, Starbase, TX, 9:00 pm ET (livestreamed)
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Update: Musk never gave this talk after IFT-9 ended in a RUD. A new date has not been announced.
Update, May 27: Just when event was about to begin, Musk tweeted that it was postponed until after the launch. It currently is scheduled for 9:00 pm ET.
Original Entry: SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk will talk about making life multiplanetary — Starship and sending humans to Mars — on May 27, 2025 at 1:00 pm ET prior to the IFT-9 Starship test flight (which is at 7:30 pm ET).
Musk’s talk will be livestreamed on X@SpaceX and SpaceX.com.
More information is in the emailed announcement, which is reproduced below:
MAKING LIFE MULTIPLANETARY |
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Join Elon on the morning of Starship’s ninth flight test for a discussion with SpaceX employees on SpaceX’s plans for establishing a permanent human settlement and cities on Mars. The talk will be streamed live on X @SpaceX and on spacex.com on Tuesday, May 27 at 12:00 p.m. CT. Elon will discuss the development work ahead for Starship and how SpaceX will use the world’s most powerful and capable rocket to build a human presence on the red planet over the next decade. The next opportunity to launch from Earth to Mars opens in late 2026. SpaceX was founded with the goal to make life multiplanetary and develop the technologies needed to make this goal a reality. SpaceX is developing the Starship launch system, the world’s first fully rapidly reusable rocket in south Texas’ newest city, Starbase. SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, May 27 at 6:30 p.m. CT for Starship’s ninth flight test. You can watch the launch webcast starting about 30 minutes before launch on X @SpaceX, on spacex.com, and on the new X TV app. |