SPACE

You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great. That's what being a spacefaring civilization is all about.

I don't want to live on Mars. I want to live on Earth. But I want the option of visiting a million-person colony on Mars.

The hard part isn't getting to space. The hard part is making it routine and affordable enough that it actually changes civilization.

We can have a trillion humans living in the solar system. That means we'd have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins. That's the future I want for my grandchildren.

Space is the only way to save Earth. We need to move heavy industry off-planet and turn Earth into a residential zone.

Electron has launched over 50 times. That is more successful launches than most countries have achieved. From New Zealand.

SpaceX proved private companies can reach orbit. We proved you do not need to be a billionaire to do it.

SpaceX needs 10x more precision parts than they can source. The bottleneck in space is not rockets — it is the supply chain that makes the rocket parts.

I went to space before Bezos. Nine days before. Not that anyone is counting.

Reusable rockets were not a dream. They were a requirement. If you cannot reuse a rocket space will always be too expensive.

Rocket failures on live video are humbling. But every failure teaches you something no simulation can.

We wanted to build the Model T of rockets. Cheap, frequent, reliable. Two out of three isn't enough.

Every satellite needs an engine. There are thousands of satellites being launched. The propulsion market is massive.

We sent a factory into orbit, manufactured drugs in microgravity, and landed it back on Earth. That's not science fiction. That's Tuesday.

Space manufacturing will be a trillion-dollar industry. We're just the first ones crazy enough to try.

100 satellites tracking every ship, plane, and weather pattern on Earth. From space. For less than a traditional weather station costs.

I funded SpaceShipOne because I wanted to prove that private citizens, not just governments, could reach space. We proved it.

Going to the Moon is not about the destination. It is about proving that ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

From 400 kilometers above the earth, every problem that felt enormous from the ground looks like what it actually is — a temporary inconvenience on a very small planet.