SpaceX Makes a Huge Pivot, Wants to Build on the Moon Instead

SpaceX Makes a Huge Pivot, Wants to Build on the Moon Instead

The commercial space giant SpaceX, which Elon Musk founded in 2002 to build a self-sustaining city on Mars, is no longer focusing on the Red Planet. According to a recent statement on X, SpaceX is now pivoting to the Moon as its intended destination for a human settlement.

SpaceX is leaning into the moon. Here's why.

Elon Musk has long framed SpaceX’s mission in sweeping terms: to send humans to Mars and make humans interplanetary. Along the way, the moon has played an inconsistent supporting role. SpaceX is under contract with NASA, for example, to send people to the moon, and that funding plays a key role in some of SpaceX’s major projects. However, Musk’s main messaging for years has been to build cities on Mars, not the moon. On Sunday, that messaging se…

SpaceX, Tesla, XAI and Boring Company Will Work on the Moon

The electric vehicles, Optimus humanoid bot, battery storage and other equipment and vehicles made by Tesla and Boring Company will all work in the airless environment of the moon. Boring Company, Prufrock-5, is the planned next-generation TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine). It described as the company’s smartest, fastest, and safest yet, is already in production and ...