Elon Musk on the purpose of SpaceX: “We want to make Star Trek real. We want to make Starfleet Academy real. So that it’s not always science fiction, but one day, the science fiction turns to science FACT. And we have spaceships going through space—big spaceships—with people going to other planets, going to the moon, and ultimately going beyond our star system to other star systems where we may meet aliens, or discover long-dead alien civilizations. I don’t know, but we want to go. And we want to see what’s happening. And we want to have epic, futuristic spaceships with lots of people in them traveling to places we’ve never been to before.”

REMINDER: Americans support Voter ID regardless of race: Black Voters: 76% White voters: 85% Latino voters: 82%

I’m joining @SpaceX and @xai with @JasonBud. X is the company realizing science fiction - reusable rockets, humanoid robots, data centers in space, and more. Almost 10 years ago, I joined SpaceX as an intern on Dragon 2 crew displays. This was in the era of the first rocket landings on barges, long before the Dragon 2 restored human spaceflight to America or Starlink delivered internet from space. Every day since then, I’ve thought about the next steps to land on the Moon - and to build a city on Mars, data centers in space, the brains behind robots, and beyond. There is no better place to build teams and products from the ground up with planetary scale resources. If you’re looking to work on the hardest problems that lay a foundation for humanity’s future to the Moon, Mars, and beyond - DM me.

EXCLUSIVE: @NASA Boss Reveals New Artemis II Launch Plans And Details Ambitious 2027 Lunar Base Start Date; Says Manned Mars Missions And Humans Becoming An Interplanetary Species Within The Next Decade This week on Straight to the Point I sat down with @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman at NASA’s DC Headquarters. In this exclusive interview, the head of the United States space program laid out the future of American missions to the Moon, Mars, the Orbital economy and beyond. @thelatmg @latimesstudios_ Straight to the Point: NASA’s Lunar Ambitions, Mars and Beyond 01:05 Artemis II Launch Window 02:45 Taking Astronauts Farther Into Space Than Ever Before 04:00 NASA Now On Track For Lunar Landing 2028 04:50 Breaking Ground On Lunar Base in 2027 06:20 Humans Become An Interplanetary Species 08:00 Mars Timeline: Within Next Decade 10:50 Nuclear Propulsion Technology Is Game Changer 11:30 China Is On A “Sprint” To The Moon 12:15 You Can’t Be Number #1 On Earth and Number #2 In Space 13:30 What Keeps NASA Administrator Up At Night 14:20 President Trump: Build Enduring Presence On The Moon And Beyond 15:25 Reusable Rockets Have “Ignited” Orbital Economy 16:42 Potential For Tremendous Wealth In Space 17:25 Data Centers In Space Next Five Years 18:55 First Meeting Elon Musk 20:05 What Makes Musk Standout: Takes On Most Challenging Engineering Problems 21:03 What’s Next With Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin 22:20 Space X Broke The Monopoly 24:50 Life Beyond Earth: President Trump Declassifies UAP and UFO Files 26:15 Justification for NASA Budget 28:18 “Ad Astra Per Aspera” 29:20 Independent Journalism

EXCLUSIVE: @NASA Boss Reveals New Artemis II Launch Plans And Details Ambitious 2027 Lunar Base Start Date; Says Manned Mars Missions And Humans Becoming An Interplanetary Species Within The Next Decade This week on Straight to the Point I sat down with @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman at NASA’s DC Headquarters. In this exclusive interview, the head of the United States space program laid out the future of American missions to the Moon, Mars, the Orbital economy and beyond. @thelatmg @latimesstudios_ Straight to the Point: NASA’s Lunar Ambitions, Mars and Beyond 01:05 Artemis II Launch Window 02:45 Taking Astronauts Farther Into Space Than Ever Before 04:00 NASA Now On Track For Lunar Landing 2028 04:50 Breaking Ground On Lunar Base in 2027 06:20 Humans Become An Interplanetary Species 08:00 Mars Timeline: Within Next Decade 10:50 Nuclear Propulsion Technology Is Game Changer 11:30 China Is On A “Sprint” To The Moon 12:15 You Can’t Be Number #1 On Earth and Number #2 In Space 13:30 What Keeps NASA Administrator Up At Night 14:20 President Trump: Build Enduring Presence On The Moon And Beyond 15:25 Reusable Rockets Have “Ignited” Orbital Economy 16:42 Potential For Tremendous Wealth In Space 17:25 Data Centers In Space Next Five Years 18:55 First Meeting Elon Musk 20:05 What Makes Musk Standout: Takes On Most Challenging Engineering Problems 21:03 What’s Next With Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin 22:20 Space X Broke The Monopoly 24:50 Life Beyond Earth: President Trump Declassifies UAP and UFO Files 26:15 Justification for NASA Budget 28:18 “Ad Astra Per Aspera” 29:20 Independent Journalism

Another day, another spectacularly horrific Black-on-White murder that no one hears about, that would be the number one story in the world if it were White-on-anyone-else. On February 13, Black 21-year-old Alexander Lamar Banks was driving around, admittedly looking for people to kill, when he spotted a White mom and dad, out for an evening walk, pulling their 3-year-old daughter in a pink wagon in Delta Township, Michigan (77% White, 11% Black). That's when Banks targeted them, accelerating his car in their direction, driving off the road, and smashing through the White family. Banks then exited the vehicle, retrieved a shotgun, and fired multiple rounds, hitting all three family members and killing 3-year-old Harlow Smith. He reloaded the weapon before approaching Harlow's dad and shooting him again at close range. Banks punched the White father in the face and beat him with the shotgun. He then grabbed the White mother by the hair, twisting her head and trying to break her neck when she attempted to intervene. A 72-year-old White woman named Barb Cook saw what was happening and ran toward the murder scene to try to help the family. With his gun empty, Banks smashed 72-year-old Barb repeatedly in the head with it. He hit her with such force that her hair and flesh were later recovered from the muzzle. After beating Barb, Banks dropped the gun and fled. 37-year-old dad Cameron Smith, 33-year-old mom Paige Smith, and 72-year-old Barb Cook all survived the encounter that claimed young Harlow's life. Barb Cook required brain surgery and facial reconstruction, and went into a coma (as of the most recent update, she remains in that coma). Now, we wait to see how easy the system goes on Alexander Lamar Banks when it's inevitably determined that he was “not in the right state of mind” and has the IQ of speed bump. To recap, a Black psychopath quite literally hunted a White family, in public, in the light of day, running them down with his vehicle before shooting them repeatedly and savagely beating them in someone's front yard, killing a 3-year-old, then bludgeoning an unrelated 72-year-old grandma into a coma, and virtually no one knows, or will ever know, that any of this happened. But everyone on Earth knows that a White girl said a magic word on a Minnesota playground last year.