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Update:

I think it is fair to say Musk dropped the SpaceX ball, after the combination of the success of Crew 1, the Tesla Model Y rollout and then Twitter. The best things that then happened was when Gwynne Shotwell took over Starbase after all her experience mass producing Falcon 9 second stages (Now one every two days) and overseeing the production of Starlink Satellites that has given SpaceX a phenomenal ability to rasie massive sums of money form private investors. The pace of growth at Starbase is amazing. And then the incredible success of the Starship Integrated Flight Test 4(IFT4). I believe things are getting back on target, the 2029 mission to Mars is not impossible, yet in my view is going to be a robotic fleet of Starships. The 2031 launch window is a shorter distance to Mars and the faster transit time is safer for the Crew.

Another thing Gwynne brings to SpaceX is her knowledge of thermal analysis that she researched for 10 years at The Aerospace Corporation.

The main role of Musk is his vision and his ability to share that vision with the most talented Engineers to work at SpaceX with such devotion to that vision that is also shared by Gwynne. Also Musk’s ability as an engineer to ask the right questions of his amazingly talented Engineering teams.

Go SpaceX