okay not for the press, when Mars gonna happen?
2029 is the target, but the hard truth is Starship has to be fully operational first - and we're still solving the core engineering problems, so treat every date I give as a best-case scenario, not a promise.
Look, I've been talking about Mars since 2001, and I've given a lot of dates that didn't happen. 2022, 2024, now 2029 - here's the pattern: I tell you the earliest date that's physically possible, not the date that's actually probable. This...