“I have worked closely with Elon for over 20 years. His heart is pure, and his sole mission is to help humanity. During the darkest moments, he has shown me the path to choose courage and compassion over fear and hate.”
– Antonio Gracias, member of DOGE
SVP of Falcon and Dragon at SpaceX, long-time SpaceX’er (since April 2004), BS/MS Purdue AAE, musician & bass player for Dr. Spaceman, happy husband & dad
Redondo Beach, CA
Joined April 2009
- A lot of blood, sweat, tears, and sacrifice were required to make it to this milestone. I have nothing but gratitude and immense love/respect for everyone who contributed along the way. 🙏Falcon completes its 500th overall mission! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team for making the impossible possible on the road to rapidly reusable rockets!
00:00 - This is one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen. Please enjoy it while it is still novel. Soon this will become as common and routine as a Falcon booster landing.This is a real video of a past @SpaceX Starship water landing. Trying again tomorrow. We need to perfect ship reentry at extreme temperatures before attempting to catch the ship with the tower arms, like the booster.
- Interestingly, the closest astronauts have ever come to flying in a true polar orbit (90 deg inclination) were the original Soviet Vostok and Voskhod cosmonauts (including Yuri Gagarin) in the early 1960s - and they only flew to around 65 deg. The space shuttle did a singleFirst time humans will be in polar orbit around Earth launches on Monday! @framonauts
- Community Notes is such a common sense yet revolutionary solution for maximizing truth in the news. Can still be improved obviously but light years better than what any other platform offers.Elon Musk: It's very important to have a competition for truth. “We're putting a lot of effort into Community Notes. That is, I think, quite a good way to assess the truth of things. It's the community itself, basically the people of Earth, who are competing to provide the
00:00 - Starlink is a positive force in the world, bridging the digital divide across the globe. Starlink will boost education, healthcare, and economic opportunities for communities that have limited or no internet access. Everyone at SpaceX is working crazy hard to achieve this.This was one of my favorite days at work, bringing @Starlink’s high-speed internet to a school in the Amazon and meeting (and getting hugs from) these extraordinary students. This picture shows just a few of the hundreds of thousands of amazing Brazilian people whom we are
- SpaceX has assembled the most talented team of space vehicle innovators, builders, and operators the world has ever seen. I may be biased, but I truly believe this. And we are just getting started. Our future in space has never been brighter! If you have a passion for space,
- And new Falcon speed record: 12680 m/s (earth-centered inertial)
00:00 - Important, please read!Starship's fully and rapidly reusable design will exponentially increase humanity’s ability to access and utilize outer space. To unlock its full potential, and do it rapidly enough to meet commitments to national priorities like NASA’s Artemis program, Starships need to fly →
- My guess is that someday we'll determine that life is relatively common in the universe, but intelligent life is extremely rare.After a year of scientific scrutiny, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover has been confirmed to contain a potential biosignature. The sample is the best candidate so far to provide evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars. go.nasa.gov/4n35lVM
- Dragon and its new “boost trunk” performed a 15 minute burn yesterday, providing 1.62 m/s of delta-v to the ISS for station-keeping (a job typically performed by Roscosmos via the Zvezda Service Module or visiting Progress vehicles). Great photo by American (and Crew-11)
- Last week, SpaceX successfully completed a controlled deorbit of the SiriusXM-10 upper stage after GTO payload deployment. While we routinely do controlled deorbits for LEO stages (e.g., Starlink), deorbiting from GTO is extremely difficult due to the high energy needed to alter
- 99 years ago today, physics professor Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, soaring an underwhelming 41 feet before crashing into a cabbage field. Even though he was mocked in his time, he pushed on, pioneering the propulsion technology we use today. Without his
- People - especially the media - often claim that Elon isn’t deeply involved in his companies and doesn’t deserve credit for their success. This couldn’t be further from the truth. While he obviously can’t personally solve every issue, he relentlessly focuses on the biggest, mostI remember this day very well! These pictures are from a Sunday in March of 2018. We were living in the factory at this time, truly 24/7. I feel strongly if we didn’t get the push from Elon to clear everything out that weekend, 36 hours was the expectation, we would not have



















