Starship is the top SpaceX priority

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: June 6, 2020 (CNBC: 'writing Saturday in a company-wide email seen by CNBC' (Saturday June 6, 2020; article published June 7))
To:: All SpaceX employees

Excerpt. Only this much of the email has been made public.

dramatically and immediately [...] Please consider the top SpaceX priority (apart from anything that could reduce Dragon return risk) to be Starship [...] We need to accelerate Starship progress [...] For those considering moving, we will always offer a dedicated SpaceX aircraft to shuttle people [...] consider spending significant time

About this email

A week after SpaceX's first crewed Dragon launch, Musk told employees that Starship was now the company's top priority apart from Dragon return risk, urged them to accelerate progress 'dramatically and immediately' and to consider spending significant time at Boca Chica.

Notes

REPLACES: 2020-06-06 Starship is the top SpaceX priority. Adds one more quoted fragment ('dramatically and immediately') and lists fragments in the order CNBC printed them; CNBC says the last fragment asked employees to consider spending significant time in Boca Chica. Still only fragments: the full text was never published.

Where it came from

Leaked to press; attribution widely reported.

SpaceX, company-wide memo. Tags: starship, priorities, boca-chica, urgency

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