Starship surge: 'fly, drive, or get here by any means possible'

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: 2021 (Isaacson places the email in his 'Starship Surge' chapter (summer 2021, ahead of stacking the first full Starship); the retrieved highlight page gives no exact date)
To:: All SpaceX employees

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

Anyone who is not working on other obviously critical path projects at SpaceX should shift immediately to work on the first Starship orbit. Please fly, drive, or get here by any means possible.

About this email

Musk ordered a surge at Starbase, telling everyone at SpaceX not on another critical-path project to shift immediately to the first Starship orbital attempt and get to Boca Chica by any means.

Notes

Quoted in Isaacson's biography; text retrieved from a Kindle highlight page, so only the highlighted sentences are available. Month not verified against a retrieved page.

Where it came from

Book/biography; attribution single-source.

Walter Isaacson, 'Elon Musk' (2023), via Goodreads reader highlight

SpaceX, company-wide memo. Tags: starship, starbase, surge, urgency

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