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Founder, CEO, Chief Technology Officer & Board Chair, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

FULL LIVE EVENT from Starbase: Pete Hegseth & Elon Musk

📅 Jan 12, 2026 LiveNOW from FOX 45 MIN 10 SEGMENTS · 4 SPEAKERS
WATCH LIVE from SpaceX: Hegseth & Elon Musk discuss Starbase, SpaceX, Space Force, the Arsenal of Freedom, militarization ...
Crew 0:04 ↗
Pre-event chatter including introductions of Kelly and Riley, sound checks, and a performance with repeated 'Heat' chants.
Elon Musk 1:17:43 ↗
Hello everybody. All right, welcome to Starbase, Texas. This is a city. It's actually legally a city that thanks to the hard work of the SpaceX team, we built out of nothing and is now a gigantic rocket manufacturing system. So, for people out there who are curious to see it, we're actually on a public highway, so you can come and visit and drive down the road and see the epic hardware. So, I think this is the first time that a rocket development program has actually been on a public highway. So, you can come and see the epic stuff. We're honored today to have the Secretary of War, Pete Hex, and much of the senior leadership of the Pentagon here. It's an honor to have them visit. We just did a tour of the factory and I think this really helps illustrate how manufacturing and manufacturing at scale is critical to the strength of America. So, I'll tell you a little bit just about the purpose of SpaceX. It's like we want to make Star Trek real. Okay. We want to make Starfleet Academy real so that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact. And we have spaceships going through space, big spaceships with people going to other planets, going to the moon, and ultimately going beyond our star system to other star systems where we may meet aliens or discover long dead alien civilizations. I don't know. But we want to go and we want to see what's happening and we want to have epic futuristic spaceships with lots of people in them traveling to places we've never been to before. Yeah, that's the goal. And that's what I think the public thinks of when they think of Space Force. So, on that note, I'd like to introduce the Secretary of War, Pete Hex.
Pete Hex 1:20:39 ↗
Thank you. Appreciate. Thank you very much.
Elon Musk 1:20:43 ↗
How about this? Star Trek real.

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Musk, E. (2026, January 12). FULL LIVE EVENT from Starbase: Pete Hegseth & Elon Musk [Interview transcript]. LiveNOW from FOX. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1030811/

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Elon Musk. "FULL LIVE EVENT from Starbase: Pete Hegseth & Elon Musk." LiveNOW from FOX, 12 Jan. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1030811/.

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@misc{musk2026_1030811,
  author       = {Elon Musk},
  title        = {FULL LIVE EVENT from Starbase: Pete Hegseth \& Elon Musk},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, LiveNOW from FOX. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {jan},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/1030811/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}