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Elon Musk’s Surprise Interview From Today (SpaceX, Starlink, AI, Moon, Mars)
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About Elon Musk
In June 2026, SpaceX went public on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX in what was described as the largest initial public offering in history. Musk, speaking at the IPO event, said he had initially given SpaceX less than a 10% chance of succeeding. He stated that the company's goal is to "take the fiction out of science fiction" and make humanity a multi-planetary civilization. Musk said SpaceX wants to be able to take "anyone who wants to go to the moon, anyone who wants to go to Mars, or anywhere in the solar system" and not just a few astronauts. He also said that "there are always problems on Earth" that should be solved, but that there also need to be things that "get you excited about the future." In a separate interview with SpaceX employees, Musk discussed plans to build and operate AI satellites in space, describing them as simpler than Starlink satellites. He said the company aims to launch a million tons of mass to orbit per year within about three years using Starship. Musk also mentioned a long-term concept of using a mass driver on the Moon to accelerate AI satellites into deep space. In other appearances, Musk discussed Neuralink's brain-computer interface, stating that the first product, called "Telepathy," allows a patient to control a computer by thinking. He also predicted that artificial general intelligence could arrive around 2029 or 2030, when digital compute may exceed the cumulative biological compute of higher-level brain functions.
Transcript (22 segments)
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Greg Abbott0:00
Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. I am Texas Governor Greg Abbott and I am your guest host today. You know, many Americans have seen the marvels of SpaceX, but really don't know much about what SpaceX is actually doing in their lives right now. And there is nobody better in the world. I should say maybe in the universe to describe that than none other than Elon Musk. Elon, welcome to Sean Hannity Show.
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Elon Musk0:26
Thank you for having me.
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Greg Abbott0:28
Listen, you know, you and I have talked before about your vision and about what you're doing, and I know that you have visited with those who have invested in SpaceX about what you're doing. But the truth is probably most of our Americans across the country really don't know much about what SpaceX is actually doing to affect their lives. Can you give us a short explanation about what SpaceX is actually doing right now for the average American?
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Elon Musk0:55
Yeah. So SpaceX launches satellites that provide communication, especially the Starlink internet system. Starlink provides global high-bandwidth internet connectivity throughout the world. If you're anywhere from Texas to the North Pole or the South Pole or in the middle of the ocean, you can get high-bandwidth, low-latency internet connectivity, and it's the only such system that exists in the world. So that's the main thing we launch with SpaceX. Then SpaceX also is the main provider to NASA for transporting astronauts to and from the space station, as well as resupplying the space station with cargo and bringing scientific experiments to and from the space station. In fact, we're currently the only spacecraft, our Dragon spacecraft, that is qualified by NASA to transport astronauts to and from the space station besides the Russian Soyuz system. So we transport both US and international astronauts to and from the space station.
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Greg Abbott2:09
So for those Starlink deployments, about how many launches do you have a year and about how many satellites do you have across the universe?
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Elon Musk2:16
Yeah. So SpaceX right now delivers about 85% of all the payload to orbit of Earth. Of the remaining 15%, most of that is China, probably about 8%, and then roughly 7% is the rest of the world, including the rest of the US. So SpaceX transports almost 10 times as many satellites to orbit as the rest of the world combined.
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Greg Abbott2:47
So after you move on from deploying satellites, as you cast your vision toward the next 10 years, which by the way, every time I talk to you, it seems like you're constantly thinking 10 or even 20 or more years ahead. But what do you see SpaceX doing 10 years from now?
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Elon Musk3:08
Well, hopefully we've established a base on the moon. Not just a base with a small number of people, but in 10 years hopefully we've enabled thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people to go to the moon. That will seem like a pretty outrageous number given that only about a dozen people have been to the moon so far, but our Starship system is designed to carry ultimately tens of thousands of tons to the moon, to create effectively a city on the moon, and ultimately a city on Mars as well. The overarching goal of SpaceX is to expand life and consciousness as we know it beyond Earth to the rest of the solar system and eventually to other star systems.
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Greg Abbott4:02
So about how many years from now would it take to actually build a city on the moon? What are we talking about? 5, 10 years, more or less?
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Elon Musk4:32
We want to ultimately make it such that anyone who wants to go to the moon, any member of the public, can go to the moon and go to Mars.
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Greg Abbott4:44
So a person who wants to go to the moon, you know we see astronauts go up there and stay for a couple of days and come back. But you're talking about a city on the moon. So when you are talking 10 years from now and people are going to the moon, will they be staying there for weeks, months, years? What would it be like?
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Elon Musk5:01
Yes, I think it's up to the person. They may wish to go for a vacation on the moon or they may wish to move permanently to the moon, depending on the individual. But I think we want to have a full-blown self-sustaining city on the moon, like an actual metropolis on the moon. The goal is to make the things that people see in science fiction not fiction. We want to make them real and become a true spacefaring civilization where we're out there among the stars. I think that's a very inspiring future. People can really look forward to it. There need to be things in life that are not just about solving one miserable problem after another. We need to solve the problems of Earth, of course, but we also need things that inspire us about the future and make us glad to be alive.
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Greg Abbott5:56
I think it'd be a heck of a honeymoon trip to take a trip to the moon. Honey, let's not go to Singapore, let's go to the moon this year. That's something in the future. Another thing that I've heard you talk about is building data centers in space. Is that something that's going to be a reality, and if so, when?
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Elon Musk6:08
Yeah, I think the way to expand compute is really in space. There's a lot of room in space. If you look at the size of Earth relative to the sun or the solar system, you realize just how tiny Earth is. We only receive about half a billionth of the sun's energy. You can think of Earth as a tiny dust mote in a vast darkness. The way to expand compute without using up all the land on Earth is to do so in space, and you can do it without using space for power and water on Earth. So I think we'll probably be launching our first AI satellites next year, and then we'll be able to do that at large scale in about two years.
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Greg Abbott7:20
That's just incredible. Well, listen, you are such an inspiring individual. You have accomplished so much and still have so much ahead of you. But you inspired people in different ways. One of which is what happened in the aftermath of SpaceX becoming a public company, where people could go to the stock exchange and buy SpaceX stock. When that happened, it suddenly made fortunes for longstanding SpaceX employees. There was a story about a welder who began working for SpaceX in 2015 making about $28 an hour, who when SpaceX became a public company became a millionaire. What do you think it means to the American dream that welders at SpaceX can work hard and then become independently wealthy because they work for such a remarkable business?
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Elon Musk8:20
Yeah. Well, I've always had the philosophy that everyone at the company should receive stock in the company so they can participate in the upside. It's great for aligning incentives. As the company prospers, the employees also prosper. That's been my philosophy from day one. So there are several thousand people who've been made millionaires, not just one welder. Several thousand people working on the production line. If they started relatively early, their stock is probably worth over a million dollars at this point.
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Greg Abbott9:06
Just astonishing. Listen, you've been fabulous. I got two more quick questions for you. You mentioned Mars earlier. What does the Mars timeline look like with regard to what you want to accomplish there? Are we talking more than 10 years, 20 years? Give us an approximation.
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Elon Musk9:24
Yeah. Mars is much harder to get to than the moon. You can only travel to Mars roughly every 2 years because the planets align only once every 26 months. That makes it a lot harder than the moon, where you can go pretty much anytime and it only takes a few days. It takes about 6 months to get to Mars. So that's why we can do the moon faster than Mars. But I think if things go well, we can send the first people to Mars in about 5 years, and then rapidly increase the cadence. Every 2 years we would dramatically increase the number of ships going to Mars. Hopefully in the 10 or 12 year timeframe, we've sent thousands of people to Mars.
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Greg Abbott10:29
Just astonishing. Well, listen, you've been a great guest and a great Texan, I must add. We're proud you are in Texas. We're proud that SpaceX is headquartered in Texas. I'm going to quote you about something you said at the announcement of Terapab that all of your exes live in Texas. Of course, Starbase Texas is in the Lone Star State and will be known not just around the world but, pursuant to your aspirations, around the universe. So I got a really tough question for you: now that you have all these Texas connections, can we finally get a Texas emoji flag on your platform X?
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Elon Musk11:15
Sure. I will ask if he can make a Texas flag. It's a great flag. We've got a giant Texas flag here at the Giga Texas factory. We've got a big Texas flag and an American flag right outside the building. Certainly, I'd like to thank you and everyone for all the support we've gotten in Texas. It's a great state to do business in, super supportive, and really emblematic of American values. I love being here and love being a Texan.
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Greg Abbott11:53
Well, thank you. We're very proud of you. Keep up your great work. Maybe we'll see you on the moon one day.
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Elon Musk11:58
All right. Sounds good. See you there. Take care, Elon.