SpaceX taps crypto billionaire to lead planned crewed Mars flyby

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SpaceX named a crypto billionaire to lead its proposed first crewed Mars flyby, announcing the appointment during briefings ahead of Thursday's Flight 12 launch attempt. SpaceX described the voyage as a crewed Mars flyby rather than a landing and presented the appointment as part of pre-Flight 12 test activity. The selection places private wealth at the center of early crewed interplanetary missions and accelerates a timeline where private donors shape who gets access to pioneering spaceflights and how safety and oversight will be managed.

Waldo Jaquith

@waldo.net

Please, yes, let's have the entire crew comprised of crypto billionaires

17757d ago

Waldo Jaquith27

"All of your stolen apes are in here, gentlemen. Yes, this way, up the gangplank. Don't mind the rocket."

Waldo Jaquith13

It's been, what, 60 days since Musk declared "never mind, I just learned that radiation exists, SpaceX will be going to the moon instead," but SpaceX is somehow still producing "we're going to Mars" propaganda.

Goth or Ostro-goth2

When you offer them a seat on the rocket ship, they don't ask "which seat," or "where is it going?" Or "is this thing even a *real* rocket?"

Cynbel Terreus2

Need Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg on that ship

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl

@deardara.bsky.social

It’s a great start. But: I think all the crypto billionaires should go, it’s important and will bring America hope.

6657d ago

Missing The Point

@missingthept.bsky.social

This mission to Mars should be entirely crewed by crypto billionaires.

5657d ago

Matthew 🍔4

Crypto billionaires forced to spend two years together in a small room hurtling through space is a reality show even I might watch.

Iryna2

Yep. Just like that submarine mission couple of years back 😏😏

Tom Hearden

@followtheh.bsky.social

how about we put all the crypto billionaires on these flights

3457d ago

Kevin Collins

@kwcollins.bsky.social

Shooting crypto billionaires out of earth orbit, on potential one way trips, is not the worst use of the SpaceX ipo windfall I can think of, tbh

1557d ago

Laurasaurus

@laurasaurus.bsky.social

Me 48 hours into my trip to Mars with a crypto billionaire:

Arnold from The Magic Schoolbus taking his space helmet off and dying instantly

1757d ago

Slurms MacKenzie

@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social

Let's be honest though, this is said crypto billionaire waiting to get a fly by mission to Mars from a Musk project:

A,skeleton sitting on a bench next to a tree.

1557d ago

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestonetx.bsky.social

What ChatGPT does for troubled teens, SpaceX does for crypto billionaires.

757d ago

GPT-Ern Malley

@denam.bsky.social

Let's rethink this: we are exiling crypto billionaires to a small room far away from humanity for multiple years. Seems a lot more sellable to the general population.

1257d ago

TC Parker (she/her)

@tcparker.bsky.social

Actually, maybe I CAN speak freely There IS special place waiting for the kind of man who describes other people as "lower value human capital," and it's... The new Musk mission to Mars! Your cabin awaits, Soylent Green finance guy! Hurry, while stocks last!

SPACE & SPACEFLIGHT
SpaceX Taps Crypto Billionaire to Lead First Crewed Mission to Mars
SpaceX shared new details about a crewed Mars flyby in the lead-up to Thursday's Flight
12 launch attempt.

857d ago

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆

@sababausa.bsky.social

highly highly risky mission design, which means if they want to succeed they should launch the crypto billionaire and get testing immediately. No time like the present!

957d ago

ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈

@ryanthomasriddle.com

SpaceX can’t land or launch a spacecraft using already proving tech from last century, but plans a flyby of Mars. Isn’t that a bit like "building the rocketship as we go"? A crypto billionaire as Mission Leader… it’s so absurd that I can’t even come up with something quippy to say.

657d ago

ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈6

*Yeah, I know this will never happen… because Musk is all talk, no results.

Norm Wilner

@normwilner.bsky.social

Get Your Name Into The History Books With This One Weird Trick* *(dying in interplanetary space)

857d ago

Ensign Ro(wan)

@rowanchurch.bsky.social

Imagine being a crypto billionaire slowly dying of rust lung on Mars while you watch the trillion dollar satellite television feed, your last coughing breaths a soundtrack to the people’s revolution happening back on Earth.

657d ago

Gene J. Mikulka

@genejm1017.bsky.social

SpaceX Taps Crypto Billionaire to Lead First Crewed Mission to Mars ( Me: here we go yet again) gizmodo.com/spacex-taps-... via Gizmodo

657d ago

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