NuXCOM_90Percent , 5 hours ago

Getting a rocket (or even a spaceplane) into space and sending a crewed mission to mars are VERY different challenges.

Let alone the colonization claims/promises that have been made over the years.

And… this is exactly what musk has been living off of for over a decade now. Spacex is a company with a LOT of great accomplishments (mostly because it was actually founded by engineers from NASA and JPL who took advantage of a money mark to poach staff from every other aerospace company/org but…). But it is almost exclusively focused around:

1. Getting satellites/payloads into orbit
2. Crewed missions to orbital stations

But musk has spun that as he is a god of space and is going to be colonizing mars any day now. Which is a VERY VERY VERY different challenge.

Think of it like this. Someone is REALLY good at driving a speedboat around a local lake. And they keep talking about how they are going to be sailing across the Atlantic Ocean any day now.