Elon Musk: Starship Can Do What Apollo Never Could—Build a Base on the Moon or Mars

Elon Musk: Starship can go way beyond what was done with the Apollo program on the moon.

“Starship is gigantic compared to anything that's ever been done before. This is not like a tiny little thing lands on the moon. This is a giant-ass spaceship lands on the moon.

It's capable of putting 100 tons of payload on the moon, so a lot. We can go way beyond what was done with the Apollo program, where they just had a small lander, and they were on the surface of the moon for some number of hours, and then they got back in and took off.

The Apollo program was not capable of building a moon base. But the Starship system is capable of building a moon base. It's designed to be capable of building a city on the moon or Mars. That's what the system is designed to be able to do.”

Full Send Podcast, August 5, 2022