17 years ago, spacex was the company that introduced me to the ambition, and potential, of the technology industry. elon has inspired a generation. so happy for him and his entire team. congratulations 🇺🇸🚀
7:15 AM · Jun 12, 2026 · 19.4K Views
SpaceX launches Starship rocket, prompting tech leaders to celebrate the company's decades of engineering ambition
Story Overview
The May 22 test flight of the first V3 Starship vehicle drew public praise from tech figures who framed the liftoff as the visible result of sustained organizational effort stretching back to SpaceX's founding, rather than an isolated hardware milestone.
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Leaders spotlight the long runway to liftoff
Posts from David Marcus and Mike Solana both zeroed in on the roughly two-decade timeline of unseen work, with Marcus crediting the team's determination and ingenuity across that span.
Open Question
Flight profile leaves several outcomes unresolved
The upper stage fell short of orbital insertion while the booster and ship followed a controlled profile, yet exact final status, recovery details, and the timeline for the next V3 mission stay unspecified in current reports.
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Many users celebrated SpaceX achieving Starship milestones and defying skepticism as inspiring progress, while negative users directed personal attacks at Elon Musk accusing him of exploitation.
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Peter H. Diamandis, MD@PeterDiamandis
A day to remember with my Moonshot Mate DB2! One of the most insightful conversations we've had about the future of humanity was held earlier this year at Tesla's Gigafactory.
If you haven't yet watched it, here's your chance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSNuB9pj9P8
Dave Blundin@DaveBlundin
TBT! Congrats to @elonmusk and the @SpaceX team on the public debut. It's a huge milestone, but you're just clearing the tower on the mission of bringing humanity and AI to the final frontier! So much more to come. What an exciting future! 🚀
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Alfred Lin@Alfred_Lin
I was born after the space race, so I can only imagine what it felt like to live through it. The technological achievements were extraordinary, but perhaps more important was what they did to our collective imagination. They made people believe the impossible was possible.
Congrats to everyone at @SpaceX who kept building and believing despite the odds. Your impact on space exploration is immense. Your impact on helping the rest of us dream bigger may be even greater.
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Sequoia Capital@sequoia
Ad Astra @elonmusk and @SpaceX 🫡🚀
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Guillermo Rauch@rauchg
Congrats @elonmusk & @spacex team – one of humanity's most inspiring missions! Excited about what the rest of the century will bring.
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Bill Ackman@BillAckman
Never give up
Robert Sterling@RobertMSterling
> you’ll never start a rocket company > you’ll never build your own engines > you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts > you’ll never survive three launch failures > you’ll never reach orbit > you’ll never win NASA’s trust > you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS > you’ll never compete with Boeing > you’ll never compete with Lockheed > you’ll never make rockets reusable > you’ll never land a rocket vertically > you’ll never land one on a drone ship > you’ll never reuse a booster > you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times > you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing > you’ll never lower launch costs > you’ll never launch every month > you’ll never launch every week > you’ll never launch multiple times a week > you’ll never carry astronauts > you’ll never replace Roscosmos > you’ll never fly civilians to orbit > you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale > you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever > you’ll never make satellite internet work > you’ll never make satellite internet fast > you’ll never make satellite internet affordable > you’ll never serve rural customers > you’ll never serve aircraft and ships > you’ll never build a methane rocket engine > you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work > you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever > you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V > you’ll never build it out of stainless steel > you’ll never launch Starship > you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship > you’ll never relight Raptor in space > you’ll never bring Super Heavy back > you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms > you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide > you’ll never change the economics of space > you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you > you’ll never win > you’ll never IPO Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again. Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.
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Robert Sterling@RobertMSterling
> you’ll never start a rocket company > you’ll never build your own engines > you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts > you’ll never survive three launch failures > you’ll never reach orbit > you’ll never win NASA’s trust > you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS > you’ll never compete with Boeing > you’ll never compete with Lockheed > you’ll never make rockets reusable > you’ll never land a rocket vertically > you’ll never land one on a drone ship > you’ll never reuse a booster > you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times > you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing > you’ll never lower launch costs > you’ll never launch every month > you’ll never launch every week > you’ll never launch multiple times a week > you’ll never carry astronauts > you’ll never replace Roscosmos > you’ll never fly civilians to orbit > you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale > you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever > you’ll never make satellite internet work > you’ll never make satellite internet fast > you’ll never make satellite internet affordable > you’ll never serve rural customers > you’ll never serve aircraft and ships > you’ll never build a methane rocket engine > you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work > you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever > you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V > you’ll never build it out of stainless steel > you’ll never launch Starship > you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship > you’ll never relight Raptor in space > you’ll never bring Super Heavy back > you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms > you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide > you’ll never change the economics of space > you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you > you’ll never win > you’ll never IPO Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again. Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.
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Ken Kirtland IV@KenKirtland17
@ApoStructura 5 minutes later he says "there are only 25 satellites launched a year every year and thats not going to change." The SpaceX person on the panel said "thats true if you're looking out of the rearview".
SpaceX launched 53 satellits in the last 24 hours
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Blake Scholl 🛫@bscholl
Super happy and proud for everyone @SpaceX today. You earned this.
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Joe Gebbia@jgebbia
Congrats to Elon and all the SpaceX employees and investors who believed in him! What a remarkable day against all odds.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
I love the incredible people of SpaceX beyond words
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Suhail@Suhail
SpaceX feels like a bet on rooting for humanity's grand ability to invent, thrive, and far surpass our wildest imaginations. Bravo to you all that made this happen.
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sarah guo@saranormous
break out of the prison of the mind. and the earth.
ad astra! congrats SpaceX friends
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David Marcus@davidmarcus
Congratulations to the entire @SpaceX team. On a day like today people only see the success. Not the grit, determination, ingenuity, blood, sweat and tears over 24 years to get to this point. Every bit of this success today has been hard earned and deserved.
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Crab Nicholson@Naijamak
@ApoStructura I stopped listening to 99.9% of people with European accents after this tweet from @romanhelmetguy
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heiner@HeinrichKuttler
Congrats @elonmusk and the amazing people at SpaceX! To the stars!
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Allen, Allen, Allen, & Allen@MatthewHokie
@ApoStructura
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Ken Kirtland IV@KenKirtland17
@ApoStructura Theres even more. I posted the whole vid earlier.
10 minutes later he makes a joke that SpaceX shouldn't sell themselves on unrealistic stuff like launching 100 times a year.
10 years later SpaceX launched >100 times a year
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ApoStructura@ApoStructura
@Naijamak @romanhelmetguy Well I’m European, please don’t discount all of us. I think Europe has lost the plot as a whole, but there are still tons of smart and capable people here. They just have to go to the U.S. when they want to build something cool….
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rationale@Al_Rationale1
@ApoStructura love how many people were so confident betting against spacex and tesla, all on video. they are going to be clowned for eternity, it wasn't that bad for the journos back in the day. everyone just sees the headlines in the highlight reels, but whole conversations? lol, lmao even.
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elyeims@elyeims
Grandpa, what was @Arianespace? Well, kid, Europeans once built formidable rockets. Then full socialist: rules on rules, crushing taxes, gov't killing dreams. Turned into a slow, over-regulated 3rdworld mess. Now their boss laughs off reusable rockets as “just a dream” while Americans catch 'em like frisbees. They used to build the future. Now they explain why nobody should.
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ApoStructura@ApoStructura
@KenKirtland17 I didn’t remember that part!
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Niels Harksen@HarksenNiels
The thing is, the Arianespace guy was right under the conditions of the satellite market at this time. Falcon 9 reuse in combination with the GTO market didn't make much sense. Elon's genius was to create (and foresee) his own market that justified reuse. This being said, a non-reuse SpaceX would also have been a strong competitor. The F9 design is good, and adding a two booster asymmetric family member next to the Falcon Heavy would have given SpaceX a very flexible, very competitive conventional rocket.
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