Elon Musk hit the ground running on advancing his mission to colonize Mars, after departing the White House with a strained relationship with the Trump administration. Musk detailed his company SpaceX’s plan to send humans to the Red Planet at an event on Thursday.

The SpaceX CEO bailed on a company discussion about colonizing Mars, an otherwise favorite topic for the billionaire.

Elon Musk has returned. DOGE and all that government twaddle is behind him. He's going to be working closely at his businesses again instead of chainsawing federal agencies and getting screamed at by Trump cabinet members.

The 400-foot-tall Starship rocket is set to blast off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas at 7:30 p.m. EST for its ninth test flight, with the company aiming to correct the failures of

Musk will discuss progress and next steps toward building a human presence on the Red Planet ahead of Starship’s ninth test flight today.

Elon Musk: One of the benefits of going to Mars is to have life insurance for life collectively. “It's not about going to Mars to visit once, but it is to make life multiplanetary so that we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness to better understand the nature of the… pic.twitter.com/AgVGdFnGEj — ELON CLIPS (@ElonClipsX) May 26, 2025

Elon Musk postponed his address to SpaceX employees, initially scheduled for Tuesday, to Wednesday morning, coinciding with the ninth Starship flight

Last week, SpaceX revealed details of its investigation into why its previous Starship mission ended in a fireball that sent debris across the skies of the Caribbean. Although nobody was hurt, the loss of the craft in March caused some planes to avoid the area out of an abundance of caution.

Following 9th test mission of its Starship spacecraft, SpaceX is looking to ramp up flights with launches from Texas and near Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The more significant surprise over the past decade has been the shift in Musk’s politics and his controversial rise to prominence in that sector, from his purchase and pivot of Twitter to X to his chainsaw-wielding antics at the head of the Department of Government Efficiency earlier this year.