SpaceX's own mission statement doesn't mention becoming part of a community of civilisations [1]. It mentions making humans multiplanetary, but that is a very different aim [2]. Further, it's a good idea to be skeptical of corporate mission statements generally.

SpaceX is doing exciting stuff in the field of rocketry; that's really happening and it's worth being excited about, but they aren't doing more. It's misguided and dangerous to treat them as utopian idealists.

[1] https://www.spacex.com/mission/

[2] https://www.gutenbergcanada.ca/ebooks/lewiscs-outofthesilent...

> but they aren't doing more

Criminy, aren't they doing great? I finally found a way to buy some shares of SpaceX. I don't even care if that investment does badly, I just want to share in a tiny bit of SpaceX.

> dangerous

?? On the scale of things that terrify me, SpaceX doesn't move the needle.

If Starship isn’t designed to go to Mars and back they’ve made some odd design choices.

Musk has acknowledged that he considers colonizing Mars a step to becoming extrasolar eventually, not that SpaceX plans to do that itself.

On a portion of it - I don't see any attention paid to discovering how to teach human beings how to be better at good will, which is part of the claim.