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by frankharv 2452 days ago
From this[1] article:

"Musk said in 2018 that SpaceX was “all hands on deck for Crew Dragon,” and it would be making trips to the ISS by December 2018.

After that, he said, “most of our engineering resources will be dedicated to BFR, and I think that will make things go quite quickly,” he said. BFR was the earlier name for Starship."

"All hands on deck" is not some subjective term, it is naval and means get everyone on deck now to repel boarders.

[1]https://kfor.com/2019/09/28/nasa-administrator-tells-elon-mu...

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Except there is nothing they can do now. There are a ton of safety reviews which depend on NASA, and only a small amount of people at SpaceX are required to keep the NASA team more than filled with work.

Elon responded saying he would do whatever it took to go faster, but there was nothing he could do.

He said, today, that 5% of SpaceX was working on Starship.
Both statements can be true, depending on which portion of space x is engineers and how Elon uses the word resources here