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I calculated the backstop value, and it was something like fifty cents on the dollar, while the actual debt was trading at twenty-five cents,” Musk said.

We’re trying to have a really big impact on the space industry. If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.

He goes into his brain, and then you just see he is in another world,” Maye said. “He still does that. Now I just leave him be because I know he is designing a new rocket or something.

Enough solar energy hits the Earth’s surface in about an hour to equal a year’s worth of worldwide energy consumption from all sources put together.20.

He seems to feel for the human species as a whole without always wanting to consider the wants and needs of individuals.

Like Steve Jobs before him, Musk is able to think up things that consumers did not even know they wanted – the door handles, the giant touch-screen – and to envision a shared point of view for all of Tesla’s products and services.

You’re told to park at One Rocket Road in Hawthorne, where SpaceX has its HQ. It.

I feel a bit like my grandmother. She lived through the Great Depression and some real hard times. Once you’ve been through that, it stays with you for a long time.

SpaceX has been testing reusable rockets that can carry payloads to space and land back on Earth, on their launchpads, with precision.