'Elon Musk is not a lunatic': revisiting the dawn of SpaceX by TheAlexKnapp
With SpaceX’s historic private launch of astronauts into orbit, here is the first Forbes profile of Elon Musk from 2003, shortly after the company was founded—and five years before the first Tesla rolled off the line.
There's nothing kooky about his latest venture, which is backed by what he describes as"tens of millions" of his own money. Assuming he runs the gantlet of government approvals, his Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX for short, will be ready to launch low-cost rockets by the end of the year.
Redundancy, as in making the planet Mars habitable for humanity—and reachable through rockets Musk dreams about building."Mars has the possibility of being terraformed," he says, referring to the theory that by releasing greenhouse gases on the planet, you can trap heat and create a liveable environment."We could change the climate of Mars and make it quite Earth-like.
Rocket Man: Musk with an early version of the Falcon One rocket. The design failed on its first three launch attempts, but succeeded in 2008, clearing the way for SpaceX's growth.None of this is found in Musk's pitch to potential SpaceX customers.
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