SpaceX CEO Bets Manned Mission to Mars by 2020

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/07/Uber_Entrepreneur_An_Evening_with_Elon_Musk

Elon Musk says he was motivated to found SpaceX after learning NASA had no plans to send man to Mars. Musk considers space exploration one of the main areas that will "most affect the future of humanity."

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By the age of 12 Elon Musk had sold his first commercial software, a space game called Blaster. Sixteen years later he sold his first company, Zip2, to Compaq's Alta Vista division for $341 million in cash and stock. His next act was as co-founder of PayPal, which was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock in 2002.

Musk then turned his energy toward two notable new ventures: SpaceX, developer and manufacturer of space launch vehicles, and Tesla Motors, developer of high-end electric automobiles - both of which were started in a downturn. What makes this visionary entrepreneur tick?

Musk speaks with Michael Malone about innovation for the future's sake, business strategies to get there, how to make order out of chaos along the way, and more. - Churchill Club

Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and a co-founder of SpaceX. He was an early investor in PayPal. He is chairman of Tesla Motors and SolarCity.

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[Nanotech92]

Some centurys from now - possibly . . .

(An average family house)

"Honey, do u want to go to mars for this year's family holiday?"

"Again?"

[nitroxide2011]

God bless our species... and Space X

[nicolaiesorin]

BLA BLA BLA BLA.

[venku1222]

@helljumpr5150 uh thats what we've been doing. Atlas Titan R-7 Proton Soyez 

[helljumpr5150]

Turning nuclear missiles into manned rockets... Thats what we should've been doing for the last fifty years.

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[JRhalo14]

now im going to probably be the first here but to go to mars is kind of an urgent thing (making mass effect refrence) in the game mass effect (i know this probably means nothing but) they discovered on mars technological artifacts that advanced the science 200+ years. now if there really was anything on mars i think that would be worth finding think by 2030 we could be visiting other areas of the milky way possibly finding more alien life many many possibilites

[sklaterjd]

@Neoli2300 Kennedy said "First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth" Now, he did give a time line but he made no mention of how to do it, except that it will be expensive. "No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."