SpaceX Is About Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction
Elon Musk delivers remarks ahead of the SpaceX IPO debut on Friday. Musk focused on how unlikely SpaceX's success seemed, the goal of making humanity multi-planetary, and inspiring people. ELON MUSK: Thank you, Gwynne. [SpaceX CEO] Gwynne Shotwell has been an incredible partner and was one of the first people to join the company. And so thank you, Gwen. Oh, she's in New York, of course. Where is he? And yet it is certainly hard to believe that a little company that started in a warehouse in El Segundo is now going public with the largest IPO ever. And let me tell you, if people had told me this was going to happen, I was like, man, you must be smoking some really good crack, because I think this company is going to fail. I mean, I gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all, to be clear. In fact, I told people this, I was like, we're probably going to fail, but you know, we should give it a try. Because if we don't, if there's not a new company that enters space, we will never be a truly space-bearing civilization. You know, while the other aerospace companies, they build good rockets and everything, they were simply not pursuing the technology that's necessary to make life multi-planetary, to make Star Trek, to make the exciting science fiction futures that we've read about real. And that's what SpaceX is all about, is to take the fiction out of science fiction and create an exciting, inspiring future for everyone. We want to be able to take anyone who wants to go to the moon, anyone who wants to go to Mars, or anywhere in the solar system, and maybe beyond the solar system at some point, we want to be able to take you there. Not just a few astronauts, I mean you, literally you. If you watch, whoever you are watching this, SpaceX wants to be able to take you to the moon, take you to Mars, and ultimately beyond. And I'm confident at this point, that with the incredible team that we have here at SpaceX, that we will do that for you. I always think a
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