Elon Musk
Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Muskis a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, engineer and inventor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 June 1971
CityPretoria, South Africa
CountryUnited States of America
airplane building definitely entire expensive factory imagine integrated single split transport
is analogous to building part of an airplane in a factory and part of the airplane on the runway. You can imagine that's a pretty expensive way to split the construction so the fact that we can just do the entire integrated rocket, transport it as a single unit, that definitely reduces costs.
confidence left shortcuts stone
I think I can say with confidence that we've left no stone unturned. We've made no shortcuts in development. We've done everything we can.
happiness happy launch sign soon
that are happy to sign up as soon as they see a launch that works.
best engine failures history numerous occurred program recently
To the best of my knowledge, every booster engine qualification program in history has had numerous failures of the kind that recently occurred with Merlin, so this is not unusual.
address jump particular point problem simply
We are not simply going to address this particular point problem and then merrily jump back into a countdown sequence.
samurai failing commit
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
heart thinking matter
I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
cut few run
We're not going to cut and run if we have a few issues. We're not going to cut and run if we have a lot of issues. We're going to see this through.
billion design jet mind planes took vertical
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
executing falcon fire perfectly until
Falcon was executing perfectly on all fronts until fire impaired the first-stage pneumatic system.
earliest expect full ground including late launch occur review software support third vehicle
We will also do another full review of all the vehicle systems, including propulsion, structures, avionics, software and ground support systems. Therefore, I expect that the earliest that launch would occur is late January. Third time's the charm.
bring finding matter shape ways
We have a lot of ways of finding the stage, and we really want to bring it back no matter what shape it's in.
buy car electric nobody people sports wants
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
earned five million revenue took
Our earned revenue will be $35 million after a little more than two years of operation. By comparison, the X-Prize was a one-off of $10 million, and it took Burt something like five years to do it.