CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk has been taking social media in a grip ever since it purchased Twitter. The company was bought at a deal of $44 million and was closed in October 2022. As claimed by the billionaire, he bought the company not to make more money, but to help humanity.
Soon after he took over, almost 50 percent of its workforce, including Twitter’s top chief executives were fired by Musk. Musk has been on a mission to revamp the whole multi-blogging site. So far, he has put a charge on the continuation of users having the “blue tick” verification badge. But, let’s focus on another of Musk’s ventures, Space, and its foundation.
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What Is The Vision Behind Elon Musk’s Company SpaceX?
SpaceX is a company founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk in 2002. SpaceX is the short form of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation. It is a space transportation and aerospace manufacturing company that has helped usher in the era of commercial spaceflight. It is currently headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
Musk always felt a “personal obligation” to the fate of mankind. This is mentioned in the book ‘Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future‘, written by author Ashlee Vance. According to Vance, Musk’s love of books inspired him to create cleaner energy technology spaceships that could extend humans’ reach in the future.
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Which Book Series Inspired Elon Musk To Start SpaceX?
One of the book series which highly inspired Elon Musk was the seven-book ‘Foundation‘ science fiction series. It was written by author and scientist Isaac Asimov. As mentioned by Encyclopedia Britannica, Asimov’s ‘Foundation‘ is about the collapse and rebirth of a vast interstellar empire in the universe of the future.
The Tesla CEO had tweeted about it saying, “Worth reading Asimov’s Foundation, in the order that they were written.”
In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2017, Musk told, “The lesson I drew from the Foundation saga is you should try to take the set of actions that are likely to prolong civilization, minimize the probability of a dark age if there is one.”
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