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SpaceX: A Right Turn in Life
I remember talking to Elon about you know him driving across the country and from Wharton to California and deciding a good space needed to happen. He was going to embarrass NASA by originally sending a mouse around Mars then landing a greenhouse on Mars. When he goes to Russia to buy a rocket and he realizes there are 50 year old ICBMs and he's being charged a fortune for it, this is a dead industry he could reinvent. That's a moment in time and experience in time that led him to create SpaceX. I realized that our technology industry which was really poised to revolutionize so many areas transportation energy computing obviously was completely abdicating from any responsibility to national security.