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☆ Elon Musk's friends 'staged an intervention' when he said he wanted to start his own rocket company and made him watch videos of rockets exploding
  + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Elon Musk's friends held an intervention to stop him starting a rocket company, according to a new book. His college friend made him watch videos of rockets blowing up and warned him he'd lose his money. "When Musk decided he wanted to start his own rocket company, his friends did what true friends do in such a situation: they staged an intervention," journalist Walter Isaacson wrote in the book, titled "Elon Musk." "They made me watch a reel of rockets exploding, because they wanted to convince me that I would lose all my money," Musk told Isaacson. "I wanted to hold out hope that humans could be a space-faring civilization and be out there among the stars," he told Isaacson.
Persons: Elon, he'd, Musk, Elon Musk's, Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk, Isaacson, He's, Gwynne Shotwell Organizations: Service, University of Pennsylvania, PayPal, Mars Society, Lockheed, Boeing, Exploration Technologies, SpaceX, NASA Locations: Wall, Silicon, Los Angeles, United States, Russia, Mars
☆ Elon Musk passed out after drinking vodka in a meeting with Russians to buy rockets because he was hungover from partying in Paris, biography says
  + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Pete Syme | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk passed out in a meeting that involved shots of vodka, per his upcoming biography. He was negotiating buying rockets in Moscow, and had partied in Paris the night before. The SpaceX CEO told Isaacson that, before founding the company in 2002, he instead wanted to launch a mission that would inspire public interest in space exploration. "I calculated the weight of the food and the weight of the vodka, and they were roughly equal," Musk told Isaacson. Cantrell told Isaacson that the Russians then taunted the SpaceX founder, saying: "Oh, little boy, you don't have the money?"
Persons: Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson's, Isaacson, Musk, Jim Cantrell, Adeo, —, Cantrell Organizations: Service, SpaceX, Dnepr Locations: Moscow, Paris, Wall, Silicon, Russian, Qatar
☆ Former NASA official says a Russian designer famously inspired Elon Musk to launch SpaceX by spitting on his shoes
  + stars: | 2022-06-23 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver details how Elon Musk first started SpaceX in a new book. Musk decided to launch the company after he was disrespected by several Russians, per reports. The SpaceX CEO famously decided to launch his own space venture after he was spat on by a Russian engineer in 2001. Garver commented on the incident in "Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age," published June 21. The Co-Founder described the situation similarly in a biography on Musk by Ashlee Vance, "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future."
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