"I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets."

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Source: Elon Musk is betting his fortune on a mission beyond earth's orbit by Carl Hoffman, www.wired.com. May 22, 2007.

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Elon Musk is a technology entrepreneur known for founding Tesla and SpaceX, revolutionizing electric vehicles and space travel.

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