Mission To Mars | Elon Musk Takes Aim | 2

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

After making his fortune in the dot-com boom, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk decides to take on a new challenge: going into space, and eventually colonizing Mars. To him, rockets are outdated technology just waiting to be disrupted. But he soon learns that space is not so easily conquered.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to American innovations, add free on Amazon music, download
0:06.0	the app today.
0:16.8	It's late at night, 2001.
0:19.7	Silicon Valley millionaire Elon Musk is cruising down the Long Island Expressway, back to Manhattan
0:25.8	after a party.
0:27.3	With close cropped black hair, chiseled cheeks, and biceps he likes to show off in tight black
0:32.9	t-shirts, he looks more like an aging frat boy than a typical dot-com nerd.
0:38.3	But he has a restless mind that's always moving forward at full throttle.
0:42.9	In the backseat, three of his friends are conked out, but in the passenger seat, a
0:47.3	dayo-resie, a fellow tech entrepreneur, gives Musk an appraising look.
0:52.7	So what's next?
0:55.3	It's the question on everybody's mind.
0:58.1	Musk is only 31 years old, and he has money to burn.
1:01.6	Two years earlier, he sold his first company, Zip2, the deal netted him millions.
1:07.5	His current company, PayPal, is cruising toward a lucrative IPO.
1:12.1	Musk looks out the windshield.
1:14.3	Above the twinkling urban skyline is another, feinter set of lights, the stars.
1:19.9	You know what I really want to do?
1:22.6	Busy follows his gaze.
1:26.1	Space?
1:27.1	Musk nods.
1:28.1	Not just space.
	...

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