Either SpaceX's board members are just as delulu, or they're confident this goal is unachievable so they won't have to dole out the pay package.

Elon Musk now has a direct financial incentive to get humans to Mars—and it's unlike anything seen in corporate history. SpaceX's board approved a com.

There are substantial technical, political, and financial obstacles to starting the colonization of Mars within the next few decades. SpaceX is farther along than most toward this ambitious goal. Follow 24/7 Wall St. on Google This post may contain links ...

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Elon Musk has repeatedly emphasized that no matter how financially successful SpaceX may be, the company will have failed in his eyes if the primary objective – the colonization of Mars – is not achieved. Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson quotes him ...