SpaceX's Unknown Origin Story: Elon Wanted to Back Up Earth
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Brief Summary
Elon Musk's original vision for SpaceX involved creating rockets to back up the biosphere with geodomes in space.
Key points
- Elon Musk's Vision for Space. Elon Musk envisioned creating geodomes in space to support life.
Transcript
Most people don't remember this, but when Elon was starting SpaceX, the original idea when he was running around with ADO and they were looking at some rockets and getting carriage from Russian rockets was to back up the biosphere. And he came back from that trip and I remember talking to him about it and he said, "I think I just have to make my own rockets because that's actually where the problem is and it would be easier just to make my own rocket to back up the biosphere." He wanted to put geodomes like geodessic domes in space with all the plants and wildlife and and creatures. What an incredible vision. And then it was the necessity of
actually getting that up into space. And that's the unknown origin
