Back in 2004 in a rented garage in El Segundo, California which was home to a small aspiring rocket company called SpaceX, very few had taken its young founder Elon Musk seriously when he had famously said "I want to do two things : go to Mars and put Lockheed Martin out of the launch business"
Fast forward to 2020, both his prophecies are coming true as the world awaits the launch of SpaceX’s Starship, the giant orbital spaceship and its reusable Super Heavy rocket, which together constitute the transportation system that Musk thinks will bring Mars settlement within reach while it continues to dominate the satellite launch market offering 80% cost reduction in dollars per kilo potentially knocking off its blue chip rivals in the race where trillions are to be earned in a frontier that has only begun to be explored.
With the Moon and Mars within our reach Musk's mission is also about to solve a major problem of our planet by exporting its nuclear waste and battery waste from planet Earth to the Moon and Mars thereby saving our planet from extinction.
Earlier this year, after a $500m funding round led by Baillie Gifford, one of the largest investors in Tesla, SpaceX's valuation now stands at $33.3B