SpaceX began as a temporary project to photograph a plant on Mars
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Daniel Gross, founder of Pioneer, discusses how major endeavors start small by recounting the origin story of Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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“SpaceX with all of its grand and glory was started as effectively almost as like a Hollywood ask moonshot project to just like take a photo of a plant on Mars, and Elon was going to find some Russian rockets to just send a bunch of stuff to Mars, cameras, take a photo, shut the company down, but hopefully increase NASA's budget.”
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