Elon Musk
by Walter Isaacson · 11 Sep 2023 · 562pp · 201,502 words
yet another surge. High bay That morning, after a few hours of sleep, Musk went to one of the high bay assembly buildings, wearing his “Occupy Mars” black T-shirt, to watch as Booster 7 was outfitted with Raptor engines. Climbing a steep industrial ladder, he clambered onto a platform beneath the
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got to the launch control room at 4:30 a.m., four hours before the scheduled liftoff. Forty engineers and flight operations officers, many wearing “Occupy Mars!” T-shirts, sat in rows of consoles in a heat-shielded building with a view across the wetlands to the launchpad six miles away. At
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport · 20 Mar 2018 · 390pp · 108,171 words
growing. The SpaceX page at Reddit, the social media site, had ten thousand subscribers in June 2014. More and more people were buying the $22 “Occupy Mars” T-shirts from the SpaceX online store. And Musk had become something more than a business executive; he was now a cult figure, whose legend
Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos and the Trillion-Dollar Space Race
by Christian Davenport · 6 Sep 2025 · 441pp · 127,950 words
dared Musk to toke. “Come on, man. You probably can’t because of stock-holders, right?” Musk, who was wearing a T-shirt that read OCCUPY MARS, took a quick hit and arched his eyebrow behind a veil of smoke— a cartoonish image that would soon be broadcast across the Internet and
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sense & trustworthiness are required, the rest we can train.” Local news covered the event. Musk was there in person, wearing a T-shirt that read OCCUPY MARS. With Musk dialed in, production picked up to the “super hardcore” levels he demanded. Soon SpaceX’s engineers were pumping out prototype after prototype, so
Moon Rush: The New Space Race
by Leonard David · 6 May 2019
utilize Earth’s celestial neighbor to further space objectives is yet to be determined. What I do know is that beyond returning to the Moon, occupying Mars is a task like no other. That undertaking, I firmly believe, can unite the great nations of the world in a cooperative, beneficial way. We
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac · 17 Sep 2024
take pictures and video of the supersize projection of Musk, who was clad in an open black bomber jacket over a T-shirt that read occupy mars. Dorsey had previously called the Tesla and SpaceX chief the most exciting influential person on the platform for “sharing his thinking openly” as he solved
Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History
by Ben Mezrich · 6 Nov 2023 · 279pp · 85,453 words
hands, his small, bright eyes. Elon’s outfit fit his personality; a hip leather jacket, left open over a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase “Occupy Mars.” Face-to-face with an enormous digital Elon, Jack began the conversation, obviously as thrilled by the entrepreneur’s presence at the conference as the
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age
by Eric Berger · 23 Sep 2024 · 375pp · 113,230 words
right at that moment, if needed. Musk did come to the party later in the day. He wore his typical attire, black jeans and an Occupy Mars T-shirt, and posed for pictures with guests who wanted a memento. As he mingled at the party, Musk was fairly quiet. Some of that
Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
by Tim Higgins · 2 Aug 2021 · 430pp · 135,418 words
say more,” she wrote. The live interview, streamed on YouTube, began late on the West Coast. Musk, dressed in a black T-shirt that read “Occupy Mars,” seemed in good spirits. In many ways, Rogan was the perfect interviewer for Musk, allowing him to talk at length about his interests, from space
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul
by Kurt Wagner · 20 Feb 2024 · 332pp · 127,754 words
the Twitter CEO stood onstage in front of the company and called Musk on FaceTime from his iPad. Musk answered from his office, wearing an “Occupy Mars” T-shirt, and his face was projected onto the screen as Twitter’s employees cheered wildly. Musk was already one of Twitter’s most popular