SpaceX Is About Taking the Fiction Out of Science Fiction

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Elon Musk framed SpaceX's IPO debut as a milestone in the company's mission to make science fiction real. Speaking ahead of Friday's public offering, Musk emphasized how improbable SpaceX's achievements once seemed, from landing reusable rockets to planning Mars missions, and positioned the company's core ambition: making humanity multi-planetary. His remarks focused on inspiration and possibility, casting SpaceX less as a profit vehicle than as a vehicle for transforming what once seemed purely fantastical into engineering reality.