It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it.

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.