2012: SpaceX: Elon Musk's race to space

From PayPal to electric cars to rockets, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk wants his company, SpaceX, to build America's next manned spacecraft

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[JimmyGinjaNinja]

Not gonna lie. Made me hold back a little tear when he was talking about his heroes doubting him.

[jacobknollinger]

Looks like he nearly cried when they talked about his heroes dissing his ideas. Keep going Elon

[JoshuaValencia]

Neil Armstrong: “I went to the moon.”
Elon Musk: “I’ll let everyone go to the moon.”

[seanyourhero]

This one man will single handedly change the future of our entire race...

[merxellus]

Its almost 7years after the interview.. And Now SpaceX has achieved Goals more then anyone beyond our imagination.

[ManasChachra]

when ur idols become ur rivals, thats when u know that u are right.

[sergiobollana]

Interviewer: "-How did you learn all of this?-"
Elon: "-Well... it's not rocket science, you know-"

[cant_think_of_a_username]

Bro....I literally cried when Elon tried holding back his

[huntergoertz]

He taught himself rocket science and built the largest rocket ship company in the world.. lol wtf

[brucegelman]

Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan both never got to see how wrong they were.Too bad.

[asifkamalankon]

Now he is the richest man in the world. What a comeback. Absolute legend.

[Querxes]

2:01 "Reportedely worth nearly 2 billion dollars"

2021 be like:
*197 Billion*

[daltonprescott]

Please do a follow up. Elon really proved everyone wrong. This isn't even his final form yet.

[alfdude]

Crazy to be watching this as in 30 minutes SpaceX is about to launch astronauts into space.

[jaredjosue_]

when his eyes started watery while talking about his heroes, I swear I wanted to cry so bad.

[adambc]

8 years from that interview and he’s the richest man in the world.

[-MRN-]

He certainly wears his heart on his sleeve. I like his idealism, it's inspiring.

[auleoo]

7:09 this part really moved me. "If you had the chance to work with howard Hughes in the beginning of a brand new era, wouldn't you do it?"
Great journalism, great company and remarkable individuals. Proud to be a human right now.

[stavros]

"Do you beleive that your rocket would be the next American rocket to take an astronaut into space"


well it happened...

[efpl]

10:54 The most confident man of the millennium.