A new surge in rocket development: no expense was too great. ibid.
This idea – to use hydrogen to power rockets – was as profound a breakthrough as a discovery of other worlds beyond Earth. ibid.
Rockets need a new revolution. ibid.
In planning a trip to Mars, Musk believes he can also capitalise on the business opportunities that are opening up in space. The Elon Musk Show I, BBC 2022
A month after SpaceX is formed, a buy-out of Paypal nets Elon Musk $250 million. Elon immediately tells his new group of engineers, they have just over a year to become the first privately owned company to build a rocket that makes orbit. ibid.
2014: 19 years after starting his first company, Elon Musk now has a network of $19 billion. Tesla is starting to become a household name with mass market appeal, and SpaceX has cornered the lucrative market for launching commercial satellites into orbit. The Elon Musk Show II
Musk hopes his rockets will turn humans into what he calls Interplanetary Species. Elon Musk: Superhero or Supervillain? Channel 4 2022
ODE TO ELON (FROM HIS BATTY BOY, NIGEL FARAGE) (2025)
Elon Musk likes to jerk off his rocket
Financed from his ball pocket,
Reform now his latest flunk
But you’ve got to admire his spunk.
Oh, Elon, can you lend me a hundred million?
And Nigel’ll be your latest minion,
And if you pwomise to be my fwend,
I’ll show you my execeptionally small end.
You must know we’re on a mission to the stars,
You and me, Elon, two cheeks of the same arse,
We’d better escape before the poor eat the rich,
You’ll be my sugar daddy, and I’ll be your bitch. [esias ryder, 2025]
Heinz Krug: A very different scientist goes missing. And this time the reason is clear. September 13th 1962: an anbandoned car is found outside Munich. It’s registered to 49-year-old Dr Heinz Krug. He’s been missing for 2 days. Deadly Intelligence III: Don Wiley & Heinz Krug, Amazon 2018
20 years earlier Krug is a Nazi missile engineer … He holds deadly knowledge that will soon be linked to his disappearance. ibid.
And instead begins working on a strategic missile program for Egyptian President Abdul Nasser. ibid.
Rocket Plant, Cairo, Egypt 30.05N 31.23 E. ibid.
Israel’s Secret Service, Mossad, launches a campaign targeting the German scientists working for the Egyptian rocket program. ibid.
He’s the unsung hero of American rocketry. Founder of NASA’s JPL and Aerojet Corporation. But Jack Parsons’ genius has a dark side. Did his unusual beliefs and top-secret science play a role in his violent end? Deadly Ingelligence V: Jack Parsons
June 17th 1952: Pasadena, California, is rocked by a massive explosion. A makeshift laboratory lies in ruins, and Jack Parsons, a legend of American science, is mortally wounded. Jack Parsons dies from his injuries at just 37 years of age. ibid.
‘He was an eccentric who bizarrely had had this strange private life involving magic and the occult.’ ibid. comment
And attends nightly meetings of an occult society called Ordo Templi Orientis. ibid.
‘Is it possible that Jack Parsons was murdered? Very possible.’ ibid. comment