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Elon Musk: “With the additional stage to get to Mars, it would have been…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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ELON MUSK JOINS VERDICT - PART 2 Verdict Ep. 215

Published | Video Starts at 16:23

The Boeing Locky lucky rockets are crazy money. I didn't have, I didn't Even, even with 180 million, there's no way I could have afforded. How much were they back then? Well, well, With the additional stage to get to Mars, it would have been about like 80 million. So technically I could have afforded one of them, but I wanted to do two in case one of them didn't work. And then I didn't have enough money for that. (16:23–16:28)

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Asserts that adding an additional stage to a rocket for a Mars mission would cost about $80 million.

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