Everybody’s Business

It’s Not Easy Being a Trillionaire

On Everybody’s Business, we discuss the various crises facing Elon Musk’s enterprises, and why some investors still give him the benefit of the doubt.

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On April 1, aerospace enthusiasts turned their attention to a historic rocket launch that had nothing to do with Elon Musk. NASA’s Artemis II mission will (if all goes as planned) take astronauts around the far side of the moon and back for the first time in half a century. It also involves spacecraft made by big aerospace contractors that Musk has spent two decades trying to displace. The world’s richest person had previously argued the entire program should be scrapped, perhaps for one that more prominently features his own, in-development rocket.