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Elon Musk might now be one of the richest men in the world, but his confrontational approach to business once led to Russians spitting on his shoes, an associate has claimed.Musk recently attracted attention with an attempt to buy Twitter, which he revealed is on hold until more research has been conducted into the amount of “bot” accounts on the site.Before trying to organise the purchase of the social media giant, Elon had set his sights on colonising Mars, and launched the SpaceX agency, which has so far taken celebrities including William Shatner into orbit.Now, a Channel 4 documentary, Elon Musk: Superhero or Supervillain, airing tonight (May 16) at 9pm has suggested that the controversial entrepreneur was rattling heads even before he developed his world-famous status.Jim Cantrell, the co-founder of SpaceX, described how Elon had called him on a hot day in July 2001 with the ambition of a space exploration company.“He went on about humanity being a multiplanetary species and that he wanted to prove that humans could go to Mars, and that he couldn’t afford US rockets, and he had heard that I was somebody who could connect him with buying Russian rockets,” he recalled.

Billionaire SpaceX and Tesla owner Elon Musk has been branded "sick, irresponsible and unacceptable" for taking a nine-minute flight in his private jet. The automated Twitter bot @ElonJet showed Musk's private jet landing in San Francisco, California after being airborne for under ten minutes, when the drive would have been less than an hour.

in danger of being assassinated by Russian agents, one of his fans – celebrity YouTuber Mr Beast – asked the SpaceX boss if he would leave Twitter to him in his will. Musk, who recently bought the social media network for $43billion (£34.90bn), appeared to agree – simply telling the YouTube star “OK." Russian space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin, responding to the use of Musk’s Starlink satellite network to restore internet devices in Ukraine, had warned that the billionaire would be “held accountable like an adult” for his involvement in the defence of Ukraine.

Elon Musk's SpaceX took a 'time capsule' filled with DNA from more than 500 species to the International Space Station this week.The Crew-4 mission's so-called 'biobank' has samples from over 2,000 different people, and is meant to help start an off-world reserve of DNA samples on the Moon.The company behind the effort, LifeShip, wants to preserve the genetic blueprint of species on Earth for future generations and keep it safe off-planet. LifeShip says its mission to the ISS is a 'demonstration mission', with the company's long-term goal being to send human DNA to the Moon in 2023.

Elon Musk has snapped up Twitter for a cool £35billion – after the Tesla and SpaceX mogul was recently named the world’s richest man. But just how much do you know about the eccentric 50-year-old magnate? Here, as he takes control of the social media giant, James Moore has crunched the numbers to reveal all the key digits, including some of his personal favourites. 0…how many homes he claims to own, having sold them to couch surf with pals.

Elon Musk cheekily taunted his enemies claiming he hoped even his "worst critics" remained on Twitter just before the historic announcement he successfully purchased the company for a whopping £34billion.The billionaire SpaceX founder took to Twitter just hours before the purchase announcement, writing: "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means."Musk has vowed to make the issue with free speech central in his takeover, which has led to people speculating he will allow banned right-wing figures such as Donald Trump back. "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," said Mr.

Elon Musk’s successful takeover bid for Twitter has raised concerns about his plans for the social media platform, because of his political views. Historically those views have teetered left and right, but tend to gravitate towards libertarian. His anti-union stance as CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla has displeased liberals, even if they constitute his best automotive customers.

Elon Musk believes his army of Tesla robots will one day be worth more than the company itself.The Tesla and SpaceX CEO revealed this week he thinks the Optimus robot will "ultimately be worth more than the car business, worth more than [full self driving]."On an earnings call, he told investors: "I was surprised that people did not realise the magnitude of the Optimus robot program."The Optimus robot, which was first announced late last year at a Tesla 'AI Day' event, is a 5ft 8in tall humanoid android weighing 125lbs.Musk says it is designed to do jobs humans can't be bothered with, and will eliminate "repetitive and boring" or even dangerous work. Musk also claimed that the robot will have "profound implications for the economy" and that it is "intended to be friendly and navigate through a world built for humans".The robot will even have a 'personality'.

Elon Musk is rich – very, very rich.

Elon Musk has said that he will need to launch “a thousand ships” to make his dream of a self-sustaining colony on Mars a reality, and says that the price of a ticket would be realistically priced at about $100,000 [£76,000].The SpaceX entrepreneur predicts that he would need in the region of a million colonists or his “self-sustaining Mars city” and accepts that “only a small percentage of humanity would want to go” to the Red Planet.But, he says, if it were to cost “for arguments sake” $100,000 then “almost anyone” could work and save up for a sum like that.Musk said he wants to start a colony on Mars by 2050. In an interview with TED talk boss Chris Anderson, Musk says: “We want to make it available for anyone who wants to go” to Mars.Musk warns, though, that even after paying a six-figure sum the first Mars colonists will have to rough it.

UFO 'trying not to frighten astronauts' while they were out on a spacewalk near the International Space Station.Self-professed expert Scott C. Waring claims he has been watching the ISS cam for over 15 years, enough to know that the glowing object he saw has the 'shape and colour' of an alien spacecraft.

Elon Musk doesn't own his own home. The billionaire SpaceX CEO - who Forbes rank as the world's wealthiest billionaire with a worth of $219 billion - insisted his fortune isn't as "problematic" as people may perceive as his "personal consumption" is relatively low because he spends his time staying in friends' spare rooms and never takes holidays. Speaking to TED head Chris Anderson, he said: "For sure, it would be very problematic if I was consuming billions of dollars a year in personal consumption.

Elon Musk has said he hates it when people point out his predictions were wrong, after being criticised for failing to deliver on a number of big promises.In an interview, Musk said he finds it "very annoying" when people highlight the inaccuracy of his predictions, saying they are "just guesses".The Tesla and SpaceX CEO told Chris Anderson of TED: "What tends to happen is I'll make some best guess and then in five years there will be some jerk that writes some article: 'Elon said this would happen and it didn't happen! He's a liar and a fool!'." He added: "If you list my sins, I sound like the worst person on Earth. But if you put those against the things I've done right, it makes much more sense, you know."Musk's comments follow the release of a viral video which claimed to show Musk promising 'full self-driving' Tesla cars "next year" almost every year since 2014.A YouTube video shows footage of Musk promising that Teslas would be able to operate without drivers again and again over the last eight years.The clip shows Musk in 2014 saying: "A Tesla car next year will probably be 90 percent capable of Autopilot, so 90 percent of your miles would be on Auto."Full self-driving is still not out of its beta stage, nor is it available to the general public.In the same interview, Musk predicted that Tesla will release a functioning humanoid robot in the next two years.

Elon Musk's plans for a colony on Mars by 2050 a "dangerous delusion".The billionaire founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors is known for his whacky ideas, such as building underground tunnels for cars to ease traffic instead of simply encouraging people to use public transport.The latest vision dreamed up by Musk is somewhat more ambitious, with even the sky seemingly not being the limit for the billionaire.Musk's plan to put start a colony on Mars by 2050 has been condemned by Astronomer Royal Professor Lord Martin Rees, who has said it is a "delusion" while humanity faces far more pressing problems back on Earth.

Twitter shareholders are going after Elon Musk.

The rise of SpaceX and Elon Musk’s bid to resurrect America’s space travel ambitions are the focus of a new Netflix documentary. Return to Space is being billed as an intimate portrait of the first crewed mission launched from US soil since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011.

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are on a collision course in space.Bezos’s Amazon has bought up access to 83 rockets in a bid to provide internet everywhere on the planet. Musk’s SpaceX company has already launched thousands of satellites into orbit as part of its similar Starlink project and is providing services to war-torn Ukraine.

The latest documentary from Netflix charts the rise of SpaceX and Elon Musk’s two-decade effort to resurrect America’s space travel ambitions. Return to Space offers an intimate portrait of the engineers and astronauts for the first crewed mission launched from U.S. soil since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011.

Elon Musk has purchased 9.2% of Twitter stock, making him the largest shareholder in the company.

Space X is set to perform an experiment this week which could change the way we think about meat.An all-private crew will be launched onto the International Space Station, where the tests with Israel's Aleph Farms will take place looking to create "fake steaks".The meat-growing company is working on artificial alternatives to meat products normally made from cows.A spokesman said: “Prolonged exploration in space, such as getting to Mars, is limited by the ability to provide quality nutrition to astronauts.“Aleph Farms is developing a technological platform for the production of cultivated beef steaks in a process that consumes a significantly smaller portion of the resources needed to raise an entire animal for meat.“Understanding how this process works in low gravity," they added, "will help develop a complete process of cultivated meat production for long-term space missions and build an efficient production process that reduces the environmental footprint on Earth.”The mission has been called Axiom Mission 1, and will launch from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, on Wednesday.The four-person crew on the 10-day mission consists of former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, a real estate millionaire Larry Connor, businessman Mark Pathy and Israeli philanthropist and former Israel Defence Force fighter pilot Eytan Stibbe. The latter will have the monumental task of transporting the farm's microlab and plugging it into ISS power and monitoring systems.