Elon Musk delivers emotional message on humanity's future

Overview

• This is a brief Fox Business live listen-in to Elon Musk speaking at a SpaceX event.
• The network notes the Dow is up 285 points at the time of the broadcast.

SpaceX's Founding Odds

• Musk says he gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all.
• He told people the company would probably fail, but it was worth trying because without a new company entering space, humanity would never be a truly space-faring civilization.
• He jokes that if someone had told him about the company's later success, he would have said they must be smoking "some really good crack."

The Mission

• Musk says other aerospace companies build good rockets but were not pursuing technology to make life multi-planetary.
• SpaceX's purpose is to take the fiction out of science fiction and make the exciting futures people have read about real.
• He wants SpaceX to take anyone who wants to go to the Moon, Mars, or anywhere in the solar system and maybe beyond — "literally you," not just a few astronauts.
• He expresses confidence in the SpaceX team to deliver this.

On Earth's Problems

• Musk acknowledges there will always be problems on Earth that should be solved.
• But he argues people also need a future that gets them excited and makes them glad to wake up in the morning.

Closing

• The clip ends with cheers, applause, a bell sounding, and brief studio reaction.