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...Last week the electric vehicle maker was briefly valued at more than the combined worth of Ford, General Motors and Volkswagen....
...Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving unit, started its fledgling robotaxi service here a few months ago. Interest is high and the waiting list is long. On Tuesday, I bagged a ride....
...Many at the company have never lived through a failed rocket launch, he says....
...I would say it’s a bigger challenge than launching a rocket and putting it in orbit around the Earth . . . because it has to be done safely over and over and over again.”...
...Mr Musk, SpaceX’s chief executive whose entrepreneurial career also includes co-founding Tesla Motors and PayPal, has said only where the explosion occurred and that the causes are unknown....
...That feat has so far eluded Mr Musk, the entrepreneur behind Tesla Motors, whose SpaceX has made several unsuccessful efforts to land a rocket on a barge at sea....
...Todd Blecher, a spokesman for Boeing, said it had “never seriously entertained” the offer from Aerojet Rocketdyne, a supplier of rocket motors....
...Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket – like many other start-up operators – not only uses old Soviet designs but actual rocket motors built in the 1960s for the Soviet Union’s abandoned moon landing programme...
...He sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5bn in 2002 and, the following year, launched the electric sports car maker, Tesla Motors, now worth about $4bn....
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