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NASA Chooses Musk’s SpaceX to Negotiate Launch Pad Lease

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Re: NASA Chooses Musk’s SpaceX to Negotiate Launch Pad Lease

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Bit off topic but the photo in the article looks like a moment from the Iron Man movie :)

The photo is not from the movie but Spacex's facilities were used to shoot scenes from Ison Man 2 and Elon has a small cameo. And it's been reported that Tony Stark is loosely based on Elon.

According to wikipedia, Tony Stark made his first appearance in comic books in 1963, 8 years before Elon Musk was born.

Re: NASA Chooses Musk’s SpaceX to Negotiate Launch Pad Lease

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This is really great. There are so many fields where companies can revolutionise the world but who would have thought about making a space company that would one day stand along NASA ... Possibilities are endless.

NASA Completion of the COTS program here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjpIv4B1W-g , worth a watch if you're interested in this

Re: NASA Chooses Musk’s SpaceX to Negotiate Launch Pad Lease

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The photo is not from the movie but Spacex's facilities were used to shoot scenes from Ison Man 2 and Elon has a small cameo. And it's been reported that Tony Stark is loosely based on Elon.

According to wikipedia, Tony Stark made his first appearance in comic books in 1963, 8 years before Elon Musk was born.

"And it's been reported that [the movie version of] Tony Stark is loosely based on Elon."

You could maybe search both sides of the statement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Awards_and_recognitio...

Re: NASA Chooses Musk’s SpaceX to Negotiate Launch Pad Lease

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to wikipedia, Tony Stark made his first appearance in comic books in 1963, 8 years before Elon Musk was born.

"And it's been reported that [the movie version of] Tony Stark is loosely based on Elon." You could maybe search both sides of the statement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Awards_and_recognitio...

Right, yes, the movie version "was inspired by".

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/23/business/la-fi-mo-el...

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