SpaceX’s upcoming IPO has revealed an unprecedented compensation plan for Elon Musk, linking massive share rewards to establishing a permanent Mars colony of one million people and achieving a $7.5 trillion valuation. The all-or-nothing targets, without ...

Elon Musk now has a direct financial incentive to get humans to Mars—and it's unlike anything seen in corporate history. SpaceX's board approved a com.

Image Credit: jurvetson - CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia. SpaceX founder Elon Musk just said the company is stepping back from its previously touted plan to send humans to Mars in the near term in favor of building a permanent settlement on the Moon. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a pivot from Mars to the moon, one detail of his plan caused eyebrows to raise. Musk plans to build something called a mass driver on the lunar ...

SpaceX's board has approved a compensation plan for founder Elon Musk with goals as futuristic and celestial as the company's ambitions: colonizing Mars and ​running data centers in outer space.