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0:04 Elon Musk interview used with permission from the SATELLITE Conference & Exhibition.
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0:20 From the "Collecting Innovation Today" interview with innovator Elon Musk on June 26, 2008 at SpaceX, part of The Henry Ford's "OnInnovation" project that celebrates the contributions of today's innovators. https://www.flickr.com/photos/oninnov..., CC BY-ND 2.0 DEED, Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (image edited by Newsthink Ltd.)
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