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How Musk’s Mars mission began in his 80s science class – Evening Standard
EXCLUSIVE: Exam results reveal the SpaceX and Tesla billionaire’s early promise for launching rockets by excelling at physics as a teenager – but he still needs to return the how-to space manuals he later borrowed
He is plotting to colonise Mars and plans to implant artificial intelligence chips into the human brain.
Now, details revealed to the Standard of the SpaceX and Tesla founder’s teens and twenties indicate a young man obsessed with space, and an awareness he needed to excel academically to achieve his future goals.
Musks former science teacher dug out her physics marking book for Form 5B in 1988, and found Musk, E averaged 80 per cent that year, gaining academic distinction and beating his clos…
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