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发帖数: 29576 | 1 Elon Musk: SpaceX goes public when Mars flights begin
SpaceX, best known as having won the contract to resupply the International
Space Station, will remain private, Musk told shareholders of Tesla Motors,
where he is CEO.
The problem, he explained, is that SpaceX's goals are long term. They are
longer than the quarterly whims of the stock market where long-term is
usually considered to be only several years. Since those inconsistent long-
range goals would not be "super loved by the markets," it doesn't make sense
to take the Hawthorne, Calif.-based company public.
Yet SpaceX would seem like a strong candidate for investors. It has had a
string of successful launches of its Falcon 9 rocket and is working on its
Dragon capsule for NASA.
So how soon? "It will go public once we have regular flights to Mars," he
told investors. Musk is a proponent of exploration of the red planet.
Besides Tesla, solar power installer Solar City, where Musk is chairman, is
also a public company. |
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