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# Elon Musk and His Mars Dream

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It's in the details that you can tell what a person's goals are.

In 2001 Musk and PayPal executives celebrated on a vacation in Las Vegas.

Kevin Hartz, an early PayPal investor, later recalled that "we were all chatting in a cabin inside the Hard Rock Cafe while Elon read an obscure Soviet rocket manual that was moldy and appeared to have been purchased from eBay. 