The Mars colony isn't the only condition. The same 200 million share award also requires SpaceX to reach a market valuation of $7.5 trillion — more than four times the $1.75 tri

SpaceX has approved a compensation plan for Elon Musk that ties massive stock awards to achieving a $7.5 trillion valuation and establishing a million-person Mars colony, as well as building orbital data centers. The plan comes as SpaceX prepares for a ...

I watched Armageddon again fairly recently with Bruce Willis, oil drillers in space and an asteroid the size of Texas bearing down on Earth. Buried beneath the Hollywood chaos is a genuinely interesting question: What exactly could we do with an asteroid if we got our hands on one?