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Spacy Elon Musk Aims Higher and Higher

Originally Posted Thursday, 20 September 2018 at 03:09 PM
Updated Thursday, 20 September 2018 at 03:15 PM

Elon Musk, founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX, has identified the person slated for the company's initial private passenger flight around the moon. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said he plans to invite six to eight creative people to accompany him on this first-ever private commercial trip to the moon.

According to an Associated Press article by Christopher Weber, "Musk said the entrepreneur, founder of Japan's largest retail website and one the country's richest people, will pay 'a lot of money' for the trip, but declined to disclose the exact amount."

During an earlier podcast interview, the AP article says, Musk "took a hit off an apparent marijuana-tobacco joint ..."

Then, with no apparent recognition of the irony, Weber follows up with, "Two high executives announced departures from [Musk company] Tesla ..."

Probably unintentional ... but maybe Mr. Weber has a dark sense of humor.

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Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR, is well-positioned as CornerBarPR's Chief Curmudgeon; he's our version of Andy Rooney -- loves words, particularly loves to complain about idiocy.

In his spare time, Rich runs the inventively named Barger Consulting, where he conducts strategic communications planning and research, and gives people advice whether they want it or not.

Through the years, Rich has tricked unsuspecting folks into giving him positions as managing editor of the public relations division of a 180-person agency, and as a wire service editor, an economic analyst, a federal investigator, and, bless his little muddy boots, a farmer. Really. He fancies himself a pretty fair country editor and at one time was famous among about half a dozen people as "The Voice of IABC."

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