Serial tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who runs SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI, among other innovative tech companies, has published a celebratory X post related to SpaceX’s recent success.
Serial tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who runs SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI, among other innovative tech companies, has published a celebratory X post related to SpaceX’s recent success.
Musk boasted about the Falcon 9’s 300th landing on X in his recent post. Falcon 9 is a reusable racket created by SpaceX to transport people and payloads to and beyond Earth orbit. It is the first reusable rocket on Earth that is capable of reaching orbit and returning. Thanks to this design, SpaceX can reuse the most expensive parts of the rocket, thus reducing the cost of flying to space with people and/or cargo.
According to the SpaceX website, Falcon 9 has already made 343 launches, 300 landings and 274 flights in total. A week ago, Musk spread the word on X that Falcon 9 had made 14 successful launches in May alone.
The cryptocurrency community took this news with enthusiasm, especially XRP and Dogecoin fans. Many accounts began tweeting “420” in comments in response to Musk’s “300” X post; 420 is a number loved by Elon Musk, as it is widely associated with his favorite cryptocurrency, Dogecoin, but also with marijuana. April 20 (4.20, 420) is considered the day of both.
Yuri MolchanMany accounts also responded with memes from the movie “300” about Spartans starring Gerald Butler. The episode “This is Sparta” went viral and became a popular meme.
Elon Musk’s goal with SpaceX is to be able to send a human mission to Mars and establish a self-sustaining colony on this planet to make humanity a multiplanetary species. In a recent interview, Musk said that he hopes to land humans on Mars within the next seven or eight years.
