
Elon Musk’s year has been one huge problem after another. The billionaire CEO warned that Twitter was near bankruptcy shortly after buying it for $44 billion, oversaw Tesla’s worst yearly stock performance in its history and, lastly, fell from his perch as the world’s richest person.
But Musk’s legacy may be partly determined by another company he says was, at one point, doomed to fail: His space company SpaceX.