Video: Elon Musk: The real-life Iron Man

Jamie-James Medina and Paul Harris

Friday, 06 Aug 2010

Elon Musk, founder of Space X, gives Paul Harris a tour of the company's Californian rocket plant – and tells him how it feels to be compared to Iron Man's fictional industrialist and superhero Tony Stark

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Jamie-James Medina and Paul Harris

Friday, 06 Aug 2010

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