Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, has already shown that when a city’s rules won’t bend to his will, he’ll create a new city and new rules. That’s how Starbase, the self-governing town built around SpaceX’s southern Texas launch site, came to be.

HBO's drama series about Elon Musk and the early days of SpaceX is dead, and biographer Ashlee Vance suggested that Hollywood appears 'afraid to make something about Elon.'

With a current net worth of $470.9 billion, Musk's wealth can be hard for the average person to imagine, especially when considering how much he earns daily.

In April, during Jared Isaacman's first nomination hearing for the post of NASA administrator, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts asked repeatedly if SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk was in the room when President Donald Trump offered him the job of NASA chief. Isaacman declined to answer directly.

The OpenAI chief executive has looked to put together funds to either acquire or partner with a rocket company.

The $800 billion figure would launch SpaceX past OpenAI, which is valued at about $500 billion. The number also makes Elon Musk about $160 billion. He owns an estimated 40% of SpaceX stock. The most valuable aerospace and defense company in the U.S. is GE Aerospace, valued at about $300 billion.

Billionaire SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman said his relationship to Elon Musk is limited to past missions with the chief executive’s space company, as the nominee to run NASA attempted to counter concerns of a conflict of interest if he is confirmed for the job.