The combination of the two companies would be worth about $3.5 trillion and would be the largest corporate deal in history.
WASHINGTON – Elon Musk said this week that SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to study a merger of his two biggest companies. The combination would be worth about $3.5 trillion and would be the largest corporate deal in history. Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 to cut the cost of reaching space and one day bring humans to Mars.
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