Maye Musk, the model and dietitian who is also the mother of Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, said in a new podcast appearance that her son harbors a genuine, long-term ambition to eventually live on Mars, offering a glimpse into what she described as his broader thinking behind SpaceX's mission.

Speaking on the Power Players podcast with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi, Maye Musk described her son's ambitions in direct terms. "I think he really would like to live in the city of Mars," she said. "That's what he's saying. But, you know, I can't say what's going on in his mind because he comes up with these amazing thoughts."

Maye went on to describe an earlier moment that she said illustrated the kind of reasoning behind her son's space ambitions more broadly, recalling a conversation about SpaceX's satellite technology. "When he said to me, 'I'm going to send satellites into space,' and I said why," Maye recounted, "he said, 'If you're stuck in the middle of an ocean or in the middle of a forest or on top of a hill and you are injured and you can't contact anyone, then you will die.' So he wants to prevent this."

The podcast appearance came as Maye Musk promotes her new memoir, "Timeless: The Art of........

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