--- title: Number of People That Walked on Moon Will Grow ‘Soon': Musk description: Responding to another Twitter user, Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk says the list of people who have walked on the Moon will soon “grow much longer as humanity reaches new heights.” canonical: https://time.com/6117534/musk-moon/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2021-11-14T16:52:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T10:32:15.160Z article:section: Science og:title: Musk Says Number of People That Walked on Moon Will Grow ‘Soon' og:description: Musk is also the founder of SpaceX, which has emerged as a space leader, og:url: https://time.com/6117534/musk-moon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfba610cd2c10547f/698a1eb5d0753325d8e6c29b/elon-musk-net-worth.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Elon Musk Visits Site Of New Tesla Gigafactory In Germany og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Musk Says Number of People That Walked on Moon Will Grow ‘Soon' twitter:description: Musk is also the founder of SpaceX, which has emerged as a space leader, twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfba610cd2c10547f/698a1eb5d0753325d8e6c29b/elon-musk-net-worth.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Musk Says Number of People That Have Walked on Moon Will Grow ‘Soon’ by [Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Bloomberg Contributor Nov 14, 2021 4:52 PM UTC  Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks during a tour of the plant of the future foundry of the Tesla Gigafactory Grünheide near Berlin, Germany last summer. Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks during a tour of the plant of the future foundry of the Tesla Gigafactory Grünheide near Berlin, Germany last summer.Patrick Pleul–Pool/Getty Images by [Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Bloomberg Contributor Nov 14, 2021 4:52 PM UTC Bloomberg — Responding to another Twitter user, Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk says the list of people who have walked on the Moon will soon “grow much longer as humanity reaches new heights.” The original post lists all astronauts that have reached and walked on the moon, including Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan. Musk is also the founder of SpaceX, which has emerged as a space leader, having launched at least 1,700 of its Starlink broadband satellites and shuttled astronauts to the international space station. [SpaceX Flies ISS Crew in First Trip on Used Capsule, Rocket ](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-23/spacex-rocket-lifts-off-in-first-crewed-flight-on-used-equipment) Musk has recently conducted a [controversial poll](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-12/elon-musk-sells-extra-700-million-of-tesla-stock-after-poll) on Twitter, asking voters whether he should sell 10% of his stake in the electric-vehicle company. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6117534/musk-moon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6117534/musk-moon/"},"headline":"Musk Says Number of People That Have Walked on Moon Will Grow ‘Soon’","datePublished":"2021-11-14T16:52:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T10:32:15.160Z","description":"Musk is also the founder of SpaceX, which has emerged as a space leader","url":"https://time.com/6117534/musk-moon/","keywords":["Space","wire"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfba610cd2c10547f/698a1eb5d0753325d8e6c29b/elon-musk-net-worth.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Bloomberg","jobTitle":"Contributor","url":"https://time.com/author/bloomberg/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfba610cd2c10547f/698a1eb5d0753325d8e6c29b/elon-musk-net-worth.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Elon Musk Visits Site Of New Tesla Gigafactory In Germany","caption":"Elon Musk Visits Site Of New Tesla Gigafactory In Germany","creditText":"Patrick Pleul–Pool/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6117534/musk-moon/","name":"Musk Says Number of People That Have Walked on Moon Will Grow ‘Soon’"}}]}] ```