1953 Book “Project Mars” by Wernher Von Braun (Father of Modern Rocketry) said the Leader of Mars will be Named “Elon”

A 1953 book by rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun has resurfaced with an interesting twist. Von Braun’s “The Mars Project” doesn’t just outline a technical roadmap for colonizing the Red Planet—it bizarrely forecasts that Mars’s future leader would be named “Elon.”

Chapter 24 of the novel, “How Mars is Governed”, states:

The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled “Elon.” Two houses of Parliament enacted the laws to be administered by the Elon and his cabinet.

This wild discovery was dragged into the spotlight thanks to a social media sleuth who posted an excerpt from the book. In this golden nugget of text, the leader of Mars is referred to as “Elon,” as if von Braun was channeling some kind of cosmic foresight. Musk, ever the internet’s favorite tech mogul, shared the find with a fittingly bewildered tweet: “How can this be real?”

ORIGINAL manuscript written in German

Musk’s tweet lit up the internet like a rocket launch, sparking a storm of memes, conspiracy theories, and just good old-fashioned digital glee. Fans and skeptics alike flooded the conversation, with some joking that Musk might be a time traveler or that this was his destiny all along. It’s the kind of bizarre synchronicity that makes you wonder if we’re all living in a very well-scripted simulation.

To give you the 411 on Wernher von Braun, he’s not just any author—this guy was a titan of rocketry. After playing a key role in developing the V-2 rocket during WWII, von Braun’s passion for space exploration catapulted him into the spotlight. “The Mars Project” was penned in the late 1940s and early 50s, laying out a vision of humans touching down on Mars with almost surgical precision.

Fast forward to today, and Elon Musk is basically the poster child for Martian colonization. As the head honcho of SpaceX, he’s been breaking boundaries in space travel, making the dream of a Martian city seem not just plausible, but inevitable.

According to Wikipedia –
…Errol Musk, Elon’s father, asserted in 2022 that he was fully aware of the von Braun connection in naming his son.

So, it was not a prediction but more of a prophecy. We have to wonder how Elon Musk was not aware of the interesting and extremely important origin of his own name. Hard to believe really.

Well, prediction or prophecy, the mystery continues.

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