Elon Musk, best known for his success with SpaceX, Tesla, and the social media giant X, has an unexpected venture. He also owns and operates a thriving bakery.

The world's richest man runs a bakery unlike any other, a fully automated Florida facility, which is critical to not just life on the Moon and Mars in the near future.

This bakery, instead of buns and breads, mass-produces thousands of heat shield tiles each day for the Starship program.

They’re meticulously crafted ceramic tiles, baked to perfection to protect interplanetary spacecraft from the furnace of atmospheric reentry.

Our fully automated bakery in Florida is setup to produce thousands of heat shield tiles per day to outfit the coming fleet of Starship vehicles pic.twitter.com/9Ki278wakx — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 13

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