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Are the Russians after Elon Musk?

The entrepreneur’s family thinks so. In his book, “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future,” tech writer Ashlee Vance reports that Musk’s aerospace outfit, SpaceX, is battling Russia and China for space supremacy. And Musk thinks some people might want him out of the picture as a result.

“If the company can perfect its technology, it will almost certainly push these mainstays of the rocket industry [Russia and China] aside, establishing Uncle Sam as the world leader for taking cargo and humans into space,” Vance reports. “It’s a threat that Musk figures has earned him plenty of fierce enemies.”

Tech titan Musk says, “The list of people that would not mind if I were gone is growing . . . My family fears that Russia will ­assassinate me.” Either way, “I would like to die thinking that humanity has a bright future,” Musk muses.

He sees us “becoming a multiplanetary species with a self-sustaining civilization on another planet.”

Vance’s book is excerpted in the new Man of the World magazine.