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1. Video released by spacecraft maker Area, X celebrating its Dragon capsule, which on May 25, 2012, became the first business spacecraft to dock with the International Spaceport Station. Area, X (A Britannica Publishing Partner), (born June 28, 1971, Pretoria, South Africa), South African-born American entrepreneur who cofounded the electronic-payment firm Pay, Buddy and formed Space, X, maker of launch automobiles and spacecraft. He was likewise one of the very first substantial financiers in, in addition to president of, the electrical cars and truck maker Tesla. Top Questions, Elon Musk was born upon June 28, 1971. Elon Musk cofounded the electronic payment firm Pay, Friend and founded the spacecraft business Space, X. Elon Musk established Space, X, a company that makes rockets and spacecraft. He became the ceo and a significant funder of Tesla, which makes electric cars and trucks. Musk was born to a South African father and a Canadian mother. He showed an early skill for computers and entrepreneurship. At age 12 he developed a video game and offered it to a computer system publication. In 1988, after obtaining a Canadian passport, Musk left South Africa due to the fact that he was reluctant to support apartheid through compulsory military service and since he sought the higher economic opportunities readily available in the United States. Musk went to Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and in 1992 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he received bachelor's degrees in physics and economics in 1997. In 1995 he founded Zip2, a business that provided maps and organization directory sites to online papers. In 1999 Zip2 was bought by the computer producer Compaq for $307 million, and Musk then founded an online monetary services company, X.com, which later on ended up being Pay, Friend, which concentrated on transferring cash online. The online auction e, Bay purchased Pay, Friend in 2002 for $1. 5 billion. Musk was long convinced that for life to endure, humanity has to become a multiplanet species. However, he was disappointed with the fantastic cost of rocket launchers. In 2002 he established Area Expedition Technologies (Area, X) to make more affordable rockets. A 3rd rocket, the Falcon Heavy (initially introduced in 2018), was designed to bring 117,000 pounds (53,000 kg) to orbit, nearly two times as much as its largest rival, the Boeing Business's Delta IV Heavy, for one-third the expense. Area, X has actually revealed the successor to the Falcon 9 and the Falcon Heavy: the Super Heavy, Starship system. The Super Heavy first stage would can raising 100,000 kg (220,000 pounds) to low Earth orbit. The payload would be the Starship, a spacecraft designed for offering quick transportation in between cities in the world and building bases on the Moon and Mars. Dragon can carry as lots of as 7 astronauts, and it had a crewed flight carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken to the ISS in 2020. Musk looked for to decrease the expenditure of spaceflight by establishing a completely recyclable rocket that might take off and go back to the pad it launched from. Starting in 2012, Space, X's Grasshopper rocket made a number View website of brief flights to check such technology. In addition to being CEO of Space, X, Musk was also primary designer in building the Falcon rockets, Dragon, and Grasshopper. Get a Britannica Premium membership and gain access to special content. Subscribe Now Musk had long had an interest in the possibilities of electric automobiles, and in 2004 he turned into one of the major funders of Tesla Motors (later on renamed Tesla), an electric cars and truck business founded by business owners Martin Eberhard

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