Elon Musk - Mashable

1. Video released by spacecraft maker Area, X celebrating its Dragon capsule, which on May 25, 2012, ended up being the first industrial spacecraft to dock with the International Spaceport Station. Space, X (A Britannica Publishing Partner), (born June 28, 1971, Pretoria, South Africa), South African-born American entrepreneur who cofounded the electronic-payment company Pay, Friend and formed Area, X, maker of launch vehicles and spacecraft. He was also among the very first significant investors in, in addition to president of, the electrical vehicle maker Tesla. Leading Concerns, Elon Musk was born upon June 28, 1971. Elon Musk cofounded the electronic payment firm Pay, Buddy and founded the spacecraft company Space, X. Elon Musk established Space, X, a company that makes rockets and spacecraft. He became the president and a major funder of Tesla, that makes electrical cars and trucks. Musk was born to a South African dad and a Canadian mom. He displayed an early skill for computers and entrepreneurship. At age 12 he developed a computer game and offered it to a computer magazine. In 1988, after obtaining a Canadian passport, Musk left South Africa because he hesitated to support apartheid through obligatory military service and due to the fact that he looked for the greater financial chances readily available in the United States. Musk attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and in 1992 he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he got bachelor's degrees in physics and economics in 1997. In 1995 he founded Zip2, a business that provided maps and company directory sites to online newspapers. In 1999 Zip2 was purchased by the computer system manufacturer Compaq for $307 million, and Musk then founded an online financial services business, X.com, which later on became Pay, Pal, which specialized in 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, mankind has to end up being a multiplanet species. However, he was dissatisfied with the terrific expense of rocket launchers. In 2002 he established Space Exploration Technologies (Space, X) to make more budget-friendly rockets. A 3rd rocket, the Falcon Heavy (initially introduced in 2018), was created to carry 117,000 pounds (53,000 kg) to orbit, nearly twice as much as its biggest competitor, the Boeing Company's Delta IV Heavy, for one-third the expense. Space, X has actually revealed the follower to the Falcon 9 and the Falcon Heavy: the Super Heavy, Starship system. The Super Heavy very first stage would be capable of raising 100,000 kg (220,000 pounds) to low Earth orbit. The payload would be the Starship, a spacecraft created for providing fast transport in between cities in the world and constructing bases on the Moon and Mars. Dragon can bring as many as seven astronauts, and it had a crewed flight carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken to the ISS in 2020. Musk looked for to reduce the expenditure of spaceflight by developing a completely recyclable rocket that might take off and return to the pad it released from. Starting in 2012, Space, X's Grasshopper rocket made numerous short flights to test such technology. In addition to being CEO of Area, X, Musk was also primary designer in building the Falcon rockets, Dragon, and Insect. Get a Britannica Premium

2. subscription and gain access to special content. Subscribe Now Musk had long had an interest in the possibilities of electric cars, and in 2004 he ended up being one of the significant funders of Tesla Motors (later relabelled Tesla), an electrical vehicle company established by entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.