Elon Musk, The Rocket Man With A Sweet Ride - Science ...

1. Video launched by spacecraft maker Area, X commemorating its Dragon pill, which on May 25, 2012, became the very first commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station. Space, X (A Britannica Publishing Partner), (born June 28, 1971, Pretoria, South Africa), South African-born American business owner who cofounded the electronic-payment company Pay, Buddy and formed Area, X, maker of launch cars and spacecraft. He was also one of the very first substantial financiers in, along with chief executive officer of, the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla. Top Questions, Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971. Elon Musk cofounded the electronic payment firm Pay, Pal and established the spacecraft company Area, X. Elon Musk founded Space, X, a company that makes rockets and spacecraft. He became the primary executive officer and a major funder of Tesla, which makes electrical vehicles. Musk was born to a South African father and a Canadian mom. He displayed an early skill for computers and entrepreneurship. At age 12 he developed a computer game and sold it to a computer system publication. In 1988, after acquiring a Canadian passport, Musk left South Africa since he hesitated to support apartheid through mandatory military service and because he looked for the higher economic opportunities 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 company that offered maps and business directories to online papers. In 1999 Zip2 was purchased by the computer system manufacturer Compaq for $307 million, and Musk then established an online monetary services business, X.com, which later became Pay, Pal, which specialized in transferring cash online. The online auction e, Bay bought Pay, Friend in 2002 for $1. 5 billion. Musk was long convinced that for life to make it through, mankind needs to end up being a multiplanet types. However, he was dissatisfied with the terrific cost of rocket launchers. In 2002 he founded Space Expedition Technologies (Area, X) to make more inexpensive rockets. A 3rd rocket, the Falcon Heavy (initially released in 2018), was designed to bring 117,000 pounds (53,000 kg) to orbit, nearly two times as much as its largest competitor, the Boeing Business's Delta IV Heavy, for one-third the expense. Space, X has announced the successor to the Falcon 9 and the Falcon Heavy: the Super Heavy, Starship system. The Super Heavy very first stage would be capable of lifting 100,000 kg (220,000 pounds) to low Earth orbit. The payload would be the Starship, a spacecraft developed for supplying fast transport between cities on Earth and developing bases on the Moon and Mars. Dragon can carry as many as 7 astronauts, and it had a crewed flight bring astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken to the ISS in 2020. Musk looked for to decrease the cost of spaceflight by developing a fully recyclable rocket that might raise off and go back to the pad it introduced from. Starting in 2012, Space, X's Insect rocket made a number of brief flights to check such innovation. In addition to being CEO of Area, X, Musk was likewise primary designer in constructing the Falcon rockets, Dragon, and Grasshopper. Get a Britannica Premium

2. subscription and gain access to special material. Subscribe Now Musk had actually long had an interest in the possibilities of electrical vehicles, and in 2004 he turned into one of the major funders of Tesla Motors (later on relabelled Tesla), an electric automobile company founded by entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.