Elon Musk - Chm

1. Video launched by spacecraft maker Area, X commemorating its Dragon capsule, which on May 25, 2012, became the 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, Pal and formed Space, X, maker of launch automobiles and spacecraft. He was also one of the first considerable investors in, as well as president of, the electric car manufacturer Tesla. Top Concerns, Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971. Elon Musk cofounded the electronic payment firm Pay, Friend and founded the spacecraft business Space, X. Elon Musk founded Area, X, a business that makes rockets and spacecraft. He became the chief executive officer and a major funder of Tesla, that makes electrical automobiles. Musk was born to a South African father and a Canadian mom. He displayed an early talent for computers and entrepreneurship. At age 12 he produced a computer game and offered it to a computer magazine. In 1988, after obtaining a Canadian passport, Musk left South Africa due to the fact that he hesitated to support apartheid through mandatory military service and due to the fact that he sought the greater financial chances available in the United States. Musk attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and in 1992 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he got bachelor's degrees in physics and economics in 1997. In 1995 he established Zip2, a company that offered maps and business directories to online newspapers. In 1999 Zip2 was purchased by the computer maker Compaq for $307 million, and Musk then established an online monetary services company, X.com, which later became Pay, Friend, which concentrated on moving money online. The online auction e, Bay bought Pay, Friend in 2002 for $1. 5 billion. Musk was long convinced that for life to survive, mankind needs to become a multiplanet species. However, he was dissatisfied with the excellent expense of rocket launchers. In 2002 he established Area Expedition Technologies (Space, X) to make more inexpensive rockets. A third rocket, the Falcon Heavy (first introduced in 2018), was designed to carry 117,000 pounds (53,000 kg) to orbit, nearly two times as much as its biggest rival, the Boeing Business's Delta IV Heavy, for one-third the expense. Area, X has revealed the successor to the Falcon 9 and the Falcon Heavy: the Super Heavy, Starship system. The Super Heavy very first phase 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 supplying fast transport between cities on Earth and building bases on the Moon and Mars. Dragon can bring as numerous 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

2. completely recyclable rocket that could take off and return to the pad it introduced from. Beginning in 2012, Area, X's Grasshopper rocket made several short flights to check such technology. In addition to being CEO of Area, X, Musk was also primary designer in developing the Falcon rockets, Dragon, and Grasshopper. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to special content. Subscribe Now Musk had actually long had an interest in the possibilities of electric cars and trucks, and in 2004 he ended up being one of the major funders of Tesla Motors (later renamed Tesla), an electric cars and truck company founded by business owners Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.