Elon Musk - Xprize Foundation Bio

1. Video launched by spacecraft maker Space, X commemorating its Dragon capsule, which on May 25, 2012, ended up being 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, Pal and formed Space, X, maker of launch automobiles and spacecraft. He was also among the first significant investors in, along with ceo of, the electrical car maker Tesla. Top Concerns, Elon Musk was born upon June 28, 1971. Elon Musk cofounded the electronic payment firm Pay, Friend and established the spacecraft company Space, X. Elon Musk founded Space, X, a business that makes rockets and spacecraft. He became the president and a significant funder of Tesla, that makes electrical vehicles. Musk was born to a South African daddy and a Canadian mom. He displayed an early skill for computer systems and entrepreneurship. At age 12 he created a computer game and sold it to a computer publication. In 1988, after getting a Canadian passport, Musk left South Africa since he was reluctant to support apartheid through required military service and since he looked for the higher economic chances readily available in the United States. Musk participated in 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 company directory sites to online newspapers. In 1999 Zip2 was purchased by the computer manufacturer Compaq for $307 million, and Musk then established an online monetary services company, X.com, which later on became Pay, Buddy, which focused on transferring cash online. The online auction e, Bay purchased Pay, Pal in 2002 for $1. 5 billion. Musk was long persuaded that for life to endure, humanity needs to become a multiplanet types. Nevertheless, he was disappointed with the fantastic expense of rocket launchers. In 2002 he founded Area Exploration Technologies (Space, X) to make more inexpensive rockets. A third 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 Company's Delta IV Heavy, for one-third the expense. Area, X has actually announced the follower to the Falcon 9 and the Falcon Heavy: the Super Heavy, Starship system. The Super Heavy 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 designed for supplying quick transport in between cities on Earth and developing bases on the Moon and Mars. Dragon can carry as numerous 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 decrease the cost of spaceflight by developing a fully multiple-use rocket that could 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 likewise chief designer in constructing the Falcon rockets, Dragon, and Insect. Get a Britannica Premium

2. subscription and gain access to special content. Subscribe Now Musk had actually long been interested in the possibilities of electric cars, and in 2004 he ended up being one of the significant funders of Tesla Motors (later renamed Tesla), an electric car business founded by entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.