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1. Video launched by spacecraft maker Space, X celebrating its Dragon capsule, which on May 25, 2012, became 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 firm Pay, Pal and formed Space, X, maker of launch vehicles and spacecraft. He was likewise among the first considerable financiers in, in addition to chief executive officer of, the electrical car manufacturer Tesla. Leading Concerns, Elon Musk was born upon June 28, 1971. Elon Musk cofounded the electronic payment firm Pay, Pal and established the spacecraft business Space, X. Elon Musk founded Area, X, a company that makes rockets and spacecraft. He became the ceo and a significant 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 talent for computers and entrepreneurship. At age 12 he created a computer game and sold it to a computer system magazine. In 1988, after obtaining a Canadian passport, Musk left South Africa since he was unwilling to support apartheid through mandatory military service and because he looked for the greater financial opportunities 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 received bachelor's degrees in physics and economics in 1997. In 1995 he established Zip2, a company that provided maps and organization directories to online newspapers. In 1999 Zip2 was bought by the computer system producer Compaq for $307 million, and Musk then founded an online monetary services company, X.com, which later became Pay, Pal, which focused on moving cash online. The online auction e, Bay bought Pay, Pal in 2002 for $1. 5 billion. Musk was long persuaded that for life to endure, mankind has to end up being a multiplanet types. Nevertheless, he was disappointed with the great expense of rocket launchers. In 2002 he established Area Exploration Technologies (Space, X) to make more inexpensive rockets. A third rocket, the Falcon Heavy (first released 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. Space, X has revealed the successor to the Falcon 9 and the Falcon Heavy: the Super Heavy, Starship system. The Super Heavy very first stage would can lifting 100,000 kg (220,000 pounds) to low Earth orbit. The payload would be the Starship, a spacecraft designed for providing quick transportation between cities on Earth and building bases on the Moon and Mars. Dragon can bring as numerous as seven astronauts, and it had a crewed flight carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken to the ISS in 2020. Musk sought to reduce the expense of spaceflight by establishing a totally recyclable rocket that might take off and go back to the pad it introduced from. Starting in 2012, Area, X's Grasshopper rocket made numerous brief flights to evaluate such innovation. In addition to being CEO of Space, X, Musk was also primary designer in building the Falcon rockets, Dragon, and Insect. Get a Britannica Premium membership and gain access to exclusive material. Subscribe Now Musk had actually long had an interest in the possibilities of electrical vehicles, and in 2004 he ended up being one of the significant funders of Tesla Motors (later on relabelled Tesla), an electrical car company founded by business owners Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.