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1. Video launched by spacecraft maker Area, X commemorating its Dragon pill, which on May 25, 2012, ended up being the first business spacecraft to dock with the International Area Station. Area, 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 automobiles and spacecraft. He was likewise one of the very first significant financiers in, as well as ceo of, the electrical vehicle producer Tesla. Leading Concerns, Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971. Elon Musk cofounded the electronic payment firm Pay, Pal and founded the spacecraft company Area, X. Elon Musk founded Space, X, a company that makes rockets and spacecraft. He ended up being the president and a major funder of Tesla, which makes electric automobiles. Musk was born to a South African daddy and a Canadian mom. He displayed an early talent for computers and entrepreneurship. At age 12 he developed a video game and sold it to a computer system publication. In 1988, after getting a Canadian passport, Musk left South Africa due to the fact that he was unwilling to support apartheid through mandatory military service and because he sought the greater economic opportunities available in the United States. Musk went to 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 company directory sites to online newspapers. In 1999 Zip2 was bought by the computer system producer Compaq for $307 million, and Musk then established an online monetary services business, X.com, which later ended up being 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 survive, humanity has to become a multiplanet types. Nevertheless, he was dissatisfied with the excellent expenditure of rocket launchers. In 2002 he founded Space Exploration Technologies (Space, X) to make more budget friendly rockets. A third rocket, the Falcon Heavy (first released in 2018), was developed to bring 117,000 pounds (53,000 kg) to orbit, almost twice as much as its largest competitor, the Boeing Company's Delta IV Heavy, for one-third the expense. Area, X has actually revealed 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 transportation in between cities on Earth and constructing bases on the Moon and Mars. Dragon can carry as numerous as 7 astronauts, and it had a crewed flight bring astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken to the ISS in 2020. Musk sought to minimize the expense of spaceflight by establishing a fully reusable rocket that might take off and go back to the pad it released from. Starting in 2012, Space, X's Insect rocket made numerous short flights to check such innovation. In addition to being CEO of Space, X, Musk was likewise primary designer in building the Falcon rockets, Dragon, and Insect. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to unique content. Subscribe Now Musk had long been interested in the possibilities of electric automobiles, and in 2004 he turned into one of the significant funders of Tesla Motors (later on relabelled Tesla), an electric automobile business established by business owners Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.