Elon Musk
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Updated: 2 Nov 2017
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Musk founded SpaceX.On May 25, 2012, the SpaceX Dragon vehicle
made history as the first commercial company
to launch a vehicle to the International Space
Station.Musk and President Obama at the Falcon 9
launch sightSpaceX was awarded a contract from NASA to
continue the development and test of the
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon
spacecraft in order to transport cargo to the
International Space Station.SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its
Falcon rocket back at the launch pad.in 2016 they landed on an Autonomous
spaceport drone ship, an ocean-based recovery
platform.In a 2011 interview, he said he hopes to send
humans to Mars within 10–20 yearsElon Musk was bornHe became interested in computingHe taught himself computer programming at
the age of 12, sold a video game he created
called Blastar.He was severely bullied in his childhoodElon Musk was accepted into Queen's University
in Kingston.Elon Musk moved to California to begin a PhD at
Stanford University,Elon musk became a US citizen.Musk and his brother, Kimbal, started Zip2, a
web software company,In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an
online financial service and e-mail payment
company.In July 2017, Musk purchased the domain x.com.In 2001, Musk started working on "Mars Oasis",
a project to land a miniature experimental
greenhouse on Mars, containing food crops
growing, in an attempt to regain public interest
in space explorationIn October 2001, Musk traveled to Moscow with
Jim Cantrell and Adeo Ressi to buy refurbished
ICBMs that could send into into space.In February 2002, the group returned to Russia
to look for three ICBMs, bringing along Mike
Griffin.
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