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    Elon Musk was born in South Africa in 1971 and received degrees in economics and physics. He founded Zip2, which was later acquired for $307 million, and used the funds to establish SpaceX in 2002 with the goal of reducing space transport costs. As CEO of SpaceX, Musk developed the Falcon rocket family and Dragon spacecraft to deliver payloads to orbit. He also hopes to colonize Mars to establish humanity as a multiplanetary species and help expedite a transition to sustainable energy through Tesla electric vehicles and solar power.

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    Elon Musk was born in South Africa in 1971 and received degrees in economics and physics. He founded Zip2, which was later acquired for $307 million, and used the funds to establish SpaceX in 2002 with the goal of reducing space transport costs. As CEO of SpaceX, Musk developed the Falcon rocket family and Dragon spacecraft to deliver payloads to orbit. He also hopes to colonize Mars to establish humanity as a multiplanetary species and help expedite a transition to sustainable energy through Tesla electric vehicles and solar power.

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    Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.

    Elon is best known for being CEO of Tesla and spacex, but he can be considered a
    scientist because he has several degrees in the field.

    In 1982, at the age of 11, he created his own video game, which was later sold to a South
    African company for $ 500. He earned a degree in economics from the University of
    Pennsylvania and a year later earned a degree in physics. He moved to California and
    founded Zip2, a company that developed content for news portals. In 1999, the company
    was bought by Compaq for $ 307 million and 34 million in shares.

    With $ 100 million of his initial fortune, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, or
    SpaceX, in May 2002. He is the executive director and chief technology officer (CTO) of the
    company based in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX develops and manufactures space
    launch vehicles with a focus on advancing the state of rocket technology. The company's
    first two launch vehicles are the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets (an homage to the Star
    Wars Millennium Falcon) and its first spacecraft is the Dragon.

    Working with NASA, Elon came to believe that humanity must have another option in the
    event of a global catastrophe, investing in the colonization of Mars. In September 2015, he
    declared that bombing the red planet with nuclear weapons would be the fastest way to
    make it habitable and more like the Earth, melting the polar caps and releasing the carbon
    dioxide accumulated under the surface, which would stimulate the greenhouse effect and
    would make the planet warmer. He later said that he would not really do that. In September
    2016, he announced a plan to take humans and establish a colony on Mars.

    Space Exploration Technologies Corp., whose trade name is SpaceX, is an American


    company for aerospace systems and space transport services based in Hawthorne,
    California. It was founded with the aim of reducing space transport costs and allowing the
    colonization of Mars. SpaceX developed the Falcon family of launch vehicles, the Dragon
    spacecraft family, which currently delivers payloads in Earth orbit, and the Starlink satellite
    constellation (for providing internet access).

    Tesla founded in July 2003 as Tesla Motors, the company's name is a tribute to inventor
    and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. Elon Musk, who contributed most of the funding in the
    early days, has served as CEO since 2008. According to Musk, the purpose of Tesla is to
    help expedite the move to sustainable transport and energy, obtained through electric
    vehicles and solar power.

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