Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971, Pretoria, South Africa) is a South African - born American entrepreneur who co -founded the electronic payments company PayPal, founded Space X, and launched a vehicle and spaceship maker. rice field. He was also one of the early major investors and CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla.

Early life

 Musk was born to a South African father and a Canadian mother. He showed his early talent in computer  and entrepreneurship. At the age of 12 , he developed a video game and sold it to a computer magazine. After obtaining a Canadian passport in  1998 ,Musk did not want to support apartheid through a recruitment system and sought greater financial opportunities in the United states,

So he lefted South africa

Musk has long believed that humanity must become a multi-planetary species in order for life to survive. However, he was dissatisfied with the high cost of the rocket launcher. In 2002 he founded SpaceExploration Technologies (SpaceX) to make more affordable rockets. The first two rockets were the Falcon 1 (first launched in 2006) and the larger Falcon 9 (first launched in 2010), which were expected to be much cheaper than competing rockets. rice field. The third rocket, the Falcon Heavy (first launched in 2018), was expected to put 117,000 pounds (53,000 kg) into orbit. That's almost double the cost of its closest competitor, the Boeing Delta IV Heavy. SpaceX has announced the Super Heavy Starship system, the successor to the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. The first stage of the super heavy can lift 100,000 kg (220,000 lbs) into low earth orbit. The payload will be Starship, a spacecraft designed for rapid transport between cities on Earth and the construction of bases on the Moon and Mars. SpaceX has also developed a Dragon spacecraft that transports supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). The dragon can carry up to seven astronauts and made a manned flight to the ISS in 2020 with astronauts Doug Harley and Robert Benken. The first test flight of the Super Heavy Starship System began in 2020. In addition to being the CEO of SpaceX, Musk was also the chief designer  of the Falcon Rocket dragon and Starship. Musk has long been interested in the potential of electric vehicles and is the main source of funding for Tesla Motors (later renamed Tesla), an electric vehicle company founded in 2004 by entrepreneurs Martin Eberhardt and Mark Turpening.