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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is an electric sports car that served as the dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight and became an artificial satellite of the Sun. A mannequin in a spacesuit , dubbed "Starman", occupies the driver's seat.
The 2008 Tesla Roadster hitched a ride Feb. 6, 2018 on a Falcon Heavy launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of the space agency's Apollo moon ...
The book focused on Planet Labs, Rocket Lab, Astra Space and Firefly Aerospace. It became an immediate best-seller. [17] A documentary inspired by the book, Wild Wild Space was released in July 2024, by HBO. [18] [19] At the beginning of 2025, Vance left Bloomberg to found Core Memory, a new digital media company focused on science and ...
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [3] [4] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[5] [6] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
The Tesla Semi is a battery electric semi-trailer truck built by Tesla, Inc. since 2022. The truck is powered by three motors, and according to Tesla has approximately three times the power of a typical diesel semi truck, a range of 500 miles (800 km), and can operate at an energy use of less than two kilowatt-hours per mile (1.2 kW⋅h/km).
In 2006, Musk was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. [7] Inc. magazine Entrepreneur of the Year award for 2007 for his work on Tesla and SpaceX. [8] 2007 Index Design award for his design of the Tesla Roadster. [9]
Matt McFarland wrote in The Washington Post "Vance paints an unforgettable picture of Musk's unique personality, insatiable drive and ability to thrive through hardship." [2] Dwight Garner, writing in The New York Times, wrote, "Mr. Vance delivers a well-calibrated portrait of Mr. Musk, so that we comprehend both his friends and his enemies...
Elon Musk's Crash Course is a 2022 New York Times–FX documentary film directed and produced by Emma Schwartz with reporting by Cade Metz and Neal Boudette. [1] The documentary explores the promises made by Tesla's CEO Elon Musk in regards to self-driving cars and contrasts that with the fatal accidents that have occurred using the technology.