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As early as 2007, Elon Musk publicly stated a personal goal of eventually enabling human exploration and settlement of Mars. [5] Subsequently, SpaceX has stated its goal is to colonize Mars to ensure the long-term survival of the human species, [6] proposing since the 2000s and early 2010s different concepts for reaching Mars, including space tugs.
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] His mother, Maye ( née Haldeman ), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan , Canada, and raised in South Africa.
To save time, employees from the California headquarters would fly there on Musk's private jet. [ 1 ] : 40, 44–46 At 9:50 P.M., 11 March 2003, the Merlin engine completed its first ever full firing with a duration of about half a second, [ 1 ] : 27–28 achieving a thrust of 270,000 N (60,000 lbf) and 93% combustion efficiency.
Elon Musk has announced that the first SpaceX missions to Mars aboard the ... SpaceX’s ambitious timeline will depend on the successful development of its Starship rocket, which is being built ...
Elon Musk said Tesla will begin launching unsupervised self-driving models in Austin, Texas, by June and several other U.S. cities by the end of the year. At the fourth quarter earnings call ...
Founder Elon Musk has framed the company as a challenger to OpenAI, which he co-founded with Altman. Musk left OpenAI's board in 2018. OpenAI reached an $80 billion valuation in February
Starship flight test 7 was the seventh flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. Flight 7 lifted off from Orbital Launch Pad A (OLP-A) on January 16, 2025, at 22:37:00 UTC (4:37 pm CST, local time) at the Starbase launch site in Texas.
Elon Musk's dream of transporting humans to Mars will become a bigger national priority under the administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, sources said, signaling big changes for NASA ...