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Musk Created Space X

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Musk Created Space X to achieve his long term goal of creating civilization in space, wanting to reduce the cost of human spaceflight, and wanting to send humans to mars within 10-20 years.

He began looking for rockets which were very expensive, so he decided the better option would be to make his own. This is when the Falcon 9 project began. This was their very own rocket that would take satellites to space for other companies privately. It took 4 attempts and millions of dollars to get the rocket into orbit. They were constantly being criticized by the government and other companies, but they proved the whole world wrong.

The author chose to go through every struggle involved in building the rocket making process to show the effort Elon put in and the reason behind his hard work ethic. He gets work done how he …show more content…

The Falcon 9 has now replaced NASA’s space shuttle after it retired in 2011. Musk remains the CEO of Space-X today.

Tesla Motors

Tesla was created by two engineers named Eberhard and Marc. Musk was board member and contributed to major decisions. Nothing was being done in the company, so the board decided to select a new CEO. In 2007, Musk became the CEO of Tesla.

In his time as CEO there was an instance where an employee missed work for the birth of his child. Elon replied saying “That is no excuse. I am extremely disappointed. You need to figure out where your priorities are. We’re changing the world and changing history, and you either commit or you don’t” (Vance 177). This shows the harshness of Elon’s personality. It also shows his commitment to his career and the future.

In 2008 Tesla cam close to Bankruptcy and Musk was dealing with a divorce.

Tesla has order for the first car, the Roadster which it could not fulfill due to financial issues. The divorce from his wife, also the mother of his tree kids brought a lot of criticism onto

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