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In 2001, Elon Musk conceptualized the Mars Oasis, an experimental greenhouse project to grow plants on Mars. Musk tried to buy cheap rockets from Russia for the success of this project, only to realise that buying rockets wasn’t so cheap after all. Frustrated, he returned to America to look for other ways for the project to work out. In 2002, he sourced for a warehouse big enough to house ideas and reached out to rocket engineer, Tom Mueller, who agreed to work with Musk to facilitate the design, building and assemblage of more cost-efficient and highly effective rockets.
The SpaceX company was born. Since 2002, SpaceX has had over 100 launches, including the recent success of being the first private company to send astronauts to the International Space Station. But there is more to the success of SpaceX and more importantly, Elon Musk.
Elon Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, where he taught himself how to program. Musk’s mum is a Canadian model and his father is a South African engineer. Not wanting to serve in the South African military, Musk obtained his Canadian passport at 17 and relocated to Canada.
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