Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/ˈiːlɒn/; born June 28, 1971) is an engineer, industrial designer and technology entrepreneur.^[2][3][4] He is a citizen of South Africa, Canada, and the United States. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX;^[5] early investor^{[6][note 2]}, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.;^[9][10]founder of The Boring Company;^[11] co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI.^[12]He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.^[13][14] In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People,^[15] and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019.^[16] As of May 2020, he has a net worth of $36.5 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 31st-richest person in the world.^[17][1] He is the longest tenured CEO of any automotive manufacturer globally.^{[18](from Internet)}

Elon Musk   FRS
Born	Elon Reeve Musk June 28, 1971(age 48) Pretoria, South Africa
Citizenship	South Africa (1971–present) Canada (1971–present) United States (2002–present)
Education	University of Pretoria Queen's University University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS)
Home town	Hillsborough, California, United States[note 1]
Net worth	US$36.5 billion (May 2020)[1]
Title	Founder, CEO, Lead Designer of SpaceX CEO, Product Architect of Tesla, Inc. Founder of The Boring Companyand X.com (now PayPal) Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, and Zip2 Chairman of SolarCity
Spouse(s)	Justine Wilson (m. 2000; div. 2008)   Talulah Riley (m. 2010; div. 2012)   (m. 2013; div. 2016)
Partner(s)	Grimes (2018–present)
Children	7 (1 deceased)
Relatives	Maye Musk(mother) Kimbal Musk(brother) Tosca Musk(sister) Lyndon Rive(cousin)
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Born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received a bachelor's degreein economics from the Wharton School and a bachelor's degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He began a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue a business career. He subsequently co-founded (with his brother Kimbal) Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. It merged with Confinity in 2000, which had launched PayPal the previous year and was subsequently bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.^{[9][19][20][21]}

In May 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and lead designer. He joined Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.), an electric vehicle manufacturer, in 2004, the year after it was founded,^[9] and became its CEO and product architect. In 2006, he helped create SolarCity, a solar energy services company (now a subsidiary of Tesla). In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel construction company focused on tunnels optimized for electric vehicles.

In addition to his primary business pursuits, Musk has envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop. Musk has said the goals of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity revolve around his vision to "change the world and help humanity".^[22] His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and lessening the risk of human extinction by establishing a human colony on Mars.^{[23][24][better source needed](from Internet)}

SpaceX capsule carrying astronauts docks with space station

Miriam Kramer, author of Space

The Crew Dragon just before docking on Sunday. Photo: NASA TV

SpaceX's Crew Dragon safely delivered two NASA astronauts — Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken — to the International Space Station on Sunday after the company's historic launch Saturday. 

Why it matters: This marks the first time a private company has delivered people to the space station, and it signals the beginning of the end of NASA's reliance on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft for flights to orbit. 

Details: Behnken and Hurley docked to the station at 10:16am ET after spending about 19 hours flying through space to catch up to the orbiting outpost. 

• During that flight, the two astronauts ate meals, slept for about eight hours and performed a number of systems checkouts ahead of docking. 
• Behnken and Hurley join NASA's Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner aboard the ISS.
• This mission marks SpaceX's final test flight of its crewed system before it's certified for fully operational missions to the station. 

The big picture: NASA hopes to continue working with private companies in the future in order to become a buyer of services in low-Earth orbit, opening up the agency to work on getting humans to the Moon and beyond. 

What's next: The Crew Dragon and its astronauts will stay docked to the space station for at least the next month and could remain in orbit longer, depending on how the capsule performs in orbit. 

• NASA expects the first operational mission will occur in August or September, flying three NASA astronauts and a Japanese astronaut to orbit.
• Boeing is also partnering with NASA to bring astronauts to the space station. 
• A troubled uncrewed test flight of Boeing's Starliner system is forcing the longtime NASA contractor to redo that test later this year before launching its first crewed mission, which is expected next year.