Elon Musk

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Elon Musk


Welcome to my blog and thank you for this much support. So let's start. Today's blog is based on "Elon Musk". Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, the son of Maye Musk, a model and dietitian from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, and sailor. He has a younger brother, Kimbal (born 1972), and a younger sister, Tosca (born 1974). His maternal grandfather, Dr. Joshua Haldeman, was an American-born Canadian. His paternal grandmother was British, and he also has Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk lived mostly with his father in the suburbs of Pretoria, which Musk chose two years after his parents split up, but now Musk says it was a mistake. As an adult, Musk has severed relations with his father, whom he has referred to as "a terrible human being". He has a half-sister and a half-brother.


During his childhood, Musk was an avid reader. At the age of 10, he developed an interest in computing with the Commodore VIC-20. He taught himself computer programming at the age of 10, and by the age of 12 sold the code of a BASIC-based video game he created called Blastar, to a magazine called PC and Office Technology, for approximately $500. A web version of the game is available online. His childhood reading included Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, from which he drew the lesson that "you should try to take the set of actions that are likely to prolong civilization, minimize the probability of a dark age and reduce the length of a dark age if there is one".


Musk was severely bullied throughout his childhood and was once hospitalized when a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs and then smashed his head into the pavement until he lost consciousness. He later revealed that he had to get a nose job to repair the damage.


Musk attended Waterkloof House Preparatory School and Bryanston High School before graduating from Pretoria Boys High School. Although Musk's father insisted that Elon go to college in Pretoria, Musk became determined to move to the United States. As he states, "I remember thinking and seeing that America is where great things are possible, more than any other country in the world." Knowing it would be easy to get to the United States from Canada, he moved to Canada against his father's wishes in June 1989, just before his 18th birthday, after obtaining a Canadian passport through his Canadian-born mother.


At the age of 17, in 1989, Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen's University, avoiding mandatory service in the South African military. He left in 1992 to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania; he graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics and stayed for a second bachelor's degree in physics.


After leaving Penn, Musk headed to Stanford University in California to pursue a Ph.D. in energy physics. However, his move coincided with the Internet boom, and he dropped out of Stanford after just two days to become a part of it, launching his first company, Zip2 Corporation.



Awards and recognition
  • In 2006, Musk served as a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board.
  • Inc Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year award for 2007 for his work on Tesla and SpaceX.
  • 2007 Index Design award for his design of the Tesla Roadster. Global Green 2006 product design award for his design of the Tesla Roadster, presented by Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics George Low award for the most outstanding contribution in the field of space transportation in 2007/2008. Musk was recognized for his design of the Falcon 1, the first privately developed liquid-fuel rocket to reach orbit.
  • National Wildlife Federation 2008 National Conservation Achievement award for Tesla and SolarCity. Other 2008 recipients include journalist Thomas Friedman, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Florida Governor Charlie Crist.
  • National Space Society's Von Braun Trophy in 2008/2009, given for leadership of the most significant achievement in space. Prior recipients include Burt Rutan and Steve Squyres.
  • Listed as one of Time's 100 people who most affected the world in 2010.
  • The world governing body for aerospace records, Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, presented Musk in 2010 with the highest award in air and space, the FAI Gold Space Medal, for designing the first privately developed rocket to reach orbit. Prior recipients include Neil Armstrong, Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites and John Glenn.
  • Named as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century by Esquire magazine.
  • Recognized as a Living Legend of Aviation in 2010 by the Kitty Hawk Foundation for creating the successor to the Space Shuttle (Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft). Other recipients include Buzz Aldrin and Richard Branson.
  • In February 2011, Forbes listed Musk as one of "America's 20 Most Powerful CEOs 40 And Under."
  • In June 2011, Musk was awarded the US$250,000 Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization.
  • In 2012, Musk was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society's highest award: a Gold Medal.
  • In 2013, Musk was named the Fortune Businessperson of the year for SpaceX, SolarCity, and Tesla.
  • Awarded the President's Award for Exploration and Technology of the Explorers Club at the annual gala on March 16, 2014.
  • In 2015, he was awarded IEEE Honorary Membership.
  • In June 2016, Business Insider named Musk one of the "Top 10 Business Visionaries Creating Value for the World" along with Mark Zuckerberg and Sal Khan.
  • In December 2016, Musk was ranked 21st on Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People.
  • In May 2017, Musk was awarded the Oslo Business for Peace Award.
  • Musk was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.
  • Musk was awarded as a member (fifth class) of the Most Admirable Order of the Direkgunabhorn on 4 March 2019 for his contribution to the rescue at Tham Luang cave, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand.






कुछ लोग बदलाव को पसंद नहीं करते, लेकिन अगर दूसरा रास्ता बर्वादी हो तो आपको बदलाव को अपना लेना चाहियें। – Elon Musk





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