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Elon Musk:  Shaping Transportation through Ingenuity

January 16th, 2022

  Elon Musk is an inventor and CEO of many organization and corporations that are shaping our world in many different ways.  Through his tunnel boring company, to energy efficient cars, to reusable rockets that our transporting equipment, cargo, and personnel to space.  He burst on the aviation scene many years ago as he would been one the first private companies to develop reusable rockets that are cost efficient and safe with the hopes of eventually colonizing Mars.  Through his company SpaceX, he and his teams developed what is now called the Falcon 9 rocket and the Crew Dragon Capsule and are in the process testing the Starship rocket that he plans to use to transport extremely large amounts of equipment, living habitats, and personnel to the Moon and Mars (Mair, 2016).  

    SpaceX is now a highly successful when it comes to launching, recovering, and reusing rockets. They have a perfect track record providing resupply missions to the International Space Station,  launching payloads for Space Force, or Mr. Musk's own satellites for his internet company known as Starlink (Grush, 2019).  His most recent success came this past year when he launched the first all civilian crew to space further than mankind has gone since the government's missions to the moon.  SpaceX also reached a major milestone with the first successful launch and landing of the Starship prototype heavy lift rocket.  The company is largely considered the most successful privately owned rocket company in the world.  The rewards SpaceX has received have been seen the contracts being won from numerous government agencies over other competitors in the private rocket industry.

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Grush, L. (2019).  This was the Decade the Commercial Spaceflight Industry Leapt Forward. Led by SpaceX, There’s been a Paradigm Shift in the Business of Space.  Retrieved from https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/11/20981714/spacex-commercial-spaceflight-space-industry-decade-nasa-business

Mair, M. (2016) Enlightened Entrepreneurship: The Success of Elon Musk.  Department of Economics and Business.  LUISS. Retrieved from http://tesi.luiss.it/18528/1/180631_MAIR_MATHIAS.pdf

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