©Maye Musk
As a toddler, Musk would often drift off into his own world and ignore those around him. Doctors theorized that he might be hard of hearing
and had his adenoid glands removed.
©Maye Musk
Musk was a loner throughout grade school and suffered for years at the hands of bullies.
©Maye Musk
Musk’s original video-game code for Blastar, the game he wrote as a twelve-year-old and published in a local magazine.
©Maye Musk
(
From left to right
:) Elon, Kimbal, and Tosca at their house in South Africa. All three children now live in the United States.
©Maye Musk
Musk ran away on his own to Canada and ended up at Queen’s University in Ontario, living in a dormitory for foreign students.
©Maye Musk
J. B. Straubel puts together one of Tesla Motors’ early battery packs at his house.
Photograph courtesy of Tesla Motors
A handful of engineers built the first Tesla Roadster in a Silicon Valley warehouse that they had turned into a garage workshop and research
lab.
Photograph courtesy of Tesla Motors
Musk and Martin Eberhard prepare to take the early Roadster for a test-drive. The relationship between the two men would fall apart in the
years to come.
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SpaceX built its rocket factory from the ground up in a Los Angeles warehouse to give birth to the Falcon 1 rocket.
Photograph courtesy of
SpaceX
Tom Mueller (
far right, gray shirt
) led the design, testing, and construction of SpaceX’s engines.
Photograph courtesy of SpaceX
SpaceX had to conduct its first flights from Kwajalein Atoll (or Kwaj) in the Marshall Islands. The island experience was a difficult but
ultimately fruitful adventure for the engineers.
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SpaceX built a mobile mission-control trailer, and Musk and Mueller used it to monitor the later launches from Kwaj.
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SpaceX
Musk hired Franz von Holzhausen in 2008 to design the Tesla Model S. The two men speak almost every day, as can be seen in this meeting in
Musk’s SpaceX cubicle.
©Steve Jurvetson
SpaceX’s ambitions grew over the years to include the construction of the Dragon capsule, which could take people to the International Space
Station and beyond.
©Steve Jurvetson
Musk has long had a thing for robots and is always evaluating new machines for both the SpaceX and Tesla factories.
©Steve Jurvetson
When SpaceX moved to a new factory in Hawthorne, California, it was able to scale out its assembly line and work on multiple rockets and
capsules at the same time.
©Steve Jurvetson
SpaceX tests new engines and crafts at a site in McGregor, Texas. Here the company is testing a reusable rocket, code-named “Grasshopper,”
that can land itself.
Photograph courtesy of SpaceX
Musk has a tradition of visiting Dairy Queen ahead of test flights in Texas, in this case with SpaceX investor and board member Steve
Jurvetson (
left
) and fellow investor Randy Glein (
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