SpaceX (2002)

Musk is pursuing an ambitious goal with SpaceX (actually Space Exploration Technologies Corporation): the colonization of the planet Mars. To achieve this, he needs inexpensive rockets to transport people. And that's exactly what Musk wants to produce with SpaceX. While he was ridiculed for his space activities at the beginning, the company has shown in recent years that it should be taken seriously.

Six years after its founding, the company achieved its first success: the successful launch of a rocket into Earth orbit. A short time later, SpaceX won a major Nasa contract for twelve supply transports to the International Space Station (ISS).

Musk's company made headlines in September when, for the first time, tourists were launched into space on the "Falcon9" rocket without a professional astronaut. The "Inspiration4" mission is thus the first of its kind. Experts estimate that the space trip cost about 200 million dollars. Entrepreneur and billionaire Jared Isaacman, one of the four tourists, paid for it.