Tonight at 23h00 local time (check that, it’s now Saturday), South African Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, launches Falcon 1 from the Marshal Islands.

Falcon 1 Final

SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of access to space by a factor of ten. SpaceX is the third company founded by Elon Musk. Previously he co-founded PayPal, the world’s leading electronic payment system, which was sold to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. In 1995, Mr. Musk co-founded Zip2, which sold to Compaq Computer Corporation for more than $300 million.

(As an aside, it amazes me that Elon hasn’t made this list…yet)

This is the guy that’s going to make space tourism a distinct possibility.

Hell yeah…!

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