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Since 1972 when the last Apollo mission landed on the moon, no one has been to the moon, or even out of Low Earth Orbit. One person who noticed, and asked why, is Elon Musk. He looked into why and found that the main reason space exploration slowed almost to a stop was cost. Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28th, 1971 in South Africa. When he was first able, he emigrated to Canada, and later went to the United States to go to school. He learned a wide variety of things, mainly science related, then became an entrepreneur. He founded many companies, including Zip2, Paypal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and SolarCity, quickly becoming a multimillionaire. He started each company with an idea on how to improve the world. Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is Musk's company to make space travel cheaper and to push space exploration forward (Newsmakers: Elon Musk). A hero must be someone that is willing to do what is right for the benefit of the whole world, and not just himself. Elon Musk is an inspirational hero because he is trying to make space flight affordable for the common person, he is reducing our carbon footprint, and he is trying to save humanity from extinction.
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Elon Musk is inspirational to me because of the many selfless things that he did to benefit the entire world, rather than just himself. Musk has reduced the cost of spaceflight with his many new innovations to improve space flight and bring its price down. He is also helping to reduce the amount of CO2 pollution in the world caused by humans. One of Musk's life goal that he is working towards at a fast pace, is to get humans multiplanetary in case of a cataclysmic event, so that the human race will still survive. Elon Musk is an inspiration to me because he tries so hard to achieve goals for the benefit of the whole human race, and not just for his own personal benefit. A friend and coworker of Musk said, "The one major important distinction that sets him apart is his inability to consider failure. It simply is not even in his thought process. He cannot conceive of failure and that is truly remarkable. It doesn't matter if [he is] going up against the banking system (Paypal), going up against the entire aerospace industry (SpaceX) or going up against the US auto industry (Tesla). He can't imagine NOT succeeding and that is a very critical trait that leads him ultimately to success" (Cantrell). His friend sees that he is attempting the "impossible" to cause things to happen that will benefit the entire world. Elon Musk saw that space exploration had not explored any farther out since 1972, and he decided that he wanted to be the catalyst to reinvigorate space innovation. Quickly, he started making advances in that field and many others for the benefit of everyone in the world.
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