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Elon Musk Becomes World's Richest Person
The Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder's net worth was recorded at 8.5bn (£138.9bn) in New York on Thursday.
That was around .5bn more than Amazon Inc founder Mr Bezos, who has held the top spot since October 2017.
Mr Musk's increased wealth came as a result of a bounce in Tesla's share price.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk now world’s wealthiest person: US media
Elon Musk, the outspoken and envelope-pushing founder and CEO of Tesla, overtook Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to become the world's wealthiest person, U.S. media reported on Jan. 7.
Musk is a major shareholder of the electric car company and has benefited from Tesla's surging share price over the last year. CNBC estimated his wealth at $185 billion.
Elon Musk Rocket Crushes upon Return to Earth
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched the latest prototype of his Starship vehicle from Texas.
Codenamed SN8, the unmanned rocket lifted away from the Boca Chica R&D facility on what had been billed as a brief flight to 12.5km.
The 50m-tall vehicle crashed on touchdown but Mr Musk was delighted with how much the test outing achieved.
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SpaceX's Starship prototype explodes on landing after test launch
SpaceX's Starship prototype exploded while attempting to land on Dec. 9 after an otherwise successful test launch from the company's rocket facility in Boca Chica, Texas, live video of the flight showed.
Musk’s SpaceX to bring Starlink internet to Greece
SpaceX, the space company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, plans to make its Starlink broadband satellite internet service available in Greece in the first quarter of 2021, Kathimerini reports.
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Elon Musk boosts Larco’s outlook
The next few months will determine the future of Larco, Greece's state mining and metallurgical company founded in 1963, but this month's tenders for its assets will likely be boosted by the founder and chief executive of Tesla Inc, Elon Musk.
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SpaceX opens era of amateur astronauts, cosmic movie sets
SpaceX's debut astronaut launch is the biggest, most visible opening shot yet in NASA's grand plan for commercializing Earth's backyard.
Amateur astronauts, private space stations, flying factories, out-of-this-world movie sets this is the future the space agency is striving to shape as it eases out of low-Earth orbit and aims for the moon and Mars.
SpaceX's astronaut-riding Dragon approaches space station
SpaceX's astronaut-riding Dragon capsule approached the International Space Station on May 31, just hours after a historic liftoff from Florida.
NASA astronauts head for ISS on historic SpaceX flight
Two veteran NASA astronauts were headed for the International Space Station on May 30 after Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first commercial company to launch a rocket carrying humans into orbit, ushering in a new era in space travel.
SpaceX Successfully Launched its First Two People into Orbit (Video + Live Stream)
After nearly two decades of effort, Elon Musk's aerospace company, SpaceX, successfully launched its first two people into orbit, ushering in a new age of human spaceflight in the United States.