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Elon Musk's space firm, SpaceX, is ready to make history by launching four civilians into orbit. They will be the first non-professional astronauts to go into space as a full crew. The Inspiration4 mission was developed by SpaceX and Jared Isaacman, the creator and CEO of Shift4 Payments, a wealthy entrepreneur. Isaacman paid an unknown sum to SpaceX for the multi-day trip in order to raise awareness and funds for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The mission is set to launch on Wednesday night at 8:02 p.m. EDT, with a five-hour window opening at 8:02 p.m. EDT.

Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/iln/ EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a business tycoon and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI, as well as the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of SpaceX. He is also an early stage investor,[note 2] CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc., and the creator of The Boring Company. Musk is a billionaire and one of the world's wealthiest individuals.

Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, to a Canadian mother and a South African father. He attended the University of Pretoria for a short time before going to Canada at the age of 17 to study at Queen's University. Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania and earned bachelor's degrees in economics and physics. In 1995, he traveled to California to attend Stanford University, but instead chose to pursue a business career, co-founding Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. In 1999, Compaq bought the company for $307 million. Musk co-founded X.com, an online bank, in the same year, which merged with Confinity to become PayPal in 2000.