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In May 2020, a rocket was successfully launched, marking the start of a new space era. It was from Elon Musk, the model for Tony Stark in “Iron Man” and who has various nicknames including billionaire, genius engineer, and playboy. He designed for his space traveling project, SpaceX. Musk is also the CEO of ‘Tesla Motors’, which often is represented as the leader of electric cars. Elon Musk, born in South Africa in 1971, was bullied in his childhood, but had a goal of studying and settling in the USA, on his belief that they would become the center of the world in the 90s. He enrolled in the Material Science Ph.D.

program at Stanford University 00:46 - in 1995, at the age of 24, but quit school after only two days, deciding to launch a startup. Musk was originally interested in the energy industry, but launched his second startup, X.com, in 1999, and in only a year undertook an M&A with the email payment service, PayPal. Three years after launching X.com, Elon Musk sold PayPal to eBay at 1.5 billion dollars, which is equivalent to 1.8 trillion Korean won, and surprised the world. His next area of interest became the space. Elon Musk’s next goal was to launch a space rocket and expanding his business into space. This wasn’t just constructing a rocket, but extending into enabling low-cost space travel and establishing a colony on Mars where people can live. He said this is a backup plan in case artificial intelligence takes over the Earth in the near future. To make his thoughts come true, Elon Musk launched his third startup, SpaceX, in June 2002.

01:47 - The company went through a long trial-and-error process in launching a rocket, but finally succeeded in launching ‘Crew Dragon’ in May 2020, the first private manned spacecraft with two astronauts onboard. The press around the world immediately released breaking news that ‘Tesla’s CEO’ Elon Musk’s private rocket company ‘SpaceX’ led two astronauts to NASA’s International Space Station. The expert astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley who were onboard ‘Crew Dragon’ said that they had safely completed the 19-hour space travel and that Crew Dragon was a slick vehicle. Crew Dragon launched by SpaceX is the 9th manned spacecraft, and is the first private manned spacecraft This has led to the development of commercial spacecrafts, and marked the start of the plans to move mankind to Mars, which is Musk’s ultimate goal. Before Musk’s successful rocket launch, most of space expansion was led by governments.

02:50 - It required a huge capital and high-end technology which was too big in size for an individual to gather. Mankind started trying to expand into space during the Cold War after WWII, which was a silent war between the USA and the Soviet Union. The USA and the Soviet Union were in Cold War in the 1950s, intensely competing against each other in every field, among which especially noticeable was space development. Back then, the two countries worked very hard to successfully launch a spacecraft before the other did. In the end, the country that first succeeded in space travel was the Soviet Union, not the USA.

03:31 - The Soviet Union successfully launched Vostok 1 on April 12th, 1961. Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut, visited space onboard Vostok 1, and safely returned to Earth on a parachute. Yuri Gagarin, a graduate of aviation school, was dreaming to be a pilot, studying in the Air Force Academy, and applied to become an astronaut in 1959. After completing the intense training, such as enduring strong gravity and spending time in a soundless, lightless space, he received the honor of traveling onboard the first manned spacecraft in the world. Vostok 1, which Gagarin boarded, successfully flew in space for about 1.

5 hours 04:16 - 301km high above the ground at the speed of 18,000 mph. Gagarin, who safely returned to Earth on a parachute became a national hero as well as the first astronaut in the world. The Soviet Union back then was a symbol of communism, standing against the capitalist United States, and therefore politics were certainly involved in selecting the first astronaut. Of course, Gagarin’s abilities and talents were certainly suitable for space travel. But, while competing against other candidates his background also worked favorably for him.

04:47 - Yuri Gagarin was from a household of common workers, which perfectly fit in with the Soviet Union’s intentions in advertising the national image of successfully launching the first spacecraft under the communist system. The fact that the Soviet Union sent a man to space before they did hurt the pride of the USA. President Kennedy thus announced in 1961 in the Parliament that the USA would not only succeed in space travel but also have an astronaut land on the moon and return in 10 years. 8 years after that, on July 16th, 1969, the USA finally succeeds in launching the Apollo 11. As if proving the success of capitalism, they spent a breathtaking budget of 25 billion dollars, equivalent to the current value of 100 trillion Korean won on the project.

05:31 - Onboard this spacecraft were ‘Neil Armstrong’, the leader, ‘Buzz Aldrin’, and ‘Michael Collins’. The Apollo 11, with these three astronauts, was the first in the world to land on the moon, and this historical scene was broadcast live on TV around the world. The computers back then, in the late 1960s, showed much poorer performances than what we have now at home. But even based on those technology, they landed on the moon after roaming around in space for days. The Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20th, 1969, at 10:56:20 pm, 4 days, 13 hours, 24 minutes and 20 seconds after they left the Earth, and shortly Neil Armstrong lefts the first human footprint on the surface of the moon.

06:22 - Neil Armstrong was especially interested in airplanes when he was younger and majored in aeronautical engineering in college He was working for the country as a fighter pilot after graduation He started participating in NASA’s lunar exploration program and finally became an astronaut. After he returned from the moon, Neil Armstrong continued to work in the field of space exploration, serving as a professor in engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Today we’ve learned about Elon Musk’s plans to colonize Mars and the history of space exploration by the Soviet Union and the USA, which started the space war around setting out to space. Thank you for watching through the end, and have a great day. .