
Elon Musk stands beside a rocket on March 19, 2004 in El Segundo, Los Angeles, California.

Elon Musk watches the liftoff of Falcon 1 rocket from Omelek Island in the Kwajalein Atoll located 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii on September, 29, 2008. Falcon 1 was the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to orbit Earth.