Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been chosen by Fortune as its “Businessperson of the Year.”

At SpaceX, Elon is the chief designer, overseeing development of rockets and spacecraft for missions to Earth orbit and ultimately to other planets.

NEW YORK – Elon Musk , CEO and Co-founder of Tesla Motors and CEO and CTO of SpaceX, last night received the Innovator of the Year Award in Technology by WSJ. Magazine.WSJ. Magazine’s first annual Innovator of the Year Awards honors the most creative, disruptive, and influential individuals in the world today. Musk was recognized for revolutionizing three of the biggest industries in the world--automobiles, energy and space exploration. Artist Tom Sachs, whose recent work is based on the imagery of space, presented the award to Musk.

Elon Musk wants to move to Mars, and he wants you to go with him. It may seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity founder believes in making the world a better place, and he’s got the means to do so.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has been selected as one of two 2014 Edison Achievement Award Winners.

The duo will be recognized with the Corporate Responsibility and Lifetime Achievement nods, respectively, at the 22nd annual event.

Elon Musk, CEO of leading electric car company Tesla and private space transport company SpaceX, has unexpectedly been nominated for the dubious title of 'Luddite of the Year'.

In the end, Elon Musk couldn't resist showing up to the competition he helped inspire. The billionaire SpaceX CEO made a surprise appearance at the end of the Hyperloop pod design competition at Texas A&M University Saturday, eliciting a rapturous reaction from the thousand-plus audience of high school and college engineers who were there to compete for a chance to test their designs on Musk's personal Hyperloop track later this year.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, will receive the 2014 Edison Award. Musk will be recognized for his contributions to human-centered design, as well as fo...

Listed as one of Time Magazine's 100 people who most affected the world in 2010. Jon Favreau, director of the Iron Man movies, describes in his article how Musk was the inspiration for Favreau's film depiction of genius billionaire Tony Stark.

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