13 entries dated 2021 across achievements, SpaceX missions and legal records.
The Transporter-1 mission deployed 143 satellites on one Falcon 9 flight in January 2021 — the most ever launched by a single rocket at the time.
After years of doubters, Tesla reported its first full year of GAAP profit for 2020 and was added to the S&P 500 — confirming the EV maker as a durable business.
The first commercial Boring Company tunnel transit system opens in Las Vegas, now carrying millions of passengers.
NASA selects a lunar Starship as the Artemis Human Landing System — the vehicle to land the next astronauts on the Moon.
Musk funds the largest incentive prize in history — $100M to spur carbon-removal technology, awarded to winners in 2025.
A standard Model S Plaid lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7:35.579 in 2021 — then the fastest verified lap for a production electric car.
SpaceX flies the first human orbital mission crewed entirely by private citizens, raising hundreds of millions for St. Jude.
Tesla’s market value crossed $1 trillion in October 2021 — the first car company ever to do so, and at the time worth more than the next several automakers combined.
Musk donates roughly $5.7 billion in Tesla shares to charity — one of the largest single-year gifts by any American.
TIME names Musk its 2021 Person of the Year for his influence "on life on Earth, and potentially life off Earth."
SpaceX’s first dedicated rideshare deployed 143 satellites on one rocket — then a record — democratising orbit for small-satellite operators.
The first orbital spaceflight crewed entirely by private citizens — no professional astronauts aboard — raising hundreds of millions for St. Jude.
Falcon 9 launched NASA’s DART, the first mission to test deflecting an asteroid by kinetic impact — later proven to have changed the moonlet’s orbit.