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Dragon can bring as many as seven astronauts, and it had a crewed flight carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken to the ISS in 2020. Musk sought to decrease the cost of spaceflight by establishing a totally recyclable rocket that could take off and return to the pad it released from. Beginning in 2012, Area, X's Insect rocket made numerous short flights to check such innovation. In addition to being CEO of Space, X, Musk was also primary designer in constructing the Falcon rockets, Dragon, and Insect. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to special material. Subscribe Now Musk had long had an interest in the possibilities of electrical vehicles, and in 2004 he became one of the significant funders of Tesla Motors (later on relabelled Tesla), an electrical car company established by entrepreneurs Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.