Elon Musk turns 50: a look back (14 images)

President Barack Obama (C) tours the commercial rocket processing facility of Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX, along with CEO Elon Musk at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 15, 2010. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA

Musk speaks during a luncheon program at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on September 29, 2011. In 2013, Tesla won Motor Trend's Car of the Year for the first time in an unanimous vote. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI

Talulah Musk (L) and Elon Musk arrive at a state dinner in honor of French President Francois Hollande at the White House in Washington, D.C., on February 11, 2014. In 2015, the couple divorced for the second time in three years. Pool Photo by Andrew Harrer/UPI

Musk sits in a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and other tech leaders at Trump Tower in New York City on December 14, 2016. Pool Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/UPI