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The Musks are an impressive family.

Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal, who serves on the board at Tesla and SpaceX, co-founded a successful business growing non-GMO crops in reclaimed shipping containers, which he says will not only feed people on Earth, but possibly also on Mars.

Then there’s his sister, Tosca Musk, who, despite having a name that sounds like a supermarket franchise, is a successful film director.

Elon is, of course, a PayPal co-founder and Tesla CEO turned tunneller, space coloniser, and battery tycoon.

Some pretty decent bragging rights for the parents, and bragging rights that Elon’s mom recently took advantage of.

Maye Musk was born to Joshua and Wyn Haldeman, who in 1952 flew the family around the world in a propeller plane. She has modelled, featuring on Special K boxes, and in the 2013 video for Beyoncé’s single ‘Haunted’.

She’s also a #ProudMom.

Maye recently tweeted about Elon after she found his computer aptitude test results from the University of Pretoria (Tuks). They were apparently so high that they had to test him twice:

.⁦⁦@elonmusk⁩ I found your computer aptitude test from when you were 17. If I remember correctly, they had to retest you because they had never seen such a high score. No wonder you are such a brilliant engineer. #ProudMom pic.twitter.com/7sGxAvLF4r

— Maye Musk (@mayemusk) March 3, 2021

Proof that your parents can still publicly embarrass you even if you’re a billionaire.

Outside of Twitter, where he routinely comes across as a halfwit, Elon has always been impressive.

MyBroadband tells the story of how he came to own his first computer.

When he was 11, he was desperate to attend a computer course running in partnership with Hyperama, Wits, and computing experts from the UK, but the organisers said that no children were allowed.

His dad, Errol, who had worked with Hyperama as a consulting engineer, called up the company and they made a concession so long as Elon dressed properly and sat quietly in a corner.

“I left him at the 3-hour lecture at Wits, and when I came back to fetch him everyone came out, but not Elon,” his father recalls.

They searched the halls of Wits and finally discovered him in a lecture hall with his tie and jacket removed, his sleeves rolled up, talking to the computer experts from England.

One of the professors told Errol that he had to get Elon a computer.

At 12, he coded a space fighting game called Blastar which he sold for $500 to trade publication PC and Office Technology magazine, and it was upwards and onwards from there.

He’s done pretty well for himself.

Just ask his mom…

[source:mybroadband]