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Neither is Elon Musk. And the SpaceX team is multinational as well, talent knows no borders.

Elon Musk is a naturalized American citizen since 2002[1]. Referring to him as American would be appropriate.

[1] http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a16681/elon-musk-interv...

Because of ITAR the vast majority of SpaceX employees are citizens or at least permanent residents. I'm sure he'd love to be able to hire outside of the US, but ITAR isn't going to change anytime soon.

Yep I don't think they could even hire a janitor that would not pass a security background check and be eligilble to hold at least basic clearance.

Agreed. Yet, for some reason, the SpaceX team was chanting "U-S-A, U-S-A" after witnessing the landing. I thought that it would have been far more appropriate to chant "SpaceX"

That was mostly the audience that showed up to watch the launch, not so much the SpaceX team

Chanting USA is pretty common in the US.

Elon is in fact American. He was born in South Africa gu moved to Canada in the '80 and got a Canadian citizenship through his mother. In 1992 he first came to the USA and go his citizenship 10 years later. He was not born in America nor were his parents but he is American like Linus Tovrvalds

>Neither is Elon Musk.

Source? He is a US citizen so I'm not sure what 'American' would mean otherwise.

He is a US Citizen.

And the company is a US company.

I imagine its also because "SpaceX" is awkward to chant. Chanting too fast or with too many people and it will start sounding like "Space sex". Don't believe me? Say "Space X" ten times fast...

And that's a bad thing?? Space Sex sounds amazing.

Sounds actually quite hard and frustrating and I expect quite allot of bruises also.

I agree. It still bugs me when I hear the SpaceX control room chant U.S.A!

Which is why I'm surprised there is so much 'USA' chanting in the video?

I think is South African-Canadian-American.

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