Eric Berger has an interesting story, that I remember. It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade.
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Eric Berger has an interesting story, that I remember. It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade.
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One might expect the first company to succeed in some new business model to have a near-death experience (and to be preceded by companies that had actual-death experiences). If it were easier, someone would have been likely to have done it before.
The first successful Falcon 1 launched on my 58th birthday. As my 68th closes in, it seems likely by my 78th SpaceX will have landed humans on Mars.
Excellent article. I already knew the basic story, but it was good to have details filled in.
I didn’t follow SpaceX during the Falcon 1 era. I have a vague recollection of an MSM story on TV about a small rocket being launched from an island in the Pacific, but that’s about it.
It was after the first Falcon 9 launch, when I learned that they had an ignition abort and went ahead and launched successfully the same day, that I really sat up and took notice. I had never heard of that ever happening before. I remembered watching the Gemini 6 ignition abort live, as well as a couple with the Shuttle. That impressed the hell out of me.