This is John Bachelor, little under the weather, watching Elon Musk today in Butler, Pennsylvania,

being introduced by former President Trump jumping up and down to rally the crowd,

watching him address the crowd, was wonderful to consider the risk that

Elon Musk is accustomed to taking. In this conversation with Eric Berger from his book about Elon Musk's invention of SpaceX.

It comes to the moment that three tests have failed and that they will lose

everything if this

this doesn't succeed they're all out of work space x is done a contract with

nasa is no good must gets up and, let's go for it in six weeks.

That's it.

That's Elon Musk.

It's go for it or go home.

That was the man I saw on stage today. Go for it or go home.

That was the man I saw on stage today.

He's risk affectionate.

This is Eric Berger for his book about the original Falcon 9 testing and quadulin out in the Pacific.

Lift off.

More of this later tonight.

Yeah, that was definitely when this was a day after that failure and actually the employees,

some of the employees are still back on quaduleen and they told me they weren't even sure if there was going to be airfare

for them to fly home, right? They're going to have to buy their own tickets. But Musk gets up and in this meeting back in California

and says, you know, in this was unfortunate,

was unfortunate, but I believe in you guys,

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