STACKED AND WAITING ON THE FAA TO SAY "YES" 1/4: Countdown to Starship: the backstory: 4/4: Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger
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🗓️ 10 September 2023
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In Liftoff, Eric Berger, senior space editor at Ars Technica, takes readers inside the wild early days that made SpaceX. Focusing on the company’s first four launches of the Falcon 1 rocket, he charts the bumpy journey from scrappy underdog to aerospace pioneer. We travel from company headquarters in El Segundo, to the isolated Texas ranchland where they performed engine tests, to Kwajalein, the tiny atoll in the Pacific where SpaceX launched the Falcon 1. Berger has reported on SpaceX for more than a decade, enjoying unparalleled journalistic access to the company’s inner workings. Liftoff is the culmination of these efforts, drawing upon exclusive interviews with dozens of former and current engineers, designers, mechanics, and executives, including Elon Musk. The enigmatic Musk, who founded the company with the dream of one day settling Mars, is the fuel that propels the book, with his daring vision for the future of space.
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| 1:06.6 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
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| 1:12.4 | I welcome Eric Berger, his new book, very important understand. |
| 1:17.6 | Liftoff is the Elon Musk and the desperate early days that launched SpaceX. |
| 1:23.8 | It is March 2006. |
| 1:26.2 | We are on Omalok Island, part of the Marshall Atoles, the Quajaline Atoles, |
| 1:33.2 | part of the Marshall Chains String in the Pacific. |
| 1:37.2 | We are standing there waiting for a rocket called Falcon 1 to launch. |
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