#172 Elon Musk (Early Days of SpaceX)

To understand SpaceX, where it aspires to go, and why it just might succeed. One must voyage back to the Falcon One rocket. And dig up the roots. The seeds for everything SpaceX has grown into today. were planted during the early days of the Falcon One program by Elon Musk.

Back then, he sought to build the wor world's first Low cost orbital rocket. All of the aspirational talk about Mars would mean nothing. if space could not put a relatively simple rocket like the Falcon One into orbit.

And so With a burning intensity. He pressed toward that goal. SpaceX began with nothing but an empty factory and a handful of employees. This small group

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