The Engineer

Halfway to Anywhere 257 someone has a good heart,” he said.^410 Elon was once asked how he is able to do the things that the gov ...

Halfway to Anywhere 258 that the right way to win on a cause is to argue the merits of that cause,” Elon said. “This statement m ...

Halfway to Anywhere 259 SpaceX, use knowledge from that time. “We’re standing on the shoulders of giants,” Tom Mueller said. “Wi ...

Halfway to Anywhere 260 future rocket. The only difference between them was the amount of engines. So SpaceX decided to skip Fal ...

Halfway to Anywhere 261 SpaceX designed the Falcon 9 to fly despite an engine malfunction. One engine can explode without affect ...

Halfway to Anywhere 262 fifteen varieties of endangered species watching rocket launches from the front row.^291 Close to the la ...

Halfway to Anywhere 263 military airports, there’s a need for both commercial and military spaceports. SpaceX would like to laun ...

Halfway to Anywhere 264 With solar arrays as wings, the Dragon capsule might resemble a flying dragon. But the name originates f ...

Halfway to Anywhere 265 the Dragon capsule, and it was a successful launch. The capsule was put into a 155-mile-high orbit [250 ...

Halfway to Anywhere 266 To lower the price per launch, all parts of SpaceX’s rockets had to be reusable. “The insistence on reus ...

Halfway to Anywhere 267 Grasshopper concept works as expected, the first stage of the Falcon 9 will launch again in a matter of ...

Halfway to Anywhere 268 is a price reduction of about 50 to 66 percent. $30 million was the price for a launch with the Pegasus ...

Halfway to Anywhere 269 Space Systems. These demands have become more difficult to follow since the last time we traveled to the ...

The Leaning Factories. “Everyone who tries to reinvent this business believes that auto companies are populated by dummies who d ...

The Leaning Factories 271 who was a frail and sickly boy. No one thought he had the physical capacity to become a leader. Sakich ...

The Leaning Factories 272 also saw that the American factories hadn’t changed much since the 1930s when they for the first time ...

The Leaning Factories 273 Toyota wanted to build the first overseas factory to- gether with an American company. General Motors ...

The Leaning Factories 274 At a rate of 25 per week, Tesla assembled the Roadster in a garage behind the showroom in Menlo Park, ...

The Leaning Factories 275 nito. Hoping no one would recognize him, he wore a hard hat, a blue jacket, and plastic safety goggles ...

The Leaning Factories 276 tunes likeSweet Child O’ Mineby Guns N’ Roses.^51 “I think it’s important to have an environment where ...