The Engineer

Launching a Truck Into Space 137 number of employees were now 150 SpaceXers. While the Saturn V from the Apollo program was a th ...

Launching a Truck Into Space 138 of those things. I had them hanging above my bed and on the shelves around my bed. Of course th ...

Launching a Truck Into Space 139 lunar lander that helped Neil Armstrong and the other astronauts to land on the Moon. Mueller h ...

Launching a Truck Into Space 140 but it was a difficult challenge. “I don’t know if there’s a single thing in that engine that h ...

Launching a Truck Into Space 141 To test the rockets, SpaceX needed a test facility. They couldn’t test rocket engines in downto ...

Launching a Truck Into Space 142 clamps are released and the rocket can fly away.^288 To avoid the risk of getting loose nuts in ...

Launching a Truck Into Space 143 coincided with the 100th anniversary of this first flight, but due to delays, the rocket had no ...

Launching a Truck Into Space 144 the Omelek Island, which is a part of the Kwajalein Atoll. Known as theExecution Islandduring t ...

Launching a Truck Into Space 145 malfunctioned components needed to be upgraded. While the rest of the team tried to find a supp ...

Launching a Truck Into Space 146 engineers determined a corroded nut had permitted fuel to leak, the fuel caught fire, and the r ...

The Electric Stars There was a time when more electric cars drove on the roads than there were cars powered by fossil fuels. In ...

The Electric Stars 148 At the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show, General Motors revealed an electric concept car: the Impact. Because o ...

The Electric Stars 149 Gibson, thought he drove the same car as the superhero Batman. “With no gears to complicate acceleration, ...

The Electric Stars 150 else than a small group of technology enthusiasts and environmentalists. But before the car was removed f ...

The Electric Stars 151 Another technology shift happened at the same time. With one billion dollars, the US Government announced ...

The Electric Stars 152 Motors proving ground in Arizona. With a rented heli- copter, they flew over the area and found the now c ...

The Electric Stars 153 liked it. “There are three electric cars sitting on the Moon, and now another one in my garage,” Hanks sa ...

The Electric Stars 154 a design competition, it had no safety systems, and it was expensive. But it was fast. When the car compe ...

The Electric Stars 155 grow the plants that will be turned into ethanol, but not in other countries. “Domestic ethanol as the pr ...

The Electric Stars 156 speech where Elon talked about SpaceX.^214 At age 14, Jeffrey Brian Straubel, known to all as JB, discove ...