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Long before SpaceX’s self-landing rockets, Tesla-riding space mannequin or Starship prototype tests for future Mars missions, the California company was already doing daring things in space exploration.
Veteran Houston-based space reporter Eric Berger, now of Ars Technica(opens in new tab) and formerly of The Houston Chronicle(opens in new tab), tackles the early years of SpaceX in his new book “Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX(opens in new tab)” (William Morrow, 2021). The book, while focusing heavily on SpaceX’s early years, shows the roots of the daring steps the now-famous company is taking into even newer frontiers: human missions and Mars exploration.
You’ll read about the development of SpaceX’s first rocket, the Falcon 1, built at a time when few companies dared to create these flying machines themselves. It took four tries to even get the rocket safely into orbit, and Berger’s book shows the conversations and innovation that SpaceX(opens in new tab) embraced over several years to get Falcon 1 launched safely.
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