Liftoff
Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX
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The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX - and Elon Musk - from a shaky startup into the world's leading-edge rocket company.
In 2006, SpaceX - a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees - rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at Kwajalein Atoll. After a groundbreaking launch from the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Falcon 1 rocket designed by Elon Musk’s engineers rose in the air for approximately 30 seconds. Then, its engine flamed out, and the rocket crashed back into the ocean.
In 2007, SpaceX undertook a second launch. This time, the rocket rose far into space, but just before reaching orbit it spun out of control. Confident of success in 2008, Musk and his team launched their third rocket with several paying customers. The first stage executed perfectly, but instead of falling away, it thudded into the second stage. Another failure. Elon Musk had only budgeted for three attempts when he founded SpaceX.
Out of money and with a single Falcon 1 rocket left in its factory, SpaceX decided to try one last, dramatic launch. Over eight weeks, engineers worked furiously to prepare this final rocket. The fate of Musk’s venture mirrored the trajectory of this slender, single-engine rocket aimed toward the skies. If it crashed and burned, so would SpaceX. In September 2008, SpaceX’s last chance for success lifted off...and accelerated like a dream, soaring into orbit flawlessly.
That success would launch a miraculous decade for the company, in which SpaceX grew from building a single-engine rocket to one with a staggering 27 engines; created two different spacecraft, and mastered reusable-rocket descents using mobile drone ships on the open seas. It marked a level of production and achievement that has not been seen since the space race of the 1960s.
But these achievements would not have been possible without SpaceX’s first four flight tests. Drawing on unparalleled access and exclusive interviews with dozens of former and current employees - engineers, designers, mechanics, and executives, including Elon Musk - Eric Berger tells the complete story of this foundational generation that transformed SpaceX into the world’s leading space company.
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The private space industry’s consensus leader, SpaceX, headed by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, was worth an estimated $187 billion in 2023 while taking on more roles—flying cargo, supplies, and astronauts to outer space, and even playing a central role as rocket supplier to NASA’s Artemis moon mission. In SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier, science journalist and editor Brad Bergan tells the story of SpaceX. Bergan examines every detail surrounding SpaceX’s efforts to accelerate humankind’s exploration and understanding of outer space.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing new
- De mooreaa en 02-11-25
De: Brad Bergan
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Reentry
- SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age
- De: Eric Berger
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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From launchpad explosions to a pernicious cricket infestation to the demanding management style of Musk himself, the rise of SpaceX was beset with challenges and far from inevitable. Find out how the startup beat the odds and flew high enough to outpace their rivals... and where they're going next.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Misplaced focus
- De Sam en 10-01-24
De: Eric Berger
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When the Heavens Went on Sale
- The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Ashlee Vance, Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 18 h y 20 m
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Through immersive and intimate reporting, When the Heavens Went on Sale reveals the spectacular chaos of the new business of space, and what happens when the idealistic, ambitious minds of Silicon Valley turn their unbridled vision toward the limitless expanse of the stars. This is the tale of technology’s most pressing and controversial revolution, as told through fascinating characters chasing unimaginable stakes in the race to space.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Background for the New Rocket Startups
- De daniel kreigh en 05-27-23
De: Ashlee Vance
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SpaceX Starship
- Elon Musk's Rocket to Mars
- De: Jon Binder
- Narrado por: Brennen Blotner
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
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Elon Musk founded SpaceX with the mission of making humans a multiplanetary species. In the coming years, SpaceX will launch a crew of 24 people through space and onto Mars, in a new kind of rocket called Starship. Over 80 million miles away, Mars is both desolate, and at the same time, full of limitless potential. Mars holds limitless possibilities. Since the ideal alignment for Earth and Mars only happens once every two years, there is only a small window to get everything right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed this!!
- De Joy Michelle Aleman en 11-01-22
De: Jon Binder
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Power Play
- Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
- De: Tim Higgins
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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Tesla is the envy of the automotive world. Born at the start of the millennium, it was the first car company to be valued at $1 trillion. Its CEO, the mercurial, charismatic Elon Musk has become not just a celebrity but the richest man in the world. But Tesla’s success was far from guaranteed. Founded in the 2000s, the company was built on an audacious vision. Musk and a small band of Silicon Valley engineers set out to make a car that was quicker, sexier, smoother, and cleaner than any gas-guzzler on the road.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but you've heard these stories before
- De Daniel en 08-18-21
De: Tim Higgins
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- De: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 679
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Ignition! is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise that eventually took men to the moon.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Science man lists names of chemicals for 9 hours
- De Adrian en 05-06-19
De: John Drury Clark, y otros
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SpaceX
- Elon Musk and the Final Frontier
- De: Brad Bergan
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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The private space industry’s consensus leader, SpaceX, headed by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, was worth an estimated $187 billion in 2023 while taking on more roles—flying cargo, supplies, and astronauts to outer space, and even playing a central role as rocket supplier to NASA’s Artemis moon mission. In SpaceX: Elon Musk and the Final Frontier, science journalist and editor Brad Bergan tells the story of SpaceX. Bergan examines every detail surrounding SpaceX’s efforts to accelerate humankind’s exploration and understanding of outer space.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing new
- De mooreaa en 02-11-25
De: Brad Bergan
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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs - a real-life Tony Stark - and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new makers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best of competence porn
- De Tristan en 08-20-16
De: Ashlee Vance
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The Space Economy
- Capitalize on the Greatest Business Opportunity of Our Lifetime
- De: Chad Anderson
- Narrado por: Dan Strutzel
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Accomplished venture capitalist and Space Capital founder Chad Anderson offers investors, entrepreneurs, and aspiring professionals powerful tools and information for understanding how space-based technologies have, and will continue to, transform enterprise, government, and consumer markets for decades to come.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Luis en 08-05-23
De: Chad Anderson
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Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future: Young Readers' Edition
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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With exclusive access to Elon, his family, and his friends, this book traces Elon's journey from a kid in South Africa to a young man in the United States, his dramatic technical inventions, and his world-changing companies. Elon has sparked new levels of innovation in the world, and this book gives young listeners a detailed but fast-paced look at his story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book!
- De Anonymous User en 07-25-18
De: Ashlee Vance
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The Wrong Stuff
- How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned
- De: John Strausbaugh
- Narrado por: LJ Ganser
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 52
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In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been over before it started. But the underdog Soviets scored a series of victories—starting with the 1957 launch of Sputnik and continuing in the years following--that seemed to achieve the impossible. It was proof, it seemed, that the USSR had manpower and collective will that went beyond America's material advantages. They had asserted themselves as a world power. But in The Wrong Stuff, John Strausbaugh tells a different story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent and entertaining
- De thomas r dickson dds en 04-04-25
De: John Strausbaugh
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The Space Barons
- De: Christian Davenport
- Narrado por: Will Collyer
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. Nearly a half century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons—most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Branson and Paul Allen—are using Silicon Valley-style innovation to dramatically lower the cost of space travel and send humans even further than NASA has gone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Incredible Modern Story Well Told
- De Greg Autry en 04-06-18
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Escaping Gravity
- My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age
- De: Lori Garver
- Narrado por: Lori Garver
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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The inside look at how the battle of the space billionaires began and why it matters, Escaping Gravity is former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver’s firsthand account of how a handful of revolutionaries outmaneuvered the system of political patronage and bureaucracy that threatened the space agency. The success of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, and countless other commercial space efforts were preceded by decades of work by a group of people Garver calls “space pirates.”
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1 out of 5 stars
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Political Agenda!
- De Really, True and Sometimes Right en 10-20-22
De: Lori Garver
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Elon Musk
- The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
- De: Influential Individuals
- Narrado por: J Eric Barton
- Duración: 1 h y 39 m
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This audiobook covers how Elon Musk went from getting bullied in school to small-time entrepreneur to CEO of two major companies that seem like they're straight out of science fiction - and how he almost went broke along the way. The aim of this audiobook is to be educational and inspirational with actionable principles you can incorporate into your own life straight from the great man himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational
- De Stephanie en 12-20-18
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Apollo
- De: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 18 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,651
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Apollo is the behind-the-scenes story of an epic achievement. Based on exhaustive research that included many exclusive interviews, Apollo tells how America went from a standing start to a landing on the moon at a speed that now seems impossible. It describes the unprecedented engineering challenges that had to be overcome to create the mammoth Saturn V and the facilities to launch it. It takes you into the tragedy of the fire on Apollo 1, the first descent to the lunar surface, and the rescue of Apollo 13.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book ever for space, ops, and engineering fans
- De JDM en 10-29-19
De: Charles Murray, y otros
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Rocket Billionaires
- Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
- De: Tim Fernholz
- Narrado por: Erin Moon
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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For the larger-than-life personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity - or the key to humanity's salvation. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos take center stage in this fast-paced narrative as they attempt to disrupt the space economy, feed their own egos, and maybe even save the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book; hard to listen to
- De K. Thai en 04-12-18
De: Tim Fernholz
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Play Nice but Win
- A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader
- De: Michael Dell, James Kaplan
- Narrado por: Michael Dell
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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In 1984, soon-to-be college dropout Michael Dell hid signs of his fledgling PC business in the bathroom of his University of Texas dorm room. Almost 30 years later, at the pinnacle of his success as founder and leader of Dell Technologies, he found himself embroiled in a battle for his company’s survival. What he’d do next could ensure its legacy — or destroy it completely.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not perfect, but worth a listen
- De James S. en 11-09-21
De: Michael Dell, y otros
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Elon Musk
- Risking It All
- De: Michael Vlismas
- Narrado por: Saul Reichlin
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
As an awkward Pretoria schoolboy who loved comics and science fiction, Elon Musk's early years and singular family background were crucial in forming his stellar ambitions. Journalist and author Michael Vlismas, who attended the same high school as Musk, knows well the environment that shaped him and offers new insights into Musk's development, including his troubled relationship with his father. Tracing his remarkable life—this is the revealing new story of a man driven to preserve the optimism he sees in humanity and find a future for humans "out there among the stars".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed story telling style
- De Karen Mattor en 07-17-23
De: Michael Vlismas
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The Founders
- The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
- De: Jimmy Soni
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 18 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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Today, PayPal’s founders and earliest employees are considered the technology industry’s most powerful network. Since leaving PayPal, they have formed, funded, and advised the leading companies of our era, including Tesla, Facebook, YouTube, SpaceX, Yelp, Palantir, and LinkedIn, among many others. As a group, they have driven 21st-century innovation and entrepreneurship. Their names stir passions; they’re as controversial as they are admired.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful, Engaging & Insightful
- De Ismael Becerra en 02-26-22
De: Jimmy Soni
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Liftoff
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- Gary H
- 03-06-21
Great Story, Go SpaceX!
Well researched and written story of the founding and initial launches of SpaceX. Having followed SpaceX for 15 years, I was pleased to hear things that were new and truly "inside" scoops. Thanks Eric for the time and effort to document the beginning.
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-18-21
An incredible story!
I really, really enjoyed this book. Unlike many other books that center around Elon Musk, this book centers around the key employees and the demands placed on them. It really shines a light on why SpaceX was successful and will continue to be so. The relentless pursuit of more, undeniably, leads to more.
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- D. Hausch
- 04-24-21
Inspiring
An amazing true story that will inspire you. The storytelling is thoughtful and clear. An absolute joy to listen to, follow along, and cheer for the SpaceX team.
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- Steve Borges
- 04-16-21
An Amazing Tale
An amazing tale told eloquently. loved every minute of it. Can't wait to watch Starship go orbital after hearing about the struggles this team faced just getting Falcon 1 orbital.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-05-21
LIFTOFF is the BEST BOOK since DUNE
Eric Berger’s new book reads like a science fiction novel with one difference... it’s REAL.
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- Ezzy
- 07-23-21
Worthy book of the story of a innovative company
Eric Berger has written a book that does justice to the personal sacrifices and awe-inspiring engineering achievements of early SpaceXers.
The lessons drawn from this book should be studied by aspiring entrepreneurs, establish companies, business schools and government agencies.
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- Robert ONeill
- 09-11-21
If you liked Apollo 13…
A lot of these books can tend to be PR puff pieces. This is good objective journalism / storytelling / rocket-surgery. What they are doing is impossible by all expert accounts, yet it is happening. If Ron Howard got ahold of this story, he might have put Apollo 13 on the back burner.
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- David M. Hollingshead
- 08-30-21
Elon Musk and team
I can't imagine any person could focus like Elon does Liftoff and power play, awesome insight.
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- Tamer
- 03-22-21
Invigorating and Enlightening
We are lucky to have people like Musk and his team of talented doers. Thanks
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- Anonymous User
- 04-09-21
Love it!
Already listened through twice. Lots of stories from several of the employees makes you get close to the struggle to get to orbit.
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