Bloomberg Business publishes excerpts from “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future”, by Ashlee Vance, worth a read:
Bob Linden, a Barber-Nichols executive, remembers dealing with him. “Elon showed up with Tom Mueller and started telling us it was his destiny to launch things into space at lower costs and to help us become spacefaring people,” he said. “We thought the world of Tom but weren’t quite sure whether to take Elon too seriously. They began asking us for the impossible. They wanted a turbo pump to be built in less than a year for under $1 million. Boeing might do a project like that over five years for $100 million. Tom told us to give it our best shot, and we built it in 13 months. He was relentless.”
The whole piece really shows how much work is going on to get those rockets into space.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
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