What I learned from reading Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger.
To understand SpaceX, where it aspires to go, and why it just might succeed, one must voyage back to the Falcon one rocket and dig up the roots.
The seeds for everything SpaceX has grown into today were planted during the early days of the falcon one program by Elon Musk.
Back then, he sought to build the worlds first low cost orbital rocket.
All of the aspirational talk about Mars would mean nothing if SpaceX could not put a relatively simple rocket like the falcon one into orbit.
And so, with a burning intensity, he pressed toward that goal.
SpaceX began with nothing but an empty factory and a handful of employees.
This small group launched its first rocket less than four years later and reached orbit in six.
The story of how SpaceX survived those lean early years is a remarkable one.
Many of the same people who made the Falcon one go remain at SpaceX today.
Some have moved on, but all of them have stories about those early formative years that remain mostly untold.
Okay, so that was an excerpt from the book I'm going to talk to you about today, and it's also the author telling us what the entire book is about.
And that book is liftoff, Elon Musk and the desperate early days that launched SpaceX.
And it was written by Eric Berger.
So there's a few things I want to tell you real quick before I jump back into the book.
Well, one, I found out this book, this is another recommendation.
It came from a subscriber named Joseph.
I didn't even know that this book just came out.
It's relatively new.
Didn't even know it existed.
And so he put me onto that.