Musk’s team worked to get the site ready as if they were on a mission. With little else to do on Kwaj, they kept extraordinarily long hours that both impressed and worried the small band of government officials along with them, who wondered whether the staff would burn out before the rocket fired. “That was a big question in my mind—how could they keep that pace?” said Dave Weeks, a NASA official on loan to DARPA to help oversee the launch.
