Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

by Eric Berger

PayPal’s board of directors had ousted Musk as chief executive.

Since arriving in the United States less than a decade earlier, he had earned Ivy League degrees in economics and physics,

But Elon is like, sure, try it. If it doesn’t work we can either sell it back, or it goes into our lessons-learned pile.”

SpaceX demonstrated that private capital can do meaningful things in space. And