The Space Exploration Technology rocket factory is a large, white hangar-like building near Los Angeles international airport, with a parking lot filled with late-model motorcycles and Tesla electric cars. The vast metal structure once churned out 737 fuselages for Boeing. When you get through the front doors, past security and a cubicle farm stretching the width of the building, there it is: Science fiction being wrought into shape, right in front of you.
What It Took For Spacex To Become A Serious Space Company
Tim Fernholz, The Atlantic: Business
Tue, 10/21/2014 - 11:36am
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