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6/25/2025, 9:07:26 PM
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For the initial Falcon, maybe, there was one big nasa big brain leading his team on Kwajalein that succesfully built their first baby rocket. I forget his name. Kwajalein is part of the Marshall Islands and the DoD was letting them fuck around with their pipedream of a rocket on one of the baby islands. Then their pipedream actually did really well and the DoD actually got interested.
You can say everything was enabled by one old NASA dude (plus Elon's interns) who built the Merlin engine in a shed on a one-palm island, and then DoD provided a lifeline of cash out of intrigued curiosity. But the Raptor engine (the actual workhorse of everything SpaceX) and all the ways it has been improved and pushed is all new college grads working for peanuts and glory. SpaceX pays shit.
For the initial Falcon, maybe, there was one big nasa big brain leading his team on Kwajalein that succesfully built their first baby rocket. I forget his name. Kwajalein is part of the Marshall Islands and the DoD was letting them fuck around with their pipedream of a rocket on one of the baby islands. Then their pipedream actually did really well and the DoD actually got interested.
You can say everything was enabled by one old NASA dude (plus Elon's interns) who built the Merlin engine in a shed on a one-palm island, and then DoD provided a lifeline of cash out of intrigued curiosity. But the Raptor engine (the actual workhorse of everything SpaceX) and all the ways it has been improved and pushed is all new college grads working for peanuts and glory. SpaceX pays shit.
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