Liftoff
Elon Musk and the desperate early days that launched SPACEX
Eric Berger, 2021, Beaverton Library 629.4 BER
https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/
- mostly about Falcon 1 development and test
- p001 Starhopper landing test fail, crash, but FAA 500 foot altitude limit prevented fireball
- p005 USC students Brian Bjelde and Phil Kassouf
- p007 Gans Koenigsmann VP avionics
- p009 Adeo Ressi entrepreneur friend
- p010 Chris Thompson Boeing
- p011 Jim Cantrell
- p011 John Garvey Boeing rocket engines
- p011 Tom Mueller
- p011 Reaction Research Society, So Cal rocketry club
p011 Ignition! John Drury Clark
- p012 Mike Griffin, future NASA administrator
- p012 Peter Diamandis
- p014 2022 May 6 Space Exploration Technologies
- p015 Hans Koenigsmann Microcosm
- p017 Mary Beth Brown, assistant to Musk 2022 August
- p017