Project Description

How Elon Musk beat Boeing in the commercial space race to launch NASA astronauts

To understand how a former software engineer with no space experience built a company selected to launch NASA astronauts to orbit, it might help to go back to a brisk February evening in 2008, when a guy you probably never heard of rode shotgun next to Elon Musk, holding on for dear life as Musk raced the first ever production Tesla through the streets of Los Angeles…read more.