SpaceX's 4th Engineer: Meeting El...

SpaceX's 4th Engineer: Meeting Elon Musk & The Early Days of SpaceX – Dr. Hans Koenigsmann

Watson-Howland Podcast by Jacob J. Watson-Howland

Episode notes

What did it really feel like to be SpaceX’s 4th engineer, betting your career on Elon Musk when reusable rockets still sounded like science fiction, and how does that same person end up training to fly with Blue Origin? Dr. Hans Koenigsmann, former VP of Build & Flight Reliability at SpaceX and now a Blue Origin astronaut candidate reveals the incredible history of modern space… from someone who helped design it. He joined SpaceX in 2002 as its fourth technical employee, led reliability and anomaly investigations through over 100 Falcon 9 launches, and played a critical role in the transition from “this will never work” to the first successful booster landings and re-flown rockets

You’ll also learn how reusable rockets are rewriting launch economics, why small startups are pushing asteroid mining, private space stations, ... 

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