Biographer Ashlee Vance details how SpaceX was a single error away from bankruptcy during early Falcon 1 testing

@ashleevance @SpaceX hollywood is happy to give it the Napoleon treatment, just say the word,

@ashleevance @elonmusk @SpaceX @elonmusk will make humans multi planetary and everyone should be incredibly thankful. Elon musk has done more for this planet than anyone before him.

@ashleevance @SpaceX What SpaceX has accomplished is an imprint of peak human innovation with current tools, and without forced labor from slavery or prisoners of war. (The Great Wall of China, The Colosseum and Roman Aqueducts, The Taj Majal, or The Pyramids of Giza; all relied on forced labor)

The Falcon 1 is small potatoes now, but reporting on its development is really what got me hooked on @SpaceX. Loved the tales of a bunch of 20 somethings stuck on Kwajalein Atoll trying to make a rocket fly.

The company ended up being one tiny error on the fourth launch from going out of business, but it somehow launched and survived.

Am still so amused by @elonmusk reading rocket books post PayPal and now getting to this point. Seems just about impossible.

Is a shame there has not been a movie made about these times. Hollywood kinda hates Elon and doesn't want to see it made, but it's the ultimate next chapter to The Right Stuff.

@ashleevance @elonmusk @SpaceX So very True.

@Dogetothemoon @ashleevance @elonmusk @SpaceX 🤗💖🚀🎑

@ashleevance @SpaceX If you read Ashlee's book back in 2017, maybe you too could have been a millionaire! https://a.co/d/02AESOKC

@ashleevance @SpaceX Has been an incredible journey! Thank you for documenting and sharing your stories!

@Dear_Patriot @ashleevance @elonmusk @SpaceX True, I can’t think of any one who has done so much to help the planet and the people.

@Dear_Patriot @ashleevance @elonmusk @SpaceX Nicely said

@ashleevance @SpaceX One of the greatest startup stories ever told—and it happened in the rocket industry.

The craziest part is that it all started with someone reading rocket books and deciding to try. 📚

@ashleevance @SpaceX I've still not been able to find out how the GROK had every important piece of information in the conversation gone up missing with regards to the Gravitational Air Unit a.k.a GAU calling it the TESLA YEE. Hydroponic Electromagnetic, Solar Generated, Gas Powered vehicle.

@agentorangego @ashleevance @SpaceX Ja, das war früher so üblich. Aber sie mussten auch jeden Stein ankarren. Da gab es keine Hebebühne.. sie haben schon großes geleistet. Aber ich verstehe ihren Stolz. In Anbetracht d. menschlichen Zukunftsperspektive ist diese Leistung🤔..es gibt keine gerechte Beschreibung dafür

@ashleevance @elonmusk @SpaceX He reminds me of Howard Hughes. A true innovator

@ashleevance @Robotbeat @SpaceX there’s no one better than you to nurse such a movie project to life, Ashlee! we have faith you’ll do it justice.

@ashleevance @SpaceX How it started How it's going

@ashleevance @SpaceX I wish we would make that atoll a tourist-accessible monument.

@ashleevance @SpaceX Thank you for your fabulous storytelling! ❤️

@ashleevance @elonmusk @SpaceX Elon could probably afford to make the movie and I hope he does. I would love to see it, and would love to see the liberals reaction even more.

@ashleevance @elonmusk @SpaceX