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LIFTOFF: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Author: Eric Berger
Publisher: William Morrow
Price: $27.99
Pages: 277
POWER PLAY: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
Author: Tim Higgins
Publisher: Doubleday
Price: $30
Pages: 400
In August of 2008, Elon Musk watched with delight and then horror as the Falcon 1 rocket built by his company SpaceX launched from an atoll in the Pacific and then, just after the first stage separated, tumbled out of control. Its payload crashed into the ocean. It was the third failed attempt by SpaceX to launch a satellite into orbit. Musk had not budgeted for another.
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