Boris Lipchin - Only Your Worst Day Matters
An interview with former SpaceX Dragon engineer Boris Lipchin about cold-calling his way into a flight software internship, reading raw flight code within spitting distance of the ISS, being told he w...
1 Okt 44min
Trip Harriss - It's Full of Wigs
An interview with SpaceX director of spaceport integration Trip Harriss about quitting trumpet for Star Trek, the internship SpaceX forgot to post, aiming a rocket at a military base, making Elon laug...
1 Sep 48min
Ted Cizma - I'm Just a Cook
An interview with SpaceX executive chef Ted Cizma about butcher shop beginnings, feeding 3,500 people in an Aspen parking lot, building a restaurant inside a rocket factory, breakfast burritos in miss...
11 Aug 37min
Chris Thompson - Employee Number Two
An interview with SpaceX employee number two Chris Thompson about garage rockets, an explosion in Garvey's backyard, beating Jeff Bezos in court, melting Elon's shoes in acetone, and Phantom's unfinis...
28 Jul 40min
Laura Rose Plaxico - Rockets or Cheese?
An interview with mechanical engineer Laura Rose Plaxico about SpaceX, exploding batteries, making cheese in The Philippines, a Keurig for frozen yogurt, robot cars, and putting your pride aside. A th...
14 Jul 30min
Tom Mueller - Employee Number One
Tom Mueller became SpaceX employee number one through a quirk of paperwork, and went on to design every SpaceX rocket engine from Merlin to Raptor, all because a high school math teacher asked him if ...
16 Jun 45min
Bulent Altan - The Right Type of Challenging
Bulent Altan started his career at SpaceX in 2004, fresh out of Bob Twiggs' CubeSat lab at Stanford, joining the small team working on Falcon 1. He stayed long enough to put his technical fingerprints...
2 Jun 37min
