2026.06.07 19:45

.@elonmusk was not the first employee at SpaceX. According to @_Eric_Romo, employee 001 (at least officially in the payroll system) was @lrocket: "[Elon] found Tom, and I think that was really the impetus for saying, 'Okay, I actually think I can make a company around this.'" " The engines are the thing that fail. They're the thing that's the hardest to build. They're the thing that is always the critical path in the schedule." "Without Tom, I don't think that company goes in the first days."

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John Hyatt@John__Hyatt

2026.06.07 13:26

Tom Mueller was SpaceX’s first employee and built the rocket engines that helped make Elon Musk’s space empire possible. Now, the billionaire engineer has a new bet: Impulse Space, a startup racing to build the fast lane for satellites, cargo and eventually people after launch. My latest feature story in @Forbes takes a look under the hood of Mueller's grand ambitions in the emerging space economy.

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