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An early SpaceX engineer crawled inside an imploding rocket on a jet in mid-air to save the company – Business Insider
SpaceX was down to its last rocket, which was flying aboard a C-17 jet over the Pacific. When it began to crumple, Zach Dunn dove in headfirst.
SpaceX almost died aboard a C-17 jet above Hawaii.
In 2008, before the company had successfully launched a single rocket, two dozen SpaceX engineers were transporting its Falcon 1 rocket to Hawaii inside an Air Force jet. From there, a barge would carry it to the company’s launch facilities in the Marshall Islands for one more launch attempt. It was the company’s last chance: If this failed, SpaceX was done for.
But as the jet descended ahead of landing, the SpaceXers heard “a loud, terrible, popping…
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