{"id":8315,"date":"2020-08-07T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/?p=8315"},"modified":"2020-09-29T14:59:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T21:59:17","slug":"eric-berger-liftoff-elon-musk-and-the-desperate-early-days-that-launched-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2020\/08\/07\/eric-berger-liftoff-elon-musk-and-the-desperate-early-days-that-launched-spacex\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Berger: Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/izaoyfqztwp51.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"paragraph_full_with_145px_margins wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;FLY OR DIE. That was the choice SpaceX faced 12 years ago today when a small band of engineers and techs fueled the company\u2019s last Falcon 1 rocket on a remote launch pad. Eric Berger tells the tale in his new book <a href=\"http:\/\/Learn more: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B089QRXBXB\/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_SY6CFbT0HRMWF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LIFTOFF<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;FLY OR DIE. That was the choice SpaceX faced 12 years ago today when a small band of engineers and techs fueled the company\u2019s last Falcon 1 rocket on a remote launch pad. Eric Berger tells the tale in his new book LIFTOFF.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-berger","category-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8318,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8315\/revisions\/8318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}