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Elon Musk Once Recalled How A Friend Made Him Watch Rocket Failures Before SpaceX Launch: 'I Already Thought The Probability Of Failure Was High'

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Elon Musk revealed that a friend once tried to dissuade him from starting SpaceX by showing him rocket explosion videos, a story now resurfacing as the $350 billion space company faces scrutiny over its minimal federal tax payments despite major government contracts.

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Bloomberg · Loren Grush and Kiel Porter When one of SpaceX’s Starship rockets caught fire during a routine test in June, the company led by Elon Musk decided it was time for a change of direction. Shortly after the accident, about 20 percent of the engineering team working on the company’s flagship Falcon 9 program was reassigned for a six-month interim period to the Starship program, the reusable rocket Musk hopes will one day carry humans to t…

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