SpaceX posted an update nearly every time something happened: an engine fired, a stage shipped, a rocket fell in the Pacific. Elon Musk wrote most of the first five years himself. Three Falcon 1 flights failed in a row, and the company had the money for one more. The fourth reached orbit in September 2008.
Those pages are still on the web, some of them, behind redesigns and dead links. We collected the company updates, the launch reports, the congressional testimony and the press from the time, put them back in order, and printed them unedited. 428 pages. Two hundred copies, printed once.
| Record | 2002 to 2013 |
| Updates | 100+, in order, unedited |
| Book | 428 pages, 8.5 by 11 inches |
| Binding | Cloth hardcover |
| Edition | 200 copies, printed once |
| Also inside | An essay, a map of Omelek Island, a launch chart |
| Status | Printed September 2026, on its way to us |
The company record, 2002 to 2013: every update we could find, the launch reports, the testimony, the press. 428 pages, cloth hardcover, 200 copies.
The essay that opens the book: why building a rocket cheaply is a manufacturing problem before it is a physics one. Free to read.
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