章 30: Chapter 30 Launch Site?_1

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In the year 2000, Ma first thought of entering the private space industry, rashly flying to Russia to buy missile technology for rocket research. He was met with scornful ridicule and literally swept out the door.

The humiliated Ma returned to America and got to work seriously, aiming from the outset at reusable rockets because he already believed that cheap access to space was an inevitable path.

Years later, Sky Fork built a small rocket code-named "Grasshopper." Between 2012 and 2013, it flew multiple times and achieved vertical recovery, reaching a maximum height of just over 700 meters, much like grasshopper's leap.

After that, Ma put all his eggs in one basket with the Falcon 9 Rocket equipped with nine Merlin engines. Just last month, on September 21st, the eleventh Falcon 9 mission failed to recover its first stage, creating a spectacular explosion in the sky.