The address was ‘Rocket Road, ’ but it might as well have been Universal Studios, Hollywood. Meeting was like walking on to a movie set.First we passed a giant control room straight out of the film Apollo 13 (though far bigger and more high-tech). Then we entered a cavernous hangar with rockets — yes, actual space rockets — in various stages of construction all around us. Our tour guide, Musk himself, was overflowing with child-like excitement about everything that was happening.Except this was no juvenile hobby. It was the headquarters of a multibillion-dollar business that would soon win its first contract with the U.S. space agency and eventually supplant Nasa as America’s — and the world’s — top space exploration pioneer.
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