正在加载视频...

视频加载失败

SpaceX was one launch away from dying. Three Falcon 1 launches had already failed. Money was running out. Another failure could have been the end of the company. Then Falcon 1 Flight 4 lifted off from a tiny island in the Pacific and became the first privately developed liquid-fueled...

52,470 次观看 • 3 个月前 •via X (Twitter)

34 条评论

X CEO 的头像
X CEO3 个月前

We did it 🚀

Steve Finlay 的头像
Steve Finlay3 个月前

One of my all time favorite movie quotes applies here. "If you build it, they will come." -Field of Dreams. Elon's been knocking it out of the park ever since.

Andrea Hatfield🩷 的头像
Andrea Hatfield🩷3 个月前

Hard,But beautiful story,God Bless Elon ❤️ and Spacex

Maha Chabir 的头像
Maha Chabir3 个月前

The history is written by the greats, whose traces of passage through time cannot be erased, remaining engraved in the memory of peoples. Such achievements are recorded by history as an unforgettable lesson in life and existence.

ToneDoctor 的头像
ToneDoctor3 个月前

I’ve been watching since then too✔️🚀

クーネル(食う寝る) 元予備曹長 的头像
クーネル(食う寝る) 元予備曹長3 个月前

失敗は成功の基。🙂 継続は力なり。🙂

Forensic Oracle 的头像
Forensic Oracle3 个月前

🤩Wowww!!!! Subarashi !!!SpaceX found Ecclesiastes because it found the right time,it wasn't 3 failures, it was 3 times.And in the fourth, the impossible simply happened. SpaceX, Ecclesiastes, and the Divine meet at the same point, the instant when the impossible decides to happen. It's beautiful because it's time. It's divine because nothing is lost, everything aligns.😉❤️🙏

Joe Testa 的头像
Joe Testa3 个月前

this highlights how fragile things CAN be with a rocket launching company. I’m waiting for dips on $SPCX the valuation seems steep at current ipo price.

MikolaTimeTraveler 的头像
MikolaTimeTraveler3 个月前

One launch away from death, one perfect flight from immortality. That Falcon 1 success wasn’t just a launch — it was the moment SpaceX refused to die. True persistence changes everything. Rest is history indeed. 🚀🔥

Tech. Lovers Community 的头像
Tech. Lovers Community3 个月前

Optimus AI is behind all of this $OPTIMUS

yeshou 的头像
yeshou3 个月前

When will this giant creature bring us Auda City? That's just the beginning of our exploration of the universe.

GRAINTE STATER 的头像
GRAINTE STATER3 个月前

47

Coast 的头像
Coast3 个月前

Balls of steel… Planets actually

MafiaVerse 的头像
MafiaVerse3 个月前

Class. SpaceX was one launch from dying and still sent Falcon 1 to orbit. That is not a founder story. That is a bankruptcy file with rocket fuel and audacity.

STARFIRELOG 的头像
STARFIRELOG3 个月前

Falcon 1 Flight 4: "Save the company." Starship: "Expand the species." Quite an upgrade in mission scope.

AHMED SALEM 的头像
AHMED SALEM3 个月前

The history is written by the greats, whose traces of passage through time

JAVIER GUTIERREZ 的头像
JAVIER GUTIERREZ3 个月前

Le salio todo bien, si no se fueran ido al precipicio

kim truhlar 的头像
kim truhlar3 个月前

👍

36番の付き人 的头像
36番の付き人3 个月前

すごい👏

حبيب❣️ 的头像
حبيب❣️3 个月前

Crazy to think that one successful launch stood between failure and history. Sometimes all it takes is one breakthrough after years of setbacks.

Lana 的头像
Lana3 个月前

Awesome! 🪐💫Generated Grok Imagine.

Diane Dean 的头像
Diane Dean3 个月前

💯💪🇺🇸✨️🗽👍🏛💎♥️👏

Terry smith ⏳ 的头像
Terry smith ⏳3 个月前

♥️♥️♥️

Sticks-n-Stonez Cigar & Spirits Show by BrentElrod 的头像
Sticks-n-Stonez Cigar & Spirits Show by BrentElrod3 个月前

And we are preparing for a moon base today. 👍🏽

Greg Language 的头像
Greg Language3 个月前

@grok where's tiny island in the pacific?

Christian Emeka 🥰🤤 的头像
Christian Emeka 🥰🤤3 个月前

Pull up

PebMets 的头像
PebMets3 个月前

You forgot to mention @NASA awarded a $1.6 billion CRS contract which kept @SpaceX going so there would be a flight 4.

Haifa Ramadan 的头像
Haifa Ramadan3 个月前

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Crypto & Markets | تحليل الأسواق 的头像
Crypto & Markets | تحليل الأسواق3 个月前

Every major company has a pivotal moment between collapse and takeoff. In September 2008, it wasn't just a struggling startup; it was one launch away from bankruptcy. The success of Falcon 1 Flight 4 wasn't just a technological achievement; it was proof that sometimes the impossible just requires one more attempt. A key lesson: Many success stories seem inevitable in retrospect, but in reality, they were teetering on the brink of failure moments before their historic transformation. 🚀

PolyDuck. 🦆 的头像
PolyDuck. 🦆3 个月前

Wow

Gee Cee 的头像
Gee Cee3 个月前

tell me the story again--it's a good one.

CuriousJulie101 的头像
CuriousJulie1013 个月前

God is with Elon!

ZeroMazed 的头像
ZeroMazed3 个月前

crazy how one launch saved the whole rocket game. kinda like how one solid altcoin can save a degen's portfolio

Imane 的头像
Imane3 个月前

🙌🫡🇺🇸♥️🚀✨🫶 @elonmusk 🫶💫🚀♥️🇺🇸🙌

相关视频

In 2002, Elon Musk tried to buy a rocket. The Russians quoted him $8 million per unit. American aerospace companies wanted over $65 million. He walked away from both. On the flight home, he opened a spreadsheet and broke down the raw materials. Aerospace-grade aluminum. Titanium. Copper. Carbon fiber. He priced each on the commodity market. The total came to roughly 2% of what the industry was charging. That gap is what first principles thinking actually looks like. Not "how do we negotiate a better deal." Not "who else sells rockets." Just: what is this thing actually made of, and why does it cost what it costs? The answer was overhead. Legacy processes. Layers of contractors and subcontractors. Margins stacked on margins. Nobody had questioned the price because nobody had questioned the structure. Musk decided to build it himself. The first Falcon 1 exploded 33 seconds after launch. The second made it further but failed to reach orbit. The third exploded too. Three rockets. Three failures. SpaceX was almost out of money. Musk put his last $35 million into the company. If the fourth launch failed, that was it. September 28, 2008. Falcon 1 Flight 4 reached orbit. First privately developed liquid fuel rocket to ever do it. Seven years later, they landed a booster back on Earth for the first time. Now they do it routinely. The cost per launch dropped from $65 million to under $3 million for a reused Falcon 9 booster. Everyone else was reasoning by analogy: rockets are expensive because rockets have always been expensive. Musk reasoned from atoms: rockets are expensive because nobody rebuilt the system from the ground up.

Peak Thinkers

160,641 次观看 • 4 个月前