Failure Is an Option: Musk and the Early Days of SpaceX
A new space age began in, of all places, a car on the Long Island expressway. Barely pushing 28 years old, Elon Musk had just departed PayPal with little notion of what he would do next. Driving through the drab urban sprawl of a New York highway, Musk told his former coworker he wanted to go to space.