https://www.scmp.com/rss/508293/feed Nick Rufford is a journalist for The Sunday Times. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The stairway to the heavens starts in Texas. In 2003, a young Elon Musk was scouting for a suitable location to fulfil his dream of becoming a space pioneer. A year earlier, he had started Space Exploration Technologies Corp – SpaceX for short – with the aim of building rockets and one day sending humans to the moon, or even Mars. First, though, he had to find somewhere to carry out the noisy and dangerous job of rocket testing. The wide open spaces of freewheeling Texas, where folk are more... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3114155/elon-musk-and-jeff-bezos-are-two-man-space-race?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3114155/elon-musk-and-jeff-bezos-are-two-man-space-race?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 19 Dec 2020 11:30:13 +0000