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Season 7 of 20 · 2002–2006

Founding the Sky

SpaceX begins as a belief with a smell of metal. Tesla is a tangle he joins.

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Mueller, Shotwell, Falcon on paper, the Roadster's other founders, and cousins on roofs. The marriage frays without the children being spent as plot. The first rocket stands up.

Place
Hawthorne and the atoll
The work
SpaceX, the Roadster, SolarCity
Pressure
Physics, paperwork, and too many captains

18 episodes available · 30:00

  1. 01SpaceX on PaperA company whose first product is a belief.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  2. 02HawthorneAn empty factory. He wants the smell of metal.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  3. 03Keeper of the FireTom Mueller arrives. Fire becomes a colleague.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  4. 04The Silent CarMartin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are already building an electric car. Elon joins as the money and the goad.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  5. 05Gwynne Walks InShotwell makes the place a company instead of a camp.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  6. 06Falcon on the PageCheap access to orbit, or the century stays stuck.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  7. 07OffstageThe marriage strains under absence. Justine asks for a person. He offers a mission. The children are not used as plot.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  8. 08KwajaleinA tiny atoll becomes a spaceport. The romance is logistics.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  9. 09The First StackHardware arrives late, wrong, and beautiful.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  10. 10The Roadster PromiseRange becomes a moral issue. Eberhard feels the wheel tugged.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  11. 11Cousins on the RoofLyndon Rive and a family energy company begin as a sidebar that will matter.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  12. 12Engine TestAn engine fires. People who do not cry, cry.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  13. 13The Investor LaughThe valley prefers software margins. He brings them soot.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  14. 14Kimbal's RestaurantsThe brother chooses food and cities and remains the emergency contact.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  15. 15FrayA quiet episode. Two adults who love poorly under historic pressure.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  16. 16Paper Can Ground YouForms that can stop a launch. He learns to respect physics and resent delay.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  17. 17Recruiting the UnreasonableHires who could have been comfortable elsewhere.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
  18. 18Countdown DressThe first Falcon stands. Mim has seen it fail and is still here.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra

Cast: Elon Musk, Mim, Gwynne Shotwell, Tom Mueller, Martin Eberhard, Justine Musk, Lyndon Rive, Kimbal Musk, The Paper Inquisition

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