When SpaceX Remade Los Angeles

The City of the Futures

One of the main reasons I ended up writing a biography¹ on Elon Musk goes back to my first visit to the SpaceX factory in Los Angeles. This was about 2012, and I was not a space nerd and had really not paid that much attention to what SpaceX was doing. My expectations were low.

At the time, the media liked to tell people that you could not manufacture th…