this was a contract nasa had awarded to a company called kistler to develop the transportation system to bring car go to the international space station. he thought that wasn't fair. he said you shouldn't broadcast our most important customer. this isn't right. we've got to do it and he ended up being right because that protest basically forced them to withdraw, hold and open competition that was the commercial cargo, spacecraft and led to commercial crew. it was one of those contracts that they got at the end of 2008 that saved the company from bankruptcy. so you take the good and the bad. he will fight when he thinks that he's on the right, has a right on his side, he will fight you. >> i know when i was doing the book i even knew i couldn't be like this is the one, this is the one. i forget the term it was but the rocket just crumbling. whenos you hear the stories and think -- >> they probably felt that way. it is interesting. the book is framed around the four launches, the falcon one. i o think each of the failures e interesting because they tell you something about the company a

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