How could SpaceX surpass NASA?

This is really mind boggling.

How SpaceX could surpass NASA?

SpaceX was a new company that started in 2002 with no previous experience in space rockets.

SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk has his experience in software and internet business.

His first two companies Zip2 and X.com(later PayPal) with the first made an early version of internet directory of restaurants and other businesses.

And the second one which made the new leap for banking and money transfer from the real world to the digital world.

X.com which later became PayPal has made the first internet banking system in which you could send and receive money just as easy as you send and receive emails.

But what about rocket launching business?

Elon Musk didn’t have any experience in machinery or rockets before. Then how he came to be the CEO of one of the modern space private companies?

 

There is a certain alliance between NASA and SpaceX. That is obvious in contracts of space launches NASA made with SpaceX to deliver people and payloads to the ISS.

But what SpaceX has made through the last decade has radically changed what NASA and other space agents and companies in the space industry since the 1970's.

SpaceX has made space lunches less expensive than all agencies, government contractors and private companies.

SpaceX has made the first reusable space rocket that returns to earth on a specific location and not to be lost in space or thrown into the ocean.

SpaceX has changed technology standards in space industry without compromising safety margins or reliability.


So what’s the secret formula for this?

What I came to know from Elon Musk book is some important factors.

Motivation:
Since he has been a child, Elon Musk had early passion to space exploration and desire to save humanity from extinction. He truly is passion motivated since his early days when he taught himself coding and other scientific subjects.


Deliberate practice:
SpaceX is best known as a healthy working environment of making, sharing ideas between different levels of personnel, and testing to get immediate results. This process of action reward makes learning more efficient and improves abilities of making technical decisions.


Best people:
SpaceX has always been choosing people form best of the best to create the future of space flights. Not only people with higher grades at schools but also people with high sense of leadership and the ability to actually create thing from the scratch are the kind of people SpaceX is always searching for to hire.


Efficiency:
It makes better to make less people involved in one project and this is SpaceX policy to use the minimum number of people to reduce troubles of communications and meetings. So for SpaceX it’s better to hire one employee to work for 16 hours alone than to hire two employees to work for 8 hours each.

Open minded way of thinking that for example made people at SpaceX use off the shelf electronics in their devices instead of space grade electronics knowing that consumer electronics has reached far better grades that can be as good as space grade electronics.


Fast and better decision making process in making some changes at the last minutes to launch which is something people in large aerospace companies aren’t used to.

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