SpaceX Simplified Landing Physics
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A story about how Elon Musk approached the SpaceX rocket landing problem with simple logic.
Sam Parr recounts: "When he was talking about SpaceX and the rockets, people were questioning 'Wait a minute, so you're telling me that it's not gonna fall from a parachute, it's literally gonna go up and just right back down?'
And he was like 'Yeah, we need to be able to reuse them. We can't just have this land in the ocean, we gotta reuse it. So we're just gonna have it go up and then come right back down to where it is, then we'll figure out how to do that.'
Elon's philosophy was simple - if it's not against the laws of physics then we go for it. If it's against the laws of physics we don't do it."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.