ROCKET MAN

摘要

Eighteen Months Ago, Elon Musk launched a 50-lb. wheel of cheese into space. Really. Musk was preparing for the first orbital test of his brand new Dragon spacecraft atop his brand-new Falcon 9 rocket, and it seemed a shame to send the ship up empty. So he drove to nearby Beverly Hills, Calif., and bought the biggest piece of cheese he could find; then he and a few of his engineers at the Space Exploration Technol ogies Co., or SpaceX, rigged it into place in side the capsule and sent it off.