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Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?

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That successful mission in August 2018 was a huge step toward our goal of sending an amateur astronaut to the edge of space aboard one of our DIY rockets. We have plenty of engineers, as well as people like me, a pricing manager with a skydiving hobby. So on that small prototype, I had to sew 972 connections. I first made a 1.24-meter-diameter

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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If I could just connect the HVAC system to my iPhone, I could control it from anywhere. It connected to your phone. This needed to be an easy DIY project, a quick upgrade. In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company. Then on Monday I’d go back to Apple and work on the first iPhone. But it worked.

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