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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. We launch from international waters, so we don't have to pay a launch facility.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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Then, magically, Matt Rogers, who’d been one of the first interns on the iPod project, reached out to me. This needed to be an easy DIY project, a quick upgrade. In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company. The only thing missing was the will to take the plunge. I wasn’t ready to carry another startup on my back.

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