After Falcon 1's 2006 failure, Musk spent $100K on a Zero-G flight for engineers
elonmusk · x · 2026-10-29
After SpaceX's first Falcon 1 rocket failed in March 2006 and the team was exhausted, Elon Musk spent over $100,000 to book a private Zero-G flight so his engineers could experience weightlessness—many had joined dreaming of becoming astronauts. The photo shows the team floating aboard the flight. As the poster puts it: people building the future also need to feel it.
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