<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, rockets]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, rockets]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/rockets http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/rockets <![CDATA[BOOM! VC Steve Jurvetson talks about "the joy of rockets"]]>

Steve Jurvetson, the venture capitalist behind Hotmail, loves to play with his rockets. (Specifically, Nazi-era replicas.) Here's a very short talk he gave at last year's TED conference about his weekend hobby. Memo to Chris Anderson: Next year, fewer "ideas," more rockets, please.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=362875&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Valley players: Elon Musk, rocketman]]> My God, it's full of stars! The Valley is crowded with big-league bigshots, and each deserves a testament to their lasting contributions to technology: in other words, a fake trading card.

Our first Valley player is Elon Musk, the mogul who used millions from his first dot-com sale to fund his second — X.com, later PayPal. Now he plays with rockets at SpaceX, cutting launch prices for government and commercial space work. But the economy class carries some hazards — his company's latest launch crashed and burned last week.

Elon Musk [Wikipedia]
Rocket Fails in SpaceX's First Launch [LA Times]

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