Elon Musk's Most Unexpected Success Is the SpaceX Live-Stream
First, Elon Musk's SpaceX disrupted the aerospace industry with rockets that were designed to be reused. Now the company is turning heads with its Internet live-streams.
SpaceX's live launch webcasts from the company's Mission Control in Hawthorne, Calif., are becoming must-watch events for space nerds and common folk alike. The events are an equally informative and entertaining crash course in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) topics with a heavy dose of rocket propulsion and flip maneuvers thrown in.
Each time the company launches a rocket, young SpaceX employees and engineers—including a lot of women—take turns as enthusiastic, funny hosts. Not sure what a faring is? Curious about the white smoke that's "totally normal"? Need to bone up on the difference between low-earth and geostationary orbits? They've got you.