SpaceX Cuts Cost By Battling Bureaucracy

Credit: MICHAEL R. BROWN/FLORIDA TODAY
When Space Exploration Technologies needed to purchase a couple of overhead cranes to lift its Falcon 9 rockets at the company’s new Florida launch site, the bids came in at about $2 million. Too expensive, decided Brian Mosdell, director of SpaceX launch operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force...

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