Former SpaceX propulsion CTO Thomas Mueller’s space startup reached unicorn status this year thanks to $525 million in ...
Once Elon Musk decided to build a reusable spacecraft to carry his dreams of Martian colonization, the engineers at SpaceX knew they would need a special engine for the world’s most powerful rocket.
Elon Musk is the face of SpaceX — but rockets don’t fly on vision alone. Behind the scenes was Tom Mueller, the engineer who designed the engines that actually made SpaceX work. Before SpaceX, he was ...