Peter Beck has come a long way from his life as a dishwasher engineer with no university qualifications.
As a young man Peter Beck strapped on a homemade jet pack, put on a pair of roller skates, and blasted himself along a road.
“Rocket Lab will never have the capital that Jeff and Elon have,” Beck said in an interview with Bloomberg News. “But all that means is you have to be a bit better at hustling, a little bit better at being innovative. You can’t break the laws of physics no matter how much capital you’ve got.”Rocket Lab, which conducts launches in both the US and New Zealand, is second only to SpaceX among American companies in number of missions this year.
“I can’t imagine that all those conflict rules and processes that have been longstanding and part of the fabric of US democracy are going to get ignored,” he said.It’s been a big year for Beck personally, too. In June he received one of the top civilian honours in New Zealand. An award that allows him to use the title “sir.“itBecoming Sir Peter, not to mention a billionaire, is a lot for a former dishwasher engineer with no university qualifications.
While the skills he developed at work have been valuable, it was what he was doing when he wasn’t working that ultimately lead to the creation of Rocket Lab. Beck has no shortage of challenges ahead. Although SpaceX has made the reuse of Falcon 9 boosters routine, Rocket Lab has yet to deliver on its earlier ambitions to send its Electron rockets back to space. It likely won’t try in the near future, Beck said.
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