rocketry

Schmidt earlier this year took a controlling interest in Relativity Space, a Long Beach startup founded in 2015 with the intent to bring 3-D manufacturing to rocketry.

After World War II, JPL was largely sidelined from the military’s rocketry endeavors, as the U.S. instead focused on a secret mission to bring Nazi scientists into the country to advance rocket development.

He did everything he could to advertise his love of rocketry.

The launch was the rocketry equivalent of hiring a city bus to take two people to the movies.

“It’s pulling together all these amazing ideas about the origins of rocketry in L.A., Octavia Butler’s idea of climate refugees and leaving the planet for the stars, and contemporary issues,” said Weinstein.