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Lesson playbook — the 2008 Falcon 1 story as Mark Manson retells it ('no percent chance I would have walked away') against Musk's own tellings, including the condition his own account attaches and the retellings drop.
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Flight by flight: Falcon 1's four launches from Omelek Island — the corroded fitting, the slosh, the stage recontact that killed Flight 3 on August 2, 2008, and Flight 4's orbit on September 28, 2008 — with Musk's August 2008 statement, his IEEE Spectrum account, and his August 30, 2026 post printed separately.
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In the last week of 2008 both of Musk's companies were saved, two days apart — SpaceX by a dated NASA contract award, Tesla by a financing round whose Christmas Eve timing is Musk's own telling. Tesla's S-1 tells a more spread-out story: a $40M convertible facility issued across three months, $14.5M of new money in December. Both versions are printed here, labeled.
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