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Old 02-17-2013, 07:44 AM   #1
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PCA Tour yesterday
Sometimes we do driving tours on great Porsche roads, sometimes historic car collections like Leno or Nethercut. Yesterday we took a technology tour of Space X in Hawthorne where they make rockets named Merlin and Falcon 9. Our tour guide for the day was Co-founder, Vice President of Propulsion, GT3RS owner, and PCA-GPX member Tom Mueller. Wow! That was the coolest thing I have done all year.

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http://images.spaceref.com/news/2009/20080111_nightbacklit.jpg
http://www.spacex.com/launch_updates.php

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Old 02-17-2013, 08:17 AM   #2
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Pretty cool. Would love to go see the Space X facility!
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Space-X is awesome and Tom is a great guy, know him well.

The next time you see him, ask him about this:

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Ha! Looks like his Laguna Seca exhaust mod to meet sound requirements. A rocket propulsion artifact?

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