Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand.
Source: Rocket Lab
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Elon Musk called in the evening. Or at least my evening.
It was November 2018, and I was staying in Auckland, New Zealand, for a couple of weeks. My day had been spent hanging out at the main factory of Rocket Lab, a maker of small rockets, with its founder, Peter Beck.