Peter Beck, a New Zealander without a college degree, couldn’t talk his way into NASA and Boeing—so he built a $1.8 billion rocket company called Rocket Lab.
In early 2006, Peter Beck took a “rocket pilgrimage” to the U.S.
The native New Zealander always dreamed of sending a rocket into space. He even skipped college because of it, taking an apprenticeship at a tools manufacturer so he could learn to work with his hands, tinkering with model rockets and propellants in his free time.
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