Ask HN: How do you startup a space company?
With most of YC's startups, they utililze intensive coding which you can do for virtually $0, whereas with a space startup like SpaceX, and more recently Firefly Space Systems, they have launch vehicles which you can't exactly make out of parts from Home Depot.
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Notice that Elon Musk sold PayPal for 1.3 billion before venturing into SpaceX. A space company shouldn't be your first startup
have vast amounts of cash and friends in the monied circles.