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I ve read about you is that you went from dishwasher by day to explosives by night. peter, i mean, how did you go from a dishwasher engineer to literally reaching for space and developing one of the world s most successful space companies? i d always had a passion forspace, eversince i was very, very young, and a passion for engineering. and you combine those two things and then you get rocket lab. and i started my career out as a tool and die maker, an apprentice at a company called fisher and paykel that, as you correctly point out, built dishwashers and then into the design office, then into a government research institute where we did a lot with smart materials, mainly carbon composites, and then really went on a rocket pilgrimage to the united states, decided that what was happening wasn t what i thought was needed to happen and came back to new zealand and started rocket lab. but, peter, you also started without the considerable wealth of your billionaire rivals, like elon mu ....
Have grown incredibly fast over the last few years and are starting to play an increasingly important role in their select market verticals. well, on that point, chad anderson, a real pleasure having you on the show. good luck with everything and i ll check in with you soon. thank you. now dishwasher engineer to self taught rocket guru. it might sound like, well, the stuff of science fiction, but it s actually the reality for one of the men whose rockets are helping the next great space age take shape. he s widely seen as the greatest rival to elon musk s spacex, and the founder of rocket lab is also part of nasa s plans to get back to the moon. peter beck, a real pleasure having you on my show. and, peter, let me start with this, because the best line i ve read about you is that you went from dishwasher by day to explosives by night. peter, i mean, how did you go from a dishwasher engineer to literally reaching for space and developing one of the world s most successful space companie ....