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Rocket Lab CEO eats (part of) his hat revealing new rocket capable of human spaceflight
Rocket Lab, a California-based private company, is currently launching its small class Electron rocket from New Zealand and soon, Virginia. Rocket Lab plans to adapt the spacecraft to send a series of private robotic missions to Venus beginning in 2023. AdRocket Lab CEO Peter Beck and Neutron (Rocket Lab 2021)โItโs about time I finally ate the hat,โ he said, placing a Rocket Lab baseball cap in a blending machine and then putting the blended up pieces in a martini glass. After more than 3 years of delivering reliable access to orbit, Rocket Lab is planning to go public on the @Nasdaq. https://t.co/aPe9PboexG pic.twitter.com/i7lY250mBT โ Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) March 1, 2021โOne thing thatโs probably more exciting and most unusual for Rocket Lab is that this vehicle is capable of human spaceflight,โ Beck said.