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Tom Mueller worked for Elon Musk at SpaceX for almost 20 years: 'I learned never to tell him no'
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Tom Mueller grew up just 100 miles from the border of Canada in rural Idaho .
He started building rockets aged 14 and became SpaceX's propulsion chief in 2002 .
Now runs his own company, Impulse Space , and is trying to beat Musk in the race to Mars .
In May 2014 he became CTO of the propulsion development of the Merlin engine that powers the Falcon 9 rocket and Draco engines.
Mueller left SpaceX in late 2020 and founded his own company, Impulse Space .
The company is building spacecraft that can deliver multiple payloads to unique orbits from a single launch.
If they succeed, Mueller will be part of the team that beats Musk to his goal of being the first to reach Mars .
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