The Editor revisits Peoria, Illinois, USA to see how far Firefly Energy has really come following its CEO's barn-storming media push.
Without Buck Rogers, there won't be any bucks"– the apocryphal quote from Tom Wolfe's famous account* of the early days of the US space programme. Putting a man into space really wasn't part of the early agenda, but getting a man into space and all that followed got the publicity and ensured that NASA got all the funding it needed.
That lesson is well understood by Mil Ovan, the CEO . . .
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