Tell us about a highlight from your career and why it is significant to you.
The first highlight that springs to mind definitely has to be when I was at Rocket Lab - I was there before they had successfully launched, up until they had launched 4 or 5 rockets to orbit. The highlight 100% was watching the first successful Electron launch. The team was really small and mission control was right next door. We were watching the livestream of the launch on a big projector in the very same factory that that rocket was built. I remember listening to my team members on mission control talking to each other and being surprised when the engines started and the rocket started going up! We were thinking ‘how is this happening!?’. We knew everything that could go wrong with it, so we could see it going and think, ‘something’s going to happen.’ We hit each of the stages, like engine cut off and batteries, perfectly. Everyone was screaming and yelling, it was just surreal. Knowing that I had helped make that happen was very special.
