Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on Earth
At the time they were working from a WeWork in Seattle, during the darkest winter in Seattle history, where Ellis was wrapping up a stint at Blue Origin . Noone had gone on to take a job at SpaceX and Ellis at Blue Origin, but the two remained in touch and had an idea for building rockets quickly and cheaply -- with the vision that they wanted to eventually build these rockets on Mars.