Dave Masten stared at his computer monitor over a jumble of screw-drivers, tea packets, and dog-eared physics text-books that cluttered his desk. "Anybody want to watch this?" he called out to no reply. It was about noon on Thursday, April 11. He scanned his office, a scrubby quadruple-wide trailer at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Southern California's high desert, but found he was alone.That isn't uncommon. The entire team at Masten Space Systems, the rocket company that Masten founded in 2004, numbers 15 people. The seven based in Mojave-mostly young men who wear T-shirts emblazoned with sayings like "I need my space"-spend some time at their desks, working through equations or crafting proposals for clients like NASA. But they are more often found in the converted military garage across the dusty parking lot, tinkering with rocketry.
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机译：Dave Masten盯着他的电脑监视器，在一把螺丝司机，茶包和狗耳的物理学教科书上迷上了他的办公桌。 “有人想看这个吗？”他叫出没有回复。它是关于4月11日星期四的中午。他扫描了他的办公室，这是一个在莫哈韦斯空气和太空港口的办公室，在南加州南部的高沙漠中，发现他独自一人。那不是罕见的。整个团队在Masten Space Systems，火箭公司的火箭公司成立于2004年，数量为15人。基于莫哈韦的七个主要是年轻男子，穿着与“我需要我的空间”的谚语 - 在他们的办公桌上打开一定时间，通过等式或为美国宇航局等客户的制定提案工作。但他们更经常在尘土飞扬的停车场转换的军事车库中发现，彻底修饰了枪口。
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