New Zealand's Rocket Man: Who is Peter Beck?

New Zealand's Rocket Man: Who is Peter Beck?
To date, Peter Beck has ensured much of his company’s rocket development has been done in NZ.
Henry Burrell
Rocket Lab has grown from a plucky New Zealand start up to a multi-national space company about to go public on the NASDAQ with a US$4.1 billion market valuation.Throughout its first 15 years, it has been led by a man now in his forties with a lifelong fascination with the extra-terrestrial.So, who is Peter Beck?Brought up in Invercargill, Beck’s father Russell was a director for the Southland Museum and Art Gallery and his mother was a teacher. As a teenager, Russell built a telescope for the museum he ended up working for which is still...

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