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World first for Tim Ellis as 3D-printed rocket lifts off

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Wednesday May 8 2024

He promised to disrupt 60 years of aerospace engineering, scraped together the funding to do it and built a company that he insisted would reach for the stars with "wonder, audacity, relentlessness and humanity".

Yesterday, seven years after co-founding Relativity Space in a small rented office in Seattle, Tim Ellis, 32, watched as his Terran 1 — the world's first 3D-printed rocket — took its maiden flight from Florida.

Afterthe launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Ellis said: "I told myself when I founded Relativity Space that my first launch viewing would be our own rocket as motivation to make it there — and here we are. What a sight to behold, feel and hear — indescribably awe inspiring."

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