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    {
      "blog": "/en/posts/spacex-part-1/",
      "id": 1,
      "number": "CHAPTER 1",
      "panels": [
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "br",
              "text": "Why can't we live on another planet?"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "Elon had a dream about Mars since he was young.",
          "img": "ch1-01.png",
          "narration": "As a kid · Looking up at the stars"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "bl",
              "text": "One rocket costs THIS much?!"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "Building one rocket could cost billions of dollars.",
          "img": "ch1-02.png",
          "narration": "He asked the price · Got a huge shock"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "br",
              "text": "A private company build rockets? No way!"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "The experts all said, \"Forget it, it's too hard.\"",
          "img": "ch1-03.png",
          "narration": "Nobody believed him"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "br",
              "text": "If no one will, I will!"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "SpaceX was born — to build cheap, reusable rockets.",
          "img": "ch1-04.png",
          "narration": "2002 · Then we'll do it ourselves!"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [],
          "caption": "A team of young engineers built rockets from scratch in a small warehouse.",
          "img": "ch1-05.png",
          "narration": "A small California warehouse"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "br",
              "text": "Planes fly again and again — why not rockets?"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "If rockets could be reused, costs could drop 100x.",
          "img": "ch1-06.png",
          "narration": "An important question"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [],
          "caption": "If something happens to Earth, humans need a second home.",
          "img": "ch1-07.png",
          "narration": "Why go so far?"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "bl",
              "text": "Ready for launch!"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "On a tropical island launch pad, Falcon 1 was ready to fly.",
          "img": "ch1-08.png",
          "narration": "2006 · The first rocket is ready"
        }
      ],
      "title": "A Crazy Dream About Mars"
    },
    {
      "blog": "/en/posts/spacex-part-2/",
      "id": 2,
      "number": "CHAPTER 2",
      "panels": [
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "br",
              "text": "5… 4… 3… 2… 1…"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "Everyone held their breath, watching the rocket rise.",
          "img": "ch2-01.png",
          "narration": "2006 · First launch"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [],
          "caption": "The rocket exploded. Failure number one.",
          "img": "ch2-02.png",
          "narration": "Just a few seconds in…"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "br",
              "text": "Boom again…"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "Second and third attempts — both exploded.",
          "img": "ch2-03.png",
          "narration": "Tried again… and again"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "bl",
              "text": "We only have money for one more try."
            },
            {
              "pos": "br",
              "text": "Then… we can NOT fail!"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "The team was exhausted — but no one gave up.",
          "img": "ch2-04.png",
          "narration": "One last chance"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "bl",
              "text": "We did it!!"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "Falcon 1 finally made orbit — the first private company to do it.",
          "img": "ch2-05.png",
          "narration": "2008 · Try"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "br",
              "text": "Here's a big contract for you!"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "NASA's $1.6 billion contract saved SpaceX.",
          "img": "ch2-06.png",
          "narration": "A Christmas gift from NASA"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "br",
              "text": "This sounds almost impossible…"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "Land a giant rocket backwards, standing upright.",
          "img": "ch2-07.png",
          "narration": "Make rockets land themselves"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [],
          "caption": "Falcon 9 landed vertically — a new chapter in space history.",
          "img": "ch2-08.png",
          "narration": "2015 · A day for the history books"
        }
      ],
      "title": "Learning from Explosions"
    },
    {
      "blog": "/en/posts/spacex-part-3/",
      "id": 3,
      "number": "CHAPTER 3",
      "panels": [
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "bl",
              "text": "Wow, Earth is beautiful!"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "Dragon carries astronauts to the space station.",
          "img": "ch3-01.png",
          "narration": "Dragon · A crewed spacecraft"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [],
          "caption": "For the first time in 9 years, Americans launched from US soil.",
          "img": "ch3-02.png",
          "narration": "2020 · Americans launch again"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "br",
              "text": "The biggest rocket humans ever built!"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "The silver Starship — like a spaceship from sci-fi.",
          "img": "ch3-03.png",
          "narration": "Starship · Taller than the Statue of Liberty"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "bl",
              "text": "Internet even in the desert!"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "Thousands of satellites bring internet to every corner of Earth.",
          "img": "ch3-04.png",
          "narration": "Starlink · Internet for everyone"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [],
          "caption": "In the future, humans may live in Mars dome homes.",
          "img": "ch3-05.png",
          "narration": "Mars mission · Officially begins"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "br",
              "text": "Every explosion is a lesson."
            }
          ],
          "caption": "Starship tests, learns, and tries again.",
          "img": "ch3-06.png",
          "narration": "Still testing, again and again"
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [
            {
              "pos": "bl",
              "text": "Unbelievable…"
            }
          ],
          "caption": "Giant mechanical arms on the tower caught the returning rocket.",
          "img": "ch3-07.png",
          "narration": "Catching a rocket with \"chopsticks\""
        },
        {
          "bubbles": [],
          "caption": "Maybe one day, the first person on Mars — is you.",
          "img": "ch3-08.png",
          "narration": "You and the future"
        }
      ],
      "title": "To the Stars and Beyond"
    }
  ],
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  "generated_at": "2026-05-05T12:25:30Z",
  "lang": "en",
  "panelsBasePath": "https://questdad.com/comics/spacex/panels",
  "slug": "spacex",
  "subtitle": "From a small warehouse to the dream of Mars",
  "title": "SpaceX",
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