PJ King left the space world to become a tech entrepreneur — then somehow wound up co-founder of Austin, Texas-based Firefly Space Systems, which is trying to reinvent the rocket. Or, at least, the way the rocket is made.

On this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to PJ King, who abandoned a degree in astronautics to become a tech entrepreneur, then returned the space world as co-founder of Firefly Space Systems: a two year-old company trying to mass produce small, cheap rockets.

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Dan Leone is the NASA reporter for SpaceNews, where he also covers other civilian-run U.S. government space programs and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. He joined SpaceNews in 2011.Dan earned a bachelor's degree in public communications...