He took some funds that were meant to pay for his housing at Stanford (without his parents knowing) and put them toward making a 2,000-pound thrust liquid rocket engine. The rocket goes up, opens its fairing and out pop the payloads, be they satellites or other spacecraft. Just a couple of months after raising the money, Epic began building a rocket engine test stand near the airport in Buenos Aires. Once stateside, Epic had to meet SpaceX’s requirements for fueling the spacecraft and mating it with the Falcon rocket. Being a small company, Epic did not have multiple teams to deal with many hours or even days of trouble shooting.