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Thomas Mueller is an American rocket engineer and rocket engine designer, a founding employee of SpaceX, best known for his engineering work on the TR-106 and SpaceX rocket engines.

Childhood and Early Life

Tom Mueller was born in October 1963 in St.

Maries, Idaho, a tiny logging community with a population of about 2500 people. Tom's father was a logger. Growing up in St. Maries, Tom was unlike his other friends; while his friends played in the woods, he would often go to the local library and read books or watch his favorite TV show 'Star Trek.' From a young age, he was interested in technology and was determined to understand how things worked.

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At the age of 10, he could repair a broken clock, a lawnmower, or anything that needed fixing.

Tom developed an interest in rockets and started building model rockets beginning with the famous Estes models. A 12-year-old Tom made a space Shuttle model with boosters that could safely land back on the ground.

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