Peter Beck: Rocket Lab CEO and Founder on the company's incredible growth to compete with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos

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Sir Peter Beck is one of the country's greatest ongoing success stories. The self-taught engineer turned his love of rockets into a multibillion dollar space company, and Rocket Lab is now the third largest launcher of payloads to orbit. He's competing directly with the likes of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX, managing to hold his own against the billionaires, and can be credited as the reason New Zealand has a space industry in the first place. Although the future of the industry may seem uncertain, Beck's confident in his ability to chart a path forward. "The space industry right now is an amazing place," he told Mike Hosking. "It's just growing rapidly. Like, it was $360…