Musk explained that the company had started work three months before on a large water-cooled steel plate to be placed underneath the concrete launch pad.
They would also wear helmets or kabuto often made out of iron or steel plates and sometimes they would wear a menpo or face mask which could have moustaches and fierce features.
About 200 people worked with Joe in three huge, dark, hangar-like structures where steel plates weighing several tons move around suspended from overhead tracks and are welded amid showers of sparks to the wheelbases of freight cars.