NASA

“NASA guidelines is you need at least, we would like you to have a 25% margin. Minimum number is 15%, which means 50% of a million gates, 150,000 gates just sitting there unused.”

“There were no women supervisors to say, maybe in human resources in some of those offices, but in the engineering sections, the women were typically the secretaries or the computers that were supporting some of the groups.”

“Why is it that the men coming here with the same background I had, degrees in mathematics or applied mathematics, Were put in engineering sections and able to work on their own projects and write their own papers, and the females are put into computer sections…”

“And I got transferred to an engineering section. I got a promotion because I hadn't had a promotion in five years. And in that riff list, I was actually being bumped by somebody hired at the same time who had gotten promoted twice.”

“As I was there longer, and you began to see the young engineers come in who had been in school with women in engineering, their attitude was entirely different over working with women.”

“We got two F-Fives from the military, and we took just volume and changed the volume of the area distribution of the airplane just using volume of the F-Five, and then we flew a second F-Five with no changes. We flew them out at Dryden Research Center down nea…”

“Well, by the time I left, we had seen far more women coming into the, coming to the system, and though we had had, in the intermediate times, we had had some female supervisors that had difficulty managing men who did not particularly like to work for women, b…”

“If NASA had hired black females and they had not done the job well, they probably would have stopped hiring them.”

“And so we find that actually most of the people that would come to NASA, once they started working in the engine area or the hypersonic engine area, they spent their careers working in that area.”

“There were several options of how to do this over the years. Different, different inventors would come up with different ways of doing it, and I believe that the consensus was most of them actually Took more energy and more effort to try to do what was being d…”

“Why don't you walk down that hall, and just kind of look at the reports, and see if you see one that interests you, and read it, and then go to the author, and say, I just read your report, and I'm really interested in this work, and I'd like to know so and so…”

“I was in a support role, that the engineers would bring in equations. We were to solve the equations and give them the answers, and very often we didn't know what the equations were for in the first place, nor what the answers meant.”

“Think of NASA and the Pentagon buying so many silicon microchips in the 19 sixties to guide moon rockets and Minuteman missiles that the price per chip fell from a thousand dollars to 25 dollars in just a few years.”

“SpaceX's network, NASA's state. Uber is the network. Taxi medallions are the state. Bitcoin is the network. The Fed is the state and so on and so forth, right?”

“Satellite control network that is a common resource for US government where you know, every launch runs through satellite control network. It tracks missions across a really wide set of US government use cases ranging from, you know, GPS to NASA missions you k…”

“NASA has stated we will achieve the national imperative to return, ah, to the moon and establish an enduring presence before the end of President Trump's term.”

“With the immense support of OPM Director Scott Cooper, we are launching NASA Force. To rebuild NASA's core competencies.”

“You've committed, again, a hundred billion of taxpayer dollars, you have an obligation to see it through.”

“About 1.4 billion a year is lost in science and discovery. Because someone, 30 years ago or so, said there's these artificial hiring ceilings on civil servants, so 75% of the workforce became contractors.”

“We are going to embed responsible engineers in every one of the prime contractors, every one of the subcontractors that has components on the critical path. CEOs of these companies are going to brief me every 30 days on how they're going to meet our timelines”

“So if NASA is doing the same thing that industry is doing, we're screwing up. And that's going to make it very hard for us to recruit talent. It's going to make it very hard for us to retain talent.”

“You've got a octocopter, nuclear-powered octocopter that we're launching to Titan in twenty-twenty-eight searching for life.”

“You get no muscle memory if you're launching that during every three and a half years. People are working to launch the mission, and then they're gonna move on and go somewhere else, and you have to rebuild all those competencies again.”

“When we return to the moon, America will not look down on the prime lunar real estate while our rivals occupy it. NASA astronauts will be on the surface, building President Trump's moon base, and we will realize the scientific, economic, and national security …”

“NASA can do the What probably others wouldn't want to take on the liability of launching a nuclear reactor with power and propulsion so we can get to Mars someday and actually bring our astronauts back home.”

“It's NASA's job that we should be doing near impossible where no other agency, organization, company could ever close a business case on because your demand signal is one, and there's probably no logical revenue model to underwrite it. That's where NASA should…”

“Is twenty-five billion dollars a year plus the plus-up that came from one big beautiful bill enough to get the job done? Yeah, sure as hell is.”

“We are gonna get back into the habit of launching moon rockets in months, not years.”

“We are standardizing the SLS rocket, increasing launch cadence from years to months. We're inserting a new mission in 20, 27 to buy down risk and increase confidence for lunar landing attempts in 20, 28.”

“We've got Artemis through at least, or SLS through at least Artemis five or six. We're gonna make the most of it, and then we will continue to evolve our, ah, our architecture until we are watching, ah, NASA astronauts going to and from the moon measured in mo…”

“Regardless if we had a rival that is, again, within potentially a year of our schedule on this, it is still, the changes we announced last week is still in the correct direction.”

“We spent two hundred million dollars last year on a canceled program.”

“75% of your workforce, not partners, not commercial partners in this, are contractors you know, through staffing agencies, so they're all using different software tools, collaboration tools, different HR systems, talking to different prime contracts, subcontra…”