Space Shuttle
includes Space Shuttle Challenger
3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 6, 2023 by John Gedmark · said 17 times in 8 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by John Gedmark (4), Jared Isaacman (2), Shyam Sankar (1), Ryan McEntush (1), Marc Andreessen (1), Frank Chen (1), Dr. Christine Darden (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 6 mentions in 1 episode
2019 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Space Shuttle, oldest first
Oct 6, 2023
Gedmark: Commercial space emerged from dot-com wealth and Space Shuttle retirement
“So you really had all these ingredients of basically private individuals who had made enough money in the dot-com boom and had this passion for space to go and take a run at it. On the government side, you had the retirement of the special Coming up on the hor…”
Oct 6, 2023 negative
Gedmark: Space Shuttle era cost-plus contracts entrenched legacy defense contractors
“Then we entered into this era in the eighties, basically with the space shuttle, things got very entrenched with these cost plus contracts. And the major aerospace defense contractors were basically able to lock in, you know, these programs at a cost of billio…”