Steve Smith

Former Astronaut, NASA · 1 appearance on the record.

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A veteran of four Space Shuttle missions and seven spacewalks, he repaired the Hubble Space Telescope and served as NASA’s Deputy Chief Astronaut. He later spent 12 years as a U.S. diplomat and NASA liaison to the European Space Agency before advising venture and technology firms.

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2 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Steve argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Smith: Commercial spaceflight investment surged steeply after 2004

“If you were to look at a graph of investment in the commercial spaceflight business, it was a pretty flat curve up until about 2004, five, six. And now is climbing very steeply.”

Steve Smith Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:17 a16z Podcast | Space -- the Near Frontier

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Smith: Saudi Arabia invested $1B into Virgin space ventures

“Just in the last month Saudi Arabia invested a billion dollars into Virgin.”

Steve Smith Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:40 a16z Podcast | Space -- the Near Frontier

What they said2 Episodes1

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