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▶ 14:15 David Rosenthal His mom becomes a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
▶ 14:23 Ben Gilbert Sergei's dad is a math professor and his mom works for NASA.

▶ 2:20:35 David Rosenthal For which standard issue from NASA is the Omega Speedmaster.
▶ 2:22:16 David Rosenthal Now, I'm sure this is Rolex's version of history, but supposedly NASA reached out to Rolex first because they knew that test pilots preferred GMT Masters, but there was a mix-up in Rolex's New York purchasing office that led to this mishap…

▶ 3:27:16 Ben Gilbert In fact, NASA, they went up on
▶ 3:27:21 Ben Gilbert NASA can't obviously endorse because it's a government agency, but it's on the menu, and it's a part of all the astronaut videos you watch where they're popping M&Ms up and having fun trying to chase them around the cabin in zero gravity.

▶ 1:57:59 David Rosenthal They bring one former NASA engineer and true mad scientist, Frank Rudy, into the fold, the inventor of air soul technology.

▶ 1:29:51 David Rosenthal So when you think about America and space and the U.S. space program, you think, of course, about NASA.
▶ 1:30:55 David Rosenthal U.S. space program being run by Lockheed Missiles in Space Corporation out of Silicon Valley, and in basically the same timeframe as the initial NASA missions, the initial Mercury, I think, were the first missions?
▶ 1:45:52 David Rosenthal But LMSC gets a contract from NASA and builds the Hubble telescope.
▶ 3:10:32 Ben Gilbert And then four is space, which includes the Orion capsule that's evolved over the decades and is now part of NASA's Artemis moon program.
▶ 3:12:37 Ben Gilbert NASA's Artemis program and others moving forward.
▶ 3:25:17 Ben Gilbert There's another one I've been thinking about, which is a parallel to our SpaceX episode, where if you'll remember on the SpaceX episode, we talked about, and gosh, that was a lifetime ago, three years, about how NASA prioritized safety…
▶ 3:25:43 Ben Gilbert SpaceX came in and said, what if we do it on a two-year time span, and we figure out how to be much more iterative in our development, and we're happy to explode some rockets, not with people on them, and you sort of take this, again, much…
▶ 3:28:19 David Rosenthal And it's just so funny that the military industrial complex has now become the opposite of that, has become like what you're talking about with NASA.

▶ 26:15 David Rosenthal Um, he spends five years teaching there, and then in 1964, he takes a sabbatical and heads out to California to do a sabbatical at JPL, at Jet Propulsion Labs, working on the U.S.
▶ 27:46 David Rosenthal And while he's out there, he continues doing his contracting work with defense contractors and JPL and the US space program.
▶ 28:12 David Rosenthal And NASA and the like, um, he's doing that on kind of like one day a week-ish.
▶ 30:30 David Rosenthal Um, so Andy and Erwin, they're mostly continuing to work on NASA and Navy defense projects in San Diego, because, of course, San Diego is a U.S.
▶ 32:40 David Rosenthal I think it was all NASA and defense.

▶ 1:45:13 David Rosenthal NASA was famously a customer starting in 2009.
▶ 1:45:24 Ben Gilbert That was the first big thing, but working with NASA and the academic community on like, how do we fit in with institutions?

▶ 8:57 David Rosenthal You're also on the science space and technology committee, which oversees NASA among many other things and the climate committee.

▶ 16:50 Katherine Boyle Intelligence agencies or NASA, you know, the kind of classical realm, but also things like Lyft and Uber that were completely transforming public transportation in cities across America.
▶ 26:58 Ben Gilbert And NASA's
▶ 27:02 Ben Gilbert Lots of people who would have started companies today were going to work at NASA because, oh my god, we have a 10 year mission or an eight year mission to go land on the moon.
▶ 27:11 Ben Gilbert And then you look at NASA, I actually think we should draw a hard line in the early 2000 because there's been a really big switch that we can talk about later, but let's say in the late nineties, it's a lot of like bureaucrats, process…
▶ 27:30 Ben Gilbert Do you think Silicon Valley has so much infrastructure now that it is attracting the nineties NASA people instead of the sixties NASA people?

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