NASA

“This is a project we're doing for NASA called LOCKSAT, so that big, like, Christmas bauble on the top is actually a sphere full of liquid oxygen, so we're helping NASA figure out how to store liquid oxygen on orbit for very long periods of time, which is super…”

“I think they're aiming for space ion nuclear-driven space propulsion by twenty-twenty-eight. And then they're talking about reactors on, on the moon's surface to, you know, create heat and power things.”

“And they couldn't build from scratch, so they had to borrow technology, so they took imaging equipment from army tanks and engine temperature sensors from NASCAR and built a probe that confirmed water on the moon.”

“The Mars rover is a really good one. NASA came to us and said, look, we, there's a Mars rover up here, and we thought it would only rove for four months. It's still roving, like, eight months later, and they're like, it's using all our data and storage up, or,…”

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

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

“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…”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“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…”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

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

“If I'm writing, like, mission-critical software for self-driving cars or a NASA or SpaceX mission, I think there's always going to be a need for some kind of IDE.”

“It was basically that .8% of the US budget is spent on kidney dialysis, which was basically three times NASA. So all these people need dialysis. It's like, I think Medicare spends over fifty billion dollars annually on dialysis and other related treatments, wh…”

“And so I think my takeaway was in, in industries where you have true believers who are in the government agencies and who have been doing this for a long time, they're there because they want it to happen. And there's a lot of openness and excitement to workin…”

“Part of like the value of actually sending humans to space is entirely like kind of marketing and just to prove that it's possible.”

“I think we were doing the back of the envelope just from the main call to action at the bottom of the YouTube stream. They were selling a patch for, I don't know, tens of dollars, and they'd sold, like, hundreds of thousands of them, so as we were watching, th…”

“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…”

“The Dragon's capsule docking mechanism was reinvented from off-the-shelf bike shocks And catalog parts instead of adopting NASA's existing design.”

“A NASA study found SpaceX developed Falcon nine for roughly four hundred and forty million. They estimated the same work with traditional contractors would have cost three to 10 times that amount.”

“She made it so the world's most conservative buyers, NASA and the Pentagon would accept a radical new model of standardization.”

“It's got five prime contractors, hundreds of subcontractors supported by a workforce at NASA, where we've probably over 50,000 between civil servants and contractors. 75% are contractors using different tools and systems.”

“We're going to return to the moon before end of President Trump's term. We're going to build a moon base so we can stay.”

“The immediate priority is we want the ice. That's how we can do in situ research.”

“Within, within years, we'll be able to send humans to Mars. It's bringing them back.”

“I didn't blame Boeing. I blamed leadership failures and poor decision-making at NASA to make sure our culture is going the right direction.”

“We are going to get in a cadence of launching every 10 months. We are going to add a new mission. You know, Artemis III is supposed to land on the moon in, in, in, in, in twenty-twenty-eight. Not doing that anymore. We're going to launch Artemis III in twenty-…”

“You go back to the space race across Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, do you know how, what our average launch cadence was between missions? It was between three and four months.”

“First, I'm two months on the job yet. I haven't run into a single roadblock. Like, everybody wants to go out and achieve, you know, change the world in the air and space.”

“It plotted the course for perseverance, like for like the Mars Rover.”

“Two days ago, they showed that on asteroid Bennu, there is nucleic acids, there are amino acids, there are sugars, All of the building blocks of life were found on this asteroid floating through space.”

“Four times NASA's annual budget.”

“I think a better model, I don't know how to get there from here, but a better model might be that every time like a lab or an agency or something is set up, it's automatically set up with its destructor, right? And after some fixed period, it sunsets.”

“Relax the outer space treaty in 2017 with the outer space, so the Artemis Accords, so we can go and kind of make a land grab on the moon, and then it turns out China's going to get there first.”

“The number of National Science Foundation graduate fellowships, for example, was cut in half this year. NASA funding has been cut in half”

“In twenty-twenty-seven, a lander variant of Starship is supposed to be ready to carry astronauts on a NASA moon mission through the agency's Artemis exploration program. That's gonna be really hard, because I think they have to refuel in orbit, and then also m…”

“So it's now probable that China will quote unquote beat NASA back to the moon this decade and win at least the initial heat of this new space race.”

“Instead of NASA building and owning everything like the, during the space shuttle days, NASA wants to rely on commercial companies so we can start this commercial ecosystem, right?”

“So my initial vision was actually launching platforms to space. It was pretty exciting actually thing with robotics capabilities, but I think that the market was, there was interest from NASA but, you know, pitching to various VCs, I think For good reasons, yo…”

“So once you move through the TRL scale with that seed funding from government, right? Especially if it's a technology that either NASA or DOD is interested in, then, you know, that gives you More credibility and also ammo to go and pitch to VCs, right?”

“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?”

“The challenge now is not, can we get to the moon? It's the same thing with like, the challenge is not, can we build a flying car or can we build, we have helicopters. Can we build one humanoid robot or one self-driving car in San Francisco? It's like, can we a…”

“It was released that the Senate reconciliation package re-added budget back into NASA, largely for the SLS program, which was basically the program that, you know, sort of Jared and Elon We're, you know, sort of largely advocating to, you know, sort of complet…”

“Starlink's total top line revenue is going to be passing the NASA budget in the next year or two.”

“The agency is doing a lot of littles, a lot of things that other agencies, departments, companies are capable of doing. That's not why the taxpayers fund NASA. Like NASA is funded to do the near impossible that no one else can do.”

“NASA helps fund like engine efficiency programs for, you know, commercial jet engine providers.”

“I would have deleted all that. Like not that people don't need to go, but they need to, you know, the amount of deputies, assistants, associate assistant to the deputy. The amount of committees, the meetings with 200 people on them. The review boards, like all…”

“I think it's like five or 600% overrun to build the mobile launcher two for the next generation SLS.”

“Orion is 20 years old, by the way, it hasn't flown humans yet.”

“We've already got paid for enough SLS hardware that if you were to terminate for convenience now, you got enough to launch like two or three of them.”