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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Space Shuttle comes up on the a16z Podcast, All-In, TBPN, Sourcery, 20VC
🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:26 John Coogan Could America still reach space without the space shuttle? 4 times in the scene
NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and The Race to The Moon | Jared Isaacman on The a16z Show
- ▶ 16:59 Jared Isaacman You can look at it and say it looks kind of like shuttle, but not really shuttle. 2 times in the scene
From SpaceX to Founders Fund to Solving America's Nuclear Fuel Problem · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 32:52 Scott Nolan Somehow I think was the case from the space shuttle, some crazy number of, of subcontractors.
Artemis II, Jamie Dimon’s “American Dream,” Snap’s Crucible Moment | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:32 unnamed speaker Uh, importantly, some people were joking around saying the space shuttle is launching today. 3 times in the scene
AI Is Coming For These 3 Industries In 2026 (a16z Big Ideas)
- ▶ 2:25 Ryan McEntush Even companies like SpaceX, they were pulling propulsion talent from people who worked on, you know, shuttle program and various old school contractors.
Elon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding
Peter Thiel’s $50M Bet on U.S. Uranium Enrichment, General Matter · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 8:24 Scott Nolan Back when we had, we didn't have that capability once the space shuttle was grounded, and we were completely dependent on Russia for all of our crewed and cargo space launch.
Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- ▶ 22:57 John Coogan Um, sorry, SLS program, is that space shuttle or no? 2 times in the scene
Jared Isaacman: What went wrong at NASA | The All-In Interview
- ▶ 30:37 Jared Isaacman Well, look, just to give you an idea, so SLS is just repurposed shuttle hardware. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:28 Jared Isaacman And like I said, it's a giant disposable rocket program that repurposes shuttle hardware.
Mobilizing the American Industrial Base
- ▶ 2:50 Shyam Sankar The shuttle used to cost 50,000 dollars a kilogram to get to orbit.
Inside Varda’s Space Factory | Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 6:38 Delian Asparouhov Yeah, I mean, to backtrack all the way to the beginning of the program, right, you know, uh, Obama era, we shut down the space shuttle, which, you know, almost certainly was the right thing to do, but it left us somewhat stranded in terms…
Delian Asparouhov on Stranded Astronauts, NASA in Crisis, and Corporate Espionage.
- ▶ 1:10 Delian Asparouhov And like, look, if there were like Apollo days or like space shuttle days and like, you know, they were stuck up there for an extended period of time, people would a hundred percent be using like the word stranded.
Capacity Acquires $5m ARR Bootstrapped YouCanBookMe To Build AI Support Mega Platform
- ▶ 25:00 Bridget Harris And what I've said to the team, it's like as we're the space shuttle docking on the International Space Station.
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 2:09:27 John Coogan It's just called the space shuttle.
NASA Astronaut Woody Hoburg | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 2:04 Woody Hoburg Now in, in 2011, when the space shuttle retired, it left us our only option to continue sending humans up to the space station was a Russian Soyuz rocket.
Dan Siroker: Second-Time Founders Are More Investable & Why Not To Hire People Out of College |E1153 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:40 Dan Siroker Before SpaceX, people looked at the Space Shuttle. 2 times in the scene
Varda's Landing, Peter Thiel, & the Future of El Segundo, Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 3:38 Delian Asparouhov You know, Skylab, Space Shuttle, and then ultimately, you know, sort of ISS era. 2 times in the scene
The Evolution of the Satellite Economy
- ▶ 4:38 unnamed speaker We've gone from the shuttle model to something with a lot more startups, a lot more grittiness, innovation, probably more failures along the way, but also it's just a totally different environment that went from the government now also to… 6 times in the scene
Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:48 Richard Socher Like if you think about the space shuttle, it used to be that you could land coming out of space. 2 times in the scene
Beaming 24/7 solar… from space
- ▶ 10:39 Sanjay Vijendran Um, the space shuttle was being developed.
- ▶ 32:10 Sanjay Vijendran With the space shuttle, for example, and people are developing even bigger high cadence, uh, heavy lift launches, uh, launches that if, and when they're successful, uh, are going to bring the cost down by another order of magnitude.
HIBT Lab! Ursa Major: Joe Laurienti
- ▶ 10:26 Joe Laurienti So the engines built here in the U S think space shuttle. 2 times in the scene
E56: Constitution DAO, Rittenhouse trial coverage, private sector efficiency vs the government
- ▶ 55:09 David Sacks After the space shuttle, after the space shuttle was retired, NASA didn't even have a way to 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Space -- the Near Frontier
- ▶ 3:45 John Gedmark Yeah, just to set the stage a little bit, you know, at that time, the space shuttle had sort of been flying what felt like forever, right? 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | From Hidden Figure to Sonic BOOM
- ▶ 16:45 Dr. Christine Darden Shouting then, like you saw him shouting in the control room when the shuttle came home.
Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77)
- ▶ 5:21 Mark Baumgartner I grew up in Florida and watched a lot of rocket launches and always felt close to, uh, Cape Canaveral and the space shuttle. 2 times in the scene