NASA

“I am concerned about, frankly, the lack of commercial readiness for this industry. I feel like in terms of the hype cycle, we're at that early point where the investment dollars and the number of companies exceeds the market demand. And therefore, there's this…”

“After the space shuttle was retired, NASA didn't even have a way to Get to space until SpaceX had the rockets.”

“They went back and they actually counted how much money NASA spent in like the last seven or eight years, and the number was 360 odd billion dollars. And then they counted how much money SpaceX had spent, and it was, you know, if you counted revenue between se…”

“We are paying 310,000 dollars for an oil pressure switch that NASA's paying 328 dollars for.”

“To date, by the way, Boeing has taken a 1.6 billion dollar financial hit On the development of this program. SpaceX, by the way, won a 2.6 billion dollar contract to develop the Crew Dragon capsule, and just to give you guys a sense, the Crew Dragon capsule ha…”

“The human landing system, which is going to take them down to the surface, we have two providers for that, and one of those, and actually, the one we plan to use for that first landing is the SpaceX Starship.”

“And then the plan right now is for that first crewed landing in twenty-twenty-six with Artemis III.”

“Right now, they're scheduled to fly in the fall of twenty-twenty-five, so in a year.”

“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. That situation changed in May of 2020. SpaceX made history. They launched NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on a…”

“NASA just dropped the probability of an impact event to about a one-third of one percent.”

“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.”

“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 know that, like, the news talks a lot about, like, the, you know, Democratic donations is the cause. That was not a new development. You just Google, you can, they're all public.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I got a call Friday of last week that you know, the president has decided to go into a go in a different direction.”

“I was going to introduce like time to science as a KPI.”

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

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

“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.”