NASA

“The punchline is, the shuttle mission that I refused? It was the Columbia.”

“One of his allies is this guy named Mike Griffin. He, a few years later, actually become NASA's administrator, and he helps Elon organize these meetings of these space enthusiasts, these engineers, these rocket scientists.”

“The first one in 2006 can be for two hundred seventy eight million. And then the one that saves the company after the fourth launch in 2008 is for 1.6 billion.”

“Without the CRS contract, we would have gone down as the company that made it to orbit and then died.”

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

“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.”