NASA

“Yeah, it was originally invented by NASA. For the space program to cushion the astronauts from G-forces, and since it was a public thing.”

“Yeah, it was originally invented by NASA. For the space program to cushion the astronauts from G-forces. And since it was a public thing... U.S. Government. There wasn't a patent on it. It was freely alienable. And my Swedish friends bought a company in Denmar…”

“When you become successful with a particular thing in the future, that could become an anchor for you, right? And so, great, that's your success. You make a system out of it. You have all these processes, and then you actually do a requirements flow down. That…”

“We wanted more like the Silicon Valley release early, release often software strategy than the requirements-driven, very careful science project of NASA.”

“And the phones worked just fine in space, and we had amateur radio astronomers around the world get these little Yagi antennas, these little handheld antennas, to follow the satellite, the little pictures it had been taking with the Phone camera. And email the…”

“Most NASA satellites average, average about a billion.”

“Yeah, no, actually, but it wasn't just NASA people. We had Students who are at Stanford, people that worked at Apple, people that worked at Google, all these places, and that created a fervor of intellectual dizziness that was always fun for us. So it was a mi…”

“But now, the billions and billions of dollars that would be going on in the consumer electronics industry, like Apple and Samsung and Google and all these companies, was far outpacing what NASA could spend on the development of electronics.”

“And really the insight that the team had is, what's so different about a phone from a satellite? And turns out, like, the engineering processes, the capabilities internally, All of that stuff is very similar.”

“And so I think it's twenty-thirty before we see boots on the moon.”

“We went ahead and built a lunar lander test bed for, to flying on earth, and we built a walking robot. We flew the walking robot to space station and we flew the lander by itself about 37 times, successfully launched it from Earth and landed it on a simulated …”

“We got a contract to develop, ah, a construction system as part of the Moon to Mars program. Ah, so it's a construction system that's supposed to be for the Moon, but it should also be easily repurposed for Mars.”

“The technology was actually developed by NASA. NASA thought that LED light might help speed up healing of cuts and scrapes when astronauts were in zero gravity. They didn't end up using the technology in space, but they did end up funding research that led to …”