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Zurbuchen: SpaceX actively darkens Starlink satellites to cooperate with astronomers
“SpaceX and the Starlink team have been nothing but collaborative. They went and faced the astrophysics community. They're actively Darkening their bodies, right? Kind of their spacecraft.”
Holiday: Elon Musk's friends staged an intervention against founding SpaceX
“When Elon Musk was planning what became SpaceX, his friends held a literal AA style intervention that said, you cannot start a rocket company. This is the worst idea. You will lose all your money.”
Gross: SpaceX was originally a stunt to land a plant on Mars
“SpaceX, I believe, was conceived as the Green Mars Oasis Project, where the idea was it's a very Los Angeles idea we're gonna go buy a bunch of rockets from the Russians, and we're gonna try to launch a bunch of stuff onto Mars, and we're gonna take a photo of…”