NASA

5 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 14, 2025 by Packy McCormick · said 47 times in 17 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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2025 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
2024 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode

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Everything said about NASA, oldest first

Feb 14, 2025 bullish
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McCormick: Fuse aims to become the SpaceX of the NNSA
“His whole thing is they want to be the NNSA, the National Nuclear Safety Administration's I think that's the right acronym. They want to be the NNSA's SpaceX essentially, like you know, like SpaceX was to NASA, they want to be to the NNSA.”
Packy McCormick Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 41:55 How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Asparouhov: NASA paid SpaceX half of Boeing's price for identical workload
“The entire structure of the contract is kind of insane in that they literally just, you know, gave SpaceX the same workload, but said the price for you doing it is going to be half of Boeing.”
Delian Asparouhov Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 7:33 Inside Varda’s Space Factory | Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Mar 28, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
NASA intended to select Boeing as sole Commercial Crew contractor before backtracking
“NASA's predisposition was to do a single contractor for it. The plan was for it to be Boeing. They were marching down that plan. They were weeks away from announcing. They backtracked in the final moments and they're deciding, okay, actually we should have a s…”
Delian Asparouhov Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 7:18 Inside Varda’s Space Factory | Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
May 11, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
NASA moved Mars rover data to AWS after mission outlasted initial forecasts
“The Mars rover is a really good one. NASA came to us and said, look, we, there's a Mars rover up here, and we thought it would only rove for four months. It's still roving, like, eight months later, and they're like, it's using all our data and storage up, or,…”
Teresa Carlson May 11, 2026 ▶ 7:14 How AWS Sold Cloud to the CIA – Teresa Carlson GCI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Aug 26, 2026
Assertion Supported
Beck: Rocket Lab is building NASA's LOXSAT to test cryogenic storage in orbit
“This is a project we're doing for NASA called LOCKSAT, so that big, like, Christmas bauble on the top is actually a sphere full of liquid oxygen, so we're helping NASA figure out how to store liquid oxygen on orbit for very long periods of time, which is super…”
Sir Peter Beck Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 21:54 RKLB Factory Tour: Satellites, Spacecraft & Mission Control
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