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Bridgit Mendler Gives Us the First Tour of Northwood's New HQ + Factory Aug 31, 2026 · 4 mentions

RKLB Factory Tour: Satellites, Spacecraft & Mission Control Aug 26, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 0:04 Sir Peter Beck It's a Capstone mission to the moon we did for NASA a few years ago that was done out of here.
  • ▶ 4:52 Sir Peter Beck And then, ah, we launched three rockets, um, and probably, um, you know, the, the fourth rocket in the, in, you know, in the stable there, number four, was one of the, I guess for me personally, one of the, the more, um, satisfying ones,… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:38 Sir Peter Beck Uh, the Capstone mission to the moon we did for NASA a few years ago, that was done out of here.
  • ▶ 21:54 Sir Peter Beck Yeah, so this is a project we're doing for NASA called LOCKSAT, so that big, like, Christmas bauble on the top, um, is actually a sphere full of liquid oxygen, so, uh, we're, we're helping NASA figure out how to store liquid oxygen on… 2 times in the scene

Nikesh Arora: $300B, 40 Acquisitions, Still Paranoid Aug 17, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:11 Nikesh Arora He's got things landing on Mars and Moon, and things he's done, things NASA was funded for years and didn't do as well as he's doing them.

Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

"Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 10, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:07:24 Cyan Banister They knew, like, you, in order to get a rocket, you've got to fail, fail, fail, fail, fail, and a lot of people said he'll never have reusability.

Tom Mueller: SpaceX's #1 Employee Built the Merlin Engine. Now He's Building Impulse Space · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 4, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 34:33 Tom Mueller I've, um, I've been talking with NASA folks or anybody that would listen about how the next, uh, the next step, uh, the future in propulsion is nuclear electrics, I think.
  • ▶ 42:40 Tom Mueller You know, NASA is, uh, you know, Jared Isaacman said, we're going to build a base on the moon, and we're going to stay there, and that's, that's right on, man.

Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 2, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 2:09 Eric Romo Um, uh, and then in defense with our product Mira, um, and then we hope to have a business around NASA.
  • ▶ 14:46 Eric Romo Um, and then we, we really hope to be a big part of NASA as well.
  • ▶ 19:24 Eric Romo NASA really needs it.
  • ▶ 29:27 Eric Romo Um, there's this grid report that I can never find every time I remember it, but it is, I think NASA did it, like, five years ago or something, and it's just the economic value of cleaning up space debris is not that high.
  • ▶ 41:11 Eric Romo Which is amusing to me because a few years later NASA became the anchor customer, basically made the company Aviste.

How AWS Sold Cloud to the CIA – Teresa Carlson GCI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea May 11, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:47 Teresa Carlson Whereas a CIO had just more control of what they would buy and build up, you saw a mission owner, like a, like NASA, JPL, and others who were some of our early customers. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:26 Teresa Carlson Which also helps a business in their commercial side, because in government, there's so much connection points with how things get built with, with commercial industry, and if you just think about defense in NASA, how a satellite or a…

The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:46 Brett Adcock And then, uh, Caltech, which is like, you know, NASA basically, JPL, uh, has a small, uh, very small minority interest in the business.

Peter Thiel’s $50M Bet on U.S. Uranium Enrichment, General Matter · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 30, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:09 Scott Nolan We were working on the Falcon one vehicle and the NASA commercial orbital transportation services contract, which was structured.

Inside Hadrian's $260M Series C to Advance Manufacturing in America · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jul 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:41 Chris Power And the second thing is, ah, there are only a very few markets like space where like NASA will pay you up front for missions, so you can kind of flow your business correctly.

Sequoia Leads $75M Series B Into Nominal | Alfred Lin Joins Board · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Jun 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 31:24 Stephen Slattery Requirements levied upon us by NASA or by the FAA, or if it was an Air Force account by the Air Force, but also meeting our own internal bar and determining what that was.
  • ▶ 1:09:40 Cameron McCord We get, we have folks who came from robotics backgrounds, folks who did flight testing, you know, folks who were systems engineers at NASA.

Inside Varda’s Space Factory | Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 28, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 7:09 Delian Asparouhov Um, uh, in that same time period, NASA started to think about, you know, basically what would, uh, you know, sort of, um, commercial contract look like, uh, for crew resupply. 7 times in the scene

SpaceX, Stripe, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:17 Christian Garrett Um, SpaceX benefited a ton from the fact that the government just basically shut down NASA and Russia also invaded Crimea at the time, excuse me, not Crimea, Russia invaded Georgia at the time.

How Writing Led To Investing In Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda | Packy McCormick, Not Boring · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Feb 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:06 Packy McCormick They want to be the NNSA's, uh, SpaceX essentially, like, like, uh, you know, like SpaceX was to NASA, they want to be to the NNSA.

Morgan Housel: Understanding Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Other Outliers in Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Apr 7, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:31 Morgan Housel He successfully took on General Motors and Ford and NASA when he was like in his thirties.
  • ▶ 18:28 Morgan Housel He successfully took on General Motors and Ford and NASA when he was like in his thirties.

Varda's Landing, Peter Thiel, & the Future of El Segundo, Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea Mar 15, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 6:08 Delian Asparouhov And also in some ways, most importantly, um, this does not fit within NASA's priorities. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:25 Delian Asparouhov Um, you know, if you look at how much, you know, sort of SpaceX contracts, you know, sort of crew and cargo Dragon flights for, um, at a bare minimum, that's sort of forty million dollars, let alone the idea of, like, you have to dock the… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:23 Delian Asparouhov Uh, you know, to do this about literally working on it full time, because ultimately, like, while there have been a lot of research papers and, you know, NASA sort of publications about this, you can't really figure this out until you…
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