Neutron

“Now, if you make heavy structures, Then you have to make super high performance engines. So you'd be lazy on your structures and like really difficult on your engine, or you can be really lazy on your engine and really difficult on your structures.”

“Everything is a giant engineering compromise in the rocket world, and if you fill a room up with engineers from every discipline, if one of those engineers from one of those disciplines is happy, you have failed. Like, everybody needs to be equally as miserabl…”

“I said, look guys, we need to be able to turn this vehicle in 24 hours, which is, I'll admit, is a stupid constraint, but what that constraint did is it drove a whole bunch of really, really important design decisions like, you know, propellants, engine lights…”

“The upper stage engine produces a certain amount of thrust, and you have to, you know, manage that thrust for the acceleration of the upper stage. It just so happens that coincidentally is the ideal amount of thrust to land a rocket. So, you know, you need one…”

“This is, I would say is the first engine that is just not designed to be like that. It's designed to be like the most benign engine that you could possibly imagine so that you can just run and run and run and run and never even think about it.”

“The design requirement for the vehicle was turn in 24 hours, which was a, you know, absurd design requirement, but it drove a whole lot of really good decisions.”

“If our job was just to make a, you know, an expendable launch vehicle, we'd be there now. We'd, we'd be launching Neutrons flat out.”