NASA

“The word stranded had not yet been used a single time in any like NASA comms and anybody's like comms about the entire mission within 24 hours of my tweet going viral. NASA put out a press release explicitly saying the astronauts are not stranded.”

“When commercial crew was originally getting started, the original plan by NASA was to only, you know, do it as a sole source of war, just a Boeing. SpaceX was seen as a bunch of, you know, cowboys who has that had no chance of actually being able to be trusted…”

“Butch and Sunni, like, basically confirmed these facts. Like, they basically made it clear, hey, we could have been brought back earlier, and we were, like, denied the opportunity to be brought back earlier.”

“NASA has been still designing missions with the constraints of 1020 years ago, which is when launch costs are in the limit infinity and there's very few slots per year, then like the economic rational thing is to spend close to infinite money, making sure that…”

“He's finally relented and said, fine, I will set a date, but I want Jared Isaacman, you know, sort of coming out and explicitly saying that he's in support of the ISS going through the end of the decade in support of these commercial space stations.”

“If SpaceX does not exist right now, like the United States would neither have like Boeing able to take crew to the ISS, nor would it have Northrop Grumman able to take, you know, basically cargo to the ISS. And so it's like, You know without SpaceX, the astron…”

“This past week They dropped it. And so NASA was like, look like, yes, this has been tested, et cetera, but like, we don't know what happened in the drop. We need to basically send this thing back and run it through a full testing campaign and make sure that it…”

“China's program managers in their space program, they fear the consequences of failure and NASA's program managers do not. And that is the key difference.”

“My experience in NASA was that the organization is you know, it's still stuffed to the gills with brilliant people, but most of those people spend most of their time not being allowed to do really extraordinary work, like actively being blocked and hindered an…”

“We actually, yes, we have an early NASA study contract. We're studying that for NASA.”

“The commercial industry has better, cheaper, You know, more effective rockets than, you know, anything that NASA is building and has at this point, we should probably reallocate that budget to just those commercial companies or to other NASA priorities rather…”

“The White House actually It's actually recently released its proposed NASA budget after future, you know you know, nominated administrator, you know, sort of Jared Isaacman after his confirmation hearing. And in it, they, you know, significantly slashed all, y…”

“It was released that the Senate reconciliation package re-added budget back into NASA, largely for the SLS program, which was basically the program that, you know, sort of Jared and Elon We're, you know, sort of largely advocating to, you know, sort of complet…”

“Starlink's total top line revenue is going to be passing the NASA budget in the next year or two.”

“The challenge now is not, can we get to the moon? It's the same thing with like, the challenge is not, can we build a flying car or can we build, we have helicopters. Can we build one humanoid robot or one self-driving car in San Francisco? It's like, can we a…”

“So it's now probable that China will quote unquote beat NASA back to the moon this decade and win at least the initial heat of this new space race.”

“In twenty-twenty-seven, a lander variant of Starship is supposed to be ready to carry astronauts on a NASA moon mission through the agency's Artemis exploration program. That's gonna be really hard, because I think they have to refuel in orbit, and then also m…”

“Four times NASA's annual budget.”

“I think we were doing the back of the envelope just from the main call to action at the bottom of the YouTube stream. They were selling a patch for, I don't know, tens of dollars, and they'd sold, like, hundreds of thousands of them, so as we were watching, th…”

“Part of like the value of actually sending humans to space is entirely like kind of marketing and just to prove that it's possible.”