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Very inspiring interview. I consider SpaceX to be a greater accomplishment than Tesla, but both achievements are important to move humanity into the future. His employee called him the modern day Howard Hughes and that is a great description. Hopefully, he doesn't have the sad ending that HH did. There is a lot of money to be made in space and Elon has the vision to get there. Buying a Tesla will be my small way to promote Elon and his projects.
Last edited by Grendal; 03-19-2012 at 01:31 PM.
Great vid, I admire his perseverance.
Very inspiring.
Goes to show that even American heroes can be cranky old men afraid of change at times.
Yeah. For everything they did and for the bravery they showed, it still wouldn't have been possible without the engineering talent that was at NASA and now at Space X. I think Space X is doing a great service by bringing interest back about space at a time when funding for NASA is shrinking.Originally Posted by Todd Burch
Very inspiring.
Goes to show that even American heroes can be cranky old men afraid of change at times
I hope these old astronauts heroes hear him. Pay SpaceX a visit.
Please.
Last edited by Steph; 03-19-2012 at 06:47 PM.
I believe these guys are engineers, scientists.
Please Mr Armstrong, collect the facts and reconsider.
[FYI - post also here: SpaceX]
I've seen some of the testimony by those former NASA astronauts and at least one former NASA administrator. I didn't construe what they had to say to be a direct attack on SpaceX, as 60 minutes characterized it, but more as stern criticism of the Obama administration and the new NASA budget with the cancellation Constellation program.
Coupled with the end of the Shuttle program, for them it signals the US choosing to give up American leadership in space exploration. Perhaps similar to how the US gave up leadership in particle physics with the cancellation of the SSC.
Then they missed out the European Space Agency and the Japanese - so they are at least the 6th, but not to take anything away from SpaceX.Was a great segment. As they showed Space X joining the US, China and Russia as only the fourth entity ever to launch into space and then recover a spacecraft I turn to my wife and said, that's why I am pretty sure this guy can build a electric car
At the time it was also at the likes of Boeing and Martin, so the concept of private companies building the hardware and doing mission design isn't really a new one.
The show said "launch, orbit and recover the spacecraft", or something like that. I'm not aware of ESA or Japan recovering something from orbit, and a quick search couldn't find anything, but I'd be happy to be corrected.
Seems like Japan has done some fairly "advanced" things with rockets...
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...Small body exploration: Hayabusa mission
Hayabusa
On May 9, 2003, Hayabusa (meaning, Peregrine FALCON), was launched from an M-V rocket. The goal of this mission is to collect samples from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. The craft was scheduled to rendezvous in November 2005, and return to Earth with samples from the asteroid by July 2007. It was confirmed that the spacecraft successfully landed on the asteroid on November 20, 2005, after some initial confusion regarding the incoming data. On November 26, 2005, Hayabusa succeeded in making a soft contact, but whether it gathered the samples or not is unknown. Hayabusa returned to Earth on June 13, 2010...
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