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I watched this live. I thought it was pretty good. He got very emotional when they mentioned the astronauts testifying against him. They must have been some of his biggest role models and it must have crushed him.
It was pretty moving. Agreed on this description of the man..... He fights for what he believes in. He's all in with money, emotion, everything.
Elon Musk Featured on 60 Minutes (March 18, 2012):
SpaceX: Entrepreneur's race to space - 60 Minutes - CBS News
Quite emotional and he did a good job holding composure. His looking away, swallowing, those little tricks you do to try to relax a throat that's tightening up with emotion...you could tell having his heroes testify against private space companies really hurt him. It made it all the more clear how much this means to him personally. That kind of passion is inspiring.It was pretty moving. Agreed on this description of the man.
Reminded me of the Pixar movie The Incredibles, where Buddy (aka Syndrome) wanted so badly to be Mr. Incredible's sidekick and was shunned...
Just a clarification, you probably meant Brad Bird.
Very inspiring.
Goes to show that even American heroes can be cranky old men afraid of change at times .
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
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.
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.
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.
...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...