Quotes & Sayings About Spacex

Three years after the United States ended the space shuttle program, the American space agency today announced the return of "human space flight to U.S. soil." NASA has chosen two spaceships, the Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX Dragon version 2, to bring American astronauts to the International Space Station. The program will cost $6.8 billion. — Anonymous

They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick. — Elon Musk

As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of the Apollo frontier spirit. — Rusty Schweickart

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure. — Elon Musk

We have a strict 'no a-hole policy' at SpaceX. And we fire people they are. I mean, we give them a little bit of warning. But if they continue to be an a-hole, then they're fired. — Elon Musk

I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities. — Lana Del Rey

I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me. — Elon Musk

If you hate people and think human extinction is okay, then fuck it," Shotwell said. "Don't go to space. If you think it is worth humans doing some risk management and finding a second place to go live, then you should be focused on this issue and willing to spend some money. I am pretty sure we will be selected by NASA to drop landers and rovers off on Mars. Then the first SpaceX mission will be to drop off a bunch of supplies, so that once people get there, there will be places to live and food to eat and stuff for them to do. — Ashlee Vance

We've got to get rid of the stuff on the space station somehow. So we do have a pretty significant capability to bring back stuff on SpaceX that you might not imagine. — Scott Kelly

Rockets, in general, had come on in leaps and bounds since the market had become competitive in the early twenty-first century. Initially, Spacex and Virgin grabbed the headlines, but when Amazon and Trader Joe's joined in, the prices plummeted. So — Ian Thompson

Since SpaceX's very beginnings, they have talked about recovering and reusing at least the first stages of their rockets. — Henry Spencer

SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing. — Henry Spencer

back to 2004. SpaceX needed an actuator that would trigger the gimbal — Ashlee Vance

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete. — Elon Musk

I have realised more and more that great companies, founded for a long-term purpose, such as Google or Facebook or SpaceX, may do more good in the world than any other vehicle that we have. — Luke Nosek

We believe SpaceX will become the world leader in space transport, and we want our investors to be part of that future. — Luke Nosek

To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars in particular-but we 're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen. — Elon Musk

At twenty-three, Hollman was young, single, and willing to give up any semblance of having a life in favor of working at SpaceX nonstop, and he became Mueller's second in command. — Ashlee Vance

SpaceX is a flat organization. Anyone gets to talk to anyone, and the best idea wins - even if it comes from an intern. — Gwynne Shotwell

Where a typical manager may set the deadline for the employee, Musk guides his engineers into taking ownership of their own delivery dates. "He doesn't say, 'You have to do this by Friday at two P.M.,'" Brogan said. "He says, 'I need the impossible done by Friday at two P.M. Can you do it?' Then, when you say yes, you are not working hard because he told you to. You're working hard for yourself. It's a distinction you can feel. You have signed up to do your own work." And by recruiting hundreds of bright, self-motivated people, SpaceX has maximized the power of the individual. One person putting in a sixteen-hour day ends up being much more effective than two people working eight-hour days together. The individual doesn't have to hold meetings, reach a consensus, or bring other people up to speed on a project. He just keeps working and working and working. The — Ashlee Vance

My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent. — Elon Musk

SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people. — Elon Musk

SpaceX is in this for the long haul and, come hell or high water, we are going to make this work." Musk — Ashlee Vance

Zip2, PayPal, Tesla, SolarCity - they are all expressions of Musk. SpaceX is Musk. — Ashlee Vance

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA. — Elon Musk

I do want to make something clear: SpaceX does have a lot of government business, but we execute in a commercial fashion. — Gwynne Shotwell

I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets. — Elon Musk