Spacex Quotes

“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

“When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength--400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.”
― Elon Musk

“They were building a Ferrari for every launch, when it was possible that a Honda Accord might do the trick.”
― Elon Musk, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst — it sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.”
― Elon Musk

“You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.”
― Elon Musk

“At SpaceX, we specialize in converting things from impossible to late.”
― Elon Musk

“When NASA had awarded SpaceX the contract to build a rocket that would take astronauts to the Space Station, it had, on the same day in 2014, given a competing contract, with 40 percent more funding to Boeing. By the time SpaceX succeeded in 2020, Boeing had not even been able to get an unmanned test flight to dock with the station.”
― Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

“Soy obsesivo compulsivo por naturaleza. En lo relativo a ser un imbécil o a cagarla, soy tan capaz como cualquier otro, y de algún modo tengo la piel más dura gracias a todo el tejido cicatricial. Lo que me importa es ganar, y no a pequeña escala. Dios sabe por qué ... probablemente sea algo que se sustente en algún desagradable agujero negro psicoanalítico o en algún cortocircuito neuronal.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: El creador de Tesla, PayPal y SpaceX que anticipa el futuro

“I regard SpaceX as one of the many vandals of Space.”
― Steven Magee

“Elon Musk is on my RADAR.”
― Steven Magee

“I regard SpaceX as a domestic and international terrorist organization.”
― Steven Magee

“I am thankful for SpaceX, as they have shown the world that man-made satellites are a serious environmental issue.”
― Steven Magee

“When I see the effects that SpaceX is having on professional astronomy, I see one group of toxic people affecting another group of toxic people.”
― Steven Magee

“SpaceX is destroying professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“Ground based professional astronomy is well on its way to being a fond memory of the past.”
― Steven Magee

“It is possible that I will shut down very high altitude professional astronomy before SpaceX does.”
― Steven Magee

“SpaceX is in the process of creating the greatest environmental catastrophe I have ever witnessed.”
― Steven Magee

“If all of this were taking place, Musk, then in his mid-fifties, likely would be the richest man in the world and among its most powerful.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

“You are easily misled if you think development of Space is a harmless activity.”
― Steven Magee

“Elon Musk calculated that by producing about 80% of their hardware in-house for SpaceX, they could cut the cost of launching for customers and still enjoy a 70% gross margin.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

“One of the most notable innovations of SpaceX is the creation and engineering of reusable rockets. Prior to this innovation, once a rocket was used, it was done with, resulting in significant financial loss.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

“The Falcon 9’s two launch stages are engineered to return to earn. The first part of the rocket propels the rocket head and then returns to earth and lands where it fired from. This is done by using grid fins and the engines performing retry burning.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

“The Raptor engine is another advanced innovation, as it is the first full-flow staged combustion rocket engine ever flown and produces the highest combustion chamber pressure ever reached by an operational rocket engine (330 bars). The previous record holder did 290 to 300 bar in one mode of operation is the (Soviet's RD-701 engine) in the 1980s.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration

“Overall, the success of SpaceX serves as an example of how re-imagining manufacturing and applying new materials and proprietary innovations can lead to significant cost reductions and novel innovations. It is important to always remain on the lookout for new ideas and improvements and to have a technically capable team in place to make them a reality.”
― Tiisetso Maloma, Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration