Alan Boyle interviewed him on stage on Tuesday afternoon. Here’s the transcript.
What he said may have been new concepts to many, but they’re all ideas that go back decades. The difference is that he’s funding them himself, and not waiting for the government to do it.
Bob Zimmerman has some thoughts.
A nice video of the history.
Is the ISS the last aluminum spacecraft?
Maybe for spacecraft launched from earth, but I think it partly depends on sources of materials. There’s a lot of aluminum on the moon, and not much carbon.
Bridenstine has introduced his bill. It has its own domain. Haven’t read yet, but will have thoughts when I have.
The NASA History Office has issued a new book, that is quite long, but has some interesting-looking essays in it.
First he sells several billion dollars worth of cars, then he lands a rocket on a ship, live on television, while throwing a private expandable hab into orbit.
From SpaceX’s standpoint, they now have another used rocket that they will almost certainly refly, for testing if not another operational mission.
If I could retweet this x100 I would. Space Access! https://t.co/oWuMBkj8tO
— The High Frontier (@thehighfrontier) April 8, 2016
[Update a while later]
I tweeted prior to flight that they were probably expecting a successful landing, given that (unlike last time) they weren’t downplaying chances of success. Nice to see Elon confirm that.
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Hope I’ll see some of you at Space Access.
We’ll see how long they can keep that up.
A nice poster from S&MA at JSC.
We need a lot more of these. https://t.co/eBTcCPSC6a
— SafeNotAnOption (@SafeNotAnOption) April 5, 2016