SpaceX - Gwynne Shotwell at Hearings - "Can guarantee launch cheaper than Russians."

[KKM121]

May I please know where to find the full recording of the hearing???

Thank you!!!

[joshcryer]

@KKM121 Type "Assessing Commercial Space Capabilities" into Google, should be the first hit. You're looking for the commerce.senate.gov link. March 18, 2010.

[KKM121]

@joshcryer Found it. Thank you so much!!

I support Space X, but I really want to hear what the skeptics have to say.

[joshcryer]

@KKM121 I did a bit of editorializing in the info of the vid, just so you know, maybe a wee bit unfair. It wasn't a debate or a back and forth or anything. You'll note another comment here saying SpaceX slipped their launch date, I didn't respond but part of that was due to range issues and STS problems, COTS-A was successful and COTS-B-C should happen this November!

[Worldizzabiz]

2:18 - "...demonstrate cargo capability to the ISS in less than a year..." If not by now, when? Rumor is, late months of 2011. Reliable?

[baillou2]

Sen. Nelson doesn't look convinced at all. Which makes it all the more satisfying to watch Space X just blow right past all his expectations.

Ms Shotwell is not exaggerating. SpaceX can and already has done SOOO much on a fraction of NASA's budget.

I FREAKIN' LOVE IT!!!

BTW I love NASA with heart and soul, but commercial (as in all things) is where it's really at.

I imagine Space X will be the Apple Inc. of spaceflight, except without all the douchiness.

[joshcryer]

@mecher3k, if you want your comments to be allowed, be substantiative. Thanks.

[Idiomatick]

SpaceX was founded 8 years ago and has since designed developed and launched 2 different classes of vehicle to LEO, been awarded billions in contracts and has dozens of launches ordered already.

8 years is quite literally a lifetime for this company. 3 years to do some testing? hah.

[Idiomatick]

3 years to get the Dragon man rated seems fine. They just did a perfect splash landing test today and it will be docking with the ISS so it will have manoeuvring, docking, and landing capabilities well before 3 years. They've had this in mind from the beginning, shipping cargo is practically viewed as a stepping stone to getting people to space.

Also try to remember SpaceX did its first launch attempt a mere 2 years ago. The estimate of 8 years to get the Dragon man-rated is laughable.

[dks13827]

Ask General Stafford how long he thinks. Or A. Thomas Young. Two very experienced aerospace guys.

[dks13827]

Recent congressional hearings with Armstrong and Cernan indicated that 10 or more years might be realistic, actually.

[rocketshipstud1]

nasa+jpl are run like the post office and the dmv and hoover dam...all over bloated corrupt and wastefull $ spending of space dollars!...and please space-x fuck over every redneck russian you can find!

[joshcryer]

@rocketshipstud1 Hehe, you're a lively fellow. Thanks for watching the video. And yeah, I wouldn't put it in that colorful language, but SpaceX is the most promising space company to come along in quite some time. NASA needs to go all private industry / milestone / COTS-style bids. It would save taxpayers billions and we'd have a better space program for it.

[mecher3k]

@joshcryer

" we'd have a better space program for it."

Bullshit.

[joshcryer]

@mecher3k Falcon 9 + Dragon. Built for less than the cost of Orion, which failed two drop tests and has never even been flown. Built for less than the pad upgrades for Ares I. Built less than the mere R&D for Ares I up until it was cancelled. Built less than a half a years budget for STS. Yes, we'd have a damn better space program for it. There's no debating it.

[mecher3k]

@joshcryer

That's right there is no debating it.

Apollo missions. You lose.

That and everything all those companies are doing is oddly enough built off of NASA's work.

Fucking retard, you obviously have no clue just how much NASA does.

But yes, let's just quit space exploration and have companies do it for us, right?

Also NASA needs to go back to being lead by engineers.

But as I said already, you are retarded.

[joshcryer]

@mecher3k NASA became a boondoggle when they decided to go with STS, then Cx, maintaining a jobs program rather than efficient space program. Elon Musk is correct in saying that we can do commercial crew cheaper and quicker doing it his way, the capitalist way. The only retarded person here is one who cannot recognize that SpaceX has accomplished something only nations do. Yes, it used a lot of known data, but that doesn't change anything. Rockets are not easy.

[moneyman10k]

@mecher3k if you werent so angry maybe you could think straight

[mecher3k]

@moneyman10k

Learn how to type before you even attempt to say how others should act.

[moneyman10k]

@mecher3k I know all your attacks. your fighting isnt unique.

look inward, angry one. the issues you're arguing about aren't important to you. you dont actually care. there is a fire within you, driving you, and its probably not to do with rockets and space stations.

[rocketshipstud1]

"earth girls are easy ms shagwell!" (only kidding)

[rocketshipstud1]

the russians charge every single nasa astronaut a 56$ million ticket for a soyuz ride up to the space station! (history: soyuz has murdered cosmonauts in its malfunctions)...space-x falcon-9 dragon is on target!

[Craigthepope]

@rocketshipstud1 If you want to get technical NASA has murder its astronauts in their vehicle malfunctions too.

[Craigthepope]

@MrSueVeneer Think before you speak, the rockets are built by Americans.

[dks13827]

she is well meaning but naive, incredibly. A very dangerous combination since others might believe her.  8 years is more realistic, approximately.

[joshcryer]

@dks13827 Dragon is man rated for COTS-A-C, which requires 1) working in the vacuum of space and 2) allowing humans inside. It is very hard for me to believe that a pusher escape system is going to take 8 years to develop. 3 years may be a little optimistic, but not much more than that.

[Craigthepope]

@dks13827 Eight years? What have you been smoking? I don't believe even the Shuttle took eight years to develop.

[Craigthepope]

@dks13827 One more thing, no one besides you has predicted an eight year development time and you're words aren't being made part of the congressional record.

[BeingSomeoneHuman]

For extra lulz try it with captions

spacex = safe sex

5:25

Specifically if nasa relies on

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the thing that we kidnapped her life on