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Senate hearing on National Security Space Launch Programs with Elon Musk
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Video of the March 2014 Senate Defense Subcommittee hearing on National Security Space Launch programs. Elon Musk of SpaceX testifies alongside ULA's CEO, a GAO official and a policy expert, on launch contracts and Russian engines.
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HN points to it as an entertaining and informative look at the SpaceX versus ULA rivalry.
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I watched a senate hearing where Elon Musk squares off with the ULA. It's awesome. One great quote is where the ULA says Space X can't handle the missions. Elon responds. If our rockets are good enough for NASA, they are good enough for the Department of Defense. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Elon Musk explains it in this answer to Senator Shelby. The whole committe hearing is interesting, but your specific question is answered at 53:02 in the video, which I link here: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗For those interested in this topic, I found the following Senate hearing to be quite entertaining: [VIDEO] Elon basically going head-to-head with Michael Gass from the ULA and holding his own quite well.
Read original comment ↗This is good context [VIDEO] for the tension between ULA and SpaceX - it's also nice before an election to checkout the hearings on CSPAn to get a better understanding of the type of people being elected...
Read original comment ↗> As for politics and sanctions against Russia - this is quite different subject, almost completely unrelated. Considering the funding for these missions comes from the U.S. Congress, the matters seem pretty tightly coupled. It was sure a topic of conversation when Elon Musk and Michael Gass (ULA CEO) testified before congress: [VIDEO]
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