United States, you know, maybe more than any
other country is a distillation of the human
spirit of exploration and it's really
fundamental to psyche. So, if people think
there's a way, I think it could actually get
a lot of support. But it can't be just
banging your head against the wall. I gotta
believe that this can be done without breaking
the federal budget. So that's when
I said okay, well, is there some way to affect
the cost of space transport? And is - and
so, I got together with a group of
people over a series of Saturdays just to
try it on, said is there something super,
fundamentally super-expensive about rockets?
Or can the costs be substantially improved?
And we had a bunch of those kinda brainstorming
sessions and I couldn't see any
fundamental obstacle to improving the cost
of rockets, so that's when I started SpaceX.
