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You know, there are American heroes
who don't like this idea
Neil Armstrong Gene Cernan have both
testified against commercial spaceflight
in the way that you're developing it, and
I wonder what you think of that...
I was very sad to see that
because those guys are...
those guys are heroes of mine
so it's really tough
I wish they would come and visit and
see the hardware doing here,
and I think that would change their mind...
You want to do projects that are inspiring and 
that make people excited about the future
Life's got to be about more than just solving problems
You want to get up in the morning and say
'Yes, I'm looking forward to that thing happening'
When, you had that third failure in a row,
did you think 'I need to pack this in'?
Never
Why not?
I don't ever give up,
I mean I'd have to be dead or completely
incapacitated there are people who have
been in the rocketry business for
decades
yeah who say about you that you don't
know what you don't know
well if I suppose that's true of anyone
having anyone know what they don't know
but we're not ready to say you can't do
this your answer to them is we've done
it
how did you get the expertise to be the
chief technology officer of a rocket
ship company
well I don't have a physics background
that's helpful as the foundation and
then i read a lot of books and talk to a
lot of lot of smart people you're
self-taught
yeah well I self-taught yes meeting and
I didn't I don't have an aerospace
degree so how did you go about acquiring
the knowledge
well i like that i had read a lot of
books told a lot of people and and have
a great team
The thing that most people say about you is 
that the vision of the future that you have
is quite breathtaking and so many times
along the way people have naysayed
I guess there's certainly been a
lot of attacks and one thing I've have
noticed in recent months and years is
that it's become obvious to a lot of the
entrenched interests that that Tesla and
SpaceX are not gonna die and previously
they thought
well they just basically ignored us
well after us now we're actually
starting to make real inroads and
treating us as a real threat and
it is quite daunting
