Passage: Ten years ago, you made a big bet on the stars and star links, and most people probably expected one or both of them to fail.
Expensive: Including me.
Passage: Yes, these were great conditions.
Expensive: My interview was taken in the early days of the star link, and he was asking me what is the purpose of the star link? I said round number one: Don’t be bankrupt, like every other [low-Earth orbit] Communication has gone bankrupt, and we do not want to include them in the cemetery. Therefore, any result that does not result in death will have a good result.
Passage: The star link is really successful. He helped me during the hurricane. And the stars are coming together. As you look for the next 10 years, what are you now batting that will really bear fruit for Space X for a decade now?
ExpensiveWell, the biggest thing so far is the starch. If the starchy program is successful – and we look for success, this is just a question that we have developed the first fully re -orbit launch vehicle, which you know, which is the sacred stone of the rocket. So no one has ever made a completely re -occupied orbital vehicle, and even the parts that are reusable are extremely difficult to reuse, as economics were actually worse than a cost -off rocket. An example of this is shuttle, where the shuttle was fully loaded, the cost of the entire program, I think, a flight was a billion dollars.
Passage: I saw A research dissertation It is estimated that the full cost of full cost was about $ 1.5 billion.
Expensive. Yes and this Saturn is equal to the cost. But Saturn V had four times the cost of paying the shuttle in the rocket spent. So this shuttle was like the principle of re -establishment, but unfortunately, it was not implemented. The shuttle was burdened with many crazy requirements. You know, I have found this five steps to improve things. And one of my five steps is to make the needs of the step less mute. And for the government, the opposite. The government is making the requirements more dumb.
Passage: So getting fast and re -prevailing stars. Is Space X’s main purpose in the next 5 to 10 years?
Expensive: Yes, of course.
Passage: You have been in the space industry for almost 25 years now. And at this time, the Space X has gone a long way to solve the launch. So if you are coming to the industry today as 20 things, you know, the couple with $ 100 million. What problem would you like to solve? What should new companies, donors and others do in space?
Expensive: We are building union Pacific Railways and trains. So once you have a transportation system to Mars, then there are many opportunities that open to do something at the surface of Mars, in which you know, the semiconductor is doing everything from the construction of a civilization to the pizza joint to the pizza joint. So we want to solve the problem of transport and enable humanitarian and business people to work on Mars, which is everything needed for civilization. Look at California. There were very few people in California until the union was completed, and then became the California nation’s most populous state. And look at the Silicon Valley and Hollywood and everything. So this is our purpose. We want to take people there, and if we can take people there, then there is a literal world of opportunity.