4:45PM Check-In5:00PM SpaceX Presentation5:45PM Questions and Answers
Gwynne’s chat with Matt Desch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KjpAep8BWMw
Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 11/08/2018 12:29 amGwynne’s chat with Matt Desch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KjpAep8BWMwDang it, it's been deleted. Anyone got another source for the video?
Hofeller: SpaceX is interested in doing dedicated rideshare missions like SSO-A on a regular basis. Would be great to do them one or two times a year. #smallsat2019
Hofeller says SpaceX will be rolling out a “more formalized” smallsat launch plan in the near future. #smallsat2019
Dava Newman welcomes Gwynne Shotwell to MIT. Gwynne is giving a talk here in 10-250
Gwynne gave an inspiring talk about SpaceX. Nice discussion of Starship point-to-point. I also appreciated her straightforward acknowledgement of past failures among the successes, a refreshing break from corporate-speak.
Great to see @GwynneShotwell at MIT today! She says 18 months until Starship flies and <5 years until @SpaceX puts cargo on Mars.
Not upcoming, but Paul Wooster gave two talks at the 2019 Humans to Mars Summit a few weeks ago. https://h2m.exploremars.org/ Human Exploration Extensibility from Moon to Mars. Fairly standard overview of SpaceX vehicles, but with more of a lunar emphasis than I've seen before. Paul starts at 00:23:00. Living off the Land: In-Situ Resource Utilization. Paul starts at 7:35:45 in the long stream. Not sure if anything there is new information, but I learned some things.https://livestream.com/viewnow/HumanstoMars2019/videos/191286998(Just the ISRU session) https://livestream.com/viewnow/HumanstoMars2019/videos/191337604-Bob
Not upcoming, but Paul Wooster gave two talks at the 2019 Humans to Mars Summit a few weeks ago. https://h2m.exploremars.org/
Stark contrast between NASA SLS architecture and plans for moon and Mars vs. SpaceX to say the least. Seeing so many SLS rockets on that master slide made me cringe; if SLS flies that many times, that's going to a large portion of the entire NASA budget. It amazes me that those two presenters could keep a straight face and discuss two approaches that are diametrically opposed. One obviates the other to such an extent that you're comparing different generations of technology, separated by 50 years. Apollo (not even Shuttle because SLS is a throw-away step backward) vs. New Space.
Humans are the best autonomous systems we have.