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"Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going."
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"The reason we're building SpaceX is to be able to make life multi-planetary."

"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."

"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."

"The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we'd never have had the light bulb."

"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."

"The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff."

"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will."
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"I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does."

"I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself."

"The flight was extremely normal... for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting."
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