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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."
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"I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men."

"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."

"I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated."

"It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of."

"We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen."

"We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!"
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