Scott Nolan

Together they'll equal the output of the big one.

Won't be as efficient.

We're gonna need a little bit more fuel to get there.

Maybe our payload that we can bring up slightly smaller relative to the total fuel, but our vehicle is so low cost.

that we're going to win just on dollars, back to that North Star goal, dollars per kilo to orbit.

And so, yeah, 2003, when I joined as an intern, that was the mindset.

There was an employee handbook I opened on the first day, and I think the first line was something like, this is not a science experiment.

We are not here to do new science.

We're here to do engineering.

really low cost engineering.

And so the team that was assembled to do that was some people from aerospace so that we knew what the range of technologies was.

We knew how things had to be done.

What are the real requirements?

And then people from the automotive world who knew how to build machines really cheap.

I think half the guys on the team on the weekends did hot rods and they did drag racing.

No shit.

Yeah.

So a lot of the people came out of the drag racing community.

Just how can I have the highest performance machine for low cost?

I don't care how pretty it is.