Scott Nolan

And so SpaceX competed with a bunch of other providers, was selected to have a chance to actually deliver.

And NASA set up this contract that was milestone-based and fixed price.

It was not a cost plus contract.

SpaceX had to perform.

It was, if you hit this threshold and you do this thing, you will get paid.

If you fall short or run out of time, you fail.

Sorry, you're out.

And so there were a couple of companies selected.

Only SpaceX completed it.

The milestones were set to be difficult on purpose.

We worked really hard to make those happen.

We worked with NASA on that.

NASA was a great partner throughout.

We made sure every safety scenario was planned for.

thought about every way that things could go wrong and just eliminated those possibilities.

And then ultimately, yeah, Dragon completed that program, docked with the space station, proved the ability to bring cargo back and forth, and I think did the last missions in 2013.

So yeah, those early days starting in 2002 went all the way from core concepts, architecture, proving things out on a small Falcon 1 vehicle with one engine, to then getting that vehicle working and going all the way through Falcon 9.

And then, yeah, the last five plus years has been people now working on the next generation vehicle of Starship, which whole new effort, whole new engines, whole new architecture, but that's what's going to get Space Launch down another

10X, which then unlocks all those different applications like solar energy production in space for some things and space constellations and maybe a bunch of other things too.

Wow.