Complete Dan Rasky interview (SpaceX secrets) 

Dr. Dan Rasky has a very positive opinion about SpaceX from Elon Musk to engineers to technicians. Thank you for this excellent video.

this is an amazing insight to how government and the private sector can achieve amazing things together.

I find it hard to believe that I hadn't seen this, what a great interview! Thanks :)

Really enlightening stuff. I like his eloquence and frequent use of examples. Thanks for the vid.

this content is super goldmine

The way this man speaks, he should do a podcast or more interviews.

I want to love the guy, but he hit the nail on the head. "Colleges of mine who have been at Nasa for decades and haven't done anything" Government handout for PHD's :( and it's not add hock it's "focused", big difference. Your the best and prove it each year is the main difference between Spacex & Nasa. At Spacex a degree means nothing, its what you've done that matters. Sitting around doing case studies is for high school students.

Fantastic interview and insights. Thanks!

Saw your post on the SpaceX/Reddit. Thanks for the work, really useful!

This was a great interview

I wonder if Mike Patey has seen this. His style seems to incorporate all of the best ideas presented here.

Sent this to Thunderf00t

Thank you godbless

Wow. Very cool.

very HubTropolis ... Thank You 😊

He would be a good captain in the Star Trek series.......

He sounds more like a Money man more than a senior scientist!

cost plus involves a contractor bidding on a project without full disclosure by the government. In other words, after the contract is signed, then the government will disclose the secret, confidential information.

The Blue origin part did not age well

All this information is even useful to the burger flipper! Who knows what impact you could have, or your children if you pass this info to them.

Love it to all godbless

Hello, Dan. What’s happening? Uh, we have sort of a problem here. Yeah. You apparently didn’t put one of the new coversheets on your TPS reports.

It's in Texas

Sounds like Elon's "If it tight it's right" mantra is backed by SpaceX's agile/scrum actual production history. But what is Elon's "Master Plan" now that he's building a wide body rocket? The Sea Dragon Rocket was going to be so wide that you could launch large satellites like the Webb Telescope without complicated folding mechanisms, which drops the satellite cost by a factor of 100. So maybe SpaceX Redmond's next product should be ultra-large telescopes that are assembled in space?

Disappointing that after all that, when he starts talking about JWST he immediately switches mindset to worry about "brand damage" and the immense cost, oblivious to the self-fulfilling nature of the problem that this mindset creates. A project that is 6 years late and has increased from an estimated $1.6 billion to $10 billion in cost. He simply dismisses the applicability of the entrepreneurial approach instead of asking how another fiasco like JWST can be avoided. JWST has yet to launch , so it's still going to come down to a $10 billion gamble of a decade of effort. The real lesson is to ask how to procure future space telescopes with an entrepreneurial spirit and execution. Brand damage is all about presentation. The next space telescope could have been presented as a boundary pushing adventure involving multiple launches, prototypes and risk taking with failure as part of the process (as it should be) not this $10 billion risk averse boondoggle. If you think that makes no sense then you're not thinking long base interferometry of laser linked telescopes. JWST is not close to what could have been delivered incrementally over a decade for a cost of $10 billion by a truly entrepreneurial organization.

This 9 month make me remember the pregnancy….. hmmmm

Just look at America's Cup -- Team New Zealand !!!

What is the COTS program? Would be helpful if it was defined before the video began. But otherwise, quite interesting interview. Thx