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Senate hearing on National Security Space Launch Programs with Elon Musk

canadarm2 · 45.7K views · 2014-03-05 · 1:20:22

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Overview

Video of the March 2014 Senate Defense Subcommittee hearing on National Security Space Launch programs. Elon Musk of SpaceX testifies alongside ULA's CEO, a GAO official and a policy expert, on launch contracts and Russian engines.

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HN points to it as an entertaining and informative look at the SpaceX versus ULA rivalry.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2014–2016

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andrewtbham · 2014-04 · Strong recommendation

I watched a senate hearing where Elon Musk squares off with the ULA. It's awesome. One great quote is where the ULA says Space X can't handle the missions. Elon responds. If our rockets are good enough for NASA, they are good enough for the Department of Defense. [VIDEO]

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taf2 · 2016-10 · Recommendation

This is good context [VIDEO] for the tension between ULA and SpaceX - it's also nice before an election to checkout the hearings on CSPAn to get a better understanding of the type of people being elected...

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josefresco · 2014-05 · Recommendation

For those interested in this topic, I found the following Senate hearing to be quite entertaining: [VIDEO] Elon basically going head-to-head with Michael Gass from the ULA and holding his own quite well.

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