Senate hearing on National Security Space Launch Programs with Elon Musk

Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

canadarm2

Topic

space launch policy

Format

news

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2016

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• 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 …

• Elon Musk explains it in this answer to Senator Shelby. The whole committe hearing is interesting, but your specific question is answered at 53:02 in the video, which I link here: [VIDEO]

• 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.