THE VIDEO SHELF · spacex starship engineering
A conversation with Elon Musk about Starship
Tim Dodd of Everyday Astronaut talks with Elon Musk right after Musk's 2019 Starship presentation. Musk discusses Starship's design, why SpaceX favors conventional engines over aerospikes, and how deleting parts and processes speeds up development.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters cite it as evidence of Musk's engineering thinking, on questioning requirements, organizational errors mirroring product errors, and Conway's Law, and to argue about whether he is a strong engineer.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Everyday Astronaut
- Topic
- spacex starship engineering
- Format
- interview
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 14
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2025
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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The Everyday Astronaut had a great interview with Elon Musk after the Starship presentation a few days ago. They spent a bit of time talking about how much progress the team had made in very little time, and Musk's take was that it took them …
simonh on Hacker News · 2019-10
In Solving the Wrong Problem (2011)Here's an interesting interview the author did with Elon Musk: [VIDEO] Fun to see how interested Elon is with the engineering of rockets, looks like he could talk for days if he had the time.
blakes on Hacker News · 2019-10
In Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?Agreed! It's also worth highlighting the bit where he asks Elon Musk: [VIDEO] I've internally asked this question so many times, like, guys, shouldn't we maybe do an aerospike? Musk focused on the high combustion efficiency of traditional combustion chambers, combined with the high efficiency …
jjoonathan on Hacker News · 2020-08
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