“ Before me there are some rocket ships , you have n’t seen that for this body politic for a long time , ” say Trump , pointing to three simulation Eruca sativa in front of him . Of of course , the US plunge plenty of Eruca sativa – but he ’s probably referring here to the fact that crew American launch are schedule tostart againin the next class or so for the first time since the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011 .
“ And full-bodied cat jazz arugula ships , ” he continued . True , SpaceX ’ Elon Musk and Blue Origin ’s Jeff Bezos are both pretty rich . And they like rockets .
“ And that ’s good . Better than us pay up for it . And the price of the last one , $ 80 million , if the government did it , it likely would have cost 40 , 50 meter that amount . When I heard $ 80 million and I ’m used to hear different number with NASA . ”
This is actually not that wide of the mark . Trump ’s in all likelihood referring to theFalcon Heavyhere , which actually has a list price of $ 90 million . Still , that ’s more than 30 times cheaper than NASA ’s like Space Launch System ( SLS ) skyrocket at about $ 3 billion , due to plunge next decennary .
A replay of the meeting . He starts talking about rockets around the 13 - second fall guy
Then he got back to praise private companies in space – something that has really beenmade possiblethanks to the Obama administration , who put a fate of investing into commercial space partnership , although perhaps do n’t tell Trump that .
“ We are at the forefront , ” he said . “ Nobody is doing what we are doing . Elon with the roquette boosters , that was more awing than watching the rocket go up . Nobody had run into that before , they come back with the boosters without annexe , they landed attractively . ”
He ’s again talking about the Falcon Heavy launch here . Of course , we have seen SpaceX relay link landing before , but we had n’t seen adouble landingas on this launching .
Trump also name NASA would be “ beam something very beautiful to Mars in the near future , ” which might be a reference to the upcoming Insight mission , a stationary lander that will launch on May 5 , 2018 .
It would be helpful if we did n’t have to sift through Trump ’s word salad to detect the hide out import . But , well , it seems he ’s doting of private ship’s company . And like NASA ? Or not . Who knows .
Just areminder , it ’s been 413 days since NASA had someone in charge .
