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In the speaker's view, people in 2000 would not have expected a person with relatively limited resources to advance spaceflight two to five times faster than NASA.
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“Same issue with like, let's say, Elon Musk and SpaceX.”
“I think in the year 2000, we would not have thought that somebody could move two times, five times faster than NASA with pretty limited resources.”59:08Report a misattribution
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