The escape system on the New Shepard vehicle is crucial for safety; we invested significant effort into it, making it one of the hardest pieces of engineering in the entire architecture.

The potential for rockets to make global travel possible in just 45 minutes is an exciting prospect that could change the world.

The bar for safety is probably lowered a bit because of DeepSeek, which parallels the space race where the Soviets put a man in space first due to a lower safety bar.

When the launch was successful, it was a great relief rather than elation, especially after proving the systems with subsequent astronaut missions.

The goal of SpaceX is to advance rocket technology, particularly by developing a rapidly and fully reusable rocket, which is essential for humanity to become a space-faring civilization.

To become a space-faring civilization, we must solve the problem of rocket reusability, as all other modes of transport are reusable.

The big innovation in space travel is making rockets reusable, which could lead to a 100-fold improvement in the cost of spaceflight.

We've achieved a significant reduction in rocket building costs, around 75%, through innovations in airframe, engines, and launch operations.

Starship is the most complex and advanced rocket ever made, and its fundamental optimization is to minimize the cost per ton to Mars.