SFS News: Hyperbola - AUDIO: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speech and

Rob Goldsmith · Posted on: Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:15 pm

Rob Coppinger posts:

Space Exploration Technologies chief executive Elon Musk spoke at the UK's Royal Aeronautical Society in London on the evening of the 3 July

The approximately 10min speech was entitled "What is Needed to Extend Life Permanently Beyond Earth?" Musk also reviewed SpaceX's progress. There were no pictures or video

There then followed about a 60min question and answer session. The audio recording of both the speech and Q&A can be found in the extended entry of this blog post

Unfortunately I missed the first minute or so of Musk's speech and my digital audio device ran out of memory just before it ended

But the hour plus of audio in the four MP3 files linked to below has Musk talking about Falcon 9 and Dragon developments, the second stage problem that ended Falcon 1's second flight, his view on why Rocketplane Kistler failed, why he doesn't like space based solar power and a range of other topics

Elon's speech
http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/fi ... 16527.aspx

Part one of the Q&A
http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/fi ... 16527.aspx

Part two of the Q&A
http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/fi ... 16527.aspx

Part three of the Q&A
http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/fi ... 16530.aspx

You will need to raise your computer's volume level to maximum probably as it is not that high on the recording, I should have placed the recording device nearer to Musk. A few of the questions might be inaudible (they were even to us sitting in the room) but you should be able to hear Musk over the inevitable background noise from the aircon

Read more at http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyper ... k-spe.html

Please feel free to discuss this topic further...

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Rob Goldsmith Moon Mission Member Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:52 am Posts: 1264 Location: Exeter, Devon, England	SFS News: Hyperbola - AUDIO: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speech and Posted on: Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:15 pm Rob Coppinger posts: Space Exploration Technologies chief executive Elon Musk spoke at the UK's Royal Aeronautical Society in London on the evening of the 3 July The approximately 10min speech was entitled "What is Needed to Extend Life Permanently Beyond Earth?" Musk also reviewed SpaceX's progress. There were no pictures or video There then followed about a 60min question and answer session. The audio recording of both the speech and Q&A can be found in the extended entry of this blog post Unfortunately I missed the first minute or so of Musk's speech and my digital audio device ran out of memory just before it ended But the hour plus of audio in the four MP3 files linked to below has Musk talking about Falcon 9 and Dragon developments, the second stage problem that ended Falcon 1's second flight, his view on why Rocketplane Kistler failed, why he doesn't like space based solar power and a range of other topics Elon's speech http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/fi ... 16527.aspx Part one of the Q&A http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/fi ... 16527.aspx Part two of the Q&A http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/fi ... 16527.aspx Part three of the Q&A http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/fi ... 16530.aspx You will need to raise your computer's volume level to maximum probably as it is not that high on the recording, I should have placed the recording device nearer to Musk. A few of the questions might be inaudible (they were even to us sitting in the room) but you should be able to hear Musk over the inevitable background noise from the aircon Read more at http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyper ... k-spe.html Please feel free to discuss this topic further... _________________ > http://www.fullmoonclothing.com > http://www.facebook.com/robsastrophotography > robgoldsmith@hotmail.co.uk
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Andy Hill Moon Mission Member Joined: Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:15 pm Posts: 1233 Location: London, England	Posted on: Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:03 pm Sound quality a bit to muffled on my laptop, even with a pair of headphones, I had to give up after a couple of minutes. What a Bummer. Any chance of putting a few bullets up of what he said Rob? Andy _________________ A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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Rob Goldsmith Moon Mission Member Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:52 am Posts: 1264 Location: Exeter, Devon, England	Posted on: Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:07 pm Andy, Ill give it a go tomorrow! Sound is pretty bad, i turned my speakers up full blast, sat with my ear to the speaker only to get an MSN message.... lucky im not death from it! Anyways, stayed tuned, ill have a go _________________ > http://www.fullmoonclothing.com > http://www.facebook.com/robsastrophotography > robgoldsmith@hotmail.co.uk
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Minthos Space Walker Joined: Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:45 pm Posts: 143	Posted on: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:08 pm I'm playing around with the files to improve the signal to noise ratio, and boost the volume a bit, here are the results: http://files.minthos.com/elon/musk_spee ... 8_mono.ogg http://files.minthos.com/elon/musk_0307 ... rt_one.ogg http://files.minthos.com/elon/musk_0307 ... rt_two.ogg http://files.minthos.com/elon/musk_0307 ... _three.ogg Not everything is audible, but it's a lot better than it was. edit: updated links to new host Last edited by Minthos on Sat Aug 07, 2010 12:28 pm, edited 3 times in total.
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Rob Goldsmith Moon Mission Member Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:52 am Posts: 1264 Location: Exeter, Devon, England	Posted on: Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:22 pm Thanks mate! could save me a lot of time here _________________ > http://www.fullmoonclothing.com > http://www.facebook.com/robsastrophotography > robgoldsmith@hotmail.co.uk
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Minthos Space Walker Joined: Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:45 pm Posts: 143	Posted on: Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:03 pm bump, posted the second one
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Minthos Space Walker Joined: Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:45 pm Posts: 143	Posted on: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:03 pm bump, All done! Hope this helps :)
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