Name: 【TED】Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes (SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes | Gwynne Shotwell)
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Chris Anderson: So two months ago, something crazy happened.

Can you talk us through this, because this caught so many people's attention?

Gwynne Shotwell: I'll stay quiet for the beginning,

(Video) Voices: Five, four, three, two, one.

GS: So this was such an important moment for SpaceX.

With the Falcon 9 and now the Falcon Heavy,

any payload that has previously been conceived or is conceived right now.

We've got a couple of launches of Falcon Heavy later this year,

brother and sister side boosters landing.

By the way, there's maybe a thousand people

Starman did not steal the show, though --

CA: There had to be some payload -- why not put a Tesla into space?

I mean, how did you end up an engineer and President of SpaceX?

but I was definitely doing the things that the girls weren't doing.

I asked my mom, who was an artist, when I was in third grade,

so she had no idea so she gave me a book, and I read it,

and sure enough, my first job out of my mechanical engineering degree

was with Chrysler Motors in the automotive industry.

But I actually got into engineering not because of that book

but because my mom took me to a Society of Women Engineers event,

and I fell in love with the mechanical engineer that spoke.

And that's what a 15-year-old girl connects with.

And I used to shy away from telling that story,

but if that's what caused me to be an engineer --

CA: Sixteen years ago, you became employee number seven at SpaceX,

you somehow built a multi-billion-dollar relationship with NASA,

despite the fact that SpaceX's first three launches blew up.

GS: So actually, selling rockets is all about relationships

and making a connection with these customers.

what's really important is selling your team,

selling the business savvy of your CEO --

that's not really hard to sell these days --

and basically, making sure that any technical issue that they have

or any concern, you can address right away.

So I think it was helpful for me to be an engineer.

I think it was helpful to my role of running sales for Elon.

CA: And currently, a big focus of the company

to be the first to provide the service to NASA

Safety considerations obviously come to the fore, here.

GS: I actually sleep really well. I'm a good sleeper, that's my best thing.

But I think the days leading up to our flying crew

But really, fundamentally, safety comes in the design

of the system that you're going to fly people on,

actually, almost a decade, on this technology.

and we're upgrading it to be able to carry crew.

And as I said, we've been engineering in these safety systems

CA: So isn't it that there's one system that actually allows instant escape

GS: That's right. It's called the launch escape system.

CA: I think we have that. Let's show that.

GS: We've got a video of a test that we ran in 2015.

So this simulated having a really bad day on the pad.

Basically, you want the capsule to get out of Dodge.

This is if there was an issue on the pad.

We also will be doing another demonstration later this year

on if we have an issue with the rocket during flight.

CA: And those rockets have another potential function as well, eventually.

GS: Yeah, so the launch escape system for Dragon is pretty unique.

so the propellant system and the thrusters are integrated into the capsule,

and so if it detects a rocket problem, it pushes the capsule away.

Capsule safety systems in the past have been like tractor pullers,

is that puller needs to come off before you can safely reenter that capsule,

【TED】Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes (SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes | Gwynne Shotwell)

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【TED】Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes (SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes | Gwynne Shotwell)

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