[音乐] 房间里的各位，我们马上就要开始了，我想请各位，如果你有手机，我要去拿，让我们吃吧，让他坐好，金斯伯格大厨有点矮，我会试着证明一些3 [音乐] 而且我们有30分钟 [音乐] 精神 [音乐] 加入我们，对我来说有点超现实，我曾有过这个画面 [音乐] 去读完整的300分钟，足够多的人为一次旅行而旅行，那个看起来像发动机，所以它，我认为那是中间的那个，它带着外侧的那个，确实没有，而那是为了在水上撞击一个月，现在又带走了终点区的外国人，如果你们拿到了画面，会是一些相当有趣的画面，如果摄像机也没有被炸掉的话，真的，不过那是最棒的，宝贝，我们将重复使用这一套，但那是我们的渴望，看起来

在你那灵媒系统一侧的部件会忘记某样足够的东西，因为它们没有被屠夫客户挡住，那些发电站能工作，是一块计算机化的侵略性东西，而他们会看看上面级发动机是否还活着，相当大地穿过那栋房子说话，但只有那里有一个级会迅速繁荣，这里有2条带子，它本质上当然很好，先是1点钟，然后它会进行一次重新启动，简单地只是驱虫剂，然后去到，那太棒了，Raghava，我们会看看上面级的第2轮，我们是20 26，这基本上就在右边稍后，它有点像2份推进剂去转置方向，那就是燃料不会冻结，其他的就是我自己的东西，看了一下侧助推器，它们看起来状况非常好

嗯，所以它们，它们都很可靠，尽管正如我所说，它们是版本3和版本4的组合，所以我们会，我们现在只会真正重新飞行版本5，它很快就会发射，而那，那将会在我身上且稳定，我们会为猎鹰架构坚持版本战斗，我们预计不会有版本6。好了，有没有什么我还没回答的问题，我会尽力回答，但不确定我是否已经掌握相关信息，不过我会试试。先从房间里开始，第1个问题由ABC新闻的David Kerley提出：发射非常壮观，你学到了什么，猎鹰重型教会了你什么？我想它教会我，疯狂的事情也能成真，因为就像我说的，我真的没觉得这会成功，嗯，比如当我看到火箭升空时

我会看到大概1000件可能无法正常运作的事情，而当它们真的运作时，那很惊人，而且我真的，看到那2个布鲁斯同步着陆，真的就像模拟一样，我是说，这会让你觉得，好像这真的可能是一种相当可扩展的方法，你知道，如果你能想象大量这样的东西直接飞回来并着陆、起飞、着陆，每天飞行许多次，嗯，所以它，我认为这让我对我们的下一个架构很有信心，也就是某种行星际飞船，它有不同的名字，但BFR是县代码名称，而且它让我有信心相信BFR，嗯，确实相当可行，嗯，因为我应该看看侧助推器，它们挺大的，你知道，有16层楼高、60英尺的支腿，天哪，但你真的

我们需要比那大得多，所以，所以我认为这让我非常有信心，我们可以让VFR设计发挥作用，是的，这是一起创伤性事件，所以我是SpaceX团队，所以我认为，我认为我们真的可以经常做到这一点，你知道，并继续推进那个立方体，推进技术，以实现完全且快速的可重复使用性，无论哪种、无论什么都会对未来产生深远影响。说到猎鹰重型对比猎鹰9，有些事情是，猎鹰重型拥有与猎鹰线相同水平的可扩展性，所以如果你看看，比如oak line的价格是6000万美元，Felton是9000万，尽管它的能力是前者的3倍，因为在这2种情况下，唯一被消耗掉的都是上面级。我们将开始回收整流罩

那个大整流罩我们会回收，我们会回收助推器，所以对我们来说，Falcon 9和我觉得亨利号之间的成本其实差别很小。好，下一个问题来自美联社的玛西亚·邓，3月10日，EP，你当时，你脑子里在想什么？看到你的Roadster在上面，你有多么惊讶？我们的人就那样伴着那颗蓝色星球巡航，我们还能从车上看到多久的实时画面，你觉得呢？嗯，我觉得它看起来太荒谬、太不可能了，而且你能看出它是真的，因为它看起来太假了。老实说，我们本会有好得多的CGI，臭名昭著的假货，而且你知道，在太空中那些颜色看起来都有点奇怪，没有大气遮蔽，你知道，你知道，就像一切看起来都太清晰，而且

但我们知道，我们其实没有测试过那些材料，你知道，它是否经过太空环境强化之类的，你知道。所以它用的就是普通汽车那样的座椅，它是一辆很光滑的普通汽车，身处太空之中，我有点喜欢这种荒诞感。如果你仔细看，仪表盘上有一辆小小的Roadster，里面有一个小小的太空人。风火轮做了一辆风火轮Roadster，而一个朋友，我的一个朋友，还有我建议说，嘿，你为什么把那辆带小太空人的风火轮Roadster放在，你知道，车里——那样会很酷。当然还有些谜团，我是说，这有点傻，也很好玩，但我觉得，我觉得那种，你知道，傻乎乎的有趣事物很重要。通常对于一种新火箭，你知道，他们会发射一块混凝土之类的东西，我

是说，那太无聊了，而且我觉得，仅仅是这个画面就会让全世界的人感到兴奋，而我现在仍然觉得飘飘然。我是说，我在这里简直嗨翻了。对，恭喜你，伊兰，今天的发射很成功。你认为Falcon Heavy在这个发射行业中处于什么位置？它会更多地用于国家安全吗？你认为它会用于行星际任务吗？Falcon Heavy的未来是什么？是的，了不起之处在于，Falcon Heavy开启了一种新的有效载荷级别，所以它发射的有效载荷可以达到世界上任何其他火箭的2倍以上。因此，客户可能想发射什么，在某种程度上取决于他们自己，但它可以把东西直接发射到冥王星乃至更远的地方，你知道，不需要中途停靠。他们甚至不需要类似

引力助推之类的东西，而且不会连接卫星。它可以做你想做的任何事。你可以回到，你可以把人送回月球，带上一堆，你知道，如果你用 Falcon Heavy 进行一系列动作，并在轨道礁补充燃料，使用2或3枚 Falcon Heavy，你知道，就会拥有所谓的 Saturn 5 的有效载荷能力。但我不建议那么做，因为我认为新架构应该是一种，架构才是该走的路。但我认为它，它会开启各种可能性。我认为它会鼓励其他公司和国家说，嘿，如果作为商业公司的 SpaceX 能做到这一点，而且没有人为 Falcon Heavy 付钱，是预先支付并投入总资金的，那么，那么他们，谢谢你，杰夫——所以这些事情可以鼓励其他国家和公司

把眼光放高，然后说，嘿，我们可以做得更大、更好，这很好。我们想要一场新的太空竞赛，太空竞赛很令人兴奋。能不能带我们了解一下你观看发射时的，你的思考过程？你说你对此极其担心，只是，你知道，你只是想穿过发射台，因为这有点，我说把预期放低。所以说说你观看时的情况。是的，我认为任何参与其中但没有深入参与设计或类似工作的人都是这样，只是，你知道它可能失败的所有方式，而这就像在你脑海中滚动的那种心理检查清单，全都是可能、可能、可能坏掉的东西。我是说，可能出错的事情有成千上万件，而所有事情都必须一次全部正确。看，一旦

火箭升空后，就没有什么了，有机会进行召回，或者上传软件修复或做任何类似的事情。就像你看到哈珀号上的乘客评分至少真的是一张悲伤的脸，而我见过火箭以太多不同的方式虚张声势。所以，你知道，当它真的在第一次成功时，那是一种巨大的宽慰，你知道，当他们第一次，不管是谁，就像，就像，你知道，当他们第一次发射类似 747 或 dc-3 的东西时，我敢打赌总工程师会说，我不敢相信那东西在飞。下面请《航空周刊》的艾琳·克洛茨提问。快，我们需要先给你麦克风，好让电话上的人听到。好的，谢谢。《航空周刊》的艾琳·克洛茨，恭喜。能否和我们稍微谈谈，要认证

Falcon Heavy 执行国家安全任务需要做些什么，你们在这个过程中进展到了什么程度，可能需要进行多少次飞行？另外，如果可以的话，能否谈谈 SpaceX 为了让这枚火箭走到这一步投入了多少？谢谢。我认为我们只需要，我认为有，有一种可能，在 NASA 的哪项国家安全任务上，我们需要，是的，你知道，需要多少次飞行取决于具体任务，但我们有多位 Falcon Heavy 商业客户，所以我认为，我真的不认为这会以任何方式阻碍国家安全任务获批。我们每年会执行数次 Falcon Heavy 任务飞行。所以，比如说，如果有一颗大型国家安全卫星计划在3或4

年，或者到那时我们可能已经完成了大约12次或另外4次发射。所以它不会真正……我想，会有一个发射次数，那是一个阻碍或国家安全之类的事务。是的，所以，然后我们还有即将进行的STP任务，那是另一项测试任务，将全面进行一个……在那里一切都是黑色5、火箭的版本5，然后我们还会发射版本5。

5 的单芯火箭会在几个，几个月后发射。所以我认为，希望国家安全任务的认证能一帆风顺。我们迄今的投入可能比我愿意承认的多得多。你知道，我们曾3次试图在 SpaceX 取消 Falcon Heavy 项目，因为就像，天啊，这比我们想象的难太多了。最初的想法就是，啊，你知道，把一级火箭接到侧面当助推器，我怎么整流罩，这就像，难得多。我们不得不彻底重新设计中央芯级。我们还必须重新设计栅格翼，因为，比如说，这说来话长，但如果在助推器末端装的是一个整流罩，而不是圆柱体，你就会失去控制能力，因为如果你，如果你有一个圆柱体，你就可以有点

让空气从火箭上反弹，如果助推器末端采用圆柱形部分而不是尖拱形部分，你就能获得大约50%或更多的控制能力提升，所以我们必须重新设计栅格翼，原因是为了控制，控制系统质量将重新设计底部的推力结构，以承受大得多的载荷，那个中央助推器必须应对来自侧面助推器合计超过100万磅的载荷，所以它因此更重，所以中央芯级基本上完全重新设计了，而且甚至侧面助推器也有相当多的零件发生了变化，然后发射场本身也需要进行大量改造，我猜我们的总投资超过5亿美元，可能还要更多，是的，我想请

电话那边的几位提问，我想第一位是 BuzzFeed 新闻的丹·费尔加纳，对吗，是的，BuzzFeed 裸体新闻的丹·麦甘，你能稍微谈谈让2个侧芯级同时降落的决定吗，这只是由物理规律自然导致的，还是你们实际作出的决定，我们确实让它们略微错开了，但但实际上它们差不多就是同时下来，那没有，我们略微错开了，只是为了不让雷达相互干扰，而且我们实际上希望2个级之间没有通信，它们都要指向绝对空间，而我们只是担心其中1个的雷达反射会被另1个的雷达接收器看到，但没有，那就是事情发生的方式，它

实际上本来就是要那样发生的，电话上的下一个问题来自基思·考林，那是一块手表，祝贺你们，你们观看了一个相当不同寻常的有效载荷进入太空，这引发了很多热议，而且有很多人，其中一些是公民科学家，其中一些人在追踪物体和太空方面只是新手，他们会尝试追踪那个测试流，并了解它正在发生什么，你知道，就像那部电影《哥们，我的车在哪儿？》，除了今天的实时网络摄像头之外，当这辆车离开轨道后，SpaceX 打算做些什么来与这个 Tesla 追踪者社区互动，你们有计划吗，还是只准备等着看看互联网上冒出什么，再对此作出反应，我们没有计划，没有

计划，电池从发射开始大约能持续12小时，粗略来说，在那之后，它就会待在深空中，或许数百万年或数十亿年，谁知道呢，而且是的，也许会被某个未来的外星种族发现，他们会想，这到底是什么，这些人在做什么，他们崇拜这辆车吗，为什么他们在车里放了一辆小车，真的会把他们弄糊涂，我不确定会发生什么，但我觉得，你知道，这算是件有趣的事，顺便说一句，我当然希望下一次点火能够成功，是的，嗯，已知的几小时，没关系，所以，阶段，《华盛顿邮报》的克里斯·达文波特怎么样，你可以等到我们接通你，也许，谢谢，那么，既然你现在更加专注于 BFR，我想知道你能否稍微谈谈时间表，我知道你

说它的进展比预期更快，以及这对你们的火星和月球计划意味着什么，嗯，我要跑题了，不过好吧，我想我们也许，如果我们达到类似，你们将能够用 VFR 的飞船部分进行短程跳跃飞行，也许明年，好了，现场再问1个，让我们看看谁，CBS 的比尔·哈伍德怎么样，谢谢，劳拉，CB，我看到当我处理剩余西格玛时，这就像关键，它，它是一根相当相当长的骨头，也许1分钟左右，是的，那会在几小时后，希望如此，我其实没有最新的气候改革，因为我刚刚被加入，实际上在着陆区之外，而且从去着陆区后还没有回到发射控制中心，所以我没有关于上面级状态的最新信息

NBC 新闻的汤姆·科斯特洛，请，嗯，再次祝贺，我想追问克里斯的问题，因为克里斯问你，你前往月球或火星的潜在时间表是什么，而你说，你是不是说最快明年，你能在晚上之前把它量化吗，我真正的问题，我只是在做克里斯的水，当然，是的，[笑声]，嗯，跳跃器测试，我的意思是，有点像我们必须为 Falcon 9 开展蚱蜢计划，我们只是在得克萨斯州让火箭起飞并着陆，我知道得克萨斯测试场，所以那将会，我们要么在靠近靠近布朗斯维尔的南得克萨斯楼层场地进行，要么进行船对船，我们还不确定是船对船还是布朗斯维尔，但最有可能会在我们的布朗斯维尔地点进行，因为我们有一

大片周围无人的土地，所以如果它升上去，那很酷，但我所说的悬停测试是指，它会，你知道，上升，你知道，几英里，然后再下来，飞船将，飞船如果把贮箱完全加满，就具备单级入轨能力，所以那将进行复杂程度不断提高的飞行，我们想测试隔热罩材料，比如，你知道，飞出去，转过来，非常猛烈地加速返回，然后以高温状态进入，以测试隔热罩，因为我们希望拥有高度可重复使用的隔热罩，能够吸收以行星际再入速度进入时产生的热量，所以这确实很棘手，前往月球或火星的潜力，你的时间表是什么，达亚，所以这个项目存在很多不确定性，但现在它将成为我们的重点，既然我们差不多

完成 Falcon 9 和 Falcon Heavy 之后，正如我所说，我们会在版本 5 的 Block 5 停止升级，Falcon 9 或 Falcon Heavy 不会再有任何重大版本。Dragon 也会在 Dragon 版本 2 停止升级。可能会有类似小版本发布，你知道，比如点5、点1，超过 Dragon 管之类的，但我们的大部分工程资源都会投入 VFR，所以我认为这会让事情进展得相当快。飞船部分远远是最难的，因为它将从超级订单簿返回，它是超级、超级轨道速度，比如星际，是的，火星转移速度、月球转移速度，这些比从近地轨道返回困难得多。其他一些，它们是一些加热

情况会按 8 次方增长，这，这让人想不到竟然有任何东西会按 8 次方增长。如果事实证明再入的某些要素，再入加热按第 8、按第 8 次方增长。所以，或者只是还在测试那艘飞船，才是真正棘手的部分。助推器，我想，我不想变得，你知道，自满，但我认为我们对合乎情理的助推器有所了解。能够以推进方式着陆的可重复使用宇宙飞船，那更难。所以我们先从困难的部分开始，我认为可以设想，我们会在 3 或 4 年内进行第一次试飞，一次，你知道，完整的全面试飞，包括助推器。哦不，会先小一点，但不久之后它就能够前往月球。它就是为此设计的，你知道，我们想要

考虑到你们的时间，你们还想再问多少个问题？几个问题？好，当然。有一位来自 retic 社区的先生，我肯定想请他提问，而我不知道你的谜语，我不想说你的名字，所以你可以用你的名字或网名介绍自己。嗨，我叫 Martin Avenue，来自 Reddit 的我们的 SpaceX 社区。就像刚才那么多人一样，我也想祝贺它、祝贺你。我想了解 Starman 的宇航服：它是量产型号吗？装有仪器和／或加压了吗？是什么撑着，是是什么撑着它们？嗯，里面有一个人体模型，所以基本上只是填充起来的。但对，那确实是实际的量产设计，所以真正的那套看起来就和那个一模一样。事实上，那是1个

鉴定件中的，所以那是，那是真的，那是真家伙。对，我觉得如果你要去，你知道，去，我是说，这是危险的，这是趟危险的旅程，你会想看起来帅一点。天哪，我们花了3年设计那口痰，基本上就是这样。真的很难。做一套看起来好看，看吧，但不能用的宇航服，或者能用但不好看的宇航服，都更容易。做出一套既好看又能用的宇航服真的非常困难，而且你必须把它做成一个由多个部分组成的流程，这出乎意料地困难，非常困难。那边那位怎么样？Business Insider 的 Dave Musher，对吧？我是 Business Insider 的 Take Most Sure。嗯，顺便说一句，非常感谢你这样做，我想回头再谈一下 VFR，因为你刚才也谈到了那个

Starman，正在发生的这件事如此鼓舞人心。你有没有想过，考虑过你可能会用 BFR 做些什么，以及以那种方式，载荷是什么，载荷是什么，对此有什么想法吗？没有，不知道。欢迎它的手势。我的意思是，它是个庞然大物，所以，你知道，VFR 直径9米，直径大约30英尺，也就是说，对，你可以在直径30英尺的空间里放很多东西，会有110百20米长。对，很大，不过，你知道，我敢说过一阵子它看起来就没那么大了。来自 ports 的10 holes 怎么样？嗨，Eman，再次感谢你这样做。我有2个问题。第1个只是关于 faring 回收，想知道 SpaceX 在这方面进展如何；还有 Jeff Bezos 刚刚回复了你的推文，祝贺你今天的发射。你1分钟前刚提到

我们需要一场新的太空竞赛。我只是想知道，你是否认为自己正在与 Blue Origin 竞赛？问题的第1部分是什么？对，所以，整流罩，你正在覆盖的，事实证明出乎意料地困难。我想，我想，我相当确定，我们在未来6个月内也会非常回收。事实证明，比如你打开整流罩上的降落伞时，就会有这个巨大而笨拙的东西，它往往会干扰降落伞上的、上的气流，然后，然后没接住并变得整个扭来扭去。而且显然它的优先级也很低。我们还有不同的版本2，那才是真正的，那是我们想要回收的重要版本。所以即使我们是 faring 版本1，那也不会是，我们将来会让它飞行，遭受2，而且回收，那非常重要。而我的

猜测是，未来6个月我们会弄清楚回收。我们有一艘特殊的船来接住轴承，就像接球手的手套。它就像一只书本形态的巨型接球手手套，四处跑动。我接不住渡轮。对，她挺有趣的。你或许可以对 Dragon 做同样的事。所以除非，如果 NASA 希望我们这么做，我们可以试试，试着接住一个原本用于整流罩的 Dragon，但它在房间里的 Dragon 2 上会奏效。那边怎么样？Florida Today 的 James Dean。非常感谢，Ilan。James Dean，Floor Today。说到那些 Dragon，你能介绍一下 Commercial Crew 的状况吗？还有，你知道，我们现实中什么时候可能看到一名宇航员只是进入近地轨道，更不用说月球或火星了？对，对，我们在载人 Dragon，也就是 Dragon 版本

2，那是，是的，如果这实际上说明了公司的优先事项，显然，任务保障始终是第一优先事项，但接下来，那个，那个优先事项过去是 Falcon Iron Block 5，然后1个月前我说，绝对优先事项是载人龙飞船，所以我们差不多完成了 Falcon 和 Block 5，超过5，差不多几乎完成了猎鹰重型，会对猎鹰重型 Block 5 做几处调整，但都很小，所以现在所有人都全力投入载人龙飞船，而我们的目标是，我们期望在今年年底飞 Crew 2 over 2，那是我们的目标，我觉得那是，我觉得更困难的部分会准备好。我们还有时间接受现场最后1个问题，而它只是看着 Falcon Eyes，像是，是的，有点儿肿，我们不得不结束了。

它，我想请 Chris Gephardt 提最后1个问题。问题是，就下一次猎鹰重型，也就是那个 Arab Sad，或者为空军执行的那次而言，你是否知道 Pate 在今天的发射中表现如何，以及它能多快完成改装？那么，是的，我想我的问题是，由于猎鹰重型和 Falcon 9 都需要使用那个发射台，发射台能多快地在两者之间重新配置？它，它，它，所以来回切换存在问题。这就是，它是按那种方式设计的。对于 Falcon 9 或猎鹰重型的 Block 5 版本，这个——猎鹰重型是否需要专门为它制造的芯级，还是 Block——确实需要，好的，如果这是中央球场，就需要专用，是的，所以中央芯级是特别制造的，侧助推器我们可以

重复使用现有的 Falcon Eyes，但我们只需要把级间段替换成一个，替换成一个鼻锥，并且很好地使用升级后的钛合金栅格翼，那些东西太棒了，它们表现得非常好，我真的非常满意。事实上，我很高兴我们收回了侧助推器，因为它们装有钛合金栅格翼，而中央芯级没有，所以如果我首先要选任何一个，我会选择侧助推器。我选择了中央球场的爆炸，如果是这样，那会像是最不——是的，那些该死的栅格翼，好吧，它们超级昂贵，也非常棒，但是它们，生产空气，而且它们很慢。我们没有，我们没有回来，不过，那就像，那是，那些最重要的回收对象是那些 Griffin 系列。在宇航服测试中，比如它的能力去

投票功能，不，它就只是在上面，是的，不，它肯定能用，所以你可以就那样穿着它跳进一个真空舱，没问题。[笑声] [掌声] 也是真的，但是他们拥有的最好的一天，我们要减少布景，但那就是飞越塞浦路斯的一切，会平息残留，非常英俊是其中之一，说那些不是对话作品——不正确，他们会看看上面级发动机是否幸存得相当好，或者只是用那个帮助我们，只有潜在的前景，快速前往这里的范艾伦带，它基本上早在抑制器离开之前，然后它将进行一次重新启动，完成平衡并前往 Class Boss。看了一下这些高助推器，它们看起来状况非常好，嗯，所以它们都很可靠，尽管如我所说，它们是

第3版和第4版的组合，所以我们，我们现在真正只会是珊瑚礁躺着，第5版，它很快就会发射，而那，那将成为我们的主要支柱。猎鹰架构将坚持使用第5版，我们预计不会有第6版。好了，还有什么我没回答的问题吗？我会尽力回答，但不确定我现在是否掌握这些信息，不过我会试试。从现场开始，第1个问题由 ABC 新闻的 David Kerley 提问。他穿上了，壮观，你学到了什么？猎鹰重型教会了你什么？我想，它教会我疯狂的事情也能成真，因为就像我说的，我其实不觉得这会成功，而且当我看到火箭升空时，我看到的就像是有1000件可能无法运作的事情，而它们

成功运作时真是令人惊叹，而我真的，但是看到2枚助推器同步着陆，真的就像模拟画面一样，我是说，这让我觉得，像是，你，它们真的可能是一种相当可扩展的方法。你可以想象那些名字糊弄过去，就这样进场并着陆，带你起飞、着陆，每天飞行很多次。嗯，所以我认为这让我对我们的下一个架构很有信心，那个苏维埃，如果行星际飞船、帽子，有不同的名字，但 BFR 是郡里的代号，而我，它让我相信 BFR，嗯，确实相当可行。来吧，因为我应该看看侧助推器，它们相当大，你知道，有16层楼高，起落架跨度60英尺，但你真的，我们需要远比那大。所以，所以我认为这给了我很大信心，认为我们能够让

VFR 设计运作起来。是的，这是我曾在 SpaceX 团队举行过的新闻发布会。我认为，我认为我们真的能大量做这件事，你知道，并且，并且不断推进那个，不断推进技术，实现完全且快速的可重复使用性，无论哪个，无论什么，对未来产生深远影响。而猎鹰重型与 Falcon 9 相比，其中一点是，猎鹰重型拥有与 Falcon Light 相同水平的可扩展性。所以，如果你看，比如说，Oak Line 的价格是6000万美元，Felton Heavy 是90，尽管它的能力是前者的3倍，因为在这2种情况下，唯一被扩展的东西都是上面级。我们将开始回收那个整流罩，那个大鼻锥。我们要回收脂肪，回收助推器，所以实际上，那个

Falcon 9 和猎鹰重型之间的成本差异其实很小。下一个问题来自美联社的 Marcia Done。3月10日，EP，你的是什么，但是你当时在想什么？看到你的 Roadster 在那里，你有多惊讶？我们的人应该怎么做，就这样和蓝色星球一起巡航，而你认为我们还能从这辆车上获得多久的生命使用？嗯，我觉得它看起来荒谬得不可能，而且你能看出它是真的，因为它看起来太假了。说实话，比臭名昭著的假 CGI 更好。而且，你知道，在太空中，所有颜色看起来都有些奇怪，没有大气遮蔽，你知道，你知道，就像一切看起来都太清晰了，而且我们知道，我们其实没有测试过这些材料，你知道，比如它是否经过太空强化之类的。

你知道，所以它用的就是普通汽车那样的座椅，它屁股确实就是太空中的一辆普通汽车，而我有点喜欢这种荒诞感。任何仔细的感觉，仪表板上有一辆小小的 Roadster，里面有一个小小的太空人。Hot Wheels 制作了一辆 Hot Wheels Roadster，而我的一个朋友，一个朋友建议说，嘿，你为什么把那辆 Wheels Roadster 连同上面的小太空人，你知道，也放进车里呢？那会很酷。当然，我们就同意那么做了。我是说，这有点傻，也很好玩，但我认为，我认为那是，你知道，傻乎乎的有趣事物很重要。通常，对于一枚新火箭，你知道，他们会发射一块混凝土之类的东西。我是说，那太无聊了，而且我认为它的影像会让世界各地的人们感到兴奋

，而且仍然让我恍惚不已。我是说，我在这里都嗨翻了。祝贺今天的伟大发射。你认为猎鹰重型在这个发射行业中处于什么位置？它会更多用于国家安全吗？你认为它会用于行星际任务吗？猎鹰重型的未来是什么？是的，了不起的一点是，像是，所以猎鹰重型提供了一个全新的有效载荷级别，所以它能够发射世界上其他任何火箭2倍以上的有效载荷，所以这某种程度上取决于客户可能想发射什么，但它可以把东西直接发射到冥王星及更远处，你知道，不需要停留，甚至不需要像引力助推或任何东西，而且不会拉伤卫星。但我不会破坏并说，嘿，我们可以做得更大、更好，这很棒。

我们想要一场新的太空竞赛，竞赛令人兴奋。福克斯奥兰多附属台的达雷尔·内尔怎么样，不过还有其他一些人。给我们讲讲你观看发射时的思考过程，你说你对此极其担心，只是，你知道，你只是想要……穿过发射台，因为这有点，我说过要把预期放低。所以给我讲讲你观看它时的情况。是的，我认为任何参与其中的人都是如此，你——

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um so they're they're both reliable although as I said their combination of version 3 in version 4 so we will we're only gonna be reef lying really version 5 at this point that that launches shortly and that that will be on me and stable will stick to version fight for the Falcon architecture we don't expect to have a version 6 all right any questions that I haven't answered I'll do my best to answer them but not sure if I have the information yet but I'll try start in the room and the first question goes to David Kerley from ABC News he launched spectacular what did you learn what did Falcon Heavy teach you I guess taught me like crazy things can come true like because I said like I didn't really think this would work um like when I see the rocket liftoff

I see like a thousand things that that could not work and it's amazing when they do and I was really that seeing the to Bruce's land synchronize really just like the simulation I mean it makes you think like you there really that could be quite a scalable approach you know if you could have imagined large numbers of those just coming in and landing taking off landing doing many flights per day um so it I think gives me a lot of faith for our next architecture the sort of be an interplanetary spaceship you have different names for it but BFRs the county code name and it gives me confidence that bfr um is really quite workable um as i should look at the side boosters and like they're pretty big you know sixteen stories tall 60-foot legs man but you really

we need to be way bigger than that so so i think it's giving me a lot of confidence that we can make the VFR design work yeah it's a traumatic event so I'm SpaceX team so I think I think we can really do this a lot you know and keep advancing that the cube advancing the technology to achieve full and rapid reusability whichever whatever profound effect on the future and when there's some things about say Falcon Heavy vs Falcon 9 is that Falcon Heavy has the same level of expandability as Falcon line so if you look at say the price of oak line is sixty million dollars Felton he's 90 even though it's got three times as much capability because in both cases the only thing that's expanded is the upper stage we're gonna start recovering with the the fairings

the big nose cone we're gonna recover that we recover the Boosters and so there's really the cost of us really between a Falcon 9 I felt the henries minor well the next question from marcia done at Associated Press March 10 EP what were yours what was going through your mind how how amazed were you to see your roadster up there what should our man just cruising along with the blue planet and how long will we be getting life views do you think from the car well I think it looks so ridiculous and impossible and you can tell it's real because it looks so fake honestly we'd have way better CGI infamous fake and you know the colors all look like kind of weird in space there's no atmospheric occlusion you know you know it's like everything looks too crisp and

but we know we didn't really test any of those materials for you know is its space hardened or whatever you know so it just has the same seats that like normal car has it's a slickly a normal car in space which I kind of like the absurdity of that and if you look closely there's on the dashboard there's a tiny roadster with a tiny spaceman the hot wheels made a Hot Wheels roadster and a friend a friend of mine and I suggested hey why you put that wheels roadster with a tiny space man on the you know in the car - like that'd be cool sure mysteries that I mean it's kind of silly and fun but I think I think that's you know silly fun things are important and normally for a new rocket you know they'd launch like a block of concrete or something like that I

mean that's so boring and I think that's just the imagery of it is something that's gonna get people excited around the world and I still tripping me out I mean out tripping balls here yeah congratulations Ilan great launch today where do you see the Falcon Heavy fitting into this launch industry is this something that is going to be for more national security you see this for interplanetary missions what's the future of Falcon Heavy yeah the great thing is like so Falcon Heavy opens up a new class of payload so it can launch more than twice as much payloads any other rocket in the world so it's kind of up to customers what they might want to launch but it can launch things direct to Pluto and beyond you know no stop needed they don't even need like a

gravity assist or anything and won't join satellites it can do anything you want you go back to you could send people back to the moon with a bunch of you know if you did a bunch of motions the Falcon Heavy and did an orbital reef refilling the two or three Falcon heavies you know woody called the payload of a Saturn 5 but I wouldn't recommend doing that cuz I think the new architects should be a for architecture is the way to go but I think it's it's gonna open officers possibility I think it's gonna encourage other companies and countries to say hey if SpaceX which is a commercial company can do this and nobody paid for Falcon Heavy is paid forward and put in total funds then then they thank you Jeff - so things can encourage other countries and companies

to raise their sights and say hey we can do bigger and better which is great we want a new space race face races were exciting kind of talked us through your your thought process as you were watching the launch e you said you were incredibly concerned about it just you know you just wanted to through the pad because it kind of I said expectations low so talk me through as you were watching it yeah I think this is true of anyone who's involved and didn't close in the design or something just you know all the ways they can fail and and that's like the sort of mental checklist that's scrolling through your mind it's all the things that can can can break I mean there's thousands of things that can go wrong and everything has to go right once look once the

rocket lifts off there's nothing there's an opportunity to do a recall or upload a software fix or anything like that it's like you see the passenger grades on Harper sent at least really a sad face and I've seen Rockets Bluff so many different ways so you know it's a big relief when it it actually works at the first you know when they first whoever it is like it was like you know when they're like first launched like a 747 or or dc-3 or like that I bet the chief engineer was like I can't believe that thing flying how about Irene Klotz from Aviation Week hurry we need to have you on Mike first for the folks on the phone to hear ok thanks Irene Klotz with Aviation Week congratulations the can you talk to us a little bit about what needs to happen to certify

Falcon Heavy for the national security missions how far along you are in that process and how many flights you might need to do and also if you're able to say anything about how much your SpaceX is investment to get to the rocket to this point thanks I think we only need I think there's there's a chance on which NASA's national security mission that we'd need to yeah you know how many flights depends on which mission but we have a number of commercial customers for Falcon Heavy and so I think I really don't think it's gonna be in any way an impediment to acceptance of national security missions we'll be doing several Falcon Heavy missions flights per year so let's say if there's a big national security satellite that's due for launch in three or four

years or we probably have like a dozen or four more launches done by then so what it won't really I think there'll be a launch number that's that's an inhibitor or national security stuff and yeah so and then we've got the STP mission that that's coming up which is another test mission that'll go on full-on a where everything's on black 5 version 5 of the rocket and then we'll be launching version 5.

5 single stick in a couple couple months so I think it's hopefully smooth sailing or qualification for national security missions our investment to date probably a lot more than I'd like to admit you know that we try to cancel the Falcon Heavy program three times at SpaceX because it's like man this is way harder than we thought is there shal idea was just like ah you know you stick on to give to first stages of side boosters how I canopy it's like way hard we had to redesign the center core completely we have to redesign the the grid fins because like what it's a lot long story but if you've got a nose cone on the end of it at the end of the booster instead of a cylinder you lose control Authority because if you if you got a cylinder you can kind of

bounce the air off of the rocket and you get like a 50% or more increased control authority if you've got a cylindrical section instead of a an ogive section at the end of the booster so we have to redesign the grid fins reason to control the control system mass would redesign the thrust structure at the base to take way more load that Center boosters got a deal with over a million pounds of load coming in combined from the side boosters so it's as of being heavier so that the center course basically completely redesigned and and even the side boosters there's a pretty large number of parts that change and then the the launch site itself needs to change a lot I'm guessing our total investment is over half a billion probably more yeah I'd like to take

some questions from the phone I think the first one up is Dan Fergana from BuzzFeed news is that right that's right dan McGann with BuzzFeed nude news could you talk a little bit about the decision to have the two side cores come down at the same time is it just the way it falls out from the physics or was that actual decision you made we did offset them slightly but but really they're pretty much just come down that that there's no we're off set slightly just to the radars didn't interfere and we actually wanted no communication between the two stages they've both going to point absolute space and we're just worried that the radar reflection of one would be seen by the radar receiver of the other but no it just that's just kind of how it happened it's

actually meant to happen just like that the next question on the phone comes from Keith cowling and that's a watch congratulations you've watched a rather unconventional payload into space one that's generated a lot of buzz and there's a lot of people some of them citizen scientists some of them they're just newbies when it comes to tracking things and space are going to try and track the the test flow and understand what's happening to it you know like that movie dude where's my car and other than the live webcam today what does SpaceX going to do to interact with this community of Tesla trackers once the car leaves orbit you have a plan are you just going to kind of wait and see what bubbles up on the internet and react to it we don't have a plan no

plan the battery's gonna last about 12 hours from launch roughly and after that it's just gonna be out there in deep space for maybe millions or billions of years who knows and yeah maybe discovered by some future alien race thinking what the heck what what were these guys doing did they worship with this car why do they have a little car in the car don't really confuse them I'm not sure what's gonna happen but I think you know it's kind of a fun thing and I sure hope that next burn works by the way yeah well known a few hours that's okay so phase how about Chris Davenport from the Washington Post you could wait until we get you might Thanks so now that you're focusing more on the bfr I wonder if you could talk a little bit about the timeline I know you

said it's coming along faster and then what that means for your plans for Mars and the moon well I'm gonna get to off-topic but okay I think we might if we get like you will be able to do short hop our flights with the spaceship part of VFR maybe next year all right one more in the room let's see who's how about bill Harwood from CBS thanks Laura CB I saw when I took on residual Sigma which is like the key it's it's a decent decently long bone there may be a minute or so and yeah that'll be in a few hours hopefully I actually don't have the latest climate reform because I was just added actually that out of the landing zone and have been back to launch control since going to landing zone so I don't have the latest information on the status of the upper

stage Tom Costello from NBC News please well congratulations again I wanted to follow up on Chris's question because Chris asked you what's your timeline potentially to go to the Moon or Mars and you said did you say as soon as next year can you quantify that by the night my real question I'm just doing Chris's water sure yeah [Laughter] well the hopper tests I mean kind of like we have to get grasshopper program for falcon 9 where we just add the rocket take take off and land in Texas I know Texas test site so that would be will either do that at our South Texas floor site near near Brownsville or or do ship-to-ship we're not sure yet whether ship-to-ship or brownsville but most likely it's gonna happen at our brownsville location because we've got a

lot of land with nobody around and so if it was up it's cool but by hover test I mean it'll you know go up you know several miles and then come down the ship will the ship is capable of the single-stage-to-orbit if you fully load the tanks so that will do flights of increasing complexity we want to test the heat shield material something like you know fly out turn around accelerate back real hard and come in hot to test the heat shield because we want to have highly reusable heat shield that's capable of absorbing the heat from interplanetary entry velocities so it's really tricky potential the potential to go to the Moon or Mars what's your timeline daya so a lot of uncertainties on this program but it is gonna be our focus after now that we're almost

done with with Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy we're gonna level off as I said at block 5 of version 5 best there won't be any more major versions of Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy Dragon is also going to level off with dragon version 2 there might be like point releases you know point five point one over dragon tube or something like that but most of our engineering resources will be dedicated to VFR and and so I think that that will make things go quite quickly the ship part is by far the hardest because that's going to come in from super order books it's super super orbital velocities like interplanet yeah Mars transfer velocities both moon transfer velocities these these are way harder than coming in from low-earth orbit some others they're some of the heating

things that scale to the 8th power which which doesn't think relies there's anything that scales to 8th power if it turns out reentry certain elements of reentry heating scale to the at the 8th to the 8th so or just yet testing that ship out is the real tricky part the booster I think I don't want to get you know complacent but I think we understand reasonable boosters reusable spaceships that can land propulsively that's that's harder so we're starting with the hard part first and I think it's conceivable that we do our first test flight in 3 or 4 years of a you know full up overall test flight including the booster oh no a little bit first but it would be capable of going to the moon shortly thereafter it's designed to do that you know we want to be

sensitive to your time how many more questions you want a couple questions ok sure there is a gentleman I came from a retic community that I wanted to definitely call on and I don't know your riddle I don't want to say your name so you can introduce yourself with your name or your handle hi my name is Martin Avenue and I'm with reddit's our SpaceX community I'd like to congratulate it you as well as so many people have done just now I'd like to know about Starman spacesuit is it a production model is it instrumented and/or pressurized and what's holding is what's holding them up well there's a mannequin inside so it's just basically stuffed but yeah that is the actual production design so the real one looks like just like that that in fact that's one

of the qualification articles so that's that's real that's the real deal yeah I figure if you're gonna go you know to I mean it's dangerous this dangerous trip you want to look good man took us three years to design that spit that's basically it was real hard and it's easier to make a spacesuit that looks good see that but doesn't work or that works but doesn't look good it's really difficult to make a spacesuit that looks good and works and you have to make it a multi-part process and it was surprisingly difficult very difficult how about that Dave musher from business insider right I take most sure from Business Insider um thank you so much for doing this by the way and I want to go back to VFR for a second since you were talking about that in also

Starman which is such an inspirational thing that's happening have you thought given any thought to what you might do with bfr and and that way what is the what is the payload and any thoughts of that no a no idea it's gestures are welcome I mean it's a beast so you know the VFR 9 meter diameter 30 feet roughly diameter which is yeah if you put a lot in 30 feet diameter get 110 hundred 20 meters long yeah big although you know I bet it doesn't look that big after a while how about 10 holes from ports hi eman thanks again for doing this two questions for you one just about faring recovery just curious how SpaceX is coming with that and to Jeff Bezos just responded to your tweet congratulating you on your launch today you just mentioned a minute ago that

we need a new space race I'm just curious if you see yourself in a race with Blue Origin what was the first part of the question yeah so the fairing you're covering is proven surprisingly difficult I think I think I'm pretty sure we're also very recovery in the next six months it turns out like you pop the parachute on the fairing you've got this giant awkward thing it tends to interfere with the air flow on the on the parachute and and miss and gets all twisty and and it obviously was a low priority to also we have varying version two which is the really that's the important one that we want to recover so even if we were faring version one that that wouldn't be we would be flying it in the future suffering too and recovery that's very important and my

guess is next six months we figure out for recovery we've got a special boat to catch the bearing just like a catcher's mitt it's like a giant catcher's mitt in book form run around I can't catch the ferry yeah she's kind of fun you might be able to do the same thing with dragon so unless if NASA wants us to we could try try to catch a dragon meant for the fairing but it would work on dragon two in the room how about that James Dean from Florida today thanks so much Ilan James Dean floor today speaking of those dragons could you give us a status on Commercial Crew and and you know when we might realistically see an astronaut just getting to low-earth orbit much less the Moon or Mars yeah yeah we're making great progress on crew dragon or dragon version

two that's yeah if it actually tells the company priorities the obviously mission assurance is always number one as a priority but then the number that the the priority used to be a falcon iron block five and then a month ago I said absolute priority is crew dragon so we're pretty much done with Falcon and block five over five pretty much almost done with Falcon Heavy a few tweaks that would occur with falcon heavy block five but they're minor and so it's all hands on deck for crew dragon and our goal is to we're aspiring to fly crew two over two at the end of this year that's our goal I think that's I think the harder will be ready we have time for one more question in the room and it's just looking at Falcon eyes like yeah kind of swole have to wrap

it and I'd like for Chris Gephardt pleased to have the last question question from in terms of the next falcon heavy which is that arab sad are the one for the Air Force do you have any idea of how pate held up from today's launch and how quickly can it be changed and so yes and I guess my questions are how quickly can the pad be reconfigured between heavy and Falcon 9 since you need that pad for both it's it's it's so problem going back and forth this is it's designed that way and for the block five version of the Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy are the this is the Falcon Heavy need a dedicated core built for it or the block it does ok if this was the center court needs to be dedicated yeah so that's the center core is a special build the side boosters we can

reuse existing falcon eyes but we need to just replace the interstage with a with a nose cone and a nice use the the upgraded titanium grid fins which are sweet those worked out real well I'm really happy about those in fact I'm glad we got the side boosters back because they have the titanium grid fins in the center core didn't so I first to pick any one I would have picked the side boosters I picked the center court of explode if so that would be like the least yeah those friggin grid fins alright they're super expensive and and awesome but they the production air and they were slow we didn't we didn't back though that like that was those the most important thing to recover were those Griffin's series inside the spacesuit testing like its ability to

vote function no it's just up there yeah no it definitely work so you can just like jump in a in a vacuum chamber with it it's fine [Laughter] [Applause] as well for real but that best day they have we're gonna reduce the set but that's everything over the to Cyprus will subside residual very handsome is one of it says they're not the conversations works - incorrect they'll see if the upper stage engine I survived quite or just use that help us only potential prospects quickly to Van Allen belts here it's essentially well before suppressor left and then it's going to do a restart completed balance and go to class boss took a look at these high boosters they looking a really good condition um so they're they're both reliable although as I said they're

combination of version three in version 4 so we will we're only gonna be reef lying really version 5 at this point that that launches shortly and that that will be our main stable will stick to version 5 for the Falcon architecture we don't expect to have a version 6 alright any questions that I haven't answered I'll do my best to answer them but not sure if I have the information yet but I'll try start in the room and the first question goes to David Kerley from ABC News he donned spectacular what did you learn what did Falcon Heavy teach you I guess taught me like crazy things can come true like because I said like I didn't really think this would work and like when I see the rocket liftoff I see like a thousand things that that could not work and it's

amazing when they do and I was really but seeing the two boosters land synchronize really just like the simulation I mean makes me think like you they're really that could be quite a scalable approach you could imagine fudge names of those just coming in and landing taking you off landing doing many flights per day um so I think gives me a lot of faith for our next architecture the Soviet if planetary spaceship cap different names for it but BFRs County code name and I it gives me confidence that bfr um is really quite workable come as I should look at the side boosters and like they're pretty big you know 16 stories tall 60-foot leg span but you really we need to be way bigger than that so so I think it's giving me a lot of confidence that we can make

the VFR design work yeah it's I ever have press conference at SpaceX team I think I think we can really do this a lot you know and and keep advancing that the keep advancing the technology to achieve full and rapid reusability whichever whatever profound effect on the future and when there's things about a Falcon Heavy versus Falcon 9 is that Falcon Heavy has the same level of expandability as Falcon light so if you look at say the price of oak line is sixty million dollars Felton heavies ninety even though it's got three times as much capability because in both cases the only thing that's expanded is the upper stage we're gonna start recovering the the fairings the big nose cone we're gonna recover the fat recover the Boosters and so there's really the

cost difference really between a falcon 9 falcon heavy is minor of the next question from Marcia done at Associated Press March 10 EP what were yours but what was going through your mind how how amazed were you to see your roadster up there what should our man just cruising along with the blue planet and how long will we be getting life use do you think from the car well I think it looks so ridiculous than impossible and you can tell it's real because it looks so fake honestly better CGI infamous fake and you know the colors all look like kind of weird in space there's no atmospheric occlusion you know you know like everything looks too crisp and could we know we didn't really test any of those materials for you know as its space hardened or whatever

you know so it just has the same seats that like normal car has its ass literally a normal car in space which I kind of like the absurdity of that any feel closely there's on the dashboard there's a tiny roadster with a tiny spaceman Hot Wheels made a Hot Wheels roadster and a friend a friend of mine suggested hey why you put that wheels roadster with a tiny spaceman on it you know in the car too like that'd be cool sure let's agree to that I mean it's kind of silly and fun but I think I think that's you know silly fun things are important and normally for a new rocket you know they've launched like a block of concrete or something like that I mean that's so boring and I think that's the imagery of it is something that's gonna get people excited around

the world and still tripping me out I mean out tripping balls here congratulations on great launch today where do you see the Falcon Heavy fitting into this launch industry is this something that is going to be for more national security you see this for interplanetary missions what's the future of Falcon Heavy yeah the great thing is like so Falcon Heavy offers up a new class of payload so it can launch more than twice as much payloads any other rocket in the world so it's kind of up to customers what they might want to launch but it can launch things direct to Pluto and beyond you know no stop needed didn't even need like a gravity assist or anything and won't strain satellites but I wouldn't wreck and say hey we can do bigger and better which is great

we want a new space race races were exciting how about Darrell nail from the Fox affiliate Orlando but some others kind of talk us through your your thought process as you were watching the launch e you said you were incredibly concerned about it just you know you just wanted to through the pad because it kind of I said expectations low so talk me through as you were watching it yeah I think this was true of anyone who's involved you