Elon Musk Gives Jay Leno A Tour of SpaceX | Watch The Full Ep Wed 10p ET

tonight in jlo's garage even if we're sure the earth would be fine forever do you want to be here forever? Do we have an urge for adventure? Do we want to go out and see the rest of the universe? Do we want to know what is there? there and maybe encounter some alien civilizations and if so we need to be a multiplanetary species, that's the next step and then we can go from there to being a multistellar species. We're getting ready to put the engines in a slightly different spot. Instead of changing the engine in the garage, I meet with one of the greatest innovators of all time.

Wow, Elon Musk and he

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us an exclusive behind-the-scenes

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of a spectacular Spacex starbase facility. You've built all this in two years, yes. They will show us how he is turning his science fiction dreams of human life on Mars into an incredible and achievable reality. We're doing one of these every three days, really yes, and that's not all because Elon's innovations have also made the automotive industry even more The most exciting skate legend, Tony Hawk, stops by to show us his retro Stingray corvette mod with Tesla engine, let's use a little more electrons. So if you really can't get to Mars or don't have the time, comic actor Tig Notaro and I can show you how.

Go to a valley far, far away in an incredibly futuristic, state-of-the-art RV. I think it was only a matter of time before we ended up in bed together. Now things could get a little dangerous. There is so much new technology here. This new opportunity to help up close, but believe me, it will be great. How many guys say I wouldn't know? No, it's not just about the amazing cars we show and the compelling people who drive them. i want to talk about cars look at cars drive cars read about cars what was the first vehicle you bought audi fox a sensible car i like speed test your brakes it's also about all the amazing innovators that continue to change the car game and the way Who Lives as my first guest who graciously invited us all to visit their state-of-the-art Spacex launch facility outside of Brownsville, Texas.

I'm here at Starbase talking to Elon. I'm glad to see you again, my friend, I can see you now. It's not often you meet the richest man in the world, but Elon Musk and I have some history. He came to the garage with his first electric roadster when the 6831 batteries, that's what it is, yeah, and let's just say the last appearance of it. on this show it was super boring say how are we doing i think you know you look good on this side okay here we go look what i did there now that he's not ending the auto industry with busy high performance electric cars and trucks building tunnels under cities or snl accommodation, it is in

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pushing the limits of outer space and technology, in fact, thanks to its tireless search for reusable rockets, life on Mars may arrive much sooner than we think, especially if Elon has something to say about this, this is very inspiring because I was one of those people who was in the space race and then we just walked away from it and now it's back and all these kids are here doing this because of you and you're your inspiration, that has to feel good, yeah.

I mean, I think we have an amazing team and we're making great progress here. We are trying to achieve the holy grail of rocketry, which is a

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y and rapidly reusable rocket. No one has ever made a completely reusable orbital. rocket and never one that can fly again quickly like an airplane and that is actually the kind of essential invention, so to speak, that is necessary to make humanity a multiplanetary species and it seems like common sense, I mean, don't you Would you get on a plane, fly once, yeah, and then destroy it all, yeah, and then build something crazy, yeah, yeah, like the current, like rockets used to be, if you bought a plane and then, upon your destiny, you jump with a parachute. and then the plane crashes and that's how rockets work, why do you think it wasn't done before?

I mean, it's a very difficult engineering problem. A lot of advancements are needed in the engines, the airframe, the heat shield and all that. the technologies that go into the rocket to make it reusable but still get the payload into orbit, getting to space is easy, but getting to orbit is a hundred times harder than getting to space, really, yeah, it's okay, confused, let me try to explain first. First, it's hard to believe that space is only 62 miles above Earth, yes a few miles and let's say a round trip to the nearest Outland Mall, but what we call low orbit is somewhere between 100 and 1200 miles high and is much more difficult to find.

This is achieved primarily because it takes a lot more propellant not only to get there, but also to maintain enough speed to stay in orbit. If an object cannot maintain a fast enough orbital speed, it will eventually fall back into our atmosphere and probably burn up. reentry and since the current price to launch a

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falcon heavy rocket is 97 million dollars we definitely don't want them to have been reused these here are right some of them yeah I like the patina of it because it just has a look of a vehicle in use, you know, yes, they look like they've been to space, yes, yes, everything is built on site here, isn't it?

Yeah, we built them, uh, in these high bays here and in some kind of factory behind. high bays, but the public isn't really aware of this and I think it would be good to educate people about how absolutely fundamental it is to make a

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y reusable rocket, it's profound to go back to the airplane analogy we were talking about, if you had That throwing away a plane after every flight would be very expensive, true, no one could fly, but look, that's what I love, it's the passion you have because most people in your final position would have done it.

Beyonce and race cars and places in the Caribbean and all that, but you put it all into this, right? Yes I live here. I actually managed a Spacex house in the little town there. Yeah, I spent about half my time on the last two. It's been years since this place was built, yeah, I mean, I think it's just incredible now that the Spacex starbase sits on just over 100 acres of land right on the western edge of the Gulf of Mexico and a lot has happened here in the starbase since they began to be built. Back in 2014.

The first tracking antenna was installed in 2016 and the first propellant tank arrived in 2018. In 2019, they successfully tested and flew the first prototype test vehicle called Starhopper, and in March 2020, Starbucks had more of 500 people on site working here. 24 7 on the incredible third generation spacex vehicle starship that had its first successful test flight in 2021. Now this is the most impressive thing I have ever seen. This is our starship. This is what reaches orbit. It is located above. the thruster, the ship is about 165 feet capacity, yeah, I don't think anyone has any idea how big it is, yeah, it's 30 feet in diameter on the inside, yeah, because when you see it on TV, you're seeing it from the middle. a mile away, yeah, I mean, you're sending the Empire State Building into outer space, basically here, yeah, it's a gigantic building, in fact the payload area has more volume than a 747, so we can get closer If you want, yes, can we?

Get a little closer, you don't have to get too close to realize that the Spacex spacecraft is an absolute technological marvel. The complete rocket consists of the booster stage below with the sleek looking, state-of-the-art spacecraft on top. It's built with a specially formulated stainless steel body and, simply put, is the tallest and most powerful rocket ever built, plus it's reusable, meaning big savings on launch costs and more money for, say, lunches. Oh, that looks cool, but it has an amazing design, aside from the real magic in spacex. It's in the manufacturing, you're the only person I've ever heard speak eloquently about actual manufacturing because that's the hard part, anyone can draw a rocket, yeah manufacturing is a lot harder than design, I mean there's an old saying which is like one percent. inspiration 99 perspiration, right, I think it might actually be 99.9 percent perspiration.

Actually in America I would say we underestimate the value of making the right manufacturers, it is extremely important and a very difficult thing to do, even prototyping the rocket is easy to compare. to make a bunch of them, so we're getting ready to make one of these a month and then in a few years, we'll make one of these every three days, really yeah, you know, I always say we won World War II, not necessarily. because we had the best soldiers, which we did, but we were able to build a bomber every hour at a rapid rate, I mean we actually built planes faster than the Germans could shoot them down and there's still a lot of manual labor in these.

It's guys with welding equipment and tools and putting together a rocket there, I mean there's quite a bit of automation so we use lasers like laser welding for all the bigger wells. It is a machine that makes a very precise laser. world and what you want to do here is build a total of a thousand rockets. How many rockets are needed to create a self-sufficient civilization on Mars? They're probably on the order of a thousand, so you can only go to Mars every two years. Wait a second two years, well that's true, because every two years the Earth and Mars are orbitally aligned to allow the shortest route between them.

Okay, Elon, take it off if you have a thousand ships, if you can put a hundred people. on that ship there will be a hundred thousand people every two years and let's say it will take you 20 years to get to a million people and calculate that I don't know about a million people is probably what you need to create a self-sustaining city on Mars, well, that It's what I love. You always think big. I remember talking to you years ago about trains and I was like, "You know, a 200 mile an hour train." He said no, no, it could be 800 miles an hour.

I mean, you're always thinking that. The next step to follow, which I love, as long as the laws of physics are not broken, it can be done. Hello everyone, thanks for

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