Gwynne Shotwell, Discussion with Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO, SpaceX, su youtube.com, Atlantic Council, 4 giugno 2014. URL consultato il 9 giugno 2014.
«This [reusable launch vehicle technology], all this innovation is being done by SpaceX alone, no one is paying us to do it. The government is very interested in the data we are collecting on this test series. ... This is the kind of thing that entrepreneurial investment and new entrants/innovators can do for an industry: fund their own improvements, both in the quality of their programs and the quality of their hardware, and the speed and cadence of their operations.»