1 00:00:16,183 --> 00:00:18,060 Since Arch Motorcycle began, 2 00:00:18,143 --> 00:00:21,021 curiosity has been our lifeblood. 3 00:00:22,356 --> 00:00:24,358 Our ambition is 4 00:00:24,441 --> 00:00:27,444 to create a beautiful... 5 00:00:28,737 --> 00:00:30,280 aesthetically interesting, 6 00:00:30,364 --> 00:00:33,408 seductive machine that you can ride. 7 00:00:37,412 --> 00:00:38,914 Not like... 8 00:00:38,997 --> 00:00:40,290 - Deeper. - Just, like, deeper. 9 00:00:44,837 --> 00:00:46,922 And we're fueled by far more than a passion 10 00:00:47,005 --> 00:00:49,508 for just designing motorcycles. 11 00:00:53,053 --> 00:00:54,638 Arch is a mindset, 12 00:00:54,721 --> 00:00:58,350 a lens through which to see the world. 13 00:00:58,433 --> 00:01:01,061 So these are the largest metal 3D printers in the world. 14 00:01:01,144 --> 00:01:02,896 What? 15 00:01:02,980 --> 00:01:06,900 Economy, scale, efficiency, innovation. 16 00:01:06,984 --> 00:01:09,820 This is a quest for inspiration. 17 00:01:09,903 --> 00:01:12,447 You need to experiment and sometimes try different things, 18 00:01:12,531 --> 00:01:14,366 especially when you're experimenting 19 00:01:14,449 --> 00:01:16,660 to create something that hasn't been done before. 20 00:01:17,870 --> 00:01:21,707 To witness visionaries pushing the bounds of innovation. 21 00:01:23,250 --> 00:01:25,752 The idea of creating is paramount. 22 00:01:25,836 --> 00:01:28,338 You have to be a visionary. 23 00:01:28,422 --> 00:01:30,382 - You guys go? - I'm go. 24 00:01:30,465 --> 00:01:31,758 - You go? - Let's go. 25 00:01:35,137 --> 00:01:39,057 To understand why inspiration strikes... 26 00:01:40,267 --> 00:01:43,937 and where human creativity comes from. 27 00:01:44,021 --> 00:01:46,899 Technical innovations, human innovations, 28 00:01:46,982 --> 00:01:48,692 human creativity can be found, 29 00:01:48,775 --> 00:01:51,486 and inspired by everything in the natural world. 30 00:01:53,363 --> 00:01:56,491 Revealing the funhouse of nature. 31 00:01:59,286 --> 00:02:01,705 The question has 32 00:02:01,788 --> 00:02:04,750 - so many subjects to explore, right? - Mm-hmm. 33 00:02:04,833 --> 00:02:07,503 That it's almost endless. 34 00:02:07,586 --> 00:02:10,172 Which is great. 35 00:02:29,942 --> 00:02:31,610 Well, I think this is good. 36 00:02:31,693 --> 00:02:35,489 If we tried sort of straightening this out a little bit, right? 37 00:02:35,572 --> 00:02:37,699 I think it'd be fun to play with. 38 00:02:37,783 --> 00:02:39,868 All right. Thanks, guys. 39 00:02:39,952 --> 00:02:41,712 - Good work. Thank you. - Awesome, thank you. 40 00:02:43,247 --> 00:02:45,040 We founded Arch Motorcycle 41 00:02:45,123 --> 00:02:48,836 to challenge the perception of what an American motorcycle could be. 42 00:02:55,425 --> 00:02:58,053 And, the sun. 43 00:02:58,136 --> 00:02:59,847 Welcome to Arch Motorcycle. 44 00:03:03,517 --> 00:03:07,354 I had a really embarrassing story with a bike I loved, 45 00:03:07,437 --> 00:03:10,274 and then I was tinkering with it, trying to personalize it. 46 00:03:10,357 --> 00:03:13,819 And then I, um, completely ruined the motorcycle. 47 00:03:13,902 --> 00:03:15,153 And I ended up in Gard's, 48 00:03:15,237 --> 00:03:17,906 and asking to see if I could just get, like, a bar for a back... 49 00:03:17,990 --> 00:03:19,950 - Sissy bar. - A sissy bar. 50 00:03:20,033 --> 00:03:22,953 And he was like, "I don't build sissy bars." 51 00:03:25,289 --> 00:03:28,333 And I was like, "Well, what do you do?" 52 00:03:28,417 --> 00:03:32,129 And he's like, "Well, I... I build motorcycles." 53 00:03:32,212 --> 00:03:35,507 And I said, "Well, are you interested in building a bike?" 54 00:03:35,591 --> 00:03:37,634 And he was like, "I don't know." 55 00:03:37,718 --> 00:03:40,470 I mean, it was like, he kinda... he kinda interviewed me. 56 00:03:40,554 --> 00:03:43,473 He was like... you were like, "I don't know. 57 00:03:43,557 --> 00:03:47,311 "What kind of bike do you want to build, guy?" 58 00:03:48,478 --> 00:03:50,606 We're test-riding. 59 00:03:50,689 --> 00:03:52,149 We're testing the bike. 60 00:03:52,232 --> 00:03:54,193 Keanu started to talk about 61 00:03:54,276 --> 00:03:57,029 maybe we should create some more of these, 62 00:03:57,112 --> 00:03:59,615 so some other people could experience this. 63 00:03:59,698 --> 00:04:01,867 And I said, "No." 64 00:04:05,329 --> 00:04:09,541 Through his patience with my millions of questions 65 00:04:09,625 --> 00:04:12,002 and reasons why we shouldn't do it, 66 00:04:12,085 --> 00:04:15,631 uh, finally said, to... answered to my question, 67 00:04:15,714 --> 00:04:18,967 "What's... Okay, what's the one reason we should do it that I can't deny?" 68 00:04:19,051 --> 00:04:22,304 And he said, "We're gonna die. 69 00:04:22,387 --> 00:04:24,765 "And this is a chance for us to do something 70 00:04:24,848 --> 00:04:28,143 "that we're both passionate about." 71 00:04:28,227 --> 00:04:30,103 And I couldn't argue anymore. 72 00:04:35,442 --> 00:04:37,819 - The Arch Lens. - Hmm. 73 00:04:39,321 --> 00:04:41,073 I think it's one of the things 74 00:04:41,156 --> 00:04:45,244 that's so interesting to me about this opportunity is that... 75 00:04:47,162 --> 00:04:51,667 creativity can come, sometimes, from a momentary emotion. 76 00:04:51,750 --> 00:04:53,836 To me, it seems like such a broad subject. 77 00:04:53,919 --> 00:04:55,239 - Yeah, I mean, yeah. - That lens. 78 00:04:55,295 --> 00:04:57,798 For me, it was just what is our perspective, 79 00:04:57,881 --> 00:05:00,634 our shared perspective on the journey that we're on, 80 00:05:00,717 --> 00:05:02,427 and with the people that we're meeting, 81 00:05:02,511 --> 00:05:07,349 and putting it into this context of storytelling. 82 00:05:07,432 --> 00:05:10,394 You know, everyone's signature is different. 83 00:05:10,477 --> 00:05:11,728 You know? 84 00:05:11,812 --> 00:05:16,275 I mean, to go visit a famous motorcycle designer is lovely, 85 00:05:16,358 --> 00:05:19,611 but I don't know that I would find as much inspiration from that 86 00:05:19,695 --> 00:05:22,614 as just these experiences of seeing other cultures, 87 00:05:22,698 --> 00:05:24,199 meeting these people, and these... 88 00:05:24,283 --> 00:05:27,786 that come from these totally different worlds 89 00:05:27,870 --> 00:05:31,081 and creative endeavors, you know? 90 00:05:31,164 --> 00:05:35,335 So I guess kind of looking into everyone's signature 91 00:05:35,419 --> 00:05:39,298 to look at the world in a certain... a new way, 92 00:05:39,381 --> 00:05:42,718 - or... but an inspirational way, you know? - Mm-hmm. 93 00:05:45,220 --> 00:05:47,472 Arch is always evolving. 94 00:05:49,892 --> 00:05:52,644 Searching for inspiration from those 95 00:05:52,728 --> 00:05:55,731 who help shape and change the world around us. 96 00:06:00,611 --> 00:06:05,032 Visionaries like Relativity Space founder, Tim Ellis. 97 00:06:11,038 --> 00:06:14,166 We are excited to get everybody here today. 98 00:06:14,249 --> 00:06:16,418 So we are celebrating one year 99 00:06:16,502 --> 00:06:19,213 since we launched Terran 1 to space. 100 00:06:19,296 --> 00:06:20,964 So I want to celebrate that. 101 00:06:25,761 --> 00:06:27,304 When I started Relativity, 102 00:06:27,387 --> 00:06:30,349 I told myself, maybe somewhat crazily, 103 00:06:30,432 --> 00:06:32,100 but if I'm gonna see a launch, 104 00:06:32,184 --> 00:06:35,229 it's gonna be because it was, you know, from my own hands 105 00:06:35,312 --> 00:06:37,940 and my own company that... that made this rocket work. 106 00:06:38,023 --> 00:06:40,567 And our long term mission is the colonization of Mars. 107 00:06:40,651 --> 00:06:42,653 So if we're going to live on Mars, 108 00:06:42,736 --> 00:06:44,780 somebody will be the person 109 00:06:44,863 --> 00:06:47,950 that builds all the manufacturing technologies we use there. 110 00:06:48,033 --> 00:06:50,911 And I thought, "Well, why can't that be me?" 111 00:06:53,705 --> 00:06:57,709 Terran 1 is Relativity's 3D-printed rocket. 112 00:06:57,793 --> 00:06:59,503 It was 3D-printed 113 00:06:59,586 --> 00:07:03,048 with over 100 miles of print area. 114 00:07:03,131 --> 00:07:05,467 It was really eight years of hard work 115 00:07:05,551 --> 00:07:06,802 to get to the first launch. 116 00:07:08,929 --> 00:07:10,848 I actually felt a lot of responsibility 117 00:07:10,931 --> 00:07:13,725 that if this launch fails, it's not just our company, 118 00:07:13,809 --> 00:07:16,019 it's actually the idea of 3D printing a rocket 119 00:07:16,103 --> 00:07:19,398 that will be set back, you know, potentially a decade or more. 120 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,320 Okay, so, LD, go for launch drop. 121 00:07:25,404 --> 00:07:27,281 LD, go for launch in 40 seconds. 122 00:07:27,698 --> 00:07:28,949 5,000 pounds. 123 00:07:29,032 --> 00:07:31,326 There's not many industries 124 00:07:31,410 --> 00:07:34,580 where in a single couple-minute moment, 125 00:07:34,663 --> 00:07:37,249 you're going to see the entire future of your company 126 00:07:37,332 --> 00:07:39,042 and your entire livelihood, 127 00:07:39,126 --> 00:07:42,087 everything either go up and work, 128 00:07:42,171 --> 00:07:44,590 or go up and explode in front of your eyes. 129 00:07:46,175 --> 00:07:47,759 All parties, all NETs, 130 00:07:47,843 --> 00:07:49,887 This is the go/no go poll. 131 00:07:51,388 --> 00:07:54,266 Please provide concurrence to proceed in a launch countdown. 132 00:07:54,349 --> 00:07:57,686 It's almost like this kid that we've seen grow up. 133 00:07:57,769 --> 00:08:00,439 All parties have reported go for launch countdown. 134 00:08:02,232 --> 00:08:03,901 Six, five, 135 00:08:03,984 --> 00:08:07,571 four, three, two, one. 136 00:08:09,072 --> 00:08:10,282 Lift off. 137 00:08:18,707 --> 00:08:20,268 Terran 1 has cleared the tower. 138 00:08:23,587 --> 00:08:25,714 It started to move slightly vertical. 139 00:08:25,797 --> 00:08:27,674 I, uh, ran out the door. 140 00:08:27,758 --> 00:08:31,678 I was no way going to watch this launch without my own two eyes. 141 00:08:31,762 --> 00:08:34,264 Oh, my God. Oh, my God. 142 00:08:34,348 --> 00:08:35,557 Oh, my God. 143 00:08:38,894 --> 00:08:40,479 Yeah, yeah, that was MAX-Q. 144 00:08:40,562 --> 00:08:42,105 Oh, my God! 145 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:48,195 That was such an against-all-odds moment. 146 00:08:48,278 --> 00:08:50,405 It felt like birthing something, 147 00:08:50,489 --> 00:08:53,492 and that thing actually lived, and it worked. 148 00:08:56,620 --> 00:08:59,998 Yes! Wow. 149 00:09:00,082 --> 00:09:03,168 Creations are things that are born out of nothing. 150 00:09:03,252 --> 00:09:05,420 And when you see 151 00:09:05,504 --> 00:09:08,882 something you've made really take flight, 152 00:09:08,966 --> 00:09:10,968 it's unbelievable. 153 00:09:13,887 --> 00:09:16,431 You definitely feel just this, you know, sound, 154 00:09:16,515 --> 00:09:20,060 and it's, like, almost just taking over the airspace around you. 155 00:09:20,143 --> 00:09:24,147 - Yeah. Yeah. - Let's go! 156 00:09:24,231 --> 00:09:26,233 It sounds like whips cracking, 157 00:09:26,316 --> 00:09:29,486 and kind of this, like, crackly flame, 158 00:09:29,570 --> 00:09:31,697 and it just kept going. 159 00:09:39,204 --> 00:09:41,123 And then I saw the second stage nozzle 160 00:09:41,206 --> 00:09:44,251 and I was like, "Holy cow, we're in space now." 161 00:09:44,334 --> 00:09:48,714 And, you know, that was just so surreal. 162 00:09:48,797 --> 00:09:52,759 It was so surreal. I will never forget that moment, um, ever. 163 00:09:55,012 --> 00:09:57,431 So at that moment, you know, I thought, 164 00:09:57,514 --> 00:10:01,018 "All right, um, what's next?" 165 00:10:02,019 --> 00:10:03,979 LD, are you go for launch? 166 00:10:04,062 --> 00:10:05,772 LD, go for launch. 167 00:10:05,856 --> 00:10:09,526 Four, three, two, one. 168 00:10:11,278 --> 00:10:13,614 After our first launch of Terran 1... 169 00:10:15,824 --> 00:10:18,744 Terran R, which is now what we're focused on, 170 00:10:18,827 --> 00:10:21,079 "R" stands for Reusable. 171 00:10:21,163 --> 00:10:24,791 Terran R, our, uh, first launch is in 2026. 172 00:10:24,875 --> 00:10:27,419 For building a 3.3 million pound thrust rocket 173 00:10:27,503 --> 00:10:29,546 that's, you know, nearly 300 feet tall, 174 00:10:29,630 --> 00:10:30,881 that's not a ton of time. 175 00:10:33,884 --> 00:10:37,429 So we're rapidly building out our factory. 176 00:10:37,513 --> 00:10:39,097 It's a million square feet. 177 00:10:39,181 --> 00:10:42,351 We need to build not just the rocket itself, 178 00:10:42,434 --> 00:10:43,560 but the production system. 179 00:10:43,644 --> 00:10:45,979 So this is a key step 180 00:10:46,063 --> 00:10:48,190 towards making the long-term vision of Mars happen. 181 00:10:48,273 --> 00:10:51,443 This building, this is our newest factory. 182 00:10:51,527 --> 00:10:54,446 So still building everything out, but just looking up, to start. 183 00:10:55,697 --> 00:10:59,034 The rocket we're building now is three times taller than this ceiling. 184 00:10:59,117 --> 00:11:00,327 Wait, what? 185 00:11:00,410 --> 00:11:01,721 It is three times taller than this ceiling. 186 00:11:01,745 --> 00:11:05,916 This is about 100 feet, and Terran R is nearly 300 feet tall. 187 00:11:05,999 --> 00:11:07,602 - Where will you build it? Here? - Here. 188 00:11:07,626 --> 00:11:10,522 - Yeah, we'll build 52... 52 a year here. - So you'll build it horizontally? 189 00:11:10,546 --> 00:11:12,089 Horizontally, exactly. 190 00:11:12,172 --> 00:11:15,175 Yeah, it's kind of insane. 191 00:11:15,259 --> 00:11:17,719 It is one of the biggest rockets the US has ever built. 192 00:11:17,803 --> 00:11:19,346 That's why we need this huge building, 193 00:11:19,429 --> 00:11:21,491 and that's why it's three times taller than the ceiling. 194 00:11:21,515 --> 00:11:22,891 It's no joke. 195 00:11:26,311 --> 00:11:29,064 We really needed Terran 1 just to be successful enough 196 00:11:29,147 --> 00:11:32,401 to prove the technology, which we did, on flight one. 197 00:11:32,484 --> 00:11:34,236 We exceeded our expectations. 198 00:11:34,319 --> 00:11:37,698 It was actually, by almost every metric, the best first launch in history 199 00:11:37,781 --> 00:11:39,658 of any privately-backed company 200 00:11:39,741 --> 00:11:42,494 as far as how much we proved, and how far we got into the flight 201 00:11:42,578 --> 00:11:44,746 of... of a very ambitious product. 202 00:11:44,830 --> 00:11:47,624 So then we went all in on Terran R. 203 00:11:47,708 --> 00:11:49,144 All of these parts are printed, by the way. 204 00:11:49,168 --> 00:11:51,295 Like, every dark part, metal you're seeing, 205 00:11:51,378 --> 00:11:53,922 these are all printed housings. 206 00:11:54,006 --> 00:11:56,592 And looking at this, I'm reminded of coral. 207 00:11:56,675 --> 00:11:57,759 Yeah. 208 00:11:57,843 --> 00:12:01,263 This is actually designed with what's called an evolutionary algorithm. 209 00:12:01,346 --> 00:12:03,432 The North Star of design 210 00:12:03,515 --> 00:12:06,685 is when you think of how nature has designed things 211 00:12:06,768 --> 00:12:08,145 through millions of years, 212 00:12:08,228 --> 00:12:10,564 it's really this kind of iterative approach 213 00:12:10,647 --> 00:12:13,025 of what survives and what doesn't. 214 00:12:13,108 --> 00:12:15,194 - Adaptation. - Exactly, adaptation. 215 00:12:15,277 --> 00:12:17,905 And so the way this is designed is you actually say, 216 00:12:17,988 --> 00:12:20,824 "Okay, I'm going to have this many valves and this many sensors. 217 00:12:20,908 --> 00:12:23,452 "They need to generally go to these locations, 218 00:12:23,535 --> 00:12:25,746 "and then fill in everything in between." 219 00:12:25,829 --> 00:12:29,374 But this is a great example of what you were talking about 220 00:12:29,458 --> 00:12:32,085 3D-printing making possible 221 00:12:32,169 --> 00:12:34,671 that you can't do in other manufacturing forms. 222 00:12:34,755 --> 00:12:37,299 Yeah. Yeah, exactly. 223 00:12:37,382 --> 00:12:41,386 So these are also using the evolutionary algorithm. 224 00:12:41,470 --> 00:12:43,305 Sort of skeletal structure. 225 00:12:43,388 --> 00:12:45,224 Nature is the best calculator. 226 00:12:45,307 --> 00:12:48,060 And so when you start to use nature 227 00:12:48,143 --> 00:12:50,604 as an inspiration for products, 228 00:12:50,687 --> 00:12:53,732 you actually end up with these designs. 229 00:12:53,815 --> 00:12:56,735 I think it's much more inspiring if it's not just an idea, 230 00:12:56,818 --> 00:12:58,278 but we actually do it. 231 00:12:58,362 --> 00:13:01,114 Things that we actually do, and successfully achieve, 232 00:13:01,198 --> 00:13:05,452 are significantly more inspiring than just the idea of it. 233 00:13:05,536 --> 00:13:08,121 The rules of the world can change. 234 00:13:08,205 --> 00:13:11,041 I just think it's more exciting to play at the edges, 235 00:13:11,124 --> 00:13:13,544 and pushing the boundaries of what's possible. 236 00:13:15,462 --> 00:13:17,714 With normal manufacturing without 3D-printing, 237 00:13:17,798 --> 00:13:20,634 that's two to three years production time. 238 00:13:20,717 --> 00:13:23,178 So we can produce one of these engines 239 00:13:23,262 --> 00:13:24,972 in about two months. 240 00:13:25,055 --> 00:13:26,098 - Wait, what? - Really? 241 00:13:26,181 --> 00:13:28,767 Yeah, yeah, one in two months from start. 242 00:13:28,851 --> 00:13:29,977 - Very fast. - You hear that? 243 00:13:30,060 --> 00:13:32,229 - No, don't even start! Don't even start. - Oh, no. 244 00:13:32,312 --> 00:13:34,192 - You hear that? - I'm gonna get him in trouble. 245 00:13:41,363 --> 00:13:44,950 I grew up in Plano, Texas, which is a suburb north of Dallas. 246 00:13:45,033 --> 00:13:47,911 Pretty famously sort of boring place, 247 00:13:47,995 --> 00:13:50,622 which actually helped me a lot, in hindsight, 248 00:13:50,706 --> 00:13:53,208 because I had to invent 249 00:13:53,292 --> 00:13:56,211 all of my own things to entertain myself. 250 00:13:58,088 --> 00:14:00,299 And I can remember playing with Legos 251 00:14:00,382 --> 00:14:02,885 14 to 16 hours, sometimes, a day. 252 00:14:07,598 --> 00:14:11,143 And then I would just create things sort of from scratch, 253 00:14:11,226 --> 00:14:13,854 like spaceships, usually, rockets. 254 00:14:15,189 --> 00:14:16,356 Yeah, I did it so much 255 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,943 my right thumb is literally bent more backwards than my left. 256 00:14:20,027 --> 00:14:22,863 I think I was pressing the Lego pieces down 257 00:14:22,946 --> 00:14:24,489 over, and over, and over, and over. 258 00:14:26,074 --> 00:14:27,910 I think it's an obsession, at that point. 259 00:14:27,993 --> 00:14:29,870 It's absolutely an obsession. 260 00:14:32,039 --> 00:14:34,833 The combination of creative problem solving, like, 261 00:14:34,917 --> 00:14:36,919 "Where does the next piece go? What am I building?" 262 00:14:37,002 --> 00:14:39,630 You know, you step back, you look at your creation 263 00:14:39,713 --> 00:14:41,393 and you're trying... And then you redo it. 264 00:14:41,465 --> 00:14:44,652 Oftentimes, you know, you'll think, "Oh, this isn't really working or it's ugly." 265 00:14:44,676 --> 00:14:46,428 Like, "Let's tear this all apart. 266 00:14:46,512 --> 00:14:48,597 "I have a better idea this time." 267 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,682 For that reason, I think design was something 268 00:14:50,766 --> 00:14:54,520 I... I definitely always was very, very good at. 269 00:14:54,603 --> 00:14:58,482 But, um, despite building Legos and doing spaceships, 270 00:14:58,565 --> 00:15:00,400 I was not into rockets growing up. 271 00:15:00,484 --> 00:15:03,195 But then in college, there was this student group 272 00:15:03,278 --> 00:15:05,072 called USC Rocket Lab. 273 00:15:05,155 --> 00:15:07,866 They had this mission of being the first students 274 00:15:07,950 --> 00:15:10,619 in the world to launch a rocket to space. 275 00:15:10,702 --> 00:15:12,788 Their motto was "space or nothing." 276 00:15:12,871 --> 00:15:14,998 It just sounded crazy and cool. 277 00:15:15,082 --> 00:15:18,460 And since that was really more the spirit of where I came from was, 278 00:15:18,544 --> 00:15:19,687 you know, we're all going to die. 279 00:15:19,711 --> 00:15:20,921 Let's do something wild. 280 00:15:21,004 --> 00:15:22,798 I got hooked on rockets instantly after that. 281 00:15:22,881 --> 00:15:26,510 It was, "Why don't I just do that for my life and dedicate my life to it?" 282 00:15:37,145 --> 00:15:40,232 In many ways, going to Mars, you know, 283 00:15:40,315 --> 00:15:42,067 is expanding the human experience. 284 00:15:42,150 --> 00:15:44,987 And I think, for me, it's, why do anything at all? 285 00:15:45,070 --> 00:15:49,199 We have lived on Earth for hundreds and thousands of years 286 00:15:49,283 --> 00:15:50,993 as a modern civilization. 287 00:15:54,079 --> 00:15:57,082 Living and dying, and living and dying again, 288 00:15:57,165 --> 00:15:58,876 kind of improving step by step. 289 00:16:01,712 --> 00:16:03,589 But why? Like, what is it all for? 290 00:16:03,672 --> 00:16:07,009 And I think for me, it's kind of this idea of there being 291 00:16:07,092 --> 00:16:10,554 a singular vision for the future of humanity and our species. 292 00:16:10,637 --> 00:16:13,390 And why don't we have a North Star direction 293 00:16:13,473 --> 00:16:17,769 that is ambitious and will blow our minds? 294 00:16:17,853 --> 00:16:20,564 Every step is important. 295 00:16:20,647 --> 00:16:22,107 And I have a favorite song. 296 00:16:22,191 --> 00:16:25,986 And one of the lyrics is, "The first step is hardest of all." 297 00:16:26,069 --> 00:16:28,071 And if you could just keep taking those steps, 298 00:16:28,155 --> 00:16:31,950 like, in hundreds of years, hopefully we're on Mars. 299 00:16:32,034 --> 00:16:35,913 Hopefully we're figuring out ways to get out of the solar system, 300 00:16:35,996 --> 00:16:39,374 and we're moving forward and we're advancing technology. 301 00:16:39,458 --> 00:16:42,920 All that kind of starts with one test, 302 00:16:43,003 --> 00:16:46,131 one failure resolution, one rocket, 303 00:16:46,215 --> 00:16:49,176 cascades into this bigger solution 304 00:16:49,259 --> 00:16:53,222 that no one's gonna remember who we are in a thousand years. 305 00:16:53,305 --> 00:16:57,851 But they're gonna be building off of our initial first steps. 306 00:16:58,977 --> 00:17:01,313 That's even what Relativity's logo stands for. 307 00:17:01,396 --> 00:17:05,526 It's this idea of the four phases of colonization of Mars. 308 00:17:07,694 --> 00:17:10,989 The first phase, the bottom of our logo, is just a single dot. 309 00:17:11,073 --> 00:17:13,534 That's Earth, as we currently are. 310 00:17:13,617 --> 00:17:16,036 The next phase is kind of them starting to split. 311 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,747 That's Earth and Mars kind of first contact, 312 00:17:18,830 --> 00:17:21,708 like, when we initially have people there. 313 00:17:21,792 --> 00:17:24,253 And then them further apart, but still connected. 314 00:17:24,336 --> 00:17:29,174 So that's really a million people on Mars, like, getting to a scale 315 00:17:29,258 --> 00:17:32,261 where they're still reliant on each other, but not quite fully separate. 316 00:17:32,344 --> 00:17:35,013 And then the final phase is Earth and Mars now 317 00:17:35,097 --> 00:17:37,724 is, like, two planets, they can stand alone. 318 00:17:37,808 --> 00:17:41,478 They're fully independent, and... and self-sustaining. 319 00:17:41,562 --> 00:17:43,939 I just think if we were having this conversation 320 00:17:44,022 --> 00:17:46,441 and a million people lived on another planet, 321 00:17:46,525 --> 00:17:49,278 like, we would feel different emotions. 322 00:17:49,361 --> 00:17:51,822 As a sensory junkie, I would feel different things, 323 00:17:51,905 --> 00:17:53,699 you would see different things. 324 00:17:53,782 --> 00:17:55,325 Just how cool would that be? 325 00:17:55,409 --> 00:17:58,036 It's gonna change what it means to be a human being. 326 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:08,755 While interning for Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, 327 00:18:08,839 --> 00:18:10,799 Tim came to the realization 328 00:18:10,883 --> 00:18:13,468 that getting to Mars anytime soon 329 00:18:13,552 --> 00:18:15,804 required employing new technologies 330 00:18:15,888 --> 00:18:18,724 to speed up the timeline for innovation. 331 00:18:20,851 --> 00:18:22,811 Nobody had 3D-printed anything bigger 332 00:18:22,895 --> 00:18:25,063 than a cubic foot at that point in time. 333 00:18:25,147 --> 00:18:27,191 We were trying to build a 110-foot-tall rocket. 334 00:18:27,274 --> 00:18:31,320 We had to actually build the tools we were gonna use to make the thing. 335 00:18:31,403 --> 00:18:32,696 Because I did have this vision 336 00:18:32,779 --> 00:18:35,032 that if you could invent these 3D printers, 337 00:18:35,115 --> 00:18:37,701 it actually would be significantly cheaper and faster. 338 00:18:37,784 --> 00:18:39,786 Because the potential was clearly there, 339 00:18:39,870 --> 00:18:42,456 I thought this was a worthwhile thing to try. 340 00:18:42,539 --> 00:18:44,791 And I thought, well, I'm 25, 341 00:18:44,875 --> 00:18:47,169 I don't actually have that much to lose right now. 342 00:18:49,505 --> 00:18:53,008 So, you know, I was sitting at the dining table. 343 00:18:54,051 --> 00:18:56,887 I had, you know, the Excel spreadsheets 344 00:18:56,970 --> 00:18:59,014 outlining the business plan for Relativity. 345 00:18:59,097 --> 00:19:02,226 It was clear it was gonna be an exciting idea. 346 00:19:02,309 --> 00:19:06,563 And I thought, I guess I'm gonna email Mark Cuban and ask him for money, 347 00:19:06,647 --> 00:19:08,357 because why not? 348 00:19:16,406 --> 00:19:19,493 For whatever reason, I just realized that was the moment 349 00:19:19,576 --> 00:19:22,496 that I was going to write Mark Cuban a cold email. 350 00:19:23,664 --> 00:19:26,416 I did not know his email, so I just guessed. 351 00:19:27,501 --> 00:19:30,003 You know, mark.cuban@gmail.com, 352 00:19:30,087 --> 00:19:31,755 cuban@gmail.com, 353 00:19:31,839 --> 00:19:33,549 mark@dallasmavericks.com. 354 00:19:33,632 --> 00:19:35,717 Like, I did, you know, 20 different versions. 355 00:19:36,927 --> 00:19:40,222 My daily routine is, I'll get up in the morning, 356 00:19:40,305 --> 00:19:43,976 6:00, 6:30, and just lay in bed, and do my emails. 357 00:19:44,059 --> 00:19:46,186 Right? Literally, I'm just staring at the ceiling, 358 00:19:46,270 --> 00:19:47,413 going through email after email, 359 00:19:47,437 --> 00:19:48,981 because I know I'm going to get 360 00:19:49,064 --> 00:19:52,150 750 to 1250 emails a day. 361 00:19:52,234 --> 00:19:55,320 And of those, probably 362 00:19:55,404 --> 00:19:59,074 a third are asking for something, most likely money. 363 00:20:00,075 --> 00:20:03,328 And I... I knew I had to have some subject line that stuck out, 364 00:20:03,412 --> 00:20:04,830 that got him to pay attention. 365 00:20:07,416 --> 00:20:09,918 Oh, here's the original email. 366 00:20:10,002 --> 00:20:12,087 Look at that. 367 00:20:13,422 --> 00:20:14,798 "Mr. Cuban... 368 00:20:15,883 --> 00:20:18,302 I'm from Plano, age 25." 369 00:20:18,385 --> 00:20:20,637 You know, "I've followed the Mavericks a long time, 370 00:20:20,721 --> 00:20:22,014 "I'm a fan of yours. 371 00:20:22,097 --> 00:20:25,517 "I work for Jeff Bezos' company, Blue Origin." 372 00:20:25,601 --> 00:20:28,896 "But I'm leaving to start my own orbital rocket company with my co-founder, 373 00:20:28,979 --> 00:20:30,564 "Jordan Noone, from SpaceX." 374 00:20:30,647 --> 00:20:33,358 "We want a 3D-printed rocket, here's why that's important, 375 00:20:33,442 --> 00:20:35,360 "and one day we want to go to Mars." 376 00:20:35,444 --> 00:20:37,613 "In 10,000 years, space will be the future. 377 00:20:37,696 --> 00:20:41,158 "Humanity deserves a universal legacy, that's what we're doing. 378 00:20:41,241 --> 00:20:42,618 "Also, space is sexy." 379 00:20:42,701 --> 00:20:44,620 That was the gist of the email. 380 00:20:44,703 --> 00:20:48,207 And then, to my complete shock, 381 00:20:48,290 --> 00:20:52,169 I looked at my phone five minutes later, and had a reply. 382 00:20:56,298 --> 00:20:59,051 And at first I thought, "Am I being catfished?" 383 00:20:59,134 --> 00:21:00,344 Like, is this even real? 384 00:21:00,427 --> 00:21:03,931 But I realized, "Well, if he only wrote, you know, 385 00:21:04,014 --> 00:21:06,099 "five words, I think maybe it is him." 386 00:21:06,183 --> 00:21:07,601 And so I replied back. 387 00:21:09,478 --> 00:21:11,772 And then he replied back five minutes later and he said, 388 00:21:11,855 --> 00:21:13,273 "Well, what do you want from me?" 389 00:21:13,357 --> 00:21:15,400 I was like, "Okay, wow, I guess we're in the game." 390 00:21:15,484 --> 00:21:18,820 And so then I asked him for $100,000. 391 00:21:18,904 --> 00:21:21,949 To me, that was just... it sounded like a big number. 392 00:21:22,032 --> 00:21:24,660 It was maybe... you know, let us get going. 393 00:21:24,743 --> 00:21:26,745 I said we were raising half a million. 394 00:21:27,913 --> 00:21:31,500 He replied back five minutes after that and said... 395 00:21:31,583 --> 00:21:34,378 "Make it 20%, and I'll put up the entire 500K." 396 00:21:34,795 --> 00:21:36,380 Um... 397 00:21:36,463 --> 00:21:40,050 So, and I sent... I actually sent it to the wrong guy. 398 00:21:40,133 --> 00:21:43,804 The guy goes, "Is this for me?" 399 00:21:46,807 --> 00:21:49,393 Oh, my God. 400 00:21:50,227 --> 00:21:53,647 He replied back, "I like your idea. I'll give you the whole half a million." 401 00:21:53,730 --> 00:21:55,440 And so I said... 402 00:21:55,524 --> 00:21:58,151 "Okay, we definitely accept." Oh! 403 00:21:58,235 --> 00:21:59,278 How's that? 404 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,614 I still have never told him this, but, um, 405 00:22:02,698 --> 00:22:04,575 well, I guess I'm telling him now. 406 00:22:04,658 --> 00:22:09,580 We actually didn't have an incorporated company or a bank account. 407 00:22:09,663 --> 00:22:11,790 So I actually had to come up with excuses 408 00:22:11,874 --> 00:22:14,042 to delay him wiring us the money 409 00:22:14,126 --> 00:22:16,461 because there was no bank for it to go. 410 00:22:16,545 --> 00:22:18,022 Yeah, that's what all entrepreneurs do. 411 00:22:18,046 --> 00:22:19,357 That's part of being an entrepreneur. 412 00:22:19,381 --> 00:22:22,050 You know, you shoot your shot, 413 00:22:22,134 --> 00:22:25,679 and when someone says yes, you go. 414 00:22:25,762 --> 00:22:28,182 Still, you have to be a great entrepreneur 415 00:22:28,265 --> 00:22:32,352 to be able to go from concept, cold email, grab the money 416 00:22:32,436 --> 00:22:34,730 and not just grab the money and disappear, 417 00:22:34,813 --> 00:22:36,315 but make the shit work. 418 00:22:52,915 --> 00:22:54,499 To create a 3D printed rocket, 419 00:22:54,583 --> 00:22:57,336 we had to invent the world's largest metal 3D printers, 420 00:22:57,419 --> 00:22:58,462 which did not exist. 421 00:22:58,545 --> 00:23:02,799 So this actually made our startup idea particularly hard 422 00:23:02,883 --> 00:23:06,929 because we had to actually build the tools 423 00:23:07,012 --> 00:23:09,014 we were gonna use to make the thing. 424 00:23:09,097 --> 00:23:10,891 To 3D print rockets, 425 00:23:10,974 --> 00:23:13,936 Relativity utilizes two approaches. 426 00:23:14,019 --> 00:23:16,522 The first is called powder bed fusion, 427 00:23:16,605 --> 00:23:18,607 a method used to create parts 428 00:23:18,690 --> 00:23:21,610 with fine details by utilizing a laser 429 00:23:21,693 --> 00:23:24,112 to center powdered material. 430 00:23:24,196 --> 00:23:26,031 For larger components, 431 00:23:26,114 --> 00:23:29,243 Relativity created their own unique printer 432 00:23:29,326 --> 00:23:31,828 they call Stargate. 433 00:23:31,912 --> 00:23:35,123 So these are the largest metal 3D printers in the world. 434 00:23:35,207 --> 00:23:36,792 What? 435 00:23:36,875 --> 00:23:38,961 That's a UFO. 436 00:23:39,044 --> 00:23:42,381 How many hours a day will this thing run and print? 437 00:23:42,464 --> 00:23:44,258 I mean, when we're really operating, 438 00:23:44,341 --> 00:23:47,302 these things are going, you know, 24/7. 439 00:23:47,386 --> 00:23:49,930 - Really? Okay. Wow. - Yeah, 24 hours a day. 440 00:23:50,013 --> 00:23:53,559 - So that's the robot arm, just tracing. - Tracing? 441 00:23:53,642 --> 00:23:56,645 Basically a welder, like, fundamentally. 442 00:23:56,728 --> 00:24:00,649 It's just this whole circular piece is a build plate. 443 00:24:00,732 --> 00:24:03,777 - Wait, wait. Okay. - Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. 444 00:24:03,861 --> 00:24:06,655 I haven't seen these things, right? I haven't seen them work. 445 00:24:06,738 --> 00:24:10,367 What is it mounted to, to wrap around or to... 446 00:24:10,450 --> 00:24:12,578 Yeah, yeah. So this is the wire. 447 00:24:12,661 --> 00:24:13,745 - Being fed? - Feeds in. 448 00:24:13,829 --> 00:24:17,791 It's pretty fast, about eight inches a second kind of speed. 449 00:24:17,875 --> 00:24:19,459 - Oh, wow. - So really quick. 450 00:24:19,543 --> 00:24:23,088 And then at the end of the robot, there's a head that's melting. 451 00:24:23,172 --> 00:24:26,049 The wire really kind of just hot and quickly melts it. 452 00:24:26,133 --> 00:24:29,845 And then this whole circular piece is a build plate. 453 00:24:29,928 --> 00:24:31,889 So literally that's... 454 00:24:31,972 --> 00:24:34,641 And that's just gonna start honeycombing out. 455 00:24:34,725 --> 00:24:36,405 Yeah, just starts coming out. Yes, exactly. 456 00:24:38,729 --> 00:24:42,858 The Stargate printer is an additive manufacturing robot 457 00:24:42,941 --> 00:24:45,861 where a spool of wire is fed into a print head, 458 00:24:45,944 --> 00:24:48,947 melting it together layer by layer. 459 00:24:49,031 --> 00:24:50,908 A next-generation innovation 460 00:24:50,991 --> 00:24:53,952 that defies traditional 3D printing, 461 00:24:54,036 --> 00:24:57,497 moving horizontally instead of vertically, 462 00:24:57,581 --> 00:24:58,749 allowing them to print 463 00:24:58,832 --> 00:25:02,127 longer pieces of the rocket all at once. 464 00:25:02,211 --> 00:25:06,340 Is the printing aspect of what you do a keystone? 465 00:25:06,423 --> 00:25:09,468 Yes. I mean, really, printing is an enabling tech 466 00:25:09,551 --> 00:25:11,595 that lets us iterate very quickly. 467 00:25:11,678 --> 00:25:15,766 In traditional design processes, you end up having to guess 468 00:25:15,849 --> 00:25:18,101 maybe five different designs. 469 00:25:18,185 --> 00:25:20,479 They're all gonna take two to three years to build. 470 00:25:20,562 --> 00:25:22,940 You test all of them at the end and hope one of them works. 471 00:25:23,023 --> 00:25:27,277 With 3D printing, you end up being able to build 472 00:25:27,361 --> 00:25:29,821 a whole engine in only a few months. 473 00:25:29,905 --> 00:25:33,742 Go test it, get the test data, then make tweaks every couple months. 474 00:25:33,825 --> 00:25:36,662 Not many industries are you launching 475 00:25:36,745 --> 00:25:38,205 the market cap of a small company 476 00:25:38,288 --> 00:25:41,250 in front of your eyes, like, if it's gonna work or not. 477 00:25:41,333 --> 00:25:44,795 - Movies. - True, yes, that is true. 478 00:25:44,878 --> 00:25:47,798 Here's your $300 million movie 479 00:25:47,881 --> 00:25:49,758 opening weekend. 480 00:25:49,842 --> 00:25:54,096 Yeah, it'd be like if you launched a film and it got $0 because it blew up. 481 00:25:54,179 --> 00:25:55,222 Oh. Yeah. 482 00:26:03,730 --> 00:26:07,276 I think I've always been a little bit of a sensory junkie 483 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,444 or intellectual daredevil, perhaps. 484 00:26:09,528 --> 00:26:12,030 For me, it's like a waste of life 485 00:26:12,114 --> 00:26:15,200 if you have this time to do anything you want 486 00:26:15,284 --> 00:26:18,912 and you don't do something that's kind of pushing... 487 00:26:18,996 --> 00:26:23,292 pushing what it means to just express yourself. 488 00:26:23,375 --> 00:26:25,919 I generally just like to wear what I wanna wear. 489 00:26:26,003 --> 00:26:27,212 Don't care about the rules. 490 00:26:27,296 --> 00:26:31,425 Even if I'm a CEO, I don't need to only look like that. 491 00:26:31,508 --> 00:26:35,179 When I'm wearing patterns or celestial clothes, 492 00:26:35,262 --> 00:26:39,141 for me, it's actually just a reminder what is our place within the universe. 493 00:26:39,224 --> 00:26:41,518 Yeah, I love this hoodie. 494 00:26:41,602 --> 00:26:45,272 Just in general, I feel like I like dressing like a rocket. 495 00:26:56,033 --> 00:26:58,577 All right, you want hot coffee, right? 496 00:26:58,660 --> 00:26:59,870 - Hot coffee, yeah. - Okay. 497 00:26:59,953 --> 00:27:01,079 - Thanks. - Fantastic. 498 00:27:01,163 --> 00:27:03,624 I am an artist and an astronaut in training. 499 00:27:03,707 --> 00:27:08,128 It might seem like two opposite ends of the spectrum, 500 00:27:08,212 --> 00:27:11,632 but as I've pursued my creative artistic journey, 501 00:27:11,715 --> 00:27:15,344 I've realized that it's led me into this interest around space, 502 00:27:15,427 --> 00:27:18,055 space exploration, and testing the boundaries 503 00:27:18,138 --> 00:27:20,974 of where art can exist. 504 00:27:21,058 --> 00:27:23,602 What's interesting is, I'm not really just the scientist, 505 00:27:23,685 --> 00:27:26,438 and she's not really just the artist either. 506 00:27:26,522 --> 00:27:28,148 Her artwork has always been 507 00:27:28,232 --> 00:27:31,068 very science and technology driven. 508 00:27:31,151 --> 00:27:35,739 I think sometimes she's more of a science geek or nerd than me. 509 00:27:35,822 --> 00:27:39,034 We have had this idea of a Venn diagram describing us, 510 00:27:39,117 --> 00:27:42,204 so science plus art equals wonder. 511 00:27:43,539 --> 00:27:49,336 Relativity was sort of this play on words of art relative to science, 512 00:27:49,419 --> 00:27:52,172 and wonder being in the middle of this Venn diagram. 513 00:27:52,256 --> 00:27:56,343 So it really was about that relationship. 514 00:27:56,426 --> 00:28:01,098 But we definitely have this point where we come together and inspire each other. 515 00:28:01,181 --> 00:28:05,727 Tim and I, we both have the word "wonder" engraved on our wedding rings, and... 516 00:28:07,604 --> 00:28:11,441 I think what that represents to both of us is... 517 00:28:12,985 --> 00:28:14,027 hmm... 518 00:28:15,279 --> 00:28:18,824 just a lust for life and a lust for possibility. 519 00:28:21,952 --> 00:28:24,246 In many ways, the story of Relativity, 520 00:28:24,329 --> 00:28:26,182 well, the story of me is not complete without her, 521 00:28:26,206 --> 00:28:28,792 but certainly I think the story of Relativity Space 522 00:28:28,876 --> 00:28:30,752 is not complete without her too. 523 00:28:30,836 --> 00:28:34,548 And you know, when I go home at night, she's the person supporting me, 524 00:28:34,631 --> 00:28:38,051 so I think she's just been my creative muse in many ways. 525 00:28:40,846 --> 00:28:43,557 There is one thing that I just rediscovered. 526 00:28:45,726 --> 00:28:47,603 It's pretty crazy, 527 00:28:47,686 --> 00:28:52,733 but I found the original Relativity Gallery business plan. 528 00:28:52,816 --> 00:28:55,485 Tim and I, right after college, wrote a business plan 529 00:28:55,569 --> 00:28:57,821 that was called Relativity Gallery. 530 00:28:57,905 --> 00:29:03,160 And this was an idea of bridging an artist and a scientist 531 00:29:03,243 --> 00:29:06,788 to develop a space that would bring those worlds together. 532 00:29:06,872 --> 00:29:10,167 I think what I feel when I look at this is, 533 00:29:10,250 --> 00:29:11,877 wow. 534 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,670 We've come a long way. 535 00:29:15,088 --> 00:29:17,382 Instead of starting a science art gallery, 536 00:29:17,466 --> 00:29:20,469 we decided to start a 3D printing rocket company, 537 00:29:20,552 --> 00:29:21,970 as one does, yeah. 538 00:29:42,241 --> 00:29:45,118 We're headed into Stennis, where our test facility is, 539 00:29:45,202 --> 00:29:48,539 so welcome, where the weather here 540 00:29:48,622 --> 00:29:52,751 is dripping almost entirely above 90 degrees for the majority of the year. 541 00:29:54,294 --> 00:29:56,839 Humidity is sticky, 542 00:29:56,922 --> 00:29:59,800 and the mosquitoes will carry you away, 543 00:29:59,883 --> 00:30:03,011 but this is where all the testing's done, in the swamp, 544 00:30:03,095 --> 00:30:05,055 in the sweat, in the heat. 545 00:30:10,561 --> 00:30:15,357 Clay Walker, he is now the leader of our test site. 546 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:20,279 He's pretty damn smart, you know, self-educated. 547 00:30:20,362 --> 00:30:22,614 I think a lot of the team looks up to him. 548 00:30:22,698 --> 00:30:25,742 Certainly I think he's a great leader. 549 00:30:25,826 --> 00:30:28,579 He's one of those rare individuals 550 00:30:28,662 --> 00:30:31,373 that we trust with his decision speed 551 00:30:31,456 --> 00:30:34,293 to be perfect, almost. 552 00:30:35,460 --> 00:30:40,174 I like fire, I like explosions, I like big things that go boom. 553 00:30:40,257 --> 00:30:43,343 There's few things more metal than a rocket launch. 554 00:30:44,887 --> 00:30:47,890 You're in that moment, and no one can take it away from you. 555 00:30:47,973 --> 00:30:51,226 It's like you're hearing something for the very first time, 556 00:30:51,310 --> 00:30:52,561 just for you. 557 00:30:56,899 --> 00:31:01,195 I think people believe that science can't have 558 00:31:01,278 --> 00:31:04,239 an artistic component to it. 559 00:31:04,323 --> 00:31:08,660 But there's a creativity to a very mechanical solution, 560 00:31:08,744 --> 00:31:12,247 and I think engineering can be like that. 561 00:31:12,331 --> 00:31:15,125 Figure out how a rocket works. There's art to it. 562 00:31:17,794 --> 00:31:19,546 So we actually exclusively own... 563 00:31:19,630 --> 00:31:21,048 Welcome To STENNIS SPACE CENTER 564 00:31:21,131 --> 00:31:22,567 ...a lot of the infrastructure at NASA Stennis, 565 00:31:22,591 --> 00:31:24,760 so this is in partnership with NASA. 566 00:31:24,843 --> 00:31:27,054 It's actually the site where they developed 567 00:31:27,137 --> 00:31:29,973 a lot of the Apollo program to go to the moon, 568 00:31:30,057 --> 00:31:31,391 the space shuttle program. 569 00:31:31,475 --> 00:31:35,729 Now they're giving those facilities to private companies like Relativity. 570 00:31:36,897 --> 00:31:39,733 So on the front row, we have most of the team 571 00:31:39,816 --> 00:31:41,360 who's actually clicking buttons. 572 00:31:41,443 --> 00:31:44,238 They're pretty much running the test. 573 00:31:49,117 --> 00:31:51,286 The ability to change a piece of hardware, 574 00:31:51,370 --> 00:31:54,915 iterating quickly, this failure we had, 575 00:31:54,998 --> 00:31:57,709 well, it's because of this, how do we fix it? 576 00:31:57,793 --> 00:31:59,670 All right, we print another piece of hardware, 577 00:31:59,753 --> 00:32:02,673 we change this component, we get another piece out to Stennis 578 00:32:02,756 --> 00:32:05,467 as quickly as possible so that we can test it 579 00:32:05,551 --> 00:32:07,469 and prove that we fixed that thing. 580 00:32:08,887 --> 00:32:11,014 Okay, good to start. 581 00:32:11,098 --> 00:32:12,349 Go ahead. 582 00:32:12,432 --> 00:32:14,768 Physics and simulation can only get you so far 583 00:32:14,852 --> 00:32:16,478 in predicting what's gonna happen. 584 00:32:16,562 --> 00:32:18,162 You have to actually build the hardware, 585 00:32:18,188 --> 00:32:21,108 go test it, and collect real test data. 586 00:32:21,191 --> 00:32:23,652 Really, especially for things like rockets 587 00:32:23,735 --> 00:32:27,114 or other complex products, you learn by doing. 588 00:32:28,574 --> 00:32:30,784 Just a normal day. 589 00:32:35,914 --> 00:32:37,958 We are running full engine testing 590 00:32:38,041 --> 00:32:42,254 where you learn the most, you fail as often as you can, 591 00:32:42,337 --> 00:32:45,674 but it's a step to getting better. 592 00:32:45,757 --> 00:32:49,219 Just going through our safety process, 593 00:32:49,303 --> 00:32:52,556 make sure all the hazards are isolated. 594 00:32:52,639 --> 00:32:55,517 Yeah, and I'll give the sequence start command at T-minus 20. 595 00:32:59,897 --> 00:33:01,617 - Engine startup. - Copy. 596 00:33:04,401 --> 00:33:05,819 T-minus 10 seconds. 597 00:33:10,991 --> 00:33:13,535 Three, two, one, zero. 598 00:33:32,095 --> 00:33:33,722 Abort, abort, abort. 599 00:34:18,225 --> 00:34:20,102 What's up, Clay? 600 00:34:20,185 --> 00:34:22,563 Hey, Tim. It's been an adventure. 601 00:34:28,485 --> 00:34:30,964 It's pretty cool. We've actually already pulled the pump off too, 602 00:34:30,988 --> 00:34:33,156 so let me swing this camera around. 603 00:34:36,285 --> 00:34:37,536 Yeah. 604 00:34:39,997 --> 00:34:41,999 My father actually is an entrepreneur. 605 00:34:42,082 --> 00:34:45,127 He started his own company, but the key thing there is 606 00:34:45,210 --> 00:34:49,923 I just saw him almost fail maybe what felt like 60 times. 607 00:34:50,007 --> 00:34:54,720 And so for me, I just saw, well... 608 00:34:54,803 --> 00:34:57,514 things may be really difficult, but there's a way to figure it out. 609 00:34:57,598 --> 00:35:01,435 So I saw what it looks like to take a risk, almost fail, 610 00:35:01,518 --> 00:35:05,355 but not quite, and I think that was really very impactful. 611 00:35:05,439 --> 00:35:09,359 We had the blast doors and everything that were all closed, 612 00:35:09,443 --> 00:35:13,030 so it limited how bad it propagated, 613 00:35:13,113 --> 00:35:15,407 and nothing went up to the bird's nest, 614 00:35:15,490 --> 00:35:19,286 so everything above the load head is all fine. 615 00:35:33,342 --> 00:35:34,635 Yeah. 616 00:35:39,723 --> 00:35:41,308 Everybody was pretty cheerful about it. 617 00:35:41,391 --> 00:35:43,369 Like, they're all pretty used to this type of stuff, 618 00:35:43,393 --> 00:35:44,937 so I think it was good. 619 00:35:47,397 --> 00:35:50,234 One of the key things I think we do really well at Relativity, 620 00:35:50,317 --> 00:35:54,404 which is how quickly we were able to build and grow here, 621 00:35:54,488 --> 00:35:58,909 it's because the idea of failure is the mechanism to make you better, 622 00:35:58,992 --> 00:36:01,161 and you see that all the way up the chain. 623 00:36:01,245 --> 00:36:02,913 Tim embraces that, 624 00:36:02,996 --> 00:36:06,083 and if you have that sort of backing with the leadership, 625 00:36:06,166 --> 00:36:09,920 it makes the process seem less painful 626 00:36:10,003 --> 00:36:11,672 because it's the expectation. 627 00:36:17,010 --> 00:36:18,262 Yeah. 628 00:36:34,361 --> 00:36:38,740 All right, so we're in the test control center. 629 00:36:38,824 --> 00:36:40,659 What are you testing today? 630 00:36:40,742 --> 00:36:45,789 We've already done over 1,500 tests of this particular engine, 631 00:36:45,873 --> 00:36:50,002 so today we're running through the pre-countdown procedures. 632 00:36:50,085 --> 00:36:52,254 ...sequence start. Standing by. 633 00:36:52,337 --> 00:36:56,008 So yeah, if you put the headsets on, we can talk to Clay directly over there. 634 00:36:58,969 --> 00:37:01,221 Yo, Clay, how's it going, man? 635 00:37:01,305 --> 00:37:03,348 - Can you hear me? - Hi, Clay. 636 00:37:03,432 --> 00:37:04,725 Hey, Gard. 637 00:37:04,808 --> 00:37:06,351 Hi, Clay, I'm Keanu. 638 00:37:06,435 --> 00:37:08,520 ...through the procedure here. 639 00:37:08,604 --> 00:37:12,566 In a few minutes we'll, uh, yeah, go to the engine test. 640 00:37:12,649 --> 00:37:14,234 What's the flight time to Mars? 641 00:37:14,318 --> 00:37:17,237 It depends on the time of year and the exact orbits. 642 00:37:17,321 --> 00:37:19,781 - Sure. - But it's about 9 months, give or take. 643 00:37:19,865 --> 00:37:21,408 - Yeah. - That's not too long. 644 00:37:21,491 --> 00:37:23,136 - Well, you know… - How long have they been 645 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:24,494 staying in the space station? 646 00:37:24,578 --> 00:37:26,455 Well, space station, I mean, 647 00:37:26,538 --> 00:37:29,082 there's people that have lived there for over a year at a time. 648 00:37:29,166 --> 00:37:31,251 - Yeah, so we got it. - Yeah, you can do it. 649 00:37:31,335 --> 00:37:33,879 You just go in... you go in one of those sleep capsules, 650 00:37:33,962 --> 00:37:35,797 - and you'll wake up one day. - No, no, no. 651 00:37:35,881 --> 00:37:38,258 You could have a baby on the way. 652 00:37:38,342 --> 00:37:41,303 Yeah, you could have a Mars baby. 653 00:37:41,386 --> 00:37:43,180 - Yeah. - Yeah, that's true. 654 00:37:43,263 --> 00:37:44,699 You could have a baby on the way there 655 00:37:44,723 --> 00:37:47,243 and another baby on the way back if you really wanted to, you know. 656 00:37:48,644 --> 00:37:50,145 - All good. - You guys go? 657 00:37:50,229 --> 00:37:51,647 - It's rolling. - I'm go. 658 00:37:51,730 --> 00:37:53,774 - You go? You guys go? - Let's go. 659 00:37:53,857 --> 00:37:56,026 All right, we're gonna test. All right, we're go. 660 00:37:56,109 --> 00:37:57,236 Glow plug's coming up. 661 00:37:58,278 --> 00:38:00,280 T minus 10. 662 00:38:00,364 --> 00:38:04,326 Your heart kind of starts to race when you're getting T-minus 2 minutes. 663 00:38:04,409 --> 00:38:07,079 It's like, no matter what, very intense. 664 00:38:07,162 --> 00:38:10,374 - How are you guys feeling? - Ah, it's... I'm a little anxious. 665 00:38:10,457 --> 00:38:12,668 Yeah, it's especially kind of exciting. 666 00:38:14,628 --> 00:38:17,923 All right, here we go. Seven, six, 667 00:38:18,006 --> 00:38:19,800 - five, four... - Close out. Four... 668 00:38:19,883 --> 00:38:22,052 - ...three, two, one. - ...three, two, one. 669 00:38:22,135 --> 00:38:23,971 Maintain pressure. 670 00:38:24,054 --> 00:38:25,389 All right, there we go. 671 00:38:27,391 --> 00:38:29,434 So there it is. Yeah, you can see it. 672 00:38:29,518 --> 00:38:31,353 That's the cooling trench. Let's go in. 673 00:38:32,855 --> 00:38:36,066 Wow, it's a wild way to see it that close, so... 674 00:38:36,149 --> 00:38:38,527 It's almost like you almost don't even see the flame. 675 00:38:38,610 --> 00:38:41,321 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - You see it over here. 676 00:38:41,405 --> 00:38:43,699 That's all just water, so it's cooling it. 677 00:38:43,782 --> 00:38:45,242 We're a minute and a half in, 678 00:38:45,325 --> 00:38:47,953 so you can imagine this is now the rocket just flying. 679 00:38:48,036 --> 00:38:51,164 We'd be going thousands of kilometers an hour by now. 680 00:38:54,585 --> 00:38:56,420 All right, so that's it. Just like that. 681 00:38:56,503 --> 00:38:57,981 Yeah, yeah. 682 00:38:58,005 --> 00:39:00,674 - That's cuckoo cakes. - Pretty dope, yeah. 683 00:39:02,593 --> 00:39:05,637 So that's how long it would have to burn to start to 684 00:39:05,721 --> 00:39:07,448 - to get out of atmosphere. - Yeah, that's it. 685 00:39:07,472 --> 00:39:10,100 That's the whole first stage, and then second stage engine, 686 00:39:10,184 --> 00:39:14,104 and then that would burn for about 5, 6 minutes, and then you're in orbit. 687 00:39:14,188 --> 00:39:16,607 So the whole thing is under 10 minutes. 688 00:39:16,690 --> 00:39:20,736 I can see while even in this experience you can fall in love with rockets. 689 00:39:20,819 --> 00:39:22,362 It's pretty addictive. 690 00:39:22,446 --> 00:39:25,866 Rocket engine's by far the most intense thing I've ever experienced in my life. 691 00:39:25,949 --> 00:39:28,619 Like, when you're standing a thousand feet away, 692 00:39:28,702 --> 00:39:31,205 you effectively can't breathe. It's insane. 693 00:39:31,288 --> 00:39:34,791 And then every frequency, Tibetan monk, like, low, mid, high. 694 00:39:34,875 --> 00:39:37,669 Like, all of it. Like, at max, max speed. 695 00:39:37,753 --> 00:39:42,090 So yeah, it really is an almost spiritual experience. 696 00:39:42,174 --> 00:39:45,677 This is creativity with physics to make the design, 697 00:39:45,761 --> 00:39:50,516 and then these can be really mind-blowing experiences. 698 00:39:50,599 --> 00:39:54,269 Creativity is something that I can actually 699 00:39:54,353 --> 00:39:55,938 forward on to other people, 700 00:39:56,021 --> 00:39:59,816 inspiring other people to take similar risks and say, 701 00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:04,696 I was willing to put myself out there and really just live authentically 702 00:40:04,780 --> 00:40:06,698 and do something that was freaking crazy. 703 00:40:06,782 --> 00:40:09,076 That was very cool. Thank you for sharing that. 704 00:40:09,159 --> 00:40:11,079 - Extraordinary. - Yeah, of course. Thanks, Clay. 705 00:40:12,496 --> 00:40:14,623 See you in 26 for the launch, brother. 706 00:40:14,706 --> 00:40:17,251 - All right, yeah. - Looking forward to it. 707 00:40:24,883 --> 00:40:27,135 Their first launch, 708 00:40:27,219 --> 00:40:29,221 you know, was such a success, 709 00:40:29,304 --> 00:40:33,350 and yet they have to use the word failure for the second stage, 710 00:40:33,433 --> 00:40:37,437 but that, you know, we've been dealing with also 711 00:40:37,521 --> 00:40:40,983 what are the positives that come out of obstruction, 712 00:40:41,066 --> 00:40:44,152 what are the positives that come out of failures, 713 00:40:44,236 --> 00:40:47,948 you know, and him discussing how they push, 714 00:40:48,031 --> 00:40:52,202 you know, the engines and testing to failure to learn. 715 00:40:52,286 --> 00:40:55,789 And he really kind of talked about it as consequences. 716 00:40:55,873 --> 00:40:58,667 Like, the consequences, 717 00:40:58,750 --> 00:41:00,627 how are you gonna feel when you get there? 718 00:41:00,711 --> 00:41:02,379 - You know? - Yeah, if you don't do it. 719 00:41:02,462 --> 00:41:06,717 And it was cool to... I mean, his motivation with 3D printing 720 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,428 to be able to speed up the ideation 721 00:41:09,511 --> 00:41:11,972 and how important that is for rocket engines. 722 00:41:12,055 --> 00:41:15,392 Because I do this all the time. Every time I do anything. 723 00:41:15,475 --> 00:41:18,604 I'm already, before it's done, looking at it and thinking, 724 00:41:18,687 --> 00:41:21,565 "Oh man, we should have done that, we should have done that." 725 00:41:23,233 --> 00:41:28,363 But also the idea of how do you make something complex simple, 726 00:41:28,447 --> 00:41:32,826 you know, which nature does really easy, right? 727 00:41:32,910 --> 00:41:36,205 - But for us it's... - Is it easy? What do you mean? 728 00:41:36,288 --> 00:41:41,460 Everyone just says it took 200 million years. 729 00:41:41,543 --> 00:41:45,255 What scale are we on, man? 730 00:41:45,339 --> 00:41:47,257 - We're on the Arch scale. - Oh. 731 00:41:48,926 --> 00:41:52,304 Everything takes forever. 732 00:41:52,387 --> 00:41:54,139 - Until it doesn't. - Yes. 733 00:41:54,223 --> 00:41:55,516 Yeah, right? 734 00:41:56,642 --> 00:41:57,935 - All right. - Yeah. 735 00:41:59,061 --> 00:42:02,189 Three, two, one. 736 00:42:04,983 --> 00:42:08,904 The Arch Project is all about discovering new ideas. 737 00:42:11,156 --> 00:42:13,575 The most significant thing that we're dealing with is 738 00:42:13,659 --> 00:42:17,037 architecture as a way of opening up people's minds. 739 00:42:19,748 --> 00:42:21,667 It's about sharing insights 740 00:42:21,750 --> 00:42:24,294 and innovation to fuel creativity. 741 00:42:24,378 --> 00:42:27,422 You need the space where you can fail and be able to try 742 00:42:27,506 --> 00:42:29,842 and try and try again until you get it right. 743 00:42:32,010 --> 00:42:34,680 And this is only the beginning. 744 00:42:41,687 --> 00:42:43,897 Wow, goodness gracious. 745 00:42:46,817 --> 00:42:48,819 From the rugged shores of Norway... 746 00:42:52,406 --> 00:42:55,659 to a volcanic crater in the Painted Desert... 747 00:42:55,742 --> 00:42:57,035 It can change. 748 00:42:57,119 --> 00:43:00,455 - Your perspective can change. - Yeah. 749 00:43:00,539 --> 00:43:04,585 ...to thousands of feet underwater into the unexpected. 750 00:43:11,091 --> 00:43:13,343 Oh, my God! 751 00:43:14,887 --> 00:43:17,055 This is a quest of curiosity. 752 00:43:18,307 --> 00:43:21,393 Just look at nature, and then you're just gonna get more questions, 753 00:43:21,476 --> 00:43:22,978 which is the beauty of it. 754 00:43:24,062 --> 00:43:25,814 In search of ideas... 755 00:43:25,898 --> 00:43:29,318 And this connection to something 756 00:43:29,401 --> 00:43:31,778 far greater than you. 757 00:43:33,071 --> 00:43:34,907 ...that can change everything. 758 00:43:36,825 --> 00:43:40,621 You know, art is often something that wants to show you something beyond, 759 00:43:40,704 --> 00:43:42,331 beyond how you think at the moment. 760 00:43:43,415 --> 00:43:46,255 The journey that we're on and with the people that we're meeting, 761 00:43:46,335 --> 00:43:48,462 I hope it's inspirational. 762 00:43:50,672 --> 00:43:53,300 Well, we were looking for adventure. 763 00:43:53,383 --> 00:43:56,011 We're finding some.