gwynne shotwell makes spacex work. amazon is consuming everything, yet he's been methodical with his space company. you watch him and you're like, this is a methodical way of doing business. who knows what happens? jason: next, we speak with one of the engineers behind nasa's mission to bring a space shuttle to earth. carol: and the columbia mission from 1981. jason: this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." jason: you can also find us online. carol: and our mobile app. jason: a plan at the space agency to do something that has never been done before. carol: bring peace of a planet back to earth. dimitra: the caesar mission is a team of people led by steve squires, a professor at cornell, who successfully led the mars rover mission. this is going to travel out to a specific comet, 67p. >> a well-known comet? dimitra:comets are very important to nasa. it is a top priority. there is a lot of organic material, clues in pristine condition that will give us answers to questions abo

gwynne shotwell makes spacex work. amazon is consuming everything, and disrupting everything, yet he's been methodical with his space company. which has yet to reach orbit. we have seen a recent lift off and landing. you watch him and you're like, this is a methodical way of doing business. who knows what happens? jason: next, we speak with one of the engineers behind nasa's mission to bring a piece of a comet back to earth. carol: and what was it like for the first much of a space -- first launch of a space shuttle, the columbia mission from 1981. jason: this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: welcome back to "bloomberg businessweek." jason: you can also find us online. carol: and our mobile app. carol: in space this week, a plan. -- a profile of nasa's posh mission. jason: a plan at the space agency to do something that has never been done before. carroll: and that is to bring a piece of a comment back to earth. dimitra: the caesar mission is a team of people led by steve squires, a professor at cornell, who succe

this is from 20th and shotwell.x traffic is also responsible for shootings and other crimes in the neighborhood. his neighbor who has lived here since the 1970s calls police every single night. >> we live in an area after 6:00, 7:00 at night we need to remain at home because there's so much danger out there. >> hugo echols learned that very quickly. >> it is his daughter who says she gets harassed simply walking into their home. >> whistling, hey, what's up from out the car, things like that. >> a recent incident with her young niece makes her emotional. >> my niece is about to be 13 years old. she recently got harassed. she is wearing a simple top. you can tell in her face she is a child. >> we took the concerns to city hall to see what the city can do to address this decades old problem. i had a chance to speak to her and the way she explains it, it's not exactly a simple fix. >> closing down the street at night, i think we have to think that big and go that extreme. >> that is one possibility they are talking abo

gwen shotwell said, we will have to sell some of these rockets. she had to convince nasa and some of the private telecom companies, which buy satellite 10 send them to space, to trust a rocket company that had never launched a rocket. carol: that is what is amazing. she did it. she got the meetings with the people that mattered. how? max: she said, you are trying to sell the team. there is this great guy, musk, he is very smart. you are also trying to, more importantly, you are using the small steps to make the case you are going to do something larger. they were very transparent about their progress. when they were testfiring engines, even when they had failures, they were transparent about saying, here is what went wrong and here is how we think we are going to be up to fix it. -- be able to fix it and this is why you should bet on us. carol: she turned it into positives rather than negatives. max: absolutely. and they were charging less money. there was a big incentive for these satellite companies and government to take a risk on these guys. m

the board has heard other similar arguments in ceqa appeal, most recently for 1296 shotwell and bryantt cases and dismissed them in all cases. growth has not exceeded the growth projections used to support environmental impact analysis in the e.i.r. building permits have been issued for only 25% of the projects in the mission area pipeline. as found in the superior court decision on the 901 16th street project case, projects in the pipeline represent future growth. and not actual growth. and physical and environmental effects cannot have resulted from projects that are merely contemplated. regardless, growth projections in the e.i.r. are not limits or caps on development, but were used to estimate the physical and environmental impacts that could be -- that could result from growth allowed under the area plan. there is no evidence in the record showing that significant physical and environmental impacts in excess of those expected in the e.i.r. have resulted from growth. and the appellant does not provide any evidence to substantiate that such physical impacts are occurring. and the ap

when francisco mentioned that fire at 16th and shotwell, i know one of those families that got displacedrification process, when i heard about this business being proposed, it sounds like something that would properly be on valencia street, and i can think of a few places on that street where they need a tenant. this idea in general, and i think of valencia street kind of spreading to mission. and for me getting involved in these kinds of issues goes back to a few years where you see this kind of process coming down the mission, and then, you had a huge fire around 22nd, a couple fires around 22nd, mission, in that area, and really woke me up to this issue of gentrification. and maybe an overall strategy for our city of a business like this does harm to the neighborhood, which is gentrification. we can be fair in, say, certain areas like valencia or some areas you can allow for this kind of development, but other areas, you have to protect the people that are living there. so this particular spot, i do know a nonprofit that would like to have a soup kitchen. i think that might be a bette

. >> this is gwynne shotwell.lks about elon musk making comments to a news affiliation before a launch of one of the rockets and says something like, it may work or it may not you do not do this if you run a rocket company. she had to go to london to say everything is going to be ok and she had to go to california for the launch. woman, one of three kids, she is an engineer. she talks about her mother taking her to an engineer society. it made her become a mechanical engineer. came to tesla, she went to spacex. there were a handful of employees. she gets along with elon musk and people say she is a rocket scientist, a star in her own right. business,s is a real it is $20 billion. maybe that is the successful way of doing it. what is interesting and this is something we should note, spacex changed the economics of space exploration in sending a rocket up. they do it more cheaply in any of the companies. , 50% lessnch alliance than sending a rocket up. they show you can make it reusable. it has changed the equation.