"I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA."

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It was in the back of my mind, even while I was going to school, but it wasn't until I was at university studying engineering that I thought, well what do I really want to do? And I kind of came back to that and I said, well the degrees I'm trying to get are going to qualify me to apply. And so, that's what I did after I finished my, or after I was getting my doctorates. That's when I first applied to NASA.

— Leroy Chiao