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>>14563269
What you wrote is not exactly true. Many of them opposed the commercialization of spaceflight because they were simply old, and it's normal for them to oppose change. Perhaps you remember the moment when Musk started crying during 60 Minutes interview. This may sound weird, but Steve Jurvetson took it seriously and decided to cheer him up. He reached Apollo astronauts and got them to sign a picture with a supportive message.
>Then I approached Gene Cernan, and held my breath. I figured it would be a bit more difficult to break from the social proof of his esteemed colleagues. And so he listened. As with every Apollo astronaut who signed this photo, I was able to talk about SpaceX and answer his questions. Gene was interested in who financed SpaceX — what big money interests got it going. I told him that Elon Musk personally financed the company for all of its first $100 million, when no one else would bet on the venture, and he saw it through thick and thin, including the first three launches of the Falcon 1, all of which failed spectacularly. As I told him these stories of heroic entrepreneurship, I could see his mind turning.
>He found a reconciliation: “I never read any of this in the news. Why doesn’t the press report on this?”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/7547788856/in/photostream/