Orbital Sciences Corporation

And that got me into, I got an internship at the Aerospace Corporation.

And then I also got an internship at Orbital Sciences Corporation and then eventually got into SpaceX.

So I started my internship at SpaceX at McGregor, Texas in 2006.

And I've never looked back.

And, and by the way, my, my dad, uh, worked on...

He was a quality assurance engineer and worked at a company called, called Orbital Sciences.

Mm.

So [chuckles] he d-- And I remember he was telling me about satellites, and, um, I think I visited him one time.

He was an engineer.

Before York, he had worked in the space business at Orbital Sciences, General Dynamics, Goodrich, and Lockheed Martin.

He has a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Arizona, graduating summa cum laude.

York's filing says he founded the company specifically to create what he called a space technology mission prime, with the goal of responding to national security threats from space.

They haven't done much, uh, they haven't done much since.

Um, but, uh, the other one was, at the time, uh, Orbital Space, uh, Orbital Sciences, which is now a part of Northrop Grumman, um, which did succeed.

They actually have a rocket that no one knows about.

Um, but SpaceX was one of those companies.

But they had done it, and it saved everything.

On December 23rd, 2008, NASA awarded commercial contracts out to private spaceflight companies, 19 of which went to a company called Orbital Sciences, while 12 went to SpaceX.

The contract was valued at over $1.6 billion.

From this, SpaceX was saved.

That made me wonder, why would York make that deal? And more importantly, What did York think it was buying? So who is York? I started looking at the company itself.

York was founded in 2012 by Dirk Wallinger, an aerospace engineer who had worked in the space business at Orbital Sciences, General Dynamics, Goodrich, and Lockheed Martin.

He wasn't one of the original founders of Orbital Sciences.

He came along much later.

But he had something that interested me.

They haven't done much since.

But the other one was at the time, orbital space, orbital sciences, which is now part of Northrop Grumman, which did succeed.

They actually have a rocket that no one knows about.

But SpaceX was one of those companies.