to mars. jeff dewit joins us. it is an exciting time with the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. i love the segway, which is really the topic, which is, yes, we are going back to the moon. the goal is 2024 with project artemis. the goal is to land not only the next man, but the first woman on the surface of the moon. part of that is really going to be to prove the technologies we need to do to get to mars. the ultimate goal is to get to mars and to plant an american flag on the surface of mars, which we will see in our lifetimes. it is a very exciting time for an essay in doing that. a very exciting time for nasa and our country for doing that. emily: where is your funding? we know you asked for supplement budget requests, $1.6 billion. tell us where that stands. jeff: back in those days, nasa had over 4% of the federal budget. of we have less than 0.5% the federal budget. we have a lot of partners. jeff bezos a wonderful partner with nasa. a thrivinging commercial sector in space. th

like a gas station going to mars which doesn't make any economic sense it just waste a lot of money. so here's the point he wants to go to mars. why not because since the first moon landing this is how government bureaucracies work there's no way to get away from it give congressman people in their district and other priorities this is what happens when a government is involved they can put humans on the moon if they there were a lot of money at it but they cannot privatize that. so now looking at the private sector this is an interesting story whereas with space, let me do this. bureaucrats and airlines started as a civilian operation with the wright brothers and then the government operation which was military. but it was run by private people and the government helps but for example to carry the mail anyway so they contracted airmail out a set of had government planes they just contracted that out to private providers one of those was charles lindbergh so in a sense the government was involved with aviation but this kind of way but for example if they wanted to build a military pl

there is a new office, a glimmer of hope but i have concerns. >> chair mar: i will read additional names. felicia jones, kim lynch, chris hansen. norma garcia and natalie. >> thank you supervisors for bringing this forward and for acknowledging our ancestors. we are visitors on the land. i work for indian health. i am a san francisco resident. it is important that we have a representation for the native community. i was asked to come in and support this. we have one of the richest cities and largest populations of native people represents over 500 nations in san francisco. we ask that you give us a voice. thank you. >> chair mar: next speaker. >> i am jeffrey. i am a graduate of the dare program. i want to explain the importance of the rights we have done. i came in to represent adult probation and tara anderson is representing the district attorney's office. we were able to form the criminal justice equity statement where it was accepted at the reentry, community corrections partner ship as well as juvenile coordinating council and criminal justice equity statement and war group notes a

because only go to mars, we will be there along time. >> how long a trip to mars? >> about seven months there. earth and mars are only on the same side of the sun once every 26 months so we have to be prepared to stay on mars for long periods of time. we prove that on the moon. >> if you miss the timing, you are in deep trouble. you don't want to be on the ship. what do you think? >> you come back and try it again. >> how you feel about it? >> mars directs. direct.ems to me mars who knows better than these people? what about the concept of mars direct? >> the challenge is, if we go directed to mars, there will be a lot of things we haven't yet proven. we need to use the resources of another world in order to live and work for long periods of time. the moon has hundreds of millions of tons of water ice we discovered in 2009. that represents life support. it is also rocket fuel. hydrogen and oxygen. mr. president, that is an available market where some of these commercial guys are interested in going to the moon fortilize the resource their own space on the moon. it

mar. my name is dori caminong. i am a proud daughter of the excelsior. i'm proud of my heritage. since 2005, i've worked in district six, i've worked intimately in the tenderloin in midmarket and south of market serving some of the city's most poor and vulnerable populations. i come from a family of singers and dancers. as a child, i saw my family sing in cover bands and watched my parents' generation tear up the dance floor. as a small child, when i heard songs on the radio, i thought it was my family performing earth, wind, and fire. they performed all across the bay area in various venues which celebrated their hometowns and regions. i was lucky to accompany my family and witness these gatherings of proud immigrants who fiercely gathered in these microcommunities and kept their connection to their homeland alive for themselves and generations who followed. these events would also serve as fundraisers, projects who would benefit the people, to creating educational scholarships for young

we are going a lot further now. we're going to the moon, then to mars. that i more importantly, think all of you know, from the standpoint of defense, we will be doing the space of force, i assume you are all in favor of the spaceports. i would be surprised if you work. we are very close to getting that operating. it will be very exciting. lots of things are happening. we have buzz aldrin with us. he has been an incredible gentleman. we have been friends for a long time. a fantastic man. apollo collins, he flew 11 overhead. aldrin and armstrong walked on the moon. that's for sure. you have armstrong's son mark. these are incredible space families. incredible men. gotten to knowe some of the women in the family. men andmen and great great jeans. tomorrow is a big day. tomorrow is a day where, 50 years, and we also have jim and he is the head of nasa. is a different thing. he is somebody that everybody wanted that job. there is a love for space that is unparalleled. mike pence and myself felt strongly about jim. we gave him the job and he has surpassed any

>> chair mar: is there a motion for this item. supervisor brown. >> commissioner brown: let me just move forward. we have subsequent amendments. i have the motion to continue this. i want to do that. i am going to -- we can talk. i definitely. can i just finish? this is rule of order. what we are going to do for the amendments. >> we all have a copy and i think that our colleagues know that the underlying portion or amendments. there are quite a few amendments here. i believe they are substantive. it must be continued. >> is there a motion to accept the amendments? is that the motion? >> accept the amendments. >> so moved. can we continue this item to the next meeting? >> governmengovernment audits ad oversights meets july 18th. >> can we continue this to july 18th? >> so moved. >> thank you so much. >> mr. clerk, please call item number two. >> item twoard nance to prohibit city funded travel to statessen accounted laws that prohibit abortion and city contracting with companies headquartered in states enacting such laws or work t

to mars. which includes the gateway, a small habitat in orbit around the moon and a landing system to get our astronauts to the surface. we will have a new person at the head of that as well. we are looking at three total individuals decreed that top team at the human exploration and missions directorate. we will be looking for them to look at the program and come up with their own baseline schedules and costs and ultimately have them execute according to those baseline costs and schedules so we can get the next man and first woman to the south pole of the moon. in the year 2024. christian: could we talk for a minute about cost of the artemis program? we have seen some fluctuating numbers. i know you have gotten initial -- additional requests to congress. what is your strategy? you have said many times the challenges are not just technical. they are political. to will you sell this particularly democrats on the hill to get the funding you need? is: the challenge political. , not largely paroch

as supervisor mar said, it's part of a three-piece package. there's an ordinance, there's a motion, and there's a resolution. so it's part of a three-piece package, and we're really excited to see this go forward to support our students for another ten years. contrary to the first commentator, the first public comment, our students are certainly not the privileged children of san francisco's wealthy, living at home and off of dear old dad. as our board presidents, our students are coming out of foster care, some from incarceration. some of our students are second, third, fourth chancers. every year, at the beginning of my class, i do a little step forward, step back with students so they can all see they're not alone. who's a single parent? and i ask who's fucked up and is taking a second chance? every one of them steps forward, so those are our students, and we are really so grateful to you for giving them this chance. we really support the amendment that supervisor mar proposed, and we just want to express particularly or gratitude for super

would you like to make a motion, supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: i'd like to move that we recommend this -- move this forward to the full board with a prorecommendation. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. i think we can take that without objection. madam clerk, can you call item number 4. >> clerk: item number 4: resolution declaring the intent of the city and county of san francisco ("city") to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness; authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development ("director") to submit an application and related documents to the california debt limit allocation committee ("cdlac") to permit the issuance of residential mortgage revenue bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $50,000,000 for 401 avenue of the palms (parcel c3.2 >> chair fewer: okay. thank you very much. i believe we have amy chan. >> good morning, chair and supervisors. item number 4 before you is a resolution related to the tax-exempt bond financing for the ma

it can be a place that we get to first and then lunch and get to mars. time.s an exciting let's get the mojo back in the icamerican ingenuity and that is what this reminds us of. >> to think the mission should be to get to mars, should that be the priority in space expiration right now? >> i think that is a mission that both democratic and republican have talked about, president obama talks about it, president trump talked about, we talk about it in committee by getting every 2033. we may not getit there by 2033. let's set the ambitious goal and we know there's a lot to discover on my. >> the president reestablish the nationalac space council and moe that you are in favor of. what is a national space council, what is it to and what's its role in setting theha priorities for space expiration. >> ies think the benefit of havg a counsel, you set strategic goals that do not depend on one administration or the other. not with the booty of the apollo program. is democrats and republicans at all congress. you cannot change them every four years, you have to hav

president trump: how long a trip to mars? >> about a seven month journey there. the challenges that the earth and mars are only on the same side of the sun for 26 months. so we have to be prepared to stay on mars for a long time. we prove that on the moon, then go to mars. president trump: what happens if you miss the timing? they are in deep trouble. you don't want to be on the ship. >> you come back and try again. that's a longp: time. how do you feel about? >> mars direct. president trump: it seems to me mars direct. who knows better than these people? they have been doing this stuff for a long time. what about the concept of mars direct? >> the challenge is if we go direct to mars, there is going to be a lot of things we haven't yet proven. we need to think about this. we need to use the resources of another world and own -- in order to live and work for long periods of time. thatoon has water and ice we discovered in 2009. water and ice, it represents air to breathe in water to drink. it is also rocket fuel. and mr. available, president, that is a market, an

it is a gateway to mars. but there are some technologies we have to prove. we have water ice on the south pole of the moon. there is also water on the surface of mars. if we can learn on the moon how to start harvesting that resource and using the water that is there, that helps us get to mars sooner. right now, we have to pack our own fuel, water, air, everything with us when we go, but if we can get water and crack it, it can make rocket fuel. if we can start harvesting the resources on the moon and figure out how to do that, that allows us to get to mars sooner and take less with us. the moon is a proving ground that we need to do, but mars is the ultimate goal. emily: what are we going to be talking about in the next 50 years? 20 seconds. jeff: 50 years from now, we should have regular colonies of people on the moon, a regular base on the moon, if not one on mars. we are going to look back at this as a watershed moment, what this administration is doing, as a very good thing for the country. it is the beginning of something really big that, 50 years from

then, we are working towards having a separate division called moon to mars. which includes the gateway, a small habitat in orbit around the moon at a landing system to get our astronauts to the surface. we will have a new person at the head of that as well. looking at three total individuals. we will be looking for them to look at the program and come up with their own baseline schedules and costs. ultimately have them executed according to those baseline costs and schedules so we can get the next man and first woman to the south pole of the moon. christian: could we talk for a minute about cost of the artemis program? we have seen some fluctuating numbers. i know you have gotten additional requests. what is your strategy? you have said the proud and just aren't just technical, they are political. get -- howe this to will you see this to get the funding you need? it is largely parochial, the challenge. not necessarily partisan. when we talk about the budget, the president said we need to go to the pastor. within five years that is the goal. go fasterid he say

even for an astronaut, the psychological demands of a journey to mars will be extraordinary. the spacecraft will only be the size of a small flat, and the round—trip will take almost three years. add in four different personalities cooped up together, and you may run into some problems. and with a range of characters needed, you never know who you could end up with. the habitat and workload are designed to mimic a real mission as closely as possible. and nasa's scientists throw in lots of elements to try and ensure that the volunteers forget that they are actually part of an experiment. if mcc talks to the crew, they ask a question, it takes five minutes to get to the crew and then they answer, it takes five minutes to get back. so a ten—minute round—trip for a question and answer. so the whole idea of creating a mission scenario — you're going to phobos, you're going to do an eva, you're going to pilot a small spacecraft on the surface — all that keeps them excited and engaged in the simulation. the goal here is notjust to study the effects of isolation and confine

even for an astronaut, the psychological demands of a journey to mars will be extraordinary. the habitat and workload are designed to mimic a real mission as closely as possible. and nasa's scientists throw in lots of elements to try and ensure that the volunteers forget that they are actually part of an experiment. if mcc talks to the crew, they asked a question, it takes five minutes to get to the crew and then the answer, it takes five minutes to get back. so a ten—minute round—trip for a question and answer. so the whole idea of creating a mission scenario — you're going to phobos, you're going to do an eba, you're going to pilot a small spacecraft on the surface — all that keeps them excited and engaged in the simulation. the goal here is notjust to study the effects of isolation and confinement but also to work out how to put together the perfect team for extreme space travel. it's all about the mix. and that's one of the things that we're looking at. what is that right mix or, given the particular mix of people. let's say you have one strong personality and thr

many say lets aim for mars. and michael collins is a mars person. that's also what elon musk is suggesting. we are all talking about moon and mars. the question is what is your next big move? >> martha: looking at all of the other countries try to get to the moon -- india and israel and china -- does it feel like these other countries are trying hard too get into this space? that we are delayed in our next move? >> i think we are a little bit delayed. china went to the dark side of the moon. it's a big deal. it's a rage in china. there are other countries like israeli and egypt and brazil and italy that have been participating in things like the international space station. they would love to partner with the united states like buzz aldrin was suggesting. japan of course. i don't know if we can afford to go it alone to mars. it might be a group of nations working together. but if china gets too aggressive in space, it might be a new spur the way the soviet union was for the john f. kennedy era. can we beat china in space exploration? the key is to n

then, we are working towards having a separate division called moon to mars. which includes the gateway, a small habitat in orbit around the moon at a landing system to get our astronauts to the surface. we will have a new person at the head of that as well. we are looking at three total individuals. we will be looking for them to look at the program and come up with their own baseline schedules and costs. ultimately have them executed according to those baseline costs and schedules so we can get the next man and first woman to the south pole of the moon. christian: could we talk for a minute about cost of the artemis program? what do you think that is going to be? we have seen some fluctuating numbers. i know you have gotten additional requests. what is your strategy? you have said the challenges are not just technical but political. how will you see this to get the funding you need? jim: it is largely parochial, the challenge. not necessarily partisan. when we talk about the budget, the president said we need to go within fivefaster, years with the technolog

the moon is a proving ground. mars is the destination. monumental unning achievement. >> the nasa administrator our guest on newsmakers, jim bridenstine here to have a conversation about space policy. thank you for joining us. we will be right back. christian davenport over and over again the administrator talked about the goals for the moon. what is the reality for meeting this achievement? christian: the technical challenges of getting to the moon and then the political one. nasa was on its way working towards getting there by 2028 and out of the blue the vice president moves that up by four years and says we will get there by 2024. that's the mandate. very clear to nasa and the administrator people will be held accountable if they are not able to do this. we just saw this with the dismissal of the head of human operation. getting there by 2024 will be very difficult, not just to sell the program to democrats. there are a lot of people who are upset by the removal, who re not totally sold on this program. money entails, how much it's go

would you like to make a motion to excuse-recuse supervisor mar? >> supervisor walton: yes. and supervisor mandelman, supervisor mar on board? we'll take that without objection. are there any members of the public who would like to speak on item number one, please standup. you have two minutes for public comment. >> coalition for san francisco neighborhoods here on my own behalf here in strong support for supervisor mar's appointment to abag as abag's role in casa. however, casa's role is changing. abag's role has become more critical especially in terms of ab 1487, david chiu's legislation. originally, ab 1487 was a housing authority bill with financial capablities. now david chiu has gutted his own bill so it is a regional authority, a taxing authority. even though abag is a public committee, they met privately with representative chiu. the abag meeting stated that the vote was whether or not to have the authority to place a regional finance authority on the ballot. despite this description, it was unclear what ballot this would be placed on and what the ballot language wo

even for an astronaut, the psychological demands of a journey to mars will be extraordinary. the spacecraft will only be the size of a small flat, and the round—trip will take almost three years. add in four different personalities cooped up together, and you may run into some problems. and with a range of characters needed, you never know who you could end up with. the habitat and workload are designed to mimic a real mission as closely as possible. and nasa's scientists throw in lots of elements to try and ensure that the volunteers forget that they are actually part of an experiment. if mcc talks to the crew, they ask a question, it takes five minutes to get to the crew and then the answer, it takes five minutes to get back. so a ten—minute round—trip for a question and answer. so the whole idea of creating a mission scenario — you're going to phobos, you're going to do an eba, you're going to pilot a small spacecraft on the surface — all that keeps them excited and engaged in the simulation. the goal here is notjust to study the effects of isolation and confinem

there's a big vacuum. supervisor mar, you mentioned citizens united. one of the things i did in my former life, i was a constitutional law professor for many year, and looking at what the supreme court of the united states did in citizens united, i can equate it with a couple of other rulings which i think citizens united will have a similar history. pre plessy versus ferguson, and the ruling in precivil war, saying that black people are not citizens, those were two great mistakes that the supreme court of the united states made, the two greatest mistakes. the third one in my opinion is citizens united in terms of the effect upon democracy. and as some point we, as our history has shown, comes together as a democracy and says this is simply not right. this goes against the whole framework of democracy. and there will come a day -- and i'm no profphet, but the supreme court will confine citizens united to the same file that did dredd scott and plessy. as you mentioned, supervisor mar, one big allowance that we can still take care of in terms of people b

mar. we're on the same page, so we'll take that motion, move it forward without objection. >> clerk: this item will be recommended as a committee report with the -- for the appointment of dori caminong to seat one. >> supervisor walton: i do want to take the time to say to mr. williams, you said you do live in district ten. i liked what you said. one, my door is always open. love to have a conversation to hear what we can do to improve district ten, even without you being successful in this appointment at this time. you don't have to be on the commission for us to work together, and congratulations miss caminong for your name to move forward. with that, mr. clerk, we will go back and take item number four. >> item numb >> clerk: item number four is a motion rejecting-approving ruby deleon to the treasure island board of directors for a term ending february 26, 2022. >> supervisor walton: thank you very much. is miss valeria shiffrin here? okay. thank you, mr. clerk. we'll move to item numb

mission to mars. that is what is on the agenda. i will tell you the first step in achieving that is continuing of low earthe -- orbit. we are in the midst of watching -- many saw the crew dragon docked to the international space station. by the end of this year, we will -- theching american first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011. that is an exciting thing we are looking forward to. we have already completed commercial resupply capabilities and eventually want to get to commercial asian -- commercialization -- we think it is important and i know this committee has doubled down on this importance. nasa should be one customer of many customers in a robust commercial marketplace. that includes launch and habitation and we want numerous suppliers competing on cost and innovation. the reason for this is to drive down cost and increase access and utilize the resources that have been given to us by this body to go to the moon sustainably. with our international partners and commercial pa

he might have the goal of getting to mars but the moon is a lot closer. if you have problems you can get to the moon and back a lot quicker than you can up there at the red planet. this month on capitol hill you introduced the american free enterprise space commerce act. what would that do? >> that would actually facilitate, there's a lot of andercialism in space today it's a tremendous, it's just a game changer. we have spacex and blue arjun. companiesny private that are working on getting to .he moon this is something that the united states taxpayer i think will enjoy. and so we've got a lot of these people that are there at johnson and all around the country. i have been to many of their facilities and i think it's going to be a real shot in the arm. the president keeps talking about private public partnerships and there can be no greater one then what we are seeing with commercial cargo. we are going to start launching american astronauts from american soil on american rockets very very soon. we don't have to buy tickets at $80 million a pop from the

what a way that can provide and the outlook of the future vision for mars. i don't think we should focus so far, and 50 years. i think we should focus on the next 25 years a lot of these people behind me are coming-of- age in engineers that they will have the opportunity to help promote -- the global space marketing right now is a $360 billion industry. we have to look at one of those commercial opportunities going to be available in space. that is what is excites me. >> i think from my standpoint, we had an excellent plan that was probably the most widely distributed plan, academia, right on down the line. it was called pioneering the space frontier. i think the key thing we have to do is establish a plan and stick with us. during the space frontier, the gateway was discussed but never showed up in any of the subsequent plans. the question is, there's good work out there. what we have to do, i think really, this administration should be able to fit into the artemis plans. take a look at those plans that have been written in c what parts still are viable, wh

even for an astronaut, the psychological demands of a journey to mars will be extraordinary. the spacecraft will only be the size of a small flat, and the round—trip will take almost three years. add in four different personalities cooped up together, and you may run into some problems. and with a range of characters needed, you never know who you could end up with. the habitat and workload are designed to mimic a real mission as closely as possible. and nasa's scientists throw in lots of elements to try and ensure that the volunteers forget that they are actually part of an experiment. if mcc talks to the crew, they ask a question, it takes five minutes to get to the crew and then they answer, it takes five minutes to get back. so a ten—minute round—trip for a question and answer. so the whole idea of creating a mission scenario — you're going to phobos, you're going to do an eva, you're going to pilot a small spacecraft on the surface — all that keeps them excited and engaged in the simulation. the goal here is notjust to study the effects of isolation and confine

the camera that we right now have on mars, the curiosity rover, which is a robot on mars, the camera on that rover is the same technology that's in your cell phone it was born by this little agency called nasa and now it's been commercialized in a way that has transformed the human condition but yet again. but yes, it's cell phone technology and the way we communicate, the way we navigate, the way we produce food we are proving right now that we can increase crop yields by looking at the earth in every part of the electromagnetic spectrum, increase crop used by reducing water use, at the same time, preserving nitrates in the soil for clean water and clean air, which is something that we are very keen on as an agency. but the transformation that came from apollo is unquestioned. and it's good for the human condition. >> nasa administrator jim bridenstine, thanks for joining us >> always. >> speaking of space, do not miss my live coverage from the kennedy space center tomorrow, all day right here on cnbc >>> meantime, european markets closing shortly. seema mody has today's action over

that inahead beyond terms of exploring the solar system, in 20 it is going to be a huge year on mars. we are sending another rover to mars launching in 2020. the european space agency is sending the rover to mars in 2020. it is going to be getting very busy up there. >> where do you see the future of the jet propulsion laboratory going and what is next for the folks working here? going off ofout questions. we have questions to answer. large.e so ,hat we want to know fundamental questions like are we alone in the universe? can we find life? can we begin to answer the questions of how the universe began, what is its destiny? these are huge questions that jpl is starting to move into. we want to understand our own planet. what is happening to it and see what we can provide, what information can we provide to decision-makers to make this planet a more habitable and safe place. way for humanthe exploration. elsewhere in the solar system. >> ok the contingency sampler is down. it's a little difficult to dig through the crust. surface butry soft here and there with the contingency sampler co

even for an astronaut, the psychological demands of a journey to mars will be extraordinary. the spacecraft will only be the size of a small flat, and the round—trip will take almost three years. add in four different personalities cooped up together, and you may run into some problems. and with a range of characters needed, you never know who you could end up with. the habitat and workload are designed to mimic a real mission as closely as possible. and nasa's scientists throw in lots of elements to try and ensure that the volunteers forget that they are actually part of an experiment. if mcc talks to the crew, they asked a question, it takes five minutes to get to the crew and then the answer, it takes five minutes to get back. so a ten—minute round—trip for a question and answer. so the whole idea of creating a mission scenario — you're going to phobos, you're going to do an eba, you're going to pilot a small spacecraft on the surface — all that keeps them excited and engaged in the simulation. the goal here is notjust to study the effects of isolation and confin

and that is exactly what we need when we go to mars, a resource of water. soledad: all of what you're describing sounds like you're planning for people to move to the moon one day. is that crazy? james: no, it's not crazy. it's in our future. you know soledad: how near future? james: well, the start of that, of course, is going to the moon in 2024. we're gonna develop an infrastructure. we'll have opportunities to literally live and work on a planetary surface. we'll practice that. soledad: all of this is with an eye to one day people populating the moon? james: and mars. you bet. let's go. soledad: and is it, because earth is going to be uninhabitable? james: no. we need to take care of the earth, the beautiful earth that we have. there's no question about that but i believe a single planet species cannot survive long. so yes, our future generations will be living on mars. soledad: and how in your mind -- i won't hold you to this because i realize it's a bit of a guesstimate -- how far away is that? james: we have to learn to live and work on these surface

did you want to say anything else, supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: yeah. so indeed, this was a bit more complicated than i thought it would be when i volunteered to work on free city, but i think we're really close to getting something that is really great for city college. i think it encompasses the goals that we all share for the free city program. i did want to discuss some of the amendments that were mentioned by the speakers in public comment as well as what i referred to earlier. these all relate to the membership. the first one is -- i heard -- for 3 aseats 3 and 4, the amendments i had introduced was changing the appointing authority for those two seats, taking it away from the mayor and board of supervisors and giving it to the college and associated students. upon further consideration, i wanted to propose that we keep those two seats -- one -- seat 3 appointed by the mayor and seat 4 appointed by the board of supervisors but add an additional seat, a student seat that is appointed by the associated students. i mean, i think in terms of amending

i want to go direct to mars. i call it the jfk mars express. john f. kennedy gave us the apollo express, and that was a wonderful, a masterpiece of understatement, of succinct instruction. what kennedy said helped us so much in our preparation for the first lunar landing, i cannot emphasize too much. wherever we went, we would use kennedy's name -- you guys got to get busy here, you are lagging behind. do this, that, and the other. kennedy said by the end of the decade, and i would like to transfer that spirit from where we are to where we might go. and i would propose going direct to mars. under what i would call the jfk mars express. having said that, i grant people who want to go back to the moon, i grant that they have a great deal of merit to their argument. and neil armstrong, who i consider to be a lot better engineer than i, thought there were gaps in our knowledge and that we could fill those chinks by a return to the moon, and that would assist us mightily in our attempts to go to mars. robert: and we believe the faster we get to the moon, th

you are extremely motivated by a mission to mars. ican extremely motivated by a mission to mars. i can barely imagine being in such a situation. but you can ove i’co [ti e such a situation. but you can overcome anything. hello, and welcome to the weekend tech. it was a week that facebook came under attack in the us senate over its plans for cryptic currency. the us air force have one people not to go near area 51 after more than a million people rsvp to an event created on facebook. an computer paneer and codebreaker alan turing was revealed as a new face on the british £50 note. elon musk announced more details of work carried out on his newer technology company. it plans to insert threads into people's brains. the technology has enabled a monkey to use a computer. the new migs including wheelchair and guide dog uses work showed off. galileo, europe's gps satellite has been off—line for almost a week, with no word as yet of whent it might be switched on again. an mit developed a way to make drains seem even more minister. researchers have created a new type of craft with th

people on mars, a lot of people on the moon, and a lot of people in low earth orbit. we will become interplanetary, inspired by this amazing museum. what an amazing job to get these suits for all of us to look at. i will keep it short and look at wonderful cumin day. thank you for your attention. [applause] ne >> our final slides bring us back full circle to our ignite video. spacesuits becoming more diverse, but we as museum appealing to a more diverse audience and trying to introduce them not only to the new technology but that there are hidden stories throughout our museum that we are going to tell . spacesuits are not just about astronauts. they are about engineers, technicians, material scientists . one question to start this off discussing spacesuits and our program is the role of testing. that is a role that comes up repeatedly. perhaps, bill, you can started off as the senior test engineer from ilc dover. what is the role of testing and how important is it in the spacesuit process? bill: it is everything. ideas, may be an engineer has an idea of how to make a