And no one saw it. I started writing the book and i asked my question again. Why are you requesting that question . And answer became clear to me, for two reasons, the first happened just last year. I think 2016 was the year when we started living 51 of our lives in cyberspace. Thats where we went to get a news, buy a book, buy a car, meet with our friends, find a date, find a spouse, we are now living in the developed world at least 51 of our lives in cyberspace. My definition of cyberspace its a realm where we are all connected and no one is in charge. Its the ultimate god free realm, no stoplights, no police, no ethics code, no 1800please stop putin from hacking my elections. We are living our lives in a realm thats ethics and godfree. And at the same time because of these accelerated powers ive written about, we are now standing at a moral intersections we have never stood at before as human species. One country could kill all of us post hiroshima, im glad it was mind. I believe we are entering a world where one person can kill off of us and at the same time all of us can fix everything. These same amplified powers are creating a world where one of us can kill all of us and feed, house, clothe education, we have the power to do that now. We have never stood at this intersections before. [applause] what does that mean . It means that we have never been more godlike as a species than we are today. We are godlike, what everyone thinks, feels, believe matters more than ever. Everyone today has to be in embrace of us takennable value particularly the one every faith shares, the golden rule. Do onto others as you wish them to do onto you, because we live in a planet where more people can do onto you farther away, faster deeply, cheaper than ever before and you can do onto others farther away, deeper, cheaper than ever before. Everyone today has to be in the embrace of the golden rule. , i know what youre thinking, how naive, no, what is naive is thinking we are going to be okay if everyone isnt in the embrace of the golden rule. Im not an expert of families but im an expert of Strong Healthy communities because i grew up in one in minnesota in the 50s, 60s and 70s called st. Louis park, thats why my book and talk here basically the short story is in minnesota in the 40s. My grandparents came from europe and my parents in minneapolis. I was raised with jews and african americans, we were isolated there. My parents couldnt join aaa in the 50s, antisemitism was a real problem until humphrey became mayor. The entire Jewish Community of north minneapolis moves out in threeyear period on mass to one little town called st. Louis park. About 20 minutes half hour away outside of central minneapolis. White, protestant, catholics, 80 jewish. If israel and israel had a baby, it would be st. Louis park, okay. [laughter] i tell the story about how we built the community together, how we built and there were problems, there were broken hearts but in the end, we built a really interesting community. I went to high school or Religious School or grew up in the same neighborhood roughly at the same time with cone brothers, the philosopher michael sandel, the coach of the chicago bears, dan wilson, someone like you, it was a freaky place. If you saw North Country for old men, they blow up a car outside of pharmaceutical in mexico to steal drugs and the pharmacy which was the little st. Louis park drugstore. I tell the story of that community and how i learned something there and it affected all of us, myself, we all took politics in different ways, something called minnesota knights, hard to explain minnesota knights if youre not from minnesota. In the book i tell the story, i was home and writing the book, my friend jay told me, tom, my wife ilne was driving around minneapolis and a driver almost drove her off the road and she came home and she said, jay, i was so mad i almost honked. [laughter] minnesota for road rage. I tell another story, a jewish mafia in the 30s and 40s, my dad worked for these guys, he wasnt in the mafia, i swear. When i was a young boy, 5 or 6 yearas old, my dad came home that a friend had sent to went, that is freaky. I said to him, dad, what did he do and i never forgot, he said, son, he was shopping in a store before it was opened. [laughter] got to minnesota for breaking and entering. [laughter] anyway, i tell the story of minnesota, i left in 1971 to discover the world and i came back 40 years later and discovered st. Louis park. 10 jewish and 10 hispanic and 30 somalian, small african american. Now the diversity challenge was religiously and racially is much bigger and i tell the story about how they did. A number of people, and my teacher and friend love to say, youre optimist or pessimist, im neither, two different forms of fatalism, everything will be great or awful. I believe in applied hope and i believe applied hope. You want to be optimist, stand on your head. The country looks so much better afrom the bottom up than the top up, okay. [applause] its not that we dont have communities that are struggling and failing, but we also have a huge number where people are applying hope. And thats why my book and this talk ends with a theme song, a book at a theme song, could i buy the song so when you open the book it would play the song like a Hallmark Card plays happy birthday. Its the anthem of our time. One of my favorite singers brandon and the song is called the eye, eye. I wrapped your love around me like a chain but i was never afraid that it would die. You can dance in a hurricane, but only if youre standing in the eye. You see, i think these accelerations are written about hurricane, we have a president who is trying to build a wall against the hurricane. Im advocating an eye, an eye that moves with the storm, draws energy from it, platform and stability, Healthy Community where people can feel connected, protected and respected. I think the great struggle in our politics Going Forward is going between the wall people and the eye people. And my book is a manifesto for the eye people. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, thank you very much. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] book tv is live coverage of the 17th annual book festival continues, tom friedman will be down here later on our set taking your calls, thats coming up in an hour or so, two hours, you can go to booktv. Org and get the full schedule but if youve been listening to mr. Friedman, have any questions for him, call in when we have that segment, coming up next youll hear from author Michael Lewis but in the meantime, pleased to be joined by one of 362 americans who has actually been in space and that is astronaut Leland Melvin and, mr. Melvin, you write that your book is called chasing space and you write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Yeah, exactly. A dropped path, i pass. I block a lot and we were at a homecoming game. The ball was perfectly thrown in the game and i dropped a touchdown pass in my hands and the thing is a scout was there from the university of richmond looking to see if i could play football for the team. He walked out of the stadium, my coach green believed in me, this time i caught the ball, that one catch resulted in 180,000dollar scholarship to the university of richmond because the coach said he didnt give up, he kept going. That was the grits and the first and the second chance. How did you get from playing from the university of richmond spiders to Space Shuttle missions . I think the turning of season from 010 around to 38 in playoffs brought the College Scout and then all of the hard work and dedication and discipline, i went to work for nasa, a friend of mine gave me an application and said you would be a great astronaut and i was like, yeah right, the same year i didnt fill out the application, someone else did and he got in and i said to myself, well, if that guy could get in, i could get in. The competition, then believing that i could do that same thing and i applied and i got in to the astronaut course. Well, before we go any further, you want to tell our viewers this is a call, Leland Melvin has been to space twice, worked for nasa for 20some years, your chance to talk to astronaut, 7488201 for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zones, what were you doing that you were able to apply to nasa because a lot of people im sure would like to apply to nasa. Right, well, after leaving the Dallas Cowboys from the pulled hamstring, i went to graduate school fulltime and i got my masters engineer in material science engineering, this woman said you should come work for nasa. Im going to work for dupont, they make more money there. She was tenacious and she said we need more people like you at nasa. I got the job to work at the research engineer. In what field . I was a material science engineer but we were working in an area called nondestructive Evaluation Sciences where we are Building Systems for measuring damage, Aerospace Vehicles using different types of sensors, fibers, lasers and thermal systems for measuring damage. Now you threw something about the Dallas Cowboys. [laughter] well, i got drafted and pulled a hamstring, went to train with the Dallas Cowboys, by day im catching football for Americas Team and at night im watching material science engineering vhs video tapes and when danny white went out one day, i ended up pulling my hamstring and that was the end of my football career but i went back to uva and got my masters. From the day you applied to nasa from the day you took off in atlanta u how many years was that . I applied in 1995, got in the core in 1998, ten years, it took me to fly in space. Its not typical is that typical . Its not typical. But i had a little problem. What was it . I lost all of my hearing in training accident. I went completely death. I still have hearing impairment in left ear but hay forgot to put padding and they said i will never fly in space. A diving accident, correct . It was training in the white uva suits, 600gallon pool and spacewalking suits but in the suit there is an actual pad that you use to press your nose to clear your ears. I told the test director to turn the volume up, it took me out and they realized blood was coming out of my ears. And . And they said, emergency surgery, they operated and looked around and couldnt find anything, they medically disqualified me to fly in space but thats when and my hearing came back about three weeks later and i ended up going to work in dc in this Educator Astronaut Program to train to be astronauts and when i was in that program we lost Space Shuttle colombia and i was there for the families and we were flying around the country going to different Memorial Services to help get the families through this and the chief surgeon, in each one of those flights taking notes as i took off and landed and he watched me clear my ears. He believed in me that i could actually fly to space, not get back in the pool, not fly jets or get back in pressure situations but i can fly in space and do a job in space to try to advance our civilization. The photo on the cover of your book, chasing space, this is an initial nasa photo. It is official. That has to be the best astronaut photo ever. Well, when you sneak the dog to nasa and photo lab and get the picture with them, if you look on the picture, the front, all of our hands are connected, two paws and the hands are combined together in solidarity as the people trying to get to space. [laughter] Leland Melvin is our guest, he has flown twice atlantis in 2008 and the second time was atlantis as well . How long were you there . The First Mission 12 days and the second 14 days or vice versa day. If you were flying, would you go . I would go. Should have missions ended . Heavy lift to deploy satellites. We completed the space station buildout, we have spacex and other people delivering cargo with the cost of the Space Shuttle program, we would not be able to build a new rocket system and the vehicle to go pass lower orbit. So we want to go past that and, you know, maybe assist lunar space station will help us to get to mars one day. It was the right thing to do. Lets hear from our callers, jane, first, youre with author and astronaut Leland Melvin. Hi, leland, i was going to ask about the astronaut thats been there for 65 days, what do you think about that . Peggy witson, she was my commander in 2008 on the space station. She applied 13 times to become an astronaut, rejected 12 times. She is one of my heros, shes a maker woman and she is one of these people that i hold up like Katherine Johnson as a hero. Its amazing person and i love her to death. Peggy whats featured in chasing space, who was or is Katherine Johnson . Katherine johnson is the 99yearold mathematician that calculated the trajectories to get john glenn orbiting the planet and she was a figure and talked about her writing the book and actually margo is the daughter of bob lee who was an engineer who worked at nasa with me. Its like a family affair. S mission in space . Training to be a kind of engineer starts at an early age. I started building things in middle school and the main thing about the training is to get kids looking at the night sky seeing the space station going overhead, building and creating something was the second question . How much emphasis could be put on stem . Guest emphasis should be put on steam, Science Technology arts and mathematics. Ali activity associated with the arts is part of stem education. Having kids creating, music lessons, all the Different Things prepared me to get to space and work with other people, languages, working with russian colleagues and understanding these other things all part of that training for spaceflight. Host you are on with Leland Melvin. Reporter it is great to see you, just flipping through the channels. What is this guy about . A fantastic story. My question is where have you been and why havent we heard this story before . Guest Catherine Johnson with a 99yearold mathematician who helped john glenn get around the planet. A lot of us have been figures for quite a while and i got this book out there so we could get more kids from different zip codes to know that you can play in the nfl, you can be an astronaut, you can do anything if you have people that have your back and believe in your self and work hard. What is this a photo of . A phd in Chemical Engineering from mit as well as medical doctor. Firsttime two africanamerican men were in space at the team same time. That one picture in that interview listen to to buy 1 million people, could come up to me and tell me they heard the interview, they want to be astronauts, they want to be ballplayers, nothing wrong with being a ballplayer, i was a ballplayer but the key is you can do so much more. This photo. Host where were you when this was taken . Guest we had undocked with the International Space station in 2009 and we were floating in the mid deck, of Space Shuttle atlantis on 129. Please go ahead. At nasa do they discuss so many conspiracy theories about the moon landings, my second question is do you think we really landed on the moon . Host do you think we landed on the moon . Caller no i do not. Host why . Caller on youto be can see videos where there are strings in the background, and also another thing i heard is arent there different radiation, how the astronauts able to pass through radiation belts when they were headed towards the moon . Guest my friends have given their lives foex
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