We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. The eagle has landed. Now we can see you coming down. A moonshot for all of humanity. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. That first walk on the moon was over 40 years ago. In this hour well explore five great moon shots of today. Sending astronauts to mars 3d printing a human heart, creating a star on earth, flying from new york to london in an hour and mapping the human brain. Welcome to a gps special, moon shots for the 21st century. It was early december 2014 at cape canaveral. Beautiful morning for a launch in florida. But it felt a little bit like the days of apolo. Go. Bp. Go. Status check. Go delta. At the top of a delta 4 heavy rocket sat orion, the spacecraft nasa has designed for sending human beings to mars. Three, two, one, and liftoff. At dawn the dawn of orion, the new era of American Space exploration. It went farther into face than any other nasa craft meant for humans in over 40 years. Fourteen times higher than the International Space station. We are now just a few miles away from reaching peak altitude. Then it returned at speeds of up to 20,000 Miles Per Hour withstanding 4,000 degree heat. Before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. Orions maiden flight from start to finish was picture perfect. The trip lasted only four and a half hours. But nasa hopes future versions of orion will take the much longer journey with astronauts all the way to mars. When the American People get behind something and International Community gets behind it we can do anything we want to do. Charles bowden has served leaving in 2009. Usually emotional but an incredible day. Anybody who knows whats going on and doesnt tear up they are pretty hard. Why send a manned mission to mars. This is going to be expensive, challenging, why do it. We have to. You have to send a human somewhere if you really want to find difficult answers. Is there life somewhere else in our universe. Is there the real possibility that humans can exist somewhere away from earth . Thats really really important. I happen to be one who believes a multiplanet species can survive in perpetuity. Single planet species will die away. Nasa says it will send humans to mars in the 2030s. They are making more progress toward that goal than you might realize. Eight, seven, six to cheat earths gravity with a crew of astronauts and the things they will need for mars nasa needs a new ride. Liftoff. So its building a new generation of rockets, some of the largest, most powerful rockets it has ever built, measuring taller than the statue of liberty. A massive welding tool will piece together cylinders and domes that will make up the rockets fuel tanks. To save a few bucks, nasa will use engines from the old Space Shuttle fleet which still have talent of power. After leaving earthish the astronauts will face at least 34 million miles of space travel a months long journey, nasa says. The whole mission could last three years. Human beings can go crazy in that kind of cramped longterm isolation. So to see how a crew can cope nasa is funding isolation studies like the High Seas Mission mission. Five people spent four months in a small dome on the marslike volcano in hawaii. This is the main living space right here. There was a 20minute communication delay with the outside world, similar to what mars as knauss would face. The only time they were allowed to leave the habitat was in space suits. Okay. We havent had a huge amount of interpersonal conflict although every once in a while not always facing away from the camera. To keep track of the mood crew members wore devices that detected the volume of their voices and their proximity to one another. Their writing analyzed by a Computer Program that looked for telling words and phrases. Words that tend to have stronger emotional content. Obviously key words like frustrated and jerk and stuff like that could be signs but also subtler signs as well. The day the mission ended was a happy one for the crew. They told us things went well. What i found really difficult is but admitted there was some testy moment. Sixty days in youre going why am i reacting this way. I never react this way. This isnt who i am. The final leg of the journey might be the most difficult of all, the landing. Touchdown confirmed. Nasa hopes to learn from the landings of mars rovers like curiosity roaming for years now. I remember being bewildered. A decade of my life is done. It worked. Adam steltsner is the rock star Rocket Scientist at the nasas jet propulsion whose team made it happen. Mars has an annoying atmosphere. Its very thin equivalent to the atmosphere on earth, 120 to 150,000 feet. That was too thin to slow down curiosity enough with parachutes so a craft that would lower the surface with cable, speed off and crash land a safe distance away. We knew every time we spoke of it wed lose our credibility because it looked so crazy. The crazy plan worked. Landing humans on the red planet will be a lot harder than landing a rover. Curiosity was about two tons two metric tons as she approached the surface of mars. And we think that a human vessel would be Something Like 20 or 40 metric tons as it approached the surface of mars. Whats the single hardest thing about getting to mars . Convincing people its worth it is the single most difficult thing, convincing the american taxpayer the administration the congress that its really worth this and that there is a benefit to be gained is probably the single most much more difficult than the technological challenges out there. Do you wish though there was a much more ambitious funding fareed see, youre going to get me in trouble. Yes, im the nasa administrator. I always wash for much much more. This is very hard. This is very risky. We are going to lose things and people along the way, but its so worth it. What were going to do for humanity by making us a multiplanet species is unimagine achblt its mind boggling the way its going to be an advantage to humanity. We cant even imagine that. Coming up 3d prynners can make some amaze things these days. But what about printing human organs . One man says 10 years from now he will be able to print an entire human heart. And later a moonshot for energy. Well show you how scientists are trying to create a star right here on earth. If you suffer from a dry mouth then youll know how uncomfortable it can be. But did you know that the lack of saliva can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath . 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Only the right sized heart with the right blood type will do. Even though shes in the top priority category for a transplant shes been waiting for months. This is one thing that attacks every single emotion you have in your body. Fear, anxiety, every day. Hi. Hey, ella. How are you . Thousands of americans like ella are on the National Waiting List for a heart, according to the u. S. Government. Even if they get one, their bodies may reject it. But what if doctors could manufacture a heart with a patients own cells using a 3d printer . That new machine that makes everything from food to shoes to cars. If that sounds like a pipe dream, say hello to the bioassembly bot. Its a robot that can already print several parts of the heart. I can tell the robot printer to print this for us. This is what we are going to print for you. Blood vessels, valves and the hearts walls. It can print these parts with living, human cells. And one of its master minds believes it can print an entire heart within a moonshot time frame. I really think if we put a large team together, which we are, i think we can get there within ten years. Dr. Stewart williams at the university of louisville leads the team working toward this goal. Verify and keep eyes on pressures. For williams, the goal is personal. My dad dies of Heart Disease and the devices, the instruments that would really have been necessary to keep his heart functioning were not available at that time. So it really grew out of a personal vendetta that i had against cardiovascular pathology. Now, he and his colleagues are pioneers in the field of bioprinting. We are taking biology and making it i. T. Having built a six axis robot that they say would create a heart right in the operating room. What would this look like visually . Im still trying to understand. You press a button and this thing would actually print a heart . Is that what would happen . Precisely. That is the plan. Mri images of a healthy heart. Hold your breath. Would be converted into a digital 3d model. The patients own fat would be taken out and converted to the different cells that make up the heart. We now have these incredible capabilities to take an adult cell and transform it into other types of cells. Parts of the heart would then be bioprinted, piece by piece and soon you would have a new heart. How long would it take to print a heart . The printing of a heart, i believe, could be accomplished in essentially a single day. Doctor williams and his team arent the only bioprinters on the block. A group at Cornell University has bioprinted a human ear. Cold collagen being the positive on the warm plate. What that enables you to get is really sharp edges and sharp boundaries. It takes the doctor and his team just 15 minutes to print one. They are pretty robust. You know, i can pick them up. It will bend and do the things normal cartilage should do. Other body parts they estimate this is a meniscus. Could be used in human trials in less than five years. It brings the ability to make thousands, millions of tissue and customize them for individual people. The heart has one major blood vessel called the left main artery. Whats stopping us from making better organs asks dr. Williams . Whoever put this original plan together put one major blood vessel leading into the left side, the major part of the heart. When that becomes dysfunctional, we call it the widow maker. When the vessel fails, the patient will often die. We can build a new heart based upon a design that has two or three blood vessels, a redundancy in this organ. Do you sometimes worry that youre playing god, that youre actually creating human beings, parts of human beings . I dont worry about that. I certainly hope this technology can benefit as many people as is possible. Do you have any questions . No. People like ella kroese and the millions of others who suffer from Heart Defects and Heart Disease all right, miss ella, i think you are doing great. If dr. Williams moonshot becomes a reality, children like ella may not be waiting for a heart any longer. If somebody could tell you, hey, i can make you an organ in x, y, z time, it would be huge for a family. Coming up, scientists believe they could help power the world with a moonshot for energy, creating a star here on earth. Later, a new jet engine could have us flying at five times the speed of sound. That would mean you could get anywhere in the world in just four hours. So,as my personal financial psychic, im sure you know what this meeting is about. Yes, a raise. Im letting you go. I knew that. You see, this is my amerivest managed. Balances. No. Portfolio. And if doesnt perform well for two consecutive gold. Quarters. Quarters. Yup. Then amerivest gives me back their advisory. Stocks. Fees. Fees. Fees for those quarters. 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Contribution to this effort. A collaboration of 35 countries representing over half the worlds population including china and russia. The project is latin for the way. If its successful, it would be one of mankinds most significant achievements ever. You are going to create a temperatures on earth that is thousands of times hotter than anything on earth, correct . We are trying to create the hottist thing in the solar system. You are trying to do something that people thought was unimaginable. Absolutely true. Here is how it would work. The suns energy comes from Nuclear Fusion in which atoms fuse together. The device creates fusion heating forms of hydrogen to temperatures ten times hotter than the sun. Containing that hot gas would be a powerful Magnetic Field created by big super conducting magnets. Its a Magnetic Field 100,000 times stronger than the earths Magnetic Field. It shields the heat. Thats correct. This sounds so dangerous. What if it explodes in some sense . First of all, this thing is very hard to keep going. Understand, we are not talking here about Nuclear Fission reactions, which by todays Nuclear Reactors can lead to meltdowns like chernobyl. Controlled Nuclear Fission reactions are actually very, very difficult to sustain. But they hope to create the longest, most sufficient, most powerful one ever, a milestone that could change the world. We are exploiting a huge energy source. Mark henderson, another physicist, notes that you could get all the hydrogen you need to power fusion from one of the most abundant resources on earth, ocean water. Theres enough hydrogen in the ocean to power humanity with fusion for millions of years. Fusion reactions wouldnt produce any carbon emissions. What this is is a future investment for your children and your childrens children. It may be a noble experiment, but success will not come easily. Almost everything here is a challenge because of the High Accuracy and very large components. This man has one of the hardest jobs on the project. Smoothing out technical issues between the countries as they build a very complex machine. China making cables for the super conducting magnets. The u. S. Is winding cables and building the largest magnet. India is making the Enormous Steel structure that will surround will magnets. Thats just a sampling of the work these countries and others are doing. This is a political will because Everyone Wants to gain the knowledge to build a fusion reactor after this. Already, the estimated cost has skyrocketed. In an internal review of the project leaked to the new yorker said it was mired in gridlock. Some criticism about the project that its not being managed well. Perhaps because it is so international. How do you respond to that . I respond iter isnt just science and technology but an experiment in international cooperation. Iter officials and others in the fusion field insist that the Science Behind iter is sound. 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It was scheduled to go into the ocean, but not after just 30 seconds. Everybody knows this has to be perfect. On their fourth try, the team gets exactly what they are hoping for, the longest flight ever with a new engine that can fly one mile in one second. Big ben and the big apple would be only an hour apart at that speed. Thats like we have the technology in hand to be able to design and build an engine that can fly in that extreme environment for however long we can carry fuel. If we had more fuel, we could have flown further. Todays jet engines have trouble going faster than two or three times the speed of sound causing their rotating parts would get too hot. But the engine that powered waverider had virtually no moving parts. Ifts called a scram jet engine. Here is how it works. Air from outside the aircraft is allowed to flow through the engine supersonically. Extremely hot air is mixed with jet fuel and lit on fire at just the right moment to create propulsion. A truly astonishing feat in aviation. Its like lighting a match inside a blowing hurricane. With the scramjet youre not just flying supersonically youre flying hypersonically, five times the sound barrier. The air force Research Laboratory is one of the Government Agencies leading the charge on this technology. We were given access to their facility on Wright Patterson air force base in ohio. We are going to be going to as we go to larger sizes. Engineers here are working on the next big thing in hypersonic flight. A highspeed strike weapon that could evade any air defense system. I really cant go into details on that. Thats getting closer to being ready for application. They are developing a hypersonic plane which they hope will fly twice as fast as the sr71 black bird which flew over three times the sound barrier. The ultimate dream would be commercial hypersonic flight. Thats not the air forces mission, but he says its possible, assuming the big challenges can be overcome, like dealing with the unreal heat involved. The outside of the vehicle, were seeing 2,250 degrees fahrenheit. Inside where the engine is about a toasty 200 fahrenheit. Thanks to the lessons from the waverider, he believes we could have commercial hypersonic flight as soon as 2030. Hypersonics is one of the last great frontiers in aeronautics. We are opening the door and moving into that arena. Coming up, ever want to be a race car driver . Or a gourmet chef . Or a great golfer . Or talk to a famous historical figure as if he was still alive . Well look at exciting moonshots in neuroscience. And later, is the United States losing its edge in science and technology . Financial noise financial noise financial noise financial noise if youre taking multiple medications does your mouth often feel dry . A dry mouth can be a side effect of many medications. 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Science fiction could become a reality sooner than you think, if we could map the human brain. We have learned more about the brain in the last 10 and 15 years than in all of Human History combined. Theoretical physicist and cbs news science contributor details these exciting possibilities and the current state of the brain in his latest book, the future of the mind. We can actually photograph a thought, communicate these thoughts to a robot or computer. These were all considered to be preposterous just 10 to 15 years ago, and now we do it. Just as the telescope revolutionized Technology Mri and other technologies have led to a golden age in neuroscience. We can actually see desire, selfawareness or guilty conscience. We can see these as blood flows registered by an mri machine. The biggest moonshot in this field might be to map all of the inner workings of the brain down to the neuron similar to mapping the human genome. Project, that is what we are calling the Brain Initiative. President obama obama announced the Brain Initiative in 2013. Its an effort to show how the brains neurocircuits Work Together in realtime. It wont be easy but think about what we could do once we do crack this code. Is it more difficult to map the brain than it was to map the human genome which initially took about 10 or 15 years. It will take a lot of time. The human genome project only talked about 20,000 genes or so that governed the human body. The brain has 100 billion neurons. Each neuron connected to 10,000 other neurons. Thats as many stars as there are in the milky way galaxy. Europes human brain project simulates the brain on a computer. It wont be easy. Given todays most powerful computers have only a fraction of the power to do the job. Dont worry, scientists are already achieving what was once thought impossible. Julien pinto is paralyzed from the chest down. Hes learned to walk again, using an exoskeleton hooked to his brain. One small step for pinto, one giant leap for neuroscience. It was a moonshot. It was our neuroscience moonshot. These are all the people around the world that collaborated in the project. The head of the walk again project trained eight paraplegics in brazil to operate hydraulic legs, using only their thoughts. Patients simply think of the act of walking and a special cap reads their brains electrical signals, which are decoded into commands for the legs. In less than a decade, we went from a concept to a clinically relevant application that can impact the lives of 20, 30 Million People around the world. The exo skeleton allows the patients to feel each step they are taking. Sensors like these send signals to the patients arms which stimulate them with feeling. They had, for the first time in years, the ability to feel that they were touching the ground, knees flexing or their foot making contact with an object like a soccer ball. The project culminated before the opening match of the 2014 world cup where Juliano Pinto made the ceremonial first kick viewed by an audience of millions around the world. The thing that touched me the most was when he said i touched the ball. I felt the ball. I felt the ball when i kick it. Where is this Ground Breaking neuroscience leading us . I have to trust my body to know what to do. Thats where all the hollywood Science Fiction comes in. One day, we will connect the human mind to a robot, an avatar. An avatar which may one day walk on the moon governed by an astronaut sitting in his hot tub in his living room. Would it be possible to take a skill and inject it into the brain . Im thinking of the matrix and keanu reeves instantly learning martial arts. Im going to learn jujitsu. This is conceivable. One day we might have the ability to insert the vacation we never had into our mind. Come to recall incorporated. You can buy the memory of your ideal vacation. Beyond that maybe even upgrading the skills of workers. Why not record the skills that require hightech and insert them into workers so they can upgrade their skills rather than having to go to junior colleges and struggle with courses. It may be a way to upgrade the skills of the population. Ultimately, he says, if we can upload our brains into a computer, we could outlive our frail bodies and perhaps achieve immortality. Perhaps one day well have a library of souls. Instead of going to read up on Winston Churchill well see a hologram and have a conversation with Winston Churchill with all the memories and personality quirks. One day, our descendants may have a conversation with us because we live forever in a library will souls. You really think this is possible . Just realize today were at the beginning of this revolution. Were beginning now to record thoughts. The very fact we can talk about this in a scientific way means that weve all of a sudden crossed a watershed. 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Nasa made a big purchase of a relatively new technology. The integrated circuit, the Technology Behind what we now know as the microchip. The companys that pioneered the product, like Fairchild Semiconductor invented here. The alumni founded intel. Partly had nasa to thank for the technology that followed. The u. S. Government helped the by buying the initial products helped the computer revolution take off. Its not just the microchip. Would you like to begin navigation . Gps technology which is powering the next phase of the revolution was developed by the u. S. Military. It was only after the 1983 soviet shootdown of a Korean Airlines flight the aircraft strayed into soviet airspace. The Reagan Administration said it would share the technology so they would not wander into dangerous territories. The Clinton Administration opened up the technology to commercial applications that unleashed a flood of innovation that continues today. Consider the mapping of the human genome. The dna is in there. According to the patel memorial institute, the federal government spent 3. 8 billion on this massive project from 1990 to 2003 and among few our entities could have ever afforded it. Were here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. In leading the way, it encouraged others. Now a persons dna can be sequenced for as little as 1,000. The impact on the economy of the human genome sequencing from 1988 to 2010 was estimated at almost 800 billion. Enough to support more than 310,000 jobs in 2010 alone. If you listen to all this and think the u. S. Is on the right track, alas, the problem is, it is not. Federal funding for research and development has barely been keeping up with inflation in recent years. If you look at the numbers from the National Science foundation. Since big entitlements like Social Security are mandatory spending programs it is Discretionary Spending like science, that often bears the brunt of the budget axe. This comes at a time when others around the world are moving fast. The United States has dominated the world of basic science for years, even decades. Recently, its share of Global Research and development has been falling from 37 of the total in 2001 to now 30 , according to the National Science foundation. As scientists point out, china is on course to surpass the United States in the percent of its gdp it spends on research and development in just a few years. It used to be funding basic science was not a partisan issue. A republican was a big proponent of basic research. Remarkable thing is although basic research does not begin with a particular practical goal when you look at the results over the years, it ends up being one of the most practical thing government does. This is why i have urged congress to devote more money to research. It is an indispensable investment in americas future. That was, of course Ronald Reagan in a 1988 radio address. Americans used to understand that moonshots inspire us and power americas future. Lets hope that todays politicians follow reagans advice and invest in science, research and development and lets hope that many of you, especially the young amongst you might be inspired by the projects we described to work on the moonshots of the future. Maybe one day cnn will have a program on your moonshot. Thanks for watching this special edition of gps. You can watch us sunday at 10 00 a. M. And 1 00 p. M. Eastern. This is cnn breaking news. Good morning, im brian stelter, its time for reliable sources. A big show ahead today. We begin with breaking news out of new orleans where robert durst was arrested. We found out about it. If youve been watching the remarkable miniseries is the jinx. Hes 70yearold from the real estate moguls. Hes had a very troubled life. He has elsu ifr suspect in the death of three people in three states. Hes been never been found guilty. The