That was a test. My father had told me stories from sky lab about he had always seen the fires in the amazon and people were clearcutting it. I hadnt thought about it for 35 years. I remember when i was a kid, there were a lot of tv things about it about save the rainforest, shockingly you dont see much these day. Boy, is it still burning and so was big areas of the green belt through central africa, but for me, the great epiphany came on this day. This was probably day eightish. It was the first time i had after having that information about the earth pour into your mind, i finally saw a place i knew personally very well. There is my house off a lake in austin, texas, i could also see houston where i grew up around nasa. I could see the gulf coast where i played on beaches as a kid, up in dallas where i had driven many times, i had driven and walked and biked those areas intimately. I knew the size of it. I knew how big it was. At the time, i could see the whole earth and suddenly tha
Brian henson came all the way from texas. That is pretty cool. Becky nichols, the wife of alan nichols is back there. Alan is on a trip. He could not be here. Becky is always here. She is always here. Thank you very much. The Explorers Club is a cool place. Come see us. We do sea ocean, primates, all that stuff. Thank you very much. [applause] a big hand for charlie duke. More from the Explorers Club in new york city. Bill ingalls shows unique photographs relaunches such a launches, rocket launches, russia and japan. He also shows Neil Armstrongs funeral. This is about 50 minutes. [applause] good afternoon. Bill ingalls has been a professional photographer for over 27 years and has heard as the senior contract survivor photographer or nasa since 1989. He has traveled the world. Assignments have taken him from the Kennedy Space center to the inside of an active volcano in alaska, oval office, inside of a dca, dc8. His photographs have appeared in national geographic, newsweek time, the
It was a stepping stone. I never only after m. I. T. Can i say i really wanted to be a national not. Up until that time, it was maybe out there. Other questions . Moon walker . I have one more. We have a guy right here. High, charles. Just a question on your take on the potential benefits that humankind can get out of exploring the moon . Where do we stand with our progress . Are we still in the analysis phase . To good questions. I think a lot of the benefit and space is twofold from the moon flights. Apollo was the basic science that we generated through six different experiment packages. We left of the orbital experiments that we did. The other was the technological benefits that were done to make apollo possible and the space program. I had just gotten back from the hundredth anniversary of the department of the m. I. T. They said apollo generated 88 times the return on our investment. That is a good deal. And investment an investment manager would like this kind of stats. There ar
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