Much like many of our panelists today, i am an engineer. But i have never been to space, which gives you an idea of the impressiveness next to me. But i did grow up in florida around Cape Canaveral and have watched many of you launch to space, and it has been one of the reasons i chose to pursue engineering. Ive gone on to have an atypical career, i am a tv host nowadays, and we have a current challenge that was launched with nasa, where students can name the next mars rover. Right now, we have a contest until november 1st, so you have any kids or grand kids that want to be part of space history, i encourage them to go online and submit their names. We have a chronology here from apollo on to thinking about going to mars. So right here on my left we have general tom stafford. So nasa astronaut with the gemini and Apollo Programs. Next, we have captain bob crippen, shuttle astronaut. Next, we have dr. Sandy magnus, another former shuttle astronaut, and spent 4 1 2 months on the Internat
applause welcome to the engineer forum i am apollo 15. Joined on stage today by six incredible individuals and each of whom have shaped the history and the future of human spaceflight. I will give a little introduction but as he said my name is lianne much like panelists today, i have never been to space which gives you an idea of the impressiveness next to me, but i did grow up in florida and watched many of you wants to space. It is one reason i chose to pursue engineering. I have gone on to have an atypical career and also a founder and ceo of future engineers and we have current challenge with nasa where students can meet the next mars rover. Right now, we have i encourage them to go online and submit their name. Speaking of space history, i will tell you about our panelists and i will let you know that their placement on stage is not a coincidence. Right here, we have general tom stafford, so that is a famous after not with an Apollo Program. We have dr. Sandy magnus who spent fou
[no audio] as he said, my name is the deanne. Unlike most panelists today, i have never been to space which gives you an idea of the impressiveness next to me, but i did grow up in florida and watch many of you wants to space. It is one reason i chose to pursue engineering. I have gone on to have an also al career and founder and ceo of future engineers and we have current talent with nasa were students rover. T the next mars i now, we have encourage them to go online and submit their names. Speaking of space history, i will to you about our panelists and i will let you know that their placement on stage is not explicit. Right here, we have general tom stafford, so that is a famous after not with an Apollo Program. Whoave dr. Sandy magnus spent four months on the International Space station. Now a boeing commercial astronaut. And weed spacex in 2002 share the title of never having been to space. With all the work going on the commercial side, maybe all of us will have the opportunity t
Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum. And this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976, almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary space flight. And it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during this heroic age of Space Exploration when humans first ventured off the planet into space and all the way to the moon, when the United States and the soviet union began sending craft out to explore the nearby planets. All of this was exciting, thrilling, and people just flocked in to the museum to see it. In the 40 years since this building opened, we have continued to acquire treasures of space history. We have now about 17,000 artifacts related to space history. We have just over a thousand of them on display in our two locations
The Smithsonian National air and space museum shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration from the moon to mar mars. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and Historic Sites around the country. Up next we visit the Smithsonian National air and space museum located on the National Mall in washington, d. C. Our tour guide is valerie neal, head of the Space History Department at the museum who shows us artifacts that tell the story of Space Exploration from the moon to mars. Im valerie neal. Were in the boeing milestones of flight hall at the center of the museum and this is the hall where we display the pioneering aircraft and spacecraft that transform the modern world. When this Museum Opened in july of 1976 almost every space artifact on display had recently been in the news. This was very much a museum of contemporary spaceflight and it was for most people their first chance to see what had been lauded in the 1960s and early 1970s during thi