Three members of a british family have drowned at a Holiday Resort on the Costa Del Sol. Spanish police are investigating. Crowds gather at sandringham, where the queen will lead members of the royal family at their traditional Christmas Day service. The dean of Westminster Abbey says britain is in need of the hope offered by the christmas story. Hundreds of people in australia have been forced from their homes for the holidays, as the country battles some of its worst bushfires in years. Now, pallab ghosh looks back on how the frontiers of science and space were pushed in 2019 a year shaped by the impact of deforestation and Climate Change in review 2019 the year in science. This is the year we saw the first ever picture of a black hole and we celebrated one of humanitys greatest achievements. Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. There was a new treatment for parkinsons disease. It enabled this woman to walk again. There were also fires raging in australia. Youll
History and future of human spaceflight. My name is deeann. I am an engineer. I have never been to space. [laughter] in brevard county, florida, and have watched many of you launched into space. It has been an inspiration and one reason i chose to pursue engineering. Im and engineering tv host nowadays, founder and ceo of future engineers. We have a challenge where students can name the next mars rover. It is until november 1. If you have kids or grandkids who want to be a part of space history, i encourage them to go online and submit their names. I am going to tell you about our panelists. Isir placement tier onstage not a coincidence. We have a chronology here, from apollo onto thinking about going to mars. Tomy left we have General Stafford, former nasa astronaut with the gemini and Apollo Programs. Crippen,aptain bob shuttle astronaut, joined in 69, the apollo days. We have dr. Sandy magness, former shuttle astronaut to spent four and a half months on the International Space stati
Hello. This is breakfast with Nina Warhurst and victoria fritz. Good morning, heres a summary of todays main stories from bbc news. There are calls for an independent inquiry after a serious data breach which saw the addresses of more than a thousand people on the new year honours list made publicly available online. The files included the details of celebrities, Senior Police officers, and politicians. One of those affected, iain duncan smith, called the leak a complete disaster. Several people have been stabbed at a rabbis home in the state of new york. At least five people, who were alljewish, have been taken to hospital. The new york mayor, bill de blasio, says he will not allow events like this to become the new normal and will step up security around jewish houses of worship. The suspect fled but police said he was later taken into custody. The lawyer representing the family of a british father and his two children who drowned in a resort Swimming Pool in spain on Christmas Eve w
Africa. Has been earths Constant Companion for 4 and a half 1000000000 years. Now its finally back in the focus of science almost 50 years after man lost set foot on the moon. As more people are the percent of the total people on the surface that were not alive when that we had a lesson or landing in that wall and we havent done the next thing and some people say been there done that but what we havent done is we just touched the ground planted a flag and left it right we havent really lived we havent explored surely if you want to commit the money to it like we did over apollo you could do it in probably to the years easy we did it great years. 2 words. Now scientists are concentrating on ways to grow food produce energy and make sure theyre. All over the world researchers are working on a return to the moon and the chance to be able to stay there longer. We have to use the moon operationally understand. How to live and work on the planet if you live there are many ideas but actually
Were deeply honored to have Vice President pence with us this morning as we unveil Neil Armstrongs recently conserved apollo 11 spacesuit. Also with us is Jim Bridenstine who leads nasa, the organization whose achievements we celebrate. Im so happy that Rick Armstrong could join us to represent the family, along with his family, of the inspiring American Hero who took humanitys first steps on the moon. Thank you for being here, rick. [ applause ] during our yearlong celebration, weve highlighted the team that made apollo possible. It took 400,000 americans doing every conceivable job to make it happen. That included the engineers, the material experts, the medical experts, and the amazing seamstresses who handmade the spacesuit that we are unveiling this morning. It took another large team to conserve the suit so we could once again share it with the world after 13 years off exhibit. That Team Included our space suit historians, conservators and collections and exhibits experts but the