One way to look at it, apollo 13 with the event that it had. I believe that was around 84 hours. We had to keep the crew alive for 84 hours. So we had life support systems, if youre going to go to mars that have to work for months, possibly over a year, depending on how long it takes you to get there and how long you stay. We have to take the steps to get that in place. Its going to take some time to get a reliable system in place. We can land a metric ton on the surface of mars, thats all we know how to do. Thats about the size of a mini cooper car. If were going to explore mars, it needs to be something bigger than that. There are challenges that we have, we know what the challenges are, but it will take some time to get those technologies ready. Have you counted up how many breakthroughs you think you need to get there . We ought to talk about it a little bit. Im not sure theyre breakthroughs in a sense. If we can build on what we know now today, and just expangd it. For example lif
Dayton and jeff johnson and hannah nicollet. Thursday night at 8 00 p. M. On cspan, live coverage of the oklahoma governors debate between joe dorman and mary fallin. Also on cspan 2, the nebraska governors debate between Democrat Chuck hassebrook and pete rickets. Between john lewis and ryan zinke. Cspan campaign 2014, more than 100 debates for the control of congress. Now we go back to the George Washington university forrum on Mars Exploration. This portion includes nasa chief scientist jame garvin. He spoke about the Robotic Missions taking place on mars and what theyve revealed about the planet. This is 35 minutes. [ applause ]. Thanks. Thank you very much. Can everyone hear me . Thank you very much. I want to take you on a tour really kind of like the ice lan dick sagas of what the science discoveries from mars especially in the last 14 years of our program of exploration known as the Mars Exploration program which is implemented at our jet Propulsion Lab has given us. I would li
And, did he leave them laughing . Al takes us behind the scenes of his star studded uso tour for our troops overseas. Wednesday, october 8, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on wednesday morning, im matt lauer along with tamron hall, al roker and natalie morales. Its not often we begin a show by mooning you. Look at the blood moon. That is a picture of the moon from earlier this morning. Coinciding with the hunter moon, this is a full moon in october they call it the hunter moon. Much more coming up but that is our new logo for the day. Lets get to our top story on this wednesday morning. Doctors at the Nebraska Medical Center turning to an american who survived his bot well ebola for help treating a journalist infected with the virus. Kate snow is in omaha with the latest. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you, matt. Brantlys blood is being administered
They have lost the last 10 games. 9 of those 28 loss were his by 20 or more points. Defensive minded coach but defense couldnt stop anyone. They went with rockie quarterback car instead of proven veteran chavez as quarterback. The results not good. The only third head coach in raider history to be fired during the season Mike Shanahan back in 19 yin and lane back in 2000 8. Candidate to replace him is tony who is the only coach on the staff. With a contract for next seaso season. This is really not a surprise general manager mckensie has talked davis out of this manufacture previously but if you make a change you do it during the biwe can and that make the most sense. No response from the raiders but press conference scheduled for tomorrow and we will see who will be the coach. Thrd time in raider season. Where they fired a coach. Biweek is the time. Still only a couple week to regroup. A lot of times you make the change and the team respond to it the but at this point they just had to
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