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
Hi, good morning. Good morning. Welcome to the 24th annual texas book festival, i will start off with just a few housekeeping items, if you could all silence your phones at this time, that would be great, please feel free to share your experience on social media using the festival attexasbookfest. Texasbookfest, keep in mind questions that you may want to ask towards the end, you may have a good time to ask them, at the end to have conversation the authors will find books at the book tent which i believe is right there, the books are on sale by book people, your independent bookstore, the largest bookstore, largest indy bookstore in texas, the portion of the book helps funds programs that brings authors to students to lowincome schools in texas and find grants for libraries in texas, thank you, in this panel we will be going beyond headlines to discuss the real experience of immigrants living in america, we have two imminent authors that will share with us their journeys. Most recently
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac weve got commercial crew program, weve got space tourism, were going to the moon and using that as a steppingstone to go onto mars and some people want to retire there one day. There is so much excitement. So i would love for each of you to share what youre looking forward to most about the future of Space Exploration and are there things from apollo that still resonate today . The Critical Technology right now is what we call, you know we just got to figure out how to land the kind of masses were talking about landing on mars. Thats something weve got to figure out again, if i go back to what spacex is doing and has done, we had talked to them about flying a dragon to mars and landing because it would give us data about a landing on mars. Again, working with the private sector and experiment that is theyre doing that keeps nasa from having to do that allows them to go on and develop the exploration part of t
[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
We will be talking about secretary james new book. I have read it and listened to it. That is what we are going to talk about. Maam, first and foremost, to break the ice, what inspired you to tell your story . , i wore debra throughout my life i have been active in the business of our National Security closer to 40 years. I have always been a civilian and i have worked in congress, worked in the pentagon for my several tours and been in private industry always working on defense issues. While i was making my way up, i would always look up to the people above me and there were very few women at that point to look up to but there were a couple. And some men. I would wonder to myself about how their lives must be perfect. And how they were able to attain these high. And here was my life which had some successes but plenty of failures and i felt like a hot mess compared to these role models. I know now that was not true. That everybody has something. I wanted for the next generation of wom