humans to mars by 2030 and is currently mapping the planet using a robotic rover on mars named curiosity. this is an hour and 25 minutes. [applause] thank you all for coming. we got the e-mail about 10:30 this morning that said that charlie bolden wasn t coming, and that was the bad news. because we didn t have a replacement then. but when i found out who was coming, i was actually kind of delighted because charlie bolden is a great guy, i like talking to him, but he s an administrator, and administrators are, by their nature, rather cautious. and he s also, he knows the science but not like jim green who lives and breathes the science. and when we re looking, you know, we watch nasa press conferences, and we wait until he speaks so that we can get a sound bite for our radio program. [laughter] he s the one who says something interesting every time. [laughter] so it s really a delight to have you with us. thanks for coming. pleasure. and, yeah. so we re going to talk ab
of the house in 2011 that you would not be able to pass a budget. is that likely given where we are in the process? guest: we have passed a budget every year in the 12 years we had it. i think we will get there. a budget is always the perils of pauline exercise. you get to the last minute and like pauline will be run over by the train, but it never quite happens. we are continuing to negotiate in good faith. i don t think the budget itself is likely to change very much. it s a matter of law and i think it has passed out of the budget committee. but there are some things that some of the folks that have concerns are interested in in terms of addressing entitlements and rules changes that will force us to deal with unauthorized appropriations. i actually think those are good things. those are things that need to be dealt with. you have to count on the leadership team to get it done. hopefully, they will. the freedom caucus has been making requests that seem fairly difficult t
people of turkey made me president by 52% of the votes. mr. irdyk: thank you. we need to go to the audience for a couple of questions, if you are ok with that. i would ask you to wait for the microphone, to identify yourself, and please to ask a question, not to make a statement. tohave an opportunity here ask questions of the president, but we are not interested in having a political statement in the process. i also want to make clear that this is not a press conference. this is a discussion, with policy people in washington. so i hope the media will understand, but call on all of to turned it into a press conference, i want to avoid that. i am the deputy director of brookings foreign policy programs. thank you very much for coming here and engaging in a discussion at brookings. in your speech he talked about a number of different issues around the region, but that was one country that received almost pleading mentioned, and that was iran. turkey has played an important role
marc kaufman, published by national geographic. i d like to ask to please turn off your cell phone, and please don t take any pictures during the presentation. fyi, tomorrow in the new york times in the science section, it will be all about mars and features will be an article by this evening s speaker, mr. kaufman. curiosity is a cart-sized robot county rover that has been exploring gale crater on mars since landing there august 2012. nasa launched curiosity in november 2011 from cape canaveral. it took a little over eight months to reach mars. the rover s goal is to investigate the martian climate and geology and determine whether the crater has ever been ever had environmental conditions favorable to life. this is quite an intriguing subject for those interested in the exploration of space and for science fiction readers, too. no matter what category you fall into this evening s lecture is sure to fascinate. marc kaufman has an be a journalist for more than 35 years. h
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