Former langley historian. He spent some time year before we set him to jpl, and then our last panelist, glenn bugos, currently with ames. And with that, lets go to dr. Bill barry. Hes going to moderate our panel and begin give us the beginnings of some great stories. Thanks, bill. [applause] bill thanks, walt. Good afternoon, everybody. This is a great opportunity, what happened 40 years ago today and tomorrow. I would imagine that 40 years ago today, the 19th of july, 1976, there was a lot of nailbiting and concerned going on around here. For good reason. Getting to mars is hard to do. No one had done it before successfully. Not that people had tried. The soviets had made at least six attempts to land something on mars until that point. None of them had been successful. They did get something on the surface but it lasted for about 40 seconds of data transmission. So mars 3 not a great success. Folks here were understandably nervous. The spaceage have been going on for since 1957. Gett
The smithsonian institution. To his right is dr. Eric conway, historian and former langley historian. He spent some time year before jpl, and then our last, currently with aims. And lets go to bill. Will moderate our panel and give us some great stories. Thanks, bill. [applause] bill thanks, everybody, and this is a great opportunity, what hath than 40 on years ago today and tomorrow. Happened 40 years ago today and tomorrow. Hat happened. Reason, it is really attempting to land on mars. No one has been able to do it before. Of until six attempts that point, and none of them completely successful. Were about 40 seconds of data transmission. 3 not a great success. We got to the moon in the first 20 years, but getting to mars was harder. Rooms many of you in the as i guess from the looks at things might have been involved in that project, or were younger and were not there, but it was an exciting time, reaching out to try to take a big leap in terms of understanding if there was life on
Big story. We have Team Coverage of the storm this morning. Youre tracking the tropics. Lets start with lee. Leigh. In the last 2 minutes the information came in. It is Getting Better organized, the wind strength hasnt changed too much but you can see how big the sy these are the current advisers. The red shaded area from panama city toward the big band of florida, those are hurricane warnings. Inning this could feel Hurricane Force wind in 36 hours. Locally we had Tropical Storm warnings that actually now extend into our offshore water. That is that brandnew update. You will fill Tropical Storm force conditions. Within 36 hours that is the official meaning of what the warning is. In a tropical cents. I believe its going to be Even Stronger winds come in because look at the forecast. Still 65 Miles Per Hour winds moving north northeast at 14 Miles Per Hour. Its continuing to get a faster Forward Motion as it heads toward the big band of florida. P. M. Tonight 75 Miles Per Hour winds. C
Test. And now, thats right, i cant go to the airport because i couldnt get my code without pacing the test. Code. Mr. Hubbard . Until Technology Catches up public awareness. I would say the most efficient is an Industry Based standard so we dont have to go down a regulatory path. I very much like that idea of Industry Standard versus government edict. One quick question because i see im down to 52 seconds and i guess this would be directed to you, mr. Hanson, going back to that idea of Industry Standard, how would you describe the way in which ama develops and educates members and the general public about modeling guidelines and safety atlarge . You talk about community standard. You talk about sort of Industry Standards. How do you all do that presently . Well, currently within our membership a lot of our education is done at the local club level with the local people coming together and gathering a club and sharing information. In terms of the broader membership, we do that through o
Budget. Great nations do great things. And fortune favors the bold. The next several years will determine whether american astronauts will be the first to plant a flag on mars. We want them to have arrived there on board an orion crew vehicle propelled by the space launch. I want to comment on the handout that weve all seen by the administration called nasas journey to mars by regrettably, however, this proposal contains no budget. It contains no schedule, no deadlines. Its just some real pretty photographs and some nice words. That is not going to do it. That is not going to get us to mars. This sounds good, but its actually a journey to nowhere until we have that budget and we have the schedule and we have the deadlines. And i hope the administration will change its posture and decide in the future that it is actually going to support sls and orion and keep them on schedule, because their proposals to cut sls and orion every single year is not helping us achieve the great goals that