like to eat during the day because when you re a little bit hungry you re more edgy and they re not faulting the culture before you about it is the moment when things need to be hopping right away. gently is the part of the making you know it s not because i m impatient because i can turn my finger writing something to write you know. floating piers was christos first major solo project since his romantic and artistic partner john clode died in two thousand and nine together they wrapped the australian coast back in one nine hundred sixty nine over the next decades they erected a curtain over this colorado valley and gave germany s parliament building but i stuck a new look and it was together that the couple developed the concept for floating piers back in the one nine hundred seventy s. a gigantic undertaking for an installation lasting just sixteen days. no eternity
the space race is as competitive as ever and that means the u.s. is sending a man and a woman to the moon within the next five years hence is clear here space is the next friend here for geo politics and all the earthly rivalry that comes with it the trouble ministration considers china and russia as threats to national security in outer space china last year you may remember became the first country to land a spacecraft on the far side of the movie and the space race well it s getting crowded india this week announcing it has successfully shut down a low orbit satellite president prime minister murdered today saying add india to the list of outer space superpowers. ways robert that india is now a recognize based power and make no mistake about it. we re in a space race today just as we were in the one nine hundred sixty s. . and the stakes are even higher. the words space race evoke old school science
actually too hot for them so they took off after one night and they went up to cold canada to montreal and that bed in is actually is the subject of a documentary that yoko ono has up on her you tube page these days it s called bed of peace we can take a little look at that this is where they recorded give peace a chance that iconic song and it was quite a party timothy leary showed up allen ginsberg was there and by the way you can actually rent this suite of the queen elizabeth hotel in montreal for nine hundred and sixty nine dollars nine hundred sixty nine doesn t fit in my travel budget but you know there s got to be someone out there watching some fan here who can make it work ok david thank you very much thanks for joining is it not she i should say that although john lennon is no longer with us we ll be featuring yoko ono on the show next week because she s got a new exhibition in germany thanks and then. and now into a weird and wonderful exhibition in the couldn t stella in f
keith cowing he s editor of nasa watch dot com peter good to have you on the show so what do you make of what the vice president says is there really a space race on the same magnitude of what we saw in the one nine hundred sixty s. . i wouldn t say it s the same magnitude of course to have a space race you have to perceive that you re in one in five people who are racing with you and in this case vice president prince pence suggested that china is looking to take the lead in exploring the moon of course japan has spent spacecraft there israel s about to land something there india is about to land something there we have space to insult on this many nations who are sending things around the moon the real issue is who can put in our case american footprints back in the mood or in the case of china chinese astronauts who s going to get there first and his being first to go back important or is it just important to go at that sort of work whether there is or rate is not a race to sort of
time a human stepped foot on the moon i had just taken my first baby steps and the united states had won the space race now inter captain s log two thousand and nineteen the race for space is back on and it s. we re in a space race today just as we were in the one nine hundred sixty s. . and the stakes are even higher to models was would not be the same as yesterday s voice. of the government this new capability. is not directed against anyone not the. will to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and around the world welcome we begin the day with the sun setting on british prime minister to resign may with her government in a parliament induced paralysis and lawmakers from her own conservative party turning against her tonight theresa may made you could call the ultimate offer to