Now carry cargo to the International Space station and of course you have elon musk and jeff bezos with blue origin and elon musk with space x building rockets. Must is maybe more of the celebrity type. Jeff bezos is more of the just working away. Hes got three rockets assigned, the first one is the armstrong which is the suborbital, the second is the glenn that we put people in orbit and the third is armstrong which will be something to carry interplanetary to the moon or elsewhere. This is very exciting. How many of you guys know Robert Bigelow . He is right up here in las vegas, North Las Vegas and i think it was 2001, he invited a group of about 15 or 20 space geeks, me included by the way to las vegas and he said he made 1 billion in his hotels and he said i want spend half of that putting up private space stations and i want to make sure that i dont run afoul of regulators and so forth who screwed things up. So we had to three days talking about how to do that what he came up wit
Explores what it would take to send humans to mars. Im going to start over. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the next session to Research Director of the Heartland Institute and cato and heritage in other places and we are having this discussion july 20, 2019 this is the 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. I was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center i sat there and watched the launch and splash down in the control room. This is the flight plan from the first moon landing. Everyone had one of these and i kept mine. I could sell one of these on ebay but im not going to do that. I still have my little badge and you know how strict security is these days but this was a little Plastic Thing and for a High School Kid that was enough to get me into the space flight center. A little bit of things coming around so to speak. I got buzz aldrin to do a first chapter in my book the first human being to
And welcome to the next session that i will be speaking about mars and the future of space. When will we celebrate the first human on mars . I am edward hudgins, by the way. Research director of heartland institute. Words that kato and heritage and other places. We are having this discussion on a very auspicious day. This is july 20, 2019. The 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. To give you more of my background, i was at nasa center. In maryland i was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center. I kept i could probably sell them on ebay but im not going to do that. So i got my id badge. You know how strict security is these days. For a high school kid, that was enough to get me into space flight center. At the cato institute, i did a space policy forum and ive got a book on space, the free market frontier. And i managed to get buzz aldrin to do a chapter in my book. The first human being to land on the moon. Im
Neil armstrong and buzz aldrin were in their spaceship in the lunar module and they were getting ready to fly from the lunar orbit around the moon to Tranquility Base to the surface. That last leg of the 240,000mile journey would take just 13 minutes from 50,000 feet to the surface of the moon. The first three minutes of the 13 minutes went perfectly normally. The last ten minutes were a cascade of problems. You might not have even noticed the problems if you were listening live because that is the bait astronauts and Mission Control word. The first problem is that as armstrong and aldrin swooped down towards the moon, they were looking out the window and armstrong discovered the place they were intending to land was strewn with boulders between ten and 20 feet, as big as honda accord and toyota camrys. So, the module had been flying on autopilot. The computer had been flying and at that point the armstrong took control and had to look for a different place to land. That led to the sec
The freemarket frontier explores what it would take to send humans to mars. Im going to start now i will start over. Good afternoon i will be speaking about mars in the future of space. When will we celebrate the first humans on mars . Research director at Heartland Institute and cato and heritage and other p places in very auspicious july 20th, 2019 with the human beings landing on the moon during that summer i was a internet Goddard Space Flight Center in maryland like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space this is the flight i still have my id badge i know how strict security was and that was enough to get me into the Space Flight Center and things coming around so to speak but then working at the Cato Institute that the space policy for him and then i got a book on space the freemarket frontier. Uzz buzz aldrin did a chapter in my book so i am a space geek from way back. So i asked the question why havent we landed on mars yet. I have five