Six months, and when you keep doing Crew Missions. Its the start of a new era. I am very, very proud as the nasa space x, the agency team, and our nation for stepping out and doing this. Thank you. Thank you, kathy. Next to mark geyer. Thank you kathy ottawa to thank you for your leadership especially in making this happen. It is a terrific day for nasa and for the country in general. Its really exciting to see the seven crew members on iss, four a, two russian and our japanese partners. Its great to be starting this crew rotation plan and not being able to utilize iss as we envisioned. Im honored to with the increment 64 pin today, so its a great start to that mission. The astronauts are doing great. You saw them as they came through the hatch. They are excited to start their mission. They are very well trained. They ready to get started. We believe nasa unites with our partners to achieve bold omissions and in this case they can be commercial partners or international partners. Next
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We will have lots about the launch of a great guest today. We have bob cabana, director for the candy space to come Jim Bridenstine, administrator, commercial crew astronauts, and nasa deputy administrator jim or more hard. Well be hearing more from them in a minute but first lets talk to bob. Thanks. Good morning and welcome to get space center. I dont have to do how exciting it is to the first light that humans to space from the Kennedy Space center in nine years. And what is tort bad to be doing it from. We went to the men from pad 39a, 882 over 135 Shuttle Missions launched off that path including three of my. Brazzaville brushing away in the air through a partnership with spacex, that pat is being used once again and it is not for commercial crew program as well as of the missions for spacex and thats absolutely outstanding. Truly an historic time on historic pad. We are pleased to offer nasa administer Jim Bridenstine with us this morning. As a member of congress jim was a huge a
So again risen ski hudden planned on becoming an astronaut having only a chosen biochemistry and viral journey as is calling in 2017 he became the worlds 1st scientist to serve as commander of an International Space mission he spent 305 days in orbit and 27 hours in open space hes also a passionate photographer traveling welcome to sophie co visionaries me Sophie Shevardnadze so scientific discoveries and technological advances are moving us closer to the stars but what does the future of space travel hold for us well i guess todays a russian astronaut and biochemist city. Hi sergei so good to have you as our guest today so ok let me start from this when i was a kid im just reading this amazing if i were everything was built on a promise that me and my generation growing up would be flying off to mars and moon and over interstellar travel is and then i grew up and it turned out that my future is here in a Smartphone Research of Artificial Intelligence genome editing everything here on
1st. And then go on to beyond it all anyway were moving towards that future Division Soon well get back to the moon and then well make it to muscle by them with words but youre saying that its expensive so my next question is why dont we have rovers that are able to collect pretty much any useful information that we would need from outer space on earth why do we need to send humans to space and not have im not talking about Space Tourism like pay money to actually send people there. After my deed skis an automated station can only provide answers to questions that its been programs to answer i thought id use a Program Utility chillier as a human on the i assess he is able to discover new things or that he can make adjustments to an experiment so he took a cue to know when a poor data program moreover the technology needed for them to survive in outer space will follow them back home but it could last and it can then be used here on earth would to help ordinary people in their daily liv