Moon, preparations for trips to mars, and for using Nuclear Powered rockets to get there. The u. S. Space command will officially be up and running by the end of this month. Surrounded hereby icons of our nations highest, proudest achievements in space. Ourcouncil is ensuring future achievements are empowered by the past achievements. The things that you will be discussing today will one day be enshrined in this museum. Dont forget about us, we need hardware. Last month that our museum in washington, at the unveiling of Neil Armstrongs apollo 11 ship, Vice President pence spoke about the renewed commitment to human spaceflight. And at the National Air Space museum, we see evidence of that commitment every day. Countless children have stood in this very spot and marveled up at the Space Shuttle discovery, parents,ed to their grandparents or teachers to ask how something so big could fly so high. Our museum is where the country comes to understand its heritage of adventure and discovery,
Future achievements are empowered by the past achievements. The things that you will be discussing today will one day be enshrined in this museum. Dont forget about us, we need hardware. Last month that our museum in washington, at the unveiling of Neil Armstrongs apollo 11 ship, Vice President pence spoke about the renewed commitment to human spaceflight. And at the National Air Space museum, we see evidence of that commitment every day. Countless children have stood in this very spot and marveled up at the Space Shuttle discovery, parents,ed to their grandparents or teachers to ask how something so big could fly so high. Our museum is where the country comes to understand its heritage of adventure and discovery, and to pass that torch on to new generations. We are at the dawn of a new space age, with a challenge to return to the moon and beyond. The americans who will make those first flights, including the first woman on the moon and the first humans on mars, were not allowed to see
We can get going. We have been looking forward to this and those on twitter, we have had a lively sort of prepublickity. So im ann marie slogger, the ceo of new america and i get to moderate this fabulous discussion today and we are here to launch david kayes book, Speech Police, the global struggle to govern the internet and to celebrate consent of the enemyworks which is 201 which was rebecca mckinnons book and a new america book and i was very struck. Ill start with this. When i was reading through the acknowledgments in Speech Police say david you actually say that rebecca and consent of the network, you say few people have had as much influence on my thinking as that book of thought thats wonderful and you have to have written that before you knew we were doing this event, so were going to have a discussion and then well turn it over to you, but i wanted to begin by framing the debate in terms of these two books because i think it says a lot about how the internet has evolved. And
Money, your money, your life, your future. Now becky quick. We begin with space travel. The weekendmarks 50 years sinc man walked on the moon now half a century later theres a push to explore the final prfrontier there is a lot of private enterprise working on the race to space. 50 years ago the eagle has landed. The first humans stepped foot on the moon the apollo 11 mission, cinched americas dominance in Space Companies like spacex using rockets to go into orbit now has come the time for us to make the next giant leap and return american astronauts to the moon. Nasas new program is artemis. It would send americans back in five years, a fete that can only be achieved with the private sector were in an entrepreneurial space race. Weve gone to 476 companies today, theyve raised 22 billion of equity capital. One startup, astro bottic. Its a railroad to the moon. It builds robotic landers, it has almost 100 million in contracts, including nasa. We offer nasa an opportunity to fly payloads
Lunar moon landing, a hearing on past and future exploration by nasa and its astronauts. This is 90 minutes. [pounding] hearing is called to ovrd. 50 years ago, exactly one week from today, at 9 30 a. M. , three astronauts sitting atop a rocket destroyer, a navy of ing 7 1 2 Million Pounds thrust took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. A Million People had gathered on the ground to watch event, including half of the United States congress. Three astronauts, as one at the ewspapers put it time, carried with them the hopes of the world. Was 1969. Born. Before i was the astronauts were Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin and collins, and the mission was apollo 11. Would go ond aldrin to make history a little more than a hundred hours later. With more than a third of or listening hing live, they became the first on the o ever set foot moon. The apollo 11 mission would go history again. A little less than a hundred hours of that, as the first not only to put men on home on but to bring them