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Community. Woouff all that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by Financial Services firm raymond james. When it comes to wireless, Consumer Cellular gives its customers the choice. Our nocontract plans give you as much or as little talk, text and data as you want, and our u. S. Based Customer Service team is on hand to help. To learn more, go to consumercellular. Tv fidelity investments. Bnsf railway. The john s. And james l. Knight foundation. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by thcorporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the pace of covid19 deaths across the United States is slowing tonight, but the total is nearing a new threshold 100,000. At the same time, the nations reopening keeps moving ahead, led by a major American Financial institution.
Ground test. While its disappointing, it also can be a real gift to the final design. Reporter the company embraced its failures. To be totally frank, if it hasnt been some hardware on the test end, i dont think you tested it hard enough. Thats the reality. I think sometimes the Aerospace Industry shies away from failure in the development phase. Reporter gwen shot well is space xs president , musks right hand. It looks bad politically, its tough and the media certainly makes a lot out of failures. But candidly, thats the best way to learn, is to push your systems to the limit, learn where youre weak and make things better. Lift off. Reporter spacex is armed with an escape system. If the rocket falters, its engines can push away the capsule, landing the crew safely in the ocean. And we have splash down. Reporter you genuinely believe if something goes wrong, youve got options . Absolutely. We focus on reminding folks there are people on the pointed end of the rocket ship. Thats importa
History and future of human spaceflight. My name is deeann. I am an engineer. I have never been to space. [laughter] in brevard county, florida, and have watched many of you launched into space. It has been an inspiration and one reason i chose to pursue engineering. Im and engineering tv host nowadays, founder and ceo of future engineers. We have a challenge where students can name the next mars rover. It is until november 1. If you have kids or grandkids who want to be a part of space history, i encourage them to go online and submit their names. I am going to tell you about our panelists. Isir placement tier onstage not a coincidence. We have a chronology here, from apollo onto thinking about going to mars. Tomy left we have General Stafford, former nasa astronaut with the gemini and Apollo Programs. Crippen,aptain bob shuttle astronaut, joined in 69, the apollo days. We have dr. Sandy magness, former shuttle astronaut to spent four and a half months on the International Space stati
On. I am joined on stage today by six incredible individuals, each of whom have helped shape the history and the future of human space flight. So ill give a little introduction. He gave an introduction about myself, but as he said, my name is deanne. Much like many of our panelists today am an engineer. Unlike most of our panelists today, i have never been to space. Which gives you an idea of the impressiveness next to me. But i did grow up in brevard county, florida, and Cape Canaveral, and i have watched many of you launch to space, and it has been an inspiration in my life and one of the reasons that i chose to pursue engineering. Ive gone on to have a bit of an atypical career. Im an engineering tv host nowadays, and also founder and ceo of future engineers and we actually have a current challenge that was launched with nasa where students can name the next mars rover, so i dont know if youchb you know but the mars curiosity rover was named by a kindergarten through 12 student. We