Now he runs an agency that has transitioned away from Space Shuttle missions to one focused on exploration. Everything we do in this agency is with the express purpose of making life better for people here on earth. He answers, in part, to senator ted cruz, chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Space Science and competitiveness. Cruz is also a Climate Change skeptic. I dont worry about trying to change someones mind, i try to present data that is very accurate. Bolden service at the Agency Follows a decades long career with the marine corps, he retired a Major General. Its a carrer a young black man growing up in the segregated south could never have imagined. I ended up going in the marine corps and ah, servin in vietnam. My family and friends were sometimes bein killed on the streets back home, i knew what i was going to face when i went back and yet, in that same period of time, we put a human on the moon i spoke to Charles Bolden at nasa headquarters in washington. Well, youve been o
And its neighboring countries once formed most of the old soviet union, or u. S. S. R. Many of these old soviet republics differ from one another on the basis of ethnicity and religion. But within the Russian Federation itself, there are republics that could still fragment along cultural and political lines. One of these is dagestan. Dagestans historical and economic geographies help explain opposing centripetal and centrifugal forces within russia. As a largely Islamic Republic adjacent to warring chechnya dagestan now receives new scrutiny in the war on terrorism. To help explain the differences between chechnya and dagestan, we explore the relationship between diverse cultures d the physical geography of the Caucasus Mountains. Dagestan the name means land of mountains. Part of the Russian Federation dagestan lies in the Caucasus Mountains on russias southern border. Most people here live in small villages that are often very isolated. In the 19th century, when science still believe
Iudad juarez, mexico is a squatters settlement called anapra. In 1980, this was empty desert. By the 1990s tens of thousands of residents have staked out small plots and constructed makeshift homes. Most tie into the power lines illegally and run lamp wires over the sand to light their homes. 1994 we visit Concha Martinez for the first time living in this tarpaper shack. Like thousands of her neighbors, she has no Running Water or sewers, no title to her land. A single mother, concha built this oneroom home for herself and her four children abel, 12, adrian, ten, wendy five, and the youngest, alexi. Their incredible struggle, and a tenar story of this place will illuminate some key geography themes, including scale has several meanings in geography. One is very specific having to do with ratios of distance on a map to actual distance on the ground. But it also has a more intuitive meaning related to the size of the area in question. Lets call this view of anapra a neighborhood scale. A
Bolden discusses his career at life at thehis military, and decisions to attend United States Naval Academy. Charles olden, if you had your choice, would you rather be shuttle, or in the run the National Administration . I am running since the nasa right now, i would rather be doing what im doing. I am a person, i live in the moment. Know, i tellow me them, i do not regret anything, no matter how bad. What is done is done. I would not change anything because i have three beautiful granddaughters who are 6, 10, and 13. I am fearful if i went back and changed any minor thing, that might not happen. 135 missions with the Space Shuttle. 200 billion. 30 years. Was it worth it . Every dime. Think start with what i the shuttle did for the nation over its incredible 30 years that most people will never think about unless somebody tells them. Which inical world in live is very nondiverse. There are not a lot of people who look like me. In fact, in the history of this Space Shuttle program, ther