I will sit there. I have a lot of pictures. I am happy to answer questions about them at the end. This is writing out on the helicopter with a sniper. The security is very serious. Both here and in russia. This is in the lobby of the Launch Control center before going up to the firing room for one of the launches. The mural that they have there. This is inside the firing room. I used to joke that i never saw a single launch. I always watched people watching logically that is nasa administrator charlie bolden. This is one shot with myself in the frame. I used a remote. His office juts into the firing room. These are remote camera set up around the launchpad. You dont want to be this close during the launch. The closest that you can get is three miles during a shuttle launch. Three quarters of a mile for soy isuz launch. This is a smoke plume as workers are exiting the room. Landing of scs 135. Charlie bolden on the left and the Center Director on the right. That is the main landing gear
Brian henson came all the way from texas. That is pretty cool. Becky nichols, the wife of alan nichols is back there. Alan is on a trip. He could not be here. Becky is always here. She is always here. Thank you very much. The Explorers Club is a cool place. Come see us. We do sea ocean, primates, all that stuff. Thank you very much. [applause] a big hand for charlie duke. More from the Explorers Club in new york city. Bill ingalls shows unique photographs relaunches such a launches, rocket launches, russia and japan. He also shows Neil Armstrongs funeral. This is about 50 minutes. [applause] good afternoon. Bill ingalls has been a professional photographer for over 27 years and has heard as the senior contract survivor photographer or nasa since 1989. He has traveled the world. Assignments have taken him from the Kennedy Space center to the inside of an active volcano in alaska, oval office, inside of a dca, dc8. His photographs have appeared in national geographic, newsweek time, the
It was a stepping stone. I never only after m. I. T. Can i say i really wanted to be a national not. Up until that time, it was maybe out there. Other questions . Moon walker . I have one more. We have a guy right here. High, charles. Just a question on your take on the potential benefits that humankind can get out of exploring the moon . Where do we stand with our progress . Are we still in the analysis phase . To good questions. I think a lot of the benefit and space is twofold from the moon flights. Apollo was the basic science that we generated through six different experiment packages. We left of the orbital experiments that we did. The other was the technological benefits that were done to make apollo possible and the space program. I had just gotten back from the hundredth anniversary of the department of the m. I. T. They said apollo generated 88 times the return on our investment. That is a good deal. And investment an investment manager would like this kind of stats. There ar