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
Next, a look at the legacy of the Apollo Space Missions in the future of Space Exploration. The discussion was held at the National Academy of engineering. [applause] welcome, everyone, to the National Academy of engineerings for him on human spaceflight, apollo, 50 years on. Im going on stage today by six incredible individuals, each of whom helped shape the history and the future of human spaceflight. A little introduction about myself. My name is deeann. Much like many of our panelists today, i am an engineer. Unlike most of our panelists i have never been to space which gives you an idea of the impressiveness. I did grow up in brevard county, florida, Cape Canaveral and many of you launched into space, it has been an inspiration in my life and one of the reasons i chose to pursue engineering. I have gone on to have an atypical career. I am an endearing tv host nowadays and founder and ceo of future engineers. We have current talent launched with nasa where students can name the nex
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