[applause] i want to take you on a tour of what the science discoveries from ours are, especially in the last 14 years of our program of exploration known as the Mars Exploration program which is implemented in our jet Propulsion Laboratory and i want to leave you with a thought that the science discoveries i hope to convince you are real and they come from a Large Community of scientists across universities, nasa centers and private industry. They are really the impetus for human exploration of this planet. Many of us have been working these missions. I hope i can give you that sense. Want to remind you of where we are. We are a long way today from ours, even though we are in a close approach right now. I reminded our administrator of this 15 years ago. Mars is not our mother earth. It is a profoundly different world. It does not read our textbooks. Our ideas are changing. There is a Large Community of science working with scientists working with the missions of curiosity. We dont tot
People an opportunity to play around with this fancy software that you use. It made me think about is the pipeline of young talent like you there . What should we do to enhance it . If it is not, what should be . Great question. I think for me, the key to making more people like me well, actually, i do that not cloning, but my wife and i have a whole Program Based on that. [laughter] im sure my wife is just loving that right now. Over sharing, right . I think the most important thing that we can give our young people is a thirst, a drive to search for that which is awesome, that which brings awe and wonderment today. Whether they find that in music, politics, literature, or in the sciences and engineering, im not very concerned because our nation is filled with inspired young people who are driven to see what they can do will be a great nation and will make the world a better place. To the extent that our efforts exploring mars, putting a rover named curiosity as our curiosity help tou
Need to get this. Again, if we talk about it with the breakthroughs. What we know now today, just expand it. We have life support on the station. We need to push it to where its reliable and doesnt require so much maintenance. We need to look at the parks to do repair. We are doing that on board. I dont consider those big breakthroughs. I have to get comfortable. Its the maturity level that we use for the nation they positively have to work. Thats the way i look at the challenges. The operation and the proving ground that charlie and bill had mentioned. We have to take systems and days and months and weeks. We need the time and the capability to do that. We will talk about this. I was going to add that i think we can make sure that every piece of technology we work on, its extensible to mars. Thats the judge of the technology that we are working on. Can we use it in that vision. I dont want to do demonstrations just for demonstrationss sake, but be putting systems that we can use for m
Hearing on efforts to improve education on science, technology, engineering and math. The Mars Exploration summit began with opening remarks from nasa administrator charles bolden, he spoke about the importance of humans becoming a multiplanet species and nasas goal of putting humans on mars in the next two decades. This is 30 minutes. Thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for allowing me to be with you this morning and it kind of kick us off, i hope. I also want to thank explore mars as well as g. W. President steve knapp and scott pace of the g. W. Policy institute for bringing us together for the humans to mars summit. Lets leave that slide up, ill talk about it all day long, and at least you can refer to it and you dont have to look at me. With mars making its closest approach to effort last week and currently appearing as the brightest body in the eastern sky during the month of april, this is an ideal time for this conference, as the red planet draws nearer to earthsort o
One way to look at it, apollo 13 with the event that it had. I believe that was around 84 hours. We had to keep the crew alive for 84 hours. So we had life support systems, if youre going to go to mars that have to work for months, possibly over a year, depending on how long it takes you to get there and how long you stay. We have to take the steps to get that in place. Its going to take some time to get a reliable system in place. We can land a metric ton on the surface of mars, thats all we know how to do. Thats about the size of a mini cooper car. If were going to explore mars, it needs to be something bigger than that. There are challenges that we have, we know what the challenges are, but it will take some time to get those technologies ready. Have you counted up how many breakthroughs you think you need to get there . We ought to talk about it a little bit. Im not sure theyre breakthroughs in a sense. If we can build on what we know now today, and just expangd it. For example lif