And welcome to the next session that i will be speaking about mars and the future of space. When will we celebrate the first human on mars . I am edward hudgins, by the way. Research director of heartland institute. Words that kato and heritage and other places. We are having this discussion on a very auspicious day. This is july 20, 2019. The 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. To give you more of my background, i was at nasa center. In maryland i was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center. I kept i could probably sell them on ebay but im not going to do that. So i got my id badge. You know how strict security is these days. For a high school kid, that was enough to get me into space flight center. At the cato institute, i did a space policy forum and ive got a book on space, the free market frontier. And i managed to get buzz aldrin to do a chapter in my book. The first human being to land on the moon. Im
Okay, ready. Im going to start over. Im going to start over. Okay. All right. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the next session that i will be speaking about mars and the future of space. When will we celebrate the first human on mars . I am edward hudgins, by the way. Research director of heartland institute. Words that kato and heritage and other places. We are having this discussion on a very auspicious day. This is july 20, 2019. The 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. To give you more of my background, i was at nasa center. In maryland i was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center. I kept i could probably sell them on ebay but im not going to do that. So i got my id badge. You know how strict security is these days. For a high school kid, that was enough to get me into space flight center. At the cato institute, i did a space policy forum and ive got a book on space, the free market fr