Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the next session. Im going to be speaking about mars and the future of space. When will we celebrate the first human on mars. And Research Director at the Heartland Institute and worked at cato and heritage and other places. We are having this discussion on a very auspicious date. July 20, 2019. This is the 50th anniversary of the landing of human beings on the moon. One of the great human achievements. To give you more of my background during the summe december 1969 i put the High School Intern at the space center out in maryland, so i was like a kid in a candy store. I got to watch the first moon landing from a major space center i sat and watched the launch in the control room. This is the flight plan from the first moon landing. Everybody had one and i kept mine. I still have my little badge and you know how strict security is these days but it was just a little Plastic Thing for a High School Kid that was enough to get me into the s
The menu when no one east investigates dark friend. Has im sick of this is counting the cost on your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the trillion dollar moon bounty as india prepares to become the 4th nation to land on the moon we find out why theres a new scramble to get there the number of people going hungry has risen for the 3rd year running after years of improvements we find out whats gone wrong. In the multibillion dollar muslim fashion industry why are big brands buying into the trend. Of 50 years ago this week Neil Armstrong became the 1st man to step on to the moon mans flirtation with it was brief with a dozen men walking on it the last in 1972 but now theres renewed interest china plans to build a luna base by 2030 and nasa hopes to have men and women on the moon by 2024 of the next 5 years the space agency is expected to spend 30000000000. 00 on this its funding several projects from lunar landers to a mini space station that will allow craft t
Within the a. N. C. Who we know are many to go after his continued leadership of the party the public protectors verdict means that im up or so i will have to declare all donations to his campaign within 30 days the president says hell study the report and make a decision on any further action corruption continues to be an issue the governing African National congress is battling not only is president facing a scandal of his own his predecessor president jacob zuma is appearing some would say reluctantly before a commission of inquiry into state corruption during his 9 years in office zuma concluded his 4th day of testimony after withdrawing from proceedings saying he was being treated unfairly but later said he would return to the witness stand while so africans are looking for answers the promise of a corruption free south africa appears to be elusive for leader mullah aljazeera pretoria south africa. Much more still ahead on this program from london looking at why kosovos Prime Mini
Giant leap for mankind. Its 50 years ago today that Neil Armstrong took the giant leap to become the first man to walk on the moon. And coming up at half past four a look back at the best moments from the Victoria Derbyshire programme this week. The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, has spoken to his iranian counterpart expressing what he said was extreme disappointment over the seizure of a british flagged oil tanker in the gulf last night. A Senior Iranian diplomat has also been summoned to the Foreign Office. The government has advised uk ships to stay out of the area of the strait of hormuz for an interim period after a meeting of the emergency committee, cobra, late last night. State media in teheran say the tanker, the stena impero, had violated International Maritime rules. But the ships owner, the Swedish Company stena bulkt, says the tanker was in full compliance with all navigation and international regulations. Mr hunt, said the seizure was unacceptable and britains response w
Everyone had one of these and i kept mine you could probably sell them on ebay but i will not do that. I still have my little id that law id badge but this was little Plastic Thing for a High School Kid that was enough to get me in. And with that space policy forum and then space the free market frontier and i got buzz aldrin to do a chapter my book the first human being to land on the moon and actually has a chapter in my book. I am a space geek from way back. So i also asked the question when will we land on mars and frankly why havent we yet . So what i will do in this talk is first i will get straight to the point that what made apollo possible because we are talking about how we were able to go to the moon. First of all technology at that point had developed to a point where we had to seriously think about it. Before that Science Fiction writers the technology really wasnt there it was imaginative. Had that time thanks to goddard who was working with germans and american industry