Youre always welcome up here. Thank you. Gentleman from florida seek recognition. Yes, thank you. Gentlemans recognized. Mr. Chairman first. Thank you. And our presenters i perceive and believe that mr. Pallone and mr. Shuster are two good friends of mine here in congress. And im deeply appreciative of them all the time. Im hopeful of mr. Cramer getting to know you better. On this subject, i would echo the sentiments of my good friend. It does appear just listening to you, and this is the second time ive had that opportunity that you certainly do know your subject. And i, for one am appreciative of members who make their presentations in a manner that is not abrasive but makes it in a persuasive manner in the perspective that you hope. I also would like to borrow from our good friend from oklahoma, mr. Cole a notion of something that i believe he and i would be able to work on right away. And ive done some initial work on it. Understanding that the price of oil or today, and im not a P
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
That, as part of the steps as we prepare all of those things i just mentioned, eventually to go to mars. Thank you. Going to space is hard. I think we need to remember that there has only been one country that have lower orbit and that is us. We did that a long time ago. The u. S. Is the only country that has been able to figure it out. It is not so easy. It is even harder to go beyond low earth orbit. If we decide to take an inch incremental approach, i think there is a lot to be learned. We can test this big rock that can take us places, test the spacecraft, space is a very hazardous place. There is a lot of radiation and it gets worse as you get further away from the planet. Radiation on hubble was higher than on space stations. Going to the moon is even worse. We need to understand how we can protect our people and we are taking those steps. How are we going to keep them healthy . What are the changes that happen to the body . How will people be able to withstand the journey and la
Now. With food steps since his, with the Cost Effective specialty chemicals, for vaccines etc. Let me ask you a lifecycle question. If you are running out of food and you can create a bug or youre running out of fresh water and you create a bug that can create more fresh water or youre out of energy and can make more energy there is a theme. More, more. The alternate approach it seems to me would be to do less. Have fewer babies eat less, buy less, more gently on the earth. It strikes me like you are a more guy. I can only control how many people have babies in my own environment. [laughter] i dont know how to do that globally. We have a tremendous challenge with all the people we keep adding to the planet. Not too long, we could be 10 billion people. Its not sustainable with the approaches we are using in the consumption of everything. Moore is the problem. We could have less babies, but unless we are going to roll back populations, which i dont think anybody is advocating, at least n