My name is kristin king and im the manager here and i want to thank you all for joining us this evening. A couple notes before we begin. First and foremost, the book is available for purchase in the bookstore and will be available after the event and in addition there will be a signing. Second, we have a really fantastic fall lineup coming at all six of our busboys and books location this fall. Theres an event signup list being passed around on a clipboard, so feel free to add your name and email address. Thank you again for joining us and without further ado join me in welcoming and he and doctor ibram kendi. [applause]. Think you. Pleasure to have you all here on this rainy afternoon. Although, compared to whats happening in houston our hearts and minds go to the people they are. I want to welcome all of you for being here and let you know that independent bookstores are dropped dying breed. They can only make a comeback if you support them and buy support them i dont mean to say its
Thank you, mister chairman. Let me introduce our witnesses. First witness today is Mister William gerstenmaier, associate administrator at nasa. William gerstenmaier began his nasa career in 1977 performing Aeronautical Research and he has managed nasas human spaceflight portfolio since 2011, received a bachelors of science aeronautical engineering from Purdue University and a masters of science in Mechanical Engineering from university of toledo. Our second witness today is Sandra Sandra magnus, executive director of astronautics. In addition to her role there, Sandra Magnus is a former and nasa astronaut and prior to that worked as a practicing engineer in the aerospace industry. Sandra magnus received a degree in physics as well as a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Missouri University of science and technology. She also earned a phd from the school of material science and engineering at georgia tech and now recognize William Gerstenmaier for five minutes to present his
Earlier this years strogh policy ts and space experts talking about the challenges that mars presents is about an hour and 40 minutes. Welcome. Istinguished guests in the audience. Welcome everyone online watching us. To the fifth humans to mars summit. Not the center of the universe. Lease life this known fact is only been known and established 400 years every since because can person proved it mathematically. Humans can fly. Thats only uth with us for over a century. Humans can walk on the moon. A century than half of truth to us. Considering our times a human pecies on the planet those are all really short times to know these things. Now what i expect that in 16 small crew of 6 women and men will be on route mars. Think about it. Now. 16 years from that can be true too. Ut if we want that math to happen, we today, will have to we keep track with our human and mars program. Looking at you, my audience i know that im looking at the can make this happen. As you truly are the best and f
Humans can fly. Thats a truth that is only been with us for over a century. Humans can walk on the moon, again, less than half a century of truth to us. Considering our time as human species on the planet, those are all really short times to know these things. Now, what i expect that in 16 years of now, a small crew of six women and men will be en route to mars. Think about it, only 16 years from now that can be true, too. But if we want that to happen, we today will have to ensure that we keep track with our human mars program. Looking at you, my audience, i know that im looking at the experts that can make this happen. As you truly are the best and the brightest in all fields we need to send humans to mars. Lets show our resolve. Lets keep building the infrastructure needed. Lets keep testing and proofing. Lets make humans on mars and obvious fact, too. Lets get underway now. I now have a great pleasure to introduce to people that have worked diligently in getting humans off plan and
Its for us really being type of architecture that can really bring in things we learned. Its important. It needs to be directed to the point and the sky we want to get to. Its not like going god knows where. Make sure we can take advantage of things, its a great idea, things that should be investigated as we two forward. The way i like to think about is sailing analogy with respect to strategy. We know where we are going to go and we have no idea how the seas are going to change and adjust along the way. Its really important that as we learn more through science, as we learn more through developing technologies, thatll feedback to architectures and approaches that will enable some and make them more available and maybe eliminate other systems and approaches and i think its really important that we continuously look for opportunities to collaborate, take advantage of new technologies and look at their performance and feed back and obviously the science that we the science we do and what