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Yeah, and the best quote — or i like this quote because it really goes to the centre of the problem — lord agnew, a tory lord, in the middle of the pandemic, i think it was a year ago, said that the uk state, the british state, was weak. why? because it had become infantilized due to all this over—outsourcing that it's done to, for example, consulting companies, to the big four, but also to the circas and the gas—s. what he meant was not to blame those consulting companies, but when the state no longer invests within its own brain, it doesn't do too well. and the nasa folks knew that. ...

Of public—private partnership, and they especially need cross—sectoral innovation and investment. indeed, and all of that is much more complicated. so i'm just wondering if there truly is very much we can learn, take away from the moon—landing experience. because as i said already, it was akin to a sort of war mission. it was presented byjfk and others to the us public as something that mattered to the very future and security of the united states of america. easy for people to understand. some of the stuff you've just outlined about the challenges facing us as a species today are not so...

Those different dimensions. we have city—level problems, regional problems, national problems and huge global problems. like, our ocean is filled of plastic, so no one country can solve a plastic—free ocean mission, but surely, you can have cities, for example, that really strive for, you know, carbon neutrality. in london, we could have a knife—crime mission, zero knife crime amongst teenagers. so the real idea behind the mission�*s framework is to learn from the apollo programme on just how targeted it was, how it really required a complete change in how government was structured. it...

Was fundamentally misguided. what if your missions are the wrong missions? well, it's a great point. and in fact, you know, what we need to avoid is that these missions just become pet projects that continue to move along even when they're not working. so again, the reason i look at the apollo programme is that the agility and flexibility that nasa also had to impose on itself, it transformed itself after the apollo 0ne fire. one of the astronauts, gus grissom, yelled out, "how the hell are we going to get to the moon if we can't even talk between 2—3 buildings?" so they actually underwent a...

Because it seems to me the driving force behind that was in no way about global cooperation, it was about nationalism, it was about the united states seeing the space race as an elemental part of the cold war with the soviet union. right, so first of all, my notion of missions isn't either international or national, or local. it has to be for all of those because problems have those different dimensions. we have city—level problems, regional problems, national problems and huge global problems. like, our ocean is filled of plastic, so no one country can solve a plastic—free ocean mission, ...