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The Mars Exploration summit began with opening remarks from nasa administrator charles bolden, he spoke about the importance of humans becoming a multiplanet species and nasas goal of putting humans on mars in the next two decades. This is 30 minutes. Thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for allowing me to be with you this morning and it kind of kick us off, i hope. I also want to thank explore mars as well as g. W. President steve knapp and scott pace of the g. W. Policy institute for bringing us together for the humans to mars summit. Lets leave that slide up, ill talk about it all ...

On a space station . Good question. Well, i did go to work for nasa which was a big help for me. I decided being an astronaut was a goal. Really what i also work on was aircraft control systems. Thats where my main work at nasa was on. That could play into working on the shuttle, also helping out. I just got lucky in the selection process. Thats really there are so many qualified people who try to be astronauts. It takes a little bit of luck just to get in. I just happened to get a little lucky. Had all the requirements needed and just a little bit of luck and i made it. So commander, in about...

Rest of the world. The biggest gains for this country in that field are around the issue of equity. Equi when the biggest potential gains are getting people who are not within the s. T. E. M. Pipeline into it, i think about that out being a huge advantage that we have as a country because we have a tradition of trying to broaden opportunity for all americans. The s. T. E. M. Fields are if you believe that brain power ana capability are equally distributed across all differeny parts of our a society, then ret thats by far the biggest place to gain, because if you have role models that can inspi...

Global economy actually means and i think thats a good place to start. Certainly as we create new processes with dealing with harsh environments, that brings us to have a skill we didnt have before. Thats one way to enhance competitiveness, assume iing th other thing, it forces us to think of ways to make things more Cost Effective in a constrained environment. That, by its nature, is forcing a number of companies now to look at their manufacturing processes, their development processes. As we talked about with stem, having a mission like this, and the many step it is takes to make this missio...

As you can see, Baltimore County police are on scene investigating this. And well bring you more information as we get it. Reporting live from sky eye chopper 13, im captain jeff long. Back to you. All right, captain jeff. Thank you. Well have updates for you on this breaking news as soon as we receive them. Todays other big story, two days after an angry confrontation on a subway platform in midtown, manhattan, leads to the death of a 58year old man. The nypd makes an arrest. Terrell brown reports for wjz, the grisly scene unfolded before a crowd of cameras. Reporter two days after this now i...