Page 2 - Human Explorers News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Nasa put together 17 individual post of photographs to show us the one we have on screen. what does it tell you, tom? what questions does it raise? >> it is a wonder rouse panorama, join. much on student has been on the eight years after landing in 2004. it is embarking on another two year traverse across the crater looking for inhabitable climates in the mars's history, looking for water-baring rocks in particular. this image strikes our imagination. it inspires us to want to put human explorers there to follow up the biological questions raised by these rovers. jon: walter, says reminds you ...

Of science exploration is what the u.s. excels at. fills people with awe and wonder and inspiration when we uncover new secrets of the origins of life on mars for example. and then human explorers i hope will one day be able to follow up these robotic discoveries and get to the rub of these questions. is there life there now? did life exist there in the past? that would really answer the question are we alone? that is fundamental. i think that is what we should be pursuing and human explorers have a role in that. >> you spent a lot of time in the franklin institute looking up at mars. what wou...

Programs and hubble space telescope we're a country that will soon have no system for spending people into space. now the only way we can get into space is to count on the russians and as you said, they have upped the price of the seat on the soyuz to $56 million, per astronaut, martha. martha: you know, last week the relationship between the governments seemed good, although some people would say the missile defense issue is going to come back into play and might cause tension and what if things become tense between our two governments? what will it do to this relationship. >> that is a fair ...