a transportation engineering consultant. the executive branch's point change in a few years. to change ingoing a few years. so we can follow through with the roadmap we are on right now, knowing there will be a political change, wherever it ends up going. recently there were some capitol hill visits that i participated with talking about advocacy for sending humans to mars. i heard from some congressional there are some people on capitol hill trying to think about funding nasa differently so it is not in ofual funding type

procedure but on the lines of how transportation is funded. what are your thoughts on that? how does that relate to for futureg administrations? >> i will not venture into the last question. i do my confirmation hearing, i mentioned to congress than that there are three things i promised the president that any program we bought forward with the affordable, sustainable and realistic. i honestly believe the programs right now healing missions to mars are very realistic. framework.within the if we can get over this framework biscuits out of the

picture. nasa is out of the business of owning and operating spacecraft we award this.on they began to provide transportation. it is a budget line item. several years from now you will not see commercial cruisews. today you do not see anything like site you see. it is included for crew support. you willing in 2017, see us transition to a point where there not even be a commercial line item.

it'll be included in the international space station budget. that allows us to progress with the technology development we are currently developed. challenges remain in getting the cost of operations on the international space station down. we have brought in a nongovernmental entity. they worked under contract. we pay them a flat fee and they recruit for sciences, technology developers who want to sign on to the international space station. this is a way we think will decrease the amount of money that they have to pay. there are a number of things we are trying to do.

they are more likely to live without. get us all on to the same sheet of music in terms of the roadmap. in the cut.iting they are going back to doing a lunar mission. it is all over. we will go back to square one. have missed the second great opportunity to what humans have wanted to do. it is interesting that we all

develop. i know we're not all of one mind right now. i can see some people who think we're fooling around waiting to 2030.mars until i do not have the capability to do it. nasa does not have the technological capability. we are on a path that will get us there. it is a path we have got to follow. they are going to an alternative for building the systems we need. we would like it to mars if ever to be quite honest. that is one man's vision. that terrible alternative does my commitment to

enable my granddaughters to go to mars. one last question. >> good morning. man the falcon nine booster, why did you [inaudible] thesehave need for vehicles over time. when we looked at using atlas, delta, other systems, the number required begin to make it very difficult in decrease the probability. there will be people who will talk later about how we happen to get where we are today. we will just see how it goes. we can talk about a falcon nine.

that is not what we need for deep space expiration. >> is is going to cost a lot meetwhen you could just your astronauts in orbit. >> you're talking about a totally different strategy. are you going to talk about this? ok. you can ask a variety of people how do we get where we are today? haven't a we get to a single .ehicle we have to be successful in developing these. we are well on the way to developing the capability for cryogenics. we are not there yet. there are a lot of people who think this is going to happen

overnight. we have a long way to go. we cannot wait until the technology is available. we will not get to the asteroid in 2021. is an opinion of one. thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> first dick costello at the university of michigan.

vince steve wozniak at the university of california berkeley. the gerald ford residential foundation recognizes to journalists every year for their reporting on the presidency and national defense. this is at the national press club. we will bring you live coverage at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span tw2. witnesses include acting irs commissioner danny warble. i arrested out facing a lawsuit in connection with this targeting of groups applying for taxes it status. you can watch the hearing live at 3:00 p.m. eastern. he indicated that he wanted

the death penalty on each of the three charges. he wanted it three times. that made me realize how serious they were. it was not about me. , i couldn't be killed three times. it was about the construction of this imaginary enemy. i was the embodiment of that enemy. >> she wasn't that interested in talking about what happened. the crime, the implications. she was not that interested in talking about it. she is one of these people you do not necessarily go to directly. out there were very important people in her life. i chipped away at the people she knew and trusted. was able to get points with

them. slowly she came around. she agreed to meet me. lynch on angela davis. tonight at 8:00 on c-span. yearck costello gave this 's commencement address at his alma mater, the university of michigan. he was a standup comedian before his career he worked at an improv theater. . this is just over 15 minutes. [applause] >> i love you, too. you know i have to start by tweeting this. give me a second. i'm a professional. this only take a second. [laughter]

all right. i want to start by thanking the school's president and the students and faculty and the board of regents who sit behind me and quietly judge us all. i would also like to thank my mother and father who are here today. and i would like all of you to remember at the end of the day to take a moment to thank your parents or whoever it was that help you get where you are today. they have sacrificed greatly for you and we will be out of here by 3:30 p.m., i promise. [laughter] when i woke up this morning and started writing my speech -- [laughter] i was thinking of my first month on campus when i was a freshman. our football was ranked number one. there is all this excitement on campus.

our first game was in wisconsin and we went up there and lost our first game. 21-14. there was crushing disappointment. i would like you to think about that expectation followed by crushing disappointment as a metaphor for your next 20 minutes with me. [laughter] when i was sitting where you were many years ago but was seem to me like it was yesterday, i was earning my degree in computer science. [cheers and applause] yay, nerd. [laughter] at the time, i had to have a certain number of art credits to graduate. my first semester of senior year, i decided to take an acting class. [cheers and applause] i'm going to pander to the crowd.

[laughter] i thought i would take an acting class because we would not have a lot of homework. we will say a few lines to each other and i could work on the operating system program device. and i loved the class so much that my second semester of senior year, i took another acting class. i started doing standup comedy, which i had never done before. by the time i was sitting where you are today, i had offers from two technology companies to work with them as a programmer, but i decided what i would do is move to chicago and try to get into the improv comedy groups and go on from there to rise to fame and glory. [laughter] in the hollywood version of the story, what happened is there would be three minutes where i

would move to chicago and suffer at night or in the rain and there is music in the background and i would come home to a dog in a giant loft that i could somehow miraculously afford and follow sleep. after those three minutes, i would be discovered by director who would cast me in a film and walk on the red carpet and my parents would give me the thumbs up. in the real world story of what happened when i decided to make a big bet on myself and take that chance to do this because it is what i loved, i was grinding away for a long time and i had no money. we would rehearse during the day and perform these little theaters at night for free. i was taking classes during the day and trying to learn improvisation. i eventually had to get out because i had no money. i put my degree from michigan to use rather than selling stuff at crate and barrel.