would be no such thing in my lifetime now aside from the fact that i would never live to see the money if i did win that was the confidence i had that there would be no such thing was i foolish to make that to but unfortunately i think you probably war i have absolutely no doubt in my mind that there will be a space hotel within the next ten years in orbit around the earth why. because there's an incredibly good business plan behind it because millions of people want to go to space and because the technology to provide such a hotel is getting closer and closer every day in terms of its cost effectiveness so there is in theory an impetus there but at the moment the principle impetus is this just the fact of let's go and see what is out there let's be a tourist in space is that really enough of an incentive all the market studies that have ever been done will show you that forty percent of the general public wants to go to space in their lifetime it just has to reach

a point where they can afford it and it's safe enough for them to feel like they're not risking their life excessively to do it but i do think the tourism market is a catalyst it's not by any stretch the only reason we would go to space we will go to space for resources will mine the asteroids will get precious metals like platinum group metals from the asteroids people will live in space will do pharmaceutical research will develop new drugs space will become part of our economic sphere of influence but tourism is a fantastic catalyst for that the i assess at the moment being the only platform capable of holding people in orbit is a working scientific platform are you planning perhaps to try and make space tourists useful that first of all space tourism honestly is not a great word for what these people do when they participate as private citizens going to the space station every single one of them who's flown with space adventures to the space station has had. an in-depth scientific program whether it

was material science or biological experiments or whatever it was they have participated they have paid their own way of course they have used themselves as part of the scientific community that many of them have gone to space with less than perfect health and have been great examples of how for example laser surgery on your eyes as affected by space flight they all want to participate in this they are participating and the fact of the matter is quite honestly when private citizens go to the space station a lot more people hear about the space station than otherwise it's just one of those things that they captures the public's attention part of nasa is mission is to encourage to the maximum extent possible the commercial use of space and in fact showing that there's a market showing that there are people willing to do this and showing that you don't have to be a career military fighter pilot the right stuff kind of person that plays

a huge role and i think that's exactly the sort of thing that ends up helping the space agencies of the world as well ok we will get to the to the other economic areas the best way of mining in that a while but the moment we have just seen the dragon spacecraft go up to take supplies to the eyes that was a significant moment. however it was it was a small pots of what is otherwise a vost state and surprise and without state capital it seems that at the moment no private and devised could exist you can point to companies like space x. space x. has a contract for services to deliver cargo to the space station but the capital that it was started with has come from its founder. and so this is an inflection point this was not always the case you were absolutely correct the for the first thirty years of space it's all been controlled by the government but we're reaching a point now. in fact i think the flipping point was in the mid ninety's when

private commercial expenditures in space finally exceeded government and that was of course driven by the satellite telecommunications market and things like that no one would argue that those are successful businesses but we're reaching a point where commercial enterprise is creating its own space program and it will stand on its own it has been well noted that in the past year and a half have been a number of worrying mistakes with russian space programs a supply rocket up devices fell back to worth a mission to one of the moons never got out of orbit and it's cause some high profile resignations and will likely lead to a lot of restructuring in the russian space agency serious concerns is this technology that's going to take people up that good enough the fact of the matter is that despite rick's recent hec ups that may have occurred on different types of launch vehicles the soyuz spacecraft and rocket have the best safety record the

best history of being a proven technology for reliably taking people to and from space in human history there is no other vehicle that comes close nasa uses this vehicle itself to get to space so while there is always room for improvement and while i'm sure and highly confident that the russian space industry is is going to great lengths to to to make sure those things don't happen again spaceflight is inherently in an activity that is risky and so the risk is managed but it's never going to be perfect at the end of the day i think there's not many people in the world who would want to go to space who wouldn't feel comfortable flying on the soyuz the key technological breakthrough that we need is rapid and cost effective reusability. like flying in an airplane when you land at moscow airport or you landed new york airport they can turn the plane around in a couple of hours and leave actually less than that this is the problem what you're saying to me immediately i think of the shuttle there is no shuttle you can't reuse

soyuz we're going the wrong way so the shuttle was a vehicle that was incredibly high performing it was an amazing feat of human engineering but it really wasn't reusable i like to call it rebuild a bowl certainly parts of it were rebuild of all certainly some of it was reusable but there was an incredible number of man hours that had to go into certifying that vehicle for re flight every time it ended up being far more expensive and far less reliable in terms of its reasonability that's why use the word rapidly reusable so the shuttle was not a great example of that however many of the vehicles that are being built now including for example the falcon in the the dragon by space x. are designed and the c s t one hundred by boeing to be reusable ten times one hundred times a thousand times and those kinds of advances will be the ones and it's going to take time that will yield those price decreases that will eventually enable

millions of people to go to space every year there is one of the costs that perhaps hasn't been looked at enough at the moment there's already a lot of criticism leveled at people flying all over the world for the holidays about emissions and about pollution that not many rockets launch from of the moment but they certainly don't environmentally friendly the ones that launch if that program is going to be expanded what on earth could be the environmental costs of such space tourism. so when we calculated the carbon emissions of a soyuz launch it ended up being something like a fraction of a transatlantic air flight so it's actually not as much as you think the fuel on the space shuttle was liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen and the exhaust was water so these are not the kinds of things that are really going to affect our carbon emissions and our environment as

a whole even when we get to the point that there are literally tens of thousands of launches per year it's a drop in the bucket compared to all the other forms of emissions and pollution osha wants an issue that will will take shape in time we'll see how that one puns out the tourism isn't the only idea that you've got on the on the books as it were you also mentioned earlier mining asteroids and this seems like a lot more sort of hard nosed commercial idea just trying to paint a little picture for us a lot of people can't really invision envisage this perhaps from pictures from animations that have seen perhaps that there are asteroid belts but i don't think there are any asteroids that close to earth because that's the kind of thing that people get scared about of from destroying earth so what kind of distances are we talking about how is this actually with this actually look a fully running asteroid mining operation that wonderful question so in the solar system we have literally hundreds of millions of asteroids the vast majority of

those asteroids lie in the asteroid belt the asteroid belt is between mars and jupiter one hundred million miles away or more however there is a small but not insignificant population of what's called near earth asteroids anywhere between ten and twenty percent of the material on them are what we call volatiles what that means is most of it's water water ice and water is great because when you break down water into its constituent parts you get hydrogen and oxygen not coincidentally of the same. fuel the space shuttle used to go to and to and from orbit and so we first want to use the asteroids to build propellant depots in space that is gas stations we want to be able to reduce the cost of space exploration by allowing spacecraft and spaceships to fuel up no matter where they go and by doing that we will enable a space economy for all different kinds of businesses this is the second half of the equation of how to reduce the cost of space travel once we have the capability

of propellant depots in space moving asteroids around becomes much easier and then we can go to the more valuable materials the higher cost per ounce materials for example the platinum group metals now fifteen fifteen hundred dollars an ounce on average you have platinum palladium rhodium osmium iridium and the asteroids are chock full of these materials they appear in concentrations orders of magnitude better than the best platinum mines on earth in the asteroids and start to seem like a skeptic but i think i'm not alone in the image of of us sending out teams to try and move asteroids to try and land on them really starting to see the realms of science fiction i mean they managed to recently. but that's really the very limits of the moment of our capabilities is this really a serious proposition how on earth would you go about doing something so let me be the first to admit there is a long list of technical challenges and it's going to be very hard this is

something that we don't know all the answers yet but we do know is that there is no laws of physics that prevented that these are pieces of rock out there that for example something the size of the international space station could be worth two hundred billion dollars and so where there is a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow there will be a way people thirty years ago thought drilling a hole down into the bottom of the ocean and pulling fossil fuels. under the north sea was impossible and now that's what we do as a matter of daily practice well we will have to see whether that does indeed transpire big promise is. certainly big ambitions and perhaps big achievements as well whether there will be a future for space tourism and indeed space mining is down to people like eric anderson mr anderson thank you very much for joining us thank you it's been a real pleasure.

the legacy no one should be proud of. scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture the guiding principle here is the worse the better locals like to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also expressed amazement. at how prosperous the settlement was well times have obviously kenya where they saw it lags they still attracting a region tourists are barons work i would then cons watch native cash that's why when. our goal is common as was uncovered here

a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint a bit here and put it at variance work central square back into nine hundred eighty s. there was a burgeoning mining community there the soviet union was determined to maintain its own costs. are located halfway between north america and western europe in archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the cold war it served as the use of stars westernmost outpost now it's one of the last preserved relics. picture of the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades he's a curious western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russians trying to use to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a cold. in here but in terms of profit is far behind local souvenir shops so he

is a big hit the defunct are incurred still helps keep the money flowing. it's the russians you know what you can put in. your local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards if these modernization efforts i'm not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like. it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the let you know authentic tradition. i should not i would not like to have it in the shiny condition to be the time to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add the morning russian songs to die repertoire the audience called the wanted to hear it was

a song comfortably familiar. with top stories and also pro-government forces continue their assault and siege of bani walid the last bastion of colonel gadhafi supporters as the country marks one years since the fall of the regime. or in this presidential rivals brought obama and romney talk syria iran and other flashpoints and politics while they fell out of the several issues during the final pre-election debate but also agreed on maintaining american pig chimney and aggressive global. and security is something that's been informing the

response by the death of a top intelligence stream putting the country on the brink of sectarian conflict the opposition winning in syria and the number needs government to work in turns out in ten months the minds. as the headlines for you romana us here next to the sport. hello and welcome this is sport with me ramon cos forever and this is what's coming up in this is the. number one blow sparks talk moscow must rely on their third choice keeper for choose this crucial champions league match at home it's been. while spark talks group g. rivals barcelona and celtic old battle for top spot in that pool later and hughes they as neither side has lost a game so far in this campaign. and battle of the best maria sharapova goes for the

year and world number one spot at the season ending w t a championship in the sample. let's start with football and sports talk face a goalkeeping crisis head of chooses clash at home to benfica were injuries have forced the moscow sides and third choice our children brought his champions league debut richard has more response likes injury lists wasn't long enough already is now even longer. the rhythm whites have only one foot keep off to see if you see call for joint and read you can on the sidelines. ukranian international is just starting his comeback so it's likely that third choice are trying to draw one make his european debut for us by attack and head coach when i am really understands just how important a clash it is for his team and for this about that owner i think this will be a crucial game for us just as it is for benfica i think it's fair to say that barcelona will win the group so we along with benfica and celtic are playing for

second place and we didn't take our chance at home to celtic therefore tuesday's clash is very important for us firstly we're playing at home and we can't afford to lose here any more if we want to make the knockout stages but pressure is certainly building on emery with his side losing the last three games by languishing in mid table domestically one of the champions league there without a point after the first two encounters. with thinking positively ahead of the game with benfica we can't afford to do anything else i'm sure that my team will put in a good performance against them and we've had some bad results but there have also been some positives and we're looking at these positives and i'm sure that this will help us to get the result we need on tuesday. meanwhile been fico coming to this clash having lost just once all season and that being a two no reverse against barcelona. the portuguese outfit have a good combination of youth and experience and they are seasoned european campaigners getting to the quarter finals in last season's competition. also you

can also will be an obvious frantz and he scored five goals domestically already however very good coach jorge your source is wary of us apart like side despite the not being in the best of form but voiding three losses in a row is great motivation for spartak they have nothing to lose spartak will be taking risks as they need to get a result and we may change our approach to the game because of this bin fico have yet to score in the opening two champions league encounters however they might fancy their chances against spartak side but it readies conceded six goals were spotted having enjoyed a great start to their champions league campaign this year with no points off for the first two games or pressure is firmly on the emirates side and if they don't manage to get a big tree on tuesday they can effectively say goodbye to their chances of qualifying for the knockout stages richard fleet anti moscow. and stay with champions league group g.

where leaders barcelona will be looking to maintain their top spots as they welcome second place to celtic camp no hoops gunning for a huge upset knowing the castle lads will be missing some key personnel for that choose the clash defender scarlett gerard piqué and did not play in this weekend's win over deportivo and it will set out the european clash as well the scottish champions will be looking to exploit that backdrop barsa defense which has already conceded eleven goals in the us for the hoops have already made plenty of noise beating sports in moscow and drawing with at home and bar some manager tito vilanova knows that his upcoming opponents can not be underestimated. what about to be there for a crucial game no one was assured of qualification at this point in time celtic were able to draw with feet and defeat sparked talk which tells me there is serious threat i'm concerned with their counter-attack inability to reason the most is our

opponents. captain john terry is back in action for raiding champions chelsea who are in ukraine to battle the red hot shots are they've won fifteen out of their last sixteen matches across all competitions and the blues manager roberto di matteo thinks he has the inside track on the tactics of his opposite number. system. you can see. it through the. team that wants. to go keep. an excellent. experience. on the. elsewhere magister united to maintain their grip on group h. as that three time former champions host portuguese side brought up winger ashley

young is set to read certain from with knee injury but defenders rio ferdinand's and portraits ever all will be rested the red devils go into the match following last saturday's for two whole win over stoke star striker wayne rooney and that's of the brace to make up for an early own goal while manager sir alex ferguson knows braga could cause an upset. to moment in between we've moved. there was. no use of going to tempe as you know. so it was just to go. in the minute you know so. once again. the mood and unit. is the issue. and it's now where maria sharapova has a chance to finish this season as the female player in the world the russians will be looking to leapfrog rival victoria azarenka the year ends in w.c.

a championships in some bowl serena williams said. of us are irani and not be also challenging for the title in thirty now only has to win to group matches to ensure her world number one ranking stays intact if the below russian loses a look for matches at that stage then sharapova has a chance to say that by securing two the result for roll the two thousand and four winner starts her campaign against iranian and will later battle over advance guy and beats of the white group. when you start the year and you have this goal of one inconsistency of wanting to achieve great things a new win a grand slam during that year and you know the prize this is to make it to the championships and instead go so i'm happy to be here you know in so much better shape than i was last year at this point so you know it's the final push and i'm looking forward to it. the final roller skates or of the year has concluded at

domino which is located three hundred fifty kilometers outside of moscow the state of the art center has played host to this event four times already and michael christian go want to find out why. there's no doubt that one of the main reasons for russia winning the right to host the twenty fourteen winter olympics is due to the success of the many winter sports athletes it's produced and with the games less than sixteen months away many are getting ready now but this by the increased urgency to better prepare it's often been a case of having the right set up in the sixteen thirty five trucks and other infrastructure have been serving professionals and fools since two thousand and three the center was initially designed to hold international events of any level there are no other centers in russia that have as many certified tracks as germany six times we've held a stage of the ski world cup here and have already secured it for the season after the olympics the row the ski tour is just one of the many events that the complex

hosts with some also including triathlon and marathon competitions but it's impressive pre winter season where the center excels as it can produce its own snow even in plus temperatures. i've been roller and cross-country skiing for a while and i can say this complex is one of the best in russia it has interesting courses and is kept at a high international level what's best is that it's part of better developing roller ski and cross-country skiing in russia something that's been sorely needed. so the infrastructure may be slowly popping up on the russian landscape however there's still a lot that the cross-country and roller ski federation's wish could be sped up and improved upon. i of course want to see more ski complexes and courses for roller skiing built around russia because it's the main creative for further developing these sports we're trying to help cultivate these sports in various regions of the country but there's still plenty of work to be done. but for now it's places like

germany that will have to lead the way for future generations the germans for complex may be a one stop shop for personal roller skiers marathon runners and winter sports enthusiasts in general but it's also a great place just to come and relax and with cottages that have their own personal foreigner you could be forgiven if you didn't make the finish line like of genco r.t. . another update is less than a couple of hours away but our you tube channel is available to you at any time just search for r.t. sport news thanks for watching our season. what will change when america picks its president amid muslim rage walking the iran tightrope pushing china and russia as occupy anger spreads the two parties still dictate will there be chained to

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