go and see what is out there let's be a tourist in space is not 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 a sense 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 increase. courage to the maximum extent possible the commercial use of space and

in fact showing that there is 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'll get to the to the other economic areas the best of mining in little while but the moment we have just seen the dragon spacecraft go up to take supplies to the i assess that was a significant moment. however it was it was a small parts of what is otherwise a vost state and surprise and without state capital it seems that at the moment no private and device could 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're 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 martian moons never got out of orbit. and its course in 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 recent heck 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 do 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 his 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 rebuilding 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 reusability that's why i 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 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 one 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 or i'm sure that's 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 seem perhaps that there are you know 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 what kind of

distances are we talking about how is this actually with this actually look a fully running asteroid mining operation 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. all 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 much the realms of science fiction i mean they managed to recently land on mars 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 like. 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 what 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's 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 and it's mr honest and thank you very much for joining us thank you it's been a real pleasure. it's perched atop a jaw drop and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the eye can see up for a city to all of siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed but a chance a barren railway but the a spiritual center. things like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of orthodox worship as they of themselves and bless

it will to commemorate the baptism of jesus. or the model of it doesn't matter if it's minus thirty it's a siberian tradition i do it myself every year for everyone to overcome their worst fears it is desirable to take the plunge. but that's picture postcard churches the story of a city built by opportunist explorers political exiles and crafty fur traders. in the fifteen eighties the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslim. surrounded by enemies the balls to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic hub siberian for the oil of its time bringing in a third of all russia's state revenue but the location had of the uses for the

russians. to moscow's one of the most popular places to send political dissent is not any people were exiled that once a giant bell that was used to incite. science was supposed to set a three hundred ten. the russian. a revolt against the tsar and eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists worse than hair and drove. there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or a place once they made it from paris to siberia but the city also served up some bitter irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. this is the office was nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole family had been exiled here they were the fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves whilst leaving this ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even had thoughts of escape

but within the year bizarre and his family would be dead. never again its political significance but the streets will always echo with the glorious past and the like to provide the livelihood for some habitants in the future. sigrid lumber tour. was to build a new most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything mission to teach creation why you should care about humans in. this is why you should care only dot com.

libya's pro-government forces continue the assault and seizure of bani walid at the last bastion of colonel gadhafi supporters as the country marks one year since the fall of the regime of the term dictator. in focus presidential rivals barack obama and. mitt romney talks syria iran and other flashpoints in the western our politics while they fell out of several issues during the final pre-election debate both agreed on maintaining american has the money and the local stance. and security is heightened an eleven on the following address sparked by

the death of a top intelligence chief putting the country on the brink of sectarian conflict the opposition believe syria and the lebanese government worked in turn them to mastermind the murder. just a few minutes left now before a new crew blasts off from the international space station on a brand new shiny site use craft ahead of the countdown lucy coffin of how to turns to meet the three men strapping in for the ride. their rived in baikonur like the rest of us an ordinary airplane landing on the tarmac but their departure is the kind that many only dream about. blasting off into the heavens for mission control it's now a routine trip but for these men it's their first mission to the international space station and their debut journey aboard a soyuz rocket. a day before liftoff russian cosmonauts levinsky if they need to reel again and u.s. astronaut kevin ford met the press. each of us has piloted an airplane we've only

sent rockets down now will have to fly up into space inside warm him up feeling i think is one we simply won't forget to be at the top of this joint missile construction and beneath you is so much power that even thinking about it is a bit terrifying. it's a fear their families know all too well. of course it's worrying we're nervous after all this is their first flight. i think that every man must have a purpose for which she strives and when he would choose this girl who finds happiness but in reality i think amounts to happiness takes place when he chooses goal and has close ones waiting for him at home. but for now in space three colleagues already on the i assess await their arrival nasa is decommissioning of its space shuttles leave russia soviet designed so use craft as the only means for international astronauts to reach the space station and for the countries involved

it's a world away from the bitter space rivalry of old we work together we're starting to learn the best of both ways so again by cooperation were achieving something that's better than any one of us could do individually it will take about two days for the soyuz rocket to reach the station where the team will live and work for the next six months their first week will be a busy one i don't think of. every week. we will last long tasks include a space walk to repair station equipment as well as returning the world's first commercial cargo space ship back to earth but intense training has prepared them for the tasks ahead getting that rocket off into space may be an act of precise science but here in baikonur tradition and faith play a role to a tree planting ceremony is one of the many soyuz crew traditions each crew member also signs a wall here in baikonur space museum meanwhile in accordance with local custom

a russian orthodox priest has blessed the rocket and the media. both up in the heavens and here on earth the space program is one of the few things that brings countries together at a time of global unrest for backup crew astronaut chris cassidy that's exactly how it should be when you're up on the space station you look down on the plane and you see the beautiful blue and browning clouds but no borders there and i think that's the most indicative of how the space program has. lucy catherine of r.t. baikonur. well it certainly is an amazing sight to see for those who have ever had the opportunity i myself have not but i do know somebody who is there right now in kazakhstan and right now we will be joined a live lot of the a broadband from the site of the launch by our correspondent lucy cough anomalously how is it going up there. hi there well this is my very first time here to the

baikonur cosmodrome and i can say it is absolutely exciting the energy is in the air and we're just moments away from seeing that so you see me go six and a rocket blast off into the skyline sending a trio of crewmembers off into space for the various thirty third mission to the international space station now it's really an incredible journey and this mission could really be described as a series the first is the very first time that this launch pad where we're standing right now is the news for a manned space flight one thousand nine hundred eighty four and it's also going to be the very first mission for all three crew members flying onboard now we have a russian cosmonaut wanted. to turn around and he was astronaut kevin ford the two russians have never been to space before so this is an incredibly exciting moment for them the u.s. astronaut has been to the skies in two thousand and nine but never to the eye association so it's really quite rare to see such a novice crew with no real experience in flying the soyuz rockets but i can tell

you these guys have been training really hard for quite some time and they say that they are as ready as can be counted now we watch the guys walk out earlier this morning to news like they got here they put on their space things and they are ready inside sitting inside that rocket and ready to blast off which is about to happen right now we're counting them down as they take off into the thirty third mission to the international space station let's take a look at this amazing site there she goes firing it up. and black thing off. well. absolutely incredible.

thing incredible here me. friend of mine it's really you know you can relate to your pain in your blood everywhere my eyes attacks are cheering up is an absolutely amazing sight to behold the ground my heart is beating quite quickly by the or off into space and hopefully out into orbit and quite soon i don't you think is in fact they should be if all goes well reaching the audience that's where they'll be spending the next six months of their lives quite an extraordinary experience for it it's been and i have to say for me as a first time i watched her over the space class here in russia sac of exxon's baikonur cosmodrome karen all right well you certainly are transmitting all that energy to us here we wish we were there with you lucy it looks incredible an amazing time for that thirty third launch beautiful pictures coming out of baikonur right now ready remembers. all right lucy coffin of live from baikonur thank you so

much lucy go and drink some counties soon. all right and for more exciting news not a blast off but ramon is here with the sports news. great stuff there from karen and the seesaw let me tell you in a bit of a little bit about football right now and the champions league where spartak moscow face a goalkeeper in crisis ahead of tuesday's clash at home to benfica now injuries have forced the moscow side to hand third choice our tom rebrov his champions league debut and we have richard out of portland on the way with the details response injury list was long enough already it's now gotten even longer than the red and whites have only one fifth keeper of to say good to see call of joint and read you

can on the sidelines ukrainian international is just starting his comeback so it's unlikely that third choice alternative growth will make his european debut as a part time. and head coach when i am really understands just how important a clash it is for his team and for this about the donor 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 the 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 should be part of the 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 we've had some bad results but there have also been some positives as 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 faecal coming to this clash having lost just once all season and that being a two now reverse against barcelona the portuguese outfit have a good combination of youth and experience and their seasoned european campaigners getting to the quarter finals in last season's competition also can also will be an obvious frantz and he scored five goals domestically already however varied coach source is wary of a spark like side despite the not being in the best of form. 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 already is conceded six goals

a spot i'd have enjoyed a great start to their champions league campaign this year with no points are two games or pressure is firmly on the emirates side and if they don't manage to get a victory on tuesday they can effectively say goodbye to their chances of qualifying for the knockout stages. moscow. on to tennis where maria sharapova has a chance to finish the season as the ranked female player in the world the russian will be looking to leapfrog rival victoria azarenka at the year ending w.t.f. championships in is some bull serena williams signature advance guy and recurve beat us sara errani and also challenging for the title in thirteen hours aren't the only has to win two group matches to ensure her world number one ranked stays intact if the belorussian loses all of her matches at that stage then sharapova has a chance to say that top spot by securing two victories of her own the two thousand

and four winner starts her campaign against iranian and will later battle ready and compete a lot in the white group. that's all a sport we have for you today union will join you in less than a couple of hours that's all for me thank you very much for watching. wealthy british style holds a spot on. the

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