even nasa administrator charles bolden is jumping on board with this bold thinking. this month the captured headlines by declaring that the future of humanity depends on space exploration the ruling. we're dependent on being on this planet we are not in the two candidates the season yet with this season's to savannah. and definitely we need a community that its pc he also laid out a multibillion dollar plan to have humans land on mars at twenty thirty and plenty of people are ready and willing to be the first people to step into the great unknown last year more than two hundred thousand people around the world signed up to be the first people aboard that one way mission to mars those candidates have been whittled down to just over a thousand. eventually four lucky you are perhaps not so lucky people will make the final cuts. but even the jury could still be ugly is out. the man in athens but it has been flashing your answer here are ten fiscal year twenty fifteen is proving to be more of the same. the white house has requested seventeen point four six billion dollars

according to charles bolden, that's exactly what mars is. >> if the species is to survive indefinitely, we need to become a multi-planet speis. mars is a stepping stone to other galaxies. >> what will it take to get to mars and how soon could we see mankind. >> derrick pitts at the franklin institute science museum. it seems like a day doesn't go by of hearing of some new plan to get to mars. why the fascination with our nearest planetary neighbor? >> the thing that makes mars stand out is the possibility that there might have been life on that planet at some time and the possibility that there still is life on that planet, perhaps underground. the other thing that makes it really intriguing is that if you look at all of the planets of our sol area system, there really are only two that we could possibly even visit. that would be our moon and mars. all of the other planets are not really possible landing target did at all. so, if we are going to do any stepping stone into the solar system, it's got mars. >> nasa is talking about three phases. some of what we are doing on the space stat

and nasa administrator charles bolden says current tensions to hammer congress for what he calls underfundingmercial spaceships by companies like spacex, nevada and boeing to get u.s. astronauts up to the space station on american-made rocket, not russian ones. the earliest that could happen hoar on planet earth would be the year 2017, so until then u.s. taxpayers will continue to fund $70 million every astronaut onboard a russian soyuz capsule. jon: and that's just the rice they're charging now. that could always go up if they decide to raise the price, i package. >> reporter: and nobody knows what russia's reaction to all this is going to be. jon: phil keating in miami, thank you. jenna: bell, it's a meaferl -- well, it's a major development in utah. unmarried mothers will now have a harder time giving their children up for adoption without informing the biological father. alicia acuna is live in denver following this story. >> reporter: yes, this new law will require unwed birth mothers to identify the baby's father to the court and notify him or her plans to place the baby up for adoption

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