. >>> the mars exploration summit began with opening remarks from nasa administrator charles bolden, he spoke about the importance of humans becoming a multiplanet species and nasa's goal of putting humans on mars in the next two decades. this is 30 minutes. >>> thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for allowing me to be with you this morning and it kind of kick us off, i hope. i also want to thank explore mars as well as g.w. president steve knapp and scott pace of the g.w. policy institute for bringing us together for the humans to mars summit. let's leave that slide up, i'll talk about it all day long, and at least you can refer to it and you don't have to look at me. with mars making it's closest approach to effort last week and currently appearing as the brightest body in the eastern sky during the month of april, this is an ideal time for this conference, as the red planet draws nearer to earth--sort of as -- i'm surprised she remembered, maybe i'm not surprised she remembered, but we did talk last year about my three grand daughters, the number one granddaughter being

charles bolden makes a pint that there'll be plenty of work in pace for both companies. >> ideally severalrs from now there'll not just be the international space station, but other laboratories single modules and the like. that is the having of a commercial space industry. >> this is more than a deal to build a couple of different version of a space taxi. getting into the mabed space station and building the earth orbit infrastructure that the country will need to get further and deeper into space to explore astronauts. the c.e.o. of spacex echoed the them saying:. >> allen schauffler in seattle. now the picture of the day. it's a great one. a homecoming in georgia, where captain jared smith hugged his wife after a 9 month deployment to afghanistan. that's our news for tonight. thanks for watching. i'm john seigenthaler in new york. "america tonight" is coming up next. see you tomorrow. @ >> but what is the administration doing behind the scenes? >> real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america >>> on "america tonight" - headed to the hot zone. the unparalleled ebola epidemic, and

charles bolden said look, this is the next big step into space for americans, and for america, and ifwant to develop a near orbit space industry, we have to keep this competition going, and from that, astroids, and exploration of mars would be the next big step. and with spacex, ilan mosque echoed that. he said that this is the next step on the adventure to the stars and something that could make us a multi-planet species. there will be 500 people working on their capsule when they get to the very hart of developing it, and that work starts immediately. it will be done in florida at the kennedy space center. >> lauren gretsch is the assistant ed tore of popular science magazine where she writes about space. is this the future, private versus public. >> yes, this is definitely the way that space travel is headed. >> is it good? >> oh, yes, america is back. >> wasn't america there when the government ran it? >> no, but this is the way of providing a synergistic relationship between the government and the private sector. >> what are the advantages? >> we're getting back into space on our

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thnasa administrator charles bolden says we have to -- in order to survive.his remarks are about 30 minutes. >>> thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for allowing me to be with you this morning and it kind of kick us off, i hope. i also want to thank explore mars as well as g.w. president steve knapp and scott pace of the g.w. policy institute for bringing us together for the humans to mars summit. let's leave that slide up, i'll talk about it all day long, and at least you can refer to it and you don't have to look at me. with mars making it's closest approach to effort last week and currently appearing as the brightest body in the eastern sky during the month of april, this is an ideal time for this conference, as the red planet draws nearer to earth--sort of as -- i'm surprised she remembered, maybe i'm not surprised she remembered, but we did talk last year about my three grand daughters, the number one granddaughter being 14-year-old mckayla who wants to be the rocket scientist, who has begun telling me i'm thinking shortsightedly when i talk ab

. >>> the mars exploration summit began with opening remarks from nasa administrator charles bolden, he spoke about the importance of humans becoming a multiplanet species and nasa's goal of putting humans on mars in the next two decades. this is 30 minutes. >>> thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for allowing me to be with you this morning and it kind of kick us off, i hope. i also want to thank explore mars as well as g.w. president steve knapp and scott pace of the g.w. policy institute for bringing us together for the humans to mars summit. let's leave that slide up, i'll talk about it all day long, and at least you can refer to it and you don't have to look at me. with mars making it's closest approach to effort last week and currently appearing as the brightest body in the eastern sky during the month of april, this is an ideal time for this conference, as the red planet draws nearer to earth--sort of as -- i'm surprised she remembered, maybe i'm not surprised she remembered, but we did talk last year about my three grand daughters, the number one granddaughter being