story of how i got to nasa, and what i did at nasa, that inspired them to become engineers at nasa. i have over the past 2 years spoken to thousands of students about following their dreams, about preparing themselves, and persevering. hoping that they too will be inspired to join the likes of an apollo generation to push the boundaries of knowledge. they will pursue ground breaking research to understand how to live and work on another planet. since retiring from nasa, i have remained an advocate for the agency. i will work in aeronautics and expiration. i wish to thank the many members for your continued support of nasa and for the important work you are doing to pass nasa's authorization bill through congress. nasa really needs an authorization bill that supports our nation's plans for the artemis program and the overall approach to the moon and mars. in summary, this lunar destination is promoting sustainability, approving ground proving ground for mars, a strategic presence for our nation and a foundation for nothing international and commercial ownerships, while also inspiring

the cost is a challenge for nasa.n may, the administration submitted a budget amendment for $1.6 billion in additional funding to the schedule, an amount that the administrator has called a downpayment. the administrator said it could $30 billion.ion to that calls on the congress to billion. e $4 congress needs more details on the funding requirements so we can be good stewards. repiratizeation needs to include early and detailed consultation with this committee and the congress to ensure critical programs are not undermined. i look forward to the administrator to shedding light on these needs and what is required to address different components, specifically the ateway osh builter in order to have the program. it remipeds of all of past progress. but constantly changing mission priorities and goals set far in the future have caused america's progress, congress will perform its oversight duties and we need to provide nasa with the clarity of purpose and funding it needs for success. i want you to succeed. i'm excited

the cost is a challenge for nasa. in may, the administration submitted in fy 20 budget amendment for $1.6 billion in additional funding related to the accelerated artemis schedule, an amount that has been called a down payment. the program could cost $20 billion to $30 billion over the next five years. by my math, that calls on congress to appropriate for billion dollars to $6 billion in extra funding each year. congress needs more details on the funding requirements so we can be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. concerns have been raised about nasa moving funding from important priorities to pay for artemis. re-prioritization needs to -- toe early and detailed ensure critical programs are not undermined. i look forward to mr. bryden tine sheddingens light on this. to -- they orbiter anniversary of apollo 11 reminds us of potential, but constantly changing mission priorities and goals set too far in the future have caused the space program to suffer. congress will provide oversight but we need to provide nasa with co

we support that at nasa. jeff: for celebrating the 50th anniversary of apollo, we are talking about going to the moon. what lessons can we take from apollo and what things do we have to do differently? jim: that is a wonderful question and there is a lot. what we know is this, celebrating the 50th anniversary of apollo, we know when there is -- when america does absolutely stunning achievements, it gets celebrated for years to come. when we celebrate the 50th anniversary of apollo this year, this month, the whole world is watching all of this programming with us, celebrate with us. this shape the perceptions of people all over the world towards the united states of america in a positive way so that young people could grow up with a perception different than what they would hear in their home countries with the geopolitics involves these days. one example i like to talk about is when we landed on mars back in november of last year. it was in a newspaper in tehran. the officialr was " hardline newspaper of the

additional tolion nasa. in the year 2020 it allows us to do it as necessary to build the lander so we can land on the surface of the moon in 2024. any development program like a moon lander follows the traditional path of a development program which starts low and get high. in that bell curve you could imagine 2021 will be a little higher. we have not put specific numbers on it. 20 billionn a range, dollars-$30 billion over the on top offive years our existing budget. the reality is what we are learning is that there are other people that want to contribute. international partners and commercial partners that want to put their own skin into the game. they want to invest their own money. they want customers that are not nasa. if they can have customers that are not nasa it drives down our cost. to invest their own money we welcome that. that, it is very realistic it can come in under $20 billion. it withdoes international partners in commercial partners we could drive down the cost. jeff: the house has passed

the cost is a challenge for nasa. inmate, the administration submitted a budget amendment for $1.6 billion in additional funding related to the accelerated artemis schedule, and amount brandon stein is called a down payment and said the program could cost $20 billion to $30 billion of the next five years. that cause the congress to appropriate for billion dollars to $6 billion in extra funding each year. congress needs more details on funding requirements so we can be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. concerns have been raised about nasa moving funding from other priorities for artemis. prioritize asian needs to include consultation to congress critical programs are not undermined. -- jimden stein bridenstine shedding light, specifically gateway orbiter in order to execute the program successfully. the anniversary of apollo 11 remind us all of untapped , but constantly changing priorities, unstable funding, have caused the space program to suffer. congress should and will perform oversight duties but we need to provi

technology developed by nasa. the way we produce food, the way we produce energy, national relief,, disaster yanking, predicting weather, weather,, predicting all of these things born from this agency. it gets less than one half of 1% of the federal budget. if you communicate to the american people all of these benefits that they receive every day from the apollo program, if you communicate that and say how important is this to you? what you will see is overwhelmingly people believe that investing in space exploration is critical to our country. i really believe that. christian: in terms of exploration we are talking a lot about the moon but we could see within a matter of months or a year the first human flying from u.s. soil on american-made rockets to space since the shuttle retired in 2011. we have had a gap. what is the status of that program? boeing had problems with its spacecraft, spacex had its capsule blow up. what is the status of that investigation, and do you think we will have a slight issue? jim: i

nasa is not selling those seats. remember, we are developing commercial crew to take people to the international space station. our goal is to be one customer of many customers to drive down our cost. there are people who want to go that are not nasa, they can offset our cost. those seats will be sold by commercial providers and of course we are making available the international space station for those same participants. those same commercial astronauts. the answer is yes, there is interest. yes, we will be successful that we will offset the costs. we need resources to go to the moon sustainably. in other words, to stay. of course, with the first woman by 2024 under the artemis program. build those capabilities and technologies. >> our poll asked people if it should be taken over by private industry. low on that list people are responding with that, does that surprise you? jim: the word "taking over" is a loaded word. when nasa partners, we are involved in the process. it is a partnership. it could not go forward wi

[laughter] but i will never forget the letters i wrote to nasa and the pictures i got back from nasa. dr. darden, mr. hickam, there is a reason people wrote books about you, and made movies about you, that you are featured in our culture and their ideas and societies, because the impact you have had on kids like me. turn around, and look at the young people in this room, look at them all. raise your hand if you've been inspired by the work that anyone of these people have done on the panel? raise your hand if you want to lead better lives because of the people on this panel. this is what it is about. you didn't just change the 1960's, you change the world. with an impact that will last forever. mr. hickam, all i've done is given you a book, you have to have the courage to find out what's inside of it. that comment your teacher made is so powerful, thank you for being here, thank you for the work you have done, and i hope as we look at things like the rising above the gathering storm and the america competes bill, the competitiveness act, the work we will continue to do to rise above t

bushirected nasa to return to the moon.but in 2010, the obama administration scrapped the ssion for being over budget and behind schedule, focusing instead on future mission to mars. in 2017, the trump administration pivoted back to the moon, targeting 2028 for the mission. then, earlier this year, the administration sped up the timetable. >> it is the stated policy of this administration and the united states of america to returnmecan astronauts to the moon within the next five years. ( applau) >> sreenivasan: what happens when you that's a lot of pressure on the engineers and everyone else that was planning on something way down the line, right? >> you kt now, it...anges your schedule, obviously. ouere's always going to be pressure to getjob done as well as you can, but that's balanced by havg the resources do it, right? and so, i think we've done a pretty good job at nasa of trying to explain that equation to the administration and to say, "absolutely we can support 2024, we'd love to support 2024. we're all on board wit

wasexcitation at nasa apollo 8, apollo 9, or apollo 10 -- the expectation at nasa was apollo 8, 9, or 10 would go wrong. so when we named the groove apollo 11, that is when we hoped -- the crew of apollo 11, that is when we hoped there would be the moon landing. we got extremely lucky in 1969 and were very good that everything went to plan. extractually built an lunar module. that is the one sitting at the air and space museum down the street here. host: explain more on the background. how did we get lucky? what was happening? guest: steps to get to the moon were extremely complex. we had never actually flown to the moon before with humans until december of 1968 with apollo 8. it was the first time we had launched people on the saturn five rocket care the saturn five rocket had over 3 million parts -- the saturn v rocket had over 3 million parts. any number of things could have gone wrong. performed v beautifully. they were all recoverable things. it even got hit by lightning, the launch of apollo 12, and the saturn v just kept chugging along. very well-designed, robust. a lot of the

north dakota works right along with nasa towards this goal with a u.a.s. test site that is helping advance all aspects of unmanned aviation. in fact, they were recently selected by the if a to hold an un-- f.a.a. to hold an unmanned traffic pilot program and develop a strong partnership with nasa to research, develop, and demonstrate this technology. i continue to support funding for unmanned traffic research because i'm confident that nasa, with the help of its industry partners as well as our test site in north dakota, will meet this complex technological challenge. by making a relatively small investment in unmanned traffic management research today, nasa is going to help unlock billions of dollars in economic activity in the not-too-distant future. we've work $hard to ensure that ensure that north dakota is an important part of exploring this new nasa frontier, and we're thrilled to help realize the wide variety of benefits that unmanned aviation will bring in making our nation more prosperous and secure, and we can only imagine where we'll be 50 years

we want to take your comments and your questions for nasa's for for nasa's chief historian. on the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing. tell us the back story on the phrase "one small step." who came up with it? guest: there has been a lot of speculation. neil armstrong said he got no particular guidance other than say something appropriate. i suspect he had conversations with people privately about that. he clearly thought about it. but really, it was not a , scripted thing. the nasa public affairs people did not say, this is what you're going to say. i think in part because they wanted it to be more natural. if he had to stop and read it, it would have been difficult to do so. he made up that line himself, i think and it was clear that he gave it some thought. then, when he got up there, that is what came out in the moment. host: what else was planned by nasa when they took those first steps? what were they to do and how were they to document? guest: they had a full two and a half hour plan for the extra vehicular activity, the e.v.a. , the moonwalk. you have to

is, 30 years of covering nasa.i've never met anybody who wasn't smart and committed. and i think the fact that the trump administration has tried to reinvigorate space, at least rhetorically, at least talk about reinvigorating space, i think take his people a little bit of the charge, like at least, you know, nobody wants to be ignored, right? it's not clear whether we got the right direction or not but at least somebody is paying attention. but i don't, i think you sort of zero in on it. i think if you are a mid-level or senior manager at nasa, do you really have a sense of what the mission of the agency is? like, who is pointing in the direction there? that's what you want to go and that's why. to make things are really clear. there are lots of things you can miss learn from apollo. apollo was a cold war mission. it was driven by rivalry with the soviet union. when the first apollo lunar module and command module arrived in orbit around the moon, there was a soviet robotic probe in orbit that had been launched tw

mark oversees nasa's orion program.le is 50% bigger than apollo's, roomy enough for fou astronauts. >> so you'll be the pilot today, i'll be the commander. >> reporter: at eye level, a 21st century space dashboard. just one example of how this moon shot will be different. >> when we went last time the goal was land a person on the moon and return them safely to earth. and we did that. this time it's a little different. it's about a sustainable, long-term human space exploration program. >> reporter: orion would launch on top an sls rocket designed to be more powerful than the apollo era saturn five. e orion's crew would dock there and take a lunar lander down to the earth's surface. a handful of companies are now proposing designs for gateway. >> watch your head. >> reporter: frank showed us ,his rop grumman's mockup. would be open for the crew to go back and forth. >> reporter: up to four h that's a berth that a crew member would go in when it's time to go to sleep. >> the apollo astronauts were basically living out of

host: the nasa administrator, our guest on newsmakers. you can watch on c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. the nasa administrator making headlines this morning in the washington post, cliff young, white house anger over moon mission proceeded removal over official. a removal of william kristol mayer, a clear sign the white house is increasingly frustrated with the agency's efforts to return humans to the surface of the moon by 2024. we are asking all of you to tell priorities as we look at the ipsos poll. what are your priorities for space? caller: forget the moon. at's go to mars and start colony. this will ensure the survival of the human race. to joe in newgo jersey. good morning, your priorities? i cannot believe that poll. it shows you how stupid the american people are. aren't we going to another ?ection of the moon trying to mind and do different things. china, italy doing other things, russia as well. the second priority for myself is not an american mission, but an international mission for mars would include th

if nasa can do it, nasa says we are here, we are ready, we have the rockets, the team, we are ready to money, the mission and a set goal and they needed not to waiver. >> you make a good point. over the various administrations and special program into the goalposts for nasa keeps changing and it is one thing when you work for 10 years towards one goal and you have the funding to do it, unlimited budget that was exceeded. at the same time, you have the idea now that the goalposts always change. if we want our own space station or put people in space do we go to the moon, do the moon and then mars, etc.. >> for the last 20 years, every time a new administration, a new president has come into the white house nasa's direction has changed. that sort of whiplash within the workforce that nasa has made it tough for nasa to achieve a lot of the goals they would like. it is not just nasa but we have commercial crew partnering with companies like space x and boeing who are soon by the end of this your next you're going to finally send american astronauts back into space to the international spac

the nasa administrator and nasa launch operator center director, the president moved out quickly on his whirlwind tour. air force astronauts cooper and grisham. briefing onr project apollo the president and his party drove to the base of the giant saturn. it will carry an american crew to the moon in this decade. established after he took office. the president then boarded a nearby helicopter for an aerial tour of the space launch area. [helicopter noises] the commander in chief was aboard. donning a sailor's jacket he looked every inch the naval officer he was during world war ii. the fleet performed flawlessly. the andrew jackson. a proud commander congratulated up proud crew. the president returned to the cape by helicopter. the visit expressed continuing support for the nation's space program. ♪ >> on november 25 of the cape was closed. officers at the airport missile test center assembled for memorial services. us -- interestng and awareness of our efforts. is well to remember that we are assembled here today not because of the shocking way he and but because of attributed to the w

nasa so i was there during private spaceflight in the late nineties and nasa had discussions and we are forced to encourage people that they can never fly and deny licenses. they were deliberately trying to kill the investor class so they would never invest in private spaceflight it can but one was a millionaire and did not care. so why didn't we continue to go to the moon cracks because the entire thing was for the soviet union so why do we keep doing it cracks we need to have a commercially viable reason to go to mars so we put survivor or the bachelor on mars. i'm only partially joking but we have to find a way to monetize otherwise you are asking the taxpayer to do it for whatever and that will not have mind - - that will not work nasa will suck the lifeblood out of it. >> i want to agree. one of the things that could come out is a joint thing but my preference is certainly that elon musk or jeff bezos who are competitors right now get together to say let's do that ourselves. that is my preference in the more it goes in that direction the more likely we can go to mars for exactly th

nasa set up big tv screens and chairs for nasa employees and their friends. i remember the pride and accomplishment of the mission and celebration from nasa engineers and contractors. i remember it like it was yesterday. apollo 11 and the moon landing was a jewel in nasa's crown at the time. it set the foundation for many future american achievements in space. 16 years later, utah senator, jake garn, became the first sitting member of congress to fly in space. when he flew aboard the space shuttle discovery as a payload specialist in 1985. the closest i have gotten to the moon to date, anyway, is when as the mayor of salt lake county i placed the clark planet tear yum on vault into the -- planetarium moon rock in the vault. we placed it there under the watchful eye of law enforcement to the secure temporary home. our planetarium is one of many who benefits from the legacy and brings science education to life for students in utah. those students will soon and hopefully become the engineers, mathematicians, and explorers who will chart the next five decades of

ifwhou you ask a question about nasa's budget, look what you found out. if you ask at two.five to say yes. yes. that sounds right. and when it breaks down to be $70 per american and then to say that's the right amount that we framed it generally if youth give it 21.5 billion or a certain percentage of the national budget but overall bc for the most part americans are in favor of what is spent an hour even more but people sayil 20.5 billion is a lot but maybe we should spend more. >> what about too much or too little? >> so more specifically if you take not spending enough but inen vast majority of americans are in favor but putting it into 41 percent think we are too little. >> the overall messages and then to be more in favor. >> is that worth the cost? is the benefit worth it? and make a big chunk thinks it is worth it. >> now i met the theme level but only 14 percent are in favor of but now nasa and government has the key goal to push this agenda. >> taking a look at the courage. the purple line to you is dollars. look at how the budget went up in the

attitude toward nasa. united states among those pull pulled, 70% with a favorable view toward nasa. 7% with an unbearable view torna out some and having this conversation on the 50th anniversary of the launch of apollo 11 some of the numbers when it comes to apollo missions in this partly to pulling from back in the 1960s when it came to u.s. support for the apollo mission in june of 1969. the moon landing in 1969. there is a project that started to get support, nine-month cider following the s apollo 13 disasr back in front of the mission wing when jean of the harrison company walked on the moon and apollo 17 it's american public and i believe the country was spending too much on space travel. by that time space budgets have been slashed and intermissions have been canceled. some of the numbers looking back, 500 years ago at the launh of the apollo 11 mission that happened today at 8:32 a.m. come32 on. with nasa's the legacy of the apollo 11 mission. here's what he said. >> . . when america does absolutel

nasa plays a critical role in that. nasa plays a critical role in pushing technology forward. i think it is a false choice between looking at nasa's budget and trying to solve all the problems. nasa does need to send humans to the moon. they are going to discover life of all not only on the moon but on mars. i think if we have learned nothing else will apollo, when a society does something really hard and challenging, it brings the world together. it pushes your society forward. it inspires a generation of scientists and engineers. behind you is lunar module two. people will ask you if this was the real thing that went to the moon. we get that question a lot. it was a test article. is one of them. all kinds of testing was done by nasa on it at the end of the program, we got it here to display. you talk also about the spacesuits. talk about that process. the spacesuits are almost individual spacecraft. for thed to store air astronauts, keep them protected from the lunar environment. they were complex. they were made to protect the astronauts on the moon, but they were not made

he was a nasa career engineer in the organization that proceeded nasa. he did the first study of the technical requirements for landing on the moon at nasa headquarters. it was his study that allowed nasa to say to president kennedy give us enough money and we can do this. george, who had the fortune of knowing fairly well, moved to houston for the establishment of the new manned spacecraft center and was a number two person to the center director. after the apollo 1 fire he devoted himself to be the head of the apollo spacecraft program. he was one that oversaw the redesign of the command and service module to get rid of all the problems that were the source of the fire that killed grissom, chaffee and white. he was kind of an unsung hero of apollo in my view. ago i got an email from his daughter who was in the washington area saying i would like to get together and share memories of george lowe. i'm very much looking forward to that. it is good that you know that, sally. are you near rpi? host: i don't think she is on the line. who was the other unsung

nasa has been made up 80% of private companies. it is not just nasa. there have always been other companies involved. they put out tons of contracts, and they award tons of contracts to private companies. honeywell is very much involved. lockheed is very much involved. there are thousands of small businesses involved across the country. i don't think people realize that, but nasa is made up of tons of private contractors, thousands of them. everybody from companies with 40,000 people to companies with six people. there have always been private companies involved. host: that is bobby in columbia, maryland. here is marcia. caller: good morning. i am calling on the line for all others because i have a somewhat unusual, completely neutral position on watching the moon landing, and that is entirely circumstantial. that evening, i was 23 years old. i had just been married for two years. my husband and i had just bought our first house and moved in less than a month before that. we had furniture stored in my parents' house. we had furniture in his parent'' ho

he was a nasa career engineer in the organization that proceeded nasa. he did the first study of the technical requirements for landing on the moon at nasa headquarters. it was his study that allowed nasa to say to president kennedy give us enough money and we can do this. george, who had the fortune of knowing fairly well, moved to houston for the establishment of the new manned spacecraft center and was a number two person to the center director. after the apollo 1 fire he devoted himself to be the head of the apollo spacecraft program. he was one that oversaw the redesign of the command and service module to get rid of all the problems that were the source of the fire that killed grissom, chaffee and white. he was kind of an unsung hero of apollo in my view. ago i got an email from his daughter who was in the washington area saying i would like to get together and share memories of george lowe. i'm very much looking forward to that. it is good that you know that, sally. are you near rpi? host: i don't think she is on the line. who was the other unsung

the interesting thing is this is there is not nasa yet. what jpl january 1958. -- nasa was formed later that year. what jpl wished to do was science discoveries. these were turned to a new organization called nasa. they had two goals? one was to have a human program -- go to the moon with astronauts. the second was to explore the solar system. we took the lead on that. >> how was the jet propulsion laboratory funded? >> we are funded by nasa. the federal government and grants. we do a little bit of defense work. of our worke to 10% is not nasa work. >> how has the funding changed? relativelybeen asady in our growth -- federal government budgets go up and down we can go up and down as well. compared to a lot of places we have been very fortunate in showing the world what we can do. they keep coming back and asking us for -- asking for us to do more. >> is the interest in scientific changeh and things like and administration of fact funding that nasa receives and that jpl receives? i've haveat thing seen over the years is the -- people suppo

nasa accidentally erased them? are they in permanent cold storage, and will never be viewed again, or were they misplaced, and have never been found? juliet will contemplate that, that's juliet's contemplative. those are the choices. now, we will have a look at the top of the sales force tower, and the numbers, still warm in the east bay, san francisco at 64 the west coast we have high pressure that is beginning to rebuild. warming trend through midweek, that will just be in the mid- 90s by midweek, not much in the way of low cloudiness overnight, and we should have a mostly sunny day on the way for the bay area tomorrow. but while temperatures inland bump up a bit, a sea breeze keeps this fresh and mild along the shoreline, so we will sum that up by saying, that we get partly moody tonight, it warms a bit inland, cloudy near the coast inland highs near 90 by midweek, giants taking on the cubs tomorrow night, gametime 60 degrees, and overnight lows in the mid 50s, daytime highs tomorrow will be at 92 in concord and

. >> nasa's new program is artemis. it would send americans back in five years, a fete that can only be achieved with the private sector we're in an entrepreneurial space race. >> we've gone to 476 companies today, they've raised 22 billion of equity capital. >> one startup, astro bottic. >> it's a railroad to the moon. >> it builds robotic landers, it has almost $100 million in contracts, including nasa. >> we offer nasa an opportunity to fly payloads to the surface of the moon. that's going to open the doors wide open to scientists and explorers and developers all over the country and the world to begin to understand the moon in much better ways. >> it's just one example companies are focussing on everything from rockets to moon mining to has been at a times. blue origin has spent the last several years developing its own lander, blue moon. another example, t lunar gate y gateway. >> the purpose of that is for nasa to launch exploration missions from there and support exploration of the moon and other locations. >> it

now nasa wants to go back.asa's cfo tells us about plans to put humans back on the moon within five years. and we are livestreaming on twitter. check us out there @technology. ♪ >> it takes hundreds of millions of dollars to get started with something interesting. i want reusable space vehicles so the next generation can actually have two kids in a dorm room all day build a great space company. emily: that was jeff bezos talking about the benefits of space travel with cbs news this week. saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the historic apollo moon landing. neil armstrong took his first steps on the moon, and the space race was dominated by a rivalry between the u.s. and russia. a lot has changed. however, dani burger takes a look at how the space race has evolved. dani: in the half-century since man first walked on the moon, the space race has fundamentally changed. it used to be a battle between the u.s. and the soviet union, but now most new missions are by private companies. the number of companies launch

nasa set up big tv screens and chairs for nasa employees and their friends. i remember the pride and accomplishment of the mission and celebration from nasa engineers and contractors. i remember it like it was yesterday. apollo 11 and the moon landing was a jewel in nasa's crown at the time. it set the foundation for many future american achievements in space. 16 years later, utah senator, jake garn, became the first sitting member of congress to fly in space. when he flew aboard the space shuttle discovery as a payload specialist in 1985. the closest i have gotten to the moon to date, anyway, is when as the mayor of salt lake county i placed the clark planet tear yum on vault into the -- planetarium moon rock in the vault. we placed it there under the watchful eye of law enforcement to the secure temporary home. our planetarium is one of many who benefits from the legacy and brings science education to life for students in utah. those students will soon and hopefully become the engineers, mathematicians, and explorers who will chart the next five decades of

you have a nasa sticker, nasa pin, and you also have a bumper sticker that hopefully you will displayyour bumper, you want to take home with you, and it basically says space runs through exploration. i picked governor herbert of utah. since i happen to be in utah. it is a fun bumper sticker. please enjoy. i want you to know you are part of it. also, i'm a little bit of show and tell, too. hopefully each and everyone of you finds this little thing that says the united states. i can say stars that have fallen all over the united states, and the reason i have that chart is it shows more than 3000 companies across the u.s. over the 50 states, so, yes, your state is actively involved in the exploration program. you can look and see different stars were different sizes. those different sizes to pick the amount of companies that you have, and if you would like to provide the different companies that support aerospace and our mission, not only human exploration, to science, technology, i will be glad to provide that at some point in time. so, again, you are part of it. now i would like to tal

have jim, the head of nasa. nasa has done a whole different thing. , it isdy wanted that job a love for space that is unparalleled. we felt strongly about jim and gave him the job and he has surpassed our expectations. nasa is back. we are having a rich guys use it and pay us wretch -- pay as rent. i like that. a lot of rich guys have been sending of rockets and that goes to our credit and their credit, but we like it. we opened up our field. they were covered with grass and broken and in bad shape. you look at kennedy in florida, where every you want to look, it was not a pretty picture. abandoned andst now they are in tip top shape and rockets are going up all the time. we would lease rockets from russia and other countries to send people up and we appreciate the relationship with russia, but we will be doing it ourselves heard -- ourselves. we are in a position we have not been in in many years. space is important for defense and offense. about going to the moon and mars because we don't know what we will fin

attitudes toward nasa.nited states, among those polled, 70% had a favorable view toward nasa, 7% with an unfavorable view. this conversation is on the 50th anniversary of the launch of apollo 11. has some of the numbers when it comes to the apollo missions. this part of it looked at polling from back in the 1960's when it came to u.s. support on the apollo missions poll in june of 1969. it was an even split with those in favor of government funding and those against. in the aftermath of the moon landing in 1969, the project starts to win broad support nine months later following the apollo 13 disaster, backing for the mission went again -- waned again. public leaveerican the country was spending too much on space travel. andad already been slashed further lunar missions were canceled. those are some of the numbers looking back 50 years ago at the launch of the apollo 11 mission a.m.happened today at 8:32 some 50 years ago. we talked recently with nasa's the legacy of the apollo 11 mission. here's what he sa

next we hear from jody singer, director of nasa's spaceflight center come about nasa's mission . that is followed by a discussion about how to make roadways safer. this is about one hour and 20 minutes. >> and now we welcome to the podium nga's chair, governor steve bullock. gov. bullock: good afternoon, everybody. i hope everyone enjoyed yesterday's policy sessions and social events. we had governors only breakfast. oh there is governor herbert. governor herbert, again, i think i could speak for everyone in the tabernacle choir was just absolutely incredible. [applause] so thank, not you, but the first lady, because i know she did most of the work the last couple days, hosting is that the capital, a wonderful office building. today, we kick off the one a celebration of the space station. the one instruction to me about america's space program is i can't take this my 12-year-old son, so i'm not allowed to touch it, but to get us started i will , recognize my friend and nga vice chair governor hogan of maryland. gov. hogan: good morning, everybody. as you know we are celebrating ,

tell me what you think of the job jim is doing, nasa is doing. what do you think of the jobs they are doing? vice president pence: thank you, mr. president. i share your enthusiasm for our nasa administrator, jim bridenstine. really putting into practice your vision of reviving american leadership in human space exploration. to be able to be here in the oval office with you and the first lady, with buzz aldrin, mike collins, and the family of neil armstrong as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission is very humbling for me. i thank you for your leadership. you have revived the national space council, you asked us to lead it and we have really revived american leadership in space. we are launching a space force to make sure we can defend this nation and the outer reaches of space, because of your leadership i know everyone gathered here, these families, these astronauts, are excited to know that within the next year, we will be able to return american astronauts to space on american rockets from american soil. and that is all a

nasa wants american space taxis. space uber and lyft. >> it's come to a final stop. >> astronaut chris ferguson commanded nasa's final shuttle mission. >> it was amazing tow real it is becoming. >> he hopes to ride a spaceship again. the boeing star liner he helped design. >> i'm a corporate astronaut now what the heck does of a corporate astronaut mean? we don't know. >> reporter: spacex has built reusable rockets and sleek space capsule called crew dragon. like boeing, spacex is two years behind schedule with vague promises about when it will fly astronauts. >> we still haven't launched anyone yet but hopefully we will later this year and so that would definitely be the culmination of a long dream for a lot of people. >> reporter: spacex's first crew, astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley are competitive guys in a space race. >> you want to get there before ferguson? >> absolutely. >> why does that matter? >> i've played a lot of sports competitively and i have no problem with a little healthy competition. and i t

that's a good thing for nasa and i think that could drive down our cost. you could see it be in my opinion well less than $20 billion. the other thing that exists today that didn't exist in the 1960s are international partners we now have 15 countries that have been operating the international space station for almost 20 years. each one of those countries is interested in going back to the moon with us that, again, drives down our cost so i think it could come in well less than $20 billion, but it's also important to note that we do need to go ultimately, so that we can go on to mars. >> when i learned about the moon landing, it was in the context of national pride and innovation these days, when we talk about space exploration and the innovation, more often than not, it's bezos, musk, you know, like you were saying, branson is that okay or do we need to recapture that sense of american branding and ambition, when we talk about space even more? >> it is absolutely both so, remember, nasa is a partner with these companies to achieve what we're trying to ach