we'll go back to the moon! please clap! nasa does not actually have a plan the get astronauts back on the moon in five years. they were hoping to do it by 2028. that's what they were already planning on doing. but mike pence has now announced no, we're going right away. we're -- there is no plan to do that at all. and this has happened often enough now that i think we can see how this works. i think we can see their mind-set here. i think they think that if you just give the speech, if you just make the announcement, that's enough to get credit for it if people don't pay attention to the fact that you don't actually mean it. i mean, this just seems to be a recognizable pattern now, two plus years into this new american political experience we are all having. announce we are going to the moon. maybe people will think you are like jfk who said we are going to the moon, but he meant it. announce the denuclearization of north korea, yeah. make sure you get the handshake. it's like they don't know it's not historic. it's not an i

we'll go back to the moon! please clap! nasa does not actually have a plan the get astronauts back on the moon in five years. they were hoping to do it by 2028. that's what they were already planning on doing. but mike pence has now announced no, we're going right away. we're -- there is no plan to do that at all. and this has happened often enough now that i think we can see how this works. i think we can see their mind-set here. i think they think that if you just give the speech, if you just make the announcement, that's enough to get credit for it if people don't pay attention to the fact that you don't actually mean it. i mean, this just seems to be a recognizable pattern now, two plus years into this new american political experience we are all having. announce we are going to the moon. maybe people will think you are like jfk who said we are going to the moon, but he meant it. announce the denuclearization of north korea, yeah. make sure you get the handshake. it's like they don't know it's not historic. it's not an i

but the moon was perfect. >> and, of course, this year anniversaryh of the famous moon landing and the walk on the moon by armstrong, but after that as we moved into the 1970s, where was the program?ace what were its objectives? >> well, after the first began to they extend the missions and make them longer and more scientifically focused. i mean, the astronauts on apollo 11 deployed a few experiments and they collected some rock samples and did some things like int, but that was simple comparison to especially the last three missions. 15, 16 and 17 where they had a lunar rover that allowed them to drive around and go out as far as 20 miles away from the landing site and deploy all kinds of satellites, some of which are still operating. and also to collect a wide variety of lunar samples and back for study. that was a real bonanza in of the activities that scientistsor the and we learned a great deal from that process, but that didn't have the kind of public resonance that those early flights did. get bored after the first few times we do this and passe and that apollo. with >> we've d

in all aspects, it seemed ready for the moon. absent stage of the lunar module to free the command module for the remainder of the mission. in a safe clearance i been established, the final test. the absent engine of the lunar module was burned until the propellant ran out. the crew of apollo 9 watched as their lunar module now crew -less went away for them. -- from them. it settled into a routine. a routine of picture taking and observations. with an occasional burn to refine the orbit. this routine was a look into the future. a future one-man orbiting space stations operating in concert with unmanned satellites could examine the earth from this vantage point. such as thoseas on apollo 9 will take multiple spectrum photographs from visible light through the untapped locating geological and biological resources. important, even more when man can look at his world with a new perspective, quantitatively and qualitatively observe the results of his actions on the face of his world. four with a power man controls, he can change the n

traveling to the moon earlier this week we heard the u.s. vice president push to have americans on the moon by the year two thousand and twenty four here's part of what he had to say take a listen. that's a must transform itself into a leaner more accountable and more agile organization. if nasa is not currently capable of landing american astronauts on the moon in five years we need to change the organization. not the mission. change the organization not the mission how high is the pressure now mr verner to deliver when politicians make promises and are we looking at a future with only affordable rockets being commercial rockets. no no no that's that's too simple some six years it go in an international conference i was asking for a change of all the space agencies because i was talking about a shift of paradigm at that time and nobody took me seriously saying oh he is a naive guy and no it's clear we have to move easier is already moving since some years we changed our set up it gelati of those space agency is an important aspect of course

utilize the resources of the moon. prove capability, prove technology, retire risk and then use those capabilities and technologies for a mission to mars. that's the objective of this administration. and i can tell you, when i meet with my colleagues around the world, the heads of other agencies, they are all very, very excited about partnering with us in this endeavor. in fact, recently just a couple of weeks ago, we announced we now have a collaboration with canada on this next generation endeavor. and that collaboration, according to the prime minister, is for the next 24 years. which is critically -- which is a great partnership. it's the first one in this next generation. but i think the biggest thing to note, and this is about american leadership. the biggest thing to note now is there are more space agencies on the space of the planet than before. and there are more coming online, which means there is more opportunity for partnership. more opportunity for shared resources. more opportunity to do more than we have

also coming up tonight the last time a human stepped foot on the moon i had just taken my first baby steps and the united states had won the space race now inter captain's log two thousand and nineteen the race for space is back on and it's. we're in a space race today just as we were in the one nine hundred sixty s. . and the stakes are even higher to models was would not be the same as yesterday's voice. of the government this new capability. is not directed against anyone not the. will to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and around the world welcome we begin the day with the sun setting on british prime minister to resign may with her government in a parliament induced paralysis and lawmakers from her own conservative party turning against her tonight theresa may made you could call the ultimate offer to save her brakes a deal if parliament this week passes her plan for taking the u.k. out of the european union she will resign in a statement to her fellow tories she said i know there is a desire for a new approach and new leadership in the second phase of the brakes in th

the way the moon goes around the sun, the pieces at the moon south pole and north pole are shattered because the craters never betrayed. , hits, carries water in and never boils off. that is why the polls are useful because we know there is water there. whether it's in the form of water or ice or what have you, that's what i would go after. >> how many of you have heard of and situate resource utilization? it's an area that the scientific community, the planetary scientific community has been looking at for decades. one of the things we want to do as john said, we want to be able to go to a planet or asteroid or something and then be able to manufacture things like a there. we do a lot of 3-d printing on the international space station. we're trying to get to the point where we do a mass miss lunch. here we do a mass miss we take very little material and manufacture what you need, whether a telescope or something else, manufactured in place using the resources. >> a commercial announcement the company that manufactures that founded in part by an ohio state grad. thank you for your que

a lot of scientists believed the moon was bone dry. now we know that there's hundreds of millions of tons of water ice on the surface of the moon. water ice represents air to breathe. it represents water to drink. it's hydrogen and oxygen which is rocket fuel. abundant in hundreds of millions of tons on the surface of the moon. so the president's space policy directive 1 says go to the moon, go sustainably, go with international partners, go with commercial partners. utilize the resorts of the moon. prove capability. prove technology. retire risk. and then use those capabilities and technologies for a mission to mars. that's the objective of this administration. and i can tell you when i meet with my colleagues around the world, the heads of other agencies, they are all very, very excited about partnering with us in this endeavor. in fact, recently, just a couple weeks ago, we announced that we now have a collaboration with canada on with canada on this next generation endeavor. and that collaboration according to the prime minister, is

spend a little time on the moon if you want to. we can still get to mars in the 2030's, as long as we don't dedicate to the moon . add, do you view mars as a science destination and the moon as a commercial destination? charles: no. in fact, both are mixed. both are aspirational destinations for humanity. mars, the motive is not quite like conquering mount everest. they asked me, why did he do that? because it is there. settlershe original crossed the mississippi? they did not know what was over there, and they wanted to go. we don't know what is on mars, so we want to go. we have a good idea of what is on the moon, but we want to go there. i think both of them are aspirational. both are scientific. the moon is more if there is a commercial potential, definitely the moon as opposed to mars. mars today is too far away to make it commercially viable. you are going therefore science -- there for science or advancing humanity. john: i want to recommend a book. the question in the presidency has been moon, mars, moon, mars. there is a bo

that is still the horizon goal, but the moon is much closer. us for big wins early on and develop the technology to go to mars eventually. emily: is there anything in particular we will learn from the moon itself that we don't already know as opposed to deep space explanation, which arguably, there is more to know? chad: what it allows us to test the technology that we will use to go to mars. as investors in this space economy, it is important that nasa will be partnering of the pipe -- with the private sector in a bigger way. that was the highlight of the announcement today. there are a number of companies that are working to put a lunar gateway in the orbit of the moon that is going to allow us to do a number of different things. one, it will help develop the launch sector that will go farther beyond the orbit. it will allow us to develop the landing technology to go from . there are a number of companies already working on technology that is being funded by the commercial lunar payload program that is $2.5 billion over the next 10 years -- th

i spoke to james donovan, author of "shoot for the moon." it the cold war and the space race between the americans and the russians that led to neil armstrong taking those steps on the moon? james: absolutely. if it wasn't for the cold war, if it sn't for sputnik orbiting the earth before the united states satellite was ready, the space race would have never happened. laura: you reveal in your book that it took thousands of people to put those men on the moon. how many? james: approximately 400,000 people were involved in this huge endeavor, from the subcontractors, contractors, universities, laboratories, all over the country. laura: how was it that neil armstrong got to be the man chosen to take the first historic steps? james: well, he was commander of the mission, andn the previous those were the two-man spacecraft missions. the commander always stayed in the spacecraft and the second man did the spacewalk. in this case they decided the commander should be the first man to step out on the surface of the moon. they had a choice to make bet

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they are images of the earth and the moon. interesting that we have this really strong desire to look back and record images of our own world. one of the things which happenee when w to the moon, the astronauts said, is that they basically discovered the earth ar stepping outside of the earth and seeing it fromnough away that you could block it out with less than the palm of your hand. hethat allowed them to see earth as a strong, fragile, unique object surrounded by basically infinite, deadly nothingness. this is very close to what they saw looking through their visor. the idea that we can explore a place where no han being had ever been and we could bring back images and feel as if you are there, that is sort of a revolutionary idea. laura: marc taylor on the moon.l i ra trevelyan. thank you so much for watching "bbc world news america." >> with the bbc news app, our vertical videos are designed to work around your lifestyle, so you can swipe your way through aye news of the day and st up-to-date with the latest headlines you

photography was, for one thing, indispensable in planning the missions to the moon. like, we had to make sure that we knew where you could land, they made sure that when they landed, they were not in a place that might have recently been in shadow, so it would be too cold, or in daylight for too long so it would be too hot. the eagle has landed. ranger 9 was a mission to launch something at the moon and see if they could actually strike the surface, see if they could navigate that accurately, and it took these images as it was heading in, and you can see it's getting closer and closer and closer. that's the last image that it returned before it smashed into the surface. this exhibit is called a century of lunar photography and beyond because these are actually more than a century old. these images were taken by a specialised telescope at the paris observatory, and these are standard surveys where they would take this image, take another one a few months or a few years later to see if anything had changed. i just love the texture of these, they‘ re really, really beaut

chad: the budget is out and emphasizes the moon over everything else. rators said clearly this is a stepping stone and the moon is seen as a staging area to test out the technology that we need to go to mars. that is still the horizon goal, but the moon is much closer. it allows big wins early on and will allow tech knowledge he to go to mars -- technology to go to mars. will: is there anything we learn from the moon itself that we do not know, as opposed to deep space exploration? chad: it allows us to test the technology to go to mars. as investors in this space economy, it is important that nasa partner with the private sector in a much bigger way. that was the highlight of the announcement today. there is a number of companies that are working to put a lunar gateway in the orbit of the moon that will allow us to do a number of different things. it will help develop the launch sector that will go out beyond the lowest orbit. it will allow us to develop the landing technology to go from orbit to the surface. additional companies are working bytechnolog

when the world was surprised by sputnik in october of 1957 -- >> today a new moon is in the sky, a 23-inch metal sphere placed in orbit by a russian rocket. >> eisenhower first turned to the navy for another project they were working on to build a rocket or spacecraft with a satellite, it blew up on the launch pad and live on national tv, great embarrassment. so then the eisenhower administration turned to j.p.l. and the army and von braun, who had been working together all that time and said can you do it? we did it in about 60 days. we had a satellite basically already on the shelf. what was interesting about that to me is that the foresight to put in that satellite an actual science instrument. it was basically a geiger counter. that geiger counter found out, discovered that there surrounds the earth these radiation belts that protect us from the sun and particles from the sun that essentially we wouldn't be, that would kill us. we would not be able, our molecular structure would break down. the first time there was a space discovery was here at j.p.l., what is called the the von a

and that is still the horizon goal, but the moon is much closer. me big wins early on and allows us to develop the technology that we'll need to go to mars eventually. emily: is there anything in particular we will learn from the moon itself that we do not already know, as opposed to deep space exploration, which, arguably, there is more to know? chad: it allows us to test the technology that we are going to use to go to mars. so, as investors in this space economy, it is really important that nasa is going to be partnering with the private sector in a much bigger way. that was the highlight of the announcement today. and so there is a number of companies that are working to put a lunar gateway in the orbit of the moon that is going to allow us to do a number of different things. one, it is going to help develop the launch sector that is going to go out further beyond just lower earth orbit. it will allow us to develop the landing technology to go from orbit into the surface. in addition, there are a number of companies that are already working on t

they had the idea to put a spacecraft on the moon. 100 thousand dollars, and 42 million dollars laterplause] adm. bridenstine: still the cheapest mission in history. [applause] morris: i must tell you, i had a birth day a few weeks ago on the fifth of march. i turned it in any result -- i turned 89. [applause] unique gifts.a i got a selfie from the rocket, a picture of the earth, a picture together with the rocket, and a little plaque that said, small country, big dreams. [applause] morris: i think this is the most expensive selfie in history. [applause] [laughter] .orris: but it was worth it i think this will be the best investment i have ever made. and i thank you for your support . and i thank you, jim, for your support. adm. bridenstine: my honor. morris: before i finish, i would just like to say that this year, we celebrate 50 years of the apollo landing. and it was an amazing feat. and one of the people who landed was actually buzz aldrin. buzz is a friend of mine and we have been together about 20 years, we are the same age, and we like each other. and i tell you, when i am wit

oh we go back to the moon cern that's the goal. we should have a base on the moon. permanently right here in paris on the moon and send people to mars you know sort of on mars those were. a giant leap perhaps for now i must give nasa are a small step closer to sending ordinary people into space. well our very own aaron tilton is here in the studio to tell us a bit more and why is this so important for the u.s. well on the one hand you have to remember the united states doesn't have the capability of sending its own man missions to space and hasn't since the retired the shuttle system in two thousand and eleven so on the one hand it's a point of pride for the united states they want to be able to send their own missions into space on the other you have to realize that they are reliant on the russians so you system which is an aging rocket system and last fall there was almost that disastrous aborted launch which almost cost the lives of several astronauts and cosmonauts but then also there's a new aspect nasa is looking to take this program into the into the new cent

the next leap is no exception. >> the moon is the proving ground. mars is the horizon goal. >> reporter: nasa says there's money in the federal budget for deep space exploration, so the agency is going to return to the moon to prepare for a longer trip to mars. >> it is about having a sustainable human presence on and around the moon. in order to achieve that objective, we need a permanent command and service module in orbit around the moon. >> the actual space craft. >> reporter: the bay area is preparing, too. the nasa ames research center in mountain view using locally-made technology to create this module called the bio sentinel project. it will test radiation on life forms to better aid in long-range missions into space. >> to better inform our scientists at nasa how to protect biology, how to protect humans for the long-term mission. >> reporter: the plan is to land on the moon, then stay to explore, learning and harvesting enough to eventually head to mars. >> when we find the water on the soil, the lunar soil, we can use it to make the water

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but you know who is excited that we're going back to the moon? buzz aldrin. he can finally get his house keys that he left up there. ( laughter ) poor guy has been locked out for 50 years. all right, let's move on to sports news. the n.c.a.a. tournament isn't even half over, but we already have an m.v.p. >> "sports illustrated" reports on the only person in the world with a perfect n.c.a.a. tournament bracket so far. >> the odds of that are 1 in 281 trillion. >> ohio neuropsychologist gregg nigl correctly predicted the outcomes of the first 48 march madness games. nigl shatters the previous record streak of 39 games. >> i was actually pretty sick with a bad cold on thursday. i woke up to call into work. i took some cold medicine, and i almost just went right back to bed, but i knew i had two more brackets to fill out. >> trevor: wow! ( laughter ) wow! this guy had a cold, and he still managed to fill out a perfect bracket! that is the worst overcoming-an-obstacle sports story i have ever heard. ( laughter ) just, like, move over, homeless n.f.l. player. this g

over the surface of the moon. rankness they are in a big hurry to do this. everything has to be content to a way they had never done before or what ever do again. he started to catch at the average age airplane in the source for the moon and came up with the answer of 24 years. i thought these are really really special people here are really across the board. as i started to interview them one after another i thought these are really unsung heroes because any one of them didn't do his job. there was even a woman's restroom in 1968. it was mostly anil driven thing. the whole thing could've come apart and there is tremendous faith placed by the astronaut and so that became a big part of what i was interested in as well. >> karen come you talk in your book in your 20s. tell us about that. >> that's an interesting story. every summer i would get a different assignment. you learn about everything. i was going to a place called echo range layout in the desert and when i get there is about three or four of these plopped d

well enough american astronaut on the moon in the next five years that is the hope of u.s. vice president mike pence speaking to the national space council parents referred to a global space race similar to that in the one nine hundred sixty s. now it comes as india announces that it shot down a low orbit satellite a move that prime minister or indra modi says establishes india as a space superpower. our joining us now from washington is keith cowing he's editor of nasa watch dot com peter good to have you on the show so what do you make of what the vice president says is there really a space race on the same magnitude of what we saw in the one nine hundred sixty s. . i wouldn't say it's the same magnitude of course to have a space race you have to perceive that you're in one in five people who are racing with you and in this case vice president prince pence suggested that china is looking to take the lead in exploring the moon of course japan has spent spacecraft there israel's about to land something there india is about to land something there we have space to insult on

and boeing that they'll need to be able to to to establish well the moon base that . it was talking about there and so you know assuming it all goes well hope hoping that it does when we say real life astronauts being sent into space from the u.s. again well the next planned mission which could actually see a man start for united states could happen as early as july but of course that's dependent upon the sec's the success of the current mission is pretty well known that he wants to get people to mars by twenty thirty and is this a really important how how important is this step in his wife to go well it's one step of many but it's also a very very critical step i mean space x. has proved itself with its dragon capsule and it's falcon nine in the past but it's only worked as a cargo farriers basically taking cargo from the u.s. from cape canaveral up to the i assess this is the first time that they're actually getting the ability to prove that they can transport humans safely to the ice s. and back and of course the idea says is our foothold in space and when it comes

nasa is working to get humans back to the moon. ity in mountain view. the goal is a permanent human presence on the moon within the next decade. video shows the next generation of heat shielding of up to 15,000 degrees. the agency says they are testing how the project had to protect humans as they write to the atmosphere. >> it is very scary in that the reliability and the amount of testing required for man rated is right different for nasa. because of the risk. we have to eliminate the risk or minimize it so far to make it safe. >> nasa is working to build a spaceshipthat would orbit the moon and allow for closer testing. they plan to send humans to mars. >> i would prefer eliminating the risk. >> i don't want to blow up. >>> clammy disability without being disabled. >>> the trump administration wants to go after federal disability cheaters. wait until you hear they want to investigate them. why posting on social media to get some people in trouble. >>> a councilwoman searching for answers after her son is killed after a robbery. >

they had two goals go to the moon with astronauts and to explore the solar system. we took the lead in doing that. >> how is the jet propulsion laboratory funded? >> we're funded essentially by nasa, the federal government grants. we do a little bit of defense work, too, probably 5% 10% of our work is for nonnasa work. >> how has the funding changed over the years? >> we have been relatively steady state or growth, depending on what we wish to do but as the federal government budgets go up and down, we can go up and down, too. compared to a lot of places, we've been very, very fortunate we have shown the world what we can do and they keep coming back and asking us to do more. >> does the interest in scientific research and just even things like change in administration affect the funding that nasa receives and, therefore, j.p.l. receives? >> it can, but the great thing i have seen over the years is the bipartisan support for exploring space. people get it. they see that the public is excited about it. they see that it's popular and they see the benefits. it inspires

interesting to talk about the moon because the chinese, very flamboya ntly, talk about the moon becausey flamboyantly, landed on the far side of the moon just a few weeks ago and they have got in several more missions including manned missions, is there is kind of space race going on? space is an international collaborative effort. the uk and european space agency work with the tiny space agencies and nasa and the russian counterparts. —— chinese space agencies. we will look to see how the different space agencies comes together, as we look to the gateway then humans are back to the moon as a stepping stone to get to mars. we heard about a turn into a kind of, we didn't say everyday private taxi service but we talked about it like a regular, predictable, available to many. to be expected see a lot of these vehicles going up and down in these vehicles going up and down in the next ten or 20 years? these will be providing a regular service to the international space station. a cruel go there every few months were two orfour or six months. —— a cruel go there. see people buying tickets, co

the trump administration says it's accelerating plans to put american astronauts back on the moon. next moon landing would be brought forward from 2028 to 202k. the announcement came on the day the american space agency, nasa, had to cancel its first ever all—female spacewalk, because it doesn't have the right sized outfits. caroline rigby reports. christina cook of nasa, the first one through the hatch... a warm embrace and what was due to be the start of a particularly historic mission. never before has an all—female crew conducted a space walk. but christina cook and anne mcclain was set to change that, stepping out together and into the history books on friday to install powerful batteries on solar panels of the international space station. i think that my career and perhaps me being up on the international space station can really show women and girls and everybody that, hey, we're not just and girls and everybody that, hey, we're notjust sitting at and girls and everybody that, hey, we're not just sitting at the and girls and everybody that, hey, we're notjust sitting at the

not just to getting things much more cheaply to earth orbit but the next logical destination being the moon to it's only three days away and it's not that big a shift in technology for people to go to the space station or to get to orbit around the moon or even down to the surface and rather than just the early exploration days where we just like just showing at the top of everest that it was barely possible to actually get into the phase of human settlement it seems science fiction but that's the cusp of where we are and that's what was really dramatically sort of demonstrated by this first launch of space x. as human rated space ship well that's kind of the feeling will we get excited to or we're getting excited about the story because we kind of feel like we're taking a big step forward every hour is there a difference a distinction that we need to make between a private company working in a government program and the sort of thing that verdict lactic is working on which is very much more toward space tourism taking people around in space yeah i would i would see a couple of these about

we should have a base on the moon like a low prominently occupied here in paris on the moon and send people to mars you know as opposed to on mars those who are. a giant leap perhaps for now i must give nasa a small step closer to sending ordinary people into space. down to some other stories making news around the worlds. german federal police officials are under fire for storing video footage from body cameras on the servers of internet giant amazon opposition politicians have raised concerns about security and privacy issues the federal police say their own state infrastructure is insufficient to store the images. and opposition blogger and those are by sean has been released from prison after serving two years in a case condemned by human rights activists women who sing also posted critical articles about corruption among lawmakers and officials in the former soviet republic he was convicted of libel after saying he'd been kidnapped and beaten by police. an official in southern nigeria says more than fifty people are missing after a leaky oil pipeline exploded and triggered a sta