earlier i spoke to melodie yashar, director of architecture and building performance at icon, the companye alpha habitat for nasa. i asked how on earth one builds up the credentials to work on such an amazing project. that's a great question. we are in a very fortunate position, working with a renowned architecture firm, and together we are synthesising the requirements compiled by nasa to put together the programme for this habitat. what does that mean in real terms? what are you having to accommodate? we had to accommodate living and working spaces for four crew members to be conducting research and tolerating one another for an entire year, and they will not be leaving, they will have limited communications with outside, and we will be trying to simulate mars mission conditions as best as possible. so is it mostly about the psychology of living together in a very confined space for a long period of time? the mental challenge? or can you replicate the atmosphere or lack of it that they might experience on mars? it is primarily looking at the health of the crew, performance, psychologica

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and what chief yashar is talking about, that's a tuck funding stream -- particular funding stream, and programs have additional funding streams, so i think it's a patch work quilt, so i think in order for us to have a district wide strategy, that would be a pretty big lift because we have to determine as a district where does it sit, how is it coordinated and operationalized because as you know, before and after schools take up almost every other part of our operational facilities, right? it's facilities, it's meals, it's custodial and all of that, so all of that has to be organized and coordinated in the sharing of spaces at school sites, so part of it is in order to get sort of to that vision of having before and after school at every child who needs it, we'd have to create a district wide system for everyone who needs that and coordinate between all the additional districts and location. so i don't know all the effort that it would take to do that or how we would get there. >> thank you so much for that. i'm interested in having more conversations about the path to get there. i unde