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The Path to Mars – NASA’s Exploration Programme

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How do you catch an asteroid? Is there really ‘life’ on Mars? Could Lego help us reach the Red Planet?

NASA’s Chief Scientist, Dr Ellen Stofan and Deputy Chief Technologist, Jim Adams provide an overview of NASA’s plans to develop a human exploration pathway to Mars, including ideas for a human mission to an asteroid.

Hosted by Alok Jha the event explored how science and technology will shape, and be shaped by, these ambitious plans and what new opportunities exist for international cooperation.

The Speakers

Dr Ellen Stofan has been NASA’s Chief Scientist since August 2013, advising on the agency’s science programmes and science-related planning and investments. Previously, her research has focused on the geology of Venus, Mars, Saturn’s moon Titan, and Earth.

Jim Adams is the Deputy Chief Technologist at NASA, having previously worked in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. There, he served as the deputy director of the Planetary Science Division, overseeing the discovery, new frontiers, lunar science and Mars programmes.

Thank you to the US Embassy for helping to organise this event.

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27 thoughts on “The Path to Mars – NASA’s Exploration Programme”

  5. Mr. Hendik: You take your 5 year old to a lecture like this for the same reason you read to a child to young to understand what is being read to them. Because you want the child to learn what you think is important and to associate those things with love and closeness. 

  7. Restart the goddamn X-33. Why did you waste a billion and the potential to reduce 10 times the cost to LEO? The ISS absorbs 2 billions per year.
    You could have an entire fleet by now.

  9. Thank you for making the video of this event available so quickly and informing us via social media, I enjoyed the Q&A as much as the presentations.

  12. NASA is a blight on the USA tax payer. Capture an asteroid!. Why not develop technologies for Mars or the Moon? What the flip has capturing an asteroid got to do with things? NASA is full of bored people who don't know they have been born.

  13. Finding and catching an asteroid out in space, bringing it to earth’s orbit for loading it with equipment and astronauts and then pushing it to Mars seems to me the most “anti-logical” thing I have ever heard. This was one of the questions raised on this presentation but the answer given was not convincing (starting with a single “No”). This idea seems like it’s just a political way to ask the world community to start looking for asteroids may hit the earth in the near future. If that is so it is sad. I hope the 20 years window will not become much larger due to some “imposed political” ideas.

  15. Man once lived in a cave. Duh I know caveman projects. I have a short story about living in a cave. I know future caveman theology. So here goes and this particular caveman had a cavewoman that lived with him. Sorry ladies I know you have come along away, but some of you still dwell in a cave with a caveman…
    So anyway one day caveman is talking to cavewoman and she says why can’t we leave the cave and move? I don’t like the cave, it’s boring, everyday its bronocoris bar-b-ques and the same boring art on the wall, I want to leave the cave.
    Caveman say, “Cave good, Cave protect you, stay in cave.”
    This argument went on what seemed what was forever but it was only a blink in the neoplatic? Age. Every time it was the same the cavewoman saying let’s leave the cave, and the same response from the caveman, “Cave good, Cave protect you, Stay in cave.”
    One day the cavewoman had had enough and decided that she would wander out of the cave and go for a look and see what was outside the cave. She had a great time foraging and she found some cool things that she was impressed to take back to her cave and her caveman.
    Caveman got mad, “What do you mean you left the cave, Cave good, Cave protect you, Stay in Cave.”
    The cavewoman continued to leave the cave and bring back what she found, and the cave was better for it, they had different food, and art, and some cool rocks and stones, the caveman still insisted, “Cave good, Cave protect you, Stay in cave.”
    Then one day the cavewoman was out on a quest and she had a little trouble and she took a branch to the eye, so she had a black-eye, when she got back to the cave the caveman said, “See I told you, now look what happened, you should listen, Cave good, Cave protect you, Stay in cave.” But the cavewoman continued to go outside the cave and finally the caveman started to ease up and appreciate what the quests out of the cave were adding to his life, and he actually loved the cavewoman, so he said, “you right you find good things outside of cave, but it’s dangerous, Stay in Cave, Cave good, Cave protect you.” Then he would do the hunting and gathering, and then all of a sudden its 2015 and you have every technology and affordance of the things that were gathered by leaving the cave.
    So my question is this, and I know that the Cave is good, and Cave protect you, and yes you can stay in the Cave if you want, but do you think we would have anything if we chose to stay in the Cave and not go out and explore the world around us? Do you stay in the Cave? Or do you journey out?
    The End.

  16. 51:36 – The projection on his arm makes his suit look a bit like the ST: Enterprise uniform. Fitting as he's talking advanced propulsion, which was a large focus of that series. 😉

  17. Excellent talk. The comprehensive yet understandable manner in which the breadth and depth of information was presented was masterful. I particularly enjoyed how they tied it all together into the core topic of "pioneering". No project exists in a vacuum, and all the varied parties involved deserve acknowledgement for their contributions.

  19. Ellen Stofan ♥

    "Titan would be a cool place to go" 🙂 I wish her proposed boat for Titan would have been selected as a mission. Sailing the Titan seas would be so… cool 🙂

  24. I'm sickened that "Planetary Protection," which should be sacrosanct, apparently means nothing to these people. NASA is rapidly turning into Trump-land, where it's all about fake victories and "what's in it for me?".

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