The Path to Mars - NASA's Exploration Programme

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.
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[@TaylorWJ]

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.

[@pdwu2b]

Great presentation, however; watching this in 2021 I notice that all of the plans presented are either cancelled, or postponed a lot. The asteroid redirect mission was cancelled. There hasn't been a crewed Orion flight yet, nor an SLS-flight. Let's hope humanity get it's act together and we can soon accomplish some of the visions presented here.

[@loftsatsympaticodotc]

Wellas you know that we now DO have progress, with the Arteimis to the moon ON THE LAUNCH PAD. Let us hope all progresses in due course. So why and how and what.... is the meaning of life? 🙃🙂

[@loftsatsympaticodotc]

Well things did progress and now we have the Artemis to go around the moon, ON the LAUNCH PAD. Now if only humans were less greedy, each for him self, as we say that we all act locally for GLOBAL effect, So the next question she mentioned here we condense to... what IS the meaning of life as well as- "are we alone"? 🙂🙃

[@PongoXBongo]

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.

[@danievdw]

Would love to see a up to date roadmap like this.

[@aineshgodse4568]

Jim, you are awesome! Thank you very much.

[@zapfanzapfan]

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 :-)

[@MMasterDE]

Thanks for the video! :)

[@RobSinclaire]

"Space Faring Nations" I Love that!

[@whothefoxcares]

*"Space Farting Nations" is better for all corporate parties.*

[@PongoXBongo]

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. ;)

[@hudaalahmadi4533]

amazing

[@souzannicolas8871]

Fascinating and extremely stimulating ! Thank you !! But how about working at the same time at stabilizing the situation on earth ?

[@palanthis]

Look at the entirety of recorded history. Really study it. Then come to grips with the fact that it's never going to happen. If there were only two humans left on Earth, they would find something to fight about.

[@cgtoche]

Always nice when I see a video without down thumb votes :)

[@Alessandro-B]

There is one now, unfortunately. Must be the commentator's curse.

[@geraldeverett7219]

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.

[@fokkenhotz1]

Have we named the comet that wiped out the dinosaurs? and have we found a core?

[@Boringpenguin]

36:35 Only if he knew what would happen just 8 years later...

[@shawnr8215]

Imagine digging up dinosaur bones on Mars?!?!

[@AlanDeRossett]

We could plan for our Future back in 2014

[@fokkenhotz1]

Wow, we found biology in space? that's good enuf proof for me that we are not alone or we already contaminated space.

[@zapfanzapfan]

SLS will fly in 2017? Yeah, that happened... 2021 maybe, if ever...

[@aineshgodse4568]

Update: not yet. Date pushed back to summer 2022.

[@zapfanzapfan]

@@aineshgodse4568 Now summer 2022, at least it has visited the launch pad...

[@ph11p3540]

This is a colossal gamble but even if we lose out in the initial main mission, there will be hundreds if not thousands of spinoff tech, and policies that will benefit man kind. Apollo Space Program, Space Shuttle, ISS, Hubble, Fermilabs Tevatron, and CERNs large hadron super collider, all gave us untold numbers of spinoffs. The spinoffs are so compelling, that billionaires are now wagering billions of their money on their own private space programs and corporations. Can't wait for when the International Thermal Nuclear Energy Research reactor and SpaceX Starship start going to work and we reap from those programs

[@thekaxmax]

Newmann Space have an ion drive being tested on the ISS that runs on metals. So it can use recycled satellites.

[@zippy3711]

It's not gonna happen that soon !

[@stevelenores5637]

Can't believe he thinks "separate but equal" was part of culture 25 years ago. Brown vs Board of Education ended that horrible practice in 1954 (seventy years before this video was posted). He probably is ignorant of the meaning of that incendiary and insensitive phrase.

[@nickbreen287]

She got the STEM meaning wrong......

[@iliasasdf]

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.

[@HansDunkelberg1]

The Moon shown from 10:17 is much too big, as compared with the Earth beside it. It only should be 1 / 3.67 of the diameter of Earth (the two bodies being 12,742 and 3,475 km across), instead of about a half.

[@user-ib4to3ii7v]

Thumbs up if you're reading this comment being on Mars

[@tahanlaoboy]

The U.S government have the aircraft that can travel to Mars within 15 hours or less

[@SpontaneousWhale]

No, no they don't....

[@Baerchenization]

Aircraft don't travel through space.

[@thekaxmax]

Aire Lao and a good portion of the speed of light? Please.

[@alangarland8571]

It's worse than that. the US govt have hidden cameras and microphones in your fridge.

[@hiddensquid42069]

First

[@Ketobbey]

at what?

[@JZ-gr1tz]

Why don’t try first path to. Your bank act or App and deposit a sum over 7 millions for all harm vsabotaged to self my own

[@jpenneymrcoin6851]

Wow. Don't say "separate but equal".

[@-fuk57]

No. Your answer is no.

[@BlahVideosBlahBlah]

This talk hasn't aged well. Russia is talking about taking their ISS toys and going home. SLS hasn't had its 2017 flight yet and maybe won't until 2023. The UK is reeling from their self-inflicted economic wounds, while the EU is ramping up defense budgets, so it's anyone's guess how much money Europe will have for Mars in the near future. There are currently some definite bright spots in the push to colonize Mars, but none of them were mentioned or predicted in this video.

[@JZ-gr1tz]

Non of them has even pass thu Phoenix Mointains or utah Oregon and chow like a joke talking about “ Mars “ 😂

[@Stephen-wb3wf]

19:38 It seems like he really wanted a laugh from the room on his seperate but equal line, then he says it again with force and doesn't get a laugh again because its not funny whats he up to?

[@hendrikhendrikson2941]

Thanks! I wonder why someone takes his 5 yr old son to such lectures though...

[@MWGrossmann]

"Separate but equal?!" Out of the mouth of an American?! The mind boggles. For those unfamiliar-- 'Plessy v Ferguson'. Utterly gobsmacked.

[@pdwu2b]

The words make perfect sense in the context of his story. I fail to see why you associate them with racial segregation.

[@MWGrossmann]

@@pdwu2b The phrase itself is poison, which upsets me greatly, but word choice is the basis of good communication.

[@1855sylvio]

Fora Bolsonaro

[@willimilliw]

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.

[@philsurtees]

_"We get things to the space station using math."_ Well you clearly don't get them there using English! You mean math*S*, short for mathematic*S* - we don't leave the Earth and obtain orbit using mathematic. Oh and how's that theory about the Russians working out? His deep experience with geopolitics tells him it'll be cool. Um ... trying to divert an asteroid, right, with a rocket, right, would be like you trying to divert a cargo ship, right, but maybe we could paint one side of it white, right, and let it divert itself, right, because that would obviously be far more effective than a rocket, right. No. Wrong. Where did they get these two Nimrods from??? These are NOT the cream of the crop, people, these are the bottom of the barrel, who they had to find something for, and they were sick of them hanging around, so they shipped them off to England...