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I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'
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Dune
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When we go to explore, we do it as a globe.
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Explore
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People see space as a place where you go and cooperate.
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Cooperate
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My key aim is to get man on the surface of Mars by the mid-2030s.
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Aim
Mars
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We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.
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Space
Mars
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I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.
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Biased
Limits
Issue
Origins
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'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.
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Nasa
Martian
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We're going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system.
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Solar System
Bodies
Solar
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I live an hour from NASA's HQ in Washington, D.C., and sitting in a jam stresses me out.
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Jam
Nasa
Stresses
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Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.
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Communication
Issue
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It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.
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Character
Next
Beyond
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We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then.
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Humans
Mars
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The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.
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Capacity
Our Planet
Solar System
Appreciating
Solar
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I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.
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Nasa
Rocket
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To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.
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Mars
Scientists
Settle
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You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.
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Inspirational
Investing
Space Program
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As we visit Mars multiple times, we will build up infrastructure on the surface to expand the capabilities and reach of humans on Mars.
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Humans
Infrastructure
Mars
Multiple
Capabilities
Expand
Visit
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We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence.
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Exploring
Mars
Permanent
Pioneering
Presence
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Water-based life is very much an Earth-centric view, and we can push the envelope on that here in our own solar system. We have the methane seas of Titan.
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Solar System
Envelope
Seas
Solar
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Mars was this water-based planet, and we know there was stable water on the surface for a long time, which is critical for life having a chance to develop.
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Critical
Mars
Stable
Life Time Chance
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If I had an unlimited budget, I would really be probing that question of life because we know what the questions are, and we know what the destinations are.
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Probing
Unlimited
Budget
Destinations
Question
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So many people I talk to who work in technology, you ask them, 'What got you interested in science?' and those from my generation say, 'The Apollo landings.'
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Apollo
My Generation
Work Science Technology
So Many People
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When you look at Venus and the Earth, they formed at about the same place in the solar system. They're made of about the same materials; they're about the same size.
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Materials
Size
Solar System
Venus
Formed
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Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.
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Mars
Critically
Presence
Sustained
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If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly.
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Apollo
Atmosphere
Mars
Slowing
Parachute
Rapidly
Thin
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With the mission to Mars, the whole world wants to get involved. So we actually have 13 different space agencies from around the world working on the global exploration road map.
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Exploration
Agencies
Mission
Map
Road Map
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
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Busy
Sky
Sky Look Night
Star
Demonstrate
Planet
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Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.
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Space
Gravity
Mars
Missions
New World
Thrive
World Will New
Astronauts
Explore
Outward
Reduced
Require
Survive
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A lot of my role is advocacy, and as a scientist, you're an advocate, too, because you are coming up with a theory and having to convince your fellow scientists that you're right.
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Advocacy
Convince
Scientist
Theory
Fellow
Role
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One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals.
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Accomplish
Big Things
Expensive
Exploration
Space Exploration
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I grew up in this business... A lot of my life has been centered around this question about how NASA is helping us to understand our own home planet... and to understand our place in the universe.
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Helping
Nasa
Centered
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Every time I give a talk, I ask the audience - especially if it's kids - how many want to go to Mars. At least half raise their hands. I don't think there's going to be any shortage of volunteers.
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Mars
Shortage
Raise
Volunteers
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We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of doable, affordable steps? How can we break that problem down into chunks in order to keep making progress?'
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Affordable
Chunks
Humans
Mars
Steps
Sending
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What we expect to find, certainly in our own solar system, are probably simple single or multiple-cell forms of life. To get to intelligent life takes stability of conditions over huge, long periods of time.
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Conditions
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Periods
Solar System
Stability
Life Time Long
Life Time Simple
Forms
Long Periods
Solar
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To avoid congestion, I get up at 5:10, grab a slice of raisin toast, and leave the house at 6 A.M. My husband, Tim Dunn, who works for an environmental agency, is still asleep when I slip out, and I find that rather annoying.
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Environmental
Agency
Annoying
Congestion
Husband
Asleep
Avoid
Works
Leave
Grab
Raisin
Slice
Tim
Toast
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Instead of being able to look at smaller interesting research projects, I am trying to see the links between all the research NASA does. For me, that's extremely fun because I get to go play and learn about areas of science that I know nothing about.
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Links
Nasa
Smaller
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Prior to Magellan, due to the fact that we knew it was so hot on Venus, we thought that the rocks at the surface would behave more plastically, more like Silly Putty than like solid rock in the way that we think of it, like the rocks that I'm sitting on.
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Behave
Rocks
Silly
Venus
Due
Solid
Prior
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Humans can actually read a landscape, go through a lot of rocks - crack them open, throw them, pick up the next one. Rovers are great - they do amazing science - but it is a lot more tedious process; they go much less far than a human can cover in a day.
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Humans
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Rocks
Cover
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We actually look to the scientific community to kind of come back to NASA and tell us what the priorities should be. And then at NASA, we try to look within our budget and say, 'What can we accommodate, and what are the most important things for the nation?'
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Accommodate
Important Things
Nasa
Priorities
Budget
Scientific
The Most Important
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As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.
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All Time
Armstrong
Australian
Comedy
Moon
Nasa
Scientist
Surface
Love Space Movies
Favorite
Chief
Star
Wars
Dish
Neil
Onto
Star Trek
Trek
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As chief scientist, it's sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable... to looking back at the Earth - how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity?
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Bridges
Connections
Looking Back
Planets
Affect
Chief
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I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study.
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Disease
Humans
Ill
Patient
Progression
Sick
Doctor
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