The Mars Generation Page #12

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There's no reason for us

not to surrender to that impulse.

[Ferdowsi] The first steps on Mars

won't just be a national moment of pride,

but really a worldwide moment of pride,

and ultimately, I think, kicks off this

sense of exploration on the right foot,

of one that is

as an entirely global experience.

[deGrasse Tyson] I have good evidence

that space matters

to the hearts and minds of people.

There's something special,

I think, about the night sky

and about the universe

that lives within us.

[Nye] There are two questions

that get everybody.

The first one is: where did we come from?

Where did we all come from?

How did we get here?

And the other question is:

are we alone in the universe?

If we were to discover evidence of life,

or stranger still,

something alive on Mars today,

it would change

the course of human history

in the same way astronomy

has humbled us in the past.

The Earth is not flat.

We are not the center of it.

The Sun's the center of it.

Wait! The Sun's not the center of it.

We're just one more sun

in this galactic disc.

And we're not the only galaxy!

We're not by any means!

We're just these specks on a speck

orbiting specks in specklessness.

We're nothing.

Yet, we can understand that.

[Urban] Humans have lived

a thousand centuries so far.

This century is the first time

where suddenly going to Mars is an option.

[deGrasse Tyson] I think it's awesome that

we have an entire generation of people

who want to go to into space,

who want to go Mars,

who want to be STEM fluent.

But I can tell you that all of that

will fall on fallow soil,

if there isn't some big mission

on the other side

of that educational pipeline

where they can apply

this energy and this enthusiasm.

[Dr. Kaku] It's our duty

to breathe life and fire

into the imagination of these young people

so they will say,

"Yes! I want to become an astronaut!

I want to explore outer space!"

Because our true place is among the stars.

[chatter]

[Colin] Oh wow, we're landing.

We're landing. Guys, we're landing.

We are frickin' landing on Mars right now.

Dude, dude, dude.

We just landed.

We're on Mars.

[Abby] I hope that my generation

will be defined by Mars.

I can't think of a better thing

to be defined by!

[Jace] Somebody from my generation

will step out of the lander

and put their footprint down

in the Martian soil.

If I could contribute to that in any way,

it would be an amazing experience.

[Rachel] This date

will go down in history.

After a long 183-day journey,

six Americans have finally exited

the all-terra lander

and put their boots

in the red Martian soil.

[inspirational music plays]

The Mars Generation is...us.

[Jace] Exploration is

ingrained within our DNA.

Human beings,

they want to learn about the cosmos.

[Josh] We know so little about space.

There's so much to do

and so much to learn.

And I want to do it all.

[inspirational music continues]

[Aurora] Like, can you imagine

if there was just nothing else?

That we had found

everything there is to find?

Life would be so boring!

Let's go. Let's go to Mars.

[Raj] It's been long enough.

We need to go for it, full speed.

Because humans need to

do significant things,

because that's just how humanity is.

We gotta get off this planet

and we gotta land on Mars.

[inspirational music continues]

[calming space travel music plays]

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