The Mars Generation Page #8

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Control and Life Support System.

It is the way that astronauts breathe

and it purifies the water

on the ISS for them.

It's still at 100.

Where's ammonia?

-Somewhere.

-Yeah, ammo chips.

Mars is the next place

that we should explore,

because we've already been to the Moon

and Mars just seems like the next step.

I want to test the pasta cause

it could absorb some of the color.

[camper] That's what I'm thinking.

[Zoe] Mars has so many cool things.

Like it has water and the possibility

of old extraterrestrial life

that doesn't exist there anymore.

So it would be great to see if we could

find some answers to all of that.

-I think maybe gravel and then charcoal.

-And then ammonia and then sand.

Oh look at, look at

the color in this itself.

It doesn't actually retain

any of the water.

Right now we're filtering water.

So we have this terrible mix of water.

It's got like a pH of three.

It's not even water.

It's just like poison.

They hinted that we are going to

take this water, make our own filters,

and then drink it,

and hopefully

it's not terrible and kills us.

That'd be very much appreciated

if we don't die from it.

Water used to be delivered

in water-filled bags like this one.

But since 2010, we got a system onboard

that can purify the water real time.

We have filters

and a keg-size distiller

that, with it, we can recycle about

6,000 liters of extra water each year.

[Raj] Right now,

we're holding acidic water.

And our hopes are

that lima beans are basic

and will counteract

the acidity in this disgusting mess.

We're running it through

the lima beans three times,

and then we're gonna

test the pH afterwards.

By some miracle, the water will be

slightly more basic than we started out.

I actually care a lot about this.

I feel like clean water

is probably the most important thing ever.

Just because, at least here on Earth,

we still have over a billion people

who don't have access to clean water.

I want to say four.

That's a solid acidic of four.

We can accomplish

so much in such little time,

like landing on the Moon.

People need to understand going to Mars,

it's gonna be an expensive mission.

But the technologies

that we'll develop from that itself

will pay off all that cost

because it'll pump new technologies

and more industries into our economy.

[Abby] Most people don't realize how much

NASA has done for us and for our society.

When you look at

the lives that we live right now,

they wouldn't be possible without NASA.

[Senator Nelson] CAT scans, MRIs,

the small cameras in our iPhones.

All of this has originated

in our U.S. space program.

[Patrick] The Apollo program alone

was the reason computers

took the advances to where they are.

So if we go to Mars,

I'm sure we're gonna get tech advances

in ways that we can't even fathom.

One of the things Mars can offer us

is growth and stimulation of the economy.

[Rachel] People say "Oh, what is

the space program really doing for us?

We spend all these tax dollars

into NASA. What does it give us?"

Space travel has one of

the highest rates of return on money

that we put into it.

[Dr. Kaku] The space program

has more than paid for itself.

Telecommunications, the internet,

weather satellites,

all of it done in outer space.

In fact, if you shut down

the space program,

we would be hurled back

almost a century into the past.

Everybody in space, please listen up.

Whenever we approach

whatever that payload is,

we need to be wearing protective gear.

Make it very clear

we will wear protective gear

in the search for the payload.

I think we should go to Mars

because we can.

We can do all these things.

And it's just, I feel like

it's kind of sad that we haven't already.

Because we have developed

technologies to do things like this.

We definitely have the intelligence.

The biggest thing we're missing

is public support.

I'm gonna write down

some information for you.

If they have to do an ISS reboot...

Get a piece of paper ready.

I know people who think

that NASA was mothballed.

NASA doesn't exist anymore.

NASA's out of business.

That, in and of itself, is sad.

I think right now we should be monitoring,

cabin pressure, O2, that kind of stuff.

And I'm gonna be needing to do

med checks soon, just to see.

All right. And use all the computers

to monitor vital systems.

[Rachel] Space is always there.

Space is a constant presence.

When people ask me,

"Isn't that not really a thing anymore?

We don't go to space anymore."

I'm always taken aback.

It makes me feel like people

are losing touch with their human spirit.

Is there any information of what this

confidential payload may look like?

The information we have

is that it's experimental.

It can pretty much go anywhere,

do anything.

It is not contained and it is dangerous.

You need to protect yourselves

and be very careful.

We're on the look.

We don't have a shuttle.

We don't have any way to get to space

ourselves right now.

But I do believe that

the U.S. space system, it's still a force.

[applause]

[Obama] I know there have been

a number of questions raised

about my administration's plan

for space exploration,

and these questions come

at a time of transition.

And in order to reach the Space Station,

we will work with

a growing array of private companies

competing to make getting to space

easier and more affordable.

[Bolden] The next President of the U.S.,

they will have two American companies,

Boeing and SpaceX,

that will launch from the space coast

carrying the first-ever

commercial crew vehicles

that are gonna carry Americans

to the International Space Station.

By buying the services

of space transportation,

rather than the vehicles themselves,

we can accelerate the pace of innovations,

as companies, from young startups

to established leaders,

compete to design and build and launch

new means of carrying people

and materials out of our atmosphere.

[Bolden] We cannot do

deep space exploration,

particularly with humans,

without these partnerships.

They're carrying our astronauts

to the International Space Station.

And all of this is in preparation for,

or as a part, of the journey to Mars.

We expect new spacecraft

designed for long journeys

to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed

missions beyond the Moon into deep space.

Because exploration will once more

inspire wonder in a new generation.

[Josh] The SLS Space Launch System

is a new way for people to get to space.

[Obama]

There's a lot more of space to explore,

and a lot more to learn when we do.

The Space Launch System

is the new rocket for the agency.

It can take us to Mars.

It can take us to deep space.

[Bolden] We're gonna have the largest,

most powerful rocket ever known to man.

I don't think there is

another vehicle on the drawing board

that matches the capability that SLS has.

[Alyssa] The way NASA

is planning on getting to Mars

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