Going To Mars with NASA director Laurie Leshin

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As the private space industry races to colonize space for profit, where does NASA fit in to the equation?

Laurie Leshin is just the person to answer that question. She's the Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the first female director in JPL's storied history. To her, NASA's future is defined by its mission — exploring the cosmos for the greater good of humankind.

Laurie and I discuss the role of Space X and Blue Origin in the new space age and why NASA should set its sights on Mars, and flying to even deeper space beyond.

This...is A Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	If you had a few thousand scientists working for you to figure out how to help humanity,
0:04.8	what would you do? Stay tuned.
0:08.4	The Black Information Network and six-time Emmy-nominated news anchor Vanessa Tyler welcome you to Blackland.
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0:19.6	From stories about salvation and loss.
0:22.1	They did not love themselves enough to know their
0:25.1	HIV status to not pass it on to me. To dreams achieved or still yet
0:29.6	unfulfilled from people who have made it. We started a hospital-based violence intervention program
0:34.4	called the Ivy Project, and it stands for interrupting violence
0:37.5	and using young adults.
0:38.7	To those who have been left behind.
0:40.6	But no one talks about the survivors of the gun violence and the number is
0:44.9	rising because the gun violence has risen. Politically, financially, emotionally,
0:50.5	spiritually. This is where we are.
0:53.0	This is Black Land.
0:55.0	And one of the things that my father said to me before he passed away,
0:58.0	it's almost like a prophecy.
1:00.0	He said that I would be helping men.
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1:07.8	For as long as I can remember,
1:11.8	I've been fascinated by the depths of human potential and the incredible things that humans can do.
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