Why Mars? We’ve Got the Answers

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🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The great adventure awaits! Mat Kaplan hosts an entertaining panel discussion at the 2018 Humans to Mars Summit in Washington DC. Eight guests provide their diverse and inspiring reasons for humans to visit the Red Planet. Bruce Betts later joins Mat to explore the Demon Star. Learn more about this week’s topic and see images here: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0516-h2m-why-mars-panel.htmlGuests include: Filmmaker Nicholas Agnew, creator of Seat 25Consultant Jeff Bingham, former NASA Associate Administrator for Legislative AffairsJim Garvin, Chief Scientist, Goddard Space Flight CenterJanet Ivey, Emmy award-winning creator of Janet’s Planet“Astronaut Abby” Abigail HarrisonKeri Kukral, Raw Science and the Raw Science Film FestivalSaralyn Mark, MD, iGiant founder and presidentArtemis Westenberg, Explore Mars president, director and co-founderLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why Mars? We've got the answers this week on planetary radio.
0:09.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society,
0:12.0	with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:16.8	If you're a space fan, people have probably asked you why it's so important that we get men and women to the red planet. Fear that question no longer.
0:26.3	Join me on stage of the 2018 Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, D.C. as eight brilliant Martians give us their diverse and inspiring responses.
0:36.9	Also known simply as H2M, the summit is the creation of Explore Mars, a non-profit with a singular goal, keeping NASA, the political
0:45.8	community industry and the general public focused on making sure there are humans standing
0:50.6	on that world by 2030. This year's summit once more attracted such
0:55.8	leaders and visionaries as Buzz Aldrin, new NASA administrator Jim
1:00.0	Bridenstein and members of, along with the scientists and engineers who are
1:05.3	forging the needed tools and knowledge.
1:08.4	But it also attracts artists, filmmakers, educators, motivators, podcast hosts, and other folks who share the dream.
1:16.1	This was the third year I had the pleasure of hosting the live webcast, all of which can
1:20.9	be enjoyed on the Explore Mars website.
1:24.0	I also moderated a couple of panels.
1:26.0	What you're about to hear is the second of those panel discussions.
1:30.0	Hello everyone, this is the last panel on the last day of the Humans to Mars Summit.
1:37.1	I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, joined by the largest panel of the three days of H2M and an amazing panel it is.
1:47.4	So we have this terrific plan for how we were going to address the subject to close out H2M called Why Mars.
1:56.2	We've got eight people, each of whom had up to three great answers for that question. And we were going to do this as sort of a lightning round well now it's going to be what would be beyond lightning I don't know hyper lightning
2:09.2	hyper lightning okay because we need to get out of here because our leaders today, Artemis and Chris, and
2:16.2	many of you have to get over to Capitol Hill.
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