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4 Inspiration and Challenges
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... "We have to get kids excited." SOURCES OF INSPIRATION As a guide to inspiring future generations, Bell asked what inspired each of the six speakers at the forum. Stafford said that flying to the Moon was his inspiration.
From page 24...
... Nevertheless, the Apollo program has been "an incredible inspiration for everybody working at SpaceX," he said. "To have the boldness of building a device and filling it with dangerous propellants and then putting fire under it and going to the Moon -- that is an incredible thought." Bolden admitted that he initially had little interest in going into space "We invented guidance systems that didn't exist.
From page 25...
... a materials processing laboratory." One of the station's missions was to demonstrate to the private sector that money can be made in space, Bolden continued, but companies need to be willing "Somebody has to come up to take the risk that access to space with a business case that enables. "You don't make money if helps people understand that you are not willing to take a risk." there is value in going into low Ferguson pointed out that Boeing, Earth orbit." SpaceX, and other companies are developing the capability to get back and forth to low Earth orbit, but at the moment these companies have just a single customer -- the International Space Station.
From page 26...
... "We are very fortunate in that we have not had a major space weather occurrence that has knocked out satellite communications and the like, but that is a possibility. Long before we need to worry about what is the risk to a crew member flying in space, we have to have an ongoing, improving, technologically developing space weather capability to protect us here." LESSONS FROM A LIFETIME At the end of the forum, Bell asked each of the speakers for one sentence of advice.
From page 27...
... It has inspired kids. I can't wait to see what the current generation and the next generation of scientists and engineers and astronauts will do in space over the next 50 years."


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