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hi my name is alan ladwig head of public

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outreach at nasa

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you might be wondering why are nasa and

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lego here together well let me tell you

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about our really cool partnership you

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see both nasa and lego value excellence

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creativity learning and teamwork by

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combining the wonders of space

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exploration with those fabulous lego

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bricks we intend to do projects together

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to inspire kids of all ages and yes even

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you older kids and bring those values

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through innovative activities and

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projects but before you jump into those

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lego bricks and start launching your

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ideas let me tell you about the lego

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bricks that are now up in orbit yep

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that's right in may the space shuttle

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endeavor transported lego kits to the

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international space station to be

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assembled by the astronauts

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children and student groups around the

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world will be able to see how they did

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it and how different it is to assemble

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the same ones here on earth

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maybe assembling these in microgravity

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is a little more challenging but check

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for more information

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but wait there's more are you here to

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see the last space shuttle launch well

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that's great but what's next for the

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space program

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nasa is not ending human space flight we

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are recommitting ourselves to it to

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ensure america's leadership and human

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space flight for years to come

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in addition to sporting the

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international space station we'll

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continue to conduct world-class science

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missions to observe and understand our

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home planet we'll send robotics

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spacecraft to other planets such as mars

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travel through the solar system and peer

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even deeper into the universe we'll

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advance aeronautics research so we can

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fly safer quieter more fuel efficient

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airplanes

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we'll pursue two critical building

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blocks for future human exploration the

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orion crew vehicle and the heavy lift

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rocket to let us send astronauts on long

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journeys into deep space hey maybe

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you'll build one of those for us today

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we will also promote the commercial

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space industry to provide transportation

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and services not only the space station

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but to low earth orbit

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in the meantime we can't wait to see

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what your creativity and imagination

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will design for us today so get ready

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learn while you have fun and inspire us

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on how you envision the future of space

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change is inevitable as much as people

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don't like change it's the only thing

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that's constant in our lives

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we have to transition from shuttle uh to

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a new future which we're going to define

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for the first time in my career

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working on vehicles

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that will leave low earth orbit again

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we're looking at a vehicle that can

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eventually carry a 130 metric tons or so

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to low earth orbit that's a pretty big

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rocket it's on the order of what we had

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back in the saturn program the heavy

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lift vehicle allows us to put large

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masses in space that are required to go

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to these destinations outside of low

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earth orbit and then we'll have this

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capsule that'll go along with this for

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the for the trip to where we're going

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and it's based off of the orion capsule

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that we were working on before

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it seats about four crew members and

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that's the basic capsule that will go

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out into space and in this capital will

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serve as a re-entry vehicle back into

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the earth when we come home

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anything that we do in terms of space

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exploration is worth the expense

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because it gives us an opportunity to

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explore and to investigate and to

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experiment on things that we just have

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no way to fathom

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here on earth when you put things in the

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microgravity environment you take them

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away from gravity

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you learn a lot of different things what

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we're doing is we're investing in a

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broad portfolio

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of technologies some of those

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technologies are risky some of them will

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pan out others will not

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but in the end we'll have the

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technological capabilities to go to

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places and to explore

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both with robots and humans that we

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can't do today what we've done is we

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built kind of just a basic path or a

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basic architecture of all the

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destinations we could go and now we're

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starting to define all the capabilities

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to go to those destinations this is

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called a flexible path because

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with these capabilities we'll be able to

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go to multiple destinations such as back

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to the moon to near-earth objects to to

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mars and its moons and to lagrange

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points

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these are all places that we can

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feasibly go to with people in the in the

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foreseeable future we are an exploring

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species nasa is leading that exploration

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effort for humankind as we go forward

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can we do this absolutely is it going to

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be a challenge you bet it is but i know

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that this team is capable of making it

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happen not only happen but happen in a

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superb way that sets the standard for

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everyone else i look forward to the days

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ahead when when we actually do

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send people out to these places to touch

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them

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and

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we don't even have a clue of future that

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allows us to explore beyond our home

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planet to seek our destiny to to learn

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what we couldn't possibly learn if we