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My name is Charles Bolden, I am actually the NASA Administrator.

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When people ask me about space technologies that I think are important or things that really grip me the first thing that comes to mind for me is In-Space Propulsion.

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That’s the game changing technology that we need to make travel to Mars easier

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on the human being because we can theoretically cut the transit time, if we can cut it in half we significantly limit the risk to crews.

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The most important reason for us to delve into exploration, particularly deep space exploration is because of the technologies

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that it compels us to develop and almost always they turn out to be technologies that serendipitously answer questions of human survival here on earth.

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Now because of the work we’ve been doing in water regeneration systems on board The International Space Station in preparation for our journey to Mars,

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we can actually put some of these water purification systems out into the world.

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You probably hear me talk a lot about what I do and why I get excited about it but I’m most excited because this is your opportunity,

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we’re trying to blaze the trails so that you can do something that humanity has never done before and

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will give you something that you can one day sit down with your children and grandchildren