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NASA works by science.

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O-rings, better work, amount of energy, the
thrust to lift and free ourselves from gravity,

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the mathematics involved in studying an arc
there because we want to land over there,

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all that's mathematical.

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But, science fiction is totally imaginative.

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It's the exact opposite.

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What happens if light that is bent and you
could go through the center and make it quick?

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There--all these imaginative exercises in
science fiction is merely food for the imagination

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of scientists who are actually working with
technology that is.

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Imagine sending a vehicle to take a photograph
of Pluto.

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It'll come around and take around.

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It'll move around and keep going.

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You can't do that on a motorcycle.

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I mean, you know, you set your course on a
motorcycle.

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If you don't hit your line, you're going to
fall.

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Well, take it around there.

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It's phenomenal what NASA is doing with science
that is, when you look at it, is the equal

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of science fiction.

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How are you going to make a parachute that's
going to stop a vehicle?

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It pops out and it's going to stop it.

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It's not a miracle.

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How much line do you need?

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What's your material going to be?

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How do you slow it down before the--and then
you got send a signal, and is it seven or

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nine minutes later?

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The signal--I mean it's science fiction.

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Shadows that cross in front of a star that
suggest there's a planet, and it's a big enough

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planet to be the size of the M-1--of the Earth.

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Is it possible that life exists on that planet
that's only a shadow in a telescope?

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Those are the imaginative things that NASA
are looking at that's every bit as passionately

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imaginative as science fiction.