Pete Worden F.O.S. Interview

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Today's guest is Breakthrough Starshot Executive Director, Chairman at Breakthrough Prize Foundation, and former Director of NASA Ames Research Center, Pete Worden. Pete is a recognized expert on space and science issues and has been a leader in building partnerships between governments and the private sector internationally. Dr. Worden has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific papers in astrophysics and space sciences. He served as a scientific co-investigator for three NASA space science missions – most recently the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph launched in 2013 to study the Sun. He received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal for the 1994 Clementine Mission to the moon. Dr. Worden was named the 2009 Federal Laboratory Consortium ‘Laboratory Director of the Year’ and is the recipient of the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Innovator’s Award.

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• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:54 3 words to describe Space: INFINITE. ETERNAL. ADVENTURE
• 01:13 Would you go to the moon? To Mars?
• 01:31 What is the nature/human story of going to Space?
• 03:37 Life doesn't want to stay only on one planet
• 05:30 Rising above the unpredictability of nature
• 07:42 Your journey to the world of Space
• 11:30 NASA to Breakthrough Foundation
• 16:53 How did Life begin? Breakthrough Discuss
• 20:15 Finding Life in the Universe
• 23:15 Moving forward by creating endless disruptions
• 28:33 Life on Venus
• 30:18 The human species is Life
• 34:50 Going to space will be the best thing for the Earth
• 38:22 Luxembourg - Space
• 42:16 What is coming up for Breakthrough Initiative and Luxembourg
• 43:50 Conclusion