Dava Newman: 10 Questions for Dava

(whooshing) (film reel clicking) (typewriter keys clacking) - GPS.

Three GPSs.

(laughing) Backups.

(laughing) (typewriter keys clacking) Mars.

It's not too far away.

Pretty interesting.

We might find the evidence of past life.

(typewriter keys clacking) Good sense of humor, supplies, a partner.

That's the most important thing.

A boat; you need a boat, too.

(typewriter keys clacking) Oh, Magellan.

He is the epitome of the explorer.

(typewriter keys clacking) Fresh food is always great, but it only lasts a week.

So, in the second week you get more into the canned goods.

The third week is a little scarce, but you get resourceful.

I probably cooked more on our circumnavigation than I had in the previous 40 years.

(laughing) (typewriter keys clacking) I'd say Buzz Aldrin.

Jack Schmidt.

I have a whole bunch.

(laughing) (typewriter keys clacking) Well it's really important to have an iPod that's really loaded when you're sailing around the world, so Jazz, Blues, almost anything but Country and Western.

(typewriter keys clacking) No flags on the moon.

We're gonna go together.

Unless we come up with a great United Nations, you know, flag for humanity.

(typewriter keys clacking) Ah, 2001!

He got almost everything right!

As an engineering scientist, Kubrick of course.

(typewriter keys clacking) The NASA administrator said, "When you can tell that gender difference between astronauts, that's a good thing."

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