Chris Hadfield

What I've realized is evolution gave us the ability to walk

way before it gave us the ability to talk and communicate.

The necessity to go explore, to touch things, to experience things, to lick everything, to just find out about it.

That is so important for human development and human nature that that's how we evolved.

And it's only later that someone can explain to you what's happening.

And

That's going to continue and manifesting itself through all of life and the necessity to go over the next hill and to explore and to try and understand.

And the reason I'm the chair of the board of the Open Lunar Foundation is, hey, we're sending people to the moon in February, and that's the precursor to setting up the first permanent settlements on the moon.

How are we going to do it?

Let's not just transplant our current stupid geopolitical

mess and just stick it on the moon maybe this is a turning of a page where we can do better and i'm not going to say we can't go to the moon until we get earth perfect what i'm doing instead is saying we're inevitably because of human nature going to be setting up settlement on the moon so let's use every influence possible and every lesson that i can have learned possible to try and do it as well as we can at this particular time in history and to me that's that's

the most important stuff I'm doing in my life, influencing other minds, pushing the edges of technology, and trying to give us the greatest chance of doing the right thing in the days to come.

Whitney, thank you for taking the time and being so deft and skilled at juggling all the questions and prodding me to continue to talk so long.

It's been a joy talking to you.

And I hope everybody enjoys the ideas, maybe the books, all the various things.

You get one life.

I lost both my parents in the last four months and that what I took away was they lived good, long lives.

And you need to live and love every day.

It's amazing what can happen.

Thank you.