Chris Hadfield

Any wisdom I had got tapped out long ago, but I'll do my best for Richard and Karina.

If we wait until things are perfect, then we will never get anything done.

And if we say, well, I've got to get my house 100 percent in order before I ever

do anything else well then you'll never do anything else because your house will never be 100 in order we have to recognize that imperfection is the norm um and we need to be working on the big problems the the ones that are most um life-threatening or or the ones that are important for quality of life or continuance of existence or whatever we got to work on those but

If we wait until we get those completely nailed down and perfect, then we will wither and die as a species, because we have to be doing the other things as well.

Watching my grandchildren is fascinating.

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.