Why the Moon | Don Pettit | TEDxNaperville

Our drive for space exploration has us reaching further and further in the uncharted every day. But what if a key component for reaching the unknown is revisiting one of earths closest neighbors? Donald R. Pettit, Ph.D., a Silverton, Oregon native, holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University and a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona. Prior to becoming an astronaut, he worked as a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.

[donpettitwedestroyedtheapo]

"I'd go to the Moon in a nanosecond, but we destroyed the technology"

[MeasuredFlat]

"I would go the moon in a nanosecond, but..."

[eddiebearclaw]

genuinely not convinced this is a real human being. He actually speaks and moves like a CGI. Watching it cured me of cancer and I didn't even have cancer when I started watching.

[benevans]

Don Pettit is a genius. Nearly 70 years old, one of NASA's most experienced astronauts, a scientist through and through. And he's heading back to the Space Station in 2024.

[marcoduvall]

This guy was an astronaut? Don Pettit, famous for saying *we (NASA) no longer have the technology to get to the moon because we destroyed it*.. cough SHILL cough

[monirboujenbe]

So the moon is in our atmosphere now?
He just said the moon doesn’t have an atmosphere?? 🤣🤣🤣

[exiledvainshow]

Who else came here from Owen Benjamin's video? "Tahrrgets" 😂 Don Pettit gives off John Podesta vibes

[daviddavidsonn]

So did you manage to find the technology to go back to the moon, or I'll have to wait for the aliens to come and take me there ???

[fiat]

if only we still had the technology that we had fifty years ago

[TheTinkushal]

When you have a PhD in something that doesn't exists 😂

[yahya]

"The moon..."
ITs InTereSting/

[Dan]

I believe he's lying about all of this.

[beanlegume]

9:16 Don Pettit Admitting that rockets are pretty much balloons, haha.

[minecraftperson]

Who else thought they were watching Steve Jobs for a second 😂

[tidepoolclipper]

Basically in a nutshell; Helium 3, shortcut for rockets, and good for both tourism and scientific purposes.

Most people wouldn't live on the moon permanently, but the moon will definitely have its usages.

[sherzadhaji]

If you used your brain for a "nanosecond", you'd be able to make up your mind. For a long time, the answer to the question " Why don't you go back to the moon?" was : Why go there? We've been there and now our focus is Mars.


“I'd go to the moon in a nanosecond - the problem is that we don't have the technology to do that anymore. We used to, but we destroyed that technology and it's a painful process to build it back again.” Don Pettit

[MeasuredFlat]

A shame his company lost and/or recorded over the original tapes containing the telemetry flight data ..

[markspeed]

Now we know where all the helium is... it's being stored in Dons head

[MeasuredFlat]

And to think...there are still people out there gullible enough to believe NASA went to the moon

[Irispia]

My faith in humanity is restored reading the comments.