The Gateway to Space
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hello everyone
um my name is ahmad farid
first thing i want to ask you what is
your dream
i also want to ask you is it really your
dream
or your parents or your dads your mom’s
your family’s dream i want to go through
space story how did the space start
and where is going to end and
how is ending what they are planning to
do right now
space started 1926
with the first rocket
it was a failure it was a small idea
afterwards they came up with a it was an
american rocket
and then the the germans started as well
to
uh do the other um
liquid rocket flying to the space
uh 1944 as we see here
we’ve got the first man
trying to be there but it’s not
happening
and it never happened then the russians
the americans and then the russians
again
and then again landing on the moon
started after the sputnik that was the
first
object and space
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that’s just a story of the space itself
um it was a through a cold war
while everyone wanna say i’m stronger
i have the idea i’m
doing much better that than
than than yourself
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1969
which is coming up that was the first
man on the moon
when they came up with the idea in 1926
what they want to do in a space
they started from 1969
by having armstrong on the moon
realizing that the dream that they have
dreamed of
is becoming something becoming bigger
and from there they were just
letting the man land on the moon without
real experiment that’s really
affecting us on earth
started the space station the
international space station
started uh mir the russian
space station and they
um they did the united united together
they they became
international space station where they
have
the russians the americans
the japanese the europeans
and the canadians
they started space exploration from
nothing from a small idea
until it became really huge
small idea nobody understood why they
wanted to do that before
nobody understood why they wanted to go
to space
and why space is important to us on
earth
it became complicated became also
very uh matter of subject of people
asking now what does space
help us how is it helping us on earth
why
we need space is it just to be cool to
be an astronaut
is it just to be cool to be in a space
is just to
to get uh people starting
uh their interests changing from
the internet to the space
which i always say space is the new
internet
why am i talking about the space history
i’m going to the gateway to the moon
it’s not me i’m going to the story that
i started
for the next step that is happening
right now
in space i talked about the
international space station before which
is a cooperation between the americans
russians canadians and japanese
europeans
out of those nations they decided
they want to go deeper in space
they decided they want to get more
science they want to get more
exploration
where they have
weak knowledge and and
the deep space when they started to do
that
they are deciding 2024
which is in four years they want to
build another
space station it’s called gateway that’s
going to be orbiting the moon
while it’s orbiting the moon there are
humans
going to that space station they’ll
orbit the moon
they go from the gateway space station
to the moon
they want to build a
base on the moon they want to build
village
which called moon village
they want to build
robots they want to build
cities that taking the workers
from the ground to the moon
and from the moon to the deep space
why why they’re doing that why why
especially the moon why not mars
for example why not mars starting now
and then
starting with the moon first the moon
does have
h3 does have a material that is not on
earth
that is way more expensive on earth
than getting it from the moon that’s why
india now want to be landing on the moon
russia isa which are the europeans
americans of course at this stage they
are not the first
but they are the leaders still
and all other nations they want to land
and get more
advantages to earth from space
how’s that happening how
we’re getting advantage from space
why i’m telling the story about this
space
because three words
thoughts become things
if you think of something
you really do it dreams
without work it’s just dreams
as i asked before what is your dream and
as i asked as well
is it really your dream or this is
how your parents want you to be
my dad he wanted me to be a doctor
it wasn’t really my interest although
while i was child i just knew
that hospitals
hospital atmosphere um
doctors that’s all what i knew that’s
what my word was
but it didn’t really take my interest i
was interested into
games i wanted to play
um as a every little child but
not just playing i also wanted to
create something while i was playing i
was eight
i was eight and that’s when i started my
career
so i started my career as as when i was
eight years old it’s a joke everyone
you can laugh and
at the time when i started my my career
when i was eight i started to play with
the computer
i started to play with the programming i
i was bored of the games i was bored of
gaming i was bored of
letting my my time being waste and just
no gain after hours of gaming’s
i wanted to build a game myself i wanted
to build what is happening on the screen
i wanted to build it myself but still i
didn’t learn
how and still the idea of people
surrounding me telling me gaming
playing that’s not getting you to
anywhere
uh you gotta be you gotta be something
that people
will talk about they’re gonna be
something that is bigger than just
interested in in i.t or gaming or
networking
which practically the profiling
engineer doctor officer pilot
and an astronaut the
idea of me starting to do
what i want to do is just
been let out by my parents
they supported me for
letting me do what i really want to do
after the support i took my
way and
been selected
as ground controller spacecraft
commander
spacecraft controller for the ground
space
ground ground space station
been selected as an astronaut scientist
candidate
for possum program
um i’m the only egyptian
there at the german located at the
german space operation center
and
the the final of that
i know a person
very very close to me
recently he passed away
he had problems with his back
he had a back pain and
the spine is getting
very hard powered on the nerves
which the nerve letting
the hands not really moving in the right
direction and
as well as the legs so there were
difficulties
doing fine things while
the hands are not really doing what it
should do what it’s supposed to do
this person had to be
either operated it was an older person
or doing a physiotherapy
the physiotherapy was the option
for that person the physiotherapy
it was in a special machine
that is letting the spines
and the heads moving in certain way
that the nerves getting its freedom
again
um i always talk
with that person i always say how
how would you fix that right now and
that was the last thing to be fixed
which is
the physiotherapy the machine
it’s located in few spots on earth
they’re not everywhere he had to fly
somewhere
to use that machine
i searched the internet i was looking at
the machine
and i was saying all right let me see
where
is that machine developed and why is so
few
and why is that much expensive
and how does this help us here
i figured out that this machine been
developed
on the international space station
that’s the iss
while i was already working as a ground
controller
for the international space station for
columbus
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and
this person he was my dad
so my dad the doctor
i helped him without me being a doctor
while i did what i really wanted to do
the idea behind what i want to say
is dream big
dream what you really want to dream for
dream what you really want to do
i always say no matter where you come
from
your dream is valid
when i was your age when i was younger
when i was eight
i didn’t know where i’m going to be but
i had a dream
and no matter where you come from your
dream is valid
thank you
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