Earthrise from Apollo 8.

A Climate Apollo Program

Is an Apollo Project of cooperation possible?

This was my motivation was actually during Apollo.

And Apollo was one of the greatest motivators ever.

So this is what we created for Apollo 13.

Our mobile phones are more powerful than the total Apollo space engine.

It was taken by Apollo 8 as it went around the back of the moon.

Well, actually, many studies have been done about the economic effectiveness, the economic impact of Apollo.

And it showed that for every 1 spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy.

What's also not often said about the space exploration, about the Apollo program, is the economic contribution it made.

So I showed him this, and this is actual footage that he was on. This is Apollo 15. This was his mission.

So the Apollo program paid for itself in inspiration, in engineering, achievement and, I think, in inspiring young scientists and engineers 14 times over.

Something else learned during the Apollo rescue was how to train the penguins to take fish freely from their hands, using these training boxes.

And it wouldn t be fun to talk about the space age without seeing a flag that was carried to the moon and back, on Apollo 11.

It's commercial. It can be defined as space tourism. They are also offering a trip to go on this whip around the moon, like Apollo 8 was done.

And exactly six years and three days earlier, on June 20th, 1994, a ship named the Apollo Sea sank near Dassen Island, oiling 10,000 penguins half of which died.

The first penguins to make that transition to free feeding were the ones that had a metal band on their wing from the Apollo Sea spill six years earlier.

We had a NASA consultant who was actually an astronaut, who was actually on some of the missions, of Apollo 15, and he was there to basically double check my science.

And if any of you were alert and coherent during the 1960s and we'd forgive you, if you weren't, OK you would remember this very famous picture taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts in 1968.

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And when the capsule of my balloon was introduced officially in the Air and Space Museum in Washington, together with the airplane of Charles Lindbergh, with Apollo 11, with the Wright Brothers' Flyer, with Chuck Yeager's 61, I had really a thought then.

But an initiative like the Global Apollo program will succeed only if the world s emerging powers, such as China and India, throw their weight behind it. They will have a chance to do so at the G 20 summit in Turkey in November.

Efforts to economize on energy, storing it, and generating it by clean or low carbon methods deserve priority and the sort of commitment from governments that were accorded to the Manhattan Project (which created the atomic bomb) or the Apollo moon landing.

Fortunately, by sponsoring long term, targeted initiatives, governments can stimulate more predictable demand. The Apollo program gave innovators clearly defined goals and a roadmap for getting there first put animals in orbit, then put people there, then send probes to the moon, then send people there.

And the main thing learned during the Apollo Sea rescue in '94 was that most of those penguins had died due to the unwitting use of poorly ventilated transport boxes and trucks because they just had not been prepared to deal with so many oiled penguins at once.

But that approach will not work without a coordinated strategy to reduce the cost of carbon free energy. If countries sign up to the Global Apollo Program as part of the agreement in Paris, the meeting might just mark one giant leap for mankind in the fight against climate change.

I worked on a film called Apollo 13, and when I worked on this film, I discovered something about how our brains work, and how our brains work is that, when we're sort of infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness or whatever, it changes and alters our perception of things.

Technological breakthroughs such as antibiotics and cars responded to a compelling need felt by a huge number of consumers. Government projects such as the United States Apollo program intended to put a man on the moon drove demand for more basic technologies (which are simply inventions that no one has asked for yet).

Currently, only 2 of the world s investment in research and development is allocated to clean energy at this rate, solutions to these problems are unlikely to be found anytime soon. The Global Apollo Program would double these investments and coordinate the effort to bridge the technological gaps, bringing forward the day when we could eliminate coal and other carbon intensive fuels.

LONDON In 1961, when the United States was faced with the threat of falling behind the Soviet Union in the space race, President John F. Kennedy called for a program eventually known as Project Apollo to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. The program s clearly articulated vision and the resources and effort mustered in its service ensured its success.

As representatives from 196 countries prepare to gather in Paris at the end of the year to craft an agreement to tackle global warming, it is becoming clear that we need a similar project. In early June, I joined David King, a former chief scientific adviser to the British government, former BP CEO John Browne, and several other co authors in a call for a Global Apollo Program.

Rusty Schweickart, who was an Apollo 9 astronaut, is on this. Dan Durda, my friend who made this image, works here at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, on Walnut Street. He created this image for this, and he's actually one of the astronomers who works for them. If we see an asteroid that's going to hit the Earth and we have enough time, we can hit it to move it into a better orbit. But then what we do is we launch a probe that has to weigh a ton or two.