Our part to reach out beyond our comfort zone, listen to others, lower the temperature, and find some common ground. Next nasa straight oher jim, testifies on changes at the agency due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Ziverbs is it would be helpful if the administrator would highlight how nasa is implements Lessons Learned from commercial crew development. In november of last year this committee passed the nasa authorization act demonstrating strong support. Legislation strongly supported nasas key science priorities, aeronautics research, plan terry exploration, and other initiatives. Today the administrator can provide an update on these missions and describe any major impacts on cost, schedule or operations caused by the pandemic. Nascar plays an Important Role in americas whole of government approach to securing the space do name. Great power competition in space is a reality. Chinas space ambitions are wellknown and the communist party has devoted resou
And getting there isnt even that expensive, at least not compared with the early days of manned space flight. Nasa is Apollo Missions of the 960. 00 s. Cost nearly 330000000. 00 euros, a shot of space x. Round trip cost. 43000000. 00, the economic boom in space is after opic today. Here on made the business magazine on t. W. Now long before space was recognized as a higher dimension for investors, people saw the universe as a mysterious and often menacing realm. It was the origin of asteroids that frequently blaze across the sky and sometimes even fall to earth, causing huge destruction. Now we know that these celesio chunks of rock are incredibly rich in valuable resources that are difficult to mine here on our planet. Forward thinking, entrepreneurs are looking beyond earth because a lot of it out there. Heres chris, collar on Mining Metals in space. On the 15th, off a bridge doesnt 13. An asteroid entered earths atmosphere over russia all through it created a fireball brighter than
The global stage. And we just heard minister come qanbar also, you know, taking that line with a biden and his administration starting in january. What does that mean for the e. U. . I think the e. U. Sees that also as an opportunity because they have a huge agenda of things that have not worked with the trumpet ministration on trade on technology that are no open for agreement. Its clear that theyre 1st looking at the low hanging fruit areas in Technology Cooperation for instance, that might be easier to get. But also in trade, when the tariffs that were punitive against European Companies might simply be now abolished. And one could be green again on deeper cooperation and a joint under the joint approach. When it comes to meeting china rises specially in the area of technology. Theres so much the europeans and the americans are going to do together, and they need to better forwards for their concerts, where they can talk to each other, but also a willingness to cooperate and to an u
Morticians. Welcome to do that. You could join us. China launched a rocket today to the moon seeking to bring samples of luna rocks and dust back to the john 5 name for the ancient chinese moon goddess. Took off successfully from china. Its the 1st mission in 4 decades. And if successful, it would make china only the 3rd country to bring back samples from the moon after the u. S. And the former soviet union. And for more on this launch, im joined by mark mccall cohen, Senior Advisor for science, an exploration of the European Space agency. Marc welcome and rocks have been brought back from the moon before. What is the scientific importance of this mission . Well, as you know, the Apollo Missions and also soviet Unmanned Missions brought back rocks in the sixtys and seventys. But where the Chinese Mission is going is actually interesting. Its a much younger region of the moon than the Previous Missions have been to the top of a volcano, a very smooth, flat volcano, not a spike, but its
Cspan2. Next, nasa administrator jim bryden sign talks about future emissions and changes at the agency due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is one hour and 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order. Nd20 has been a year of challenge and triumph for Americas National space agency. Covid19 pandemic has disrupted planning and daytoday operations but nasa and its commercial partners have achieved many successful outcomes. These include longchain american astronauts to the International Space station and returning them safely to earth. And returning that launch vehicle safely to earth. Launching a perseverance rover to mars in preparing the space launch systems sls rocket and iranian crew capsule for the first deeps place but Nation Program next year. Im pleased that nasa administrator jimpl is here to provide us with an update on nasas mission and programs and the agencys plans for the future. Further progress is critical to achieving the goals of landing the