Publicprivate partnership. This is 90 minutes. The subcommittee on space and aeronautics will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess on at any time. Welcome to todays hearing entitled returning to the moon, keeping artemis on track. I would like to acknowledge i appreciate the witnesses being here today. Mother nature is proving to be somewhat challenging this week as you can see by the turnout of membership. This has been hearing thats been much anticipated by the members in a very enthusiastic way, but you have to physically get here, and that is a challenge and the subcommittee chairman is in the air somewhere between here and houston, so the moment he arrives we will have a proper chairman to preside over this process. With that, i want to recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning and welcome everyone to the science committees first hearing of 2024. Its fitting we are kicking off of the hearing on artemis given its importance to the
Boosters ignition. And lift off of artemis one. We rise together, back to the moon and beyond. Roaring off launch pad 49 be at the Kennedy Space center, the next chapter in americas love affair with all things space. And is on the core stage into Solid Rocket Boosters now prevailing the vehicle at 128 miles per hour. Nasas artemis rocket, the most Powerful Ebel built headed for a multi day crew orbit around the moon. A test flight before astronauts climb into the orion spaceship and head for a lunar landing, perhaps within 2 to 5 years. Flanked with two booster rockets, artemis looks like apollo on steroids. 15 more powerful than the Monster Center five rockets that carried apollo astronauts to the moon. There is a lot out there to explore, and this is the next beginning. And this is the artemis generation. Artemis is all about asserting americas leadership of space, building a lunar base, and orbiting lunar Space Station. Then, in the late 2030s, a Mission To Mars. The moon is a few d
the status by queen victoria. good afternoon. nasa is to launch a new era of moon exploration. later today the most powerful rocket it s ever built will blast off from the kennedy space center in florida. the artemis test flight will orbit the moon and it s hoped will help pave the way for a crewed mission to the lunar surface in three years. our science editor, rebecca morelle reports. it s almost time. standing on launch pad 39b, the same one used by the apollo missions, the most powerful rocket nasa has ever built is ready for liftoff. the rocket is simply enormous. and it s only when you re standing here that you really get a sense of its size. and this is the last chance we ll see it up close. the launch pad is closing and fuelling is about to begin. because in just a few hours time, this will be blasting off. the first step in our return to the moon for 50 years. we talk about moonshots as things that humans can do when we put our differences aside and we focus on the
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