It was just a year and a half ago that the president of the United States put in his state of the Union Address that we are going to launch american astronauts on american rockets from american soil. He looked at me and said you are going to make that happen. Here we are a year and a half later. And the help of elon musk the spacex team, we have delivered. But of course, the president s agenda is just beginning, there is so much more. He turned around and recreated a moon program. He said we are going to go to the moon for a purpose, because we as a nation are going to get to mars. Agency we call nasa is excited about it. I want to tell you a quick story. Im here to introduce the president , but i have to take a moment. It was about nine years ago. The Space Shuttle atlantis landed right here for the last Space Shuttle mission in the history of the u. S. The next day, 2000 pink slips went out. Over the course of the next two years, this area went from 15,000 jobs down to 7500 jobs. Dev
The vote 11 40 eastern, a final vote around 1 30 this afternoon. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The chaplain lord god, in these difficult and challenging times, remind us that the earth belongs to you, and you have not abandoned it unite us with the understanding that you are our father, and we are all members of the human family. We pray for all who have been impacted by the pain of this us to crisis season. Use our senators to make the weak strong, the sick healthy, and the broken whole. Lord, surround those who have been shaken by anguish with your divine presence and peace. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C. , jun
That is not a good thing. So right now, we are waiting for tminus seven minutes. That will start the engine chill. Shortly after that, we will also get the fuel shut down. Listening to the spacex launch director in the background. As i mentioned, tminus seven minutes, as we start to chill, we will get into the final topping off of stage one fuel, and then the fuel load will complete. Stage one and stage two, engine chill has started. We have heard the callout. Stage one engine chill has started. Soy have got up to the crew, they have situational awareness. We mentioned the prevalves are open, now we are topping off, getting ready to finish the fuel load. Liquid load will continue until the last three minutes to two minutes of the countdown. We should hear about callout, complete coming up in about six minutes. Rp1 is that densify kerosene or rocket fuel at falcon 9 that will be used to power bob and doug today. Stage i fuel is closed up. Right on time. That callout indicates that the f
A listen. Of stealing. Great citizens of this country to a certain extent and to a large extent as warriors. There warriors we cant keep our country close we have to put our country. Warriors yes we are all of us we are soldiers and love fight in the great war against. Wages who exactly are we fighting or more importantly what exactly are we fighting for are we fighting the virus that threatens us are we fighting for the health and safety of our friends and loved ones well my friends the president answer those questions as well take it away donald i created with a lot of other very talented people and the people of our country the greatest economy in the history of the world the best numbers weve ever had the best markets i think we had 144 days of wreckage stock markets. And then one day they said we have to close our country and now its time to open it up. Yes my Friends America will be opening up soon not for the ideals of liberty and freedom definitely not for safety your health or
Of covid19, and sadly we have had 31 people pass away as a result. Currently there are 84 people that are hospitalized, and for more information, please visit datasf. Org covid19 for details. I want to just start today on a little bit of a lighter note in recognition of so many of the First Responders and Health Care Workers that are on the front lines doing the incredible work to keep us all safe. Monday was International Firefighters day, and i had an opportunity to drop off lunch to our firefighters at station 6, and just express my appreciation for their work. The firefighters and the paramedics and the people who are called to so many very challenging scenes continue to work very hard for our city during this pandemic, and we appreciate the work that they do. And as we know, in the age of social distancing, they dont have the luxury to socially distance themselves when they are trying to save someones life, and they still put their lives on the line, so i want to express my apprec