He was joined by the nasa administrator who gave an update on nasas work in the upcoming Spacex Dragon mission. This is half an hour. To all who are gathered here today, welcome to the launch america edition of the National Space council. We are one week and one day away from when america will return american astronauts on american rockets to space. Its an extraordinarily exciting time in the life of this program. I know speak on behalf of the the United States when i express my appreciation. To you and the nasa team, my profound and humble admiration for the astronauts that we will be speaking to in a few moments. Who will be carrying American Leadership back into space from american soil next week. And i know i speak for the president when i say how grateful we are for the work of so many critical agencies. It has put into practice President Trumps vision for renewed American Leadership in space. I have the great privilege to see general hayden with us, the vice chair of the joint ch
A silent. Protest. Just take this in for one second. The streets of new york turning quiet for this moment. And they many people told us that they feel as if i holding their hands up like this its really have act of defiance is what weve been hearing from them over and over as they start chanting we want justice. Or go live for us there with protesters in new york city thank you very much lets go to mike hanna who joins us live from washington d. C. Where things also are pretty frantic there too mike protesters of again taken to the streets close to the white house are we likely to see clashes with Security Forces there in the hours ahead. Well the demonstrations been fairly peaceful up until this point there were a number of windows broken at one stage but generally the protesters have been peaceful the police and the secret service behind them have not needed to press up against them as they had to do want to cations during the demonstrations friday but one notable fact is that in th
Question. Start off with the administrator, everybody seems to be on the same page about the importance of cooperation. What do those words get transformed to the concrete actions like an extension of the iga, Bilateral Agreements or something firm and finding against the various agencies working together. I try to answered what you are staying. You are asking very general. All of these agencies over here, they are already activities going on in cooperation. Not only the International Space station but also other programs, agreements. If you asked concretely this is another question. For that we are looking our meeting already since now, two or three years at least. This is more important than that just the agreement. The agreement has to follow up i hope. Scenic thats right, it starts with those of us up here working together to come up with a concept that we think it would work. It ultimately ends with those taking it back to the Political Leadership of our countries are our organiza
Theyre going to be talking about International Cooperation in space. So youre asking it in very general terms and, of course, with all these agencies oef here, there are already activities going on in cooperation not only on the International Space station but also in other programs so there are bilateral and multilateral agreements. If you ask concretely about gateway, this is another question. And for that, we are looking we are meeting already since now, since two, three years, at least, working on it, and this is more important than just the agreements. The agreements is something which has to follow us, i hope. Jim . Thats right. So, you know, it starts with those of us up here working together to come up with the concepts that we think would work and then it ultimately ends with us taking it back to the Political Leadership of our countries or our organizations. The European Space agency, for example, has to go to its ministerial. Nasa has to go to the United States congress. And
Ok. Welcome, everybody. Thank you for being here. You heard the statements already, so the floor is yours and you can ask all of the questions you want. Please, raise your hand and tell , andur name and your media if you have a specific speaker he would like to answer your question. Thank you. I would like to start with administrator bridenstine. Everyone talks about the importance of exploration but words get transformed into concrete action like an extension of the iga, bilateral agreements, or something binding that gets the various agencies working together. I try to enter what your asking for. You are asking, in general terms, and with all of these agencies, there are already activities going on in corporations, not only in the International Space station, but also in other programs of the bilateral and multilateral agreements. If you ask concretely about the gateway, this is another question for. That we are looking for is more for this to be more important. The agreement has to