[inaudible conversations] the committee on space will come to order and without objection the chair is authorized tour declare a recess at any time. Welcome to todays hearing entitle the International Space station addressing operational challenges you have the written testimony biographies and truth and testimony disclosure for todays with this is part or recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Good morning welcome to our hearing today and i want to thank our witnesses for taking time to appear before the committee. Since 2013 the program has experienced a number of challenges we have thank committed to identifying challenges to address them and reach our goal and Justin Lehigh commitment. At the iss have had water leaks third three times with one during a spacewalk. April 26 an unmanned russian vehicle damage stave reflector while docking with the. Host team per could generate 14, a false alarm of the ammonia leak caused the crew to retreat into the russian segmen
Competition for available crude time and heavy demand for Key Facilities to limit the amount and type of experiment that can come to iss the crouton is already allocated at 100 to redress the challenge now is dependent on commercial crew providers who promised the capabilities as planned. With these capabilities nasa can had a crew member to devote most of the time to research to double the research time. However many technical challenges than the ability to fund the program could delay the efforts. Finally even if they can navigate the challenges challenges, demonstrating a return on investment is difficult and scientific research. In the short term it is essential that the continued to make progress to achieve the goal of the increased role and we reported that nasa could do more to define and assess on progress and for example, by assigning a measurable targets to the annual performance the tricks. They concurred and agreed to take action and respondent in conclusion it will likely
Nasa peerreviewed research is needed. You asked about critical areas of research. The life and physical sciences survey which was completed in 2011 at Congress Request summarized the sequence 6 summarized an sequenced 65 high priority tasks. Furthermore, the study created two research plans. One with the goal of building a Research Enterprise and the other with a goal of a Human Mission to mars. More about those goals in a moment. You asked about priorities. Prioritizing i. S. S. Research isnt a new concept. In fact, we been working on that problem for close to 15 years. But the key question for prioritization isnt scientific. Its programmatic. It is Something Like this. Shall Discovery Research or fundamental research or Translational Research take precedence in the mature years of the i. S. S. Program . The answer to that question has to be provided by government. Once those programmatic priorities are sequenced can we prioritize the research . Absolutely. The l. P. S. Survey provide
The Extremist Group Islamic State. You can talk about how you is nk the fight against isis going, give call it a republican or democrat line you can also cut up with us in all your favourite social media like twitter, facebook or emails. Monday morning to you. He talked about this new us Troop Deployment. What hasnt changed is our troops are not engaged in combat. Taking for we are Training Centres with Coalition Members. It will allow us to bring in iraqi recruits. Given them proper training, proper equipment and happening with logistics. Close air ovide support , once they close in on what will not do is have our troops fighting. Always knock back any threat. Then when we leave that threat comes back. Shall we respect more troops will be needed . As commanderinchief. I will never say never. Fewer actually see troops over time because now we seek Coalition Members joining us. There was the interview that aired yesterday. The president authorised those 1500 new us troops, doubling us f
202 5853880 for democrats. Independents. For you can let us know on our social media pages. You can send this email, too. The New York Times highlights the use of airs trikes as a possibility. Michael gordon and helen cooper writing. Should the Obama Administration go forward with airstrikes, the unstable situation in iraq would require the aircraft to be based in neighboring countries. Armed drones could be based in the region or possibly in kurdistan. If the Obama Administration wanted to use air power to influence battles closer to baghdad where insurgents are operating your civilians, the strikes would be most effective if the United States deployed small teams of special forces or s. Telligence agent identifie it isng iraq highlighted in the m on the map. Highlighting the fact that drone strikes against militant likely re more are already two armed with tomahawk missiles in the persian gulf. Would you support it . For republicans. 202 5853880 for democrats. 202 5853882 for indepen