The women featured in the movie she was one of the Space Programs hidden figures, she was an engineer at the nasa special center in huntsville and alabama working for the sponsor tonights event, she worker on a team that determine the path if the rocket fell back, their work was vital for safety planning in after a successful career in technology she now teaches for the next generation of computer workers, please join me and recognizing and welcoming this marion lead johnson. applause but liz johnson tonight speaker certainly knows what its like to blaze trails and defy expectations. Throughout this year 50th and a victory celebrations of the apollo 11th mission, ive been moved by those stories that i finally find a spotlight on the inspiring woman who helped make our exploration of space possible. We were lucky to have three of them today on the panel with us tonight. A space engineer, engineer popular guy and medical researcher tactics carolyn. Each of our speakers tell us about her
At the hearing will come to order. I am pleased to welcome acting administrator Robert Lightfoot to the commerce and science appropriations subcommittee hearing to examine nasas fiscal year 2018 budget request. Mr. Lightfoot my works well together during his tenure as the director of nasas Flight Center in huntsville alabama. Mr. Lightfoot thank you for serving as nasas leader during this time of change and i appreciate you joining us here today. The administration has proposed a fiscal year 2018 budget of 19. 1 billion for nasa which is a reduction of 2. 9 from the current year level. While this overall cut is less than many other agencies that have experienced the president s budget request reflects a significant reduction of 561 million dollars. This budget request attempts to navigate a challenging fiscal environment that would disrupt Ongoing Missions and delay future explorations for years to come. There are proposals to eliminate the entire education director at using the ration
Know weve a younger audience, thats wikipedia without the internet. Thats where he was introduced to Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity. After the short time in the navy, he began his higher educati education, excuse me, earning his bachelors of science in physics and mathematics and a miner chemistry, by the way. A masters degree in physics and ph. D. Would follow from stanford. Summing it up like that makes it sound easy. In interviews he points out the hardships and rewards for his perseverance, fueled by the drive to silence his doubters. Through that perseverance, his resume now includes eight u. S. Patents, a professorship in the physics and Space Sciences at Florida Institute of technology, being named the chief science officer for discovery communications, you might have seen him from a show called outrageous acts of science, a Research Position at mit, and most recently a position at nasa in washington, dc. His research focuses on the development of instrumentation f
But in recent years, his voice has been silenced after being ousted in a coup and then jailed by his political opponents. He has just received political asylum in britain and joins us today from london. But an Army Chaplain resigns his first, post to protest the u. S. Drone program. I submitted a resignation in protest of the president. I resign because i refused to serve and support u. S. Armed drone policy, a policy of unaccountable killing. I resign because i refused to support u. S. Nuclear weapons policy, Nuclear Weapons should not be modernized or miniaturized. They should be completely eliminated. I resign because i refuse to serve as an empire chaplain. Amy we will speak with the reverend chris antal and get new revelations in the tragic case of Kalief Browder, who took his own life nearly one year ago at the age of 16 when he was locked up at Rikers Island and held for three years without trial on suspicion of stealing a backpack. A new expose by the new yorker by magazine mag
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