Like Walter Isakson here. It is a pleasure to have someone of this h magnitude and of his knowledge and wealth ofxp experience to have someone like you here. My notes are blanking out. Walter is University Professor of history at tulane, former ceo of the aspen institute, chairman of cnn and the managing editor of time magazine. He is the author of the innovators. Kissinger, a biography, steve jobs, einstein, his life and universe. Benjamin franklin, an american life. And, of course, walter brings to life Leonardo Da Vinci for us. Without further ado walter, please. [applause] thank you, javier. Thank you all from the miami book fair. Ive been here for every book and its always a great pleasure to be in this city. [applause] one reason its great to be in miami is that like so many other cities of this world, it has now become a mixpl of very creative people with the tolerance for all sorts of people. And that was what made Leonardo Da Vinci so creative. Ive written about a lot of smart
[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
Book called the inheritance which follows a family centered in north dakota that carries a very rare genetic mutation that guarantees alzheimers disease. I am really pleased to say that with me today is lindsays father, dean, was a central figure in my book. Lindsay is speaking today, as well, about some of the experiences that her family andna she, personally, have gone through with all timers disease. When i think back to the first time i met members of the demo familyem in 2009 it really feels like im reviewing the notes that i took on someones elses life and we did not know each other and i did not know anything about usas timers disee or how widespread it is or how lethalal it is and i was just a journalist who is on an assignment in pittsburgh and i went into their hotel room and spent a couple of hours and when i came out it was like i had gone through the looking glass. I was completely blown away by their story and what they were going through and for me i would never be the s
Significant lack of cloud cover. We start out sunny. The additional cloud cover to the west makes its way here and well wind up partly sunny overall. 71 in philadelphia. Mid 60s in trenton, allentown and reading, a bit humid this morning not too bad in most spots as we look at dewpoints were in the 60s everywhere outside of cape may. So moderate humidity this morning and probably staying that way through most of the day. Heres how we roll, 72 degrees by 7 00. Noon, 83. 3 00 p. M. , 88 degrees thats the high, if there is a shower today it will be in the midday hours, but mainly in delaware and toward reading look out for that, 85 degrees by 5 00 p. M. Humidity will tick up a little bit for the eagles game tonight ill have that call for you, from accuweather, karen, tomorrow, drenching showers and thunderstorms at times, details ahead. Reporter no rain this morning, looking live outside 422 we saw a backup westbound at 23, construction was blocking a lane, they need backing up picking up