Members of congress, distinguished guests colleagues from the department of defense, past and present. Members of the Vietnam Commemoration Advisory Committee the, thank you for being here today. Thank you to the organizers an commemorative partners of this important event and thousands like it across the country and the entire vietnam commemoration effort. Most importantly, thank you to the vietnam era veterans and their families who join us. You honor us with your presence. In a year of anniversaries for this years marks the 150th anniversary of the end of our civil war, the 70th anniversary of the end ever world war ii, the 65th anniversary of the start of korean war, today we gather to remember the vietnam war and to honor those who served in it. We remember the 50th anniversary of president johnsons executive order establishing the Vietnam Service ribbon and we honor our 7. 2 million living vietnam era veterans. Fair fallen comrades in arms including those still unaccounted for an
[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
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