Publicprivate partnership. This is 90 minutes. The subcommittee on space and aeronautics will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess on at any time. Welcome to todays hearing entitled returning to the moon, keeping artemis on track. I would like to acknowledge i appreciate the witnesses being here today. Mother nature is proving to be somewhat challenging this week as you can see by the turnout of membership. This has been hearing thats been much anticipated by the members in a very enthusiastic way, but you have to physically get here, and that is a challenge and the subcommittee chairman is in the air somewhere between here and houston, so the moment he arrives we will have a proper chairman to preside over this process. With that, i want to recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning and welcome everyone to the science committees first hearing of 2024. Its fitting we are kicking off of the hearing on artemis given its importance to the
Places you on item number four. Approval of minutes for the march 5th regular meeting. Secretary, id like to make some opening remarks, if thats all right, before we get into minutes, i wanted to just thank everyone for being here today, and i just feel that i need to open up this meeting with an acknowledgment of the tragic events that occurred at west portal station over the weekend. Im imagining, but i dont know. But im imagining that many people are feeling anger, rage, a sense of powerlessness, hopelessness. I know that ive cycled through these feelings myself over the past 72 hours, and this happens whenever i hear of any fatalities or serious injuries on our streets. It shouldnt happen in our city or anywhere, and our hearts are with the family. I also know that when these kinds of things happen, there is a natural tendency to want to make sense of the situation very quickly by finding a villain to blame, pointing a finger and demanding action and i understand that. I think that
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There are lingering questions about how far detroit has come in a half century in addressing the issues that led to the rioting. We are here at the Detroit Free Press where it won a Pulitzer Prize for its 1967 riot coverage. Were joined by Heather Ann Thompson and Detroit Free Press page editor steve henderson. Well be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets and facebook posts. Can we start with the definitions in the sense that the events that took place 50 years ago described as a riot. I would say its absolutely not a riot. Because that term connotes chaos and it suggests that everyone just showed up and destroyed the city for no reason. It also suggested how we should understand what happened and what the impact of it was. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion. Because all of the energy and anger and activism that went into that moment had long been predicted. People had been begging for some remedy, for the housing discrimination. The Police Brutality. The eco