Unusually large. Its expected to cut across new jersey over the next several hours. More than 6,000 houses in the state have already lost electricity. U. S. President barack obama made a direct appeal to people in the hurricanes path. The most Important Message that i have for the public right now is please listen to what your state and local officials are saying. When they tell you to evacuate, you need to evacuate. 370,000 new yorkers who live close to the water have left. The wind was so strong it bent the metal on a crane at this construction site. City officials have shet down the transit system. Businesses and shops have closed. Workers are piling up sandbags in front of subway entrances and buildings. Its very important. This will stop the water from going into the subway so we wont have a flood. Irene last year didnt even look like this after it hit. Forecasters say they expect the storm will pound a wide area for several days. And with just nine days to go before the u. S. Pre
American history tv on cspan3. The house science and Space Committee held a hearing yesterday on the space launch ,ee it the space lots system helping exploration on the moon and mars. It is also planning on trips to the International Space station. Good morning. The subcommittee on space will come to order. I now recognize myself for five minutes of an Opening Statement. Exploration means expanding our reach as humans. As a civilization and as a country, the ability of our nation to explore space is a strategic imperative. Our ability to carry out the strategic never will rely to carry out the strategical endeavor will let us push beyond low earth orbit, we must finish the override capsule in order to operate in deep space. We must update our ground infrastructure to support a rejuvenated and expanded agenda. Longterm goal is laid out in the 2017 nasa transition authorization act, to extend human presence throughout the solar system. System in allch right and have strategic capabiliti
Thank you, mister chairman. Let me introduce our witnesses. First witness today is Mister William gerstenmaier, associate administrator at nasa. William gerstenmaier began his nasa career in 1977 performing Aeronautical Research and he has managed nasas human spaceflight portfolio since 2011, received a bachelors of science aeronautical engineering from Purdue University and a masters of science in Mechanical Engineering from university of toledo. Our second witness today is Sandra Sandra magnus, executive director of astronautics. In addition to her role there, Sandra Magnus is a former and nasa astronaut and prior to that worked as a practicing engineer in the aerospace industry. Sandra magnus received a degree in physics as well as a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Missouri University of science and technology. She also earned a phd from the school of material science and engineering at georgia tech and now recognize William Gerstenmaier for five minutes to present his
For humans to live on mars, including my billing like building a village on the moon is better than humans living on mars. The space corps operative in pasadena hosted this event. Thank you for being here and being interested in living in race. It is not what i do for my day job, but it is what i used to format earlier day job and it is got into this. This is why elect to talk and argue about it, and hopefully we will do a little bit of that in the gym russian. I am here to talk to you today about the man and what humanity could and perhaps should do on the moon. Normally, or about mars i will not talk very much about mars. I find it on interesting. You can ask me about that in q a. On the first chart, let me see if i can get the laser going maybe this is off. There we go. This is the earthmoon system to scale. For those of you who might want to go to a planet someday, the planet you could go to. Days, and 12e people have been there and there will be more in the future and they will no
Thanks for being here and being interested in living in space. Its not what i do for job, as you just heard, but it is what i used to do for my earlier day job and my first career and it is my first love. I love to think about it, talk about it, and argue about it, and hopefully we will do a little bit of that in the jam session, which is the purpose of it. Im here to talk to you about a topic that is not talked about a lot, the moon, and what humanity could and perhaps should do on the moon. Mars, ime hear about not going to talk much about mars at all tonight, i find it uninteresting. You can ask me about that in q a. You seefirst chart something, lets see if i can get the laser going here. Maybe its off . There we go. This is the earth moon system to scale. For those of you who might want to go to a planet someday, this is a planet you could go to. It takes three days. 2 people have been there there will be more in the future and they wont all speaking less. In fact, the ones who wi