Or around there was always a margin. A margin of space if i may say between the official position of the of any state as well opposition as a resistance this fortune or 5. Recently has has been. Diminished or has. Become smaller hezbollah and its allies now hold political power in lebanon its opponents accuse it of doing irans bidding in the proxy war with israel. The months long war in 2006 was sparked by a cross border raid in which hezbollah killed and captured Israeli Soldiers there is now the possibility of a new confrontation hezbollah says it will not reveal details of its planned retaliation and its timings but there are those who believe it will likely be a calculator. Response in order to avoid all out war. Israels response is not guaranteed back in 2006 the lebanese government disavowed itself from hezbollah today it is a different dynamic and israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning the lebanese state it will be held responsible for hezbollahs actions. Beirut an
Undersecretary of state for Economic Growth, energy and the environment, keith cross. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and space administration, jim bridenstine. Chairman. Joint chiefs of staff, general jose joseph dunser. Acting secretary, matthew donovan. Acting deputy of homeland security, david bokosski. Acting intelligence director, joseph mcguire. Acting director of office of management and budget, russ volk. Secretary of commerce wilbur ross. The director of the national air and space museum dr. Ellen stofan. Stofan. Its an honor to welcome the National Space council back to the museum to continue the work of mapping the future of American Space exploration, surrounded here by icons of our nations highest, proudest achievements in space. The council is ensuring our future achievements are fully empowered by the past achievements, the things you will be discussing today will one day be enshrined in this museum and dont forget about us, we need hardware. Last month at our
Center for strategic and international studies. We really appreciate everyone coming out on this gorgeous thursday before labor day. I think this is a really important topic and really important report that we are putting out right now. I appreciate all of you taking the time out to do this. Before i give a brief summary of the report, which i hope all or most of you were able to get, it will be posted online by the way right after this event. I wanted to say a couple of thank yous. First is to the Ford Foundation that we are just completing our second year of funding with the Ford Foundation. They have been a great partner with us. Thank you to the Ford Foundation for believing in us, slightly nontraditional partner for them on this. I want to thank my coauthor, Carmen Garcia gallego who is currently in laos, working for unicef. If you are watching online, hello, carmen. And then i want to thank our panelists, who i will introduce in a minute. This is an issue that has come onto mine
This storm looks like it could be a very, very big one indeed. And mike will be going. I have just spoken to president duda of poland and expressed him my warmest wishes. And the wishes of the american people. Our highest priority is the safety and security of the people in the path of the hurricane. And i will be rescheduling my trip to poland in the near future. We are gathered here in the rose garden to establish the United States Space Command. Its a big deal. As the newest combatant command, spacecom will defend americas vital interest in space, the next war fighting domain. And i think that is pretty obvious to everybody. It is all about space. We are joined by Vice President mike pence, secretary of defense dr. Mark esper, acting director of national intelligence, joe maguire, acting secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy, acting secretary of the air force, matt donovan, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general joseph dunford, and congressman mike turner. We are especially g
Moon, preparations for trips to mars, and for using Nuclear Powered rockets to get there. The u. S. Space command will officially be up and running by the end of this month. Surrounded hereby icons of our nations highest, proudest achievements in space. Ourcouncil is ensuring future achievements are empowered by the past achievements. The things that you will be discussing today will one day be enshrined in this museum. Dont forget about us, we need hardware. Last month that our museum in washington, at the unveiling of Neil Armstrongs apollo 11 ship, Vice President pence spoke about the renewed commitment to human spaceflight. And at the National Air Space museum, we see evidence of that commitment every day. Countless children have stood in this very spot and marveled up at the Space Shuttle discovery, parents,ed to their grandparents or teachers to ask how something so big could fly so high. Our museum is where the country comes to understand its heritage of adventure and discovery,