Budget. He was asked about cuts to programs in a such as education, science and satellite servicing technology. The Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing is about one hour. The hearing will come to order. Im pleased to welcome acting administrator Robert Lightfoot to the commerce of justice and science appropriations subcommittee hearing to examine nasa fiscal year 2018 budget request. Mr. Lightfoot and i worked well together in his tenure as director of Nasa Marshall Space Flight Center in huntsville, alabama. Mr. Lightfoot, thank you for serving as nasa leader during this time of change and appreciate you joining us here today. The administration has proposed a fiscal year 2018 budget of 19. 1 billion for nasa which is a reduction of 2. 9 for the current year level. While this overall cut is lessening of agencies that have experienced in the present budget request, it still reflects a significant reduction of 561 million. His budget request attempt to navigate a challenging fisc
Budget. He was asked about cuts to programs in a such as education, science and satellite servicing technology. The Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing is about one hour. The hearing will come to order. Im pleased to welcome acting administrator Robert Lightfoot to the commerce of justice and science appropriations subcommittee hearing to examine nasa fiscal year 2018 budget request. Mr. Lightfoot and i worked well together in his tenure as director of Nasa Marshall Space Flight Center in huntsville, alabama. Mr. Lightfoot, thank you for serving as nasa leader during this time of change and appreciate you joining us here today. The administration has proposed a fiscal year 2018 budget of 19. 1 billion for nasa which is a reduction of 2. 9 for the current year level. While this overall cut is lessening of agencies that have experienced in the present budget request, it still reflects a significant reduction of 561 million. His budget request attempt to navigate a challenging fisc
About the budget and more. Jeff, in your space news budget,about the nasa you quote Richard Shelby who says the Current Administration to except where the Previous Administration left off, by projecting a lofty vision for space. Where does the budget stand in this process . Administration, in their fiscal year 2018 budget proposal, requested less than what nasa received in 2017. And it puts cuts into various of thes, including some exploration programs, science programs, and elsewhere in the agency. And what you are seeing from senator shelby and others in congress, is a reaction to those , and efforts in the Appropriations Committee to restore those cuts. Thatat are the key Areas Congress would like to see restored to the nasa budget . There are a couple of programs in nasas exploration program. A next generation, heavy lift rocket that will be used for Missions Beyond earths orbit, including mars. Another is the orion spacecraft, that will carry astronauts on those missions to the mo
I want to show you a portion of that hearing, next up on cspan, chaired by senator richard shelby, of alabama. The hearing will come to order. I am pleased to welcome acting administrator robert lightfoot, to the commerce, justice, and hearing, toommittee consider nasas 2018 fiscal year budget request. Mr. Lightfoot and i worked well together during his tenure as director of the Marshall Space Flight center in huntsville, alabama. Mr. Lightfoot, thank you for serving as nasas leader during this time of change, and i appreciate you joining us here today. The administration has proposed a fiscal year 2018 budget of 19. 1 billion, for nasa. Its a reduction of 2. 9 from the current year number. And while this overall cut is less than any other agency is going to experience in the budget request, it still reflects a significant reduction of 561 million. This budget request attempts to navigate a challenging environment, but would disrupt Ongoing Missions and delay future exploration for yea
Know weve a younger audience, thats wikipedia without the internet. Thats where he was introduced to Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity. After the short time in the navy, he began his higher educati education, excuse me, earning his bachelors of science in physics and mathematics and a miner chemistry, by the way. A masters degree in physics and ph. D. Would follow from stanford. Summing it up like that makes it sound easy. In interviews he points out the hardships and rewards for his perseverance, fueled by the drive to silence his doubters. Through that perseverance, his resume now includes eight u. S. Patents, a professorship in the physics and Space Sciences at Florida Institute of technology, being named the chief science officer for discovery communications, you might have seen him from a show called outrageous acts of science, a Research Position at mit, and most recently a position at nasa in washington, dc. His research focuses on the development of instrumentation f