It was just a year and a half ago that the president of the United States put in his state of the Union Address that we are going to launch american astronauts on american rockets from american soil. He looked at me and said you are going to make that happen. Here we are a year and a half later. And the help of elon musk the spacex team, we have delivered. But of course, the president s agenda is just beginning, there is so much more. He turned around and recreated a moon program. He said we are going to go to the moon for a purpose, because we as a nation are going to get to mars. Agency we call nasa is excited about it. I want to tell you a quick story. Im here to introduce the president , but i have to take a moment. It was about nine years ago. The Space Shuttle atlantis landed right here for the last Space Shuttle mission in the history of the u. S. The next day, 2000 pink slips went out. Over the course of the next two years, this area went from 15,000 jobs down to 7500 jobs. Dev
That is not a good thing. So right now, we are waiting for tminus seven minutes. That will start the engine chill. Shortly after that, we will also get the fuel shut down. Listening to the spacex launch director in the background. As i mentioned, tminus seven minutes, as we start to chill, we will get into the final topping off of stage one fuel, and then the fuel load will complete. Stage one and stage two, engine chill has started. We have heard the callout. Stage one engine chill has started. Soy have got up to the crew, they have situational awareness. We mentioned the prevalves are open, now we are topping off, getting ready to finish the fuel load. Liquid load will continue until the last three minutes to two minutes of the countdown. We should hear about callout, complete coming up in about six minutes. Rp1 is that densify kerosene or rocket fuel at falcon 9 that will be used to power bob and doug today. Stage i fuel is closed up. Right on time. That callout indicates that the f
Secretary pompeo i want to talk about the historic work the department is doing in mounting to repatriate americans in response to the pandemic. Its in the finest traditions of what the state department has done. First, venezuela. Dont want to go into every detail. I got someone here that will here at theuestions end but i do want to set up the ramework to the pathway to democracy. It would put the elected members of the National Assembly, would nting both sides, create an acceptable council of tate to serve as Transitional Government until president and National Assembly elections can be held. Months. Within six to 12 the Transitional Government would not be able to run for elections. N those oth Nicholas Maduro and juan guido would accept the executive period. His transitional if the conditions of the framework are met, including the departure of Foreign Security being free lections and fair by international observers, then all remaining u. S. Sanctions would be lifted. We have the f
Three emergency situations, and i still have six months to fly, with the station successfully docked , the cosmonauts met with colleagues who had been flying around the world for six months already, valery korzen, Alexander Kaleri and the american jerry linnanger. On the fifth day of the flight, all six cosmonauts gathered at one table, especially since there was a reason on earth to celebrate defender of the fatherland day. By the way, the module in which the festive dinner took place is not intended for six people, a lack of oxygen quickly began to be felt, usually in such cases they light an oxygen bomb, the standard procedure is to light it, thats just what they say, in fact, they simply start a Chemical Reaction in the oxygen generator , the installations were sent to alexander. Why does something burn that shouldnt burn . Lazutkin looked at the flame and realized that they were on a space station hundreds of kilometers from the earth. They literally have nowhere to run and no one
Are echoing a similar sentiments. Some calling it cowardly, devastating, and one tweeting, new york, we are with you. That from arizona congressman, paul gosar. Earlier today, fema administrator brock long testified before a Senate Committee looking into the agencys response to hurricanes arm a and maria and puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands. Where millions remained without power and fresh water months later. The Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committees runs about one hour and a half. This hearing has come to order. On the one hand, it is nice to see senator carper acting as my Ranking Member. But the circumstances are unfortunate, to say the least. Senator mccaskills husband is in the icu. Senator mccaskill is with him in missouri. We want to send her thoughts and send them our thoughts and prayers. I just mentioned, he had a massive heart attack, i think it was an internal did did you later that may have say defibrilator that may have saved his life. There