Mister donovan, before we get to july 1969, started 1957, what was the effect of sputnik on this country . Guest the first artificial satellite created a sensation in this country. We went crazy. Somehow they out science us. Started wondering what was next . Bombs coming down . Nuclear bombs . Space stations with Nuclear Missiles . And of course it created nasa a year later. Had to respond somehow at the height of the cold war. A lot of people now dont understand how tense everything was. A lot of people thought world war iii was starting. Host did the fact that sputnik happened, did we have a Space Program at all at that point . Guest space might be stretching it. We had a satellite program. You heard of werner von braun, the nazi in charge of the program in germany. We scooped him up and lots of other scientists and engineers under the auspices of a topsecret program called operation paperclip. He was in charge of one of the programs, air force, navy, army had their own programs for
There he much in equity inclusion, accessibility, and we take that on as a great badge of honor to establish expert training to ensure that our staff is able to work with people who have any type of learning disabilities or any type of challenges. If you see there is a need we are not meeting, let us know because we always want to improve. Welcome today to our first panel discussion. [applause] i spent over 20 years of my industry,nasa and the and i tell you, ive been around a lot of folks, and around Flight Controllers and directors over the last 40 years that ive this has been a fantastic experience for me. Gentlemen, theyre planning discussions like this or have been a part of the Mission Control that have been restored as a National Historic landmark where they actually have the missions. Through shuttle, but also included the Lunar Landing for apollo 11 and many other great spaceflights. If you have not gotten your tickets for that, hopefully you will today. They will go quick and
And engineers discuss the design and development of the lunar module and how it operated during the apollo 11 moon landing. This panel was part of an event hosted by Space Center Houston to mark apollo 11s anniversary. And happy Lunar Landing day. [applause] its great to have you all here. I am the chief operating officer here at the Space Center Houston. We are a smithsonian affiliate. Worlds First Certified Autism Center as a science center. We believe very much in equity, inclusion, accessibility, and we take that honesty great badge of honor that our staff has had extra training to ensure that our staff is able to work with people who have any type of learning disability or challenge or anything like that. If you see that there is a needed that we are not meeting, please let us know because we always want to improve. Welcome today for our first panel discussion. [applause] i spent 20 years of my life nows the end of the industry. I have been around a lot of. Olks this is been a fan
In the house of representatives, a lot going on today. If you want to find out more about the activity, go to our website at cspan. Org. We now take you to the house. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] rage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , july 17, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the ouse of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders fo
Our August Mitchell institute forum. Today our subject is the next Generation Air dominance. For those of you i havent met, im the dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Power studies. We are plead we are pleased to have the president of the air force association, general bruce right, amongst a set of distinguished visitors to include general mike low, force former vice chair of air force staff. We have an expert panel to discuss this topic. Say again . [laughter] [inaudible] they are all youngsters, sir. Forlanned this Panel Feedback and discussion. I will offer remarks to set the stage for the discussion. Ability tority, the deny enemy forces access to key portions of the sky, is today a bedrock mission for the department of defense. Everybody over there and each one of the services, understands that the viability of soldiers and marines on the ground, ships at sea, space and cyber installations, logistics lines and command and control facilities are fundamentally dependent on