Long as they are present in the hearings to be counted and members are responsible for your own microphone so please keep your microphones muted unless you are speaking. Finally, if they wish to submit documents for the record, please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing and thank you all for joining us. So good morning everyone and welcome to todays remote hearing on our support healthy air travel, to support healthy air travel in the covid19 era and beyond. I like to welcome our witnesses and thank you all for being here. Marshall air travel is an essential part of the fabric of our society and economy. It employs a Critical Role in business, commerce, education, travel and tourism. We take for granted that we can now easily travel vast distances by air and reach destinations that were once reserved for imagination. And just over a century, air travel moved from our imagination to a reality that has changed the way we interact with
A couple of notes for you, please silence your cell phones as always. Also, if youd like to ask the question this evening, right over here in front of the wisconsin book festival banner there is a microphone, we are joined across the nation on cspan booktv today so please ask your question from the microphone. Also as a special treat, artist will santino is here and will be graphic recording throughout the event. Writing down things they discussed, questions we ask and then his piece of art will be on display after stop here is Angela Batista from a [applause] abi want to give a big thank you to Madison Public Library, the Madison Public Library foundation and all our amazing sponsors for making this whole thing possible. Thank you. And thank you for coming out to the wisconsin book festival to hear adam rippon talk about his new book beautiful on the outside i dont think he needs an intro, everybody in this room probably knows him. If you dont, get a tv. [laughter] check your internet
Again. Well, apparently. The main thing is intrigue this and even in recent days is allowed. We can assume that the meeting between Vladimir Putin and kim jongun will take place precisely at the vostochnaya cosmodrome. Judging by the National Flag that is hung around in the amur region, of course, by the presence of personal photos and body cameramen of the north korean leader. And , of course, upon Vladimir Putins arrival at the east and the first meeting, which he has already held, although this is not yet a meeting with the north korean leader. This is a meeting with maria andreeva, a ninthgrader from rostovondon, that is, i was the most participant in the conversation about important things that the russian leader held on september 1 in the moscow region. The guys, im sure, will like it very much. Thank you, but they insert it to launch rockets. More precisely, this used to be the case, but now they were all cars. And look, we are now about to visit kim jongun, i remind you that he
The National Book festival Live Saturday starting at 10 a. M. Eastern on cspan2s booktv. Next, scientists predict some of the technological and a bimetal changes that may occur over the next century such as Artificial Intelligence, brain augmentation, Climate Change, the future spaceflight at the potential for extraterrestrial life. University of colorado posted this event. Hello. All right, so the first thing ive only done this to my son, i mess it up. You cast or not the queen of technology. You guys have cell phone, turn it off. No cell phones ring, no lights flashing. Here we go. Phones off. You know how i am about phones. All right. He we go. So the topic today is my in the 22nd century, and you know im an engineer. Theres a phone on back to turn off the light or a computer or something. Thank you. When people talk about the future of the 22nd century on sort of like i go into a engineer mode and go well, what are you going to back cosmic rays when you fly to outer space and what
He we go. So the topic today is my in the 22nd century, and you know im an engineer. Theres a phone on back to turn off the light or a computer or something. Thank you. When people talk about the future of the 22nd century on sort of like i go into a engineer mode and go well, what are you going to back cosmic rays when you fly to outer space and what he going to do about the time problem . Im kind of a wet blanket. But these three panelists are very wellqualified with actual facts to talk about the 22nd century and what we might anticipate. So our three speakers, going to induce an indie order adequately speak and the new get ten to 15 minutes and if they talk too long, i cut them off. So our first speaker is David Grinspoon whos in astrobiologist which is super cool. Its like you do, biology space. Very weird. So thats what he does. Our second speaker, Michelle Thaller is director of science for communications at nasa so shed is all about the Rocket Science program. And our third spe