Nasa, this pages, and the orion spacecraft. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning. Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, they could declare recess on the subcommittee at all can anytime. Welcome to todays hearing, an update on nassau exploration systems development. I now recognize myself for five minutes of an opening statement. Exploration means expanding our reach as humans. As a civilization and as a country, the ability of our nation to explore space is a strategic imperative. Our ability to carry out the strategic never will rely to carry out the strategical endeavor will let us push beyond low earth orbit, we must finish the override capsule in order to operate in deep space. We must update our ground infrastructure to support a rejuvenated and expanded agenda. Nasas longterm goal is laid out in the 2017 nasa transition authorization act, to extend human presence throughout the solar system. The space launch system in all right and have strategic capabilitie
Thank you, mister chairman. Let me introduce our witnesses. First witness today is Mister William gerstenmaier, associate administrator at nasa. William gerstenmaier began his nasa career in 1977 performing Aeronautical Research and he has managed nasas human spaceflight portfolio since 2011, received a bachelors of science aeronautical engineering from Purdue University and a masters of science in Mechanical Engineering from university of toledo. Our second witness today is Sandra Sandra magnus, executive director of astronautics. In addition to her role there, Sandra Magnus is a former and nasa astronaut and prior to that worked as a practicing engineer in the aerospace industry. Sandra magnus received a degree in physics as well as a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Missouri University of science and technology. She also earned a phd from the school of material science and engineering at georgia tech and now recognize William Gerstenmaier for five minutes to present his
Today, first of all, i should say welcome to everybody, particularly our former colleague and our nominee and all of the families and friends and other citizens here for a very important nominee hearing. Youre welcome. The committee is considering, as you know, the nomination of Christopher Wray to be the eighth director of the federal bureau of investigation. Mr. Wray, congratulations to you and your family on your nomination. This is an important day for you, your family and most importantly, this is an important day for the country considering the importance of the fbi and Law Enforcement in america. I welcome you, mr. Wray and your family, to the committee. The Ranking Member and i will give Opening Statements and then senator nunn will introduce the nominee. Mr. Wray will then give his Opening Statement and introduce anybody that he wants to thats here to support him and people that arent here supporting him, as well and after his Opening Statement, we will turn to questions. As a
Today, first of all, i should say welcome to everybody, particularly our former colleague and our nominee and all of the families and friends and other citizens here for a very important nominee hearing. Youre welcome. The committee is considering, as you know, the nomination of Christopher Wray to be the eighth director of the federal bureau of investigation. Mr. Wray, congratulations to you and your family on your nomination. This is an important day for you, your family and most importantly, this is an important day for the country considering the importance of the fbi and Law Enforcement in america. I welcome you, mr. Wray and your family, to the committee. The Ranking Member and i will give Opening Statements and then senator nunn will introduce the nominee. Mr. Wray will then give his Opening Statement and introduce anybody that he wants to thats here to support him and people that arent here supporting him, as well and after his Opening Statement, we will turn to questions. As a
Today, first of all, i should say welcome to everybody, particularly our former colleague and our nominee and all of the families and friends and other citizens here for a very important nominee hearing. Youre welcome. The committee is considering, as you know, the nomination of Christopher Wray to be the eighth director of the federal bureau of investigation. Mr. Wray, congratulations to you and your family on your nomination. This is an important day for you, your family and most importantly, this is an important day for the country considering the importance of the fbi and Law Enforcement in america. I welcome you, mr. Wray and your family, to the committee. The Ranking Member and i will give Opening Statements and then senator nunn will introduce the nominee. Mr. Wray will then give his Opening Statement and introduce anybody that he wants to thats here to support him and people that arent here supporting him, as well and after his Opening Statement, we will turn to questions. As a