Members may consider another Coronavirus Relief package. The senates meeting every few days and pro forma sessions during their weeklong memorial day holiday recess. Senators return for work on monday, june 1. They will resume both on judicial nominations and the Inspector General for pandemic recovery. Watch live Health Coverage on cspan, and the senate on cspan 2. Vice president mike pence spoke of the annual National Space Council Meeting at nasa headquarters in washington, d. C. He was joined by nasa administrator who gave an update on nasas work in the upcoming Spacex Dragon mission. This is half an hour. And to be joined by the nasa administrator who was in houston as we speak doing important preparations. Jim is with us. Welcome to the launch america addition of the National Space council. We are one week and one day away from when america will return american astronauts on american space. To its an extraordinarily exciting time in the life of this program. I know speak on behal
To answer the questions that you may have about this right 1st yes yes the c. D. C. Is officially linking it to cool illness that were all talking about its called pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome and i want to take you through how it was discovered in just a minute but before i do that what i need to do is tell you that this syndrome in children is being compared to another rare childhood condition you heard about this that was called the kawasaki disease now because saki disease does indeed share some symptoms with this new illness that were talking about its not the same disease but they share some of the symptoms in fact should we go and show some of these symptoms to see what they look like whats true that let me let me show you what some of these symptoms are because i think this is important if your child presents with a fever that last 24 hours plus if you were. Child has abdominal pains and diarrhea and vomiting if your child has a rash or changes in skin color see
So he came back. Now, you have to realize that al shepard was the ultimate politician. Very well respected, first flight he did, so he talked nasa into giving him talked them into giving him the very next flight, which was apollo 13. After he started working 13 and i was getting my crew together for 14, i think that the nasa hierarchy had second thoughts. They said, look, al has been grounded for eight or nine years, and youre going to give him the very next flight . He only made a 15 minute suborbital flight . Lets get serious about this thing. So deke said, okay, ill slip him one. So one day when i was training for 14, deke came in and said, jim, how would you like to take 13 and well give shepard 14 . I was delighted. I said, yes. I mean, you know, i was backup on 11. And im all set to go. I mean, you know, i need the training, i need to know the experiments and things like that. But im ready. So thats how it came to pass. Can you put to bed or add to the story that one hears that y
The apollo 13 crew, captain james lovell, captain John Swaggart mr. Fred haise. I would like to start by saying i am not a superstitious person. Therefore, when we were assigned apollo 13, i thought nothing of it. Some said 13 was a lucky number and were happy i got that number. It started just before the flight, as was documented. As we were approaching the final phase of training, the last couple of days are usually taken very leisurely, keeping a couple of days free to unwind from the long Training Cycle and get rest so that when we launch, we are in good shape. As you know, a turn of events occurred and ken mattingly, our command module pilot, was exposed to the measles, we had to make the decision to bring jack along. They asked what i wanted to do because we worked as a team for a long time, but i realized the Space Program had matured to that degree whereby we had quite a few people who were well knowledgeable about the spacecraft and well to fly. As a consequence, on friday we
Buffering the outside world from the technical decisions these guys had to make. Part, peoplein like kraft had the same experiences you had, wouldnt you say as a formal as a former flight director he knew . Washristopher columbus entirely appropriate for this guy. Pioneer in Mission Control. He launched each one of the mercury missions. But he was the mentor, teacher and tutor for this young generation who became known as Mission Controllers. He set the mold for everything that would be done thereafter and in particular, he set the and for the flight director the flight director being able to take any action necessary for crew safety and mission success. He had done that in the beauty of the thing was even though he physically had left the console, wase he knew his job now to give them the confidence to make the technical decisions and he was going to broker whatever political fallout might occur. A spectacular man. He was the interface between the top level and politics. I found that