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
Budget. He was asked about cuts to programs in a such as education, science and satellite servicing technology. The Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing is about one hour. The hearing will come to order. Im pleased to welcome acting administrator Robert Lightfoot to the commerce of justice and science appropriations subcommittee hearing to examine nasa fiscal year 2018 budget request. Mr. Lightfoot and i worked well together in his tenure as director of Nasa Marshall Space Flight Center in huntsville, alabama. Mr. Lightfoot, thank you for serving as nasa leader during this time of change and appreciate you joining us here today. The administration has proposed a fiscal year 2018 budget of 19. 1 billion for nasa which is a reduction of 2. 9 for the current year level. While this overall cut is lessening of agencies that have experienced in the present budget request, it still reflects a significant reduction of 561 million. His budget request attempt to navigate a challenging fisc
Budget. He was asked about cuts to programs in a such as education, science and satellite servicing technology. The Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing is about one hour. The hearing will come to order. Im pleased to welcome acting administrator Robert Lightfoot to the commerce of justice and science appropriations subcommittee hearing to examine nasa fiscal year 2018 budget request. Mr. Lightfoot and i worked well together in his tenure as director of Nasa Marshall Space Flight Center in huntsville, alabama. Mr. Lightfoot, thank you for serving as nasa leader during this time of change and appreciate you joining us here today. The administration has proposed a fiscal year 2018 budget of 19. 1 billion for nasa which is a reduction of 2. 9 for the current year level. While this overall cut is lessening of agencies that have experienced in the present budget request, it still reflects a significant reduction of 561 million. His budget request attempt to navigate a challenging fisc
Be an astronaut. I made it down there to work as an engineer for a few years. In 1990, i got selected by nasa to be an astronaut. Omissions,our space i was on spatial colombia three times and spatial tout discovery wants. Space, iose 44 days in got to go around the earth is 692 times. I can confidently tell you, i have seen your hometown, wherever you are from. I have seen it. We have a program tonight on space stations, a little bit about the history of space stations. I told you i flew on four Space Shuttle missions. I was actually assigned to four Space Shuttle missions, on one of the space station missions. On the sixth crew, number six going up to the space stations. Back in 2002. I trained for 2. 5 years, and two months before launch, one of the nasa doctors pulled me for medical reasons. I never made it to the space station but i trained extensively on it. I spent two years in russia in preparation for that. I also worked for three years as a space Station Program scientist. In
It is pretty bad when the introduction is longer than the dog. I told him to say, here is bob. He would not do it. It is a pleasure for me to come ofe and share the future nasas Space Program with you. I feel like im coming home when i come to marshall. I spent a lot of time in here when i was in the astronaut office. Up. Ed to come for the level three flight readiness reviews. I remember when this was just an empty aluminum shell as we started construction of the space station. I remember sing it activated in orbit and that was cool. The only difference is it was a lot nicer coming here when i did not have to go through atlanta on delta and i could just fly my one stop 38 t38 all the way. Lets talk about what is going on at the Kennedy Space center. We are americas spaceport and kennedy is a unique place. Acres of44,000 wildlife refuge, a buffer zone to our launchpad. We have that unique cape that we can launch out over the ocean. We have the most talented, dedicated work worse anywhe