The reason we are kind of rushing is because we only have an hour. We have a wonderful opportunity to listen to these three secretaries. I will be very short. We always start with a safety announcement. I am responsible for your safety today. They have some guys backstage with guns that will take care of that. If we hear anything, followed by instructions, we will take the exits right behind us, go down to the street Near National geographic, and i will take everyone to see the great new show on the evolution of jane goodall. We have never had anything happen, but i want you to be ready. You all know who these people are, so i do not need to introduce them, but you know the but you do need to know the absolutely Critical Role that they play. They are running giant organizations and they have to manage today, tomorrow, and 20 years in the future. It is constantly in their calculus about how they posture and shape these remarkable institutions not just so they can do the job today, but t
Good morning everybody. Welcome. I am president here at csis, and the reason we are kind of rushing is because we only have an hour. We have a wonderful opportunity to listen to these three secretaries. I will be very short. We always start with a safety announcement. I am responsible for your safety today. They have some guys backstage with guns that will take care of that. If we hear anything, followed by instructions, we will take the exits right behind us, go down to the street Near National geographic, and i will take everyone to see the great new show on the evolution of jane goodall. We have never had anything happen, but i want you to be ready. You all know who these people are, so i do not need to introduce them, but you know the but you do need to know the absolutely Critical Role that they play. They are running giant organizations and they have to manage today, tomorrow, and 20 years in the future. It is constantly in their calculus about how they posture and shape these re
Science and precision is starting precisely at 2 30 and zero seconds. That is an auspicious way to begin this discussion. Earlier this year, on one of the hottest nights of the summer, nearly a half Million People crowded onto the national mall. They werent there for a protest or to celebrate a national holiday. And they werent there for a concert or to watch a fireworks show. No, instead a half Million People went there, drenched in sweat, to watch the story of the apollo 11 mission as it was projected onto the Washington Monument, commemorating the moment 50 years ago when Neil Armstrong and buzz aldrin took that giant leap for mankind. As everyone in d. C. Knows, if there are a half Million People on the mall and it aint a protest, Something Big is going on. And landing the first humans on the moon and returning them safely to earth marks as one of the epochal moments in the history of mankind. As we look out over our space landscape today, what we see is very different from the lan
Commission on Public Diplomacy talks about the commissions history and recommendations for furthering its agenda. [indiscernible chatter] senator cruz good afternoon. This hearing is called to order. Im very pleased to see a hearing on stem and math and science and precision starting at precisely 2 30 and zero seconds. That is an auspicious way to begin this discussion. Earlier this year on one of the hottest nights of the summer, nearly half a Million People crowded on to the national mall. They were not there for a protest or to celebrate a National Holiday and they were not there for a concert or to watch a fireworks show. No, instead half a Million People went there drenched in sweat to watch the story of the apollo 11 mission as it was projected on to the Washington Monument commemorating the moment 50 years ago when Neil Armstrong and buzz aldrin took that giant leap for mankind. As everyone in d. C. Knows, if there is half a Million People on the lawn and it is not a protest, So
Seconds. That is an auspicious way to begin this discussion. Earlier this year on one of the hottest nights of the summer, senator cruz good afternoon. This hearing is called to order. Im very pleased to see a hearing on stem and math and science and precision starting at precisely 2 30 and zero seconds. That is an auspicious way to that giant leap for mankind. As everyone in d. C. Knows, if there is half a Million People on the lawn and it is not a protest, Something Big is going on. And landing the first humans on the moon and returning them safely to earth marks as one of the epical moments in the history of mankind. Spacelook over out on our landscape of today, what we see now is very different than the landscape of 1969. Indeed, not only did we succeed going to moon and back again but we have gone on to put robotic rovers on distant planets, celestial observatories and orbits that can literally peer into the beginnings of the universe and we have established a human presence in lo