Flying military satellites. This event is hosted by space news. Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks everyone for joining us. Were happy to have you. And wed like to welcome our panelists. Good afternoon general sean, Major General john sean joining us from Vandenberg Air force base. Welcome, can you hear us. I can hear you. Can you hear me . Perfect. So Major General john shaw is the commander of the Space Operations command under the u. S. Space force and hes also the commander of the combined force Space Component under u. S. Space command. So general shaw, im sure this was a very exciting weekend. You commanded the task force 45 that was responsible for being on alert in the event that the nasa astronauts had to be rescued. So i guess maybe if you wouldnt mind starting walking us through what happened with this launch and also telling us more broadly in the Space Force Im sure a lot of people ask you what do you do in the space force and im sure you tell them everything that you do, we
Lets start off with aggression from bill cbs. Can you hear me now . Testing one, two,. Loud and clear, bill. Sorry about that. I want to go back to what bob was in yesterday describing the riot you are comparing it to the shuttle but i was more interested in the first stage of the falcon how did it feel and the second stage feel and you made it sound like maybe it was rougher than the shuttle on the main engine. Wondering if there was ever a point when he looked at doug and said this is not what i expected . Well bill, you took the words right out of my mouth. The summary from yesterday was good, smoother and first stage little rougher second stage and then we saw in shuttle and both of us were expecting. We did comment on it while we were going uphill. I think we tried to verbalize it as much as the new experience that we were having to make sure they were for real between the two of us that we were sensing the same things. Lets go to question from steven clark. Hello, thank you for t
Panelists. Good afternoon, general shaw, Major General john shaw joining us from Vandenberg Air force base. Welcome. Can you hear us . I can hear you break can you hear me, sandra . Perfect. Major general john shaw, he is the commander of the Space Operations commands under the u. S. Space force and he is also the commander of the combined force Space Component for the u. S. Space command. Communications, gps, Weather Services but not a lot of people understand we also provide support for human spaceflight. Walk us through the mission and. Thank you. Thank you for hosting and greetings from the air force base on this beautiful Central Coast of california. Thanks for this opportunity. A lot of things upfront so i guess i will talk for a little bit. It was not only an incredible weekend but its been an incredible month, the month of may 2020. Earlier this month we launched in x. 37 from Cape Canaveral. The people in the air force to transfer and now who do we have that may be a transfer
[inaudible conversations] good evening. Ima member of the event to staff and i would like to welcome you this evening to politics and prose took a quick note before we start, now would be a great time to silence cell phones. Feel free to take flash free photography. We are here to welcome Hendrick Meijer for his new book, Arthur Vandenberg the man in the middle of the american century. When Arthur Vandenberg assumed his seat as a republican senator 1928 is outspoken opponent of the new deal and staunch isolationist. By the end of his life was not just a supporter of nato event un, but a key architect of the american postwar policy and in this comprehensive biology he changes from a politician to effective consensus builder. Is a reporter, editor and executive producer of the [inaudible] please help me welcome them both to politics and prose. Thank you for coming and thank you for that nice introduction. I am delighted to have pink with us tonight because this is a surprisingly relevant
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