M. I. T. And harvard university. Her first book was cured, the people who defeated hiv. Shes written for publications including the new york times, los angeles times, the atlantic, slate, Popular Science an time magazine. In 2016, she published the work thats the basis of her talk tonight titled the rise of the rocket girls, the women who propelled us from missiles to the moon to mars. That work was a best seller and was widely praised by critics including one who described it as immersive, evocative and superbly readable, holts poignant narrative should be required readingment another called it a marvelous book, adding when Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind, there was womenkind in the control room. Its a pleasure indeed to welcome to fredricksburg to the university of Mary Washington and to great lives, nathalia holt. [ applause ] thank you so much. I really appreciate you having me here tonight, and im excited to talk with you about the rocket girls. This is a group of p
Massachusetts General Hospital and m. I. T. Her first book is called cured, the people who defeated hiv. She has been published in the new york times, Los Angeles Times and time magazine. In 2016 she published the work that is the basic of her talk tonight, entitled rise of the rocket girls the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to mars. That work was a bestseller and was widely praised by critics, including one who described it as immersive, evocative, and superbly written. Her narrative should be required reading. Another commented that when Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind, there was womankind in the control room. It is a pleasure to welcome to the university of Mary Washington nathalia holt. [applause] thank you so much. I really appreciate you having me here tonight and i am excited to talk to you about rocket girls. This is a group of pioneers whose careers shaped nasa and really made it what it is today. Before i get into their history, i want to sha
The speaker the house will be in rder. The prayer will be offered by the prayr chaplain, father conr. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. As we meditate on all the blesings of life, we especially pray for the blessig of peace in our livesand in our world. Coronavirus has already caused pmarkets, International Trade ad travl, and the healthare industry worldwide. We ask your blessings on those men and women whose life work is population and whose efforts to stem the spread of this diseae have endangered their own ellbein. In the days and weeks to come. May your special blessing be the members of this assembly, in the important, sometimes difficult,work they do. Give them wisdom and charity that they might wok together for th common good. May all that is done the peoples house be for your greater honor and tpwhrory, men. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house her approval
Became the highlight of the century. We will be looking at this story of the higher, and faster and farther of aviation, but first i want to talk about the Aerospace Museum overall. It has over 8 million visitors a year between the National Mall building, and so looking at the story of the atmosphere that i am working in, we are looking at 500 aircraft and helicopters. Of those aircraft. 67 are on display in the National Mall building and what is supporting the artifacts is 67,000 small and medium artifacts, but what we will talk about today is the story of higher, faster and farther which is seen as a cliche throughout the history of aviation, but it has a real meaning to it. And in which we look at the people who made the quest of flying in the third dimension a reality. And so, the idea of flying the highest altitude and the fastest speed and the longest distances tells us a lot about the Technical Development of the airplane, and also the invention of the Wright Brothers and what t
Dennis muilenburg, replacing him will be the former chair, technically chair, will step out of chair, become president and ceo, David Calhoun he becomes president and ceo effective january 13th what was the final straw that broke the camels back in large part, the relationship between boeing and the faa which is completely broken down over the last several months. I learned from sources that this morning David Calhoun called the head of the faa, steve dixon it was a short but amicable phone call in that call calhoun said to dixon boeing welcomes rigorous oversight. He also said boeing wants to be regulated. This is a big change in tone for boeing compared to where it was a few months ago but in terms of whether or not Dennis Muilenburg was not going to be in the job for long, it was expected for some time his tenure would be short. This is our conversation with him in the halls of capitol hill just a couple months ago have there been discussions with the board maybe once this is certif