Chair calling this meeting to order. Please be seated. Good gracious. It should be us standing for you. You should all be aware of several things. One, even though there is not a Committee Room of people that you can see that is full, we are zooming this to a majority of the Commerce Committee, which is a large committee. There is a Staff Member for every Commerce Committee member, and every senator watching, not to mention millions watching at home. [laughter] or not. I should give fair warning, this is my first Committee Hearing that i get to chair as the chair of the Space And Science subcommittee of the Commerce Committee. So you will have to take your own risks with that. When they told me i was going to get to chair this committee, my communications staff, i should not say it, but i was over the moon. [laughter] this is important not only to colorado, it is something i have had a passionate interest in for a long time. It is ironic this first meeting is on Space Trash, which soun
Chair calling this meeting to order. Please be seated. Good gracious. It should be us standing for you. You should all be aware of several things. One, even though there is not a Committee Room of people that you can see that is full, we are zooming this to a majority of the Commerce Committee, which is a large committee. There is a Staff Member for every Commerce Committee member, and every senator watching, not to mention millions watching at home. [laughter] or not. I should give fair warning, this is my first Committee Hearing that i get to chair as the chair of the Space And Science subcommittee of the Commerce Committee. So you will have to take your own risks with that. When they told me i was going to get to chair this committee, my communications staff, i should not say it, but i was over the moon. [laughter] this is important not only to colorado, it is something i have had a passionate interest in for a long time. It is ironic this first meeting is on Space Trash, which soun
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] call this meeting to order. Please be seated with good graces. In my opiniond it should be as standing for you. You should all be aware, while several things, one that even though theres not a full committee room, you can see we are assuming this to i think the majority of Commerce Committee which you can see is a large committee, are looking and i think every step but theres a Staff Member from every congress committee, not to mention millions at home. [laughing] or not. I also should give fair warning that this is my first Committee Hearing that i get to chair as the chair of the Space And Science subcommittee, the Commerce Committee, so you have to take your own risks with that. When they told me i was going to get to chair this committee, my communications staff, i should not say this, but i was the moon. [laughing] this is something thats important not only to colorado, something ive had a Passion And In
Scientists have made great progress helping us reach, explore, even briefly inhabit the harsh domain above us here but the rest of us are much lower default or even understand where the scientists are enabling us to travel. Many nations and even some corporations are exploring type of the earths atmosphere, testing the infinite number of ways that matching space can help. 7. 6 billion of us who live down here on earth. The Space Age is about seven years old and the foundational outer Space Treaty is just over 50 years old. That should tell us something. Unfortunately precious little has happened since the beginning to work nice human efforts in the in human space domain. Space is in danger of becoming the wild, wild west for every satellite, after, cosmonaut has to defend himself. From their testimony experts are giving us or giving up on the concept of a lawabiding rulesbased Space And Selling for something less like Suggestion Space or probably even perhaps thats the best we can do b
But the rest of us are much lower default or even understand where the scientists are enabling us to travel. Many nations and even some corporations are exploring type of the earths atmosphere, testing the infinite number of ways that matching space can help. 7. 6 billion of us who live down here on earth. The Space Age is about seven years old and the foundational outer Space Treaty is just over 50 years old. That should tell us something. Unfortunately precious little has happened since the beginning to work nice human efforts in the in human space domain. Space is in danger of becoming the wild, wild west for every satellite, after, cosmonaut has to defend himself. From their testimony experts are giving us or giving up on the concept of a lawabiding rulesbased Space And Selling for something less like Suggestion Space or probably even perhaps thats the best we can do but i think we should try harder and better. Cant we at least agree on agreements on space management, and the size