[inaudible conversations] the committee on space will come to order and without objection the chair is authorized tour declare a recess at any time. welcome to today s hearing entitle the international space station addressing operational challenges you have the written testimony biographies and truth and testimony disclosure for today s with this is part or recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. good morning welcome to our hearing today and i want to thank our witnesses for taking time to appear before the committee. since 2013 the program has experienced a number of challenges we have thank committed to identifying challenges to address them and reach our goal and justin lehigh commitment. at the iss have had water leaks third three times with one during a spacewalk. april 26 an unmanned russian vehicle damage stave reflector while docking with the. host: team per could generate 14, a false alarm of the ammonia leak caused the crew to retreat into
competition for available crude time and heavy demand for key facilities to limit the amount and type of experiment that can come to iss the crouton is already allocated at 100% to redress the challenge now is dependent on commercial crew providers who promised the capabilities as planned. with these capabilities nasa can had a crew member to devote most of the time to research to double the research time. however many technical challenges than the ability to fund the program could delay the efforts. finally even if they can navigate the challenges challenges, demonstrating a return on investment is difficult and scientific research. in the short term it is essential that the continued to make progress to achieve the goal of the increased role and we reported that nasa could do more to define and assess on progress and for example, by assigning a measurable targets to the annual performance the tricks. they concurred and agreed to take action and respondent in conclusion it w
least those legislative sanctions that have been imposed on iran. i said congress can also establish a team b a technique used inused in the past to monitor implementation of the agreement so that there are outside experts with access to all the intelligence who can confirm compliance or detect and ensure that noncompliance is detected. finally, we need to protect the american people. one of the most important things we can do is continue to emphasize and build our missile defense capabilities. iran is working on an icbm. it will have the capability to have a nuclear weapon. the united states will be held hostage by iran in the future. there were four things that congress could do. do you guys have time for one more question? ok. right here then. working off of two statements , how did we get into this mess and the united states is a guarantee or of stability. is seeking to guarantee stability. looking towards a strategy for peace, is there any potential for an understa
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