Our part to reach out beyond our comfort zone, listen to others, lower the temperature, and find some common ground. Next nasa straight oher jim, testifies on changes at the agency due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Ziverbs is it would be helpful if the administrator would highlight how nasa is implements Lessons Learned from commercial crew development. In november of last year this committee passed the nasa authorization act demonstrating strong support. Legislation strongly supported nasas key science priorities, aeronautics research, plan terry exploration, and other initiatives. Today the administrator can provide an update on these missions and describe any major impacts on cost, schedule or operations caused by the pandemic. Nascar plays an Important Role in americas whole of government approach to securing the space do name. Great power competition in space is a reality. Chinas space ambitions are wellknown and the communist party has devoted resou
Private companies and universities. It is an hour and 20 minutes. Members should keep their video feed on as long as they are present in the hearing. Please keep your microphones muted unless you are speaking. If members have documents they wish to submit for the record, please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing. Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome our distinguished panel of witnesses and members and those viewing plotely. Cybersecurity and nasa, ongoing to challenges and emerging issues for increased telework during covid19. In early 2020 the world was caught off guard with the dramatic rapid onset of the coronavirus. It shifted to a telework operations to ensure the health and safety of its more than 17,000 Civil Servant employees. To its credit, nasa prepared for the transition having held an agencywide telework exercise in early march and expanded telework operations. Today 75 to 80 of Civil Servants continue to wor
All right. This hearing will come to order. 2020 has been a year of challenge and triumph for Americas National space agency. The covid19 pandemic has disrupted planning and daytoday operations, but nasa and its commercial partners have achieved many successful outcomes. These include launching american astronauts to the International Space station and returning them safely to earth. Returning that launch vehicle safely to earth. Launching a perseverance rover to mars, and preparing the space launch systems, sls, rocket and orion crew capsule for the first deep Space Exploration Program Mission next year. Im pleased that nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine is here to provide us with an update on nasas missions and programs and the agencys plans for the future. Further progress on the art miss program is critical to achieving the goals of landing the first woman and the next man on the moon by 2024, and establishing a sustainable presence on or around the lunar surface by 2028. Congress
Situation just weeks after the countrys starting to reopen. Those are your headlines from all the stories. Coming your way with us. Live from the World Headquarters of the r t america our Nations Capital this is the news with rick sanchez everybody im rick sanchez and i want to welcome all of you who are watching us from around the world including those of you who are watching us on your phone using the portable t. V. Up as we begin this newscast right now records are being set in the United States you know its funny often when we think of records we think of highlights we think of accomplishments usually of things that are positive well so i did say this. Not that type of record this morning the state of florida announced that its daily death toll for corona virus is at 173. Unfortunately that is a single day highest total ever announced by the Florida Department of health since the pandemic big. If this record was set july 16th with 156. 00 deaths the trend seems to obviously be goin
A better bonus because that would actually force many that are sitting home doing nothing but theyre making more by sitting home doing nothing im not a big fan of all this debt theyre creating because at the end of the day it doesnt go anywhere tell people go back to work you can if you cant go to work i understand we can make arrangers but if your review we have a job and you go back to work then you should be back at work and give a tax holiday given that incentive to go back to the job version is saying well as i make it more sit at home why should i go to work and its interesting that you mention that payroll tax holiday because actually the trumpet mr. Mentioned specifically that that was not included in the package as of right now so why arent they moving that that way because i assume many in the administration agree with you on many of these provisions. Because the house will not approve it because again theyd hate to give trump after 3 and a half years of beating the crap out