Next, the story of Christa Mcauliffe, one of the crewmembers on board of the illfated Space Shuttle challenger. 15 seconds. 10. We were in the grandstands and we were located directly behind christas parents. Lift off. After the launch, everyone was yelling and very thrilled that we were seeing our colleague fly in space. The sequencing of it was such that after a proximally two minutes we are supposed to see , the separation of the solid rocket boosters, two minutes and 10 seconds. And i knew the sequencing and after about a minute and 30 seconds, we started to see some plumes that were not correct. And the vast majority of the people in the grandstand there, who were not familiar with the sequencing, they were cheering. And i said no, thats not right. Something is wrong. At that point, the announcer at the Kennedy Space center said over the intercom, there appears to have been a major malfunction. In fact, ill never in my life forget those words that first came over. I am saying to p
Next, the story of Christa Mcauliffe, one of the crewmembers on board of the illfated Space Shuttle challenger. 15 seconds. 10. Robert we were in the grandstands and we were located directly behind christas parents. Lift off. Robert after the launch, everyone was yelling and very thrilled that we were seeing our colleague fly in space. The sequencing of it was such that after approximately two minutes, we are supposed to see the separation of the solid rocket boosters, two minutes and 10 seconds. And i knew the sequencing and after about a minute and 30 seconds, we started to see some plumes that were not correct. And the vast majority of the people in the grandstand there, who were not familiar with the sequencing, they were cheering. And i said no, thats not right. Something is wrong. At that point, the announcer at the Kennedy Space center said over the intercom, there appears to have been a major malfunction. In fact, ill never in my life forget those words that first came over. I
Next, a look at the legacy of the Apollo Space Missions in the future of Space Exploration. The discussion was held at the National Academy of engineering. [applause] welcome, everyone, to the National Academy of engineerings for him on human spaceflight, apollo, 50 years on. Im going on stage today by six incredible individuals, each of whom helped shape the history and the future of human spaceflight. A little introduction about myself. My name is deeann. Much like many of our panelists today, i am an engineer. Unlike most of our panelists i have never been to space which gives you an idea of the impressiveness. I did grow up in brevard county, florida, Cape Canaveral and many of you launched into space, it has been an inspiration in my life and one of the reasons i chose to pursue engineering. I have gone on to have an atypical career. I am an endearing tv host nowadays and founder and ceo of future engineers. We have current talent launched with nasa where students can name the nex
Katie and meisha are keeping an eye on things this morning. Good morning. Im overcome with love and joy. It is valentines day. You have to be filled with love. Do you love valentines day. Were on the same page. We do, we do. I love it. Love, love, love. We love you guys. Were looking good, katie, tell us, in rain. Well, i cannot tell you that not until later on tonight but just step back and defend myself. Today is my moms birthday, happy birthday, mom that has been what february 14th is always about but my anniversary is 10 days away. Very happy. So we have Different Reasons to say it is a drop in the bucket for me but lets take a look, through the overnight we have actually seen, a couple have light showers whether it is freezing rain or snow moving through here, poconos, specifically so if you are traveling up that way and worry about possibility of black ice, for the most part that has made its exit but you will have aftermath in those areas, so calling on our weather watchers we h
Good morning and welcome to todays hearing that totality and i recognize myself for the Opening Statement and we need to finish the hearing before 1030 in the morning. We know we will be inspired by our Witnesses Today to harness the enthusiasm for the clips that we saw when people came together so my husband is a math teacher so he really is excited with whole generation of students that are interested and you translate that into a stem career were starting to hear from the Witnesses Today and now what will recognize the Ranking Member , the gentleman from california for his Opening Statement. The . . . Is exciting on august 21st i went to the Science Center in sacramento but was great is the number of kids that were out there with their glasses and amateur astronomers and that generation of scientists encouraging those to visit those hero scientist but she was one of the most enthusiastic people i have seen. The african have this enthusiasm and excitement i will keep my comments shor