Undersecretary of state for Economic Growth, energy and the environment, keith cross. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and space administration, jim bridenstine. Chairman. Joint chiefs of staff, general jose joseph dunser. Acting secretary, matthew donovan. Acting deputy of homeland security, david bokosski. Acting intelligence director, joseph mcguire. Acting director of office of management and budget, russ volk. Secretary of commerce wilbur ross. The director of the national air and space museum dr. Ellen stofan. Stofan. Its an honor to welcome the National Space council back to the museum to continue the work of mapping the future of American Space exploration, surrounded here by icons of our nations highest, proudest achievements in space. The council is ensuring our future achievements are fully empowered by the past achievements, the things you will be discussing today will one day be enshrined in this museum and dont forget about us, we need hardware. Last month at our
Moon, preparations for trips to mars, and for using Nuclear Powered rockets to get there. The u. S. Space command will officially be up and running by the end of this month. Surrounded hereby icons of our nations highest, proudest achievements in space. Ourcouncil is ensuring future achievements are empowered by the past achievements. The things that you will be discussing today will one day be enshrined in this museum. Dont forget about us, we need hardware. Last month that our museum in washington, at the unveiling of Neil Armstrongs apollo 11 ship, Vice President pence spoke about the renewed commitment to human spaceflight. And at the National Air Space museum, we see evidence of that commitment every day. Countless children have stood in this very spot and marveled up at the Space Shuttle discovery, parents,ed to their grandparents or teachers to ask how something so big could fly so high. Our museum is where the country comes to understand its heritage of adventure and discovery,
Future achievements are empowered by the past achievements. The things that you will be discussing today will one day be enshrined in this museum. Dont forget about us, we need hardware. Last month that our museum in washington, at the unveiling of Neil Armstrongs apollo 11 ship, Vice President pence spoke about the renewed commitment to human spaceflight. And at the National Air Space museum, we see evidence of that commitment every day. Countless children have stood in this very spot and marveled up at the Space Shuttle discovery, parents,ed to their grandparents or teachers to ask how something so big could fly so high. Our museum is where the country comes to understand its heritage of adventure and discovery, and to pass that torch on to new generations. We are at the dawn of a new space age, with a challenge to return to the moon and beyond. The americans who will make those first flights, including the first woman on the moon and the first humans on mars, were not allowed to see
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Panelists for being here. But when we started to think about this really broad topic at the Bush Institute, one of the things we knew as we talked to our Advisory Council and president and mrs. Push, we cant just talk about the international component. We need to look at the challenges in our own country areassert. This panel were all chosen not because they are smart thirst on this issue but because they are working on something to address this issue in our country. Mel marchday, we have Case Foundation and jeffrey rosen. Let me kick off the conversation with a question for the group, lets follow up on the conversation we were having, lets having trust about americans in our institutions of democracy. How serious is this challenge right now and what do you see in terms of the challenges we face here domestically . Senator martinez. Im inspired by what has been transpired. I believe it is great sweptism in our country and we underestimate of what happened during the financial crisis an