Social events. We had governors only breakfast. Governor herbert, i think i could speak for everyone in the tabernacle choir which is absolutely incredible. So thank about you, the first lady, the last couple days, hosting is that the capital, a wonderful office building. We kick off the one instruction to me about americas Space Program is i cant take this my 12yearold son so im not allowed to touch it but to get a start i will recognize my friend and nga vice chair cover hogan of maryland. Good morning, everybody. We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of apollo 11 and the moon landing represents one of humanitys greatest achievements. And what we cannot see, the years of painstaking work. They made this journey to the stars possible. It is a feat of American Ingenuity and spirit. At the heart of this effort were the men and women of americas Space Program. It is a great opportunity to say thank you. In maryland we have the Goddard Space Flight Center which is home to Hubble Space T
[inaudible conversations] good morning. The subcommittee on space will come to order. Without objection, the chairs authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Welcome to todays hearing, title an update on nasa exploration systems develop. I now recognize mist for an open statement. More and asia means expanding our reach as humans. It is a civilization and as country the arm opt our nation to explore space is a strategic imperative. The ability to carry out this critical strategic endeavor will rely on a few key capables. From the launch, the space launch system in order to push beyond low earth orbit we minimum fish developing the orion capsule in order to operate in deep space. And we must upgrade our ground infrastructure to support a rejuvenated and an expand exploration agenda. The nasa goal in the nasa transition authorizing argentina is to extend human presence through the solar system. The space launch system in orion are the strategic capabilities that wil
[inaudible conversations] good morning. The subcommittee on space will come to order. Without objection, the chairs authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. Welcome to todays hearing, title an update on nasa exploration systems develop. I now recognize mist for an open statement. More and asia means expanding our reach as humans. It is a civilization and as country the arm opt our nation to explore space is a strategic imperative. The ability to carry out this critical strategic endeavor will rely on a few key capables. From the launch, the space launch system in order to push beyond low earth orbit we minimum fish developing the orion capsule in order to operate in deep space. And we must upgrade our ground infrastructure to support a rejuvenated and an expand exploration agenda. The nasa goal in the nasa transition authorizing argentina is to extend human presence through the solar system. The space launch system in orion are the strategic capabilities that wil
Nasa, this pages, and the orion spacecraft. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning. Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, they could declare recess on the subcommittee at all can anytime. Welcome to todays hearing, an update on nassau exploration systems development. I now recognize myself for five minutes of an opening statement. Exploration means expanding our reach as humans. As a civilization and as a country, the ability of our nation to explore space is a strategic imperative. Our ability to carry out the strategic never will rely to carry out the strategical endeavor will let us push beyond low earth orbit, we must finish the override capsule in order to operate in deep space. We must update our ground infrastructure to support a rejuvenated and expanded agenda. Nasas longterm goal is laid out in the 2017 nasa transition authorization act, to extend human presence throughout the solar system. The space launch system in all right and have strategic capabilitie
Thank you, mister chairman. Let me introduce our witnesses. First witness today is Mister William gerstenmaier, associate administrator at nasa. William gerstenmaier began his nasa career in 1977 performing Aeronautical Research and he has managed nasas human spaceflight portfolio since 2011, received a bachelors of science aeronautical engineering from Purdue University and a masters of science in Mechanical Engineering from university of toledo. Our second witness today is Sandra Sandra magnus, executive director of astronautics. In addition to her role there, Sandra Magnus is a former and nasa astronaut and prior to that worked as a practicing engineer in the aerospace industry. Sandra magnus received a degree in physics as well as a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Missouri University of science and technology. She also earned a phd from the school of material science and engineering at georgia tech and now recognize William Gerstenmaier for five minutes to present his