[gavel pounding] this hearing is call to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, 2 astronauts, sitting atop a rocket the size of a navy destroyer, packing 7. 5 Million Pounds of thrust, took off from Kennedy Space center in florida. Roughly 1 Million People had gathered on the ground to watch this historic event. That included half of the u. S. Congress. These 3 astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of the world. The u. S. 1969. The year before i was born. The astronauts were now im strong, but, and michael collins. And the mission was apollo 11. Armstrong and aldrin went on to make history a little more than 100 hours later. When with more than one third of the earths the earth watching, word listening live. They became the first humans to ever set foot on the moon. The apollo 11 mission would go on to make history again. A little less than 100 hours after that, as the First Mission not o
Democracy. Correct nasa administrator bill nelson testified on President Biden 2025 budget request for the agency before the house science, space, and technology committee. He was asked to comment on a number of topics including u. S. russia space relations for de orbiting of International Space station, competition with china and Public Private partnerships. This is two hours and 15 minutes. The committee will come to order. That objection shares authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. Welcome to todays hearing entitled an overview of the teBudget Proposal for the natiol aeronautics and Space Administration for fiscal year 2025. I recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. Today we hear testimony from administrator nelson about the president s25 Budget Proposal fr nasa for fiscal year 2025. This committee plays an Important Role in nasas mission by providing policy direction authorizing activities for the agency. While we make progress with language
Write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Exactly. A dropped pass. I was a wide receiver on a rung team, and that mean i block a lot versus catching passes. We were at our homecoming game. I was run downing the sideline their ball was perfectly thrown any hand and i dropped the touchdown pass in my hands. And the thing is, a scout was there from the university of richmond looking to see if could i play football for the team. He walked out of stadium, my coach, jimmy green, believed in me, he said get back out there spring same play. This time i caught the ball. That one catch resulted in 180,000 scholarship to the university of richmond because the coach said he didnt give up. He consistent going. That was the grit the persevere and a second chan. Host high dud you get from playing for the university of richmond spiders to two Space Shuttle missions. Guest i think the turning a season from 010 around to 38, to 85 and playoffs, brought the College Scout the pro scouts down, and t
And that is astronaut Leland Melvin. And, mr. Melvin, you write that your book is called chasing space, and you write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Guest exactly. A dropped pass. So i was a wide receiver on a running team, and that means that i block a lot versus catching passes. We were at a homecoming game, i was running down the sideline, the ball was perfectly thrown io my hand, and i drop a touchdown pass in my hands. And the thing is, a scout wasro there from the university of richmond looking to see if i could play football for the team. He walked out of the stadium. My coach, jimmy green, believed in me. Get back out there, run the same play. That one catch resulted in a 180,000 scholarship to the university of richmond becauseep the coach said he didnt give up, he kept going. So that was the grit and the perseverance and the second chance. Host how did you get from playing for the university of retch monday spiders to richmond spiders to two Space Shuttle missions
International panel this morning and i will introduce each of our Panel Members. The first one is a member of the emirate mars Strategic Planning team. The duties are to ensure the impact of good journey to mars will be sustainable, leaving it an everlasting effect. He is also the cofounder of the bowels of show, which is a Youtube Channel aimed at making Science Technology accessible to our youth in that area and has been quite successful. So, said. [applause] next is shooed shirov the readers working not for Human Spaceflight Technology directorate in japan. He received his degree in the special icing and design of intelligent controller for an economist walking robot under microgravity environment. She is currently in charge of the japanese human and nonhuman exploration ive been mainly in the Architectural Design of Space Systems to the moon and mars. [applause] our third panel member this morning is from the palace building a space corporation. He has been the large project Design