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This hearing is called to order. Welcome. 50 years ago, exactly what each week from today, at approximately 9 30 am, two 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. Including half of the United States congress. These three astronauts, as one of the newspapers put it at the time, carried with them the hopes of t...

[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...

Witnesses who are leaders in our National Space program to join us here today. Before i introduce them, i want to take a moment to acknowledge that while i cant imagine there being a better place to work than for the Strategic Forces subcommittee, apparently somebody thinks theres a better job in washington, d. C. We this will be the last hearing that steve cotay will be in his current position. Hes leaving to go to work for the secretary of defense, to be the assistant secretary of defense for ...

Like outside my window [ coyote howling ] today we had the 50s and 60s, not that much cooler than what we see right now. Napa was up to 90 from 48, which is pretty impressive. 62 it calistoga, and there are some morning greetings warmer readings. Overall lots of sunshine, and we have the fog yesterday, but not there today. We had this low on the way, changing our weather in a big way. One more day of 70s, and upgrading to 90s inland. 4 01 am. And here you are to tell us that the sharks won, 40. ...

As it relates to the relative scale people in different cultures. This is what i want to bring up. A lot of the disruption that people attribute of the last 15 to 20 years has had a great deal to do. Especially wto. An enormous surge the sharp decline. And fortunately much closer to equilibrium policy side an extra five years were not look anything like it. The disrupted power is underappreciated so it does not have i am in favor for negotiating trade agreements. We want surgery it to the most o...

Someone came out. He had information of a prisoner, came out. He had information. In some cases somebody goes into to something and the person he comes out and he says ive seen westerners. We had some cases of syrian prisoners been released escaping, seen westerners. Unfortunately, a lot of this wasnt realtime. Most of the time its like a hollywood movie. They slipped through our fingers. We have been in the location a week or two ago. We didnt have definitive realtime information until the host...

Some of us still believe in battleships, and we are not sure that alaska should have ever been made a state. [laughter] senator king p request with some trepidation, mr. Chairman i want to associate myself with the senator from alaskas questions. The arctic is emerging as any normally important and strategic area. We have one heavy icebreaker and one medium icebreaker. The estimates are the russians have 710 icebreakers. That is just basic infrastructure. And the resources up there and the strat...

Math. In june, 2011, Governor Rick Snyder was secretary of education education introduced a revolutionary experiment to improve michigans lowest performing schools, taking the bottom 5 and consolidating them into a staterun district. As a result, 15 schools formerly part of the Detroit Public School system are now in the hands of the Educational Achievement authority. Many have cited the lack of a democratic process to elect board trustees. Whenever you have a governor who takes and consolidates...

Newsroom starts right now. It is 4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. It is good to be back with you this day. We begin in the u. S. State of hawaii. Teams there on the ground set to resume the search for one person still missing after a tourist helicopter crash. The remains of six others on board have been recovered. Our Josh Campbell has the latest for you. The crash site in a remote area inside a state park in the northwest section of the island of kauai. This tour helicopter was one of many t...

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