Today to hear testimony on the Trump Administrations budgetary and policy priorities in the middle east for fiscal year 2020. We look forward to hearing from witnesses about the fy 20 budgets for the department of state Near Eastern Affairs bureau as well usaid bureau for the middle east. Thank the witnesses for appearing today. I recognize myself for purposes of making an opening statement. Thank you assistant ebt secretary shanker and administrator harvey for testifying today. Nearly three years in the Trump Administration, the United States face as multitude of challenges in the middle east. While the administration touts maximum pressure policy, iran continues to detablize countries from iraq yemen and leb ondespite President Trumps rhetoric tehran that is laufrmd attacks on International Shipping and regional states. Undermining u. S. Deterrence and credibility in the process. The Iranian Nuclear program is more advanced today than the day that President Trump took office. And the
Those online. Welcome to the mission to mars summit. Earth is not the center of the universe. Now, you either smile at me or smirk at me after saying this to please realize that it has only been a known and establish fact for over 400 years. Copernicusnicholas aoved it beyond a shadow of doubt. Humans can fly, that is a truth that has been with us for only over a century. Humans can walk on the moon, again only less than half a century a truth to us. Considering our time on the planet, these are short times to know these things. 16 years fromis now, a small crew of six women and men will be in route to mars. Yearsabout it, only 16 from now that can be true, too. ,ut if we want that to happen we today will have to ensure we keep track with our human mars program. Looking at you, my audience, i know i am looking at the experts that can make this happen. As you truly are the best and the brightest in all fields we need to send humans to mars. Lets show our resolve. Lets keep building the
Assistant manager of the children and teenager department welcome to our yvette this evening the official web site for our guest says it all the only person drafted to the nfl and then to fly in space a career in a vast body of experience is taking him from the gridiron as the administrator and beyond i mean to read a 50 miles above the earth beyond born in virginia before he went to university of virginia on a scholarship earning his bachelors degree in chemistry ennead a hamstring injury but in 1991 he received his masters degree from the university of virginia and in working to create optical fiber sensors resulting in publications of numerous scientific journals as well as the Health Monitoring team and was selected to be an astronaut 1998 and has logged more than 565 hours in space including two missions to the International Space station as a Mission Specialist since then appointed the head of nasa education serving with the cochair with Science Technology Engineering Mathematics
Humans can fly. Thats a truth that is only been with us for over a century. Humans can walk on the moon, again, less than half a century of truth to us. Considering our time as human species on the planet, those are all really short times to know these things. Now, what i expect that in 16 years of now, a small crew of six women and men will be en route to mars. Think about it, only 16 years from now that can be true, too. But if we want that to happen, we today will have to ensure that we keep track with our human mars program. Looking at you, my audience, i know that im looking at the experts that can make this happen. As you truly are the best and the brightest in all fields we need to send humans to mars. Lets show our resolve. Lets keep building the infrastructure needed. Lets keep testing and proofing. Lets make humans on mars and obvious fact, too. Lets get underway now. I now have a great pleasure to introduce to people that have worked diligently in getting humans off plan and
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. The eagle has landed. Now we can see you coming down. A moonshot for all of humanity. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. That first walk on the moon was over 40 years ago. In this hour well explore five great moon shots of today. Sending astronauts to mars 3d printing a human heart, creating a star on earth, flying from new york to london in an hour and mapping the human brain. Welcome to a gps special, moon shots for the 21st century. It was early december 2014 at cape canaveral. Beautiful morning for a launch in florida. But it felt a little bit like the days of apolo. Go. Bp. Go. Status check. Go delta. At the top of a delta 4 heavy rocket sat orion, the spacecraft nasa has designed for sending human beings to mars. Three, two, one, and liftoff. At dawn the dawn of orion, the new era of American Space exploration. It went farther into face than any