And now we welcome to the podium ngas chair, governor steve bullock. Gov. Bullock good afternoon, everybody. I hope everyone enjoyed yesterdays policy sessions and social events. We had governors only breakfast. Oh there is governor herbert. Governor herbert, again, i think i could speak for everyone in saying that the tabernacle choir was just absolutely incredible. [applause] gov. Bullock so thank, not you, but the first lady, because i know she did most of the work the last couple days, hosting is at the s i, you have a wonderful office building. Today, we kick off a celebration of americas space program. The one instruction to me about to myannot take this 12yearold son, so i will not touch it, but to get us started, i will recognize my friend and nga vice chair Governor Hogan of maryland. [applause] good morning, everybody. As you know, we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of apollo 11. And the moon landing represents one of humanitys greatest achievements. This story is often told through the eyes of three courageous astronauts. But what we could not on our Television Sets that night was the years of painstaking work. Done by more than 400,000 americans who made this historic 24,000mile journey to the stars possible. It truly was a feat of American Ingenuity and spirit. At the heart of this effort were the men and women of americas space program. And this anniversary is a great opportunity to say thank you. In maryland, we have the goddard Space Flight Center, which is home to Hubble Space Telescope operations, and goddard served as the Main Control Center for communications during all Apollo Missions in the 1960s. Marshall Space Flight Center and governor iveys state of alabama, is one of nasas largest Field Centers with 6000 employees. Marshall developed rocket engines and tanks for our Space Shuttles and built sections of the International Space station, and it was at marshall where they designed, built, and helped launch the saturn 5 rocket that carried the astronauts of apollo 11 to the moon. We were very fortunate to have with us today the director of the marshall center. Her 32year nasa career includes decades in the Space Shuttle program. She guided the successful fly on ut retirement of the shuttle in 2011. She was one of the programs managers for the space launch system program, where she helped lead the development of the most powerful rocket ever built. Among the honor she has received the nasa outstanding leadership metal and the president ial rank of meritorious executive award, the highest honor for career federal employees. So please join me in giving a very warm welcome to jody singer. [applause] dir. Singer good morning. This is a wonderful event to participate in. I am looking forward to telling you a little bit about nasa. On behalf of the National Aeronautics and space administration, nasa, i thank you for the opportunity to tell you about my job, tell you about my passion and talk about what we do to explore, discover, and inspire the next generation. But i would like to start with a first, video about nasa and our plans to return to the moon. So, jordan, if you could roll the video. [video clip] ignition sequence start. All engines we have taken tremendous steps. Pres. Kennedy we choose to go to the moon before this decade is out. We have achieved the earthshaking, the breathtaking, the groundbreaking. Mr. Armstrong one small step for a man. And left a mark in the heavens. Our successes build one upon the other and amplify what is possible. It is time we take the next great leap. We are building the next chapter of american exploration, returning to the moon to stay, so we can go beyond, to mars, to expand what is possible and further our understanding. The architecture for these missions is already taking shape. We will go with new systems, bold designs, and a sustainable mission. You can hear it, taste it, touch it, we are going. We are training, testing, pressing our Pioneering Spirit into every component, defining our resolve with every line of code, and securing our success with every launch. With every welcome to partnership. This is not hypothetical, this is not about flags and footprints. This is about Sustainable Science and feeding forward the advance of the human spirit. Because we are the pioneers, the star sailors, the thinkers, the visionaries, the doers. And because we stand on the shoulders of giants to go farther than humanity has ever been, we will add our names to those of the greatest adventurers in history. Every day, every mission, we advance this cause. We are nasa. And after 60 years, we are just getting started. [end of video clip] dir. Singer so hopefully that woke you up. [applause] dir. Singer so i am blessed to get to work on the nations program. And im very proud. But one of the things i want to make sure you walk away today with is understanding the investment in space, and it provides direct economic benefit and creates a variety of jobs in each of your states. I hope each of you see some of the goodies that we put in front of you. You have a nasa sticker, nasa pin, and you also have a Bumper Sticker that hopefully you will display on your bumper, you want to take home with you, and it basically says space runs through exploration. I picked governor herbert of utah. Since i happen to be in utah. It is a fun Bumper Sticker. Please enjoy. I want you to know you are part of it. Also, im a little bit of show and tell, too. Hopefully each and everyone of you finds this little thing that says the United States. I can say stars that have fallen all over the United States, and the reason i have that chart is it shows more than 3000 Companies Across the u. S. Over the 50 states, so, yes, your state is actively involved in the exploration program. You can look and see different stars were different sizes. Those different sizes to pick the amount of companies that you have, and if you would like to provide the Different Companies that support aerospace and our mission, not only human exploration, to science, technology, i will be glad to provide that at some point in time. So, again, you are part of it. Now i would like to talk about how nasa is doing. I want to talk about our plans, and how we can use the moon to go further, and we say the moon lights the way. So lying in wait, obviously we have to talk about apollo. Those who are old enough, hopefully you remember what you were doing, probably watching it on a black and white tv. You remember maybe what happened. Those who werent alive, i will tell you. Hopefully you understand the benefits that it gives. So last week, we celebrated the apollo 11 mission, which captured not only our nation but the worlds attention. It demonstrated the power of americas vision and technology to inspire. It represents the greatest engineering and scientific achievements of our lifetime. Many of those benefits we enjoy today come from those missions. Can you think about how you would do it today without your computer, without your cell phone, without tang . [laughter] dir. Singer could you survive a minute without your cell phone . Willeturning to the moon only do more for us to be able to change civilization. That is why nasa is committed to achieving the goals of Space Exploration, innovation, and discovery. So, the charge. Many of you have heard the president and Vice President in march challenged us in huntsville, alabama, my home base at marshall Space Flight Center, but he challenged all of nasa and our space center there and said i want our nation to be committed to returning americans to the moon and charged us to accelerate having boots on the moon by 2024 and have a sustained presence by 2028. This accelerated approach brings our nation, our workforce and economic base into play. We are thankful for the bipartisan support that is helping us pave the way for a sustainable return to the moon and taking this on to the next giant leap, which is sending astronauts to mars. So the best accomplish this goal, nasa is Going Forward to the moon under a program called artemis. The Artemis Program, if you didnt know, artemis is the twin sister of apollo. The twin sister of apollo, artemis, is the goddess of the moon, so very appropriate. So artemis personifies nasas path to the moon. So these sustainable steps is we are building on missions the that takes a sustainable presence not just going and planting a flag but sustainable presence that will take us forward. So why go to the moon . Many of us could pick different reasons. We could talk about strategic leadership, we can talk about global participation, but one of the things that is passionate to me is talking about the s. T. E. M. , the science, technology, engineering and math. Apollo spun off many folks that were inspired to go into s. T. E. M. , and what we want to do today, if you think about youngsters in the class today, the ones in junior high or Grammar School are the next astronauts going to mars. We really want to challenge them to go the route. Telling you how we will get there. I will give you a quick summary. If you look at the top of the chart, it talks about how we will be able to go from earths surface and think about today, we have an International Space station 200 miles out. We have vehicles going commercial to do that. We are trying to go to hundred 50,000 miles out and eventually on about 2 million miles out. So it requires a different vehicle. That vehicle is the space launch system and the orion vehicle, which is capable of taking them there. It is broken into missions, which is a crewed mission, an uncrewed mission in the 21 timeframe and the artemis mission, artemis 2, which is the first time we will have humans on the surface of the moon, not just going to the surface of the moon but going to the south pole for the first time. In addition, there are other assets we have to have been place. A gateway to allow flexibility for safe return, pressurized crew module and the artemis 3 in 2024. In parallel, there are other things we are supporting, with commercial launch vehicles, the systems we have to have in place to go forward, because that will be part of understanding the solar and understanding the moon, understanding the soil, and understanding where we want to land to get the critical information we need. Again, really kind of giving it better access, that is, a parallel path to success, not an or, its an and, the ability to launch crew on the orion and sls and the ability to launch cargo on commercial crew. So it truly is an and. I would love, i get to take this rocket home with me. I will tell you, this is the space launch system. It is built by contractors all over the United States, from utah to the motors to the engines. You think about california, you think about all over the place, as well as colorado, you name it, and it is over 3000 employees involved, excuse me, 3000 companies that are involved over the 50 states. It truly is a National Program that gives over 60,000 jobs, so it truly is a national vehicle. The success of artemis will provide a sustainable presence in space, but what else needs to be sustainable . I will tell you, not only having the largest vehicle ever built but also takes you on a mission but also having skills to build it and all the things we need. It is more than an economic benefit but inspiration and investments that we have a big investment is in our workforce. The workforce nasa is passionate about, as the chart says inspire, innovate, explore. , we promote education. We have a large component of what we do, and i personally go out and talk to young folks and encourage them to follow s. T. E. M. , and it is critical we hit them at an early age. Enhancing education opportunities, internship programs, pathways, cooperative programs, engaging k12, examples include in the righthand corner, where we have a rover, you have teams that come together from all over the United States and the world to be able to compete in these competitions. Put together these machines, they have to be able to operate it, and we put them through obstacles just like they are on the terrain of the moon and mars. It is 18 building and characterbuilding exercise, and we have folks that volunteer. Also we have participation where we look at new technologies, new technologies in each of your states, that we are participating with you in and that includes advanced manufacturing, material processing, advanced things we have to have where life systems get involved, very critical. We promote these engagements and it results in spinoffs. Did you know that more than 1800 recorded spinoffs come from nasa and the participation that we have with many of your contractors and communities . So the Artemis Program will continue what apollo did, what shuttle did and continue to have the spinoffs that include examples of advanced manufacturing where you have to have parts that are made in half the time and have to still in the space environments and withstand it. It is amazing, that ability. I will tell you in closing the benefits from exploration have a significant impact, and we will see many more as we explore the future. The future is so bright, it is unimaginable the things, things we knew before, we cant imagine what we know today and what we will know in the future. Things we will be doing 50 years from now when im speaking at a governors convention. It will be something. I may be in a wheelchair but we will see. They will prop me up, but do keep in mind, all seriousness, every dollar invested in space doesnt go to space, it stays here on earth. It helps communities grow, helps economic benefit, gives inspiration, it gives academia a place to definitely work and partner together. Apollo missions were what was good for space, good for the United States, and its even more true today. Just like apollo, we expect artemis investment to pay off, dividends on our economy. Result in new and gamechanging activities and definitely to be , an inspiration to the future generations. I love what i do, i encourage everybody participate in it. We have a tremendous challenge, i wont tell you, cheating gravity and being part of Space Exploration is not challenging. We learn something every day, because we are doing something that hasnt been done before, we are doing it in a different way. And challenging a Diversity Team to be able to do that too. We have a tremendous challenge ahead. The payoffs and benefits are wonderful. Today, we must decide as a nation. If you want to continue our legacy of american preeminence, in technology, and science and exploration, or do we want to take a backseat and watch as other nations define our future and define where we can be . I dont know about you, but i can tell you, just like the chart says, lets go. The time is now, i am ready to go, im ready to lead, and thank you for your support. Lets go launch. [applause] dir. Singer thank you, so much. I know we are trying to adhere to schedule. I work for nasa, so we have to launch and land on time. But it is up to you, any questions, or anything i would be willing to entertain, or if not, during a break, i will be around and i would love to do that, too. Gov. Bullock i think we have time, if anyone has questions . Governor herbert . Gov. Herbert thank you for the presentation. I have lived long enough to watch the apollo landing and in the beginning, i heard president kennedy saying we are going to go to the moon. Charge us all up. Tell me on the fiscal side of it, because washington doesnt seem to have any way to balance their budget now. Is this going to be an added problem . How we are going to pay for it . And how it is going to cost buzz aldrin wants to go to mars as soon as we can. What is the cost of this going to be . Dir. Singer from the budget we have today, it is critical, the bipartisan support makes a huge difference, and the ability to have sustained funding makes a difference for us to have a sustainable path of being able to get there. Nasas budget is somewhere in the 21 million, and that is only a fourth of a percentage point of the national budget. So we do a lot with a little, but we do know every dime count, so i will tell you the budget we get, we appreciate. We put it to definite use. We are very conscious of spending the dollars. It does matter to have the same process, because not only does that sustained funding make a difference for our large companies, it also makes a difference for the vendors, because the vendors also need in each one of your states needs that sustained funding to keep going, to keep the Technology Going and for us to have boots on the moon by 2024. Gov. Herbert there is also an economic benefit we received from the space program. We joke best night about tang. I know we joked about that last night. Dir. Singer [laughs] i picked that up from you last night. Gov. Herbert there are a lot of things we enjoy today that came out of the development of the space program. Is there any economic estimate of what that spun off to be for us for our economy . Dir. Singer i know we have over 1800 spinoffs. I dont in front of me have the exact dollar value. There is spinoffs we can talk about and then intangible benefits like we talked about, the use of your cell phone to phone, help in medical activities, think about things even Northrop Grumman in your has talked about the ability to work with landmines, get rid of those, the things you see in a safety airbag to the medical as well as medical equipment that is used, but i would be glad to be able to get that information and give you specifics. That would be great because it really does, the spinoff does make a difference. Gov. Bullock one last question, governor ducey. Gov. Ducey great presentation. I am a