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Again i want to think the members for coming here and providing a quorum, i do want to announce we will not vote on brian miller who is nominated to be the special Inspector General for the pandemic recovery. I appreciate the cooperation that we got from the Ranking Member and then one order he this is an important position and oversight of the cares act, massive spending bill and will fully support those oversight efforts. I worked with senator peters on a different version of oversight on this to pass the care act, and a appreciate that as well. We will just be able to discharge the nominee ...

About the stratobowl and the stratosphere flight, and sending man up above the stratosphere. Essentially, the rapid city area is the home of the first spaceflight. What the National Geographic and u. S. Army air corps did was they decided to Work Together to make this happen. They wanted to find a natural shape to rest the balloon and the gondola in. They were looking for a bowl area, not only to spread out the balloon on the ground, but also that natural bowl shape protects the gondola the first couple thousand feet as it goes up. They scoured all of north america for a place. They had a coup...

Space center in texas, which does man missions. We provide some of the systems that will fit into that mission, but we are not the Overall Mission providers. We are at nasas John Glenn Research Center in cleveland, ohio. We are the third oldest of the nasa centers. We broke ground on january 3, 1941. We predate nasa by a little under 18 years. Naca, which extends for the National Advisory committee for aeronautics, was founded in 1915, in the infancy of aviation in this country to study this new technology and figure out how we can harness it for economic, military use. But prior to this cente...

Thank you. [applause] mr. Holbrook howdy. Jfk emphasized the importance of the space race during a time of fear in the u. S. Incredible men and women took this challenge head on. Nasa became a beacon of hope for the nation. I am honored to introduce one of those legends. The man who pioneered apollo 11 and apollo 13. If you have ever heard the phrase houston, Tranquility Base is here, the eagle has landed. With great honor, i am here to introduce houston. Mr. Gene kranz. [applause] mr. Kranz thank you. It is a real privilege. I have a couple aggies in the family. To be introduced by an aggie. ...

Which one . O geometry and speaking geometry and speaking. I prefer it over euclidean coordinates. Catherine has had the fortune of having hollywood shine a light on her life. There are people right here in West Virginia that had no idea of what Katherine Johnson did for nasa and United States of america. When the movie Hidden Figures came out, it showed everyone who Katherine Johnson was, what she did and how profound she was in the pages of american history. She was hired as what they called then a computer. She simply came in and did mathematical equations for nasa. But they did not realize...