Tag: National Space Council
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National Space Council meeting to discuss legislative proposal for new space activities framework
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers opening remarks at the first meeting of the National Space Council, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington. Chaired by Vice President Harris, the council’s role is to advise the President regarding national space policy and strategy, and ensuring the United States capitalizes on…
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Biden administration renews mandate for National Space Council
President Biden speaks with members of the Perseverance rover team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on March 4. Credit: White House photo by Adam Schultz President Biden will renew the National Space Council, a space policy group revived by the Trump White House after 25 years of dormancy, to assist in “generating national space policies,…
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Two Washington state women join ‘Artemis Team’ to go on NASA’s moon missions
Artemis astronauts Kayla Barron and Anne McClain have roots in Washington state. (NASA Photos) NASA today named the first 18 astronauts of its “Artemis Team” for missions to the moon — and two of the teammates trace their roots to Washington state. One of the pair, Anne McClain, was born in Spokane and went on…
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Trump reauthorizes U.S. Space Command
Air Force Gen. Jay Raymond, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence participated in a White House ceremony Thursday to reestablish U.S. Space Command. Credit: Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour President Trump reestablished U.S. Space Command in a White House ceremony Thursday, setting up a unified combatant…
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National Space Council meeting highlights moon and Mars plan – plus nuclear power
Vice President Mike Pence delivers opening remarks during the sixth meeting of the National Space Council at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. The space shuttle Discovery towers over him. (NASA Photo / Aubrey Gemignani) The latest meeting of the National Space Council provided a forum to build…
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VP Mike Pence sets 5-year deadline for landing Americans at moon’s south pole
Vice President Mike Pence addresses the audience attending a meeting of the National Space Council at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., with an American flag, space artifacts and rocket models in the background. (NASA via YouTube) Vice President Mike Pence today called for American astronauts to return to the moon in…
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Space Force plan moves forward amid heightened talk about final-frontier fights
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao flank Vice President Mike Pence during a meeting of the National Space Council at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. (C-SPAN Video) The National Space Council today pushed forward recommendations to raise the profile of military space activities, at first through a combined U.S.…
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NASA administrator says Russians on track for December Soyuz flight to station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks at a meeting of the National Space Council on Tuesday in Washington. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Russian engineers have a “really, really good idea” about what went wrong during a Soyuz launch to the International Space Station Oct. 11, forcing the ship’s two-man crew…
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50 years after Apollo moonshots, will rivalry with China spark a new space race?
NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt stands next to the U.S. flag on the moon with Earth hanging in the black sky above during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. (NASA Photo) WASHINGTON, D.C. — An American rivalry with China could stoke a new space race in the years ahead, prominent members of the space community said at…
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President Trump directs Pentagon to create ‘separate but equal’ Space Force
President Donald Trump speaks at a White House meeting of the National Space Council, with Vice President Mike Pence standing beside him and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao sitting in the background. (White House / NASA via YouTube) President Donald Trump today directed the Department of Defense to create a Space Force as the sixth branch…