{"id":56331,"date":"2021-11-08T21:21:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/vp-harris-announces-dec-1-national-space-council-meeting-during-nasa-visit\/"},"modified":"2021-11-08T21:21:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:21:53","slug":"vp-harris-announces-dec-1-national-space-council-meeting-during-nasa-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/vp-harris-announces-dec-1-national-space-council-meeting-during-nasa-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Harris Announces Dec. 1 National Space Council Meeting During NASA Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris made her first visit as vice president to <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Friday, Nov. 5, meeting with scientists and engineers to discuss how NASA\u2019s Earth science missions help address climate change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harris also announced that the Biden administration\u2019s first meeting of the National Space Council will be held on Dec. 1. Harris is chair of the council, which advises the president on space policy and strategy. In August, the White House announced that Chirag Parikh, senior director of Azure Space at <strong>Microsoft<\/strong>, will serve as the council\u2019s executive secretary.<\/p>\n<p>During her visit, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson unveiled the first images from Landsat 9, which was launched in September. These images will help monitor crop health and water used for irrigation, manage vital natural resources, and track the impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI truly believe space activity is climate action. Space activity is education. Space activity is also economic growth. It is also innovation and inspiration. And it is about our security and our strength,\u201d Harris said Friday. \u201cWhen it comes to our space activity, there is limitless potential.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris made her first visit as vice president to NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Friday, Nov. 5, meeting with scientists and engineers to discuss how NASA\u2019s Earth science missions help address climate change.&nbsp; Harris also announced that the Biden administration\u2019s first meeting of the National Space Council will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}