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Reauthorizing the Vision for Space Exploration
Space, Aeronautics, and Related Sciences

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
09:30 AM
SR - 253
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The Subcommittee will consider the issues facing the upcoming reauthorization of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Subcommittee will examine challenges related to the retirement of the Space Shuttle and the transition to the new Orion/Ares system, the impending gap in U.S. human access to space, and the need to ensure a healthy and balanced research program.

The webcast will be audio only.

 

Witnesses

Opening Remarks

Panel 1
Mr. Eugene F. Kranz
Advisory Board Member
Coalition for Space Exploration
Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese
Chairman, National Security Decision Making Department
U.S. Naval War College
Dr. Frederick A. Tarantino
President
Universities Space Research Association
Major General Robert S. Dickman USAF (Retired)
Executive Director
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Mr. George T. Whitesides
Executive Director
National Space Society


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