Vice President Harris to Visit NASA Goddard Today, Deliver Live Remarks
Editor’s Note: UPI reports that Harris will announce that the first meeting of the National Space Council under the Biden Administration will be held on Dec. 1.
GREENBELT, Md. (NASA PR) — Vice President Kamala Harris will visit NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland today, Nov. 5, to get a firsthand look at the agency’s work to combat the climate crisis and protect vulnerable communities.
The vice president will be joined by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leaders from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey. The group will tour climate-oriented space activities underway at Goddard and learn about collaboration among federal agencies on space missions that are central to tackling the climate crisis and improving our scientific understanding of Earth’s systems.
Following the tour, at around 4:45 p.m. EDT, the vice president will deliver remarks that will be streamed live on NASA Television, NASA social media, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.
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Don’t worry folks you didn’t miss anything. The eight minutes she spent speaking was 4 minutes of meaningless boilerplate plus 4 minutes of irrelevant blather. Apparently NASA is all about fighting Climate Change!
Poor poor NASA.
$L$ delenda est
I wonder how she’ll run the National Space Council (NSC) meeting.
Pence’s public NSC meetings were scripted affairs with the outcomes pre-decided, so more of an excercise in getting everyone on board with a policy and promoting that policy rather than a meeting for fact gathering, perspective gathering, debate, and decision making. Not saying that’s necessarily a bad way to do it, just I remember people were somewhat surprised after the first one
I think you misunderstand the division of labor at the Space Council. The Chair is supposed to conduct the public and scripted meetings. The “script” is supposed to be prepared well ahead of time by the Executive Secretary in actual consultation with all the other government and private sector participants. The Chair may, or may not, contribute to these preliminaries, but the contribution, if any, occurs in advance, not ad liberto as the cameras roll. Pence seems to have actually made such contributions on his watch. One suspects Harris will not. Either way, the Exec. Sec’y. does all or most of the detail work and heavy lifting. Under Trump that was a guy named Pace. Under Biden, it’s a guy named Parikh. Considering their common last initial, perhaps future Space Council Exec. Sec’ys should remain entirely anonymous and simply be referred to, in James Bond-like fashion as “P.”