Vice President Kamala Harris will preside over her second Nationwide Area Council assembly on Friday (Sept. 9), and you’ll watch it dwell.
The assembly, held at NASA’s Johnson Area Heart in Houston, is scheduled to start at 2:20 p.m. EDT (1840 GMT), in accordance with the vice president’s schedule (opens in new tab). We count on NASA or the White Home to livestream the assembly. If that occurs, you’ll be able to watch it right here at Area.com when the time comes, or entry the livestream directly via The White House (opens in new tab).
The Nationwide Area Council (NSC) helps form American space coverage. It is made up of a number of dozen authorities officers, together with the NASA administrator, the secretary of protection and the vp, who chairs the physique.
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Friday’s assembly would be the second of the NSC underneath Harris. The primary was held at america Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 1, 2021.
Throughout final 12 months’s assembly, Harris laid out key space priorities for the administration of President Joe Biden, which embrace utilizing satellites to check local weather change, tackling the rising space-junk downside and serving to to ascertain norms of accountable habits off Earth.
Harris made an appearance at a high-profile space occasion lower than two weeks in the past: She flew right down to Florida’s Area Coast for the deliberate Aug. 29 launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 mission to the moon. That try was scrubbed, nonetheless, by a technical concern.Â
A second attempt on Sept. 3 additionally was nixed; NASA is now working to get the uncrewed Artemis 1 aloft on Sept. 23 or Sept. 27.
Mike Wall is the creator of “Out There (opens in new tab)” (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a ebook in regards to the seek for alien life. Observe him on Twitter @michaeldwall (opens in new tab). Observe us on Twitter @Spacedotcom (opens in new tab) or on Facebook (opens in new tab). Â
