Mike Pence
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Vice President Pence Talks Future Human Space Exploration at NASA’s Johnson Space Center
Vice President Mike Pence, with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, will visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Thursday, Aug. 23, to discuss the future of human space exploration and the agency’s plans to return to the Moon as a forerunner to future human missions to Mars. The event will be held at 12:45 p.m. CDT in the Teague Auditorium at…
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Press Releases
New Space Policy Directive Calls for Human Expansion Across Solar System
President Donald Trump is sending astronauts back to the Moon. The president Monday signed at the White House Space Policy Directive 1, a change in national space policy that provides for a U.S.-led, integrated program with private sector partners for a human return to the Moon, followed by missions to Mars and beyond. The policy calls for the NASA administrator…
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NASA
NASA Statement on National Space Council Policy for Future American Leadership in Space
Video: Complete National Space Council Meeting The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot about the results from the first meeting of the National Space Council on Thursday: “It was my pleasure today to attend the first meeting of the new National Space Council. The council includes government leaders from civil and military space, and the group…
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Vice President Pence Visits NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Makes First White House-level Call to Space Station Crew from Center Vice President Mike Pence offered his thanks Monday to employees working on NASA’s human spaceflight programs during a tour of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Vice President saw the progress being made on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful deep space rocket, that…
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