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July 5th, 2017
Vice President Pence will chair the National Space Council.
Credit: White House
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and designated driver of the newly anointed National Space Council will visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 6.
NASA TV and the agency’s website will air live coverage for parts of the visit starting at noon EDT with Air Force Two’s arrival at Kennedy’s Shuttle Landing Facility runway, followed by a special address to the center’s workforce in KSC’s Vehicle Assembly Building at 1 p.m.
KSC tour
The vice president is slated to tour KSC and learn more about the center’s work as a multi-user spaceport for commercial and government clients, as well as see the agency’s progress toward launching from U.S. soil on spacecraft built by American companies, and traveling past the moon, and eventually on to Mars and beyond with the help of NASA’s new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket.
To view the Thursday July 6 event, go to:
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public
Also, go to this overview of the new National Space Council – promises and pitfalls, at:
https://www.leonarddavid.com/national-space-council-next-steps/
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