the national advisory committee for aeronautics was transitions into the national aeronautics and space administration, nasa, from 1950 19 1968. this program investigates the hypersonic regime. it has to do that in testing this aircraft, the x-15 as an aerospace plane. no longer are we talking about airplanes in the atmosphere, here is a vehicle designed to transition from the earth's atmosphere into the ages of space. over the course of 199 flights, there are three x-15 built by north america. taking that formula and really pushing the idea of especially higher and faster, you are looking at a vehicle that, in its present form you see design for the hypersonic regime. what that means, is it has to be a vehicle that can fly the atmosphere. it has traditional controls, you allow it to maneuver in the atmosphere. but also it needs a new system. and if you look at the nose of the aircraft, you see those two holes in front of that white rectangle. those are reaction controlled jets. as the aerodynamic ability to control an aircraft goes away, it actually uses reaction control jets to contro

some even predate nasa to the national advisory committee for aeronautics. indeed 83% assess facilities are beyond their design life. it cost up to three times more to repair or replace equipment rather than maintenance that occurred escape. in 2013, the last time the committee examined, deferred maintenance backlog was estimated to cost $2.1 billion so now it's going to cost 2.66. probably represent the center owned and nasa's historic mission in houston and many other unique national capabilities like sonny carter neutral operatory that trained astronauts for spacewalk, experiment impact laboratory data studies the effects of high philosophy enchilada material. nasa's critical aircraft and materials acquisition in the office that studies materials for space. the test facility that test materials, because i represent one of the largest nasa centers, i am certainly aware of the challenges that nasa faces when it comes to infrastructure. there is no greater advocacy facilities which are critical asset. unfortunately, long-term infrastructure and maintenance i

>> i have been involved with the national vaccine advisory committee for two different appointments. over that period of time we have spent some time with the national vaccine plan and assessing on how well we are doing as a national level. i do think that messaging to individuals is important. the vast majority of people are not anti-vaxxers. they are vaccine questioners. they want information. with social media, and access to the internet. people have a lot of information that they cannot digest properly on their own. i do think that the role of the trusted provider, the trusted local leader whoever that person might be is going to be critical to providing information to people. helping them answer their questions. most people are questioning. there are new groups that we called vaccine apathy. people who do not see the value. we asked provider see the disease or -- we as providers see the diseases. explaining it and how it impacts them out of their family members helps. this comes out of information. so that they can actually provide the important information that are academic soc

a vaccine advisory committee. now with respect to other vaccines. the fact is the prior to just a few years ago. that's not just vaccines. against vaccines in principle but may. >> it came to those kind of vaccines as well. the state legislature made california national outlier. >> this vaccine has not yet been approved by the fda. and again, i think it gets back to the trust issue as well. the mmr vaccine has been. you know, we've been through flu epidemics before and we've never mandated the flu vaccine. parental choice is a real important thing here. i hope we get a chance to talk about. parental choice for all parents because they found out that they didn't really have much. >> i think the fda approved it. i think a lot more people would feel more comfortable getting it. >> i think you still have the problem is element. i was point out that there's some people that have. we've only done that once with the smallpox vaccine, which was a 100 times more lethal than covid and didn't have animal reservoir. >> newsome is requiring that all students and

joining me for more perspective is the world health organization advisory committee member and former national security staffer in the clinton administration. we haven't seen the full contents of the report yet. what we've seen even after 90 days review by the nation's intelligence experts say it is still unclear how the virus started. what does that tell you? >> it doesn't tell us much. this was a very important first step but this review was always a first step. now we need a full investigation to get to the bottom of this. there is a lot of evidence fully available and should be in china but even if the chinese government continues to not participate and prevent any investigation inside of china there are many other resources which we need access to and that is why this is a first step and we need to authorize the continuation of the biden intelligence review, a national covid, bipartisan commission, and need to ramp up international efforts to have the kind of full investigation that has never been mandated to date. >> isn't the bottom line if china doesn't cooperate unless there

advisory committees. environmental issues do not respect state nor agency boundaries, so interagency cooperation is needed. wyoming, for example, is home to nsf's national center for atmospheric research, with ample capacity to house multiagency efforts to serve doe, nsf and others for a court needed attack -- coordinated attack on environmental problems while also serving as a regional hub that anchors a new innovation economy. i urge the committee to explore such possibilities. the office of science is an extraordinary national asset. its efforts in advance computing must be strengthened as a key element of the modernization of our national scientific and innovation infrastructure. our overall effort needed to compete in the global economy must encompass assets from the universities, national labs, and industry, including rural regions of america for us to succeed in this global competition. >> thank you. i thank of the for your testimonies. i will start questioning. to the doctors, earlier this year, y

those include the colorado state advisory committee to the u.s. commission on civil rights and several others. but what impresses me most is her courage and her love of america and our precious freedom. helen became a citizen in 2013. and she takes her oath to protect and defend the united states of america very seriously. by publishing her latest book which is of course for sale out here in the lobby and she will be signing after tonight's event, her book "backlash how china's aggression has backfired." helen is shining a spotlight on the repressive tactics of the chinese communist party and is providing a wake-up call to americans who embrace socialist ideologies like those she and her families painfully endured in china. for this display of courage, helen has been ruthlessly attacked on social media and regularly receives hate mail in her inbox, even including death threats. yet, as helena says in "backlash, i can't remain silent on things that matter because as martin luther king jr. once said, our lives begin to end the day we become silent a

committee, we plan to start booster shots, third shots for those who receive the pfizer and moderna vaccines. >> as a nation, we are sending children back to school, some of them are already back in school, some of them will be going to school here in the next few weeks. they are unvaccinated largely. they are going back during a delta variant surge. in many cases they are going back to schools where they will not be wearing masks because they have been banned by some governors or school districts or even at the request of their parents. do you think we're going to see children dying because of this? >> well, brianna, first of all, there is nothing more important than the health of our kids, and so i'm glad we're talking about this. and i say this not just as a doctor, but as a dad with two kids who are too young to be vaccinated right now. the good news is still that even with the delta, we are seeing that our kids, by and large, do remarkably well in terms of coming out on the other end and recovering well even if they do get infected. with that said, we've seen our hospitals fill

committee, they didn't have to wait for the cdc to review it. they didn't have to wait for operation warp speed there's not a lot of steps in their process. they made a public decision based on expert guidance that they convened in a very public fashion. now, they have also seen data. they started vaccinating their population earlier than us, particularly their more vulnerable population. they have been seeing not just declining vaccine effectiveness but also rising incidences of more severe cases, particularly in their elderly population. we're starting to see that in the nursing home population, rising infections, and there is some data suggesting rising severe cases in the nursing home population, so i think we're going to start seeing potentially the same things they were seeing in their data a little earlier in fact that's what prompted cdc to give the booster starting september 20th i believe it was the data set they put out looking at nursing homes where you see a rising incidence of infections in previously vaccinated people. >> scott, t