Rep. Frank Lucas
Frank Dean LucasHillicon Valley: Parler announces official relaunch | Google strikes news pay deal with major Australian media company | China central to GOP efforts to push back on Biden GOP leaders on three committees push Pelosi on stimulus markups READ: The Republicans who voted to challenge election results MORE (R-Okla.) on Tuesday stated strengthening investments in science will assist pave the best way for better achievements in packages like area exploration.
Talking at The Hill’s “Aspiration and Resilience: The New Space Age” occasion, Lucas stated he “equates science and the federal funding as figuring out what sort of future this nation has, and for that matter, the world.”
“If we put money into science, there is no such thing as a telling what potential the longer term has for all of us,” Lucas advised The Hill’s Steve Clemons.
.@RepFrankLucas: “I equate science and the federal funding in figuring out what sort of future this nation has…I’m optimistic that if we put money into science, there’s no telling what potential the longer term has for all of us” #TheHillSpace https://t.co/g7EdIXIWXz pic.twitter.com/4wy1mIbhxb
— The Hill Occasions (@TheHillEvents) February 16, 2021
Lucas, who serves as rating member of the Home Science, Area and Expertise Committee, stated he expects constant help and federal funding for science and expertise through the Biden administration.
He additionally stated that the Artemis Program is necessary in creating expertise that may allow Mars exploration. The Artemis Program goals to place the primary girl, and the subsequent man, on the moon by 2024.
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, who additionally spoke at Tuesday’s occasion underwritten by the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, stated that along with the Artemis Program she was excited by the quantity of collaboration on NASA missions.
“There’s definitely fairly a little bit of what we’re doing in area, in microgravity, that transfers to our understanding and data that continues our understanding within the medical discipline in addition to many others,” stated Watkins, one among 18 astronauts engaged on the Artemis Program.
.@NASA_Astronauts Jessica Watkins: “I’m tremendous excited in regards to the Perseverance Rover that is going to be touchdown on Thrusday, in addition to the UAE Mars Probe, in addition to the Chinese language Martian probe. It’s simply an thrilling time for Mars” #TheHillSpace https://t.co/g7EdIXIWXz pic.twitter.com/GMz5Lm84U7
— The Hill Occasions (@TheHillEvents) February 16, 2021
