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VP Commercial Space Event In Oakland

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
August 12, 2022
VP Commercial Space Event In Oakland
Vice President Harris delivers remarks about how the Biden-Harris Administration will support the commercial space sector

Remarks by Vice President Harris On Supporting the Commercial Space Sector

The United States, you see, is the flag of choice for space activities. It is the flag of choice. And with that comes great opportunity but also great responsibility in terms of what course we will chart for the work that happens here on Earth that will then maximize the opportunities in space.

So our nation is entering a new era. And that new era includes considering and thinking about our exploration in space, and how we use space, and are we prepared for the possibilities but also the challenges.

To that end, we understand that we have got to update the rules, because they’re just simply outdated. They were written for a space industry of the last century. And when I was going through here just today, speaking with some of our innovators and looking at where the technology has grown in just the last decade, we know that we really are quite behind in terms of maximizing our collective understanding about how we will engage on the technology of today and what we can quickly and easily predict will be the technology over the next decades.

So, to maintain our position as the United States of America on this issue, it is critical that we work together to understand where we are; to recognize and have the courage to speak truth about what is obsolete; and then to partner to ensure that we are speaking the same language, with the same motivation, inspired by the opportunity of it at all, but then doing the work of updating how we have been talking and thinking about our exploration in space.

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

One response to “VP Commercial Space Event In Oakland”

  1. Todd Austin says:
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    I’m struggling to understand the point of this exercise. Was there any real substance? I can’t help but recall Nixon’s travels in Alabama as his presidency was falling apart, in a desperate search for a friendly audience. The effort was immortalized memorably by Garry Trudeau in 1974: https://www.gocomics.com/do

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