Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday led a meeting of the National Space Council in...
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris chairs the National Space Council Meeting at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022.In September 1962, President John F. Kennedy came to Houston and announced a dramatic plan to get Americans to the moon and then come back.
Harris on Friday spoke during her first visit to the space center, where she led a meeting of the National Space Council, a group of senior federal officials that coordinates policy between NASA and other agencies involved with space. Harris is the chairperson of the council. The agencies involved in space council are seeking to expand the number of people working in science, technology, engineering and math fields, to find ways to use space technology to analyze and address climate change and to develop “rules and norms” to govern space activities as more countries expand their own space programs.
Harris and other speakers said that the growing space industry needed not only engineers and scientists, but highly trained technical workers, like welders and machinists to continue sending more rockets, satellites and other technology to support permanent missions the moon, Mars and beyond. Harris announced during the meeting that she had asked the Department of Education to create a space-based STEM program within the next 90 days.
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