February 20th
Vice President Pence returned to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral
Florida. He took to the podium to head a meeting of the newly re-established National
Space Council.
Back in
July, Vice President Pence visited the space center to speak to the employees
about the on-going programs. He also toured facilities that hosts the programs.
During this
visit, he toured Kennedy Space Center once more as well as the Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station. He also participated in the reception hosted by the Aerospace
Industry.
The main
focus for this meeting was for the Vice President to host the second meeting of
National Space Council. This meeting was held in Kennedy Space Center’s Space Station
Processing facility. This meeting was to emphasize the importance of the United
Station’s missions into space. The meeting went into detail about the United
States being the worlds leader when it came down to space exploration. The
theme of the meeting was titled, “Moon, Mars and the World Beyond: Winning the Next
Frontier”. It included speakers that are leaders in commercial, civil and
security sectors of space exploration.
The National
Space Council’s role is to advise the President of the best strategies for the
country’s space policies and to review the nations goals for space travel. The
members include people in civil and military space programs.
President
Trump has given the agency a budget $19.9 billion and has directed NASA to extend
it exploration to the outer reaches of our solar system.
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