Keeping Our Sights on Mars: A Review of NASA’s Deep Space Exploration Programs and Lunar Proposal

Subcommittee on Space Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 Time: 02:00 PM Location: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building

Opening Statements

Chair Kendra Horn (D-OK) of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics

Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)

Witnesses

Mr. William H. Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator, Human Exploration and Operations, National Aeronautics and Space Administration [Truth in Testimony]

Mr. Mark Sirangelo, Special Assistant to the Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration [Truth in Testimony]

Dr. Jonathan Lunine, Director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Co-Chair of the Former Committee on Human Spaceflight, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [Truth in Testimony]

Dr. Patricia Sanders, Chair, Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel [Truth in Testimony]

Mr. Walt Faulconer, President, Faulconer Consulting Group, LLC [Truth in Testimony]