dr. swanson. it's a lot of excitement on this end watching you. i'd like both of you to comment on the aspects of international space station program that is most important in enabling human space exploration beyond the current orbit. >> i don't want to take your entire day up. i could talk about this subject forever. really, it's getting humans into lower orbit and having us live up here. right now, for six months at a time, and in just a little over a year, we'll have scott kelly up here for an entire year. and it's all the things that happen to the human body and also what our spacecraft needs to provide to us like oxygen to breathe, water to drink, all the food, the supplies, and just running this machine through its paces over six months or even a year at a time. that's what we're going to need when we go onward to mars and spend two erthree years in space. we need to test all this stuff now on the space station so in a decade or so, we can head on to mars and have a successful journey. >> th

dr. swanson. excitement on this end watching you. i'd like both of you to comment the as respects of the international space station program that's most important. and enabling human space beyond the earth orbit. >> well, i don't want to take your entire day up, i could talk about this subject forever. intoy it's getting humans low earth orbit and having us live up here right now for six months at a time. a year we'llver have scott kelly up here for an entire year, and it's all the human that happen to the body and also what our spacecraft needs to provide to like oxygen, to breathe, water to drink, all the food, the supplies and just running this machine through its paces over six months or even a year time, that's what we're going to need when we go onward and spend two or three years in space. so we knee to test this stuff on the space station, so in a decade or so we did go to mars successful journey. >> mr. hall is recognized. thank you forn, i linking our committee to these two astronauts. i remember the house floor on june 23,

dr. swanson third space flight. he received a bachelor of science and engineering in physics at the university of colorado and a masters from florida atlantic university and his doctor from texas a and m university. reid wiseman began his career as a naval aviator. commander wiseman was selected for the astronauts program in 2009 while deployed to the middle east. you may recognize him from the many twitter pictures he posted. he has over 160,000 followers. he earned his bachelor degree from the poly tech income and a masters from john hopkins university. let me go to the mechanics and let me thank the members present for their interest and participation as well. we will do ow best to move through questions and answers as efficiently as possible. questions for the astronauts today will alternate between the majority and minority and each side has ten minutes and each member has two minutes. to the extent members can be brief. we will not go over the 2 minute limit and all or more members will be able to ask question

dr. swanson. it is a lot of excitement on this end watching you. i would like both of you to comment on the aspects of the international space station that is most important in enabling human space exploration the on the earth orbit. i don't want to take your entire day. i could talk about this forever. really, it is getting humans into lower orbit and having us live up here. just a little bit over a year, we will have scott kelly of here for an entire year. it is all of the things that happen to the human body and what our spacecraft needs to provide to us like oxygen, to breathe water to drink, all of the food, the supplies, just running this machine through in places over six months or even a year at a time. that is what we will need when we go onward to mars and spent two or three years in space. we need to test this now on the space station so that in a decade or so, we can have a successful journey. texas istleman from recognized. >> i thank you for linking our committee to these two astrona