steve steve bullock. >> i hope everyone enjoyed yesterday's policy sessions and social events. we had governors only breakfast. governor herbert, i think i could speak for everyone in the tabernacle choir which is absolutely incredible. so thank about you, the first lady, the last couple days, hosting is that the capital, a wonderful office building. we kick off the one instruction to me about america's space program is i can't take this my 12-year-old son so i'm not allowed to touch it but to get a start i will recognize my friend and nga vice chair cover hogan of maryland. good morning, everybody. >> we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of apollo 11 and the moon landing represents one of humanity's greatest achievements. and what we cannot see, the years of painstaking work. they made this journey to the stars possible. it is a feat of american ingenuity and spirit. at the heart of this effort were the men and women of america's space program. it is a great opportunity to say thank you. in maryland we have the goddard space flight center which is home to hubble space telescope operations and goddard served as the main control center for communications during all apollo missions in the 60s. marshall space flight center and governor iv's state of alabama is one of nasa's largest field centers with 6000 employees. marshall developed rocket engines and tanks for our space shuttles and built sections of the international space station and it was at marshall where they designed, built and helped launch the saturn 5 rocket that carried the astronauts of apollo 11 to the moon. we were very fortunate to have with us today the director of the marshall center for 32 year nasa career includes decades in the space shuttle program. she guided the successful fly on retirement of the shuttle in 2011. she was one of the program's managers for the space launch system program where she helped lead the developers of the most powerful rocket ever built. among the honor she has received are the nasa outstanding leadership metal and presidential rank of meritorious executive award, highest honor of her career federal employees, please join me in giving a warm welcome to jody singer. [applause] this is wonderful event to participate in. i will tell you a little bit about nasa. on behalf of the national aeronautics and space administration i thank you for the opportunity to tell you about my job, tell you about my passion and talk about what we do to explore, discover and inspire the next generation. i would like to start with a video about nasa and our plans to return to the moon. if you could roll the video. >> ignition sequence start. >> all engines -- >> we have taken tremendous steps. >> we choose to go to the moon. before this decade is out. >> we have achieved the earthshaking, the breathtaking, the groundbreaking. >> one small step for a man. >> a mark in the heavens. our successes build one upon the other. and what is possible. it is time we take the next great leap. we are building the next chapter of american exploration, returning to the moon tuesday so we can go beyond mars to expand what is possible and further our understanding. the architecture of these missions is already taking shape. we will go with new systems, bold designs and a sustainable mission. you can hear it, taste it, touch it, we are going. we are training, pressing our pioneering spirit every component, finding a resolve with every line of code in securing our success with every launch. this is not hypothetical, this is not about flags and footprints. this is about sustainable science, the advance of the human spirit. because we are the pioneers, star sailors, thinkers, visionaries, doers. because we stand on the shoulders of giants to go farther than humanity has ever been. we will add our names to the greatest adventurers in history every day, every mission, we advance this call. we are nasa. after 60 years we are just getting started. >> hopefully -- [applause] >> i am blessed to get to work on the nation's program. i'm very proud. one of the things i want to make sure you walk away today with his understanding the investment phase and it provides direct economic benefit and creates a variety of jobs in each of your states. i hope each of you see some of the goodies we put in front of you. you have a nasa sticker, nasa pin, and a bumper sticker and hopefully will display on your bumper you want to take home with you and it basically says through exploration. i picked governor herbert of utah. since i have to see that, it is a fun bumper sticker. please enjoy. i want you to know you are part of it. i -- a little bit of show and tell. hope each of you find a thing that shows the united states. i can say stars that have fallen all over the united states and the reason i show that chart is it shows 3000 companies across the us over the 50 states, your state is actively involved in the exploration program. look and see different stars of different sizes, different sizes to pick the amount of companies that you have and if you would like to provide the different companies that support our mission, not only human exploration, science, technology, i will be glad to provide that at some time. you were part of it. now i would like to talk about how nasa is doing. i want to talk about our plans, how we can use the moon to go further and we say the moon lights the way. in lying awake we have to talk about apollo. those who are old enough hopefully you remember what you were doing, probably watching it on a black and white tv. you remember maybe what happened. those who weren't alive i will tell you. hopefully you understand the benefits that you give. we celebrated the apollo 11 mission which captures not only our nation but the world's attention. it demonstrated the power of america's vision and technology to inspire. it represents the greatest engineering and scientific achievements, many of those benefits we enjoy today come from those missions. think about it, how you would do it today without your computer, without your cell phone, without tang. could you survive a minute without your cell phone to get returning to the moon will let us change civilization and that is why nasa is committed to achieving the goals of space exploration, innovation and discovery. many of you have heard the president and vice president in march challenged us in my home base at marshall space flight center, challenged all of that with the administrator and said i want our nation to be committed to returning americans to the moon and charged us to accelerate having boots on the moon by 2024 and have a sustained presence by 2028. this accelerated approach brings our nation, our workforce and economic base into play. we are thankful for the bipartisan support that is helping pave the way for a sustainable return to the moon and taking this on is the next giant leap which is sending astronauts to mars. nasa is going forward to the moon under a program called artemis. artemis program is if you didn't know, artemis is the twin sister of apollo. the twin sister of apollo, artemis, is the goddess of the moon so very appropriate. artemis personifies nasa's path to the moon. we are building on missions the take a sustainable presence not just planting a flag but sustainable presence that will take us forward. why go to the moon? many of us could cite different reasons, we could talk about strategic leadership, we can talk about global participation but one of the things that is passionate to me is talking about science, technology, engineering and math. we know apollo spun off many that were inspired to go into stem and what we want to do today if you think about youngsters in the class today, the ones in junior high or grammar school are the next astronauts going to mars. we want to challenge them to go the route. telling you how we will get there. i will give you a quick summary. if you look at the top of the charter talks about how we will go from earth's surface and think about today, we have an international space station 200 miles out, vehicles going commercial to do that. we are trying to go to hundred 50,000 miles out and eventually 2 million miles out. it requires a different vehicle. that vehicle is the space launch system and the orion vehicle which is capable of taking them there. it is broken into missions which is a crew mission, and crude mission in the 21 timeframe and the artemis mission, artemis 2 which is the first time we will have humans on the surface of the moon, not just going to the surface of the moon but going to the south pole for the first time. in addition there are other assets we have to have been placed was a gateway to allow flex ability for safe return, pressurized crew module and the artemis 3 in 2024. in parallel there are other things we are supporting, with commercial launch vehicles, the systems we have to have in place to go forward, that will be part of understanding the moon, understanding where we want to plan to get the critical information we need. giving it another accent is a parallel path to success, not for, but and, the ability to launch crew on the orion and sls and the ability to launch cargo on commercial crew. is truly and. i would love, i get to take this rocket home with me. this is the space launch system. it is built by contractors, the united states from utah to the motors to the engines, california, think about all over the place, as well as things that reduced colorado, you name it and it is over 3000 employees involved, 3000 companies involved in the 50 states. it is a national program that gives 60,000 jobs so it truly is a national vehicle. the success of artemis will provide a sustainable presence in space and i will tell you not only having the largest vehicle ever built that takes you on a mission but also having skills to build it and all the things we need. it is more than an economic benefit but inspiration and investment that we haven't a big investment is in our workforce. the workforce nasa is passionate about, inspire, innovate, explore. we promote education. we have a large component of what we do and i personally go out and talk to young folks and encourage them to follow stem and it is critical we had them at an early age. enhancing education opportunities, internship programs, pathways, cooperative programs, engaging k-12, examples include in the right-hand corner where we have a rover, you have teams that come together from all over the united states and the world to put together machine, operate it and we put them through obstacles just like they are on the terrain of the moon and mars. it is a character building exercise and we have folks that volunteer. also we have participation where we look at new technologies, new technologies in each of your states, that we are participating with you in and that includes advanced manufacturing, material processing, advanced things we have to have where life systems get involved, very critical. we promote these engagements and it results in spinoffs, did you know that more than 1800 spinoffs come from nasa and the participation that we have with many of your contractors and communities so the artemis program will continue what shuttle did and continue to have the spinoffs that include examples of advanced manufacturing where you have to have parts made in half the time, and reform the space environment. it is amazing, that ability. i will tell you in closing the benefits from exploration have significant impact and we will see many more as we explore the future. the future is so bright, it is unimaginable the things we knew before we can't imagine what we will know in the future. 50 years from now when i'm speaking at a convention, it will be something. i may be in a wheelchair but we will see, they will prop me up but keep in mind, every dollar invested in space doesn't go to space, it stays here on earth and helps communities grow, helps economic benefit, gives inspiration, gives academia a place to work and partner together. apollo missions were good for space, good for the united states and disease even more true today. just like apollo we expect artemis investment to pay off, to result in new and game changing activity and definitely to be an inspiration to the future generation. i love what i do and encourage everyone to participate. we have a tremendous challenge, i won't tell you, cheating gravity and being part of space expiration is not challenging. we learn something every day because we are doing something that hasn't been done before, we are doing it in a different way. it is challenging to do that too. we have a tremendous challenge ahead. the payoffs and benefits are wonderful. today we must decide as a nation. if you want to continue our legacy of american preeminence, technology and science and exploration, or do we want to take a backseat and watch as other nations define our future and define where we can be. i don't know about you but i can tell you just like the chart says, let's go. the time is now, i am ready to go, ready to leave and thank you for your support. [applause] >> thank you so much. i know we are trying to it here to schedule. i work for nasa so we have to launch and land on time. i will entertain your questions or if not in a break i will be around. >> if anyone has questions? herbert? >> thank you for the presentation. i have lived long enough to watch the apollo landing and president kennedy saying we are going to go to the moon. tell me on the fiscal side because washington doesn't seem to balance their budget, is this going to be an added problem how we are going to pay for it and how it is going to cost you buzz aldrin wants to go to mars as soon as we can. what is the cost of this going to be cute you >> from the budget we have today is critical the bipartisan support makes a huge difference and the ability to have sustained funding makes a difference, to have a sustainable path of being able to get there. nasa's budget is somewhere in the 21 million and that is only a fourth of a percentage point of the national budget so we do a lot with a little but we do know every dime count so i will tell you the budget we get, we appreciate. we put it to definite use. we are very conscious of spending the dollars. it does matter to have the same process because not only does sustained funding make a difference for our large companies, it also makes a difference for the vendors because the vendors also need in each of your states, that sustained funding to keep going, to keep the technology going and for us to have boots on the moon by 2024. >> there is also an economic benefit we received from the space program, intending. >> i picked that up from you last night. >> there are a lot of things we enjoy today that came out of the developers of the space program. is there any economic estimate of what that spun off to be for us for our economy? >> we have 1800 spinoffss. i don't in front of me have the exact dollar value. will spinoff we can talk about and then intangible benefits like we talked about, the use of your cell phone to help in medical activities, think about things even northrop grumman in your state has which talk about the ability to work with landmines, get rid of those, the things you see in a safety airbag to the medical as well as medical equipment that is used but i would be glad to be able to get that information and give you specifics and that would be great because it really does, the spinoff does make a difference. >> one last question, governor doocy. >> great presentation. i am a big nasa fan. it is my first television memory, that moon landing. can you speak a little bit to governor herbert's question regarding where we are fiscally as a nation? i certainly think this can be a wonderful investment, you mentioned sustainability, exploration. can you touch on the national defense aspect of it? >> from a nasa perspective i will tell you, having national defense and the ability to have world peace in a global environment is a top priority of nasa. from talking about the defense it would not be my area, that would be the defense area. i will tell you we do find synergies for the defense because of our supplier base. there are many suppliers that support these activities that are the vendors and suppliers we work with at nasa so the ability, we look every day to find synergy not only in technology but the business spaces and the communities we can support. >> the relationship with the department of defense, coordination with defense? >> the relationship, we definitely have two different phone length. hours is definitely exploration and discovery where the defense is defense but there is definitely synergy you can find from the technologies and how we work together to try to do what the common goal is particularly with our vendors. >> please join me again in thanking jody. and now we will immediately go into our first plenary of the morning driving the conversation, safer and smarter roadways led by governor gretchen whitner and governor force. >> good morning, everyone. i am pleased to host with governor steve bullock this presentation and improving the safety of our roadways which will highlight strategies to address traffic fatalities, improving impaired and distracted driving policies, support for advanced transportation technology and investments in infrastructure, to improve safety for all road users. despite several years of an improved safety on our roadways traffic safety remains an issue of concern for every one of us as nearly 40,000 people are killed in motor vehicle crashes annually. 94% of those crashes are caused by human error and a significant portion involve some form of impairment, drug or drunk driving. there are other causes that contribute to traffic related fatalities and injuries including distracted driving. each day approximately 9 people in the united states are killed, 1000 injured in crashes that involve a distracted driver. with 22 new governors now is an important time to address issues of impairment. some of the most important levers that can be used to create
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