The Vince Coglianese Show

INTERVIEW - NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard on the Moon Landing and the future of the space program – shared the importance of the moon landing to the space program, humankind and discussed NASA’s future efforts in space including Mars and a lunar outpost orbiting the Moon.

BIO: Deputy Administrator James W. Morhard: James Morhard was nominated by President Trump and confirmed to be NASA’s 14th Deputy Administrator. He was sworn in on October 17th, 2018. Jim helps provide overall leadership, planning, and policy direction. He performs duties and exercises powers delegated by the Administrator, assists him in making final agency decisions, and acts in his absence to govern NASA operations. Jim also is responsible for articulating and representing the agency's vision.

NASA and ESA Reach Critical Decision on How the First Lunar Outpost Will Orbit the Moon.  (Gizmodo) - Mission planners for the lunar Gateway project have decided how the lunar outpost should orbit the Moon—and it’s actually quite brilliant. They’ve chosen a near-rectilinear halo orbit. This highly elliptical orbit should solve a bunch of problems, making it easy for astronauts to embark on missions to the lunar surface and for the outpost to receive supplies from Earth, among other things, according to mission planners from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), which announced the decision in a press release today. The team “spent months debating the pros and cons of different orbits,” noted ESA, with the near-rectilinear halo orbit, or NRHA, getting the final and definitive thumbs up. Indeed, it was a critically important decision given the requirements of the Gateway project and the demands that will be placed on the lunar outpost, a collaborative project involving NASA, ESA, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Roscosmos, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), and other international partners. Slated for completion by the mid 2020s, the lunar Gateway will serve as a staging post for crewed missions to the Moon, namely NASA’s upcoming Artemis program, which aims to place a man and woman on the lunar surface by 2024.  The orbital station will provide a short-term place for astronauts to stay, a laboratory to conduct scientific research, a depot to stock up on supplies and fuel, a hub for relaying communications, and a base to dispatch astronauts, robots, and other supplies to the lunar surface. Eventually, the base could be used as a staging post for a crewed mission to Mars.

INTERVIEW - Dr. John Logsdon, Professor at George Washington University's  and author of “John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon” (2010) and “After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program” (2015). Dr. Logsdon is a member of the Board of Directors of the Planetary Society.

Dr. Logsdon reflected on the Apollo 11 anniversary.

HISTORY: On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon. Armstrong was then the first person to walk on the space rock, famously saying, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Aldrin eventually joined Armstrong on the moon’s surface, where photos were taken and the men spoke with then-President Richard Nixon through central command in Houston.  The Apollo 11 was also the fifth manned flight of the command and service modules in the series and the third flight of a lunar module, which Armstrong and Aldrin used to get to the moon’s surface.

BIO: John Logsdon is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Prior to his leaving active faculty status in June 2008, he was on the faculty of the George Washington University for 38 years; before that he taught at the Catholic University of America for four years. He founded the Elliott School's Space Policy Institute in 1987. Dr. Logsdon's research interests focus on the policy and historical aspects of U.S. and international space activities. He is author of the award-winning John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon (2010) and After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program (2015). Dr. Logsdon is a member of the Board of Directors of the Planetary Society. From September 2008-August 2009, he held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. In 2003, he served as a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. He is a former member of the NASA Advisory Council and its Exploration Committee.

INTERVIEW — GEOFF MAURER — Weather Channel Meteorologist -- discuss the heat wave.

Excessive heat watch Friday through Sunday as D.C. faces 100-degree temperatures

Today|Sunny & hot. High 98F with a heat index near 106. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight|Generally clear skies. Warm and humid. Low 81F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.

Tomorrow|Except for a few afternoon clouds, mainly sunny. Very hot. High near 100F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.

Tomorrow night|Partly cloudy. Low 82F. Winds WSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Sunday|Mostly sunny. Highs 98 to 102F and lows in the upper 70s.

8am – A   INTERVIEW - Montgomery County Councilmember TOM HUCKER -- represents Silver Spring, Takoma Park, White Oak and Eastern Montgomery County and introduced a bill this week to require air conditioning in Montgomery County rentals

Bill requiring air conditioning be provided in all Montgomery County rental units proposed. Montgomery County Councilmember Tom Hucker is introducing a bill to require air conditioning be provided in all county rental units. Hucker says the bill would require landlords to provide and maintain air conditioning service for rental properties located in Montgomery County. Hucker says currently, all landlords are required to provide heat but not air conditioning.

Dangerous Heat Expected Through the Weekend. The National Weather Service (NWS) expects the heat to be dangerously high for the next several days with temperatures in the triple digits. The heat will likely peak this weekend.

 

8am – B/C     Social Media User Monique Worthy Has A Wild Take On The President & Squad’s Fight.

8am – D         INTERVIEW - DAVID MARTOSKO -  U.S. Political Editor for The Daily Mail

Martosko: Trump called me unexpectedly. He says he's "not unhappy" with the result of this week's racism fight, in part because Democrats now have nothing but "the race card" to play against him. He called his battle with Pelosi "one of the all-time classics."

8am – E         West Palm Beach hopes ‘Baby Shark’ song will drive homeless away. Officials in West Palm Beach are hoping a continuous loop of children’s songs played throughout the night will keep homeless people from sleeping on the patio of a city-owned rental banquet facility. West Palm Beach parks and recreation director Leah Rockwell tells the Palm Beach Post they’re trying to discourage people from sleeping outside the glass-walled Waterfront Lake Pavilion, which she says rakes in some $240,000 annually from events. The loop of “Baby Shark” and “Raining Tacos” is a temporary fix to keep homeless people off the patio. Rockwell says the city wants to formalize hours for the facility, which should make trespassing laws easier to enforce. Illaya Champion tells the Post “it’s wrong” to chase people away with music. He says he’ll still sleep there, but “it’s on and on, the same songs.”

6am – A/B/C New proposal would require air conditioning in all Montgomery County rental units (Fox5 D.C.) -- Montgomery County Councilmember Tom Hucker is introducing a bill to require air conditioning be provided in all county rental units. Hucker says the bill would require landlords to provide and maintain air conditioning service for rental properties located in Montgomery County. Hucker says currently, all landlords are required to provide heat but not air conditioning. "I think in the old days we thought of air conditioning as a comfort issue," Hucker told FOX 5's Bob Barnard. "It's really a life or death issue." Hucker said Maryland has already recorded one heat related death this year and worries more may occur due to the periods of extreme heat the region has seen. "It's really time to see A/C as a life and death necessity." In June, the Montgomery County Council unanimously enacted a bill that requires leases for rental housing to allow the tenant to terminate the lease if the landlord doesn't correct conditions that impact their immediate health and safety within 30 days.

6am – D/E/F   TRUMP RALLY HIGHLIGHTS IN NORTH CAROLINA: President Trump intensified his attack on The Squad during a rally in Greenville, North Carolina last night, drawing jeers and chants of "Send her back!" as he mentioned their names. President Trump ran through a litany of criticisms aimed at the women, accusing them of "helping to fuel the rise of a dangerous, militant hard left." Trump also said it’s time for Democrats to go back to work, instead of focusing on investigations into his administration and his 2016 campaign.

5am – A/B/C  'THE PRESIDENT WON THIS ONE' -- DEMS LEFT REELING AFTER 'SQUAD' CHAOS:

JAKE TAPPER: House Democrats appeared unified in their votes this week but I've spent the day talking to a bunch of them and many are extremely frustrated. All agree POTUS's tweets needed to be condemned; they spoke under condition of anonymity so they could be candid. 2/ "The president won this one," said House Dem 1 of the Trump v Squad (AOC, Tlaib, Omar & Pressley) showdown. "What the president has done is politically brilliant. Pelosi was trying to marginalize these folks and the president has now identified the entire party with them." (THREAD)

Poll: 57% of Republicans agree with Trump’s tweets about the Squad (HotAir) -- We should lead with the Republican numbers since those are the only ones POTUS himself seems interested in. If the conventional wisdom is right that he’s attacking AOC and her friends because that’ll motivate right-wing turnout, and if Trump is right that pushing his own base’s turnout ever higher is the key to victory next year, then the only opinions he should care about with respect to this Squad fracas are Republican opinions. The good news, then, is that he has a majority of his own party behind him on this, as usual. The bad news is, well, everything else. Fifty-seven percent of Republicans agree with him. (It totals 58 there, I know, but that’s because they’re rounding up.) Just 28 percent of Americans overall do, though, while 62 percent disagree — most of them strongly. Among indies the split is a gruesome 19/66. Even the Republican numbers are arguably more of a bad sign for Trump than a good one. A majority say they agree, sure, but POTUS usually enjoys 80-90 percent support from his base.

 

5am – D   The House voted to kill a resolution seeking to impeach President Trump – the first vote on such a measure since Democrats took the majority and since the release of former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The 332-95 vote included a majority of Democrats siding with Republicans to quash the measure – a win for conservatives and the President, who touted the effort's failure on Twitter.

5am – E   House votes to hold Barr, Ross in criminal contempt over census dispute (CNN) -- The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt over a dispute related to the Trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The vote was 230-198, largely along party lines. Four Democrats broke with their party and voted against the resolution. One independent -- Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan -- supported the resolution. The vote marks the first time that the full House has voted on criminal contempt of Trump administration officials since Democrats took over the majority. The move is virtually guaranteed to further inflame hostilities between the administration and House Democrats as they pursue oversight efforts. It is unclear, however, what practical impact the House contempt vote will have since a US attorney is not likely to take action against the head of their own Justice Department.