Remarks for Assistant Secretary Medina U.S.-Africa Space Forum - United States Department of State
Monica Medina, Assistant Secretary
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
Good morning. Thank you to Executive Secretary Chirag Parikh and the U.S. National Space Council for inviting me to speak today.
We're here to talk about U.S.-Africa cooperation in outer space, but I want to start closer to home. Back in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, U.S. disaster response coordinators urgently needed satellite imagery to understand the scale of the damage.
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