We're in the suit-up room. I mean, I remember
this back in 2009, when I was sitting in Lazyboys
from back in the Apollo era.
They have these really cool new suits. New
seats that they're working in here.
Yeah, it's so amazing to see this first live
look in the room.
There's astronaut Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley
sitting in those seats, being helped by the
suit technicians.
This room was first used for the first Apollo
mission, Apollo 7, that they suited up in
there in 1968.
And there they are, giving a thumbs up. That
looks like Doug giving a thumbs up there.
So, the suits are actually much more than
just garments. They actually connect directly
into Dragon seats.
As you can see there, those GSE seats are
ground support equipment seats, are essentially
replicas of the seats that are inside of the
Dragon spacecraft.
And the seats provide communications through
an umbilical, but also the ability to pressurize
the suit if necessary.
So, right now what the suit team is doing
is their doing communications checks, as well
as a pressure check to make sure that the
spacesuit can hold pressure in the event of
a cabin depressurization emergency.
This is the last time that we're going to
do this check prior to the crew boarding Dragon,
where we'll do it all again.
