HAVE PUT YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT,
TESTING AND TRAINING INTO THIS
EFFORT, AND NOW WE'RE JUST HOURS
FROM SEEING FALCON 9, CREW
DRAGON, AND BOB AND DOUG LIFT
OFF FOR THE FIRST TIME, FROM THE
SAME LAUNCHPAD THAT FIRST SENT
HUMANS TO THE MOON MORE THAN 50
YEARS AGO.
MARIE:  WE'RE JUST ABOUT THREE
MILES FROM LAUNCH COMPLEX 39A,
WHERE LIFTOFF WILL HAPPEN IN A
LITTLE OVER FOUR HOURS.
LET'S CHECK IN WITH THE TEAM AS
SPACEX HAWTHORNE, WHERE NASA'S
DAN HUOT AND SPACEX'S JESSE
ANDERSON ARE KEEPING AN HEAR ON
OPERATIONS.
DAN:  THANKS, MARIE.
AND HELLO FROM SPACEX
HEADQUARTERS IN HAWTHORNE,
CALIFORNIA.
MY NAME IS DAN HUOT, AND I'M
REALLY EXCITED TO HEB FOR
TODAY'S HISTORIC LAUNCH.
>> JESSE:  DAN, IT IS SO GREAT
TO HAVE YOU HERE!
MY NAME IS JESSE ANDERSON, AND
I'M AN ENGINEER HERE AT SPACEX.
WE ARE SO HONORED TO BE NASA'S
PARTNER IN ARE RETURNING HUMANS
TO SPACE FROM THE SHORES OF
KENNEDY SPACNTER.
TEN YEARS AGO,SENT THE
DRAGON THAT IS DISPLAYED RIGHT
BEHIND US IN FRONT OF MISSION
CONTROL ON ITS FIRST ORBITAL
DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT, AND I
SPEAK FOR ALL OF US AT SPACEX
WHEN I SAY WE COULD NOT BE MORE
EXCITED TODAY TO BE FINALLY
SENDING HUMANS TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
DAN:  TODAY'S MISSION IS KNOWN
AS DEMONSTRATION MISSION 2, OR
DEMO-2.
IT WILL BE THE FIRST TIME A
MMERCIALLY BUILT SPACET
WILL LAUNCH PEOPLE TO THE SPACE
STATION.
DEMO-2 IS AN END--TO-END FLIGHT
TEST FROM LAUNCH, TO DOCKING, TO
SPLASHDOWN.
AS IT'S THE FINAL TEST FOR NASA
TO CERTIFY SPACEX FOR REGULAR
CREW FLIGHTS TO THE SPACE
STATION.
RIGHT NOW SPACEX AND NASA HAVE
TEAMS WORKING TOGETHER AROUND
THE COUNTRY.
ON THE SPACEX SIDE, TEAMS AT THE
CAPE ARE PERFORMINCH
DAY CHECKOUTS AS WE SPEAK, TO
MAKE SURE DRAGON IS HEALTHY AND
GOOD TO GO.
JESSE:  AT THE MOMENT OF
LIFTOFF, WE WILL TRANSFER
AUTHORITY OVER DRAGON FROM OUR
FIRING ROOM IN FLORIDA TO
MISSION CONTROL HERE IN
HAWTHORNE.
MISSION CONTROL WILL HAVE
INSIGHT AND COMMAND OF DRAGON'S
SYSTEMS FOR THE ENTIRITY OF THE
UPCOMING MISSION.
SINCE DRAGON IS A HIGHLY
ANONYMOUS VEHICLE, OUR TEAM IN
MISSION CONTROL WILL BE
CONTINUOUSLY MONITORING THE
HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE OF THE
SPACECRAFT THROUGH THE ENTIRE
DURATION OF ITS JOURNEY, FROM
LIFTOFF ALL THE WAY UNTIL DRAGON
SPLASHES DOWN BACK ON EARTH.
DAN:  WHILE THERE ARE A NUMBER
OF PEOPLE ON HEADSET IN MISSION
CONTROL, STATE MISSION DIRECTOR
HERE HERE STATE ONE IN CHARGE.
TEST
THE AMAZING DIRECTOR IS THE ONE
IN CHARGE.
JESSIE:  DRAGON AND FALLEN
COCOON 9 TO TOGETHER HAVE YEARS
OF OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE OR
WHAT WE REFER TO AS FLIGHT HERT
ABLE.
SPACEX HAS SUCCESSFULLY
COMPLETED 22 FLIGHTS OF DRAGON
TO AND FROM ORBIT SINCE 2010,
INCLUDING 21 TRIPS TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
TOGETHER US TO WHERE WE ARE
TODAY, NOT ONLY HAVE WE
CONDUCTED THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF
TEST, BUT WE'VE ALSO ENHANCED
DRAGON.
DAN:  ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
SAFETY FEATURES ON CREW DRAGON
IS THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM,
WHICH IS A HUGE ADVANCEMENT IN
THE SAFETY OF HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT.
WE DEMONSTRATED THE SYSTEM IN
WITH THE PAD ABORT TEST.
AND AGAIN, LAST JAN A WHERE I
WHERE IN N-FLIGHT ABORT TEST
DRAGON'S LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM IS
OUTFITTED WITH EIGHT SUPER DRACO
ENGINES THAT ARE NOW INTEGRATED
DIRECTLY INTO THE SPACECRAFT
BODY.
THIS ANSWERABLES DRAGON TO
SEPARATE FROM FALCON 9 AND CARRY
ASTRONAUTS JESSIE:  UNA DIGS TO
THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM, SPACEX
HAS COMPLETED OVER 80 PARACHUTE
TESTS WHICH INCLUDES NEARLY 30
TESTS OF JUST THE UPGRADED MARK
III PARASHOOTS FLYING ON TODAY'S
VEHICLE, TO ENSURE A SAFE
LANDING BACK ON EARTH, ON IN THE
UNLIKELY EVENT THAT ONE OF THE
FOUR MAIN PARACHUTES FAILS.
DAN.
AND LET'S NOT FORGET THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF OUR FIRST
DEMONSTRATIONS MISSION LAST YEAR
WHICH WAS AN END TO END TEST
FLIGHT.
NOW OVER TO JOHN INSPRUCKER FOR
OUR FIRST STATUS UPDATE.
JOHN.
JOHN:  THANK YOU.
HOMELOW FROM SPACEX HQ IN HT
YASH CRA.
AS DAN SAID, I'M JOHN AND I'LL
BE BRINGING YOU STATUS UP WITH
DATES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTDOWN.
WE'RE CURRENTLY JUST INSIDE
H-4:07.
THE MAJOR EVEN GETTING TO THIS
POINT WAS STATIC FIRE OF THE
FALCON 9 FIVE DAYS AGO.
WE ROLLED THE FALCON WITH THE
DRAGON CAPSULE TO THE LAUNCHPAD
AND THE STATIC FIRE WAS
PERFORMED ON THE 22nd.
THE WE'LL WAIT A MINUTE AND
LISTEN TO THE LAUNCH DIRECTOR.
>> FORWARD.
STILL ACING THAT IT FINAL
CONJECTURE NAL SIS REPORT
FOLLOWING THE WEATHER BRIEF AND
CHECKS ARE UNDERWAY.
NO OPEN ISSUE.
UPPER LEVEL WINDS CURRENTLY LOOK
SUCCESSFUL FOR FLIGHT.
NEOCON STRAINS PERFORMING IN
THIS PROCEDURE AND REMIND
WESTERLY'S USE 52 TO 911 FOR ANY
REQUIRED CREW CONTINGENCY
ACTION.
ONE FINAL REMIND WE'RE T MY US
IN HOUR NOT TINNING TO BE IN THE
ROOM DURING LAUNCH.
WE NEED TO CLEAR OUT SEIB QUENT
IN 15 MINUTANCE LOOK FOR ALL
PERSONNEL TO BE IN THAT YOU ARE
SEATS SETTLED REMAINING IN THEIR
POSITION THROUGH ASSENT.
DRAGON SEPARATION IN 12:02
SECONDS NOW OVER TO FALCON.
>> FALCON 9 IS IN GOOD HEALTH.
COPD'S ARE AT PRESSURE.
CHECKOUTS ARE COMPLETE.
WE HAVE A CLEAN ALARM AND
PROCEEDING DOWN NO CONCERNS ON
OUR END.
NO QUESTIONS.
>> THANK YOU.
>> GOOD MORNING DL.
DRAGON IS HEALTHY.
WE ARE NOT TRACKING ANY YOU
SHALL YOU SHOOS HERE FOR THE
COUNTDOWN.
DRAGON COMPLETED THE PRESS
SURIZATION AND IN A GOOD
CONFIGURATION.
THAT IS THE NEXT ITEM WE WILL BE
WAITING FOR AND NO ISSUES AT
THIS TIME.
>> THANK YOU.
NEXT UP WITH THE CREW EXPECT
WALKOUT IN 45MENS TO BEGAN THE
TRANSPORT OUT TO PAD 39A.
THIS CONCLUDES THE COUNTDOWN
BRIEFING.
THANK YOU.
>> JOHN BACK   WITH YOU AGAIN
HERE AT THE WEB CAST DESK THAT
WAS MIKE TAYLOR GIVING
SITUATIONAL BRIEFING.
EVERYTHING SOUND WELL.
YOU CAN SEE THE FALCON 9 ON THE
PAD AS I MENTIONED WE STATIC
FIRED LAST WEEK.
THE VEHICLE HAS BEEN ON THE PAD
SINCE THEN.
WE DID REVIEW OF THE STATIC
FIRE.
EVERYTHING LOOKED GOOD.
NOW WE'RE GETTING READY FOR THE
CREW INGRESS COMING UP AS THE
LAUNCH DIRECTOR SAID A LITTLE
BIT LATER THIS MORNING.
ACTIVITY CARGO WAS PUT ON A
COUPLE OF DAYS AGO AND NOW READY
FOR THE CREW TO COME OUT TO THE
PAD DOWN THE ACCESS ARM AND LOAD
INTO THE CAPSULE.
NOW WE ARE ALSO WATCHING THE
WEATHER.
WE GOT 15 MINUTES AGO THE
TROPICAL STORM HAS BEGUN MOVING
ON SHORE THAT IS ACTUALLY
IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS BOTH
DOWN THE RANGE AND EMERGENCY
SPLASHDOWN LOCATIONS IF NEEDED
FOR DRAGON AS WELL AS THAT THE
LAUNCH SITED WE TO EXPECT,
OWING, THE PROB K OF VIOLATING
CONDITIONS IS STILL 60 PERCENT
THE CONCERNS AT LIFTOFF ARE
GOING TO BE THROUGH
PRECIPITATION THE THICK CUMULUS
CLOUDS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF
SLIGHT THE LIGHTNING RULE.
BUT RIGHT NOW, EVERYTHING IS
STILL A GO WITH EVERYTHING
LOOKING GOOD YOU A THORN WE SEND
YOU DOWN TO HOUSTON WHERE GARY
JORDAN WHICH IS THE FLIGHT
CONTROL TEAM AT NAS SASS'
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER IN MISSION
CONTROL HOUSTON.
HOW ARE THE TEAMS LOOKING GOWN
THERE, GARY?
GARY:  THANKS, JOHN AND WELCOME,
EVERYONE, TO MISSION CONTROL
HOUSTON.
TODAY I AM JOINED BY REMOTELY BY
NASA ASTRONAUT TOM MARCH BYRNE
FROM THIS DAY WE HAVE BEEN
SUPPORTING HUMANS ABOARD THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FOR
NEARLY 20 YEARS, NONSTOP, EVERY
SINGLE DAY.
CREWS HAVE ALL OVER THIS GLOBE
HAVE VISITED THE ORBITING
STATION, BUT IT HAS BEEN ALMOST
NINE YEARS SINCE THEY STARTED
THEIR JOURNEY INTO SPACE FROM
AMERICAN SHORES AND WHILE THE
TEAMS HERE MAY APPEAR SUBDUED
EVEN IF CUSSED, THERE'S
DEFINITELY AN EXCITEMENT AROUND
THE ENTIRE CENTER   TO BE
RETURNING LAUNCH OPERATIONS TO
AMERICA.
>> THIS IS THE NEW FIRST FOR US,
FLYING TO SPACE ON A COMMERCIAL
VEHICLE AND THE ENTIRE ASTRONAUT
CORP WILL BE WATCHING.
AS WITH EVERY FIRST FLIGHT OF
THE SYSTEM, THERE ARE STILL
THINGS TO BE LEARN, AND PROVE IN
OUT, BUT WE BELIEVE THIS CREW,
AND THIS SYSTEM IS READY.
YOU KNOW, MANY PEOPLE THINK OF
MISSION CONTROL WHEN THEY THINK
OF JOHNSON SPACE CENTER TER, BUT
THIS CENTER IS ALSO HOME TO
WORL-CLASS TRAINING FACILITIES
AND THOUGHT LEADERS IN
SPACECRAFT DEVELOPMENT.
WE HAVE BEEN DRAWN FROM BOTH OF
THESE DISCIPLINES AND SPENT THE
LAST THREE YEARS ALONGSIDE THE
SPACEX TEAM TO MAKE SURE THE
CREW DRAGON IS THE BEST
SPACECRAFT POSSIBLE AND THAT
THES A TROUTS ARE PREPARED FOR
EVERY SCENARIO.
GARY:  AND THIS MISSION COMES AT
A CRITICAL TIME FOR THE SPACE
STATION, WITH ONLY THREE
CREWMEMBERS CUR CRANIALLY
ABOARD, AMONG THEM NASA'S CHRIS
CASSIDY AS THE LONE AMERICAN.
I AM TOLD WE HAD THE FORMAL
HANDOFF OF THE CREW FROM THE
NATIONAL TEAM THAT SPORTED
HURLEY AND BOB OVER THE SPACE
SPACEX TEAM THAT WILL GET THEM
SUITED UP.
>> THE CREW QUARTERS AT KENNEDY
SPACE CENTER HAS SUPPORTED FOR
FIVE DECK IS A AND NOW A NEW
CHAPTER IS BEING WRITTEN.
GARY:  AND IT IS EXCITING TO
WITNESS IT HERE TODAY.
TOM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
JOINING US.
GREETS BACK TO THE KENNEDY SPACE
CENTER TO WATCH SUITUP IN ACTION
AS WE CONTINUE TO COUNT DOWN TO
LAUNCH.
LELAND?
LELAND:  THANK YOU.
THIS US AMAZING.
THEY HAVE COOL NEW SUIT AND NEW
SEATEST THERE WORKING IN HERE.
>> YEAH.
IT IS SO MAZING TO SEE THIS
FIRST LIVE LOOK IN THE ROOM.
THERE IS ASTRONAUTS BOB BEHNKEN
AND DOUG HURLEY SITTING UNTHOSE
SEATS BEING HELPED BY THE SUIT
TECHNICIANS AND THIS ROOM WAS
FIRST USED FOR THE FIRST APOLLO
MISSION APOLLO 7 AND THEY SUITED
UP IN THERE AND IN 1968 AND
THERE THEY ARE GIVE ANTHEM'S UP.
THAT IS DOUG GIVING A THUMB'S UP
THERE.
OF COURSE, BOB WAS MISSION
SPECIALISTS ON STS123 AND STS130
BOB IS A NOTTIVE OF ST. ANN,
MISSOURI.
LOTS OF HOMETOWN PRIDE GOING ON
NOW.
SAME FOR DOUG.
HE WAS BORN IN NEW YORK, WHICH
HAPPENS TO ABOUT BE MY HOMETOWN,
TOO.
I KNOW FOLKS ARE WATCHING THERE
AND DOUG WAS THE PILOT ON STS127
AND STS135, WHICH WAS THE FINAL
SHUTTLE FLIGHT, SO CALL TO SEE
THEM IN THERE.
LAWYER REASON SHALL LELAND, THE
LAST TIME THE ROOM WAS USED NOR
PURPOSE THAT YOU SEE HERE WAS
STS135 AND 2011 AND DOUG HRLY
WAS ONE OF THE ASTRONAUTS IN
THERING THAT SO THIS IS MAZING
TO SEE.
>> WOW, SO THE SUITS ARE
ACTUALLY MUCH MORE THAN JUST
GARMENTS THEY ACTUALLY CONNECT
DIRECTLY INTO DRAGON SEATS AS
YOU CAN SEE THERE, THOSE GROUND
SUPPORT EQUIPMENT SEATS ARE
ESSENTIALLY REREP PLY   CASS OF
THE SEATS INSIDE OF THE DRAGON
SPACECRAFT AND THE SEATS PROVIDE
COMMUNICATIONS, THROUGH
UMBILICAL, ALSO THE ABILITY TO
PRESSURIZE THE SUIT IF
NECESSARY.
RIGHT NOW WITH THE SUIT TEAM IS
DOING IS DOING COMMUNICATION
CHECKING TO MAKE SURE THE
SPACESUIT CAN HOLD PRESSURE IN
THE EVEN OF A CABIN
DEPRESSURIZATION EMERGENCY.
THIS IS THE LAST TIME THAT WE
ARE GOING TO DO THIS CHECK PRIOR
TO THE CREW BOARDING DRAGON.
WHERE WE WILL DO IT ALL AGAIN.
SO THE WAY THE LEAK CHECK WILL
WORK IS WE WILL PROVIDE,
EVENTUALLY INFLATE THE SUIT WITH
AIR, AND HOLD THAT PRESSURE FOR
A FEW MINUTES, WATCH THE
DEPRESSURIZATION RATE AND MAKE
SURE IT STAYS WITHIN BALANCE.
AS WE STAY LOOKING IN THE SUITUP
ROOM YOU CAN SEE DOUG HUR IN
THERE SEAT THE SPACECRAFT
COMMANDER FOR DEMO-2 AND
CONTINUES WITH CHECKOUTS WE'LL
GIVE YOU A CLOSER LOOK AT THE
VETERAN MARINE CORPS FIGHTER
PILOT AND SPACEFLIGHT PIONEERS.
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>> EXCITE HAD?
VERY EXCITED.
YEAH.
VERY EXCITED.
FEEL READY?
FEEL PUMPED?
>> OH, YEAH.
I THINK WE'RE READY.
WE'RE CERTAINLY READY.
>> JOINING THE SPACEX DEMO-2
TEST, HE MACE REN CORP COLONEL,
TEST PILOT.
HE SWISSE LEAKED AS AN ASTRONAUT
IN 2,000.
HE PILOTED SPACE SHUTTLE
ENDEAVOR AND ATLANTIS FOR 135
THE FINAL SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION,
INTRODUCING NASA ASTRONAUT
ASTRONAUT DOUG HURLEY.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
>> IT IS LIFE CHANGING PROCESS
SO IN MANY WAYS TO FLY INTO
SPACE.
IT IS JUST OVERWHELMING IN SOME
RESPECTS.
JUST THE SENSATIONS THE
RUMBLING, THE SHAKING THE
ACCELERATION WHEN THE ENGINE
SHUT JUF AND YOU GO FROM IN THE
CASE OF THE SHUTTLE, YOU GO FROM
3G TEE 0G'S INSTANTANEOUSLY.
THINGS START FLOATING.
I REMEMBER DISTINCTLY JUST
THINKING WHAT JUST HAPPENED.
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♪ TO SEE A ROCKET LAUNCH IN
PERSON IS PRETTY EMOTIONAL
EVENT.
I RAILROAD THE FIRST TIME I SAW
THE SHUTTLE LAUNCH AND IT WAS
AMAZING.
THEN I SAW SHUTTLE LAUNCH WITH
MY WIFE ON IT, THA IS, THAT IS
QUITE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE.
MY NAME IS DOUG HURLEY.
I AM A SPACECRAFT COMMANDER
ANOTHER DEMO-2 MISSION TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
WE'RE DOING THE FIRST CRUDE
PLIGHT FOR NASA AND FOR SPACEX,
SO THUS THE TEST FLIGHT TO PROVE
END TO END FROM LAUNCH TO
DOCKING TO ISS OPERATIONS AND
THEN ENTRY DISSENT AND LANDING.
THIS WILL BE THE FIRST TIME THE
DRAGON WITH A DREW ONBOARD, AND
SO THERE IS A MYRIAD OF
OBJECTIVE WES WANT TO ACHIEVE
FOR THIS MISSION.
SPACEX HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR
DESIGN AND SEE EVENTUALLY MAKING
THIS VEHICLE WHAT IT IS.
WHAT THEY BRING TO THE TABLE IS
THE CREW VEHICLE INTERPACE, WHAT
WOULD WORK ON ORBIT, WHAT MAY
NOT WORK ON ORBIT.
WHAT WOULD WORK TO BE ABLE TO
HAVE THE ENTIRE INTEGRATED TEAM
THAT WILL SUPPORT US GETTING TO
AND FROM SPACE STATION TALKING
TOGETHER, WORKING THROUGH THE
CHALLENGES THAT SIMULATORS
TYPICALLY THROW AT YOU, IT WAS
REALLY NEAT BEING A PART OF IT.
IT IS JUST HAS BEEN A AN
INCREDIBLE UNDERTAKING TO SEE
WHERE WE HAVE COME JUST IN THE
LAST FIVE YEARS THAT BOB AND I
HAVE BEEN A PART OF THIS, AND TO
BE, NOW HE, SHORTLYING TO
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
WITH THE CREW DRAGON.
IT OVERWHELMS TO YOU THINK ABOUT
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE IN SOME WAY
SHAPE, OR FORM TOUCHED THIS
PROGRAM AND THIS VEHICLE TO GET
US TO THIS POINT.
YOU KNOW, WE ARE THE LUCKY ONE
THAT GET FLY IT, BUT HE OF WE
CERTAINLY, NOT FOR ONE SECOND,
TAKE FOR GRANTED THE AMOUNT OF
EFFORT THAT SO PAN MY OTHER
PEOPLE HAD TO PUT IN TO THIS TO
MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL.
DOUG PERSONALLY HE HAS WORKED SO
HARD.
THROUGH HIS ENTIRE LIFE TO GET
TO WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW AS A
TEST PILOT THIS WOULD BE A DREAM
TO FLY IN A VEHICLE AND SO IT
MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO SEE THAT HE
GETS TO BE PART OF THIS MISSION
WITH THE SPACECRAFT COME MAN AND
JUST GLAD TO SEE HIS HARD WORK
AND HIS DREAMS COME TRUE FOR
THAT.
IT HAS BEEN A LONG ROAD IN A LOT
OF WAYS FOR NOT ONLY US BUT THE
FOLKS WHO WORK IN THE COMMERCIAL
CREW PROGRAM AS WELL AS SPACEX
IN OUR CASE, JUST WORKING TO GET
THIS POINT, IT HAS BEEN A HUGE
AMOUNT OF SACRIFICE AND TIME
AWAY FROM HOME BUT THE FRUITS OF
OUR LABOR ARE COMING TO
FRUITION.
>> WE'RE NOW GETTING CLOSER TO
WHEN WE EXPECT THE SEE THE CREW
COME PLOT THE SUIT CHECK AND
WALK OUT OF THE NEIL ARMSTRONG
OPERATION AND CHECKOUT BEFORE.
HERE IS ABOUT SUCTION FOR DEMO-2
AND FORMER FLIGHT TEST ENGINEER
ASTRONAUT BOB BEHNKEN.
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>> WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THE
LAUNCH DAY PREPARATION THERE IS
A LOT OF MOMENTS THAT KIND OF
STAND OUT TO YOU.
ONE IS THE CELEBRATORY PIECE OF
IT, WHICH IS YOU ARE WALK OUT
THE SUITUP ROOM, GETTING IN THE
VEHICLE THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO
THE LAUNCHPAD.
WHEN YOU CLOSE THE HATCH, YOU
KNOW, THAT IS WHEN DOUG AND I
THEN VEHICLE, IT OTHER IS
VEHICLE, AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN
CONTROL OF THE MISSION AT THIS
POINT.
>> TEST PILOTS THEIR TASKS PROVE
THAT MAN COULD FLY INTO ORBIT
AROUND THE EARTH AND RETURN LIVE
AND WELL TO TALK ABOUT IT.
>> THERE IS ALWAYS A BALANCE OF
MANAGING RISKS AS YOU GO FORWARD
TO EXECUTE TEST TEST POINT IN
FIGURING OUT WAY TO COLLECT THE
DATATA, M WE HEAR A SOUND.
OK.
IS THAT SOUND EXPECTED SOUND.
THAT IS LIGHT AN EXPECTED LIGHT.
WHAT US THE SOURCE OF IT.
DOES IT SINK UP WITH SOMETHING
ELSE THAT IS GOING ON OR NOT.
I TRY DISSECT ALL OF IN THAT
REAL-TIME IN YOUR HEAD IS, YOU
KNOW, A LOT OF THINGS HAPPEN
LIKE THAT ON LAUNCHING OF A
VEHICLE.
>> HE IS AIR FORCE COLONEL,
FLIGHT TEST ENGINEER, HE FLU
ABOARD SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOR,
TWICE, INTRODUCING NASA
ASTRONAUT, BOB BEN KEN.
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>> MY CAREER AT NASA HAS SPANNED
A COUPLE OF DECADES AT THIS POW.
ARRIVED WITH THE CLASS OF 20000.
WENT THROUGH THE TRAINING
PROGRAM PRIMARILY FOCUS THE END
SPACE SHUTTLE AND THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
LEARNING THOSE SYSTEMS.
HAVING LAUNCHED A COUPLE OF
TIMES ON THE VEHICLE, YOU KNOW,
THE SECOND TIME WAS DEFINITELY
DIFFERENT THAN THE FIRST TIME.
YOU CAN FEEL A LITTLE BIT GIVE
TY OF, HEY, SOLD I STUDY ONE
MORE THING?
THERE IS ONE MOAN PIECE OF
INFORMATION I SHOULD GET?
I AM PREPARED OR NOT.
THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM WHERE I
WAS ON THE FIRST FLIGHT AND
WHERE I AM AT RATING NOW.
IT HAS BEEN REALLY INTERESTING I
THINK FOR BOTH MY WIFE IN A TO
HAVE GONE THROUGH THE PROCESS OF
SEEING EACH OTHER LAUNCH IN
SPACE.
I HAVE SEEN HER TAKE THAT RISK
AND VIT BE IN FRONT OFER.
I HAVE DONE THAT TO HER.
THERE IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT
ABOUT WHAT WATCHING THE ROCKET
LAUNCH WHEN THERE ARE PEOPLE
ONBOARD BOARD YOU FEEL DIFFERENT
ABOUT THE PIT OF THE STOMACH.
I CAN TELL YOU IT MULTIPLIED
SIGNIFICANTLY WHEN IT US
SOMETHING SUB KNOW AND SOMEBODY
THAT PAIMLY MEMBER THAT IS EVEN
MULTIPLIED MORE.
>> FOR ME, PERSONALLY, AS
SPOUSE, WATCHING EVERYTHING THAT
BOB HAS PUT INTO THIS OVER THE
LAST FIVE YEARS, THE DEDICATION
HE HAS SHOWN, THE PERSEVERANCE
IS PRETTY SPECIAL FOR BOTH OF
US, THOUGH, THE WAY OUR MINDS
WORK IT WON UNTIL SORT OF THE
MISSION IS COMPLETE THAT YOU
HAVE REALLY A CHANCE TO SAVOR IT
AND CELEBRATE.
THIS IS A HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT
FOR AN AIR FORCE FLIGHT TEST
ENGINEER TO BE A PART OF THE
DEMONSTRATION MISSION OF A
BRAND-NEW VEHICLE AND GOING TO
BE AMAZING.
WITHOUT A PARTNER THAT HAS THAT
SAME APPRECIATATION I THINK IT
CAN CHALLENGING FOR SOME FOLKS
THERE IS A LOT OF WORK AND A LOT
OF TIME IT TAKE IS A WAY FROM
FAMILY THAT MY POUS APPRECIATE
AND I LOVE HER FOR THAT.
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♪ REALLY MY ROLE ON THE DEMO-2
MISSION IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
GET THIS VEHICLE TESTED AND
EVALUATED SO WE CAN MOVE ON TO
MORE OPERATIONAL MISSIONS AT THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
WE HAVE GOT A LOT OF OBJECTIVES
ONBOARD THE VEHICLE THAT WE NEED
TO ACCOMPLISH TO MAKE SURE IT IS
GOOD GO.
WE WILL SMACK SURE ALL THE
SYSTEMS ARE WORKING DURING THE
TEST FLIGHT TO THE SUE FUTURE
MISSIONS WE'LL HAVE THEM
AVAILABLE EVEN IF THEY DON'T
PLAN TO UTILIZE THEM.
THROUGH YEARS OF THE NASA TEAM,
I AM HELPING TO SHARE THAT
EXPENSE AND TEACHING THEM THE
LESSES ON THAT WE HAVE LEARNED
BY GOING THROUGH THIS AND NOW
THERE IS ANOTHER CAPABILITY IN
THE U.S. BESIDES NASA TO OPERATE
SOMETHING OF THIS MAGNITUDE.
WHEN ITS  THE LAST TIME HUMANS
LAUNCHED ON A NEW VEHICLE AND
CERTAINLY ON THE AMERICAN SIDE
AND SEVERAL DECADES AND NOW IN A
TIME WHEN WE GOT MULTIPLE
VEHICLES UNDER DEVELOPMENT AND A
GREAT TIME FROM A SPACEX
EXPLORATION TIMEFRAME TO SEE ALL
OF THAT HAPPENING AND IT IS
BECAUSE OF THIS MUR TURING OF
THE ENVIRONMENT BEING ABLE TO
PULL AND YOU WIDER GROUP OF
PEOPLE WHO CAN CONTRIBUTE TO
HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT AND IT IS A
SUPER COOL TIME.
ON A DAPLY PERSON APPROXIMATELY
AVENUE LEL.
YOU REALLY EXCITED MY SON IS
GOING TO GET A CHANCE TO SEE ME
LAUNCH INTO SPACE BEING
ASTRONAUT HAS BEEN A LITTLE BIT
BE A INSTRUCTION THING FOR HIM
BECAUSE HE HAS SHEEN ME DO IT IN
OLD HAVE VIDEOS BUT HE HAS NOT
SEEN ME DO IT FOR REAL.
I WANT TO THANK THE ENTIRE
COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM TEAM
THAT WORKED TOGETHER TO GET TO
THIS POINT WHERE WE GOT VEHICLES
IN THE LAUNCHPAD READY TO HEAD
TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION.
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>> WE'RE BACK LIVE IN THE ROOM
NOW WITH BOB BEHNKEN ON THE LEFT
OF THE SCREEN AND DOUG HRLY
THOUGH RIGHT.
THAT IS COOL SIGHT HERE.
THIS MUST BRING BACK A LOT OF
MEMORY FOR US.
>> IT REALLY DOES.
LOOKING AT THE NEW SUITS AND THE
NEW SEATS SHALL WHERE IT IS
DIFFERENT THAN WHAT I PIECE,ED
11 YEARS AGO BUT IT IS ALL THE
SAME.
THE SUIT, THE SUIT, THE PEOPLE
AROUND YOU, THAT HAVE BEEN WITH
YOU GETTING YOU READY FOR THIS
MISSION IS JUST AN AMAZING
MOMENT AND THEY ARE GETTING
EXCITESSED YOU CAN SEE, THESE
MILITARY GUYS DON'T GET THAT
EXCITED ABOUT.
THEY DON'T SHOW IT LIKE WE DO.
IT IS,  AGAIN, A MOMENT OF
HISTORY, WE ARE GETTING READY
FOR THIS MOMENTOUS OCCASION.
YEAH.
WE ARE -- IT WAS COOL.
WE HEARD EARLIER THIS MORNING
THEY STEPPED OUTSIDE WITH A CUP
COV OF COFFEE.
WE HAVE VISITORS IN THE ROOM NEW
NOW IT LOOKS LIKE SPACEX FOUNDER
ELON MUSK TO THE RIGHT OF THE
SCREEN AND NASA ADMINISTRATOR
JIM BRIDENSTINE AND SEE A PAR
THERE IS TO KEEP THEM A SAFE
DISTANCE FROM THE CREW BUT THEY
ARE IN THERE TO SAY HELLO WISH
THEM WELL AND BEFORE THEY DEPART
THE SUITUP ROOM.
THAT IS REALLY CALL TO SEE THERE
AND WE CAN HEAR WHAT THEY ARE
SAYING BUT LOVE TO BE A PLY ON
THE WALL IN THIS RIGHT NOW.
>> I WONDER WHAT ELON IS SAYING.
OH, PROBABLY TELLING THEM HOW
HONORED HE IS TO BE ABLE TO GIVE
THEM A RIDE TODAY.
>> AND I KNOW THEISM'S
ADMINISTRATOR TALKED ABOUT THIS
YESTERDAY I MEAN, HE HAS MET
WITH THE CREW BEFORE TODAY EVEN
AND SADE I KNOW, I TOLD BOB AND
DOUG, IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO CALL
THIS OFF.
IF YOU HAVE ANY SECOND THOUGHTS
OF COURSE THEY HAD NON.
THEY ARE SUPER PULPED ABOUT THIS
READY TO GO AND RIGHT NOW IT IS
JUST, WE NEED THE WEATHER TO
COOPERATE.
YEAH.
TRY TO THINK WHO COULD
POTENTIALLY BE MORE EXCITED THAN
THE SPACEXERS.
BOB AND DOUG.
>> RIGHT.
>> IT IS AMAZING HOW WE HAVE
COMMERCIAL AND GOVERNMENT
WORKING TOGETHER TO SEND THESE
TWO NASA ASTRONAUTS TO SPACE
SAFELY.
IT JUST A GREAT COMBINATION OF
WHAT WE CAN DO WHEN WE PUT OUR
MINDS TO THINGS AND BEING
CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE, WORK
TOGETHER AS ONE COMMUNITY.
I TOTALLY AGREE.
LELAND, YOU KNOW, I SEE BOB AND
DOUG WALKING AROUND IN HAWTHORNE
ALL THE TIME.
THEY ARE BASICALLY FAMILY
MEMBERS.
THEY ARE IN THE CAFETERIA.
THIS L ARE GETTING A DRINK THE
SODA MACHINE EVERY NOW AND THEN
AND TIME WHENS THE TEAMS COULD
HAVE BREAK FAS WITH THEM WHICH
IS REALLY COOL AND WE CALL THEM
THE DADS.
>> THE DADS?
>> THEY ARE DADS.
>> THEY ARE.
>> THEY ARE INCREDIBLE HUMAN
BEINGS.
THEY REALLY ARE.
THEY ARE BRILLIANT.
THEY ARE SHARP.
THEY ARE EXCELLENT TO WORK WITH.
THEY ARE JUST GREAT PEOPLE.
>> YEAH.
I AM REALLY INSPIRED AND HONORED
TO HAVE KNOWN THOSE WITH GUYS
AND CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM
LAUNCH IN SPACE.
YOU WAS WITH YOU OUT AT SPACEX
WEN WERE DOING A LITTLE TOUR AND
I THINK YOU KIND OF K?  PE BACK
IN TO WHERE THEY WERE TRAINING
AND GOT TO CHANCE TO SEE THEM.
WHEN THEY CAME BACK OUT I WAS
HAVING LUNCH AND EVERYONE WARNS
A WYCK, HEY, THESE ARE OUR TEAM
ALSO.
>> YES.
YES.
YE
IT IS REALLY AMAZING.
LAUREN, YOU SAID, I MEAN, TALKED
ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE LIKE.
THEY ARE JUST TWO OF THE MOST
HUMBLE PEOPLE, TOO.
I MEAN, ANY, EVERY TIME I HAVE
SEEN THEM DID AN INTERVIEW, YOU
KNOW, THEY ARE GETTING ASKED
QUESTIONS ABOUT THEMSELVES,
RIGHT?
THEY THREE STARS OF THE.
THEY ARE THE ONCE ON THE ROCKET.
BUT THEY ALWAYS BRING IT BACK TO
THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE
FOR THEM.
THEY ARE AS YOU TALKING ABOUT
THE NASA TEAM.
THE SPACEX TEAM.
WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES AND
THAT HAVE SACRIFICED SO TOP OF
KEEP THEM SAFE AND MA MADE SURE
THEY ARE ALWAYS VIGILANT AND I
KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT THIS
BEFORE, TOO.
BUT NOW HE, IF YOU ARE NOT LOOK
FOR SOMETHING WRONG YOU ARE NOT
DOING IT RIGHT.
SO THE TEAMS EVEN NOW THEY ARE
ALWAYS LOOKING FOR ANY LITTLE
THING THAT COULD GO WRONG TO
MAKE SURE THAT BOB AND DOUG ARE
SAFE WHEN THEY STRAP IN TO GET
GOING.
>> ABC LIT.
AROUND THE OFFICE, WE DON'T JUST
SAY, OH, LAUNCHING A ROCKET AND
RELAUNCHING DRAGON WE SAY, WE
ARE LAUNCHING BOB AND DOUG.
THAT HUMAN ELEMENT OF THIS IS
EVENTUALLY LEVELING SPACEX UP IN
A MAJOR WAY TODAY.
>> ABC LIT.
ALL THE TECHNOLOGY.
ALL THE HARDWAREEANS NOTHING
IF IT US BAWL THE PEOPLE.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
AND YOU KNOW, WE SEE JUST A
HANDFUL OF FOLKS IN THE ROOM AND
ACKNOWLEDGED THE DISTANCE THAT
MR. MUSK AND MR. BRIDENSTINE ARE
STANDING BETWEEN THE ASTRONAUTS
OF COURSE THEY HAVE MASKS ON
THIS WOULDN'T LOOK MUCH THAT
DIFFERENT THOUGH EVEN NOT IN THE
MIDST OF A PANDEMIC.
LELAND, YOU KNOW VERY WELL WHAT
IT IS LIKE TO LIB IN QUARANTINE
GETTING READY FOR A MISSION THIS
CORONAVIRUS SITUATION IS JUST
KIND OF UNDERSCORED THE POPS OF
QUARANTINE AND KEEPING THE
ASTRONAUTS PROTECTED BUT CAN YOU
SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT IT
IS LIKE TO LIVE IN QUARANTINE
GETTING READY FOR A SAYS NO
YEAH.
WE START IN QUARANTINE A WEEK
BEFORE YOU KNOW, BEFORE WE COME
DOWN THE CAPE TO GET READY FOR
LAWN AND I THINK THAT EVERYONE
AROUND YOU THAT COMES TO THE
CREW DINNERS AND WE HAVE TO GET
CHECKED BY THE DOCTORS AND SO WE
REALLY MAKE THIS A VERY SERIOUS
THING EVEN WITHOUT PANDEMIC
GOING ON BUT I THINK ONCE WE GET
DOWN HERE AND LIKE WE HAVE THESE
CREW PARTIES FOR OUR FAMILIES
AND YOU KNOW, WE CANNOT GO TO
THE PARTY.
WE HAVE TO FACETIME TO THE PEARS
BUT YOU KNOW, THAT IS SERIOUS
THING AND WE ONLY SEE OUR
SPOUSES AT THE BEACH HOUSE AND
HAVE A DINNER AND CELEBRATE THIS
MOMENTOUS MOMENT BUT IS A
SERIOUS THING EVEN WITHOUT
PANDEMICS GOING ON.
ABSOLUTELY.
AND OBVIOUSLY, DOUG HURLEY AND
BOB BEHNKEN ARE TWO OF THE BEST
AT WHAT THEY DO AND STARTING TO
SINK IN THAT THE MISSION IS ON
AS YOU SEE THEM IN THE SUITS
THERE.
>> IT IS GETTING REAL.
IT IS GETTING REALLY REAL.
IT IS GETTING REAL.
>> SO I REMEMBER HE FIRST TIME I
SAW BOB AND DOUG IN THESE SUITS
AT CREW TRAINING EVENT AT SPACEX
AND NOT ONLY DID THEY LOOK
REALLY AWESOME, YOU KNOW, THEY
NEED TO LOOK COOL, BUT THE SUITS
LOOK LIKE THEY WERE FROM THE
FUTURE AND OUR TEAM DESIGNED THE
SPACESUITS TO MAXIMIZE SAFETY
AND FUNCTIONALITY WITH A LITTLE
BIT OF STYLE AND SO HERE IS
TELLING US HOW THE SPACESUIT
CAME TO BE.
>> I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS
THAT WAS IMPORTANT WAS TO MAKE
IT EASY TO USE.
SOMETHING THE CREW HAS TO
PUGPLUG IN WHEN THEY SIT DOESN'T
AND THE SUIT TAKES CARE OF
ITSELF FROM THERE.
THE SUIT IS REALLY KIND OF ONE
PART OF THE BUGGER DRAGON SYSTEM
THAT IS PART OF THE VEHICLE 1:00
WE THINK OF IT AS THE SUIT SEAT
SYSTEM SO THE SEAT SAUDI ARABIA
AT THE THE CREW IS IN AND THE
SUIT ARE IN A LOT OF WAYS
WORKING TOGETHER SO IT MAKES
SINCE WE WERE DESIGNING DRAGON
AND ALSO TO DESIGN THE SUIT.
OUR SPACE SITES DESIGNED IN
HOUSE.
IT IS BUILT HERE IN HAWTHORNE,
CALIFORNIA, IN THE SAME BUILDING
AS THE ROCKETS.
THE SPACESUIT IS CUSTOM MADE FOR
EACH CREW MEMBER.
THAT IS SO HOSPITAL MY FOR THE
CREW MEMBER.
WE WANTED TO INNOVATE AND WANTED
TO LOOK INSPIRING BUT FIRST AND
FOREMOST BUT WANTED IT TO BE
SAFE AND RELIABLE.
THE SPACESUIT'S PRIMARILY
PURPOSE IS TO PROTECT THE CREW.
THE SUIT DOES A NUMBER OF
ADDITIONAL THINGS.
PRIT VOID PROVIDES COOL ANG
COMMUNICATION TO THE CREW SIGNED
OF THE SUIT.
IT PROVIDES THEM HEARING
PROTECTION AND THE OUTER LAYER
PROVIDES FLAME PROTECTION AS
WELL.
WHEN THE CREW GETGETS IN THE
CAPSULE, THEY GET IN THE SEAT,
THEY PLUG THE OUT?  THE
UMBILICAL THAT IS A TACHED TO
THE SEAT.
THE UM BILLLOGICAL CALLS 
PROVIDING THE ELECTRON UKES OR
COMMUNICATION AND PROVIDING THE
AIR TO COOL THE SUIT AND ALSO
GAS WHEN NEEDED TO PRESSURIZE
THE SUIT AND SO IT IS ARTICLE
SINGLE POINT THAT LETS  THE SUIT
DO THE THINGS IT NEEDS TO DO.
WE DEA SOONED THE HELMET IN
HOUSE.
IT SERVES A NUMBER OF FUNCTIONS
OBSESSLY IT IS FOLKING THE CRU'S
HEAD AND IT IS OBTAINING GAS
LACK THE REST OF THE SUIT AND
HOUSES  THE MICROPHONES AS WELL
AS THE VALVES THAT ARE
REGULATING PRESSURE IN THE SUIT.
WE DESIGNED THE GLOVES SO THEY
WOULD WORK THE TOUCH SCREEN SO
THE GLOVES STARTED TO DO A
NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS LOOK THE
REST OF THE SUIT SO ALL THE
THING HASSED TO COME TOWING AND
OBVIOUSLY REALLY AMAZING TO SEE
BOB AND DOUG IN THEIR FLIGHT
SUIT AND I THINK ONE OF THE
THINGS THAT IS ABOUT THE SUIT
ITS NOT JUST A PIECE OF
HARDWARE.
IT IS NO AT SUIT BUT IT IS BOB'S
SUIT AND IT IS DOUG'S SUIT SO
SEEING THE TWO OF THEM IN THEIR
SUITS USING IT IN FLIGHT WILL BE
REALLY AMAZING THING.
>> NOW THAT YOU HAD LOOK AT THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SPACE SUE,
WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE CALL TO
SHOW YOU WHERE THEY TRAIN TO BE
ABLE TO FLY ONBOARD DRAGON.
>> YESTERDAY, DAN AND I HAD A
CHANCE TO SPEND TIME HERE IN YOU
A THORN.
SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK.
WE'RE UP IN THE CREW TRAINING
AREA.
THIS IS RIGHT WHERE BE ABOUT
ANDDOG DOUG DID THE TRAFFIC THE
LAST SEVERAL MONTHS AND EVEN
YEARS TO GET READY NOR FLIGHT.
A COUPLE OF THINGS IN THE ROOM
THAT WE WILL SHOW YOU REAL
QUICKEN START OFF WITH THE
COCKPIT SIMULATORS.
NOW THERE ARE FOUR SEATS INSIDE
OF THE DRAGON THE WAY IT IS
COCONFIGURED THEM IN TWO ON THE
MID ARE WHERE THE COMMAND A
PILOT SITS.
THIS IS WHERE DOUG HURLEYS.
THIS IS WHERE BOB BEN KINS.
ONCE THEY REASON THE SUITS THEY
CAN PLUG THEM INTO THE SEATS AND
GET COMMUNICATIONS, BREATHING
AIR, PRESSURIZED GAS FOR THE
SUIT, EVERYTHING INTEGRATED INTO
THE DRAGON'S SYSTEMS MOST
IMPORTANTLY RIGHT IN FRONT OF
THEM, WE HAVE THIS SET OF THREE
DISPLAYS.
AND THESE ARE ARE TOUCH SCREEN
DISPLAYS THAT GIVE THEM ACCESS
TO DRAG ON.
S THIS THEIR THEIR ONE DE THE
SPACECRAFT.
THEY ARE ABLE TO SEE ALL OF THE
DIFFERENT SYSTEMS.
THEY ABLE TO TAKE CONTROL OF
THIS DRAGON AND SHERE THEY
OVER THE EARTH AND IN RELATION
TO SPACE STATION AND ABLE TO SEE
EVEN WHEN THRUST REMEMBERS
FIRING OR CAN KEEP YOUR EYE ON
THIS LITTLE DOT AND YOU CAN HEAR
BACK GROUND NOISE AND HAVE
RECORDED NOISEST THIS ARE ABLE
TO HEAR AND SEE IN REAL-TIME
WHILE THEY ARE TRAINING AND HARD
COATED BUTTON FOR THE MORE
IMPORTANT THINGS AND TO CUT
THE MAIN PARACHUTE AFTER THEY
THREANER THAN LAUNCH ESCAPE
SYSTEM SO SPEND A LOT. TIME IN
HERE GETTING FAMILIAR THE
CONTROL SYSTEMS BUT YOU NEED
BIGGER PICTURE.
NEED PUT IT TOGETHER.
TO DO THAT, WE CAN COME OVER
HERE WHERE YOU JUST WANT
SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE HIGHER
FIDELITY WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN
FROM THE SEAT, DISPLAY, CARGO,
ALL OF IT TO REALLY MAKE SURE
ARE TRAINED SO BY THE TIME GET
SPACE IT FEELS LOOK YOU HAVE
BEEN THERE BEFORE THAT IS WHERE
WE FIND JUSTIN.
>> HI, THERE.
I WAS JUST TRAINING FOR MY NEXT
MISSION TO SPACE BUT SINCE YOU
ARE HERE, LET ME SHOW YOU
AROUND.
THIS IS OUR FLIGHT SIMULATOR
WHICH IS BASICALLY A ONE-TO-ONE
REPLICA OF CREW DRAGON VEHICLE
AS FAR AS FUNCTIONALITY AND
INTERIOR SO THEY CAN GET SUITED
UP.
THEY CAN PRACTICE ENTERING AND
EXITING THE VEHICLE AND SLIME
CLIMB THE SEAT AND ACTUALLY GET
STRAPPED IN THE SEATINGS RECLINE
BACK SO THEY A CAN ACES THE
DISPLAY PANELS WHICH ARE
ACTUALLY FUNCTIONAL THEN
PRACTICE FLYING THE VEHICLE,
MANUALLY DOCKING WITH THE SPACE
STATION AND OPEN AND CLOSE THE
HATCH AND BASICALLY BY BY THE
TIME THEY GET TO A DAY LIKE
TODAY, THEY FELT LIKE THEY HAVE
ALREADY DONE THE MISSION 100
TIMES BEFORE.
WELL, I WILL GET BACK TO
TRAINING, SO LET'S GET BACK TO
LAUNCH.
>> WE ARE COMING UP ON T MINUS
3.50 HOURS AND ALL CONTINUES TO
GO WELL FOR TODAY'S LAUNCH.
NOW, AT THE LAUNCHPAD, FALCON 9
IS POWERED ON AND ENGINE AND
STAGE CHECKOUT PERFORMED SEVERAL
HOURS AGO.
EVERYTHING IS LOOKING GOOD ON
THOSE AND CURRENTLY MONITORING
TELEMETRY AND PRESSURIZING THE
GAS STORAGE VESSELS ONBOARD BOTH
THE FIRST AND THE SECOND STAGES
AND AS I MENTIONED THE GOOD
NEWS, I THERE IS NOTHING
SIGNIFICANT TO REPORT ON THE
ROCKET.
NOW ON TOP OF THE FALCON IN THE
PICTURE.
BEHIND THE ACCESS ARM IN THE
DRAGON SPACECRAFT.
THE SPACECRAFT IS READY ANOTHER
CREW WHO YOU SAW SOUGHT UP.
THEY WILL BE WALKING OUT HERE
SHORTLY AND BRING THAT TO YOU.
FUNCTIONAL CHECKOUTS WERE
PERFORMED IN PREPARATION FOR THE
CRU AERIFY A THEM DRAGON
PROPELLANT SYSTEM WAS APPRECIATE
SURE UZED TO THE FINAL FLIGHT
PRESSURE JUST ABOUT AN HOUR AGO.
CURRENTLY ALL SPACECRAFT COME
SYSTEMS ARE A GO.
RIGHT NOW, ON THE PAD, YOU CAN
SEE SOME SILHOUETTES IN THE
ACCESS AMPLE AND THE INGRESS
TECHNICIAN TEAM IS UP THERE AND
THEY OPENED THE HATCH AND NOW
GETTING READY FOR THE CREW TO
ARRIVE A LITTLE LATER THIS
AFTERNOON.
THE AIR FORCE RANGE IS
SUPPORTING US TODAY WITH AIR AND
SEA SPACE CLEARANCE.
THEY HAVE GOT NO ISSUES AT THIS
TIME.
WE ARE ALSO RELEASING WEATHER
BALLOONS.
THE INITIAL ABOUT A LONS HAVE
BEEN RELEASED AND DON'T GIVE AS
YOU GO FOR LAUNCH BUT START TO
THE US TINGS ARE SEN IF THE
TREND CONTINUES SO WHILE WE ARE
GOING TO WAIT ON THOSE RESULTS
TO GIVE AS YOU BETTER IDEA ALL
THE WAY DOWN TO T MINUS 30
MINUTES WE ARE ANTICIPATING
ACCEPTABLE WEATHER FOR LAUNCH AT
THEP UPPER ALTITUDES AS YOU
HEARD EARLIER, THE GROUND LEF
REL, THINGS LIKE THEY WILL BE
IMPROVING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON
AS WELL AS DOWN RANGE.
SHOWNS ARE LOOKING GOOD WITH
FALCON AND DRAG ON.
THE WEATHER IS COOPERATING AS WE
COUNTDOWN TO LIFTOFF AND SEE
WHERE YOU ARE FOLLOWING TODAY'S
LAUNCH FROM.
SO LET'S JUMP OVER TO TAHIRA AT
THE SOCIAL DESK.
TAHIRA:  THANKS, JOHN.
I CAN TELL YOU THE EXCITEMENT IS
REALLY BUILDING ON-LINE.
RIGHT NOW, WE ARE UP TO 700,000
PEOPLE VIEWING THIS BROADCAST.
AND LAUNCH MARKS THE NUMBER
THREE TRENDING ON TWITTER IN THE
U.S.
SO LET'S TAKE CLOSER LOOK WHAT
IS BEING SAID.
LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE ASTRO JOAN
WHO IS SO EXCITED TO BE ON THE
SPACE COAST AND WATCHING THIS
LAUNCH THE DRIVEWAY.
WITH THAT SO JEL US TO ALL OF
YOU IN FLORIDA THAT HAVE THE
ABILITY TO JUST STEP OUTSIDE AND
WITNESS BE ABOUT AND DOUG MAKE
THIS HISTORIC MOMENT.
LET'S TALK A LACK AT HERE.
WE HAVE DAVE FARRELL.
THE BASIS FROM LINCOLN PARK
WHICH IS SING GENERAL.
IT LOOKS LIKE THE KIDS COINED
THE TERM FOR TODAY'S MISSION.
THIS IS PERFECT.
WAS ACTUALLY LOOK FOR A WORD TO
DESCRIBE THE JITTERS AND
EXCITEMENT LEADING UP TO LAUNCH.
SO DAVE, THANK YOU FOR THAT.
WILL BE STEALING THAT FOR
TODAY'S SHOW.
SO LET'S TAKE JUST A BROADER
LOOK AT THE CONVERSATION ON-LINE
RIGHT NOW.
WITH THIS HEAT MAP OF THE UNITED
STATES.
SO YOU WILL SEE THAT THE MORE
PURPLE STATES SHOW THE STATES
WITH W THE MOST PENSIONS OF
LAUNCH AMERICA AND WITH THAT, IT
LOOKS THE FLORIDA SPACE COAST IS
REALLY COMING ALIVE FOR TODAY'S
LAUNCH AND FOLLOWED BY
CALIFORNIA HOME OF SPACEX AND
TEXAS WHERE THE MISSION CONTROL
IS.
SO GRATED TO SEE THE HOME TEAMS
SHOWING UP FOR TODAY'S HISTORIC
MISSION IN A WANT TO TOSS IT
BACK TO FLORIDA, THOUGH, BECAUSE
I HAVE TO REITERATE IF YOU HAVE
A CHANCE TO GO TO FLORIDA AND
WATCH ONE OF THESE LAUNCHES IN
PERSON IT IS GREAT.
I WATCH MY FIRST ONE LAST YEAR
AND THAT WAS THE UNCRUDE TEST
FLIGHT OF TODAY'S MISSION.
EVEN THEN I LITERALLY CRIED AND
YOU CAN NOT, CAN YOU NOT
DESCRIBE THE EMOTION THAT COMES
OVER TO SEE THIS IN PERSON AND
SO HIGHLY RECOMMEND IF YOU GET A
CHANCE TO GO DOWN TO FLORIDA.
FOR THOSE JUST TUNING IN, WE ARE
USING THE HASHTAG LAUNCH AMERICA
ON NA SASS SAUDI ARABIA'S SOCIAL
MEDIA CHANNELS SO JOHN THE
CONVERSATION WITH US AND MAYBE
SHOW IT DURING THE PRAD CAST.
SO EARLIER THUN HE SHOW, WE
POLLED USERS ON ABOUT ITER TO
SEE WHICH OF YOU WATCH THE FINAL
SHUTTLE LAUNCH IN 2011.
THE RESULTS ARE IN.
SO IT LOOKS LIKE ABOUT 40% OF
YOU WERE ABLE TO WATCH THE LAST
SHUTTLE LAUNCH.
BUT 60% WERE NOT.
I HAVE TO SAY, I AM NOT GOING TO
LIE.
I AM WITH THOSE 60% THIS WILL BE
MY FIRST TIME WATCHING HUMANS
LIFT OFF FROM SAYS NO U.S.
I AM NOT KIDDING WHEN I AM
TELLING YOU I AM LITERALLY
THRILLED TO DO THIS AND SHARE IT
WITH YOU ALL TODAY.
SO THE NEXT QUESTION WE HAVE FOR
YOU AS BOB AND DOUG FINISH THE
FINAL SUIT CHECKS, WE WILE WOO
LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU ARE IN THE
ROOM WITHIN W THEM RIGHT NOW,
WHAT WOULD YOU STI THEM ON
SOCIAL MEDIA?
USE THE HASHTAG LAUNCH AMERICA
AND WE'LL SHOW IT LATER ON IN
THE SHOW.
NOW, LET'S HEAD BACK TO MARIE AT
KENNEDY.
MARIE?
MARIE:  THANKS TY OF HIR ARE A.
WE ARE LOOKING LIVE AT THE BACK
DOORS OF THE O AND C BUILDING
THE ICONIC DOORS BUT FIRSTSE
TO HONOR TODAY'S EVERIES WITH
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND THE
KELLY CLARKSON TREATS ARE US YOU
WHO THE VIRTUAL RENDITION FROM
HER HOME TO YOURS ♪
♪ ♪
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>> AND ANY MOMENT NOW WE'LL SEE
BOB AND DOUG WALK OW.
THAT GAVE ME CHILLS LISTENING TO
THAT AND WE SAW THEM GETTING
THIS THE ELEVATOR SO THEY ARE
MAKING THE WAY DOWN THE FIRST
FLOOR WHERE THEY ARE WALK OUT
THE DOORS ANY MOMENT NOW?
>> SO EXCITING TO SEE YOU THIS
YOU KNOW, BACK 11 YEARS AGO WHEN
WAYS GOING DONE THE ELEVATOR AND
ABOUT TO WALK OUT THOSE DOORS IT
BRINGS BACK THE MEMORIES OF
GETTING HUMAN BEINGS TO SPACE
WORKING TOGETHER AS A TEAM AND
HAVING THIS ENTIRE COMMUNITY
AROUND YOU HELPING YOU GET OFF
THE PLANET.
>> YEAH.
AND LELAND I KNOW YOU HAVE A
COOL MEMORY ABOUT SOMEBODY
SPECIAL WHEN YOU WALKED OUT THE
DOORS.
LELAND:  OH MY GOODNESS, MARIE.
THINK CHEMISTRY TEACHER WAS
THERE FROM HIGH SCHOOL WHO
UNSPIRED KNOW BE A SCIENTISTS
AND SAID GO, LELAND.
THAT IS WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
THESE PEOPLE, THEIR FAMILY WILLS
BE THERE.
WISH OTHER PEOPLE COULD BE THERE
BUT JUST AMAZING MOMENT.
>> YEAH.
THE SHOT YOU SAW THERE ARE WITH
PEOPLE KAURFULLY SPACED APART.
WE SAW THEM WALK OUT BEFORE THE
ANTHEM START AND IT WAS VICE
PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE ALONG WITH
ELON MUSK AND JIM BRIDENSTINE
THEY ARE STANDING AND LOOKING
NOW AT THE DOORS THEY ARE STANG
RIGHT AGLOSS THE THREESES AND
LASS DESIGNATED SPOT FOR DOUG
AND BOB'S IMMEDIATE FAMILIES AND
THERE IS THE SHOT NOW SO LOOKING
AT THE BACK OF ELON MUS WHERE
CAN JIM BRIDENSTINE AND VICE
PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE AND SMALL
GROUP OF MEDIA THERE ALSO SO WE
BLOCKED THIS CARE FLOY MAIN IN A
TAIN SOCIAL DISTANCING AND THOSE
WHO CANNOT HAVE THE MASK ON BUT
THE TESLAS WAITING FOR THEM THEY
BOTT THE MEAT BILLION AND THE
WARM ON THE BACK OF THE TESLA SO
LELAND I KNOW WE WERE TALKING
ABOUT THIS EARLIER AND MIXED
FEELINGS ABOUT THE WORM, RIGHT.
THE WORM.
THE MEATBALL AND WHEN I WAS AT
LANGLEY WE CHANGED OVER THIS
MEAT BALL FROM THE WORM SO
LAUREN I KNOW YOU LOVED THE
WORM.
>> WORM ALL DAY.
>> ALL DAY.
>> ALL DAY.
SERIOUSLY.
OH, YEAH.
SORRY.
I LOVE THE WORM IS SO RETROAND
ONLY FITTING TO MAKE THE WAY
BACK BRINGING THE HISTORIC JUST
OPULENCE OF NASA'S PAST TO THE
PRESENT.
I WILL LET YOU HAVE THAT.
YEAH.
THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU.
I MEAN THE CHEVRON AND THE
MEATBALL GOES BACK TO
LISTENINGLY'S TRADITION WHEN IT
WAS, YOU KNOW, AVIATION AND THAT
GETS BACK TO THAT HERITAGE AND
THAT HISTORY, TOO.
>> I GUESS, SURE.
OK.
OK.
TRUCE.
>> ORBIT.
>> TRUCE.
>> TRUCE.
I FEEL LIKE THIS IS MICROCOME
MIM WHAT IS HAPPENING THE
MEATBALL IS NOT GOING AWAY.
IT IS A WORM-MEATBALL PART
PARTNERSHIP.
THERE IS ANOTHER VIEW THERE OF
THE CROSSWALK THERE IS WHERE BOB
AND DOUG ARE GOING TO WALK OUT
ANY MOMENT.
OF COURSE, THEY ARE GOING TO GET
THE PHOTO TAKE BIN ALL THE
PAPARAZZI THERE AND WE ARE
STANDING BY FOR THEM TO WALK OUT
AND I WILL CHECK THE TIME
ACTUALLY.
1:13 SO IF THEY WALK OUT ANY
MINUTE NOW THEY WILL BE ON
SCHEDULE TO START THEIR FINAL
GOOD-BYES AND WAVING TO FOLKS
AND I AM SURE THEY ARE GOING TO
PAUSE FOR GET TOW OPP BUT THIS
IS REALLY AMAZING, HAVEN'T SEEN
THIS SITE SINCE 2011 WITH STS135
AND OF COURSE DOUG HURLEY WAS
THE PILOT ON THIS MISSION SO
THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE MOMENT.
YEAH.
YEAH.
ONE OF THE CREW MATES THAT WAS
WITH HEM WAS REX AND GOING TO
TALK TO LATER.
HERE THEY COME.
>> HERE THEY ARE.
HERE THEY COME.
NASA ASTRONAUTS BOB BEHNKEN AND
DOUG HURLEY AND MADE THIS
JOURNEY TWICE BEFORE FOR THE
SPACE SHUTTLE MISSIONS BUT THEY
HAVE NEVER DONE THIS IN A SPACEX
SPACESUIT AND NEVER DONE THIS
TOGETHER AND NEVER DONE THIS ON
THE WAY TO HEAD TO COMMERCIALLY
BUILT ROCKET AND SPACECRAFT TO
HEAD TO TO SPACE.
>> LOOK FOR THE ASTRO VAN AND
WHITE TESLA AS WITH MEATBALLS
AND WORMS ON THEM AND NEW ERA IN
SPACE TRAVEL.
OH, YEAH.
THEY ARE RIDING IN TESLA MODEL
X'S AND EQUIPPED WITH CREW SO
ONCE THEY SIT INSIDE THE UM BILL
A I WAS REFERRING TO EARLIER
WILL CONNECT TO THE SPACESUITS
TO PROVIDE COOLING WHILE INSIDE
OF THE VEHICLE.
AND YOU CAN SEE THEM TALKING AND
WAVING WITH THEIR FAMILIES NOW
AND SAW THEM DO A VIRTUAL HUG
THEIR SONS.
>> THERE IS MEG AND AND KAREN
AND THEIR SONS.
YEAH.
THEY THREE DADS.
THE DADS.
YEAH.
SO AWESOME.
BYE.
>> BOB BLOWING HIS FAM LAY KISS.
DOUG ACTUALLY GOT TO TAKE HIS
WIFE AND SON UP TO THE PAD ON
THE TOWER YESTERDAY AND TWEETED
OUT BOAT THREE WAS SO COOL.
I SAW THIS PICTURE.
HAD A PROMINENT WORK IN THE
PICTURE, RIGHT?
>> YES.
TELLING YOU WORM ALL DAY.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
SO THEY ARE CLIMB THROUGH THE
DeLOREAN DOORS OF THE MODEL X
THIS IS TOTALLY FROM THE FUTURE.
ARE THEY STOCKED?
ARE THEY STOCK?
>> THEN YOU SEE IN THE FRONT
SEAT THERE THAT'S THE FLIGHT
SURGEON, HE IS CLIMBING IN AND
THE SUIT TECHNICIANS AND THERE
IS ONE NUMBER 12 IS BUCKLING IN
AND TWO SUIT TECHS ARE BUCK LIKE
IN DOUG AND DOUG AND CONNECTING
THE UMBILICAL.
LAUREN, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED
THIS EARLIER.
FOR FOLKS WHO WERE NOT WATCHING
THEN OR CANNOT REMEMBER, WE'RE
IN FLORIDA.
YOU?
IS SEEP HOT.
SUPER MUGGY.
HOW ARE THEY STAYING CALL TO THE
PORTABLE COOLING UNIONS WE HAD
ONE AT THE ONC.
TWO AT THE ONC BUILDING AND TWO
IN THE TESLAS AND TWO IN THE
ELEVATORS AND THEN, TWO IN WHITE
ROOM WHEN THEY RAVE ON THE CREW
ARM SO KEEPING IT COOL AIR
FLOWING THROUGH THE SUITS AND
ACTUALLY INTERGRANT GRATED INTO
THE SUITS TO KEEP THEM COOL.
YOU CAN SEE THEY ARE SING
GOOD-BYE TO THEIR FAMILIES THIS
IS AWESOME.
>> YEAH.
IT IS AWESOME.
THEIR FAMILIES GET TO COME UP
THE WINDOW AND OBVIOUSLY GET A
LITTLE CLOSER THAN EVERYBODY
ELSE.
>> MEGAN AND HIS SON.
>> OH MY GOSH.
>> PRECIOUS MOMENTS THIS IS
WHERE WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT ABOUT
THE PEOPLE AND THE FAMILIES AND
WORKING TOGETHER AS ONE
COMMUNITY TO GET DOUG AND BOB
LAURENING TOUGH THE SPACE
STATION.
>> IT IS EMOTIONAL.
IT IS EMOTIONAL WATCHING THAT.
IT IS.
[APPLAUSE]
THERE THEY GO.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
>> YEAH.
AS YOU SEE THE CONVOY BEGAN THE
JOURNEY THOUGH PAD, 39A, WE ARE
THINKING ABOUT EACH AND EVERYONE
OF YOU.
OUR COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS AT
SPACEX AND NASA WHO HAD A HAND
IN SEEING THE CREW DRAGON
COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM COME TO
LIFE.
>> AND WE WISH EVERY SINGLE ONE
OF YOU COULD BE HERE UPCLOSE TO
SEE THIS, WITH YOU BE WANT YOU
TO BE A PART OF THIS JOURNEY
REMEMBER GUARDLESS OF WHERE HE
WE'RE WATCHING TODAY.
AND SO FOR THE NEXT FEW MINUTES
WHILE THEY ARE MAKING THAT I
THEIR WAY THOUGH PAD AND
HIGHLIGHT THOSE PEOPLE WHOSE
HANDS AND WORDINGS AND THOUGHTS
BUILD ALL WE SEE HERE T AND HOPE
ALL OF YOU WATCHING CAN FEEL
THAT PRIDE THAT EACH OF THESE
NASA AND SPACEX TEAM MEMBERS HAS
FOR TODAY.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
>> THIS IS LAWYER ARE THE
COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM.
WE ARE SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS
DAY.
WE ARE BEE MOON YOU BOB AND
DOUG.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
>> CONGRATULATIONS TO SPACEX FOR
HITTING ANOTHER MAJOR MILESTONE
AND SAFE TRAVELS TO DOBB AND
DOUG.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
>> BOB AND DOUG, WE HAVE A LOT
OF OF THE LAUNCH VEHICLE TEAM
HERE TO WISH VERY WONDERFUL SAFE
RIDE ON THE FALCON 9.
WE ARE SO EXCITED FOR YOU.
LAUNCH AMERICA.
IT IS TIME TO LAUNCH.
LET'S GO.
♪ ♪
♪ LAUNCH AMERICA.
>> HI.
THIS IS HAWTHORNE HEAD QUART
KERRS WE WANT TO WISH BE ABOUT
AND DOUG A SAFE TRIP TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
GO DRAGON.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
>> BOB AND DOUG.
>> GUYS.
>> NINE YEARS IN THE MAKING.
THIS IS SUCH A HISTORIC TIME AND
OUR TEAM HAS WORKED SO HARD AND
WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO BE HERE.
>> GO BOB AND DOUG.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
>> HI, THIS IS SAM FROM
McGREGOR, TEXAS.
GO BOB AND DOUG.
GO NASA.
GO SPACEX.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
>> BOB AND DOUG, WISHING YOU A
GREAT FLIGHT AND WANT TO TELL
YOU GOOD LUCK.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
>> HI.
I AM WITH SPACE COMMUNITY
PUBLICATION AND WE WANT TO WISH
BOB AND DOUG SAFE TRAVELS AND
GOD'S SPEED.
YOU ARE BOTH SPIN TRYINGS ALL US
ALL.
LAUNCH AMERICA.
LET'S DO IT.
COME ON.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
>> AND WE'RE FOLLOWING THE
CONVOY AND LELAND, LAUREN, I
DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU GUYS.
I AM SO GLAD THAT WE HAD THE
CHANCE TO HEAR ARE THE NASA AND
SPACEX TEAMS WORKING BEHIND THE
TEACHES BECAUSE I KNOW YOU NO HE
THIS ALL TOO WELL AND THESE
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WORK NOT ONLY
FOR YOU KNOW THE LAST SINCE 2014
WHEN SPACEX WON THIS CONTRACT
BUT WORKING LONG HOURS, LONG
REVIEW, CORONAVIRUS HAPPENED,
THEN HOMESCHOOLING THEIR KIDS,
STILL TRYING TO GET THROUGH ALL
OF THE FINAL CHECKOUTS AND
CLOSEOUTS TO GET TO TODAY AND WE
MADE IT.
NOW WE ARE JUST WAITING ON THE
WEATHER BUT IT US GREAT THEY GOT
A CHANCE TO WISH BOB AND DOUG
GOOD LUCK.
>> ABSOLUTELY L.?
I IS A BUMMER WE CANNOT ALL BE
HERE IN PERSON BUT TO HAVE THAT
OPPORTUNITY WITH THAT AND IT IS
PRETTY COOL AND YOU ARE RIGHT.
IT HAS BEEN YEARS OF EXTREMELY
HARD WORK FORTUNATELY WE HAD
LITTLE MILESTONES AND MILESTONES
ON THE WAY THE FLIGHT ABOLTER
MISSION BUT ALL LEADING UP TO
THIS AND I SPEAK FOR ALL KNIFE
FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES THAT ARE
STILL WORK ON THIS PROGRAM TODAY
IS A CAREER JUST HYPE FOR ALL OF
THOSE PEOPLE IF NOT THE PINNACLE
OF IT.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
I KNOW DOUG AND BE ABOUT
APPRECIATE THEM SO MUCH AS THEY
CONTINUE TO MAKE THE WAY THOUGH
PAD THE NEXT ASTRONAUTS TO MAKE
THIS JOURNEY ARE ALSO, WATCHING
VERY CLOSELY.
NASA ASTRONAUTS SHANNON WALKER,
VUKOR GLOVER AND MIKE HOP KIN
AND JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION
AGENCY ASTRONAUT WILL ALSO BE
FLYING AND BE IN THE CREW ONE
MISSION A LITTLE LATER THIS
YEAR, OF COURSE, THAT IS AFTER
BE ABOUT AND DOUG RETURN HOME.
NOW CREW ONE WILL BE THE SECOND
SPACEFLIGHT FOR WALKER AND
HOPKINS WHO FLEW OUT OF RUSSIAN
SOYUZ AND THE FIRST SPACEFLIGHT
FOR THE GLOVER THAN THIRD FOR
NOGUCHI HE FLEW ON THE SPACE
SHUT THAN THE SHUTEDLE PREV OS
LANE THE FIRST IN THE SERIES OF
PROTATIONAL FLIGHTS AFTER DEM ME
2 AND ONCE NASA CERTIFIES THE
SPACEX SYSTEMS FOR REGULAR CREW
FLIGHTS VICTOR AND MIKE ARE
FOLLOWING FLON THE JOHNSON SPACE
CENTER IN HOUSTON.
AND THE ARE STAPPING BY TALK TO
NASA DARRYL.
ARE YOU THERE?
>> ALL RIGHT.
I AM SORRY.
WE DON'T HAVE DID DARRYL.
AS WE CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THE
CONVOY.
WE HAVE A LITTLE CHASE CAR
FOLLOWING THE CONVOY.
I THINK WE ARE GOING TO BE
ACTUALLY TALKING TO VICTOR AND
MIKE FROM RIGHT HERE.
VICTOR AND MIKE, ARE YOU THERE?
>> WE ARE HERE.
>> ALL RIGHT.
HI, GUYS.
WELL, I AM GOING TO ASK YOU
FIRST.
YOU ARE GOING TO BE TWO OF THE
NEXT PEOPLE TO GET ONBOARD CREW
DRAGON WHAT ARE THE THOUGHTS AND
FEELINGS AS YOU ARE WATCHING BE
ABOUT AND DOUG AS THE THREES
NOW?
>> AS YOU CAN ABLE GIN, THERE IS
A LOT OF EMOTIONS AND OF COURSE
WE ARE EXPECTED FOR BOB AND DOUG
AND EXCITED FOR NASA AND SPACEX
AND THE WHOLE COUNTRY AND A LOT
OF PRIDE.
ND AND SENSE OF DUTY AND AND
LISTENING AND UL OF THAT TO
HELP.
>> AND YOUR MISSION AND SORRY
DIDN'T MEAN TO CUT YOU OFF.
>> SEE THEM WALK OUT JUST NOW
AND SAY BAD GUY TO THE FAMILIES
TOES DO THE VIRTUAL HUGS.
THERE ARE A LOT OF EMOTIONS WITH
THAT AND THAT IS PROBABLY THE
BEST ONE.
>> AND VICTOR AND MAKE, I KNOW
RECENTLY YOU HAD SHANNON WALKER
AND NOGUCHI ALSO ASSIGNED TO THE
CREW ONE MISSION WITH YOU.
WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THEM
AND THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM
AND THE TRANNING SO FAR WITH
THEM?
>> YEAH.
I AM PEEKS ID ABOUT CREW ONE.
WE GOT A VERY EXPERIENCED CREW
AND YOU HIT ON THAT EARLIER.
OF COURSE SHAB NONE HAS BEEN
WITH NASA FOR AROUND 30 YEARS
AND SHE HAS BEEN WITH THE
ASTRONAUT OFFICE FOR MORE THAN
15 YEARS AND OF COURSE, SOYUZ
LONG DURATION SO SHE HAS SIGN
LOT AROUND HERE SO YOU KNOW,
JACKSON, HE HAS DONE IT ALL.
1996 WHEN HE FIRST BECAME
ASTRONAUT SHUTTLED SPACE STATION
AND SHORT DURATION AND LONG
DURATION SPACEWALKS YOU NAME IT.
SO YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF LATE IN
THE GAME HERE HAD OUR FULL CREW
COMPLIMENT SO IT IS HAS HELPED
GETTING THEM INH THAT
EXPERIENCE AND IT IS STREAM
LINED THE PROCESS FOR OUR
BECOMING MORE COHESIVE AS CREW.
YEAH.
YEAH.
THEY REALLY HIT THE GROUND RUN
AING HE WITH WE SHOWED UP TO THE
FIRST AND FELT LIKE WE HAD DONE
IT SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE.
AND SO ITS GREAT BECAUSE WE HAVE
A LOT TO GET DONE AND NOT ONLY
HAVE TO LEARN TO FLY AND TO
OPERATE THE CREW DRAGON
SPACECRAFT THAT BE ABOUT AND
DOING DOUG WILL DO LATER TODAY
GOD THERE AND HAVE TO BE READY
TO DO ALL THE THINGS A CREW AND
SO WE ALSO HAVE THAT TRAINING
GOING ON AS WELL AND THAT IS
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING FOR THE
PAST SEVERAL MONTHS TOGETHER.
>> YOU I KNOW, I HAVE A QUESTION
FOR MIKE.
I KNOW YOU HAVE FLOWN ON THE
RUSSIAN SOYUZ.
DAWNING ABOUT THE TRADITION OF
THE RIDEOUT THAT WE'RE SEEING
NOW?
>> YEAH.
THE RIDEOUT, YOU KNOW, IT IS
VERY SYMBOLIC.
IT IS SYMBOLIC OF THE
TRANSITION.
THE TRANSITION FROM MONTHS AND
YEARS OF PREPARATION TO THE
ACTUAL EXECUTION OF THE MISSION
ITSELF.
SO FOR THE ASTROS NO FOR BOB AND
DOUG RIGHT NOW.
IT GIVES THEM AN OPPORTUNITY
REFLECT ON THIS THE HE WORK IT
TOOK TO GET THIS MOMENT BUT THEN
ALSO GIVES THEM TIME FOCUS ON
THE JOB TO MENTALLY PREPARE FOR
GAME DAY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT
THIS MISSION ,S THAT YOU THE
SYMBOLIC OF THIS TRANSITION FROM
ALMOST NINE YEARS WHERE WE HAVE
NOT HAD HUMAN LAUNCH CAPABILITY
IN THE U.S. TO A NEW AGE OF
GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE
PARTNERSHIPS THAT ARE GOING TO
BE LAUNCHING HUMANS INTO LOWER
EARTH ORBIT AND BEYOND AND THAT
IS HAPPENING RIGHT HERE FROM THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
>> AND A IF HE FOR VICTOR
BECAUSE I KNOW YOU KNOW, IF ALL
GOES WELL, WHEN YOU FLY ON CREW
1 A LITTLE LATER THIS YEAR.
S  THE FIRST TRIP TO SPACE AND
CAUNSELF IN THE SEAT RIGHT
NOW IN THE CAR WITH BOB AND DOUG
AND I MEAN, WALK ME THROUGH WHAT
THAT IS FOG FEEL LOOK FOR YOU
KNOWING YOU ARE HEADED TO THE
LAUNCHPAD AND GOING TO BE
LAUNCHING INTO SPACE FOR THE
FIRST TIME.
>> YEAH.
YOU KNOW?
IT WILL BE TOUGH TO OR IT IS
TOUGH NOW TO IMAGINE WHAT THOSE
FEELINGS ARE EXAMINING TO BE
LIKE.
WE WERE ABLE TO SIMULATE THAT
AND ONE THROUGH A DAY OF LAUNCH
EX ARE SAYS AND RIDE OUT TO THE
DES LA A THOSE LAUNCHPAD UP THE
HE'LL VIT ARE AND UP TO THE SET
OF STAIRS IT TO CREW ARM TO
WHERE THE VEHICLE WOULD BE.
JUST A DAY WAS MAZING TO ME.
WE WERE ABLE TO DO IT WITH THE
FULL CONVOY, AND TO SEE WHAT
THAT WOULD BE LIKE AND THAT WAS
OVERWHELMING AFTER BEING A KID
WATCHING SOMETHING SIMILAR TO
THIS ON TELEVISION.
SO I CANNOT MAYP GIN WHAT IL
WILL FEEL LIKE.
I TELL YOU WHAT I AM LOOKING
FORWARD TO IT.
AND TO GO BACK TO THAT MOMENT
WHERE THEY GOT SAY GOOD-BYE TO
THE BOYS AND KAREN AND MEGAN I
CANNOT WAIT TO SEE MY KIDS
STANING THERE AND SOMETHING I
LOOK FORWARD TO.
IT IS GOING TO BE GREAT.
>> VICTOR GLOVER AND MIKE
HOPKINS THANKS.
WE CANNOT WITH A WAIT TO WISH
YOU WELL AND CHEER YOU LISTENING
ON THAT JOURNEY.
LAUREN?
>> SO, SO COOL.
NOW, AS YOU ARE WATCHING THIS
LIVE.
FROM WHEREVER ARE.
CAN SEE ACCEPTED A SHUT ZOIT
CREW WITH THE LIKE OR COME MEN
ON TWITTER OR INSTAGRAM WITH THE
HASHTAG LAUNCH AMERICA AND BE A
PART OF THIS MOMENT.
>> SO LELAND, I MEAN, IT LOOKS
LIKE WE ARE THE CONVOY IS HEADED
PAST THING HAVE ASSEMBLY
BUILDING AND LACKING A THE PAD
NOW AND PROBABLY GOT THREE MORE
MILES TO GO AT THIS POINT, BUT
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING
THROUGH THEIR MINES RIGHT NOW.
WELL WHERE YOU KNOW I WAS
WATCHING VIDEO OF THIS BE ABOUT
AND DOUG THE LIGHTER SIDE.
I WOULD MAY IMAGINE THE TWO OF
THEM TRAIN SOD HARD AND THEY ARE
METICULOUS AND AT WHAT THEY DID
DO AND MAY BE TELLING JOS LIKE
WE DID AND THE ASTRO VAN HEADING
TO PAD 39A AND HAVE BEEN
TOGETHER SO LONG.
YOU KNOW THE SYSTEMS AND WHAT
KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WE
HAD A MOMENT OF LEVITY WHERE WE
WOULD TELL JOKES AND WOULDN'T
TELL THE WHOLE JOKE AND SAY THE
NUMBER BECAUSE DID HE WE SAY IT
SO OPINION NY TIMES AND YOU
KNOW, HIGH-FIVING AND WE ARE
CHEST BUM ANG GETTING READY MEN
ALLEY BUT IT WAS THIS MOMENT OF
JUST MADE ALL THIS PREP PREP
RIGS AND NOW IT IS GAME DAY.
WE'RE READY TO GET UP TO THE
VEHICLE AND GO TO SPACE.
>> AND NOW GO OUT TO HAWTHORNE
FOR THE LAST LEG OF THE CONE I
HAVE'S STROKE THE LAUNCHPAD.
DAN?
DAN:  THANKS, SO AT THIS POINT,
THE CONVOYS GETTING CLOSE TO PAD
39A AND PRETTY SOON GOING TO BE
ENTER WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE BLAST
DANGER AREA.
BEFORE ANY PAD TECHNICIAN AND
ENGINEERS ARE OBVIOUSLY
ASTRONAUTS ENTER THIS YARN THE
LAUNCHPAD, SPACEX AND NASA TEAMS
DO INTERNAL GO-GO POLLS TO MAKE
SURE EVERYTHING IS CLEAR AND SAW
PEOPLE ON THE ARMS AND THE CREW
IS MOVING IN SO EVERYTHING IS
CLEAR.
>> THIS STORIED LAUNCHPAD WHICH
HAS BEEN THE BEGINNING POINT FOR
SO MANY FIRSTS IS THE PERFECT
BACKDROP FOR TODAY'S HISTORIC
LAUNCH THAT MARKS A NEW FIRST
AND NEW ERA IN HUMAN
SPACEFLIGHT.
BUT WITH NEW VEHICLES BEING
DESIGNED AND LAUNCHED THIS
LAUNCHPAD REQUIRED SOME MAJOR
KRUPP GRADES.
RIGHT.
AND DARRYL IS GOING TO SHOW A
COUPLE OF THOSE UPGRADES AT PAD
39A WHERE SPACEX COMPLETED THE
21st CENTURY MAKEOVER TO HELP
LAUNCH US TO THE NEXT CHAPTER OF
HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT.
♪ ♪
>> WE'RE A GO.
WE'RE GO.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ LIFTOFF.
THE TIME LIFTOFF.
THE SHOULDERS HITCH SPACE
SHUTTLE AMERICA WILL CONTINUE.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪
>> YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN,
BOB AND DOUG ARE GETTING CLOSE
TO PAD 39A IN ADUGS THE
LAUNCHPAD UPGRADES SPACEX MADE
CHANGES TO BOTH FALCON 9 AND
DRAGON TO ENABLE FLYING CREW KEY
UPDATE TO THE LATEST VERSION OF
DRAGONS THE HIGHLIGHT RELIABLE
LAUNCH ESCAPE TESTIMONY THAT IS
CAPABLE OF CARRYING CREW TO
SAFETY AT ANY POINT DURING THE
ASSENT OF THE ROCKET.
>> RIGHT.
AM SORRY I AM WAITING FOR THE
PULLBACK MOMENT ON THE CRAM
WHERE WE SEE CARS ROLL UP TO THE
PAD.
ANOTHER KEY UPGRADE, THOUGH, FOR
EVERYTHING TODAY IS DRAGON'S NEW
LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM.
AS YOU CAN HEY GUN.
THERE WE GO.
THE CRAW ARRIVING AT THE PAD.
AS YOU CAN MAY IN GIN FLYING
HUMANS REQUIRES KEEPING HABIT
PROBABLY ENVIRONMENT THROUGHOUT
THE IN TIRE FLIGHT THAT IS
EVERYTHING LIKE PROVIDING
BREATHING AIR, KEEPING CAPSULE,
KEEPING IT FREE OF
CONTAINMENTANCE REMOVING CARBON
DIOXIDE AND REGULATING
TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY AND
IMPLYING THE WASTE COLLECTION
SYSTEM, THE TOILET.
THE CHANGES TO FALCON 9 WERE
SMALL BUT EXTREMELY MEANINGFUL
TO MEET NASA'S REQUIREMENTS FOR
SAFETY FOR HUMAN SPAIN
SPACEFLIGHT AND SPECIFICALLY
SPACEX HAD TO PROVE A HIGH
DEGREE OF TOLERANCE MEANING THAT
SMALL FAILURE IN AMENTES MISSION
WOULD NOT LEAD TO MISSION
FAILURE AND ABLE TO HANDLE
ENGINE FAILURE BUT NEW EMPHASIS
WAS PUT ON MAKING SURE A FALL UR
WOULD NOT MEAN MISSION FAILURE.
THOSE ARE COOL VIEW ON THE
SCREEN WITH BE ABOUT AND DOUG
GETTING OUT OF THEIR TESLAS.
THATTING.
AMAZING.
THIS GOES DOESN'T ALL THE WAY TO
LATCHES, CONTROL VALVES,
ELECTRONICS AND WIRING AND SO
MUCH MORE TO KEEP THEM SAFE.
ALL RIGHT.
NOW ON LOCATION AT PAD 39A
MARIE, LAUREN, LELAND TALK US
THROUGH THE CREW MAKING THE
FINAL STEPS TOWARD THE DRAGON
SPACE SCRAFT.
>> THANKS, DAB.
THAT WAS CALL TO SEE.
WE CAN SEE THE TESLAS ON THE
SCREEN THERE AND GOING TO STOP
FOR BE ABOUT AND DOUG TO TAKE A
NATURE BREAK BEFORE THEY MAKE
THE WHICH TO THE PAD AND WE ARE
EXPECTING IT SHOULD BE T MINUS 2
HOURS AND 55 MINUTES SO UNDER
THREE MINUTES FROM NOW WE SHOULD
HEAR A FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT
THAT'S THE CRAW IS ON THE PAD SO
WE'LL QUIET DOWN TO LISTEN TO
THAT WHEN WE GET CLOSER.
LAUREN, YOU DOESN'T GET A CHANCE
TO MENTION WHILE THEY WERE
DRIVING THROUGHOUT.
THEY HAD COOL PLAY LIST ON THE
WAY OUT.
RIGHT.
YEAH.
I REMEMBER BOB TWEETING WHAT
SHOULD I L TO ON THE WAY
OUT.
HERE IS WHAT THEY CHOSE.
THE FIRST IS AC/DC'S BACK IN
BLACK I THINK HE ACTUALLY
TWEETED THAT ONE OR SOMEONE
RECOMMENDED IT THE REASON BEING
THEY ARE BACK THEN ALSO THEY
LISTENED TO THE VALOR MUSIC FROM
THE BLUE'S BROTHER FILM.
AND I THINK SO.
YEAH.
YEAH.
GOT ANOTHER CAREER.
YEAH.
THAT AND MEATBALL.
BUT SORT OF SIM POLL LIESING THE
FACT THEY ARE WAITING AND THE
THIRD SONG WAS "THE
STAR-SPANGLED BANNER" THE ARMY
FRENCH HORN'S VERSION.
FOR VERY OBVIOUS REASONS.
FIRST THE MOOD.
FIRST THE TONE.
YOU KNOW BAWL THAT.
>> A LITTLE TONE.
A LITTLE MEATBALL.
ALL GOOD.
>> AND SO WE'RE LOOKING NU AT
THE CREW DRAGON CAPSULE ON TOP
OF THE FALCON 9 ROCKET THE
EXCESSIVE CREW ACCESS ARM THE
BLACK AND WHILE HALLWAY YOU SEE
THERE.
THAT IS HOW THE CREW MAKE THE
WAY OVER TO CREW DRAGON TO CLIMB
INSIDE.
THAT FALCON 9 ROCKET STANDS
230 FEET TALL AND THE CREW
DRAGON DRUNK THE BOTTOM THE THE
IS UP TO ANOTHER 27 FEET ON TOP
OF THAT SO HERE UNJUST A COUPLE
OF MINUTES BOB AND DOUG ARE
GOING TO BE MAKING THE WAY UP IN
ELEVATOR THEY DON'T HAVE TO KLUM
THE HOLWAY.
IT IS JUST ABOUT TEN FEET OF
STAIRS AT THE LAST LEG OF THAT
TRIP.
AND LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE WEIGHING
IN ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
THIS PERSON SAYS IT APES
PENNING.
I CAN'T RAD THE REST NOW.
LOTS OF PEOPLE REALLY GETTING
PUMPED USING THE HASHTAG LAUNCH
AMERICA ON-LINE.
SOMEBODY SAYS THEY ARE WATCHING
LIVE NOW AND WISHING AS YOU
FANTASTIC LAUNCH SO WE CERTAINLY
HOPE SO.
LAST WE HEARD WAS.
>> 50 EMERGENCY 50 CHANCE WITH
THE WEATHER SO IT IS GOING TO BE
EXCITING.
AND I AM NOT SURE?
THAT IS BE ABOUT OR DOUG IN THE
ONE HERE.
I CAN TELL FROM THIS VIEW.
LOOKS LIKE ONE OF THEM IS
GETTING READY TO GET OUT OF THE
TESLA IN JUST A MINUTE.
>> LAUREN, OUR SUITS HAD
DIFFERENT COLORS FOR WHAT
MISSION POSITION DO YOU HAVE.
DO THE SUITS HAVE COLORS TO
DESIGNATE TWO ASTRONAUTS DO YOU
KNOW?
NOT AWARE OF.
THE NAMES ARE ON THE SUITS.
>> WE HAD NAMES, TOO.
YEAH.
>> IF YOU ARE TRYING TO FUN OUT
WHAT SUIT DID YOU HAVE YOU KNOW?
I GUESS ONLY TWO OF THEM.
>> RIGHT.
>> IT IS DRAGON'S CAPABLE OF
CARRYING SEVEN BUT FOR NASA
MISSION IT POURS.
THERE GO THE DOORS.
I WILL CALL THEM THE DID A LORAN
DOORS.
SURE.
I THINK THAT IS TOTALLY FAIR
GAME.
AC HODGE THE INSPIRATION.
YEAH.
YEAH.
A YEAH.
FOR SURE.
WE ARE LOOK AT THE BASE LEVEL
THERE AND LELAND I KNOW WE
TALKED ABOUT THIS YOU KNOW, YOU
WERE OUT HERE LAST WEEKEND AND
TALKING HOW THE BAD LOOKS SO
DIFFERENT FROM THE SHUTTLE DAYS.
CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU
REMEMBER AND HOW IT IFS
DIFFERENT MU?
>> YEAH.
I MEAN, THE FORM AND THE
FUNCTION.
THIS BLACK PAD WITH THE WHITE
TICKING AND YOU KNOW, IT IS
REALLY BEAUTIFUL.
YOU THINK ABOUT STEM EDUCATION
BUT THIS IS TOTALLY SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY SHALL END I NEARING
ART AND MATH METICS SPACEX HAS
DONE INCREDIBLE JOB OF MAKING
THINGS LOOK BEAUTIFUL AND
FUNCTIONAL AND YOU KNOW,
EVERYTHING PIT FITS PERFECTLY.
I THINK YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WERE
HAVING OUR LAUNCHPAD AND POSES
AND THINGS HANGING OUT BUT IT IS
SLEEK AND HE'LL GN AND FUTURE
ISIC LOOK AT THE NEXT ERA OF
SPACE TRAVEL.
AND I KNOW, I JUST LOVE SEEING
THESE TESLAS VERSUS THE ASTRO
VAN.
ARE THEY DOING SELFIES.
THEY ARE TRYING TO SEE THE TOP
OF THE CREW DRAGON TAKING IN
THIS HE SITE.
IT IS HIGH.
I TON KNOW IF YOU CAUGHT THIS
ONE YOU CAN SEE IT BRYLIN SHOT
THE LICENSE PLATE SAYS ISSBND.
ISS BOUND.
DO YOU FOLLOW YES.
OH, HOPEFULLY THEY WILL BE
TODAY.
WE NEED THE WEATHER TO -- IT
LOOKS NICE RIGHT NOW, RIGHT?
LIBS NOT JUST WHAT THEY ARE
HERE.
THEY GOT TO THINK ABOUT DOWN
RANGE IN CASE OF ABETTER AND
MAKE SURE ITS OK FOR RECOVERY
BUT WE GET INTO A SITUATION LIKE
THAT.
THIS ELEVATOR IS GOING TO TAKE
THEM UP TO LEVEL 255.
IT IS NOT 255 FLOORS BUT
255 FEET AND FROM THERE WILL
THEY WILL TAKE AND ONCE THEY GET
UP THERE.
THEY WILL GET UP THERE QUICKLY.
THEY WILL GET OUT AND WALK UP
ANOTHER FLIGHT OF STAIRS TO
LEVEL 265 AND THIS IS WHERE WE
WILL GREET THE CREW.
>> IN A DON'T KNOW WELL,
OBVIOUSLY, LELAND HAS BEEN IN
THE VALE IT ARE.
I AM SURE YOU HAVE BEEN
THROUGHOUT, TOO THE FIRST TIME I
OPEN THERE EL AOR WE ARE REALLY
MOVING IN THE.
LITTLE BIT OF JOLT WHEN IT FIRST
GO GHOST.
YEAH.
YOU GET USED IT TO.
>> AND THEN, THE JOLT IS A
LITTLE BIT MORE EXTREME WHEN YOU
GET IN THE ROCKET AND TALK OFF.
A LITTLE.
IT IS A PRIMER.
>> THE DOORS ARE OPENING.
>> AND HERE THEY COME.
>> IT IS A BEAUTIFUL VIEW UP
THIS, TOO, OF ALL THE
SURROUNDINGS IN FLORIDA.
THIS NATIONAL WILDLIFE RETREAT
THAT WE HAVE HERE.
BUT GETTING READY FOR THE
BUSINESS AT HAND OF GETTING
UNTHE ROCKET AND HEADING TO THE
COSMOS.
AND THOSE ARE THE STAIRS LAUREN
MENTIONED.
IT IS 255-FOOT EF VERY NOW.
I THINK I SAID THAT RIGHT.
NOW THEY ARE HEADED UP TO THE
STAIRS TO THE 265-FOOT LEF REL
THEM LEVEL THAT WILL TAKE THEM
TO WHERE THE CREW ACCESS ARM IS
IN THE WHITE ROOM.
>> YEAH.
THAT IS THE VIEW RIGHT THEY THE
ARE LOOK AT.
WHAT ARE THOSE WHITE CHEVRONS ON
THE FLOOR?
WHAT DO THEY NEED TO.
>> THOSE ARE HIGHLIGHTING THE
EXIT PATHS SO IN THE EVENT THEY
NEEDED TO OR ANYONE NEEDED TO
GET AWAY ASAP, THEY FOLLOW THE
ARROWS TO WHERE ESCAPE BASKETS
WAY WAIT THEM.
THERE IS SEVEN BASKET AND HOP IN
THERE AND LIKE A ZIP LYNN AND
SLADE AL THE WAY DOWN FROM THAT
BIG SERVICE STRUCTURE DOWN
THOUGH GROUND SAFE AND AWAY FROM
THE ROCKET.
GREAT.
AND AT THE TOP RIGHT OF THE
SCREEN WHERE YOU SEE THEM.
THERE IS ACTUALLY A PHONE RIGHT
THERE NEXT TO THE WORM.
THERE IS THE WORM AGAIN.
I AM OK WITH THAT.
I AM OKAY WITH THAT NOW.
I REALLY POPS UP THERE.
YEAH.
LIKE IT BELONGS THERE OR
SOMETHING.
>> I FINS NY ISN'T IT?
>> LELAND TELL THIS IS ABOUT
PHONE.
WAS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
PHONE UP THERE INTO YEAH.
CAN CALL FAMILY MEMBERS THAT YOU
MAYBE WERE NOT ABLE TO COME TOLL
THE LAUNCH AND IN THE CASE,
QUITE A FEW OF THEM.
BUT YOU KNOW, IT IS A LAST
MINUTE TO SAY GOOD-BYE AND SAY
YOU ARE GOING TO TALK TO THEM
AND GET TO SPACE.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
AGAIN, THEY ARE JUST KIND OF
TANGING IN THE SIGHTS BEFORE
THEY GO THOUGH WHITE ROOM AND
THE PAD TEAM IS THERE AND YOU
CAN SEE THEM IN BLACK WITH THE
WHITE AMERS ON THE BACK.
THEY ARE MEMBERS OF THE PAD TEM
AND GOING TO BE HELPING THEM
WHEN THEY GET INTO INGRESS
TALLETLY T MINUS 2 HOURS AND 50
MINUTES NOW AT 2 MINUS AND 35
MINUTES SO JUST UNDER 15 MINUTES
FROM NOW IS WHEN THE ASTRONAUTS
WILL INGRESS.
THAT'S THE TESTIMONY WE USE FOR
CLIMB HOOKING DRAGON.
OF COURSE, THEY WILL HAVE THE
ASSISTANCE OF THE SUIT TECHANCE
GET BUCKLED IN.
SO WE WANT TO HEAD OVER TO
HAWTHORNE NOW FOR A PREVIEW OF
WHAT IS IN STORE FOR NOT JUST
BOB AND DOUG BUT FUTURE SPACE
TRAVELERS.
>> SHORTLY AFTER BEGIN TO
REGULARLY FLY NASA ASTRONAUTS TO
TRAND THE SPACE STATION, SPACEX
WILL REGIN FLYING PRIVATE
PASSENGERS TO THE STATION AND
BEYOND USING DRAGON.
RIGHT.
ENABLE LING UP TO TWO PRIVATE
ASTRONAUT MISSIONS TO VISIT THE
SPACE STATION EACH YEAR PART OF
THE SUPPORT OF BROADER ECONOMY
AND LOWER EARTH ORBIT ONE OF THE
MANY WAYS THIS IS NASA IS OPEN
BE ACCESS TO COMPANIES IN
MICROCRAVE TY AND COMMERCIAL
MODULES INTO SPACE AND ENABLE
MORE PEOPLE TO EX LOWER THE
STARS FIRST HAN.
AND THE MORE PEOPLE THROUGHOUT
EXPLORING THE STARS THE CLOSER
WE GET BECOMING A MULTI
PLANETARY SPECIAL PIECES.
REALLYIER WE SHOWED YOU A
FIRSTHAND LOOK AT WHERE YOU
WOULD TRAIN IF YOU WERE TO FLY
WITH US ON ONBOARD THE DRAGON
BUT NOW TAKE A PIECEN SIDE OF
THE SPACECRAFT ITSELF.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ WHEN WE WANTED TO TAKE DRAGON
TO MAKE IT HUMAN RATED I THINK
WE TOOK A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO
SPACESHIP DESIGN AS PREVIOUSLY
DONE AND WANTED TO FEEL LAKE
21st CEN CENTURY SPACE SHOW
SHIP AND IN SPIRE.
EVERYTHING WHEN LUCK AT DRAGON
WAS DRIVEN BY FUNCTION AND WE
TOOK INTO ACCOUNT EVERYTHING
FROM THE PLACEMENT OF ALL THE
CAR GE SUPPLIES AND TO THE LIGHT
RIL AND THE TOP AND DOUBLED AS A
HAND HOLD AND THE BIGGEST
FEATURE OF DRAGON AND THE TOUCH
SCREEN ON THE INSIDE ANDS
DESIGNED THEM NOT TO JUST TO BE
FUNCTIONAL BUT WITH A USER
PIECE, IN MIND AIN'T IS
INTUITIVE TO KNOW WHAT WE NEED
TO DO AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT IN
TIME.
WHEN I THINK ABOUT COMFORT AND
FOR THES AS AND IT IS REALLY
EVERY ASPECT OF HOW YOU COULD
PER AC WITH THE SPACESHIP THAT
COS TO MINDS AND THREE DIFFERENT
SEAT SIGNS GO SO FAR AS MOLDING
THE FOAM AROUND THE ASTRONAUTS
BODY SO THERE IS NO ANY PRESSURE
POINTS AND PLEASURABLE JOURNEY
TO SPACE.
DRAGONS THE SPACESHIP THAT IS
ABOUT SAFETY AND RELIABILITY
WHICH MEANS ANY TWO THINGS COULD
FAIL SO I COULD LOSE A PLIGHT
COMPUTER AND A THRUSTER AND I
COULD STILL BRING THE CREW BACK
HOME SAFELY.
SNOW WE ALSO ADDED A LAUNCH
SCAPE SYSTEM IF ANYTHING GOES
WRONG ON SENSE THAT THE CREW CAN
GET AWAY FROM FACONNE AND GET
PICKED UP SAFELY.
DRAGON SINCE 2012 BEEN I SEE
DRAGON LIFTOFF I THINK I AM
GOING TO FEEL BUILD UP OF
EMOTION OF EIGHT YEARS OF
WORKING WITH SOME OF THE BEST
ENGINEERS AND TECHNICIANS ACROSS
THE COUNTRY THAT PUT THEIR HEART
AND MIND INTO MAKING THIS
INCREDIBLE MOMENT HAP HAPPEN FOR
EVERYBODY.
>> YOU HAVE STARTED ON SCHEDULE.
>> WE SEE THEM SIGNING, LOOKS
LIKE THEY ARE SIGNING SOMETHING
IN THERINGNOW.
WE GIVE THEM A BLACK SHARPIE TO
SOON THE WHITE ROOM.
IT IS A NEW TRADITION.
>> YEAH.
WE DIDN'T DO THAT.
THAT NICE.
>> AWESOME.
>> A GOOD TRADITION.
>> YEAH.
>> WHAT DID YOU THINK SEEING
THAT AND COMPARE AND CONTRAST
WHAT THAT WAS LIKE DURING SHUT?
IT IS EXCITING GOOD LITTLE FOAL
TOWS AT THE END THERE AND IT IS,
IT IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT REAR THE
SPACEX TEAM IS REALLY LOOKING TO
MAKE FUTURISTIC AND LOOKING LIKE
I KNOW, SOMETHING FROM THE
GEORGE JETSONS OR FROM OTHER
MOVIES THAT YOU HAVE SEEN ON
TELEVISION.
AND THE MOVIES THINK YOU
SOMETHING THAT INSPIRES COUNTRY
AND EXPIRE UNSPIRES OUR CHILDREN
THEY WANT TO BE THESE ASTRONAUT
AND STUDY AND THE NEXT
GENERATION OF EX EXPLORERS LOO
LAUNCHING FROM A SPACEX ROCKET
AND YOU KNOW, WORKING FOR NASA
WORKING FOR NASA OR ANY OTHER OF
THE COMPANIES THAT ARE TRYING TO
GET OFF THE PLANET AND I THINK,
THINK I THAT YOU KNOW, THIS
CHANGE IN THE WAY WE'RE DOING
THE BUSINESS IS GOING TO BE
REALLY GREAT WAY OF GETTING MORE
PEOPLE TOHE TABLE.
HELLO.
>> AND 21 CENTURY SPACESHIP.
IT FLIES LAKE A 21st CENTURY
SPACESHIP SO THE GROUND SUPPORT
EQUIPMENT LOOK LIKE IT THE SAME
AREA.
THE SUITS DO AND ALL OF THAT
SORT OF FUTURE FACING TECHNOLOGY
AND ECSTATIC IS SUPER IMPORTANT
AND ACTUALLY RIGHT NOW YOU CAN
SEE THAT DUCT IN THE HANDS OF
MEMBER NUMBER 5 THIS.
THAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
SYSTEM DUCT AND ONCE THIS
ORIGINAL -- OH.
WHO WENT IN?
WAS THIS DOUG OR BOB?
EYE THAT I WAS DOUG.
>> THAT WAS DOUG.
YEAH.
OK.
THAT IS AWESOME.
>> HE US AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
SOMEBODY TELL MIM HIM TO CLIMB
BACK OUT.
LOOK.
HE IS READY.
HE IS LIKE LELAND.
WE WERE JOKE EARLIER.
WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO BUCKLE
LELAND INTO HIS SEAT TO KEEP HIM
OUT THERE.
I WAS GOING TO SWAM ACROSS THE
MOTE AND RUN OVER TO GET INTO
THE VEHICLE WITH BOB AND DOUG.
BOB IS GOING IN.
YEAH.
>> GREAT.
THE SUIT TECHNICIANS ARE HELPING
THE CREW CLIMB INSIDE.
THEY ARE HOLDING BACK THE HATCH
SEALS TO PROTECT THE SEALS ON
THE HATCH BUT ALSO MAKING SURE
THE CREW DOESN'T HIT THEIR HEAD
OR ANSWER THING ON THE WAYNE
EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE HELMS WE
DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN.
YOU KNOW, THEY CLIMBED IN A
COUPLE OF MINUTES EARLIER THAN
WE EXPECTED THEM TO BUT YOU
KNOW, LAUREN, YOU KNOW, SPACEX
HAS REHEARSED THIS OVER AND OVER
AGAIN WITH BE ABOUT AND DOUG AND
SOMETIMES, YOU OH, I HEARD THEM
SAY, WELL, WE MIGHT BE AHEAD OF
SCHEDULE IF WE ARE READY AND
GIVES MORE TIME CHECK THINGS OW.
YOU KNOW?
SO RIGHT NOW THE CREW AND SUIT
TECHNICIANS ARE DOING IS
STRAPPING THE CRU'S FEET INTO
THESE RESTRAINT THAT'S THE BOOTS
SIT INSIDE OF AND CLOSE THE
FIVE-POINT HARNESSES AROUND THEM
AND I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT SOME
OF THE HARNESSING THAT YOU HAD
IN THE PASTS WITH THE SHUTTLE.
YEAH.
YEAH.
THIS IS SUCH A MORE SLEEK DESIGN
WHERE THERE IS ONE POINT TO PLUG
IN A TO GIVE COMMUNICATIONS AND
EVERYTHING.
WE HAD A FIVE-POINT HARNESS.
YOU KNOW, WE HAD THE HOSES AND
THINGS ALL OVER THIS PLACE, BUT
THINK THIS IS MUCH MORE
STREAMLINED LOOK INTO THE FUTURE
OF SPACE TRAVEL.
>> AND SIMILAR TO WHAT WITHS
WASTE GOING IN THE O AND C
BUILDING DOING THE SUIT
CHECKOUTS THE SEAT UMBILICAL IS
GOING TO CONNECT TO THE RIGHT
THY OF THE SPACESUIT.
THERE IS A FLUID MODULE THAT IS
CON MCED TO THE SPACESUIT AND
THAT PROVIDES FRESH COOLING AIR
AND ALSO FOR THE LEAK CHECKS
THAT ARE GOING TO COUPLE LAUTER
BUT THE AUDIO TESTIMONY IS ALSO
GOING THROUGH UMBILICAL.
1:00 WHILE THE CREW IS OR WHILE
THE SUIT TECHS ARE GETTING THE
CREW ALL BUCKLED IN.
THEY ARE GOING TO PERFORM A
CHECK AND THAT IS AGAIN SIM
DOLLAR WHAT WAS DONE AT THE ONC
BUILDING BUT THIS TIME THE TWO
WAY COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE
ASTRONAUTS AND THE GROUND CREW.
>> HE WILL HEAD BACK TO YOU A
THORN NOW.
DAN?
DAN:  THANKS, YEAH.
IT IS INCREDIBLE TO SEE THEM
INSIDE OF THE CAPSULE.
IF YOU ARE JUST NOW TUNING IN,
GREAT TIMING.
YOU ARE WATCHING OUR COVERAGE OF
THE MISSION MISSION 2 OR DEMO-2.
TODAY SPACEX ANOSMIAS ARE GOING
TO BE SPENDING PEOPLE TO ORBIT
FOR THE FIRST TIME FROM U.S.
SOIL SINCE 2011.
BOB BEHNKEN AND DOUG HURLEY ARE
THOSE ASTRONAUT FRIESING IN
DRAGON IN A SIDE THAT IS DOUG
HURLEY CLOSE TO THE SCREN AND
BOB BEHNKEN ON THE FURTHER SEAT
AWAY FROM US.
>> AND THEY ARE GETTING READY TO
LIFT OFF FROM PAD 39A WHERE
FALCON WILL LIFTOFF AROUND OR AT
4:33 P.M. EASTERN TIME AND
ASCEND TALL STRUCTURE NEXT TO
ROCKET WHICH IS CALLED THE THICK
SERVICE STRUCTURE AND WALK DONE
THE CORRIDOR KNOWN AS THE CREW
ARM AND NOW THEY ARE ALREADY
BOARDED INSIDE OF DRAGON.
>> YEAH.
RIGHT BEFORE THEY GOTTEN WE DID
SEE THEM PAUSE FOR A MOMENT AND
SIGN THE WALL IN THE WHITE ROOM.
THE WHITE ROOM IS LITTLER ROOM
AT IN THE OF THE CREW ARM THAT
HAS OPENING IN THE DRAGON.
IT IS THE LAST PLACE ON PLANET
EARTH WHERE BE ABOUT AND DOUG
ARE STANDING BEFORE THEY GET
DRAGON FOR THEIR ARRIVAL TO
SPACE STATION.
THE TERM THE WHITE ROOM WAS
FIRST USED DURING NASA SEA
GEMINI MISSION WHERE THE ROOM
BEFORE ENTERING WAS PAINTED
WHITE SO WE CONTINUED THE
TRADITION WITH PAINTING OURS
WHITE AS WELL AND STARTING NEW
TRADITION IF YOU JUST SAW, THEY
DID SIGN THE WHITE ROOM WALL
WHICH IS REALLY, REALLY AWESOME.
IT IS A FAIRLY SMALL AREA THAT
HAS ROOM FOR THE CREW AND A FEW
GROUND SUPPORT MEMBERS TO
COMPLETE CARGO LED AT T MINUS 24
HORRANCE CRUISE INGRESS AT 2-35
AND INGRESS IS HOW WE REFER TO
THE CREW BOARDING DRG ON.
UNSITED OF THE WHITE ROOM, THERE
IS A MOVABLE PLATFORM THAT GETS
EXTENDED OUT TO THE CAPSULE JUST
IN ORDER TO BRIDGE THAT GAP
BETWEEN THE CREW ARM AND THE
DRAGON SIDE HATCH ALLOWING EASY
ENTRY INTO DRAGON AS YOU MIGHT
EXPECT THE ENTIRE AREA IS
ENVIRONMENTALLY CONTROLLED JUST
SO THE DRAGON SIDE HAS TO BE
KEPT OPEN WHILE WE'RE KEEPING
YOU AT OF THAT DUST, DIRT,
FLORIDA HUMIDITY OUT OF THE
CAPSULE AND MAKING SURE IT IS
PRISTINE FOR THE CREW.
THERE IS LASS BIG SEAL THAT IS
INFLATE AID CROSS THE CAPSULE
NOW TO HELP MAINTAIN THAT CLEAN
ENVIRONMENT.
>> ME THEY WHITE HOUSEROOM HAS
LOTS OF TOOLS UNORDER TO OPEN
THE SIDE HATCH AND COMPLETE CREW
INGRESS AS THEY ARE DOING NOW
AND PREPARE FOR ANY CONTENT DY
OR EMERGENCY THAT MAY BE
ENCOUNTERED.
>> AND SO AS WE HEARD FROM
LAUREN, MARIE, THE TEAM, THEY
ARE GETTING INTO THE CAPSULE
NOW.
THEY ARE GETTING THEIR SEATS.
CONNECTED TO THEIR SUITS VIA THE
UMBILICAL THAT IS GOING TO BRING
THEM HARD-LINE CONNECTIONS INTO
AUDIO FOR THEIR COM CHECKS WHICH
ARE COMING UP SHORTLY AND THEN
AGAIN BREATHING GAS AND
PRESSURIZED FOR THOSE SEAT LEAK
CHECKS.
THE SECOND TIME SINCE GETTING
SUITED UP THEY HAVE DONE THE
LEAK CHECKS AND ALL ABOUT
CONSTANTLY CHECKERING SYSTEMS AS
WE CONTINUE TO COUNTDOWN.
I MEAN, THERE THEY ARE RIGHT
NOW.
WE ARE WATCHING BE ABOUT AND
DOUG GETTING IN TO DRAGON
GETTING STRAPPED IN BEFORE THEY
CONNECTED THEIR SUITS TO THE
ACTUAL SEATS THEY DID SOMETHING
CALLED A FOREIGN ON JEK CHECK OR
AND THIS MEANS THAT THEY
ACTUALLY GET SPINNING FOR ANY
SUBSTANCE OR DEBRIS ON THEIR
SUIT THAT COULD INTERFERE WITH
THOSE SYSTEMS ON DRAGON.
>> TO HELP PROTECT AGAINST
DEBRIS THE CREW HAS COVERS ON
THE BOOTS AS WELL AS THE
UMBILICAL CORD ON THE SUITS THAT
NEED TO BE REMOVED BEFORE E CAN
INGRESS 1:00 THEY HAVE ALREADY
REMOVED THOSE AND AS CAU SEEN,
THEY ARE GETTING STRAPPED IN AND
ONCE THE CHECK IS COMPLETE OUR
COMMANDER DOUG HURLEY ENTERED
FIRST AND THEN BOB BEHNKEN
FOLLOWED AFTER HIM.
THEY ARE GETTING BUCKLED RANGE
NOW AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE
SCREEN.
ATTACHING THEIR UM BELL AS TO
THE SUITS.
UMBILICALS ALLOW THE CREW TO
HAVE CALMS THROUGH THE SUIT AND
AIR TO HELP KEEP THEM COOL.
AS WELL AS SUIT PRESSURIZATION
AND AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER IN
THIS HE BROADCAST, THE SUITS
PRIMARY FUNCTION IS TO PROTECT
THE CREW IN EVENT OF THE CABIN
DEPRESSURIZATION.
WALKING THROUGH INTERIOR A
LITTLE BIT.
FOUR SEATS CON CONSIDERED INSIDE
NOW.
THEY ARE NUMBER ONE TO FOUR FROM
RIGHT TO LEFT WHEN LOOK AT THE
SUITS SO WE HAD A COUPLE OF
CAMERA VIEWS FROM THE HATCHWAY
SO ON THE RIGHT ROOM IF YOU ARE
LOOKING THAT AGE YOU GO FROM ONE
TO FOUR RIGHT TO LEFT.
DOUG HURLEY IS IN SEAT TWO OR
THE COMMANDER SEAT BOB BEN KIN
SEAT THREE WHICH IS ON THE CREW
DRAGON AS THE PILOT SEAT AND
OBVIOUSLY, NOBODY IS UNSEATS ONE
AND FOUR TODAY.
CREW DRAGON IS DEA SOONED TO
CARRY FOUR ASTRONAUTS ON THE
FUTURE NASA MISSION AND WE MET
TWO OF THE CREW ONE MEMBERS AND
HEARD ABOUT THE OTHER TWO
CREWMEMBERS A LITTLE BIT
EARLIER.
DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF BOTH OF THE
CREWMEMBERS TODAY ARE THREE
TOUCH JEAN DISPLAYS THEY ARE
GOING TO USE THROUGHOUT THE
FLIGHT GIVING THEM INSIDE INTO
THE DRAGON SYSTEMS AND SEEING
ANY ALERTS WITH THE VEHICLE AND
IF REQUIRED TAKING CONTROL AND
MANUALLY FLYING DRAGON.
WE CAN SEE DOUG HURLEY MA UP IN
LAYING THOSE DISPLAY RATION NOW.
>> AND COMING RETURN WITH THE
CREW WILL DO A COM CHECK TO MAKE
SURE THEY CAN HEAR MISSION CELL
AND THE SEATS WILL BE ROTATED
INTO THE POSITION FOR LAUNCH SO
THEY CAN SEE THE DISPLAY PANELS
IN FRONT THEM.
SO NOW, LET'S CHECK WIN JOHN FOR
THE LATEST ON THE HEALTH OF BOTH
VEHICLES OVER TO YOU, JOHN.
JOHN:  WE ARE T MINUS 23:00 6:30
IN THE OPPORTUNITY COUNTDOWN FOR
THE LAUNCH OF FALCON 9 WITH
DRAGON.
DRAGON LAUNCH HAS COMPLETED
THEIR MAJOR ACTIVITIES TO
PREPARE THE SPACECRAFT FOR THES
A KNOWS A THERE IS NO.
CHECKOUTS ARE COMPLETE OF MAJOR
SYSTEMS IN INCLUDING THE HE SEAS
SYSTEM.
AS YOU CAN SEA OF SEE INGRESS
WELL UNDERWHICH AND HOOKING SEAT
SUITES UP.
RIGHT NOW, ON DRAGON, THERE ARE
NO ISSUANCE WORK.
COM CHECKS WILL BE COMING UP
SHORTLY ON THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT
WITH THE CREW.
WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO HEAR SOME OF
THAT AND BRING IT TO YOU AS IT
HAPPENS.
NOW THE FALCON NINE TEAM IS
PREPARING.
THAT IS WHEN THE MAY YOUR OF THE
LAUNCH CREW WILL ACTUALLY GET ON
COUNCIL POSITION ACIN FIRING
FOUR AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
CURRENTLY ON FALCON 9 ALL
SYSTEMS ARE GO THE AIR FORCE
RANGE CONTINUES TO REPORT NO
PROBLEMS WITH AIR AND SEA SPACE
CLARENCE.
 ARE IS LOOK GOODING.
ROADBLOCKS ARE UP AROUND
LAUNCHPADS THE WEATHER FORECAST
CONTINUES TO BE ACCEPTABLE BUT
SOMETHING WE WILL WATCH ALL THE
WAY THROUGH.
WE'RE NOT ONLY LOOKING AT
WEATHER EARTH THE LAUNCH SITE
BUT LOOK ARRANGE THE WORLD.
WE NEED TO MAKE SURE CONDITIONS
ARE ACCEPTABLE IF DRAGON HAS TO
SPLASH DOWN IN THE ATLANTIC IN
CAVES ESCAPE AND ALSO MONITORING
CONTINGENCY PLASHDOWN LOCATIONS
IF THE CRAW HAD TO COME BACK TO
EARTH BEFORE DOCKING WITH THE
SPACE STATION RIGHT NOW, THOSE
CONDITIONS ARE GETTING BETTER AS
WE GO THROUGH THE DAY AT THE
LAUNCHPAD THINGS CONTINUE TO BE
60 PERCENT BE PROCT OF VIOLATING
THE CONDITIONS OR 4 ON CHANCE OF
IF YOU ARE OPTIMIST OF GOOD
WEATHER.
BUT RIGHT NOW, THE CLOCK IS
CONTINUING TO CUBDOWN ALL
SYSTEMS ARE GO AND JUST INSIDE T
MINUS 2 MINUTES.
>> ALL RIGHT NOW AS BOB AND DOUG
FINISH AND GET COMFORTABLE WE'LL
CONTINUE TO LISTEN FOR THOSE COM
CHECKS AND SHOULD BE COMING UP
IN A LITTLE BIT.
RIGHT NOW AUM JOINED BY SPACEX'S
JESSICA TO DISCAUSE LITTLE BIT
MORE ABOUT WHAT MAKES DRAGON AND
FALCON 9 THE 21st CENTURY
LAUNCH VEHICLE.
FIRST OFF, THANKS FOR JOINING ME
TODAY.
JESS QUAYLE START WITH YOU.
WALK ME THROUGH KIND OF DRAGON'S
LIFE HISTORY AND HOW WE GOT TO
WHERE WE'RE TODAY.
>> SURE.
SURE.
SO DRAGON WAS DESIGNED FROM
SCRATCH 12 YEARS AGO BY SPACEX.
IT WAS DESIGNED TO CARRY CARGO
TO AEN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL
SPATIAL STATION WHAN THAT MEANS
IS 12 YEARS AGO IT WAS NOT THAT
LONG AGO.
WE GOT TO USE STATE-OF-THE-ART
MATERIALS AND COMPUTER
PROCESSORS SO REALLY DRAGON TO
START OFF   WHICH IS ALREADY A
MODERN ADVANCED SPACE AFT CRAN
TWO TWO OTHER ARTS OF THAT I
LEAD TO COMMERCIAL CREW.
ONE PART OF IT WAS THAT WE
ACTUALLY WERE ABLE TO CARGO
DRAINING TO THE SPACE STATION
AND ATTACH THOUGH SPACE STATION
SO THAT WAS HUGE LEARNING CURVE
THAT SPACECRAFT FOR A PORTION OF
THE MISSION AND THEN FOR CREW
YOU HAVE TO OBVIOUSLY EXPEND
NOTE IT WHOLE MISSION THEN THE
LAST PART WAS CARGO DRAGON HAS
BEEN AMAZING PAD FOR COMMERCIAL
CRAW AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE
WERE ABLE TO TEST OUT LIKE
MATERIALS AND PARACHUTE
MATERIALS ON CARGO DRAGON BEFORE
THEY CRAW FLU ON DREW DRAGON.
VERY COOL.
THAT IS ONE PART OF THE
EQUATION.
WALKS THROUGH THE FLIGHT HISTORY
OF FALCON FROM THE HUMBLE
BEGINNING ROSE TO WE'RE TODAY?
>> WELL, FALCON 9 FIRST FLEW
BECOME TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.
ON THE THOUGH THE FIRST VERSION
OF THAT ROCKET COULD NOT CARRY
HUMANS  THE FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN
WAS MADE WITH THAT GOAL IN THE
MINEP OVER THE COURSE OF 87
LAUNCHES WE HAVE UM PROVE THE
ROCKET SO NOW IT HAS TWICE THE
PAYLOAD TO ORBIT THE THAT WE
STARTED OUT WITH AND LAND AND
REUSE THE FIRST STAGE AND MOST
IMPORTANTLY FOR TODAY, WE HAVE
RELIKE.
IT HAS COME FROM STEADY UPGRADES
AND ALMOST A DECADE OF EXPENSE
BUT ACTUALLY QUITE HAR TO
IMPROVE AND SOMETHING THE
COMMERCIAL AIRLINE INDUSTRY HAS
BEEN GRAPPLING WITH FOR DECADE
AND RELY ON LOTS OF TONIGHT TING
FOR INSTANCE IF YOU TALK THE
ENGINE AND THIS HAS TO FLY FOR
ABOUT SIX MINUTES CONTINUOUSLY
TO GET TO ORBIT AND WE TOOK ONE
OF THOSE AND RAN IT FOR MORE
THAN 250 MINUTES AND TO GET THE
PARAGRAPH OVER RELIABILITY THAT
WE NEED SO IT IS TESTING AND
LOTS AND LOTS OF ALENAL SIS THAT
GIVES US AND NASA THE COMPANY
DID HE EVER THAT FALL COINS
READY TO FLY HUMAN MOTHERS FIRST
TIME.
OBVIOUSLY, A LOT OF ADDITIONAL
UPGRADES AND ADUGSOL ADYSING
TEST HAD TO GO TO MAKE SURE THAT
BOTH OF THESE VEHICLES WERE
HUMAN RATED SO WALK US THROUGH
THE SPECIFIC UPGRADES TO DRAGON
TO MEET THAT CRITERIA.
>> YEP.
1:00 THE FIRST ONE ISES ONEAS.
WE HAD A CARGO DRIVE DRAGON THE
HAS LOTS OF CARGO CUBBIES SO WE
TOOK THOSE OUT AND REPLACED WITH
IT SEAT AND CREW DISPLAYANCE
CREW CONTROLS BUT ONE THING
PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW IS ON PART
OF DRAGON WE HAVE BEEN FLYING TO
FROM FOR YEARS AND WHAT THAT
MEAN WAS WE HAD DESIGN
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL AND LIFE
SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR DRAGON.
YEARS AGO AND IT IS OXYGEN AND
SCRUBS CARBON DIOXIDE AND AMONG
OTHER THINGS DEM TURE AND
RELATIVE HUMIDITY EVEN TO WAS
DONE AND SMALLER SCALE FOR NICE
AND A LEARNING CURVE UNHOW TO
HELP A SPACECRAFT WHEN YOU HAVE
TO DOUBT FOR HUMANS.
>> THEN THE SAME QUESTION.
HA KIND OF UPGRADES HAD TO GO
INTO IT TO CERTIFY FOR THIS DAY.
WELL, I MENTIONED THE
RELIABILITY UPGRADES.
ONE UPGRADE THINK THINK IS
INTERESTINGS THE LAUNCH ABORT
TRIGGER.
SO PEOPLE PROBABLY KNOW THAT
DRAGON HAS THE ABILITY IN
MID-FLIGHT TO SEPARATE FROM
FALCON AND BOOST THE ASTRONAUTS
A THAT CAN BE TRIGGERED BY THE
ASTRONAUTS OR BY THE GROUND CREW
WHAT MOMENT PAY NOT KNOW THAT IS
FALCON ITSELF AS  THE TIGHTS
THAT YOU TRIGGER AND IT WILL DO
THAT ENTIRELY OR AUTONOMOUSLY
USING ALGORITHMS SOFT WHICH ARE
AND SENSORS AND THAT IS
IMPORTANT.
CRITICAL FOR BOARING QUICKLY
MEANS ABORTING SAFELY AND IN
SOME PLACES DO THIS.
SO YOU ARE MUCH FASTER.
>> WE'RE GEEING SOME COMLE FROM
THE CREW.
DOBB AND DOUG WILL BE USING
COMMERCIAL SPEAKERNESS SIDE OF
DRAGON IN A SIDE THE SUITS IN A
SERIES OF COMMUNICATION CHECKS
AND GOING TO BE DOING THE CHECKS
OVER DIFFERENT SATELLITES.
>> LOUD AND CLEAR.
AND BY FOREGROUND CHECK.
STANDBY.
YOU WILL HEAR THEM REFER TO RCDR
DOUG HURLEY.
PLT PILOT, THAT IS BOB BEHNKEN.
THATS ONE WAS THE UMBILICAL SO
THE COMMUNICATION LINKED TO THE
SUIT AND NOW GOING TO DO A
COMENCATION CHECK OVER THE
GROUND STATIONS AND ALSO HEAR
ONE OVER THE TRACKING AND DATA
RELAY SAT LIES SAME SATELLITES
WE USED TO TALK TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AND
THAT IS WHAT WE ARE USING TO
TALK AND TRACK DRAGON THROUGH
THE ENTIRE FLIGHT.
>> AGAIN JUST WAITING.
THEY ARE GOING TO DOG THE GROUND
CHECKOUTS NOW AND HEARING THEM
TALK TO THE CORP THE CREW
OPERATIONS RESPONSIBLE EN GO NI
THE HE CAPCOM IF YOU FOLLOW NASA
MISSIONS THEN PAST IT IS
POSITION RATING HERE IN
HAWTHORNE THAT SPACEX MISSION
CONTROL WHICH IS JUST A FEW FEET
AWAY FROM US THE TEAM WILL BE
WATCHING OVER BOB AND DOUG FOR
ENTIRE FLIGHT AND THE MAIN
PERSON WHOSE JOB IT IS TO TALK
TO THEM IS GOING TO BE SITTING.
WE'LL DO CHECKOUTS DROWN AT THE
CAPE INSIDE OF THE FIRING ROOM
FOR YOU.
YOU WILL BE HEARING THOSE VERY
CRACT HE RACE TICKS BEATS
CHARACTERISTIC BEATS.
SPACEX DRAGON.
READABLE.
>> COPY.
>> JUST TO FURTHER EXPLAIN.
YOU MAY BE USED HEARING HOUSTON
STATION, OR HOUSTON SHUTTLE, OR
HOUSTON ENDEAVOR BACK WHEN FLE
FLYING THOSE SHUTTLES.
YOU WILL HEAR SPACEX DRAGON THAT
IS THE SPACEX TEAM CALLING THE
DRAGON TEAM ON ORBIT AND THEN
BOB AND DOUG WILL BE ABLE TO
RESPOND.
SO THEY WILL CONTINUE TO
CONFUSING GUR AND GET THE GROUND
STATION CHECKOUTS MOLARLY.
YOU WILL HEAR THE VERY VERY
UNIQUE BEAP!  BEEPING SO IN THAT
IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN USED
THROUGHOUT SPACE TO GROUND OR
AIR TO GROUND COMMUNICATIONS
THROUGHOUT SPACEFLIGHT HUST RAIN
REALLY FOR TEAMS WHO ARE IN
MISSION CONTROL OR SUPPORTING
THE LAUNCH KNOW WHEN YOU HEAR
THAT SOUND, IT IS TIME LISTEN.
DRAGON SPACEX COM CHECK GROUND
STATION.
SPACEX DRAGON LOUD AND CLEAR.
LOUD AND CLEAR.
LOUD AND CLEAR.
HOW ARE YOU DOING IN THERE?
STAND BY FOR COME CHECKS.
DRAGON MD ON DRAGON TO GROUND.
COM CHECK.
>> GOOD AFTERNOON.
GOOD AFTERNOON, GENTLEMEN.
>> SPACEX LAUNCH DIRECTOR.
COM CHECK.
>> LOUD AND CLEAR.
>> YOU THE SAME.
COM CHECKS ARE COMPLETE.
REPORT WHEN READY FOR SEAT
ROTATION FOR SECTION 2 OF 4.100.
>> COP.
  I WE WILL REPORT WHEN
INITIATING.
>> ALL RIGHT THAT WRAPS UP COME
MUN CAUTIONS CHECKS EVERYTHING
GOING GOOD THE SPACECRAFT BOB
AND DOUG TALKING TO THE TEAMS ON
THE GROUND AND PRETTY SOON THEY
WILL GET SEATS RETIGHTED.
I WANT TO THANK JESS CAN GIVING
US GREAT IN SIGHT INTO DRAG ON
AND FALCON 9 I HOPE YOU HAVE A
GOOD SPOT.
GREET YOU HAVE ON.
ALL RIGHT.
SO EXITED.
THROW IT DOWN TO GARY JORDAN AT
MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON IS
FOLLOWING ALONG OVER TO YOU.
GARY.
GARY:
>> THANK YOU, DAN.
GREAT TO HEAR GOOD CHECKS FROM
BOB INDOLOGY IN THE DRAGON
VEHICLE.
HERE IN MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON,
FLIGHT DIRECTOR HAS POLLED AND
ALL SYSTEMS ARE GO FOR LAUNCH
AND EVENTUALLY THE STATION IS
PREPARED FOR DRAGON TO ARRIVE 19
HOURS AFTER LAUNCH.
FLIGHT CONTROLLERS HERE WILL
CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE
COUNTDOWN BUT REALLY IT IS UP TO
THE TEAM'S IN C AND HAW
THORPE GET US TO LIFTOFF.
WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR COMMENTS AS
WE CONTINUE TO COUNTDOWN TO
LAUNCH SO LET'S GO TO THE SOCIAL
DESK NOW TO HEAR IT.
>> THANKS, SO TAKING A QUICK
LACK.
TAKING A QUICK LOOK AT THOSE
NUMBERS THERE ARE NOW ONE
MILLION PEOPLE WATCHING OUR
COVERAGE.
AND LAUNCH AMERICA IS UP TO THE
NUMBER ONE TRENDING HASHTAG ON
TWITTER TEATS' TAKE A CLOSER
LOOK AT WHAT IS BEING SAID
ON-LINE.
ALL RIGHT.
SHE HAS GOT A PERSONAL
SELF-PORTRAIT COSMIC FOR SURE IN
THE SPACE FLIGHT SUIT.
GUY, THIS IS WHAT LOVING SEE
YONK LINE WITH THIS HASHTAG HOW
EVERYONE IS TAKE MAKING THIS
LAUNCH UNIQUELY THERES AND WANT
TO PUT POINT OUT ONE LUNE THE
POST THAT SAYS I BELIEVE NO MAT
ARE HOW FAR THE FUTURE IS WE
RAILROAD ARE ON HE WAY TO YOU
WAITERED.
COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MAY
CYCLE.
THAT IS WHAT TODAY REPRESENTS.
LET'S TAKE ANOTHER LOOK.
OH MY GOODNESS RIGHT NOW WE HAVE
JESSICA WE THE SPACE PUP GETTING
READY FOR LIFTOFF.
GUYS I AM NOT GOING TO LIE.
WE LOVE TO SEE IF IT.
YOU HAVE ANY SPACE PETS WHERE
USE HASHTAG LAUNCH AMERICA.
CAN YOU SEE EVERYBODY IS TRILLED
TO BE A PART OF THIS LAUNCH
TODAY.
I KNOW ONE SPECIAL GUEST IN
PARTICULAR.
DIANA, I HEAR YOU HAVE A BURNING
QUESTION FOR MISSION CONTROL SO
GO FOR IT.
>> HI TY HIR ARE A THANK YOU SO
MUCH FOR INCLUDING ME ON THIS IN
CDBLY SPECIAL DAY.
I AM DIANA FROM THE YOUTUBE
CHANNEL PHYSICS GIRL AND SO
FASCINATED BY SPACE AND SPACE
EXPLORATION BECAUSE WE SEND A
ROCKET UP TO SPACE WE KNOW WE
ARE FAMILIAR WITH HOW MUCH
PREPARATION AND TRAINING
ASTRONAUTS HAVE TO DO BUT
PREPPING FOR A MISSION LIKE THIS
AND MAYBE PREPARING IN THE
FUTURE FOR MISSION TO THE MOON
OR TO MARS WHAT KIND OFS THINGS
DOES THE WHOLE TEAM HAVE TO DO
IN ORDER TO PREPARE TO LAUNCH A
ROCKET?
SO THAT IS SUCH A GREAT
QUESTION.
I THINK IT DOES GET OVERLOOKED
WHAT ALL GOES INTO MAKING A
MOMENT LIKE THIS HAPPEN.
SO GARY, WHAT HAS THE TEAM THERE
IN MISSION CONTROL BEEN DOING TO
PREPARE FOR THIS HISTORIC
LAUNCH.
>> THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF
TRAINING, A LOT OF SIMULATIONS
THAT HAVE BEEN GOING IN TO
PREPARING FOR MOMENT.
REALLY PREPARING AND GET
EVERYONE FAMILIARIZED WITH EVERY
STEP OF THE MISSION FROM LAUNCH
ALL THE WAY THROUGH DOCKING AND
THROWING OUT DIFFERENT SCENARIOS
AT THEM IN CASE SOMETHING WERE
TO HAPPEN EVERY FLIGHT CONTROL
ARE YOU SEE BEHIND ME WILL BE
PREPARE FOD RESPOND EOF COURSELY
A DO MAKE A SHOUT OUT IT IS NOT
THE FLIGHT CONTROLS HERE THAT
DEDICATE SO MUCH TIME THE LAUNCH
IN FACT, I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO
THE FLIGHT DIR,OR HERE IN
MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON WHO SAID
EVEN BEFORE HE WAS FLIGHT
DIRECTOR BACK IN THE 2014, THEY
WERE WORK ON THE OPERATIONS FOR
COMMERCIAL CREWMEMBERS AND THIS
TEAM EXPAND IS CROSS THE COUNTRY
AND ALREADY SEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE
WORKING AND HAWTHORNE AND IN
FLORIDA AND HOUSTON AND REALLY
IT TAKES INTEGRATED AND
DEDICATED TEAM TO MAKE A MISSION
LIKE THIS POSSIBLE DIANA THANKS
SO MUCH FOR THE QUESTION AND
REALLY THANKS TO EVERYONE
SHARING IN THIS HISTORIC MISSION
TODAY WE'RE AS YOU ARE SPOT
HOSTING TO USE THE HASHTAG
LAUNCH AMERICA.
DOW WANT TO MAKE A SHOUT OUT TO
THE FLIGHT CONTROLLER HERE'S IN
MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON AND IN
FACT SOME TRADITIONAL FLOWERS
HAVE BEEN SENT TO MISSION
CONTROL HOUSTON AND IT IS BACK
BEFORE THE SHUTTLE DAYS FOR
EVERY MISSION TO DEDICATE IL TO
THIS OPERATIONS AND THE
CONTROLLERS HERE WHO, WOOING SO
CLOSELY AND INTEGRATED IN EVERY
PART OF THE MISSION AND BUT
BEFORE, NOW, ALSO HEAD OVER TO
HAWTHORNE, FOR THE LATEST STATUS
ON THE CREW AND ON DRAGON.
DAN?
>> ALL RIGHT.
THEIR SUITS HAVE BEEN ROTATED TO
THE LAUNCH POSITION.
1:00 THIS JUST PUTS THEIR BACKS
A LITTLE BIT MORE HOR ZON TALL
WITH THE GROUND ITSELF OR
PARALLEL WITH THE GROUND ITSELF
AND PLACES THOSE DISPLAYS DIRE
BROOKLYN FRONT OF THEM AND ALSO
MOVED INTO THE LEAK CHECK SO THE
SECOND TIME THEY HAD THE LEAK
CHECKS DONE ON THE SUIT SO
PRESSURIZED NOW FLOWING INTO
THOSE LAUNCH AND IN TRY SUITEST
THIS WILL R GOING TO BE WEAR
TROT THE DYNAMIC PHASES OF THIS
MISSION.
RIGHTS NOW UNDER TWO 2:00 FROM
LAUNCH.
2:18 AND COUNTING FROM LIFTOFF
OF THE FALCON FROM THE KENNEDY
SPACE CENTER IN FLORIDA GOING TO
BE CARRY OUR NASA CREWMEMBERS
TODAY, DOUG HUR LAWN BOB BEHNKEN
ABOARD THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT AND
REALLY EXCITING DIE FAR AND
IDENTIFYING ADAWNS THIS WEIGHTER
BUT CONTINUING TO PRESS ON FOR
LAUNCH AND THE CREW HAS BEEN UP
SINCE 6:00 A.M. AND HAZE THEY
PREPARE TO HEAD TO INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION FOR PART OF THIS
DM KNOW 2 MISSION FOR NASA.
>> YEAH AS YOU CAN SEE, IT LUBES
LIKE THEY ARE WAIT ANG GETTING
READY FOR THIS MISSION TODAY.
IT HAS BEEN SUCH AN EXCITING DAY
SO FAR.
GAIN, AS DAN SAID, THEIR SEATS
ARE LOCATED IN LAUNCH SPECIAL E
CAN SEE HE ON THE SCREENS RIGHT
IN FRONT OF THEM ON THE LEFT
SIDE.
THEIR SUIT LEAK CHECKS HAVE BEEN
COMPLETE.
THE COM CHECKS ARE COMPLETE SO
IT IS THROW IT OVER TO LAUREN IN
KSC.
>> ALL RIGHT.
WE'RE PRETTY CLOSE TO THAT.
IT IS GETTING REALLY, REALLY
CLOSE.
THIS IS ONE OF THE KEY FINAL KEY
VISUAL MILESTONES THE CLOSURE OF
THE HATCH AND LOCKING BOB AND
DOUG INSIDE.
NOW, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF SPECIAL
GUESTS JOINING WITH US DARRYL A
AT THE OSB2 VIEW LOWINGCATION
THAT IS NASA AD FLINTOR JIM
BRIDENSTINE AND SPACEX CHIEF
ENGINEER ELON MISS MUSK.
DARRYL.
>> RIGHT.
WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE OUTSIDE
ON THE BALCONY OVERLOOKING PAD
39A BUT WE HAVE COME INDOORS DUE
THOUGH WEATHER BUT WE RAILROAD
HERE WITH TWO TITANS OF SPACE
AND THOUGH IT MAY LOOK LIKE THIS
IS REUNION OF A '90'S BOY BAND
WE'RE NOT.
WE'RE SOCIALLY DISSTANNED FOR
GOOD REASON.
AND WE ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT
SPACE AND I WANT TO THANK YOU
BOTH AND TELL YOU BOTH IT IS
PRIVILEGE AND HONOR TO BE   WITH
YOU TODAY.
WE ARE GOING TO START OFF WITH
YOU JIM AND ASK YOU A COUPLE OF
QUESTIONS HERE.
I WANT TO ASK YOU FIRST OF ALL.
IT HAS BEEN ALMOST THREE YEARS
THAT YOU WERE SWORN IN AS NASA
AS MINISTRATOR.
AND YOU KNEW FROM THE FIRST DAY
WHERE, THAT WOULD YOU BE RIGHT
HERE AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
IN THE MOMENT WHEN COMMERCIAL
PARTNER WAS READY TO LAUNCH.
TELL ME WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE
LEADING NASA AT THIS MOMENT?
>> I WAN TO BE CLEAR.
I DID THE NO HE KNOW THAT WHEN I
GOT SWORN IN.
I WILL TELL YOU, A LOT OF FOLKS
SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE.
OF COURSE, AS SOON AS I GOT THE
JOB, ELISTEN AND I HAVE HAD A
NUMBER OF CONVERSATIONS.
ELON COMMITTED THAT THIS WAS
SOMETHING THAT SPACEX COULD
ACHIEVE WE HAD CHALLENGES.
WE HAD SETBACKS.
WE HAVE SCENE CATASTROPHIC LOSS
OF CAPSULE AND CHALLENGES WITH
PARACHUTES OWN ON THE GROUND
TESTS BUT THAT IS WHAT IS UNIQUE
ABOUT SPACEX.
SPACEX A CAN DO THINGS THAT NASA
HAS DONE NOT.
THEY TEST.
THEY FAIL.
THEY FIX.
THEY TEST, THEY FLY, UNTIL THE
POINT WHERE WE ARE TODAY WHERE
NOT ONLY IS SPACEX COMFORTABLE
BUT NAS SAYS COMFORTABLEP A AND
READY TO GO.
BUT IF WOULD YOU HAVE TOLD ME
TWO YEARS AGO WE WOULD BE RUING
HERE I MIGHT HAVE BEEN
QUESTIONING IT THEN.
BUT THIS IS A MONUMENTAL
ACHIEVEMENT AND HUR CUE LIE ANN
AS BIKE THE SPACEX TEAM WHICH
REARE GRATEFUL FOR AND THE NASA
TEAM HAS BEEN WORK HAN IN GLOVE
WITH THEM TO THIS POINT.
>> GOOD WE HAVE JIM AND ELON
HERE TO FACT CHECK EACH OTHER.
THAT IS GOOD.
THANK FOR THAT.
ELON, IN 2002 WHEN STARTED
SPACEX.
MANY IN THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
DIDN'T TAKE SPACEX SERIOUSLY YOU
REMEMBER THAT THAT FELT LIKE YET
YOU FLOORER YOU ARE.
YOU SENT TWO ASTRONAUTS IN A CAR
MADE BY THE CAR COMPANY TO
LAUNCHPAD 39A WITH A SPACECRAFT
MADE BY THE SPACE COMPANY AND
NOW LAUNCHING THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION AND NOW I AM
WONDERING FOR IN THIS HOLE, DO
YOU PITCH IN YOURSELF THINKING
THIS IS RAILROAD HAPPENING.
>> YEAH.
THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE FOR ME
AND EVERYONE AT SPACEX.
THIS IS NOT SOMETHING I THOUGHT
WOULD HAPPEN.
SO WE STARRED SPACEX IN 2002 AND
I DID NOT THINK THIS DAY WOULD
HE CURE.
I EXPECTED 90% CHANCE BE COULD
BE ABLE TO GET TO LOWER EARTH
ORBIT A ROCKET SO IF SOMEONE
TOLD ME IN 200 I WOULD BE
STANDING HERE WITH NASA
ADMINISTRATOR AND MEETING
ASTRONAUTS AND THE SPACECRAFT ON
PAD 39A THE THEN WORLD WHICH IS
HONOR TO BE THERE AND I WOULD
HAVE SAY I DON'T KNOW.
LIKE, NO WAY.
NO WAY THAT IS TRUE.
IT IS A DREAM COME TRUE.
I DIDN'T DREAM KITE COME TRUE.
IT IS, I AM INCREDIBLY EXCITED
TO BE HERE.
ON BEHALF OF THE SPACEX TEAM AND
AS JIM SAID THE COMBINATION OF
INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF WORK BY THE
SPACEX TEAM, BY NASA AND BY A
NUMBER OF OTHER PARTNERS IN THE
PROCESS OF MAKING THIS HAPPEN
REALLY YOU CAN LOOK AND THE
RESULTS OF 100,000 PEOPLE LOVELY
WHEN YOU ADD UP EVERYONE WORKING
INCREDIBLY HARD TO GET TO MAKE
DAY HAPPEN.
ITS REALLY HARD TO BELIEVE IT IS
REAL.
YOU ARE HERE.
IT MATION.
MANY OF US HAVE BEEN APLAYED AS
YOU WE WATCHED OV THE YEARS.
JIM, BACK TO YOU.
THIS IS BAWL THE
COMMERCIALIZATION OF SPACE.
AND SO, IN THE EARLY GOING FOR
COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM, IT WAS
NOT SOMETHING NASA WAS USED TO.
YOU KNOW?
MERCURY GEMINI APOLLO, SHUTTLE
NASA GAVE DESIGNS AND THE
CONTRACTOR WENT OUT THERE AND
BUILT IT THIS IS DIFFERENT.
THEY ARE BUILDING IT NOW.
WHAT WERE THE HURDLES THAT YOU
HAD TO OVERCOME TO GET THIS
POINT?
>> WELL, THINK, GETTING PEOPLE
TO RECOGNIZE WHEN THE GOFF.
GOVERNMENT PROVIDES THE DEMAND
AND THE SUPPLY, YOU ARE LIMITED
IN WHAT YOU ARE ABLE TO DO.
OF COURSE BACK WHEN THIS PROGRAM
WAS INITIATED UNDER CHARLIE
BOULDEN, GENERAL CHARLIE
ASTRONAUT CHARLIE, CORN RES WAS
NOT SUPPORTIVE.
DID NOT PROVIDE THE PROPER
FUNDING YET HE PUSHED FOR WAR
AND NOW EVERYONE RECOGNIZES WE
HAVE TO COMMERCIALIZE SPACE AND
HAVE SUCCESS SUPPLY RESUPPLY AND
NOW WE GOT COMMERCIAL CREW TO
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
AND EVENTUALLY WE NEED
COMMERCIAL SPACE STATIONS SO
WHAT WE'RE USING THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FOR
RIGHT NOW AND PROVING THAT WE
CAN COMPOUND PARM SUIT CALLS IN
A WAY YOU CAN DO DONE ETHER AND
ABLE TO CREATE IM NI NATIONS ON
A WAY CAN DO ON EARTH AND
PRINTING IN 3D ROOTING NOW THE
IS JUST TISSUE BUT BILLION'S
PRIN HUMAN ORGANS IN 3D AUSING
ADULT STEM CELLS THE OWN DNA
WILL TRANSFORM HOW WE DO
MEDICINE HERE ON EARTH AND WE
ARE CREATING ADVANCED MATERIALS
CAN ONLY CREATE IN THE
MICROGRAVITY OF SPACE AND THINGS
LIKE ARTIFICIAL FLEET FOR THE
HUMAN EYE SO IF YOU HAVE MACULAR
DEEGAN RATION YOU DON'T HAVE TO
A LEAST TO EYESIGHT THE BOTTOM
LINE IS THESE MARKETS ARE THE
FUTURE.
AND WHEN THEY MATERIALIZE, AND
THEY ARE TELLERRIZING BECAUSE OF
THE WORK OF NASA.
WE ARE GOING TO SEE CAPITAL
INVESTMENT NOT IN LAUNCH.
BUT ALSO, INTO HABITATION.
AND THIS ULTIMATE LIS WHAT IS
GOING TO BE TRANSFOR MUGSAL.
>> WE ARE VERY GOOD.
ELON IN GETTING THAT GOING.
THE ISS AND AL THE ACTIVITY THAT
TAKES PLACE IN Y ONBOARD IT IS
KEY THE CREW DRAGON OPERATES IN
A REGULAR BUSIES AS THE CHIEF
ENGINEER.
WHAT WAS SOME OF THE BIGGEST
HURLES THUD OVERCOME TO GET YOUR
SPACECRAFT READY TO FLAY THIS
MISSION.
>> WELL, THE SPACECRAFT AND THE
ROCKET HAVE GONE THROUGH
THOUSANDS OF TESTS AND REVIEWS
BOTH BY SPACEX, NASA BY THIRD
PARTIES AND ALSO WE HAVE DONE
ALOT OF FLIGHTS SO ONE THING I
THINK THAT HELPFUL ABOUT THIS
FLIGHT AND THE ROCKET HAS FLOWN
MANY TIMES.
IN FACT EVEN IN THIS
CONFIGURATION IT HAS FLOWN 20
TIMES THAT MEANS WE REALLY HAVE
A WELL PROVEN ROCKET AND WE HAVE
FLOWN CREW DRAGON TO SPACE
STATION SUCCESSFULLY AND BROUGHT
IT BACK AND WE ARE DONE TESTING
ON THIS GROUND AND WE DO THE
TESTING ON THE GROUND AND PUSH
THE LIMITS SO TRY, YOU PUSH IT
WAY BEYOND FLIGHT AND SOMETIMES
YOU ACTUALLY BREAK IT BECAUSE
YOU WANT TO BREAK OUT IN THE
GROUND DURING TESTING TO SEE
WHAT THE LIMITS ARE.
SO THIS IS THE RESULT OF
THOUSANDS OF TESTS AND DESIGN
HOURANCE TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF
SMART PEOPLE WORKING INCREDIBLY
HARD TO MAKE THIS DAY HAPPEN.
>> YOU GOT TWO ONBOARD NOW.
>> YES.
>> DO YOU FEEL THAT
RESPONSIBILITY?
>> YES.
ABSOLUTELY.
I FELT MORE STRONGLY WHEN I SAW
THEIR FAMILY JUST BEFORE COMING
HERE.
>> DID YOU SAY ANYTHING?
THAT YOU CAN SNARE.
>> I SAID WE HAVE DONE
EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE SURE
YOUR DADS COME BACK.
THANK FOR SHARING THAT WITH US.
>> JUMP YOU HAD WORDS WITH THE
ASTRONAUTS.
WHAT WAS YOUR TAKE IN HOW THEY
ARE FEELING.
>> I WILL TELL YOU, AGAIN, DOUG
HURLEY, MARINE CORPS TEST PILOT
OF COURSE THE VETERAN OF PUT MEL
SPACE SHUTTLE MISSIONS AND BOB
BEHNKEN, FLIGHT TEST IN I NEAR
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AND
AGAIN, VETERAN OF MULTIPLE SPACE
SHUTTLE MISSIONS THIS IS NOT NEW
TO THESE GUYS.
YOU KNOW, ALL I CAN DO IS CONVEY
TO THEM, HOW MUCH ALL OF AMERICA
APPRECIATES WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
THAT THE ENTIRE WORLD IS
WATCHING.
AND JUST HOW GRATEFUL WE'RE AS A
NATION.
I WILL TELL YOU, THEIR DEMEANOR
IS LOOSE.
THEY ARE READY TO GO.
THEY WERE JOKING AROUND.
THEY ARE TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY
HAD FOR BREAK FAST HOW IT MAY
COME UP LATER.
STEAK AND EGG.
EYE SAW THIS.
YEAH.
IT WAS NICE SEE.
THEY ARE IN THEIR ALMOST.
WE ARE JUST SO GRATEFUL AND
PROUD OF THEM.
>> THAT IS FOOD HEAR.
THAT GIVES YOU GREAT CONFIDENCE
SURE IN YOUR POSITIONS AS YOUER
THAT.
WE'LL GO TO SOCIAL MEDIA
QUESTION AND.
AND CREW STATES AND WHAT CHANGES
AND YOU A LOOED TO HAVE THESE
FUTURES.
AND WORK WELL.
AND THEN YOU CAN MAKE SPACESUIT
THAT WORKS AND AND PRESSURE AND
IT IS GOING TO HANDLE THAT
PRESSURE SO IT TOOK US MANY
ITERATIONS TO GET THE SUIT TO
REALLY WANT IT TO LOOK GREAT.
IT IS WHAT IT IS ABOUT.
WE WANT TO INSPIRE KIDS AND SAY
ONE DAY THEY WANT WEAR THAT
UNIFORM AND WANT TO WEAR THAT
SPACESUIT.
AND GET THEM.
I WANT TO WORK ON AEROSPACE AND
ADVANCED SPACE FLIGHT AND I
THINK, WHAT TODAY IS ABOUT US
REIGNITING THE DREAM OF SPACE.
YOUNG PEOPLE FIRED BUP THE
FUTURE AND EXCITED.
IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT,
EVERYONE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE
AND ALL PARTS OF POLITICAL
SPECTRUM IN THENESS AND ELSE ARE
SHOULD BE REALLY EXCITED THAT
THIS IS A THING THAT HAS MADE BY
HUMANS FOR HUMANS AND JUST A
GREAT EXCITING INSPIRING DAY AND
ONE OF THOSE, ONE OF THOSE
THINGS THAT MAKE GLAD TO WAKE UP
IN THE MORNING.
FUNCTION AN IN SPIRING AND ONE
ON THE MODEL OVER THERE.
YOU GOT ME EXCITED.
I MAY RUN OVER THERE AND PUT
THAT ON, ELON.
YEAH.
YEAH.
SO I THINK YOU WANT TO PUT IT IN
THAT WAY.
YOU CAN MAKE ONE.
>> WELL APPRECIATE.
>> YEAH.
I AM 6'8" YOU HAVE TO DO A LOT
OF SUE SOWING.
>> YEAH.
IT CAN TAKE SOMEONE WHO IS 6'8".
MY SIZE.
>> YEAH.
COMMERCIAL THING I AM GETTING
EXCITEDDED I AM READY TO FLY,
JIM.
>> JIM.
>> WELL, WE GOT ANOTHER SOCIAL
MEDIA QUESTION WE WILL ASK.
S A STOUSH J. WANTS TO KNOW HOW
DO THINK LAUNCHING ASTRONAUT ON
THE AMERICAN SOIL FOR THE FIRST
TIME SINCE 2011 WILL
REVOLUTIONIZE FUTURE MISSIONS?
>> YEAH.
SO WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS
UNLIKE ANYTHING WE HAVE DONE
BEFORE.
WE ARE NOT PURCHASING OWNING AND
OPERATING THE HARDWAY.
WE'RE TURNING TO COMMERCIAL
INDUSTRY.
AND GOING BACK TO THE SPACESUITS
ITS  THE SAME FOR THE CAPSULE
AND THE SAME FOR THE ROCKET WE
DID NOT TELL INDUSTRY WHAT TO
ABOUT BUILD.
WE GAVE THEM TOP LEVEL
REQUIREMENT AND SAID HERE THIS
IS REQUIREMENT FOR PAYLOAD.
HERE'S THE REQUIREMENT FOR
SAFETY AND THEN LET THE NOW IN
VATORS COMMERCIAL INDUSTRY
AMERICAN COMMERCIAL INDUSTRY
INNOVATE AND THEY CAME UP WITH
SOLUTIONS THAT HAD NEVER BEEN
DREAMED OF BEFORE AND THAT IS
THE SUCCESS OF THIS PROGRAM.
AND SO WE ARE REALLY
REFLATIONIZING HOW WE DO
SPACEFLIGHT AND I REALLY THINK
WHEN WE LOOK AT THE FUTURE WE
WILL SEE THESE MODELS OF DOING
BUSINESS WITH PUBLIC PRIVATE
PARTNERSHIPS APPLY NOT TO LOWER
EARTH ORBIT AND TAKING THIS
MODEL TO THE MOON AND EVEN TON
MARS.
>> AND I HEAR SOMETHING ABOUT
TOM CRUISE SHOOTING A MOVIE AT
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
I TELL YOU WHAT I TOLD ELON JUST
YESTERDAY.
THAT THIS IS.
PEOPLE ASK ME ABOUT TOM CHRIS
ALL THE TIME NOW.
THE ANSWER IS YES.
WE WOULD LOVE TOM DRUCE FLY TO
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
TO MAKE THE MOVIE AND I AM ALL
FOR THAT AND WELL DEWITH WHAT WE
TO MAKE HAPPEN.
THERE WAS DAY WHEN WAS IN HE'LL
NEN TARY SCHOOL AND I SAW THE
MOVIE TOP GUN FROM THAT DAY KNEW
I WOULD BE NAVY PILOT THE WAIT
WAS.
THE GOAL HERE AND THIS IS WHAT
WE ARE DOING TODAY.
AND ELON IS ALL ABOUT THIS.
>> YEP.
GET THE KIDS FIRED UP ABOUT IT.
THAT SPACESUIT AND WANT TO FLY
THAT AND GO TO ORBIT AND GO TO
THE MAN AND ABOUT TO MARS.
GETTING, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE FROM
ALL WALKS OF LIFE, YOUNG, OLD
EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE AM
EXCITED.
YOU THINK ANYONE WHO HAS WITHIN
THEM THE SPIR VISIT EXPLORATION
SHOULD LOVE WHAT IS GOING ON
TODAY.
IF HE WITHIN CAN GET TOM CRUISE
TO IN SPIRE ELEMENTARY KID
TODOWN THE NAVY TO BE A PILOT
WHY CAN WE GET TOM CRUISE TOWN
SPIRE THE NEXT ELON MUSK?
THAT IS WHAT WE IMMEDIATE.
WE NEED A NEW GENERATION OF MANY
E LON MUSKS THAT WHAT IS THE
LAUNCH IS ABOUT TODAY.
SPEAKING OF THIS INSPIRATION
PIECE ITS NOT BY CHANCE WE HAVE
SECRETARY OF EDUCATION OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HERE.
THIS IS ALL BILLION THE NEXT
GENERATION.
IF WE HAVE GREAT SUCCESS IN OUR
GENERATION, IT IS NOT ENOUGH.
HAS TO CONTINUE THE CHALLENGE
WITH THE APOLLO PROGRAM THAT IS
IT ENDED.
WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW IS
SUSTAINABLE AND HAVE THE PUBLIC
PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND
COMMERCIAL CHANGES COMING
ON-LINE.
VERY GOOD.
GOOD NEW FOR TOM CRUISE IS HE
DOES A LOT OF STUNS SO HE SHOULD
GET HURT A LOT.
YEAH.
IT IS SUPER COOL.
YEAH.
YEAH.
YEAH.
AS HE SAID.
LIKE YOU KNOW SHALL YOU CAPTURE
THE I MADGE NATION HAVE THEM SEE
COOL THINGS HAPPENING IN REAL
ORBIT IN A REAL SPACE STATIONS
AND IT IS LIKE, I THINK, I WANT
TO WATCH THAT MOVIE.
YOU LO.
LIKE THIS IS LIKE JUST, THIS IS
REALLY JUST BEGINNING AS WE WANT
TO GO FROM LOWER EARTH ORBIT AND
GO BACK TO THE MOON AND THE MOON
TO SAY AND A MOON PACE.
A MOON BASE AND HAVE YOU KNOW,
THE CITY ON MARS AND A SPACE
CIVILIZATION OUT THERE AMONG THE
STAR AND SUPER EXCITING FUTURE
SO I THINK THE THING YOU ARE
LIKE, YEAH.
YEAH.
WAIT FOR IT TO HAPPEN.
IF YOU CAN GET EXCITED AFTER
WILLING TO YOU GUYS YOU NEED
HAVE YOUR PULSE CHECKED.
ELON MUSK CHEF ENGINEER THANK
YOU STRETCH FROM.
THANK YOU.
JIM BRIDENSTINE, WE APPRECIATE
LEADING NASA IN THE TIME AND
ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE AGENCY WE
WILL SEND IT BACK TO MARIE.
MARIE:  ALL RIGHT THANKS A LOT,
DOOR RIL.
WE SAWN THE MEANTIME, WHILE THAT
INTERVIEW WAS GOING ON THE HATCH
ACTUALLY CLOSED SO THAT HAPPENED
A FEW MINUTES EARLIER THAN
EXPECTED, TOO.
THE TIMELINE HAS THAT HAPPENING
AT T MINUS 1:55 MINUTES SO A FEW
MINUTES AHEAD OF SCHEDULE RATING
NOW WITH HATCH CLOSE AND YOU CAN
SEE THE PAD DEAMS THERE WORKING
ON THINGS NOW.
>> YEAH RATING NOW IT LOOKS LIKE
WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS -- OH
WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
THERE IS A MECK NIM THERE CALLED
A HIDE HATCH MECHANISM THAT IS
WHAT CAU ACTUALLY CLOSES THE
HATCH AND ELSA SALES IT AND HE
PERFORM A LEAK CHECK ON THAT
FORE MON00S TO MAKE SURE THAT IS
NOT NICE AND TIGHT A THND HE O
RINGS ARE SEALED REALLY, REALLY
WELL AND AFTER THAT, WE WILL
INSTALL THE YOU CAN SEE THE LEAK
CHECK GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENTEN
THERE THE TECHNITIONS HANDS
THERE.
>> WHILE WE'RE WAPLE THIS I MEAN
WE JUST HEARD THEM TALK A LOT
ABOUT INSPIRING THE NEXT
GENERATION AND YOU A MAN OF MANY
TALL LEN I KNOW AFTER THE
FLIGHTS YOURSELF, YOU USED TO
HAVE THE HEAD OF NASA EDUCATION
DID THAT STIR UP UNYOU.
WELL, WHAT ELON SAID ABOUT
REIGNITING THE DREAM OF SPACE IS
SO IMPORTANT THAT WE GET OUR
YOUNG KIDS THINKING ABOUT
THEMSELVES AND THE SEATS.
WHEN I FIRST BECAME ASTRONAUT IN
19 8 ON THE BACK OF A FIRE TRUCK
CELEBRATING JOHN GLENN'S RETURN
TO FLIGHT ON SPACE SHUTTLE AND I
SAW THE TWO LITTLE KIDS HAD ON
ORANGE PUMPKIN SUITS THEIR DAD
TURNED AROUND WITH ROCKET FUEL
THROUGH THE SPACEX'S LAUNCH AND
PATTED NER UP THESHIP TO GET
KIDS TO KNOW THEY ARE FLYING ON
THE SPACEX DRAGON.
>> IT US REALLY BREATH TAKE AT
THEM THERE.
I KNOW WE TALK BLIGHTED THE
SPACECRAFT AND HEARD ABOUT THAT
FOR THE FOLKS TUNING IN.
WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING AT NOW SO
THAT WHOLE ASSEMBLY IS CONTROL
PANEL.
THEY HAVE DETAIL ON THOSE VAC'S
PRESSURE AND AUDIO CONTROL AND
THE TEN CENTER KRIEN ON THE DAY
OF LAUNCH.
AND SEE THE VEHICLE'S ATTITUDE
AND INCLINATION AND DETAILS ORN
THE HAP AND THE TERMINAL CONTROL
1278 ON THOSE DISPLAYANCE BUTTON
PANEL DOWN BELOW AND THE THINGS
THAT NEEDED TO DO MANUAL
OVERRIDES THE MIDDLE UNDER THE
CENTERED SCREEN.
HE CREW'S ABILITY TO ABORT AND
BOTH CAN USE IT.
AND AUDIO CONTROLS AND NOT IN
THE SUITS THAT HEAR WHEN THEY
NOT IN THE SUITS WHERE THEY ARE
GER BRATED INTO THAT.
WE SEE THEMING THAT IS TOUCH
SCREENS NOW.
WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON THIS?
UP TO SCREENS.
WE HAD BUTTONS.
>> WHAT IT WAS ONE OF THE
MOMENTS WHERE I HAD KNEE BOARDS
AND THE MILD SCREEN A AND THINGS
DO YOU TO MIT GRATE PROBLEMS AND
S SOMETHING HAPPENS AND ALL
CROYLEED WITH TWO OF THEM BE A
YOU SHALL NEW REAR SPACE TRAVEL
AND LISTEN NOW FOR ANOUNTMENT
ABOUT HATCH CLOSURE.
>> BON COPY.
WELL, TODAY WE ARE OUT TRACKING
ANY SHALL YOU SHOOS ON DRAGON.
FOR THREAD WEATHERLINE THAT IS
OVERHEAD IS NOW MOVING ONSHORE.
THE NEXT IS A CELL OVER ORLANDO
THAT IS CURRENT RY RERODING.
>> THAT IS GOOD NEWS.
THANKS.
COPY.
ONE ADDITIONAL ITEM THE SITE
REMAINED.
NO CHANGE THERE.
THAT IS WEST FOR WEATHER.
TARGET IF NEEDED.
>> OK.
DRAGON COPY.
WE'LL TARGET THE LONGITUDE AND
THE AIR HAS COOLED OFF.
WE APPRECIATE AS WELL.
COPY.
THE LEAK CHECKS.
DRAGON COUNT.
SO WE HEARD A LITTLE BIT MORE
DISCUSS WHERE THE WEATHER STILL
LOOKING AT THINGS AND WE ARE
ABOUT A MON00 AWAY FROM
ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT HATCH CLOSURE
EXCUSE ME.
QUESTION WITH T MINUS 1:55 AND
COUNTING AND EXPECTING
ANNOUNCEMENT TO CONFIRM HATCH
CLOSURE IN JUST A FEW SECONDS.
DRAGON SPACEX CHECK FORCE FALCON
9.
>> GO AHEAD.
OK.
WE'RE READY.
>> WE ARE READY.
>> STATION UP ON YOUNT COUNTDOWN
FOR SEX 54.49.
COMMUNICATION CHECK WITH THE
CREW.
>> START WITH GUIDANCE, AND A
HALF IS GOING ASH CONTROL.
>> COM CHECK.
LOUD AND CLEAR.
DRAGON.
CHECK.
>> LOUD AND CLEAR.
LOUD AND CLEAR.
STAND BY FOR AVIONICS ENGINEER.
>> DRAGON ON COUNTDOWN ONE.
AVIONICS DRAGON CLOUD AND CLEAR.
LOUD AND CLEAR.
>> LOUD AND CLEAR.
STABBED BY FOR LAUNCH CONTROL.
DRAGON LAUNCH CONTROL COUNTDOWN
COM CHECK.
>> CLEAR.
STAND BY FOR THE CHIEF ENGINEER.
DRAGON, CHIEF ENGINEER ON
COUNTDOWN ONE COM CHECK.
>> DRAGON HAS YOU LOUD AND
CLEAR.
>> CHIEF ENGINEER CLOUD AND
CHLOR AND COMPLETES  THE COM
CHECKS.
DRAGON TO GROUND.
GO AHEAD, SIR.
JUST DOING A COME CHECK ON THIS
LOOP.
GOOD LUNG, GUYS.
BUCKLE IN.
THANKS.
WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
THANKS.
WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
>> THANK YOU.
THANKS.
>> SO WE HEARD A SERIES OF COM
CHECKS THERE.
LAUREN, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT
TO DESCRIBE WHY THAT IS
IMPORTANT.
WE HEARD THE AC CRY MOM.
THEY SAID GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION
CELL AND WENT BACK TO THE
ACRONYM GNC.
CAN YOU PLAINS.
>> YEAH.
THE LAUNCH CHIEF ENGINEER
INITIATED A COM CHECK WITH THE
DIFFERENT SUB SYSTEMS THAT THOSE
CHINAS THAT ARE ON CONSOLE AND
THE OPERATOR TAD TALKING TO THE
CREW AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY
WERE ABLE TO COME IN KATE WITH
THEM AND JUST HAP HAINING THAT
CHECK OUT FROM THE DIFFERENT
STAKESES ON COUNCIL TODAY.
THAT WAS REALLY, REALLY COOL.
WE OBVIOUSLY DON'T DO THAT WHEN
THERE IS A SATELLITE ON TOP OF
THE ROCKEANT
SO THE FIRST TIME FOR REAL
FLIGHT WE HAVE DONE THAT
OPERATION VERY AWESOME.
NOW THE HATCH IS CLOSED, A LOT
OF THE WORK OF THIS TEAM IS DONE
BUT I MEAN, THEY ARE NOT
FINISHED OR READY TO LEAVE THE
ROOM YET.
WITH YOU WERE TALKING TO FOLKS
WHAT ABOUT WHAT GOING ON IN THE
ROOM NOW.
YEAH.
THAT.
THEY SHOULD BE COMPLETING THE
HATCH LEAK CHECK THAT IS SORT OF
PRESSURIZED THAT AREA BETWEEN IT
IS WHERE O RINGS THAT ARE THERE
AND PRESSURIZE THAT AREA TO SEE
IF IT HOLDS PRESSURE AND VEREAL
VERY VERY SENSITIVE TEST AND
VERY HIGH CRITERIA FOR PASSING
SO ONCE THE LEAK CHECK IS SHOWN
TO BE OKAEAL AND THE CAPSULE OR
THOSE O REPORTS ARE ABLE TO HOL
PRESSURE WHAT THE TEAM WILL DO
IS GO BACK IN THAT AREA AND
ACCESS PANEL BE A INSTEAD THE
SIDE PRESSURE EQUALSURIATION PLG
AND ONCE THAT IS PLUGGED, YOU
REALLY CLOSED EVERYTHING UP AND
WHEN THE CREW SPLASHES DOWN WHAT
THEY WILL ACTUALLY DO IS PULL
THAT PLUG TO EKIZE THE PRESSURE
ACROSS THE SHOE OF DONE CAUSE
THAT.HE HATCH TO BUCKLE DOO TO E
HATCH OR THE CAPSULE THE WELD OR
 DUE THOTHAT PHBUSE-
PRESSURE DIFIFFRENTIAL SO THEY
SHOULD BE ADDING THAT PLUG AND
COVER UP THAT SIDE HATCH ACCESS
PANEL WITH THERMAL PROTECTION
PANEL AND CLOSE IT UP, AND THEY
WILL MAKE SURE IT STAYS SAFE ON
THE ACEN NOW LOOKING AT VIEW
FROM THE OUTSIDE TOP OF FALCON 9
AND CREW DRAGON.
WE CAN CONFIRM A GOOD SIDE HATCH
LEAK CHECK.
>> YOU HEARD CONFI9
GOOD LEAK CHECK.
>> YOU ARE JUST JOINING US CREW
DRAGON ON TOP INSIDE OF THE
CAOR TY DE ON TOP WHERE BWE O BN
AND DOUG HURLEY AND INSIDE OF
TWO HOURS UNTIL LIFTOFF IF THE
WEATHER HOLDS.
YOU THERE IS ANOTHER STUNNING
AERIAL VIEW OF THE CREW ACCESS
ARM EXTENDED OUT TOWARD CREW
DRAGON THAT IS THE FINAL PATH
THAT THE ASTRONAUTS TOOK TO
CLIMB ABOARD DRAGON BEFORE THEY
STRAPPED INTO THE SEATS AND THE
HATCH CLOSED.
NO DOUBT BWE O AND DOUG ARE FOCS
OPP THE MISAHEAD BUT WE ALSO
HEARD THE ADMINISTRATOR AND ELON
MUSK TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY HAVE
JOVIAASHAND JOKING AROUND AND
LELAND YOU MENTIONED TO ME
DURING THAT SEGMENT THAT THAT IS
REALLY IMPORTANT.
IT REALLY IS MARIE.
WE-WE WERE IN THEOR
WE GOT THIS THIS POINT WHEN THE
HATCH WAS CLOSED WE WERE ALL
GOING BACK TO THOSE MOMENTS OF
OUR TRAINING AND WHEN WE WERE
GOING THROUGH IN TRY TRAINING ON
THE SHUTTLE AND JUST DIFIFFRENT
PHASES OF FLIGHT THAT WE ARE
GOING THROUGH AND WE WILL THINK
ABOUT THE INSTRUSETOAND I WHO GS
THERE IN NOW, IN OUR CREW
NOTEBOOKS WE WOULD HAVE NAMES OF
PEOPLE THAT WERE IMPACTFY D IN
MAKING SURE THAT WE WERE PERFECT
IN OUR TRAINING AND -- BE THAT
LOOKS LIKE AOR
ONE.
A SPECIAL GHOST HAVE A SPECIAL
VIEW OF THES A FLOATS ON THE
LAUNCHPAD.
PRESIDENT TRUMP ONBOARD MAKING
HIS WAY TO KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
TO HOPEFY DLYOR
4:33 THIS AFTERNOON.
NO DOUBT HE IS LOOKING OUT THE
WINDOW.
LOOK OUT THE WINDOW OF BWE O AND
DUKING ON THE PAD.
THAT HAS GOT TO BE AMAZING SITE
TO SEE FROM ONBOAHECK. AIR FORCE
ONE.
T MINUS 14:00 6:20 KINDING FROM
LAUNCH THE LAST TIME WE AHESUALY
DID A LITTLE BUTT OF RESEARCH
WHEN WE FOUND OUT THE PRESIDENT
WAS COMING THINK OF LAST
PRESIDENT TO WANS LAUNCH FROM
HERE AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER WAS
BILL CLINTON BACK IN OC OF 1998
FOR STS95 SO IT HAS BEEN A
MINUTE.
>> OKAY.
WE ARE 1:56 AWAY.
NEVER MINE UNSTEAD WE ARE 1:45
AWAY FROM LAUNCH AND TO HEAR IT?
YOU ARE THERE WITH THE SOCIAL
TEAMS AND I BET YOU ARE SEEING
SOME EXCITE PRESIDENT ON THE
THIN RI WE SAW ON THE SCREEN
THAT.HERE.
>> LIKE YOU SAID THINGS ARE
RAMPING UP RIGHT NOW.
ESPECIALLY SEEING THAT HATCH
CLOSE AND ALSO WATCHING THIS
FLYOVER HAPPEN.
WE RUP TO 1.7 MILLIONOR
ACROSS ALL THE SOCIAL MEDIA
CHANNELLANCE LET'S CHECK OUT
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ON
BETITTER RIG SC NOW.
>>   SO IT LOOKS LIKE WE GOT
MORE CREATE OF I STILL GOING ON.
SOME PACRPLE ARE CRYING WITH
PRIDE UNHOUSTON.
FEEL IT.
WE EVEN HAVEAL VLIZABETH BANKS O
FROM HUNGER GAMES,S THAT YOU
AWESOME.
WE HAVE MORE JUST GOOD LUSEK AND
WELL WISHES FOR BWE O AND DOUG
ACROSS THE NATION THIS HAS BEEN
A CONSTANT ON-LINE TODAY WHICH
IS SO GREET SEE AND MORE JUST
FUTURES A TRE NOW AND DID KIDD
DOES GETTING EXCITED.
WE HAVE THE BAND STEEL TUNING
FOR LAUREN.
THIS IS AWESOME.
JUST LOOKS LIN OE MORE PACRPLE
STANDING BY TO WITNESS THIS
HISTORIC LAUNCH TODAY.
SOON, GUYS, ON TOP OF WHAT IS
BEING SAID ON SOCIAL MEDIA AM WE
HAVE GOT A LOT OF WELL WISHES
FROM EVERYONE ACROSS OUR COUNTRY
SHOWING US WHAT TODAY MEANS IN
THEIR CREATE OF WAY.
SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK THATOR
>> I AM SO READY.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
>> WOW.
MAIN, GUYS, LOOK ATAL VVERYBODY
EXCITED FOR TODAY'S LAUNCH IF
THAT DOESN'T GET YOU PUMPED LIKE
DOM SON IN AUS
WE GOT SEE SNOOPY IN THERE WHICH
IS A PERSONAL FAVORITE OF MINE
AND I AHESUALLY HAVE MY LUSEKY
SNOOPY PIN HERE.
HE IS MY SPIRIT ANIMAL.
ANYWAY, GUYS, GET EXCITED THE
TIME IS ALMOST HERE.
WITH THAT LET'S TOSS BACK TO
LAUREN AT KENNEDY.
LAUREN?  THANK YOU.
US
THE WORM.
SHE WAS NOT DOING THE MEATBALL
SHE WAS DOING THE WORM.
>> SHE WAS DOING THE MEAT BAIL
AM SURE.
WHAM WANT TO KNOW WHAT THAT
THAKS LIN OE.
I DON'T.
DONE IT.
DOWNT DON'T.
WELL, CARLY THIS IS CAPTURING
THE ATTENTION OF THE P.M. ACROSS
THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD SO
PLEASE TON JOHN THE CONVEAND IAN
BY USING THE HASHTAG LAUNCH MARK
ACROSS FACEBOOK, TWITTER,
LINKEDIN AND INSTAGRAM.
WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE
WITH YOU A LOT OF ABOUT THE
SPACEX CREW DRAGONOR
IS SITTING IN NOW AND A LOT OF
ABOUT THE CREW THEM SELF AND THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF TODAY AS
OFFICIAL RETURN TO AMERICAN
SHORES AND NOW TURN OUR
ATTENTION TO WHERE THE CRIES
GOING THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION.
FOR THAT TAKE TO YOU MISSION
CONTROL UNHOUSTON.
GARY.
GARY.
THAT YOU.
THE INTERS IN AL SPACE STATION
IS INCREDIBLE US
CONSTRUCTION PRAISE OPERATION
AND ONGOING SCIENCE ALL OF THESE
EFFORTS HAVE BEEN MADE POSSIBLE
BY UNPRECEDENTED INTERNATIONAL
COLLABORATION.
SO TO TELL US MORE THE SPACE
STATION, HAVE BER SNAGSAL SPACE
STATION CHIEF SCIENTIST KIRK
COSTILLA WITHS.
WELCOME.
GARY THATTEN.
IT IS MAILINGSING DAY TO BE HERE
TO TALK TO BUT THIS HISTORIC
LAUNCH.
>> AND REALLY IT US.
NOW MANY VIEWEAND I MAY NOT REAZ
THERE IS A LABORATORY THE SIZE
OF A FOOTBALL FIELD 250-MILE
ABOVE THEAL VARTHED AND THAT HAS
BEEN WILLING FOR NEARLY OA YEARS
CONDUCT REVOLUTIONARYIANS?
TAN YOU SHARE WITH US WHAT THE
SPACE STATION IS?
WHAT IT HAS ACCOMPLISHED SONAR
SURE, GARY.
OVER THE 20 YEAAND I BE WITH WE
CONDUSETED OVER 3100 EXPERIMENTS
ONBOARD THIS SPACE STATION.
THOSE NED00 PETE,S HAVE BEEN DOE
AP OVER 4100 INVESTIGATORS AND
REPRESENT THE WORK OF OVER TION8
REGIONS AND COUNTRIES.
THE WORK GOING ON ON THE SPACE
STATION IS NOT ONLY THERE TO
HELP US WITH OURAL VXPLORATION
GOALS FOU HOW TO GO FURTHER INTO
SPACE BUT ALSO, TO BRING BACK
BENEFITS FORAL VARTH.
AND TO PRO ASCE A COMMERCIAL
MARKETPLACE IN LOWER EARTH
ORBIRAT
ALL THREE OF THESE OBJECTIVES
ALONG WITH THE INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION THAT IT TOOK TO
ORKILD SUSEH AN AMAZING LABORATY
IN SPACE ARE GREAT EXAMPLES OF
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE ISS
PROGRANEDY.
>> WE KNOW THAT FIRE
DEPARTMENT'S MISSION IS CRITICAL
TO PROVIDING WITH US A STEADY
CADENCE OF OPERATIONAL FLIGHTS.
EAS IT SO IMPORTANT FOR US TO
HAVE THIS CAPAO,LIBY FROM A
RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE?
>> WELL, A GREAT QUESTION.
>> TODAY'S TEST FLIG SC BROKE T3
THAT.HE BEGINNING OF THE COMMETL
CREW PROGRAM.
IT RIL WILL RAISE TO FOUR
ASTRONAUTS THAT FOURTH ASTRONAUT
COMES AS REAL PREMIUM TO DOING
RESEN ON THE SPACE STATION.
THE TASKS DON
 GET MORE IN
TESSIVE TO DO SYSTEMS AND
MAINTENANCE SO THAT FOURTH
ASTRONORE T THAT TIME BECOMES
DEDICATED TO PERFORMING MORE
SCIENCE IN FACT ENOUGH TIME THAT
IT WILLAL VVENTUALLY DOUBLE THE
AMOUNT OF CREW TIME WE HAVE TO
PERFORM EXPERIMENTS ONBOARD
STAYS STATION.
HE RETURN TO U.S. SOIL TABLINGS
ABILITY TO RETURN STAM PELLS
MORE QUI ONLLY AND GET HFOOAN
SAMPLES BACK DO IN THE GROUND
MORE QUICKLY AS WELL.
>> YOU ARE AUSEKING ABOUT THIS
GREAT RESEAT.H AND TALKING ABOUT
SCIENTIFIC EX FORS BUT WHAT
WOULD YO IN STI SHOP IS WALETHIG
THIS AND THINKING THIS IS NOT
RELEVANT TO ME AND NEVER GOING
TO SPACE AND IN I DON
 DO
LEVIENCE.
WHAT DO YOU SMAY WELL, GAIN.
ONE OF THE FOCUS IS ON THE ISS
BENEFITS FOR HFOOANITIES.
AND FOR ALL OF US WHO HAVE BEEN
STUCK AT HOME DURING THE
COVID-19 PANDEMIC WE HNEDY.
WONDER WOULDN'T IT BE INTO TO
HAVE MORE BAND WIDTH AND WHY
DOES IT SLOW DOWN.
SOME OF THE RESEAT.H WE ARE
DOING PAR TK CLN THE OPTICAL
FIBER IS USING THE FACT WE DON
HAVE SED MNIN TATION IN A
MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT TO
DEVELOP NEW MATERIAUS
HESTIG US ORKILD MORE PERFECT
FOBBER OB TIP CABLES WHICH WHICH
ALLOW US FOR BETTER BEEN A WIDTH
AND LOME ER COSTS IN NETWORKS HE
ON EARTH.
AND THEN, IF YOU ARE NOT REALLY
A TK GEEAND THEN MAYBE, YOU ARE
INTEREST LIE LIE IN HUMAN HEALTH
AND WE HAVE MCKLTIPLEAL VS AND
GOING ON TO HELP US DEVELOP NEW
DRUGS AND NEW TREATMENTS ONBOARD
THE ISS.
AND PHAO
WORKING ON METHODS THAT ALLOW US
TO CRYSTALLIZE AND PROTEINS ANF3
SPACE AND IN A MORE POON THEIED
MORE STANDARDIZED METHOD AND
THIS COULD LEAD TO ANTIBODY SUSS
PENSIONS WE CAN TREAT T, TOOUGH
INJECTIONS INSTEAD OF A PAINFUL
IN FUSION.
>> WE AUS
STUDIES INTO OUR CAPABILITY TO
PRODUCE TISSUES AND ORGANS IN
SPACE AND AN THEIIN, BECORE SE U
DOCUT HNEDY.
IS A CAPABILITY THERE TO PRODUCE
MORALE LIS TICK SHORES AND THAT
CAN SOME DAY POSSIBLY BE USED TO
PREVENT HUMAN DISEASE.
>> NOME  CURRENTLY I KNOW THEY
HAVE SOME CARGO GOING UP WITH
THEM BUTTIANER THAN THEY PLAN TO
STAING SOME SCIENCE BACK.
>> THAT IS RIGHT.
GARY.
A LOT OF CARGO GOING CAPA WITH
TH TT ARE CREW SCAPAPLIES ANDALV
SUPPLIES TO SUPPORT THEM IF THEY
HAVE TO DO EVA'S OPERRIMLOW BUTE
CA
IO THEY WILL BE BRING DOME N
DOWN IS EYE AND COMES FROM
ACROSS THE SPEMORE EALNEDY.
WE HNEDY.
SHOWS THAT WILL BE RETURNING
WITH THE CREW DRAGON AND WE ALSO
HAVE A NFOOBER DNINENDING ON THR
SAMPLES RETURNING IN FROZEN
LOCKERS ONBOARD THE SPACEX
DRAGON TO BE ABLE TO DO THE
SCIENCE THERE.
THOSE INCLUDE RESEARCH BE HS
FROM THE NATIONAL RESEAT.H 17
MU
RE AND ALSO OUR VEGGIE
EXPERIMENTS WHICH ARE
EXPERIMENTS IN GROWING PLANTS
UNSPACE THAT WILL BE NEEDED WHEN
WE GO TO MORE DISTANCE LOCATIONS
LIKE THE MOON AND MARS.
INTELIKATIONAASHSPACE STATION
CHIEF STRINES THANKS SO MUCH FOR
THE TIME AND LET'S HEAR NOW FROM
THE NEXT ASTRONAUTS TO FLY THE
STATION ON THE CREW DRAGON
TALLSING TO MA RAIN IN.
>> THANK SO YOU MUSEH.
I AM SO HONORED TO BE A PART OF
TODAY'S MOMENTOUS LORE NCH MY
GUEST IS NO STRANGER TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
AND WILL RETURN THERE FOR THE
FIAND IT TIME IN NEARLY A DECAD.
FOR HIS THIRD SPACEFLIGHT WITH
THE CREW ONE LORE NCHAL VS AND
LATER THIS YEAR.
HAVING LOGGED 177 DAYS IN SPACE
FROM FLIGH THE SPACE S3
AARCLE
DILEVOVER TROY THE SOYUZ, JADA
ASTRONAUT WILL HAVE SPEND MORE
TIME IN SPACE THAN ANY OF THE
OTHER CREWMATANCE MY PLASH SURE
THAT WELCOME HIM HER TODAY THANK
SO YOU MUSEH FOR JOINING US.
[SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONEFE]
>> WOW.
THAT IS WONDERFUL.
MARINA?
HOW ARE YOU DOINGERS3
OME HANKS FOR HAVING ME TODAY.
THIS IS WONDERFUL TODAY.
WE'RE CELEBRATING THE LORE NC WH
I AM HAPALS TO BE HERE.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING
HERE WITH US.
CTAM SURE YOU HNEDY.
EXCITEMENT FOR TODAY'S LAUNCH
AND YOU WILL BE ON THE NEXT CREW
DRAGON FLITEIT AFTER THIS ONE.
ARE YOU EXCITED TO LAUNCH FROM
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER AN THEIIN D
HOW ARE YOU PREPARING FOR THE
NEW SNEAK YES.
WE ARE EXCITED AS TO GO BACK TT3
KENNEWE' SPACE CENTER MY FIRST
SPACEFLIGHT WHEN THE SPACESHIP
DISCOVERY THAT WAS 15 YEARS AGO
ORKT MY M TTORY IS STILL FRESH I
STILL FEEL VIBRATION THE OF THE
SAME LAUNCHPAD AND ABLE TO GO OW
CAPA AND THE SAME LORE NCHPAD WE
WOULD GO UP AS A CREW.
OUR CREW IS GETTING REAWE' FOR
THE FINAL TRAINING PHASE AND
WHICH WILL COME IN THE COMING
WEEKS AND THE MOOD IS REALLY
HITEI.
WEATAE READY TO GO CAPA.
>> AS YOU KNOW, THE
INTERNATIONAL SPATIAL STATION
AND SPACEAL VS AND
INTERNATIONAL EFFORT HOW DO YOU
FEEL REPRESENT THE JWELCANESE
SPACE AE.NCY WITHIN YOU A AN THN
ON THE ISS WELL, THE STRENGTHS
OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPATIAL
STAYS IS DTANERSIBY OF THE
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES AND
ADDING DIVERSITY IS DEFINITELY
GIVES TO THE PROGRAM.
AND THE SAME APPLIES TO OUR CREW
OUR CREW ONE AND OUR CREW ONE WE
HAVE FOUR OF US WHERE BE BUT
GGEITE A DIFFERENT BACKGROUND
THERE AND QUITE DIFFERENT
ETHNICITY AND DNALINITELY
DIVEAND IITY IS THE KEY WORD OFR
CREW ONE.
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORND QLOWO
WHEN YOU GET BACK TO THE IS?
>> WELL, THIS IS THE THIRD
VISIT.
TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE
THE THINGS OF MY COLLEAGUES AND
L TONIN SAYING, H
G, YOU BT TO
VISIT TO SPACE STATION AGAIN.
BUT IT IS GETTING MORE
COMFORTABLE AND MORE ROOBACK ANI
CANNOT WAIT TO GO BACK TO THE
SLEEP STATION AFTER TEN YEARS.
NOTHING BEATS THATFEEIEW, DOES
IT?
>> OH, DENLY.
MY LAST FLIGHT WE ACTUALLY
INSTALLED A BIG WINDOW CALLED
THE CCAPAOLA AND THERE WAS BIG E
OBVIOUSLY.
THIS IS THE NUMBER ONE TAME FOR
ASTRONORE T?
S AND READY TO SHOOT AS FAR AS I
CAN AS WELL.
AMAZING.
WELL, I WILL LOOK FORND QLOW SEG
THOSE PHOTOS.
AM SURE REMEMBER WHAT IT FEEET 
LIL TO UNTHESE MOMENTS RIG SC
BEFORE LAUNCH.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ROBERT BEN KEN
AND DOUGLAS HURLEY ARE FEELING
RITEIT NOME  AS THEY PREPARE TO
HEAD TO THE ISS?
WITH, DOUG AND BOBDER SPACE S3
AT
TH
G KNOW THE DRILL.
THEY HAVE LAUNCHED.
THEY EXPERIENCED LAUNCH BNALORE.
SO I THINK THEY ARE PREARCY
RELAXED.
SO FAR, THROUGH MY TRAINING
RAGEALIKED THAT MOST OF THE STES
TO LORE NCH IS QUITE SIMILAR TO
WHAT WITH THEN SPATIAL SPACE
SHUTTLE DAYS SO IN DIFET'RENT
SUIT AND DIFET'RENTFEEEHICLE BAL
THE NECESSARY STEPS TO GO UP TO
THE CWELCSULE SHOCKLD FEEL SIMIR
I SO CTAM SURE THEY ARE RELAXED
AND OF COURSE THEY ARE EXCITED.
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G ARE.
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>> BEAUTIFUL LAUNCH TODAY.
OME HANK YOUFEEERY MUSEH FOR HN.
ME.
BYE-BYE.
AND I WILL SEE SEN IT BACK TO
YOU THANK YOU.
COMING UP ON 20 YEAR ON THE
SPACE STATION AND YOU WERE ONE
OF THOSE HUMANS WHAT IS LIL TO 3
HATEE N>  MILESTONE LUT
LAUNCH UNFOLD AFTER SO MUCH
HISTORY ALREAWE'?
>> SO MUSEH HISTORY INDEED.
YOU IS REALLY JUST SUCH A
TESTAMENT TO NASA NOT ONLY ARE
WE PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF
E LAOME LEDGE AND DISCOVERY AND
EXPLORATION BUT WE SHALL PUSHING
THE BOUNDARIES IN HOME  WE
ACCONT LISH THAT MISSION AND
BRINGING IN COMMERCIAL PARTNERS
AND FOSTERING THE SPACEAL VCONOK
SO MUSEK SHOOING SHORE WE ARE
PUSHING FOR WE'RE AND TAKING THE
NEXT STEP I THINK IT IS A
PRTANILEGE TO BE A PART OF
ORGANIZATION THAT RECOGNIZES IF
IF WE ARE NOT MAKING STELAUNCH.D
R TMOTI
TING EVERY TIME WE DO
THIS.
THEN WE ARE NOT TEALLY ANSWERING
THE HFOOANITY'S CALL TOAL VS AND
AND PUSH THOSE COUNTRIES.
>> CRIST NINE KNOVEABE ABOUT AND
DO GO ARET SET RANS THEMSELVES,
WHATTED A VASE DO YOU HAVE FOR
BOB AND DOUG GTANEN THE PEEKS O3
OME HE LONG DURATION STAYS CREW
MEMBER?
>> WELL-BEING ABLE TO WORK THERE
IS A PRIV LG YOU KNOVEAYOU ARE A
STEWARD OF THIS AMAZING
LABORATORY THAT IS BRINGING SO
MANY BENNALIT DOME NSAL VTHER AD
ALSO LEARN HOUGH WE CAN PUSH IF
YOU ARE TER TO THE UNIVEAND IE O
ITOU TTHINKTE HONOR.
D
FEELS TO BE UP THERE FOR A LONG
AYI N>TION IN TERAL VC O ISSED ,
BE ABOUT AND DO YOU HAVE BEEN
GREAT MENTOR MOTHERS.
TH
G HNEDY.
OAAL VS YEARS THAT IS STRANGE TE
THE ONE WHO COULD BE IN A
POSITION O ISSER THEM AAL VSTHI,
ORKT I WOULD SAY THAT AS YOU
KNOW, SHUTTLE FLIERS THEY USED
TO PARTICIPATE UNM GOSES THAT
WERE REALLY, REALLY INTENSE AND
GO, GO GO ALL THE TIME.
LONG DURATION SPACEFORIG SC IS A
OA N>THON THAN A SPRINT SO I
WOULD TELL THEM TO TAKE THAT
MOMENT TOAL VNJOY IT.
THEN YOU KNOS O REALLY WELCOME
THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE PART OF
YOUR MISSION BE T ABING IT ALL
R TAND SHARING THAT WITH THE
PEOPLE THAT GOT THERE YOU.
>> THANKS AGAIN.
ALND QYS PLEASURE TO HEAR FROM U
AND FANTASTIC WORDS THANK YOU
FOR SHARING.
THANK YOU.
BACK PLEASURE.
>> SO ONCE AGAIN, BE ABOUT AND
DOUG, ONCE BE ABOUT AND DOUG
ARRIVE.
TH
G WILL BE GREETED BY CHRIS
CASSIDY BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT
AND TOSS A BRINALINW,
DEN HELLOAL VVERYONE.
AMS A VO THOUGHT CHRIS CASSIDY
COMMANDER OFAL VS AND
FORYING 250 MILES ALAUNVE THE
EARTH.
LIKE YOU, I AM EXCITED TO ABOUT
TOEXCACCS LORE NC WH
AND THE POSSIME.LITIES IT WILL
BRING TO AMERICA INTO THE WORLD.
BUT AET ORY I AMFEEERY PIL TOD T
TWO CLOSE FRIENDS WILNSALIVE ANG
JOINING THE CREW.
ID THAT HE PRIVILEE. OF FLYING
WITH DOUG HURLEY ON BOTH OF THE
FIRST SHUTTLE MISSIONS BACK IN
2009 TOE.THER WE DIME THE
INTELIKATIONANSASPACE STATION AD
HELPED CONSTRUCT THE AMAZING
FACILITIES THAT IT IS TOEXCY.
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MISSION WITH BOB IT WAS
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CHIEF OF THE O ISSICE WHEN HE LT
BACK IN 2015 TO BEGIN TAPE FOG
THIS AMACA NG MISSION.
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♪ 30 YEARS LATER, THE SAME FLAG
WAS FLOWN TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION.
THIS FLAG WAY RE MAINS HERE
TODAY WAITING FOR BOB AND DOUG.
[BELL TOLLING]
OUR FLAG MEANS SO MANY THINGS TO
OUR COUNTRY AND THIS SMALL PIECE
OF AMERICA VANES WE'LL BE ABLE
TO ACHIEVE TOGETHER.
WE'LL NEVER STOP EXPLORING.
AND SO BOB AND DOUG CAN TAKE THE
SPECIAL FLAG HOME TO EARTH WHERE
IT WAITING THE NEXT JOURNEY TO
THE COSMOS IN A FEW YEARS, THE
ORION CREW WILL TAKE THIS FLAG  
WITH IT AROUND THE MOON.
ALL OF THIS STARTS TODAY.
WILL BE WATCHING OUTSIDE OF THE
WINDOW ALONG WITH EVERYONE ELSE
IN AMERICA AROUND THE WORLD.
I CAN WAIT TO LOOK OUT THE
WINDOW TO SEE MY FRIENDS ON
CLOSE APPROACH.
GO FALCON 9.
GO DRAGON.
GO BOB AND DOUG.
WILL SEE YOU SOON.
>> THAT WAS SPECIAL MESSAGE.
HE WILL BE READY AND WAITING TO
WELCOME BOB AND DOUG WHEN THEY
ARRIVE TOMORROW IF LIFTOFF
HAPPENS TODAY A LITTLE LATER
TOMORROW MORNING.
THE COUNTDOWN NOW STANES AT T
MINUS 1:25:54 AND COUNTING UNTIL
LAUNCH.
IF WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH
YOU HOW MUCH HAPPENED HERE AT
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SINCE THE
LAST TIME WE HAD CREW ON THE PAD
LAUNCHING FROM HERE.
AS YOU A CAN ABLE GEN END OF THE
SHUTTLE REARS WITH A BITTERSWEET
MOMENT FOR MANY PEOPLE ACROSS
THE SPACE COURT NIN, WE KNEW BRE
DRIVE-THRUING FOR DAY AND HERE
WE ARE.
JOINING US NOW IS KENNEDY SPACE
CENTER'S DEPUTY DIRECTOR JANET
PELT TRO ON THE COMEBACK WE HAVE
SEEN ACROSS FLORIDA'S SPACE
COAST.
SHE IS WITH DARRYL NOW.
DARRYL?
YEAH THANK YOU.
JAN NETS YOU WERE TELLING ME YOU
WERE THERE AT THE CREW WALKOUT.
TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT
YOU SAW BETWEEN ASTRONAUTS AND
THEIR FAMILIES?
>> SO, VERY HISTORIC.
WAITS VERY EMOTIONAL SO WHEN DO
DOUG AND BOB CAME OUT OF THE
DOORS, OF COURSE A CHEER WENT UP
FROM EVERYBODY THRESH VICE
PRESIDENT WAS THERE, ELON WAS
THERE.
THE CREW FAMILIES WERE THERE.
OF COURSE, BOB BY SELF, THE REST
OF THE CENTER LEAD SHER WHIP WAS
THERE TO CHEER THEM ON.
THEN YOU KNOW, THEY CAME OUT.
THEN THEY WENT TO THE FAMILIES
AND BOB BEHNKEN SAID VIRTUAL HUG
AND HE SHOUTED OUTVOTERRUAL HUG
AND DID THIS MOTION AND OF
COURSE, HIS CHILD ALSO DID THAT
VIRTUAL HUG AND SO I GUESS
THAT'S THE TRADITION OF DOING A
VIRTUAL HUG WITH FAMILIES.
THEN THEY WALKED AND GOT IN THE
THREES.
THE FAMILY WALKED UP TO THE
WITHIN OF THE TESS THERE AND
WERE TALKING AND PRIVATE LAST
MOMENT WITH THEIR FATHER HAND ON
THE WINDOWS IT WAS EMOTIONAL.
HAD TEARS IN MY EYES.
  DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OTHER
PEOPLE HAD TEARS IN THEIR ICE
BUT REALLY A SPECIAL EMOTIONAL
MOMENT AND EVERYBODY WAS OF
COURSE WISHING THEM WELL AND A
LOT OF I LOVES.
YOU KNOW TAKE CARE.
ALL OF THAT.
IT WAS VERY SPECIAL.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING
THAT WITH US.
AND IN THE CONTEXT OF WHY IT IS
SO IMPORTANT.
YOU REMEMBER YOU HAVE BEEN HERE
SINCE 2007 AND HERE IN 20011
WHEN THEY KATE TO IMTHIS THE
REAL STOP AND TALKED TO THE
UNCLE AND FATHER WHO WORKED OUT
HERE AND LAYOFF NOTICES WEN O
THE NEXT DAY WHEN THE SHUTTLE
DIME A TELEPHONE BE A IT WAS
VERY SAD TIGHT.
THE DIRECTOR HERE CALLED IT
DEPRESSING.
AND TELL ME ABOUT THAT TIME AND
HOW FAR WE HAVE COME YEAH.
YES.
SO AS YOU NOTE, IT WAS THE END
OF A VERY ICON UK PROGRAM YOU
KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAD SPENT
THEIR ENTIRE CAREER WORKING ON
THE SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM SO 135
FLIGHTS AND ALL OF THEM
LAUNCHING FROM LAUNCH COMPLEX 36
AND MANY FROM 39A WHERE WE'RE
LAUNCHING FROM TODAY AND THEN,
RETURNING BACK TO THE SHUTTLE
LANDING FACILITY THE TWO BOOMS
WITH SOMETHING ALL ALONG THE
SPACE COAST PEOPLE REALLY
RESONATED WITH AND REALLY FELT
IN THEIR HEARTS AND LOOK FORWARD
TO SO IT WAS, IT WAS VERY SAD
TIME BUT I TELL THAT YOU 30-YEAR
PROGRAM WE HAD PLANNED FOR IT.
AND THE WORK FORCE WAS
INCREDIBLE AND THERE WAS A LOT
OF PEOPLE WHO AS I SAID, SPENT
THEIR ENTIRE KAY REAR HERE?
THEY BETWEEN SAFELY FLY THAT
SHUTTLE OUT AND THEN THEY
RETIRED AND ALSO ANOTHER LARGE
GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO
PUT ON THE RESUME THEY HADEN
PRIVILEGED TO WORK ON THE SPACE
SHUTTLE.
SO THE WORK FORCE ALWAYS
INCREDIBLY PROUD OF BECAUSE THEY
WERE RESILIENT AND THEY WERE
DEDICATED AND THEY WERE
COMMITTED TO SAFELY FLAYING OUT
THE SHUTTLE AND DIDN'T SKIP ANY
STET!  STEPS AND REGARDst AS
YOU SAIDMENT THEY KNEW THEY WERE
GETTING THE LAYOFF NOTICE AND
LANDED ON A WEDNESDAY AND
GETTING THE LAYOFF NOTICE ON A
FRAY A DAY AND IN IT TO THE END
TO MAKE SURE WE SAFELY FLEW IT
OUT.
OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE
14,000 WORKERS OUT HERE THEN.
AND WHICH WE HAVE A LOT FEWER
HERE TODAY.
AND OF COURSE, OUR GUEST
OPERATIONS YOU REMEMBER THOSE
LAST SHUTTLE FLIGHTS EVERYBODY
AROUND THE COUNTRY WANTED TO BE
A PART OF THAT EXPERIENCE AND WE
AT THE CENTER REALLY LEANED
FORWARD TO MAXIMIZE HOW MANY
PEOPLE WE COULD GET ON THE SITE
AND NEVER MINE HOW MANY PEOPLE
ARE HE REWERE LINED UP AT THE
BEACHES ALONG THE RIVER AND
TODAY WITH COVID AND WE WERE NOT
ABLE TO HAVE ANY ON-SITE GUEST
OPERATIONS WHICH WAS PRETTY SAD
FOR THIS HISTORIC FLIGHT BUT I
BET THERE IS A TON OF PEOPLE
WATCHING FROM THE BEACHES OR
FROM EVEN THEIR TV AS WE LAUNCH
HERE TODAY.
>> I AM SURE IS THERE.
TRIBUTE TO YOUR LEADERSHIP AND
BOB'S AS WELL GETTING THINGS
TURNED AROUND HER AS MULTI USER
SPACE COURT GETTING
COMMERCIALENTIES IN HERE AND A,
IT ALE YOU HAVE DONE MAKE THAT
HAPPEN.
APPRECIATE YOU BEINGER HOO
THANK.
THANK YOU.
>> ALL RIGHT MARIE, BACK TO YOU.
MARIE.
THANKS, DARRYL.
AS SPACE AND SPACEX HAVE WORKED
FOR YEARS TO GET THIS MOMENT.
TODAY'S MISSION OPENS THE DOOR
TO HE ENTIRELY NEW ERA IN HUMAN
SPACEFLIGHT.
NOT ONLY FOR ASTRONAUTS BUT SOME
DAY FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC AS
WELL.
FROM BEGINNING IT HAS BEEN OUR
MISSION AT SPACEX TO HELP MAKE
HUMANITARIAN HUMANITY MULTI
PLANETARY SPECIES AND TODAY'S
MISSION IS IMPORTANT STEP TOWARD
THAT GOAL THE DEOPENING UP SPACE
AC IS REUSABILITY WITHOUT IT
TRAVELING TO SPACE IS FAR TOO
EXPENSE PHOTOGRAPH THE AVERAGE
PERSON TO DO AND IMAGINE HOW EX
OPINIONS I HAVE A FLIGHT FROM L
TO NEW YORK WOULD BE IF YOU HAD
TO THROW THE PLANE AWAY AFTER
SINGLE TRIP.
YEAH.
EXACTLY.
THAT TICKET WOULD COST HUNDREDS
OF MILLIONS.
AND ALMOST NO ONE COULD EVER
AFFORD FLY.
BOTH THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT AND
THE FALCON 9 ROCKET ARE DEA
DUNED SO BE REREUSABLE NOT ONLY
IMPROVES  THE RELIABILITY OF THE
VEHICLES AND THEY ARE FLIGHT
PROVEN AGAIN AND AGAIN BUT
DRIVES DOWN COSTS AND THIS IS
EVENINGS TO NOT A HANDFUL OF
PEOPLE, BUT RATHER, HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.
TO GET OUT THERE AND TO EXPLORE
THE MOON AND MARS BEYOND AND I
FOR ONE, IT US MY DREAM TO
VISIT.
PHIL: FOR'S OCEAN MOON EUROPA
LELAND YOU ARE ONE OF THE LUCKY
EARTHLINGS WHO HAD THE
OPPORTUNITY TO GO GET OF OUR THE
PLANET AND EXPLORE.
WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO
SNEAKS YOU KNOW, YOU THINK I
WOULD LOOIC TO GO TO MARS AND BE
THERE FOR YEAR ABOUT A YEAR EACH
WAY.
BUT THE ONE QUINE HAVE TO HAVE
IS MY PUPS WOULD HAVE TO GO WITH
ME.
BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT PLOSION,ING
AND PLACES AND TALKING YOUR
FAMILY WITH US.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE CREW MATES
AND PEOPLE YOU GET KNOW AND LOVE
OVER THE COURSE OF TRAINING BUT
IT IS NOTHING LIKE HAVING YOUR
FAMILY WITH YOU.
I THIS SOMETHING WE ARE GOING
SEE IN THE FUTURE AND PEOPLE
LIVE AND WORK ON OTHER PLANETS
AS FAMILY.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WANT SEE
YOUR DOGS WITH YOU.
>> WELL WE HAVE SEEN THEM IN
OFFICIAL PORTRAIT THE DOGS CAME
IN WITH TO YOU TICK A TK PURE IN
THE SPATE SPAES SUIT THE DAY.
A THERE IT IS.
>> YEAH.
YEAH.
WE NUKE THEM IN NOW?
HE.
NO DOGS ALLOWED IN NASA.
THEY HAD THEIR MOMENT.
THEY SURE THAT.
>> AND KNOWING THAT THE
OPPORTUNITY TO FLY TO SPACE IS
AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN OR DOG IS
MAKE AROUND THE CORNER.
WE HAVE A NEW POLL QUESTION ON
WUT FOUR.
IF YOU ARE GIVE IN THE
OPPORTUNITY, WOULD YOU TRAVEL TO
SPACE LET US KNOW?
WE'LL SURE THE RESULTS A LITTLE
BIT LATER.
>> RAILROAD.
THERE IS NOT A LOT OF CARGO.
>> ARE THERE IS NOT A LOT OF
CARGO.
DRAGON IS CARRYING TWO SPECIAL
PAYLOADS ASIDE FROM BOB AND DOUG
OF COURSE.
THE FIRST IS A SERIES OF CUST
CUSTOM ART PIECES ENTITLED HUMAN
KIND BY LOS ANGELES ARTISTS TRIS
ANN EATON THESE DOUBLE SIDE
PAINTINGS ARE MADE FROM GOLD,
BRASS, ALUMINUM AND CELEBRATE
HOW FAR HUMANITY HAS COME AS
WELL AS HOW FAR WE STILL HAVE TO
GO.
AND IT IN CLUES A BEAUTIFUL TO
THE ROCKET AS WELL AS NOD BOB
AND DOUG'S CURRENT RAID TO SPACE
UP?
CAN FIND MORE IMAGES AND
INFORMATION ABOUT THE PIECES ON
SPACEX AND SOCIAL CHANNELED.
NEXT IN THE SPIRIT OF UNSPIRING
THE NEXT GENERATION OF EXPLORERS
WASN'TED TO CELEBRATE THE CLASS
 2020 FROM CUN NER GARDEN
THROUGH GRADUATE SCHOOL.
SPACEX ANOSMIAS INVITED STUDENTS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO SUN
PLIT THE PHOTO FLY ON MARK SEA
FIRST HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT IN A NAR
LAY DECADE.
EACH GRADUATE'S PHOTO WAS USED
TO CREATE A IMAGE OF THE PLANET
EARTH WHICH WE PRINKED AND BEING
FLOWN ABOARD BOB AND DOUGH'S
PLIGHT ON THE CREW DRAGON
SPACECRAFT AND RECEIVED NEARLY
100,000 PHOTOS SO THANK YOU AND
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE
WORLD'S GRADUATES.
>> AM SOD PROUD OF WHAT WE ARE
DOING TODAY.
IN A THINK ABOUT REGULAR PEOPLE
FLYING IN SPACE ON THE SPACEX
ROCKET WINDY AND FIRST WENT TO
SPACE AND I THOUGHT MY TASK OF
IN SALE STALLING WOULD BE MY
AH-HA MOMENT BUT PEGGY WOODSON
INVITED US OVER TO HAVE A MEAL
AND SAID YOU BRING THE
REHYDRATED VEGETABLES AND WE'LL
HAVE THE MEAT.
WE ARE HAVING THIS MEAL AND IT
IS WITH AFRICAN-AMERICAN, ASIAN
AMERICAN, FRENCH, GERMAN, RUSH
SH, BREAKING BRED AT 17500 GOING
AROUND THE PLANET EVERY 90
MINUTE WHENS I THINK OF THAT
PERSPECTIVE I GOT LOOKING OUTS
THE WINDOW FLYING OVER MY
HOMETOWN AND FLYING OVER
HOMETOWN IN RUSH THAT IT BROUGHT
US TECT I THINK THAT IS WHAT
SPACEFLIGHT DOES FOR US.
THE MORE PEOPLE THAT HAVE THE
OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO SPACE, WILL
FEEL LIKE IT IS INTERNATIONAL
FAMILY OF PEOPLE WORKING
TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF
HUMANITY.
AND ALL OF HUMAN KIND.
>> ABC.
THAT IS WHAT THAT PIECE OF ART
WAS ALL ABOUT.
>> YEAH.
>> AND FOLLOWING TODAY'S
MISSION, WE WILL BE ONE STEP
CLOSER TO A FUTURE WHERE WE CAN
ALL HAVE NEXT, AND HAVE THAT
ORBITAL PERSPECTIVE AND THE ACHE
TO EXPLORE NEW WORLDS AND JUST
OVER AN FLOUR NOW, BOB AND DOUG
WILL BE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO
LAUNCH ON AN AMERICAN VEHICLE IN
ALMOST A DECADE.
FOR THE TEAM SPACEX IT IS REALLY
HARD TO PUT INTO WORDS HOW
HONORED WE FEEL ABOUT THE TRUST
THAT BOB, DOUG ANOSMIAS HAVE PUT
INTO OUR TEAM TO CARRY OUT THIS
CRITICAL MISSION.
I WORKED ON CREW DRAGON FOR TWO
YEARS AND I CAN IMAGINE WHAT ALL
OF MY FRIENDANCE ALCOHOL REGS
ARE THINKING NOW THEY ISN'T
EXCITE FOR WHAT IS TO COME.
ABC LAY.
SPEAK OF THOSE WHO CARRIED THE
HOPE AND DREAMS OF SCIENCE AND
EXPLORATION WE HAVE A FEW
HOUTOUTS TO SHARE WITH YOU FROM
BIG FANS OF NASA AND SPACEX.
>> WOW.
WE'RE MAKING HISTORY AGAIN.
THE NASA PROGRAM.
I AMLE THERE WITH YOU GUYS IN
SPIRIT BOB, DOUG, GOOD LUCK.
I KNOW YOU WILL BE FINE.
I WILL BE WATCHING AND GOT
EVERYTHING CROSSED AUM TIED IN A
KNOT CAN'T WAIT FOR TO YOU GET
BACK SAFELY.
>> THIS IS THE FIRST TIME
U.S.-BUILT ROCKET HAS TAKEN MEM
SPACE IN NINE YEARS.
IT IS QUITE AN ACCOMPLISHMENT
FOR US AT THE PLANETARY SOCIETY
MORE ROCKETS MEANS MORE
EXPLORATION, MORE PEOPLE IN
SPACE MEANS MORE EXPLORATION,
MORE COUNTRIES INVOLVED IN THE
END DEEPER OF SPACEFLIGHT MEANS
MORE EXPLORATION,S THIS HOW WE
KNOW THE COSMOS AND ARE PLACED
WITHIN IT, SO CONGRATULATIONS
SPACEX HERE IS WISHING YOUR TEAM
AND THE CREW ESPECIALLY A SAFE
JURN NAIN JOY OF DISCOVERY.
LET'S GO.
>> A BIG THANKS TO WILLIAM
SHATNER AND BILL NYE FOR THE
WELL WISHES WE WANT TO BRING IN
NASA ASTRONAUT, REX.
IF THAT NAME RINGS A BILL BELL,
IT IS BECAUSE HE FLU THREE SPACE
SHUTTLE MISSIONS IN CLUEING THE
FINAL ONE BY ATLANTIS.
135.
HE WAS ONE OF THE LAST FOUR FOAM
ATTEND ASEASON THE TOWER AND
HEAD TO SPACE AND DEPUTY
DIRECTOR OF SAFETY AND MISSION
ASSURANCE AT JOHNSON SPACE
CENTER UNHOUSTON AND THANKS FOR
JOINING US.
YOU AND LELAND ACTUALLY FLEW
TOGETHER.
>> REX DOG.
>> REXY SHALL YOU FLEW ON THE
FINAL SHUTTLE MISSION STS135
WITH DOUG, IN PACK.
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO SEE HIM IN
CREW DRAGON RIGHT NOW?
>> GREAT.
THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN
LOOKING FORWARD TO.
AFTER THE END OF THE SHUTTLE
PROGRAM IT WAS A VERY IMPORTANT
TIME WHEN WE WANTED TO
TRANSMISSION TO THE
COMMERCIALIZATION OF SPACEFLIGHT
TO ALOWELL THE COMMERCIAL
COMPANIES TO TAKE OURS AS TO
FROM FRAND THE SPACE STATION.
SINCE THE NIN YEAR, WE WORKED
HARD FOR THAT AND WORKED WITH
THE SPACEX PARTNERS AND THE
BOEING PARTNERS AND HERE WE'RE.
TODAYS  THE DAY.
WE'RE TAKE THE FIRST STEP IN THE
NEW ERA.
WHAT DO YOU RAILROAD THE MOST U
FELT THE WEIGHT OF IT.
THE SPACE SHUTTLES WITH A STORY
PROGRAMMED.
135 FLIGHTS.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE LAUNCHED
PROBES TO THE PLANETS TO LARCH
THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE AND
BUILD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION SO YOU KNEW THE
UNCREDIBLE ACOUPLE
ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THIS PROGRAM
AND YOU WANTED TO FINISH STRONG
AND THEN IT FINALLY BECAME
LAUNCH DAY, YOU FINISHED THE
STUDY AND WORKED HARD.
NOW IT WAS TIME TO SOAK IT IN.
THAT IS WHAT BE ABOUT AND DOUG
DOING NOW.
THEY ARE SITTING ON THIS VEHICLE
TALKING TO EACH OTHER AND
LISTENING TO THE SOUNDS AND
FEELLE FEWING VIBRATION AND AS
IT STARTS UP AND GOING TO BE A
GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR THEM.
>> HI, REX.
WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON PRIVATE
ASTRONAUTS GOING TO SPACE?
IT IS GREAT.
THE THINK HE MORE WE CAN DO TO
COMMERCIAL EYIZE SPACE TO MAKE
ACCESS EASE AREA THE BET ARE WE.
THAT IS PART OF THIS WHOLE
PROGRAM.
GET THE COST DOWN.
MORE PEOPLE CAN AFFORD IT.
YOU CAN DO MORE THINGS IN SPACE.
MORE SCIENCE, MORE RESEARCH.
AND IT IS TRANSFORMATIVE
EXPERIENCE TO FLY IN SPACE IN A
WISH MORE PEOPLE COULD SEE THAT
AND LOOK OUT ON THE PLANET LIKE
LELAND WAS TALKING ABOUT EARL
WHYIER.
IT GIVES YOU PERSPECTIVE.
IT GIVES YOU PERSPECTIVE THAT
WE'RE ALL CREW MATES ON THE
PLANET EARTH AND GET THAT NOW
WITH THE PANDEMIC.
WE UNDERSTAND WE'RE ALWAYS
TOGETHER.
THAT IS WHAT THE SPACE PROGRAM
DES AND WANT TO SEE MORE PEOPLE
GET THE CHANCE TO SEE THAT THE
EARTH AND BRING US CLOSER TO
TOGETHER.
REX SERIOUS QUESTION HERE.
THE WORM OR THE MEATBALL?
I SAW THIS YOU DISSING THE WARM
EARLIER.
THE WORM IS AWESOME AND SO GLAD
TO HAVE SPACE WORM.
US GREAT.
>> ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU YOU VERYP, REX.
WE PATIENCE.
AS WE WATCHED THE BE ABOUT AND
DOUGEN THERE THE CAPSULE, WE ARE
1:10:57 AND COUNTING FROM LAUNCH
AND SEN IT OVER TO HAWTHORNE FOR
UPDATE.
JESSIE?
ONS THAT.
WE'RE JUST AN HOUR AND 13
MINUTES WAY WAY FROM THINK LAN
AND THINGS ARE REALLY GETTING
READY TO PICK UP HERE.
A SINCE RIFING A THE SPACECRAFT
BOB AND DOUG WERE HELPED BY THE
CLOSEOUT ENGINEERS GET TO THREE
SEATS, ATTACH THE SUITS TO SPECS
UMBILICALS THAT CONNECT TO AIR
AND DRAGON SYSTEMS.
THEY CONDUCTED LEAK CHECKS FOR
SUCCESSFUL AND COMMUNICATIONS
CHECKS WITH THE CORP HERE IN
HAWTHORNE THE WHICH US THE
PERSON WHO WILL SPEAK TO THEM
THOUGHT ENTIRE MISSION IN
FLORIDA.
THIS IS WHERE THEY ARE CHECKING
THEIR PATH THROUGH GROUND
STATIONS AND THE TRACKING AND
DATA RELAY SATELLITES THAT WE'LL
TUESDAY TALK TO THE CREW THE
ENTIRE WAY THOUGH STATION.
A RIGHT.
AFTER THOSE SUIT CHECKS WERE
COME PLOT THE CLOSEOUT TEAM WAS
ABLE SEAL OUT THE HATCH AND
CONFIRMED IT WAS GOOD TO GO.
THE CLOSEOUT TEAM HAS DEPARTED
THE YARN THE PAD AND 25 MONS !
AHEAD OF THIS THREADED ALL AND
RIGHT NOW WEATHER OPERATORS ARE
DICK KICK OFF THE FINAL CHECK ON
WIND SPEED ON THE PAD AND REALLY
USED AND REALLY IMPORTANT FOR
THE FINAL GO-MO GO FOR LUNCH
BEFORE WE GET TO THE FINAL GO.
VARIOUS TEAMS OF MASS AND SPACEX
ARE GOING TO DO UP ETERNAL GO
POLLS MAKING SURE SURE
CONDITIONS ARE GOOD WITH THE
RANGE AND THE SPACE STATION
BEFORE THE FINAL GO IS GIVEN.
SO LET'S CHECK BACK IN WITH
HOUSTON REAL QUICK FOR STATUS ON
THE TEAM THERE SUPPORTING THE
SPACE STATION ON THEIR READINESS
FOR LAUREN.
LAUNCH.
>> MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON LEAD
BY LUG DOOROR HAS BEEN POLLED
AND WE ARE A GO FOR LAUNCH.
ALL SYSTEMMIONS BOARD THE
STATION THAT ARE REQUIRED TO BE
HEALTHY FOR THE MISSION ARE
REPORTED GOOD AND WE ARE
STANDING BY.
STATION POWER AND COMMUNICATION
SYSTEMS ARE LOOKING HEALTHY.
LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS ARE NORMAL
AND THE TRA JK RY IS RIG ON
TRACK TON SAW THIS DRAGON'S
FLIGHT WILL MEET RIGHT UP WITH
THE ORBITING COMPLEX AS PLANNED.
CHRIS CASSIDY ABOARD THE SPACE
STATION IS FINISHING UP TANGSES
GOING TO THE PERIOD AND WILL BE
ABLE TO WATCH THE LAUNCH OF BOB
AND DOUG.
MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON LARGELY
BE IN THE MONITOR MODE FOR THE
FIRST 18 HOURS OF THE FLIGHT
WITH THE TEAM HERE JUMPING INTO
THE MIX TOMORROW WHEN DRAGON
GETS IN RANGE OF THE
INTERNATIONAL PASSION STATION
AND WE BEGIN INTEGRATED
OPERATIONS.
1:00.
>> SO I WILL SEN IT BACK.
OFFING IS GREEN ON THE BOARD
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION.
GO FALCON 9.
GO DRAGON.
GOD'S SPEED TO BOB AND DOUG.
>> ALL RIGHT.
THANK YOU, GARY.
IF YOU ARE JUST NOW JOINING US,
YOU PICKED REALLY GOOD TIME
BECAUSE WE ARE 1:08 COUNTING
AWAY FROM LAUNCH.
THIS IS OUR COVERAGE FOR THIS
MISSION KNOWN AS DEMONSTRATION
MISSION 2 OR DM KNOW 2.
LIFTOFF TIME STILL HOLDING FOR
4:33 P.M. EASTERN.
TRACKING NO HAUSCHS WITH FALCON
9 OR DRAGON AND WE'RE STIT
WAITING TO THAT WEATHER TO
HOPEFULLY COOPERATE STILL
TRACKING A FAU THINGS LIKE
PRECIPITATION AND CLOUD AND
HOPING THAT CLEARS WITHIN THE
NEXT 20 MONS OR SO.
OVER THE LAST THREE HOURS, OUR
CREWMEMBERS DOUG HURLEY AND BOB
BEHNKEN DONNED THE SPACEX SEUSS
SUITES IN THE SUITUP RAM AND
MADE THE WAY TO LAUNCHPAD 39A.
THEY WALKED DONE THE CREW
QUARTERS BUILDING AS EVERY
ASTRONAUT HAS DONE SINCE ABOL
POE 7 AND TRANSPORTED TO THE PAD
WHERE THE CREW ONBOARD THE
SPACECRAFT AND CONTINUING TO GET
VIEWINGS OF THEM INSIDE OF THIS
CABIN LIVE.
TODAY IS HISTORIC LAUNCH IT WILL
BE HE FIRST TIME
COMMISSIONERLY-BUILT SPACECRAFT
WILL LAUNCH PEOPLE INTO ORBIT
AND THE FIRST TIME SUNS THE U
U.S. HAS SENT PEOPLE TOLL THE
SPACE STATION FROM AMERICAN
SOIL.
SINCE 201 WITH RETIREMENT OF THE
SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM.
OVER THE NEXT HOUR WE WILL
CONDUCT A SERIES OF POLLS TO GET
RAILROADED FOR LAUNCH SAN HAVE
BOB AND DOUG BEGIN FUELING.
LAUNCH IS SET FOR 4:33 P.M.
EASTERN.
THIS WILL INCLUDE A 12 MINUTE
FLIGHT TO ORBIT AND THEN A
19-HOUR FLIGHT TO DOCK WITH THE
INTERNATIONAL SPATIAL STATION AT
11:30 A.M. EASTERN TIME
TOMORROW.
TODAY'S MISSION IS THE
COMBINATION OF YEARS OF WORK
BETWEEN THE TEAMS OF SPACEX AND
NASA.
DEMO-2 IS GOING TO BE END TO END
FLIGHT TEST AND START WITH
LAUNCH TODAY GO TO DOCKING WITH
THE SPACE STATION AND THEN WHEN
BOB AND E HOME FLASHING
DOWN IN THE ATLANTIC IN THIS
FINAL TEST FOR NASA TO CERTIFY
SPACEX FOR REGULAR CREW FLIGHTS
TO THE SPACE STATION.
>> WE HAVE BEEN HEARING A LITTLE
ABOUT TRE CREW ONBOARD DRAGON
WHICH IS CURRENTLY STRAPPED INTO
THE SEATS AS YOU CONDITION SEE
ON THE RIGHT SCREEN.
THEY ARE ALREADY THROUGH -- THEY
HAVE BEEN STRAPPED IN THE SEAT
AND THROUGH LEAK CHECKS AND ABLE
TO FOLLOW ALL THE MILESTONES
STILL AHEAD ON THOSE DISPLAYS
JUST ABOVE THEM THAT YOU CAN SEE
THREE.
GO AHEAD.
WE ARE GOING TO EQUALIZE THE
PRESSURES AND RAISE THEM A
LITTLE BIT SO WE'LL BE MOMENT
ARLEY SKIING LUNG THE TANK
ISOLATION VALVES.
JUST WANTED TO LET YOU NO I.
>> JUST WANTED TO TAKE A PAUSE
TO IN.
>> OK.
SO GETTING IN NIGHT?
ALL THE DRAGON AND FALCON 9
SYSTEMS AS WE PROCEED TOWARD
LAUNCH AT T MINUS 10:00P LET'S
CHECK IN WITH JOHN FOR STATUS
UPDATE ON THOSE VEHICLES.
WAS THE UPDATE, JOHN?
JOHN.
WELL, GOOD NEWS IS WE HAD A
SMOOTH COUNTDOWN THIS AFTERNOON.
SPACEX TEAM IS WORKING NO
TECHNICAL ISSUE ON THE FALCON 9
OR THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT.
FOR THE FALCON 9 OPERATORS HAVE
ACTUALLY STILL, THEY ARE GOING
TO COMPETE IN A FEW MINUTES
CHECKOUTS BEING DEN ON THE FIRST
AND THE SECOND STAGE AND THE
TEAM WIN ACCESSING THE LAUNCH
READY WITNESS A FINAL GO-NO GO
POLL AT TY NEWS 45 AND FOLLOWED
BY STARTING AT T MINUS 35
MINUTES.
NOW EARLIER TODAY, DRAGON
OPERATORS PERFORMED A SERIES OF
CHECKOUTS OF DRAGON'S PLIGHT
SYSTEMS THE SPATIAL CRAFT IS
ALSO CURRENTLY GO FOR LAUNCH.
OUR NASA CREW ASTRONAUTS DOUG
HURLEY AND BOB BEHNKEN YOU CAN
SEEN SIDE OF THIS DRAGON CAPSULE
ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THE
DISPLAY THEY ARE CURRENTLY GOING
THROUGH VARIOUS SCREENS SIMPLE
CHECKS AND THE HATCH IS CLOSE
AND COUNT CHECKS ARE GOOD.
THE NEXT MAJOR EVENT FOR DRAGON
IS GOING TO BE RETRACK OF THE
CREW ACCESS ARM YOU CAN SEE ON
THE LEFT MONITOR UP ALONG THE
DRAGON CAPSULE THAT IS GOING TO
HAPPEN BETWEEN 45 AND 42 MINUTE
BEFORE LIFTOFF THE BIG RUN LOG
ONTO NOW US THE RANGE.
THE RANGE IS CURRENTLY READY FOR
LAUNCH FROM HISTORIC PATH 39A.
NOW THE AIR AND THE SEA SPACE IS
CLEAR AND THE WORLDWIDE NETWORK
OF GROUND STATIONS AS WELL AS
THE TRACKING AND DATA RELAY
SATELLITES A READY TO SUPPORT
DRAGON AS IT HEATED TO ORBIT THE
RANGE IS READ FOR THE WEATHER.
WE RECENTLY DID CLEAR AND WE
WENT GREEN FOR LIGHTNING BUT WE
ARE STILL FY VIOLATING SEVERAL
CONSTRAINT, RAIN, CUMULUS
CLOUDS, AND FIELD MILLS WHICH IS
EVENTUALLY YOU CAN TELL THAT THE
ATMOSPHERE IS ENERGIZED AROUND
THE LAUNCH SITE.
AND WE ARE EXPECTING THAT WE'LL
POSSIBLY CLEAR THAT AND HEAR A
WEATHER BRIEFING AT ONE HOUR
WITH THE EXPECTATION THOSE
CONDITIONS MAY CLEAR SHORTLY
AFTERWARDANCE ALLOW US TO MOVE
INTO PROPEL AND LOADING.
ALSO, WE HAVE BEEN RES RE
LEASING BALLOONS AND SEEING AT
THE UPPER AT TIDES CONDITIONS
LOOK GOOD FOR FALCON 9 WITH
DRAGON AND NO CONCERNS HAVE BEEN
EXPRESSED BY THE GUIDANCE TEAM
RIGHT NOW.
NOW AS REMINDER TODAY.
WE HAVE A LAUNCH WINDOW AT
4:33:35 EASTERN DAYLIGHT SAVING
TIME.
OR JUST PAST 33 MON MARCHESE THE
UPCOMING HOUR.
SO WE GET ONE CHANCE AT IT
TODAY.
BUT T MINUS 1:03 JUST PASSING
THAT, FALCON 9 DRAGON ARE A GO
AND THE RANGE IS READY TO
SUPPORT.
BUT NOW WE'RE WEIGHT ON THE
WEATHER AS WE HAVE BEEN EBBS
PEGGING ALL AFTERNOON.
>> THANKS, JOHN.
WE GOT AN EXTENSIVE HISTORY NOW
OF FLYING FALCON FROM THE
FLORIDA COAST AND JUST LAST YEAR
COMPLETED A TEST RUN OF THE
MISSION NETWORK LESS THAN AN
FLOUR GENG HERE TODAY.
>> YEAH.
THAT THE PURPOSE OF THAT MISSION
TO DEMONSTRATE DRAGON'S
CAPABILITY TO SAFELY'S FLY TO
FRAND THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION THE SUCCESS OF DEMO ONE
WAS EXCITING MOMENT AND PAVED
THE WAY FOR TODAY'S MISSION.
HAVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND
WHAT WE REFOREAS FLIGHT HERITAGE
AND AS I MENTIONED EARLIER
SPACEX COMPLETED 21 FLYINGS OF
DRAGON TO A FRND ORBIT SINCE
2010 INCLUDING 0 TRIPS NOT ONLY
CONDUCTED THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF
TESTING WE HAVE ALSO ENHANCED
ADD PUMP BER OF SAFETY FEATURES
TO DRAGON.
>> MUCH OF WHAT WAS LEARN WITH
THE CAR GO DRAGON WAS LEVERAGED.
>> IT IS COMPLETE.
EXPECTED BEHAVIOR.
>> AND WANTED TO HEAR IF YOU ARE
ABLE TO HEAR THOSE.
WE DID.
WE WERE MAKING A COP MEANT ABOUT
THAT AND BOB WATCHED IT ON THE
SYSTEMS DISPLAY.
SO A ABSOLUTELY.
>> COPY ALL.
THAT IS THE CREW TALKING TO THE
CORP HERE IN HAWTHORNE,
CALIFORNIA WHO IS TALKING TO US
TODAY.
THEY WERE DOING A QUICK CHECK
OUTAND BOB AND DOUG CONFIRM FLED
ABLE TO HEAR IT.
SO STILL NO ISSUES WITH FALCON
OR DRAGON.
BACK TO WHAT WE WERE TALKING
ABOUT.
WE WERE SCREE DIBBING THESE
SYSTEMS A LOT OF WHAT SPACEX DID
WITH CAR GO DRAGON HAS BEEN LEF
LADIES AND GENTLEMENNED TO THE
CREW DRAGON.
AND THE VEHICLE IS DESIGNED TO
BE FULLY BASICALLY FLY ITSELF
BUT ALSO FEATURES A FULL MANUAL
OVERRIDE CAP OF COURSE THE CREW
NEEDS TO TAKE CELL IN CASE OF AN
EMERGENCY.
>> MAN INFORM THE OTHER
ENHANCEMENTS HELPED TOWARD THE
GOAL OF RE.
>> USABILITY AND THERE LESS
REFURBISHMENT TIMES BEFORE
MISSION AND TAKE A CLOSER LOOK
AT THESE ADVANCEMENTS.
>> STANDING AT ALMOST 27 FEET
TALL FROM BOTTOM TO TO THE TOP
OF THE NOSE CONE COMPOSED TWO
MAIN ELEMENTS THE CAPSULE UP TOP
DESIGNED TO HOLD THE CRU AND ANY
A PRESSURE UZED CAR GE THEN
SECTION NOSE KNOWN AS THE DRUNK
ON THE BOTTOM.
>> THE NOSE CONE AT THE TOP OF
THE CAPSULE PROTECTS THE DOCKING
SYSTEM AS WELL AS THE GUIDANCE
NAVIGATION CONTROL SYSTEM FLOOR
WE CALL GNS THE KNOW NOSE CONE
OPENS AND REMAINS TAPE OFFED TO
THE CREW DRAGON SPACECRAFT LIKE
DRAGON AND HELPS TOWARD OUR
REUSABLE.
WE'RE T MINUS ONE HOUR AND GO
FOR SECTION 6 AND REPORT GO FOR
LAUNCH.
>> SPACEX DRAGON.
>> JUST A COUPLE OF CHECKS WHEN
THEY ARE READY FOR LUNCH AND
HEAR THEM REPORT TO THE CORP
THEY ARE GO FOR LAUNCH.
CONTINUING TO WALK YOU THROUGH
THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT OPPOSITE
OF THE NOSE CONE US THE TRUNK.
THE TRUNK PROVIDES ATTACHMENT
POINT TO FALCON 9 AND THE DRAGON
CAPSULE AND CARRY ANY CARGO
UPHILL ON THE OUTSIDE ONE-HALF
OF THE TRUNK CONTAINS A RADIATOR
THAT REJECTS THREAT THE ACTIVE
THERMAL CONTROL SYSTEM INTO
SPACE AND USING PACE X'S NEW
PEAK OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE OTHER
HALF CONTAINS SOLAR CELLS THAT
ARE USED TO CHARGE THE
SPACECRAFT'S BATTERIES DURING
FLIGHT.
>> YOU HEARD THAT CALLOUT THERE.
NEXT UP WILL BE THIS HE POLL AT
T MYIUS 45.
THEY ARE GO FOR LAUNCH.
>> HOLDING.
>> THE SPACE KRAFT IS DESIGNED
TO ACCOMMODATE UP TO 70 CREW
MEMBERS WITH MODULAR SEATS THAT
COULD BE REMOVED AND REPLACED
BAY ADDITIONAL CARGO THE SEATS
ARE MADE OF CARBON FIB EARN
CUSTOMIZE FOR ANY CREWMEMBERS
FLYING ONBOARD.
>> THAT CONTROL PANEL THAT
CENTERED BETWEEN THE PILOT AND
COMMANDER SEATS CONSIST OF THREE
TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAYS AND THAT
AGAIN ALLOWS THE CREW TO OPERATE
THE VEHICLE AND FLY ITANUALLY
BUT LACK AT THE PROCEDURES
RELATIVE POSITION OVER THE EARTH
AND THE SPACE STATION AND ANY
ALARMORS ALERTS OR ANYTHING THEY
COULD WANT TO DO ON DRAGOP
THROUGH THE TOUCH SCREENS AND
LASTLY THE SUPER LAUNCH ESCAPE
SYSTEM IS A KEY FEE SAFETY
FEATURE GIVING THE CREW TO HE
THEY ACHE TO SAFELY HE IS SCRAPE
THE TIME OF LAUNCH TO ORBIT.
>> THAT LAUNCH ESCAPE TESTIMONY
WAS PUT INTO WORK ON THE IN LOG
ONTO ABORT TEST.
AS WE LOOK TO THE FUTURE BEYOND
THIS TEST FLIGHT THE FIRST
OPERATIONAL SPACEX CREW MISSION
FOR NASA WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT
LATER THIS YEAR.
H AFTER BOB AND DOUG COME HOME.
NASA ASTRONAUTS MIKE HOP KIN,
VICTOR AND SHANNON WALKER AND
NOGUCHI OF THE EXPLORATION
AGENCY JAXA CHOSE TON SUPPORT
THIS MISSION.
>> TODAY DOUG HURLEYS  THE
SPACECRAFT COMMANDER NOR MISSION
HE FLU ON TWO SPACE SHUT MISSION
ZS A THE PILOT ON STS127 AND 135
THE FINAL SPACE SHUTTLE FLIGHT
HERE IS A CLOSER LOOK AT DOUG
HURLEY.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ NET.
>> TECHNICAL POLL WAS COMPLETED.
ALL SYSTEMS ARE PROCEEDING.
WE'RE MONITORING THE WEATHER AND
THEY WILL BE BRIEFED AND LOOKING
AT LAUNCH ITEM ON HYDRAULIC ROD
RING AND PRESSURE WILL COUPLE AT
NI US IN 8 MINUTE AND 30 SECONDS
AND ABLE TO VERIFY THE RATE AND
NO CONCERNS AT.
>> I EVERYTHING IS READING
NOMINAL BUT WATCHING THAT I AM.
NO OTHER CONSTRAINTS ON FALCON 9
OR GROUND SYSTEMS.
>> STAGE TWO IS COMPLETE.
>> ALL RIGHT THE JOINT OPERATION
COMMANDER FOR DEMO-2 AND BOB
FLEW ON TWO SPACE SHUTTLE
MISSIONS AS STS123 AND 130 AND
TOURS AS TOUR OF THE CHIEF OF
THE ASTRONAUT OFFICE AND A
LITTLE BIT MORE OF THIS MAN.
>> WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THE
LAUNCH DAY PREPARATION, THERE IS
A LOFT MOMENTS THAT STAN OUT TO
THE SHEB STORY PIECE OF IT WHEN
YOU ARE WALK OUT THE SUITUP ROOM
AND GETTING IN THIS VEHICLE TO
TAKE TO YOU THE LAUNCHPAD AND
CLOSE THE HATCH THAT IS WHEN
DOUG AND ARE IN THE VEHICLE AND
OUR VEHICLE AND YOU THOUGH, WE
ARE IN COAL THIS MISSION HAT
POINT POINT.
THE TEST PILOTS THEIR TASK
PROVED THAT MAN COULD FLY ORBIT
AROUND THE EARTH AND RETURN LIVE
AND WELL TO TALK ABOUT IT.
>> BALANCING RISK AS YOU GO
FORWARD TOKING IF YOU GURING OUT
A WAY TO DOE COLLECT THE DATA
TAN HER A SOUND OK.
THAT IS SOUND EXPECTED SOUND OR
SEE A LIGHT THAT IS LIGHT AN
EXPECTED LIGHT US WHAT THE
SOURCE OF IT?
DOES IT SYNC UP WITH SOMETHING
ELSE THAT IS GOING ON OR NOT?
TRY TO DISSECT THAT IN
REAL-TIME.
AND FLIGHT TEST ENGINEER AND
FLEW ABOARD TWICE AND PRODUCING
NASA ASTRONAUTS BOB BEHNKEN.
>> MY CAREER AT NASA HAS SPANNED
A COUPLE OF DECADES AT THIS
POINT AND RIFED WITH THE CLASS
OF 20000 AND WENT THROUGH THE
TRAINING PROGRAM FOCUS ON THE
SPACE SHUTTLE IN THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
LEARNING THOSE SYSTEMS HAVING
LAUNCHED A COUPLE OF TIMES ON
THE VEHICLES YOU KNOW, THE
SECOND TIME WAS DEFINITELY
DIFFERENT THAN THE FIRST TIME
AND YOU CAN FEEL A LITTLE BIT
GUILTY OF SHOULD I STUDY ONE
MORE THING OR ONE MORE PIECE OF
INFORMATION I SHOULD GET AND I
AM PREPARED OR NOT.
SO THAT IS IS DIFFERENT BETWEEN
WHERE I WAS ON THE FIRST FLIGHT
AND WHERE I AM AT NOW.
IT HAS BEEN REALLY INTERESTING I
THINK FOR BOTH MY WIFE AND I
HAVE TO GONE THROUGH THE PROCESS
OF SEEING EACH OTHER LAUNCH IN
SPACE.
THEN I SAW SHUTTLE LAUNCH WITH
MY WIFE ON IT, THAT IS, THAT IS
QUITE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE.
I HAVE SEEN HER TAKE THAT RISK
AND HAVE IT BE IN FRONT.
I HAVE DONE THAT TO HER.
THERE IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT
ABOUT WHAT WATCHING THE ROCKET
LAUNCH WHEN THERE ARE PEOPLE
ONBOARD, YOU FEEL DIFFERENT
ABOUT THE PIT OF THE STOMACH.
I CAN TELL YOU IT MULTIPLIED
SIGNIFICANTLY WHEN IT IS
SOMETHING YOU KNOW AND SOMEBODY
THAT MEMBER THAT IS EVEN
MULTIPLIED MORE.
>> FOR ME, PERSONALLY, AS
>> FOR ME, PERSONALLY, AS A
SPOUSE, WATCHING EVERYTHING THAT
BOB HAS PUT INTO THIS OVER THE
LAST FIVE YEARS, THE DEDICATION
HE HAS SHOWN, THE PERSEVERANCE
IS PRETTY SPECIAL FOR BOTH OF
US, THOUGH, THE WAY OUR MINDS
WORK  UNTIL SORT OF THE MISSION
IS COMPLETE THAT YOU HAVE REALLY
A CHANCE TO SAVOR IT AND
CELEBRATE.
THIS IS A HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT
FOR AN AIR FORCE FLIGHT TEST
ENGINEER TO BE A PART OF THE
DEMONSTRATION MISSION OF A
BRAND-NEW VEHICLE AND GOING TO
BE AMAZING.
WITHOUT A PARTNER THAT HAS THAT
SAME APPRECIATION I THINK IT CAN
CHALLENGING FOR SOME FOLKS THERE
IS A LOT OF WORK AND A LOT OF
TIME IT TAKES AWAY FROM FAMILY
THAT AND I LOVE HER FOR THAT.
♪
♪ ♪
♪ REALLY MY ROLE ON THE DEMO-2
MISSION IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE
GET THIS VEHICLE TESTED AND
EVALUATED SO WE CAN MOVE ON TO
MORE OPERATIONAL MISSIONS AT THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
WE HAVE GOT A LOT OF OBJECTIVES
ONBOARD THE VEHICLE THAT WE NEED
TO ACCOMPLISH TO MAKE SURE IT IS
GOOD GO.
WE WILL MAKE SURE ALL THE
SYSTEMS ARE WORKING DURING THE
TIST FLIGHT.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ WHEN ITS  THE LAST TIME HUMANS
LAUNCHED ON GNAW VEHICLE,
CERTAINLY ON THE AMERICAN SIDE,
IT HAS BEEN SEVERAL DECADES.
WE ARE TRACKING YOU WATCHING
FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY,
SEEING LARGE NUMBERS OF YOU
LOGGING ON ON OR TUNING IN FROM
COAST TO COAST AS WELL AS AROUND
THE WORLD.
IS THIS YOUR FIRST TIME WATCHING
A LAUNCH LIVE?
IF NOT, HOW MANY HAVE YOU SEEN
BEFORE.
TELL US USING THE #LAUNCH
AMERICA FROM YOUR FAVORITE
SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE.
THIS IS NOT NIGH FIRST ONE, I
HAVE CENA LOT.
BUT EVERY ONE IS EXCITING.
NOW COMING UP WE ARE GOING TO GO
IN TO A READINESS POLL.
THE SPACEX LAUNCH DIRECTOR IS
CHECK TO GO VERIFY THE DRAGON
TEAM IS READY AND THAT THE NASA
LAUNCH MANAGEMENT TEAM IS READY.
THEY'LL COME BACK AT ABOUT IT.
T-MINE JUSTICE 47 MINUTES WITH
INSTRUCTIONS TO MAKE THEIR FINAL
ASSESSMENTS, AND THEN LOG IN TO
THE PROCEDURE, LITTLE DIFFERENT
THAN THE OLD DAYS WHERE YOU HEAR
A GO, GO, GO, YOU KNOW, POSITION
BY POSITION, ALL UP AND DOWN THE
ROW.
IN THIS ELECTRIC AGE, EVERYBODY
HAS TO CLICK ON WHETHER IT'S GO
OR NO GO.
THE LAUNCH DIRECTOR WILL THEN
THE T-MINUS 45 MINUTES SUMMARIZE
THE END OF THE POLL AND PROVIDE
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE TEAM.
AT THE SAME TIME, WE WILL BEGIN
GETTING READY FOR THE CREW
ACCESS ARM RETRACTION AND WE'LL
SHOW YOU THAT ON ONE OF THE
SCREENS THAT WE HAVE UP.
NOW, CURRENTLY WE ARE CONTINUING
TO BE MONITOR THE WEATHER.
THE WEATHER IS STILL RED, IT IS
IMPROVING, WE ARE LOOKING AT ONE
CELL BETWEEN THE RADAR AND THE
PAD.
WE ARE KEEPING OUR FINGERS
CROSSED.
THAT CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE.
BUT WE ARE GOING TO BE WATCH
THAT GO FOR ABOUT ANOTHER 15
MINUTES.
SO IT LOOKS LIKE WE ARE GOING TO
BE GOOD TO BEGIN PROPELLANT LOAD
ONCE WE HEAR THE POLLS, BUT WE
STILL HAVE TO GET THE FINAL --
GET THE RANGE GREEN, SO THAT WE
CAN ACTUALLY DO THE LAUNCH IN
JUST 47 MINUTES FROM NOW.
LET'S LISTEN TO THE COUNTDOWN
FOR A MOMENT.
AND RIGHT NOW COMING UP ON 46
MINUTES, 10 SECONDS BEFORE
LAUNCH.
DIDN'T HEAR ANY SIGNIFICANT
CHATTER COMING OVER COUNTDOWN
ONE.
AUNCH COUNTDOWN NET.
POLL IS COMPLETE AND WE HAVE A
GO TO PROCEED WITH PROPELLANT
LOAD.
LAUNCH CONTROL, PROCEED WITH
SWINGING THE CREW.
>> MOVING FOR IT.
-MINUS 45 MINUTES.
THANK YOU, LAUNCH CONTROL.
CONTROL ROOM ON HOLD AND LAUNCH
PROTOCOL.
FOR NOT URGENT NO-GO CONDITIONS
AND WILL APPROVE THE LAUNCH AUTO
SEQUENCE LAUNCH ABORT FOR URGENT
ISSUES AFFECTING THE OPERATION,
OPERATORS SHALL CALL HOLD, HOLD,
HOLD ON THE COUNT DOWN MET.
LAUNCH CONTROL WILL REPORT THE
LAUNCH OUT OF SEQUENCE
IMMEDIATELY AND PROCEED TO THE
AUTO SEQUENCE AND ALSO ADVICE
LAUNCH DIRECTOR WHETHER
STRUCTURAL BREAK UP IS OCCURRING
FOR DRAGON MENU FLIGHT CREWS,
FIRE ALARM INSTRUCTIONS HERE ON
FIRE ROOM FOUR IN THE EVENT OF A
FIRE ALARM.
KEY OPERATORS, PREVIOUSLY BRIEF
APPROXIMATED OR REMAIN WHILE THE
ALARM IS EVALUATING.
IN THE EVENT THAT PERSONAL
SAFETY IS THREATENED WE'LL
EVACUATE TO THE SOUTH FACING
EMERGENCY EXIT WHICH LEADS
DIRECTLY OUTSIDE.
ONE FINAL REMINDER, THEY'LL BE
ARMING THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM
MOMENTARILY, WE NEED ALL
PERSONNEL TO PLEASE SAY IN YOUR
SEATS FROM NOW THROUGH ORBIT
INSERTION AND DRAGON SEPARATION
FROM THE SECOND STAGE.
>> ARM RETRACTION IS STARTED.
>> YOU HEARD MIKE TAYLOR THE
SPACEX LAUNCH DIRECTOR GIVE
INSTRUCTI THE TEAM.
HE WITH JUST HEARD THE CALL THE
CAREER ACCESS ARM RETRACTION IS
ON THE WAY.
WE CAN SEE THE ARM MOVING WAY
FROM THE CAPSULE.
ONE.
MAJOR EVENT NECESSARY TO GET
DOWN TO T-0.
NEXT ONE COMING UP IS ARMING OF
THE ESCAPE SYSTEM ON THE DRAGON
CAPSULE.
NOW, RIGHT NOW THE NEXT PLAN FOR
FALL 19T-35 MINUTES, WE WILL
BEGIN LOADING PRO TELL APT ON TO
THE FIRST AND SECOND STAGES.
CURRENTLY FALCON NINE LOOKS
GOOD.
DRAGON LOOKS GOOD.
THE GO IS FOR THE CLEARANCE
AROUND THE LAUNCH PAD BOTH AIR
AND SEA SPACE, LOOKING AT THE
FLIGHT CORRIDOR, THE GROUND
STATIONS, THE NASA TRACKING AND
DATA RELAY SATELLITE ARE READY
TO SUPPORT.
AND WE JUST CONTINUE TO MONITOR
THE WEATHER, OUR TEAM IS GETTING
CONSTANT UPDATES, WE ARE
MONITORING WEATHER, DATA
SENATORS AROUND THE LAUNCH SITE,
LOOKING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN
GET EVERYTHING IN TO THE GREEN
POSITION.
THE ONE THAT WE ARE MOSTLY
LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW, IS HOW
MUCH RAIN WE'LL GET BETWEEN NOW
AND LIFT OFF.
WHETHER IT'S GOING TO BE MILD
PRECIPITATION THAT'S WITHIN THE
RULES FOR LOADING PROPELLANT.
THAT'S WHAT THE EXPECTATION S
BUT WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO
WATCH THAT.
SO FINGERS CROSSED BUT RIGHT
NOW, COMING UP AT IT.
-43 MINUTES, 18 SECONDS AND
COUNTING, EVERYTHING BUT THE
WEATHER IS GO.
AND THE WEATHER IS TRENDING IN
THE RIGHT DIRECTION, WE HAVE OUR
FINGERS CROSSED HERE.
AT THIS TIME WE SEND BACK OVER
TO KENNEDY SPACE CENTER AS THE
ACTION IS PICKING UP ON THE
LAUNCH PAD.
>> THANKS, JOHN.
NOW THE COUNT CLOCK IS
CONTINUING TO TICK AND WE ARE
42:46 AWAY FROM LAUNCH.
AS YOU JUST SAW, THE CREW ARM
RETRACTED, THAT IS THE LAST
MAJOR VISUAL MILESTONE BEFORE
LIFT OFF.
AND WE SHOULD BE HEARING OUT ON
THE NET SOON CONFIRMATION THAT
THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM IS
ARMED.
WHEN THAT HAPPENS ALL EIGHT OF
THE SUPER THROTTLE VALVES ARE
OPENED WHICH MEANS THAT THOSE
ENGINES CAN IGNITE.
>> SECTION SEVEN.
>> OKAY.
SO THAT MEANS THOSE EIGHT
THROTTLE VALVES ARE OPENED AND
IF THOSE SUPER DURANGOS NEEDED
TO FIRE FOR DRAGON TO ESCAPE OFF
THE PAD THEY COULD.
>> THINGS RUNNING A LITTLE BIT
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE RIGHT NOW.
>> NOW WE JUST SAW THE CREW
ACCESS ARM RETRACT JUST A MINUTE
AGO.
WE SAW NASA ASTRONAUTS DOUG
HURLEY --
>> SET SEFOLOSHA .2 ADVICERSES
ARE CLOSED AND ARMING THE LAUNCH
ESCAPE SYSTEM.
>> THE ASTRONAUTS CONFIRMED THAT
THEY ARE ABOUT TO LAUNCH --
EXCUSE ME, ARM THE LAUNCH ESCAPE
SYSTEM.
THAT HAPPENS JUST BEFORE FUELING
BEGINS WHICH EXPECT TO HAPPEN IN
A COUPLE OF MINUTES.
WE SAW BOB AND DOUG SOUP YOU THE
A LITTLE OVER THREE HOURS AGO
WATCHED THEM DRIVE OUT.
THEY WERE ASSISTED WITHDREW
DRAGON INGRESS, THAT HAPPENED
BEFORE TWO CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON.
THEN WE SAW HATCH CLOSE AND THE
CREW ACCESS ARM RETRACTED A
MINUTE AGO.
WE HEARD THAT THE CREW ARE ARMS
THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM AND IN
JUST A FEW MINUTES WE ARE GOING
TO HEAR THE CALL THAT THEY HAVE
STARTED PROPELLANT LOADING.
>> LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM IS
VERIFIED ARMED.
>> WE HEARD THE VERIFICATION
THAT THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM IS
ARMED.
>> AND WE ARE GOING TO SEND IT
OVER TO HAWTHORNE, TO TAKE US
THROUGH PROP LOADING, JESSE.
>> FROM THE PARACHUTES TO LAUNCH
ESCAPE SYSTEM, SPACEX HAS
DESIGNED CREW DRAGON AND FALCON
9 TO BE THE US SAFEST LAUNCH
VEHICLE EVER FLOWN.
JOINING US TODAY WE HAVE SPACE
AX X'S NICK WHO WAS OUR MISSION
MANAGER FOR IN-FLIGHT ABORT
MISSION EARLIER THIS YEAR AND
CURRENTLY WORKS ON THE STARLING
TEAM.
THANKS NO JOINING US, NICK.
>> HEY, JESSE.
I AM HERE AT THE LAUNCH AND
LANDING RECOVERY CENTER WITH THE
RECOVERY TEAM.
OUR DRAGON GROUND OPERATIONS
TEAM MONITORING THE LAUNCH.
>> AWESOME.
CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT THE
CRITICAL SAFETY FEATURES ON THIS
NEW VERSION OF DRAGON.
>> SURE.
SO DRAGON 2 WAS DESIGNED WITH
LONG-TERM REUSE AND RELIABILITY
IN MIND.
FUNDAMENTALLY THERE ARE MULTIPLE
LAYERS OF REDONE TANS I TO ANY
OF THE FAILURE MODES THAT WE CAN
CONCEIVE OF THAT NASA COULD
CONCEIVE OF THAT WE ARE WORKING
TO DESIGN AND TEST THIS VEHICLE
OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS.
IN THE EVENT WE ENCOUNTER AN
UNFORESEEN MODE OR MULTIPLE
FAILURES, DRAGON HAS BACKUP
SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONAL CONTROLS
INTEND TODAY KEEP BOB AND DOUG
SAFE.
I AM SURE YOU HEARD A LOT ABOUT
IT TODAY.
THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM IS THE
PRIMARY BACKUP SYSTEM THAT WE
HAVE FROM THE MOMENT THE VEHICLE
IS HERE BEING FUELED.
ALL THE WAY UP UNTIL ORBITAL
INSERTION.
AT A HIGH LEVEL, THE LAUNCH
ESCAPE SYSTEM IN THE EVENT OF A
MAJOR FALCON AMONGLY OR
EMERGENCY WILL TERMINATE FALL
ONE THRUST.
SEPARATE DRAGON FROM FALCON AND
USE THE EIGHT SUPER DRAKO
ENGINES TO PULL THE ENGINE AWAY
FROM ANY KIND OF FALCON ON
NORMALLY.
>> YOU HAVE TALKED A LOT ABOUT
THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM.
HOW IS THAT ACTIVATED.
IS IT AUTONOMOUS, MANLY
ACTIVATED?
>> DEFINITELY.
SO FOR THIS SYSTEM TO WORKED
DESIGNED YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER
THAT THE VEHICLE COULD BE FLYING
AT HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF
MILES AN HOUR THROUGH LOWER
ATMOSPHERE.
IT'S IMPORTANT THAT IT'S
EXTREMELY FAST AND HIGHLY RELY
AM WITH LOW CHANCE OF FALSE
POSITIVES.
THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM FUNDS
HADN'TLY IS SET TO LOOK AT A SET
OF PREPROGRAMMED CRITERIA WHICH
ARE ON BOARD THE VEHICLE.
DRAG AND UNFALCON ARE LOOKING AT
HIGHER EIGHT AT THAT CLEM TRI.
NORMAL DYNAMICS LOSS OF
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CRITICAL
SYSTEMS OR MANUAL COMMANDING.
OUR LAUNCH DIRECTOR AND CHIEF
ENGINEER WHO YOU HAVE HEARD A
LOT FROM TODAY ARE CAPABLE OF
SENDING MANUAL COMMAND TO DRAGON
INITIATE A LAUNCH ESCAPE AND BOB
AND DOUG ARE ALSO ALWAYS ABLE TO
ACTUATE THE LAUNCH ESCAPE HANDLE
AND INITIATE A LAUNCH ESCAPE
THEMSELVES AS WELL.
NOW THAT THE SYSTEM IS AROUND,
ALL OF THIS IS CURRENTLY ACTIVE
ON THE VEHICLE.
>> WOW, SOUND LIKE THERE IS A
LOT THAT GOES IN TO IT.
AND WE DID HAVE AN IN-FLIGHT
ABORT EARLIER THIS YEAR TO TEST
IT OUT.
CAN YOU TELL US WHAT WE LEARNED
FROM THAT TEST?
>> DEFINITELY.
IT WAS THE MOST FLIGHT-LIKE TEST
OF AN ORBITAL CLASS BOOSTER IN
HISTORY.
IT WAS A FULLY-FLIGHT LIKE TEST
USING A FULL FALCON 9 ROCKET
WHICH WE HAD TO KNOWINGLY
DESTROY TO GET THIS FULLY
INTEGRATED SYSTEM.
FOLKS THAT DIDN'T GET A CHANCE
TO SEE IT, THE VEHICLE FOLLOWED
A NORMAL CREW LAUNCH TRAJECTORY
A MINUTE AND A HALF TO NBA TO
FLIGHT WE HAD DRAGON
AUTONOMOUSLY TRIGGER THE LAUNCH
ESCAPE SYSTEM BASED ON A
RECONFIGURATION OF THE TRIGGERS
THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
THANKFULLY WE HAD --
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME]
>> WE CONTINUED THROUGH FLIGHT,
HAD A SUCCESSFUL PARACHUTE
DEPLOYMENT AND SPLASH DOWN, AND
THEN WE DID SEE FALCON RATHER
SPECTACULARLY BLOW UP ABOUT 10
SECONDS AFTER SEPARATION.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT
ALL OF THAT HAPPENS FROM COMMAND
TO ACTUAL SEPARATION OF THE
VEHICLE.
IN UNDER A HALF A SECOND.
>> WOW, YEAH, THAT SOUNDS
AMAZING, THANK YOU SO MUCH,
NICK, FOR JOINING US AND TALKING
THROUGH THOSE DETAILS WITH US.
ENJOY THE LAUNCH TODAY.
SO WE ARE SENDING IT BACK TO KSC
WITH LAUREN.
>> THANK YOU, JESSE.
WE ARE ABOUT A MINUTE ANF
AWAY FROM PROPELLANT LOAD AT IT.
T-35 MINUTES WE SHOULD HEAR THE
CALL OUT THAT PRO TELL APT LOAD
HAS STARTED.
THAT'S ABOUT A MINUTE AND 13
SECONDS AWAY.
>> MARIE AND LAUREN I AM GETTING
GOOSEBUMPS HERE.
IT'S AN EXCITING MOMENT WHEN I
WAS SITTING IN THE VEHICLE WHEN
WE RETRACTEDDED EVERYTHING.
AND THE PROP WAS GETTING LOADED
UP, I WAS JUST GOING THROUGH MY
CREW NOTEBOOK, I WAS THINKING
ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT MY FIRST
STEP WOULD BE IF THERE IS A MALL
FUNCTION, USUALLY EVERYTHING
GOES NORMALLY WHEN YOU FLY TO
SPACE YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT
THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO TAKE
CARE OF, THE FIRST STEPS THAT
YOU HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF MY
MISSION I WAS CALLING OUT THE
ABORT CALLS LIKE IF WE HAD LOST
AN ENGINE WHERE WOULD WE GO
NEXT, THE DIFFERENT ABORT CALLS
AROUND THE COUNTRY AND AROUND
THE WORLD LITTLE HE THINK THAT'S
WHAT THOSE GUYS ARE THINKING
ABOUT NOW.
REALLY GETTING READY FOR THIS
MISSION TO GO OFF.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
WE ARE 20 SECONDS FROM WHEN WE
EXPECT PROPELLANT LOAD TO GO
START.
AGAIN, THAT'S FUEL LOADING OF
THE ROCKET.
WE SHOULD HEAR THAT ANY MINUTE
ON ON THE NETS, SO LET'S LISTEN
IN.
LITTLE.
>> PROPELLANT LOAD HAS STARTED.
>> FANTASTIC, PROP LOAD AS
STARTED.
WE HAVE STARTED LOADING LICK
WITHIN OXYGEN ON STAGE ONE AND
STAGE TWO.
AND, YEAH, LIQUID OKAY GEMS AND
RP1, WHICH IS OUR ROCKET GRADE
KEROSENE.
NOW THAT WE ARE 34 MINUTES AND
42 SECONDS AWAY FROM THE FIRST
LAUNCH OF ASTRONAUTS IN TO ORBIT
FROM A AMERICAN SOIL SINCE 2011.
WE KNOW THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM
IS AROUND WHICH HAPPENED JUST
BEFORE FUELING, DRAGON PROP LOAD
HAPPENED WEEKS AGO, JUST A FEW
MILES DOWN THE ROAD AT WHAT WE
CALL DRAGON LAND.
AND THOSE PRO POLANDS WHICH ARE
MMH OR MONO METH OWE HIDE JEAN,
THAT'S OUR FUEL AND NTO OR
NITROGEN TETRA OXIDE THAT'S OUR
OBJECTION IS A DIEDER, THOSE NOT
ONLY FEED THE ENGINE THAT PROPEL
DRAGON ON ORBIT BUT ALSO SUPPLY
THOSE EIGHT SUPER 8 DRACO
ENGINES OF THE LAUNCH ESCAPE
SYSTEM.
I HAVE ONE RIGHT HERE.
A LITTLE MODEL.
IT DOESN'T COME OFF THE GLAND
DON'T BREAK IT, LAUREN.
>> VERY NICE.
DRAGON IS BROKEN ENOUGH TO FOUR
QUADS AND EACH QUAD HAS TWO OF
THE SUPER DRACO ENGINES FOR A
TOTAL OF EIGHT OF THEM.
AND AS I MENTIONED, THEY ARE
BY-PROP ENGINES THEY HAVE MMH
AND NTO AS THEIR OXIDIZER, MOST
ABORT SYSTEMS FROM PAST SPACE
VEHICLES I BELIEVE LIKE SOYUZ,
LLO HAD A POINT OF
ESCAPE POWER ON TOP WHERE THERE
WAS A MINI ROCKET ENGINE OR
SERIES OF ROCKET ENGINES ON TOP
IF THEY WERE NOT USED, THOSE --
THAT ESCAPE TOWER WOULD HAVE TO
JETTISON ITSELF FROM THE
VEHICLE.
IF IT WAS USED IT WOULD BE USED
TO LIFT THE VEHICLE OFF OF THE
ROCKET.
WELL, DRAGON SAY LITTLE
DIFFERENT IN THAT ITS A ESCAPE
REASON SENT GREAT ED IN TO THE
ROCKET.
THAT'S ONE LESS THING YOU HAVE
TO JETTISON SO THEY ARE PRETTY
DORMANT JUST THE THROTTLE VALVES
OPEN UNLESS THEY ARE USED AND
HOPEFULLY THEY NEVER HAVE TO BE
AND, YEAH, THE OTHER THING THAT
THAT OFFERS YOU IS THE ABILITY
TO ESCAPE FROM THE PAD ALL THE
WAY TO ORBIT.
BECAUSE IF YOU JETTISON YOUR
ESCAPE SYSTEM PRIOR TO THAT, YOU
COULDN'T.
THAT'S LITTLE DRAGON AIR.
>> NEW ERA MUCH SAFER DESIGN.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
>> THE LAUNCH SYSTEM IS ARMED
THAT PROTECTS BOG AND DOUG IF
SOMETHING GOES WRONG THEY CAN
SHOOT OFF THE PAD AWAY FROM THE
ROCKET AND PARACHUTE TO SAFETY
IN THE OCEAN, THAT'S A CRUCIAL
SAFETY CAPABILITY AND SO NOW WE
WANT TO GO OVER TO HAWTHORNE FOR
AN OPERATIONAL UPDATE WITH JOHN.
>> EVERYTHING IS LOOKING GOOD
FOR AN ON-TIME LAUNCH BUT
WEATHER IS TRENDING THE WRONG
WAY TRY RITE NOW WE ARE KEEPING
OUR EARS OPEN IN CASE WE HEAR
THE WEATHER WILL BE NO GO FOR
REST OF THE COUNT.
RIGHT NOW WE ARE COUNTING DOWN
AT IT.
OF T-32 MINUTES.
RIGHT ON TIME THE PROPELLANT
STARTED TO LOAD.
THE POE TELL HE WANTS ARE A FUEL
THAT IS ROCKET GRADE KEROSENE
ALSO CALLED RP1, REFINED
PETROLEUM WE USE THE OXIDIZER
THE SUPER CHILL LIQUID OBJECTION
JOHN OR LOCKS AS WELL CALL IT.
THEY COME TOGETHER BUT DON'T
LIGHT WE NEED AN IGNITION SONGS
TO COMPLETE THE FIRE TRIANGLE.
FOR THESE THROUGH USE A FLUID
CALLED IT.
T-TUB.
YOU MIGHT SEE THAT LATER.
YOU GET A CLONE GROWN-COLORED
FLAME AS THE T-TUB COMES OUT AND
THAT IGNITES THE MAIN ENGINE
RIGHT BEFORE THE ROCKET TAKES
OFF OR THE SECOND STAJAN ENGINE
LIGHT.
CURRENTLY IN THE FUELING RP1
FUEL IS ABOUT 10% FUEL ON THE
FIRST STAGE.
THE FIRST STAGE IS THE LONG
LIGHT CYLINDER AT THE BOTTOM
PLUS THE BLACK CYLINDER CALLED
THE INNER STAGE, THAT'S THE
ENTIRE FIRST STAGE THAT WE ARE
LOADING WITH LOCKS AND RP1
KEROSENE, THAT'S THE PART THAT
COMES BACK TO EARTH.
THE SECOND STAGE JUST ABOVE IT,
THE WHITE CYLINDER AND ABOVE
THAT IS THE DRAGON TRUNK AND THE
CAPSULE.
NOW, CURRENTLY THE SECONDS STAGE
IS LOADING FUEL WITH RP1 THAT'S
ABOUT 8% FULL RIGHT NOW.
WE ARE LOADING LIQUID OXYGEN ON
THE FIRST STAGE.
THE SECOND STAGE LIQUID OXYGEN
LOAD BEGINS T-16 AND-A-HALF
MINUTES.
IF THE WEATHER COULDN'T.
LOCKS LOADING CONTINUE ON THE
FIRST AND SECOND STAGE UNTIL THE
LAST FEW MINUTES OF THE COUNT
DOWN.
HELIUM LOADING IS ALSO UNDER WAY
IN THE PRESSURE VESSELS ON THE
FIRST, SECOND STAGE.
WE USE THAT TO PRESSURIZE THE
TANKS IN FLIGHT AS THE
PROPELLANT IS BEING CULLED OUT
BY THE MERLIN TURBO PUMPS.
DRAGON ON BOARD THE SPACECRAFT,
YOU CAN SEE THE ASTRONAUTS ARE
MONITORING SYSTEMS WHILE
PROPELLANT IS LOADED IN TO THE
FALCON NINE.
NOW, WHEN WE --
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME]
>> DEMELO FLIGHT LAST YEAR AND
THEN THE P IN-FLIGHT ESCAPE TEST
EARLY THERE ARE YEAR, THE SOUND
INSIDE THE DRAGON CAPSULE WERE
RECORDED.
AS PART OF THE TRAINING, THE
SOUND OF THE PROPELLANT LOADING
WERE PLAYED BACK TO ACCLIMATE
THE CREW TO WHAT THEY ARE
EXPERIENCING NOW.
I AM LISTEN TO GO SOME
DISCUSSION ON ONE OF THE BACK
NETS TRYING TO TRACK WHERE WE
ARE WITH THE WEATHER.
WE ARE PASSING ANOTHER WEATHER
GATE RIGHT NOW TRYING TO SEE
WHETHER OR NOT THE CONDITIONS
ARE GO.
IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS, WHEN THE
WEATHER IS NO GO YOU HAVE TO
WAIT THIRD MINUTES AND WE ARE
NOW INSIDE OF 30 MINUTES.
BUT IF THE CLOUD MOVES WAY, IF
THE CONDITIONS IMPROVE, WE MAY
BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THE
COUNTDOWN FOR ANOTHER 14 MINUTES
AND REASSESS.
SO WE ARE WAITING TO SEE WHETHER
OR NOT WE CAN CONTINUE THE
COUNT.
CURRENTLY WE ARE.
THE RANKING ARE READY TO SUPPORT
WITH NO PROBLEMS IN THE AIR AND
THE SEA SPACE AREA.
BUT, AGAIN, THE WEATHER, THAT'S
THE ONE THAT'S LOOKING BAD.
AND WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO
LISTEN.
AND AS A REMINDER, TODAY WE HAVE
AN INSTANTANEOUS LAUNCH TIME, SO
AT THIS POINT IF WE HEAR A HOLD
FOR ANY REASON, WE ARE GOING TO
HAVE TO STAND DOWN AND TARGET
OUR BACKUP LAUNCH OPPORTUNITY ON
MAY 30th.
>> DEMO TWO BOB AND DOUG'S
FLIGHT TO STATION TAKES ABOUT 19
HOUSER AND THEIR JOURNEY IS
SIMILAR TO THE TRIP OUR CARGO
DRAGON MAKES BACK AND FORTH TO
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
WITH TWO NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCES.
DOCKING AND SPLASH DOWN.
GROUND OPERATION DOING THE FINAL
CHECKS, MAKING SURE THEY ARE
READY FOR LIFT OFF AND KEEPING
AN EYE ON THE WEATHER.
YOU ARE CONTINUING TO GET LIVE
VIEWS OF THE TEAMSHER.
YOU ARE CONTINUING TO GET LIVE
VIEWS OF THE TEAMS BOX AND DOUG
ON THE RIGHT AS THEY PREPARE AT
THE CAPE FOR LIFT OFF.
>> ONCE WE HIT T-0 AND A
SUCCESSFUL CURS WE WILL
WATCH FALL 19 AND DRAGON MAKE
THEIR ASCENT UNTIL FALL 191ST
AND 2ND STAGES SEPARATE AND SEND
DRAGON ON ITS WAY TO THE SPACE
STATION.
>> ONCE IT GETS ON OR IT'S
MISSION OPERATORS WILL PREPARE
DRAGON FOR ON-ORBIT OPERATIONS
WHERE DRAGON WILL EXECUTE A
SERIES OF BURNS THAT GRADUALLY
RAISE THE ORBIT TO ALIGN WITH
THE SPACE STATION.
YOU ARE SEEING SOME OF THE TRACK
IN THE ANIMATION ON YOUR SCREEN
RIGHT NOW.
AFTER COG ENOUGH BURN.
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME]
>> SOUNDED LIKE WE ARE GETTING A
WEATHER UPDATE REAL QUICK FOR
THE CREW.
>> GO AHEAD.
>> YEAH, WE ARE CURRENTLY JUST
EVALUATING ONE CONSTRAINT ON THE
FUEL MILL RULE WHICH LOOKS AT
LIGHTING ENERGY DISSIPATION.
WE EXPECT TO HAVE AN UPDATE AT
ABOUT T-20 AND MORE INFORMATION
THERE AND WHETHER WE WOULD BE
ABLE TO CONTINUE IN TO THE
PROPER LOAD OR SCRUB AT THAT
TIME.
>> OKAY, JAY, THANKS FOR THE
UPDATE WE APPRECIATE.
>>  I'LL GIVE YOU MORE WORDS IN
ABOUT SIX MINUTES.
>> OKAY.
SO IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'LL FIND OUT
IN SIX MINUTES IF WE HAVE ENOUGH
TIME.
I WAS REFERRING TO A COUPLE OF
THOSE WEATHER SITUATIONS WHERE
WE HAVE TO HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT
OF TIME IN THIS CASE, WITH THE
FUEL MILLS ABOUT 15 MINUTES.
SO OF THIS ABOUT ABOUT 16:30 TO
MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH
TIME FOR THAT TO DISSIPATE.
SO WE'LL BE LISTENING FOR THAT
WEATHER UPDATE IN A COUPLE OF
MINUTES.
BUT IT IS GOING TO BE A PRETTY
INTERESTING TRIP UPHILL FOR THEM
ONCE THEY DID ACTUALLY GET ON
ORBIT.
>> AND A VERY EXCITING COUNT
DOWN WITH SIX MINUTES TO FIGURE
OUT IF WE ARE LAUNCHING TODAY.
BUT TARGETING BACK TO WHAT WE
WERE TALKING ABOUT, NEXT DRAGON
WILL MAKE ITS APPROACH AND
ACTUALLY DOCK WITH THE SPACE
STATION, THIS IS A VERY
DIFFERENT PROCESS FROM WHAT WE
HAVE SEEN WITHDRAWING UNCARGO
DELIVERIES IN THE PAST THAT USE
A PROCESS CALLED BERTHING, BERTH
ARE REQUIRES A SPACECRAFT TO
APPROACH THE STATION AND STOP SO
A CREW MEMBER CAN MANEUVER THE
STATION'S ROBOTIC ARM TO CAPTURE
THE SPACECRAFT.
DOTHE GROUND THIS VERSION
OF DRAGON CAN BE DONE
AUTONOMOUSLY.
WITH NO CREW ABOARD THE STATION.
IT'S TYPICALLY A FASTER PROCESS,
BOTH WHEN ARRIVING AND LEAVING
BUT STILL REQUIRES PINPOINT
ACCURACY TO APPROACH SAFELY.
>> ONCE CAPTURED, SPACECRAFT
THEN GETS ATTACHED TO A COMMON
BERTHING MECHANISM THE SAME TIME
OF PED TO CONNECT
EACH OF THE MODULES TOGETHER ON
STATION, IT'S A SLOWER PROCESS
THAN DOCKING BUT THE HATCHES ARE
SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER THAN
DOCKING PORTS WHICH MAKES THEM
PERFECT FOR BRINGING UP LARGE
CARGO ITEMS.
>> DRAGON WILL SPEND UP TO 120
DAYS DOCKED BEFORE PREPARING TO
RETURN HOME.
FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION
OF DRAGON'S TEST OBJECTIVES AND
CARGO LOADING OPERATIONS THE
CREW WILL CLOSEOUT THE CABIN,
PERFFINAL SYSTEM CHECKS AND
CONFIGURE THE VEHICLE FOR
UNDOCKING.
ONCE THE OUT MATED UNDOCKING
SEQUENCE IS COMPLETE, DRAGON
WILL COMPLETE TWO DEPARTURE
BURNS USING ITS DRACO ENGINES
PUSHING IT AWAY FROM THE SPACE
STATION.
>> AND THEN AFTER DRAGON DID HE
PATS PARTS THE STATION IT'S
RESIDENCE FOY ITS TRIP HOME.
THAT HAS A NUMBER OF OPERATIONS
IF THIS LOOKS LIKE THE ANIMATION
THAT WE PLAYED ORIGINALLY IN
REVERSE THAT'S HOW IT GOES BUT
JUST A LITTLE QUICKER ALL OF THE
OPERATIONS FOLLOWING THE FINAL
DEPARTURE MANEUVER WILL INCLUDE
THINGS LIKE TRUNK SEPARATION,
CLOSING THAT NOSE CONE AGAIN.
EXECUTING A DEORBIT BURN AND
ONCE THEY ARE INSIDE THE
ATMOSPHERE DEPLOYING DROGUE AND
MAIN PARACHUTES AND SPLASHING
DOWN OFF THE FLORIDA COAST AT
WHICH TIME TEAMS WILL MOVE IN
AND GET BOB AND DOUG UP OUT OF
THE WATER AND GET THEM OUT OF
THE CAPSULE ONCE THEY ARE ON THE
BOAT.
WE HAVE FOUR MINUTES TO THE NEXT
WEATHER UPDATE.
LET'S GO TO THE TEAM AT KENNEDY.
MARIE.
>> IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US WE
ARE T-24.
WE'LL FIND OUT IN LESS THAN FOUR
MINUTES IN THE WEATHER LOOKS
GOOD FOE THAT.
AND WILL MARK THE BEGINNING OF A
NEW ERA WHERE MORE PEOPLE CAN
FLY TO SPACE THAN EVER BEFORE.
WE TOOK A POLL A LITTLE EARLIER
TO ASK YOU IF YOU HAD THE
OPPORTUNITY TO FLY TO SPACE
WOULD YOU GO?
AND 86% OF THOSE OF YOU WATCHING
ANSWERED THAT YOU WOULD GO TO
SPACE.
>> THAT'S AN INCREDIBLE NUMBER
REALIZING THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO
BE A MILITARY ASTRONAUT OR NASA
ASTRONAUT YOU CAN BE A REGULAR
PERSON ON A SPACEX TYPE ROCKET I
THINK THAT'S WHY THE NUMBERS ARE
SO HIGH.
>> AND WE ARE REALLY THRILLED TO
SEE ALL THE FOLKS WATCHING ALONG
ONLINE.
I KNOW WE CERTAINLY HOPE THAT
THIS IS A GO.
BUT WE ARE, AGAIN, GOING TO HEAR
A LITTLE BIT OF A WEATHER UPDATE
IN LESS THAN THREE MINUTES NOW.
AND LEYLAND, YOU KNOW, I KNOW
THEY ARE WAITING FOR A WEATHER
UPDATE AND THEY HAVE COME, YOU
KNOW, ALMOST ALL WAIT DOWN THE
COUNT, WHAT DO YOU THINK, BOB
AND DOUG ARE THINKING ABOUT
RIGHT NOW?
>> YOU KNOW, WE ON ONE -- SES129
WE HAD SOME WEATHER PROBLEMS AND
I LITTLE WE ARE GETTING CLOSE TO
THE COUNT DOWN AND SEEMED LIKE
THE SKY JUST CLEARED UP RIGHT
ABOVE OUR HEADS.
YOU CAN HAVE ANY TYPES OF
DELAYS, FUEL PROP LAYS, ALL
THINGS CAN HAPPEN.
BUT WE HAVE TRAINED AND EVERY
AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR
THESE TYPE OFS SCENARIOS.
WEAPON TO BE SAFE FOR OUR
FAMILIES AND WE'LL, YOU KNOW,
WE'LL & WE'LL DO IT ANOTHER DAY
IF IT DOESN'T WORK WITH THE
METHER.
>> I LOVE IT, JOHN, WEATHER IS
THAT THING THAT EVERYONE TALKS
ABOUT BUT NO ONE CAN DO ANYTHING
ABOUT IT.
IT'S JUST THIS INTERESTING THING
OF JUST SUCCUMBING TO MOTHER
EARTH SHE WILL TELL US IF WE CAN
GO OR NOT TODAY.
>> IF IT HADN'T, LOOK AT THIS
THIS WAY, BOB AND DOUG GOT ONE
REALLY GREAT REHEARSAL IN,
RIGHT.
>> ALWAYS BEST TO PRACTICE AND
PRACTICE AND PRACTICE.
YES.
>> WE ARE LESS THAN TWO MINUTES
NOW FROM THAT WEATHER UPDATE AND
WE'LL QUIET DOWN SO WE CAN
LISTEN IF IN FOR THAT WE CAN'T
WAIT FOR FIND UTE WHAT THAT IS
AND THOSE OF YOU HAVE WATCH THAT
HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING ALONG, WE
ARE EAGERLY AWAIT TO GO HEAR
WHETHER THE WEATHER WILL BE A
SHOW STOPPER TODAY.
>> THE CLODS CAN SEEM REALLY DID
HE SEVER AT TIMES, RIGHT?
YOU CAN SEE THE BLUE SKIES
PEEKING THROUGH AND YOU THINK
EVERYTHING IS FINE, YOU JUST
DON'T KNOW.
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE THE LAUNCH
WEATHER OFFICERS.
>> CAB ABSOLUTELY.
IT'S NOT JUST THE WEATHER IN
FLORIDA THEY ARE LOOKING AT.
THEY HAVE TO LOOK AT WEATHER
DOWN RANGE IF THEY HAVE AN ABORT
IN-FLIGHT AND NEEDED TO COME
DOWN SOMEWHERE IN THE OCEAN THEY
NEED TO CONSIDER WHAT THE
WEATHER IS LIKE OUT THERE.
BECAUSE RECOVERY TEAMS HAVE TO
GO OUT AND GET THEM IN A
SITUATION LIKE THAT.  THERE ARE
SO MANY VARIABLES AND THAT'S WHY
NOT JUST WITH THIS FLIGHT, BUT
WITH EVERY HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT
THAT WE HAVE HAD IN THE PAST
THERE IS ALWAYS A VERY GOOD
CHANCE OF A SCRUB BECAUSE --
BECAUSE YOU DO HAVE SO MUCH
CRITERIA THAT YOU HAVE TO MEET.
WE WILL LISTEN IN, WE ARE
SECONDS AWAY FROM A WEATHER
UPDATE.
>> STAGE 2RP1 LOAD COMPLETE.
>> THAT IS LICK WE HAD OXYGEN
YOU SEE VENTING OFF THE ROCKET
THAT'S NORMAL AND EXPECTED.
WE ARE STANDING BY FOR A WEATHER
UPDATE.
>> UNLESS YOU CAN GIVE US
ANOTHER 10 MINUTES, I DON'T
THINK WE ARE GOING TO GET THERE
WITH ANY OF THE RULES TODAY.
>> WE CAN GIVE YOU 10 MINUTES.
>> I MEAN, ANOTHER 10 MINUTES
PAST T-0.
16:45 LOCAL.
I THINK WE WILL PROBABLY BE
CLEAR ON ALL THE RULES.
BUT NOT QUITE GOING TO MAKE IT
FOR THIS.
>> OKAY.
WE ARE GOING TO CHECK BACK IN
WITH YOU IN ABOUT TWO MINUTES.
AND THEN I'LL CALL IT UP ABOUT
T-17 MINUTES.
>> OKAY.
SOME OF THEM ARE COUNTING DOWN
WE HAVE ONE ABOVE 2,000.
IF THAT GETS BELOW --
>> THAT DID NOT SOUND GREAT,
THAT WAS THE WEATHER KNELT.
BUT WE ARE STILL STANDING BY FOR
A FILING DECISION.
>> AND WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE
TO LISTEN IN FOR AN UPDATE BUT
IN THE TIME WE ARE GOING TO JOHN
AT SPACEX HEADQUARTERS IN
CALIFORNIA, JOHN.
>> DRAGON SPACEX ON WEATHER, WE
ARE STILL --
>> TT-18 MINUTES AND COUNTING.
WE ARE STILL RED ON WEATHER.
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME] WE
ARE WAITING IN ABOUT ANOTHER
MINUTE.
FOR ONE FINAL CHECK WITH
WEATHER.
WE ARE GOING TO CHECK --
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME]
>> WE DON'T REALLY EXPECT THAT
THINGS WILL IMPROVE.
THE WEATHER OFFICER WAS NOT
OPTIMISTIC.
THAT THE WEATHER WOULD CLEAR UP
THAT RAPIDLY.
WE DID HEAR THE LAUNCH DIRECTOR
MIKE TAYLOR JOKE THAT, YOU KNOW,
IF WE COULD MOVE 10 MORE MINUTES
PAST THE T-0 WEATHER CONDITIONS
MAY IMPROVE.
BUT MIKE WAS NOT ABLE TO DO
THAT.
WE HAVE AN INSTANTANEOUS WINDOW
TODAY.
SO AT 17 MINUTES WE WANT TO MAKE
THAT, WE WILL BE BEGIN LOADINGR
LIQUID OXYGEN ON TO THE SECOND
STAGE IF WE ARE NOT GOING TO
HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LAUNCH.
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME]
>> CONTINUE TO VIOLATE A COUPLE
OF DIFFERENT WEATHER RULES THAT
WE NOW DO NOT EXPECT TO CLEAR IN
TIME TO ALLOW FOR A LAUNCH
TODAY.
GO AHEAD AND END TODAY'S LAUNCH
ATTEMPT.
LAUNCH CONTROL WOULD END THE
LAUNCH OUT AUTO SEQUENCE AND
CONTINUE TO THE LAUNCH OUT OF
SEQUENCE, PLEASE.
>> LAUNCH OF ABORT HAS STARTED.
>> DRAGON SPACEX, UNFORTUNATELY,
WE ARE NOT GOING TO LAUNCH
TODAY.
YOU ARE A GO FOR 5.100 LAUNCH
SCRUB.
>> 5.100, IT WAS A GOOD EFFORT
BY THE TEAMS AND WE UNDERSTAND.
AND WE'LL MEET YOU THERE.
>> COPY ALL.
>> WE HAVE HEARD THE CALL FROM
THE CREW THEY HAVE BEEN INFORMED
LAUNCH DIRECTOR MIKE TAYLOR HAS
CALLED A SCRUB FOR THE DAY.
AND WE GOT THE FEEDBACK WHEN THE
DRAGON TEAM INFORMED BOB AND
DOUG THEY SAID WE GAVE IT A GOOD
TRY, BUT THEY UNDERSTAND.
AND WE ARE HERE TO TRY ANOTHER
DAY.
SO RIGHT NOW WE DID OFFICIALLY
HOLD THE CLOCK IT LOOKS LIKE AT
T-16:54.
THE LAUNCH ALL SEQUENCE THE
CONTROLS THE FALL 19 THE LOADING
OF PROPELLANTS THE CYCLING OF
VALVES THAT HAS ALSO STOPPED WE
NOW PROCEED IN TO WHAT IS A
NORMAL SCRUB SEQUENCE FOR US.
WE PRACTICE THIS EVERY LAUNCH.
SO NOW WE MOVE IN TO SAFELY
TAKING THE PROPELLANTS, THE
PRESSURIZATION GASES BACK OFF,
THE FIRST AND SECOND STAGES, AS
THINGS GET IN TO A SAFE
CONFIGURATION THEN WE'LL DISARM
THE ESCAPE SYSTEM ON DRAGON.
AND WE'LL BRING THE CREW ACCESS
ARM BACK AROUND THE SPACECRAFT.
SO RIGHT NOW WE GOT DOWN TO JUST
INSIDE 17 MINUTES, THE HARDWARE
WAS WORKING VERY WELL, ON BOTH
DRAGON AND SPACECRAFT.
WE HAD THE FUEL LOADING GOING
ON, WE HAD LIQUID OXYGEN LOADING
GOING OKAY EVERYTHING BUT SECOND
STAGE AND THE WEATHER JUST
NEEDED A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO
CLEAR THE CONDITIONS.
WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT TIME BECAUSE
WE HAD AN INSTANTANEOUS WINDOW,
SO WITH THAT, SPACEX LAUNCH
DIRECTOR HAD TO CALL.
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME] A
SCRUB FOR THE DAY, PER THE
SAFETY RULES THAT WE HAVE FOR
THIS FLIGHT.
RIGHT NOW THE TEAM IS UNDER UNDG
THE POST SCRUB OPERATIONS ON
BOTH DRAGON AS WELL AS FALCON 9,
WORKING WITH THE RANKING NO,
ISSUES RIGHT NOW AS WE GO
THROUGH THE SEQUENCE, EVERYTHING
LOOKS GOOD.
AND, DAN, WE HAD A GOOD WEBCAST
GOING HERE UNTIL THE VERY END.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE'LL LOOK AT IT
AS NOW WE HAVE HAD ANOTHER GREAT
DRY REHEARSAL LAST SATURDAY WE
DID A DRY ONE, I SHOULD SAY, AND
TODAY WE HAVE DONE A WET DRESS
REHEARSAL.
SORRY WE JUST COULDN'T GET
THERE, DAN.
>> YEAH, THANKS, JOHN.
OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T CONTROL THE
WEATHER.
WE CAME RIGHT DOWN TO THE WIRE
THERE HOPING WE COULD JUST
SQUEEZE IN BETWEEN THOSE CLOUD
SYSTEMS TO GET A LAUNCH TODAY,
BUT IT WASN'T TO BE.
BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN WE ARE DONE,
WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER ATTEMPT
COMING UP IN JUST THREE DAYS.
SO WE'LL BE DOING THIS ALL OVER
AGAIN ESSENTIALLY ON SATURDAY.
ON 30th AND THAT LAUNCH
ATTEMPT WILL BE COMING AT
3:22 EASTERN TIME.
EARLIER IN THE DAY.
IT WILL LOOK LARGELY THE SAME TO
EVERYTHING THAT WE SAW TODAY.
WITH THE CREW WAKING UP, GOING
THROUGH SUIT UP, MAKING THEIR
WAY TO THE PAD, SO WE ARE GOING
TO FEEL A LOT OF DEJA VU I THINK
ON SATURDAY.
>> BUT STILL EXCITING, SAFETY IS
ALWAYS FIRST, SO IF WEATHER WAS
NOT THERE FOR US TODAY,
HOPEFULLY SATURDAY IT WILL BE
THERE FOR US AND WE'LL HAVE A
SAFE LAUNCH ON SATURDAY.
>> THE INITIAL WEATHER REPORT
STILL HAD US AT ABOUT A 40%
POSSIBILITY OF VIOLATION SO
WEATHER A LITTLE BIT BETTER, BUT
WE ARE STILL GOING TO BE KIND OF
ROLLING THE DICE.
IT IS FLORIDA IN THE SPRING AND
SUMMER, SO STORMS ARE ALWAYS A
POSSIBILITY.
ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS, THOUGH,
THE VEHICLE APPEARED TO BE IN
GREAT HEALTH THROUGHOUT THE DAY,
BOTH GRAB DRAGON AND FALCON 9.
WE DIDN'T DIDN'T HAVE TO SCRAP
FOR A TECHNICAL ISSUE.
WE'LL CONTINUE FOLLOWING UNTIL
THEY ARE OUT OF THE ROCKET.
THEY'LL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL ALL
THE FUEL COMES OFF.
DISARM THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM
WHICH STILL STAYS ON BECAUSE
THEY ARE SITTING ON A WAR SHALY
LOADED ROCKET.
ONCE THEY DO THAT THE CREW ARM
SWINGS SWINGS BACK OUT AND THEY
MAKE THEIR WAY BACK THE WAY THEY
CAME AND BACK TO CREW QUARTERS
FOR BOB AND DOUG FOR A FEW MORE
DAYS.
IF YOU ARE JUST NOW TUNING IN
WONDERING WHY WE ARE NOT STILL
COUNTING DOWN, WE DID HAVE A
LAUNCH SCRUB TODAY LITTLE JEFF
JUST A LITTLE UNDER 16 MINUTES.
>> FUEL P FUEL RATES ARE NOMINAL
FOR OFF-LOAD.
>> EXPECTING A 40-MINUTE
OFF-LOAD TEAM.
>> THAT CALL OUT THE LOCKS, THE
LIQUID OXYGEN FUEL PUMP PUNCHING
OUT FIRST STAGE OF THE FALCON
9 EVEN LOOKING GOOD WITH THAT.
EXPECTING 40 MINUTES FOR THE
FUEL TO COME OFF.
ONCE THE FUEL COMES OFF.
BOB AND DOUG WILL BE ABLE TO
DISARM THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM
AND THE CREW ARM SWINGS BACK
OVER AND THEY CAN COME DOWN OVER
TO CREW QUARTERS, UNFORTUNATE
SCRUB TODAY BECAUSE OF WEATHER.
THAT WAS THE ONE THING WE WERE
TRACKING FROM THE MOMENT WE
STARTED TODAY, WATCHING BOB AND
DOUG GET SUITED UP FOR THEIR
LAWN.
WE DID ABOARD TODAY'S LAUNCH OR
SCRUB TODAY'S LAUNCH WITH A
LITTLE UNDER 17 MINUTES TO GO
UNTIL OUR T-0 TIME WHICH WAS
4:33.
SO THAT MOVES US TO OUR NEXT
ATTEMPT, WHICH IS COMING UP ON
SATURDAY.
AND THAT TIME IS GOING TO BE
3:22 P.M. EASTERN TIME.
A LITTLE EARLIER IN THE DAY FOR
BOB AND DOUG AND FOR EVERYBODY
ELSE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD.
THEY'LL STILL A HAVE A 19-HOUR
FLIGHT TO STATION IF THAT'S WHEN
WE LAUNCH AND A LOT OF STUFF
THAT WE SAW TODAY WILL LOOK VERY
SIMILAR.BUT WE ARE GOING TO HAVY
AGAIN CROSS OUR FINGERS AND HOPE
BETTER WEATHER THE NEXT TIME.
>> THIS GOES WITH EVERY LAUNCH
WE DO TRACK EVERYTHING DOWN TO
T-0 TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS
GO, MAKING SURE THAT THE RANGE
IS GO, WEATHER IS GO, SO THIS IS
STANDARD PROCEDURE, WE ALWAYS
TEND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A
BACKUP DAY LAUNCH DAY IN CASE WE
DO HAVE SCRUBS LIKE TODAY.
THIS IS NORMAL AND STANDARD.
NOTHING TO BE WORRIED ABOUT.
AGAIN, WE DO THIS FOR THE SAFETY
OF OUR VEHICLES AS WELL AS
TODAY.
WE HAD ASTRONAUTS ON OUR
VEHICLE, SO EVEN BIGGER REASON
FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE
SAFE WEATHER FOR THEM TO FLY.
>> AND JUST A REMINDER FOR EVEN
TILL TUNED IN, IT TAKES ABOUT 40
MINUTES FOR ALL OF THIS
PROPELLANT TO COME OFF OF THE
FALCON 9 AND WHILE IT IS
OFF-LOADING THE LAUNCH ESCAPE
SYSTEM ON DRAGON, WHICH IS
DESIGNED TO PULL THE CAPSULE
AWAY IF THERE IS ANY ISSUE YOU
WITH THE ROCKET OR ANYTHING ON
THE PAD, THAT IS STILL ARMED
THINK SO WE ARE GOING TO
CONTINUE TO STAY WITH THIS.
UNTIL ALL OF THE PROPELLANT IS
OFF AND WE'LL SEE THE LAUNCH
ESCAPE SYSTEM GET DISARMED BOB
AND DOUG WILL BE ABLE TO OPEN UP
THEIR VISORS AGAIN, THE CREW
ACCESS ARM WILL SWEEP BACK OUT
AND LEANING LINK UP WITHDRAWING
UNAND MAKE THEIR WAY OFF AND
DOWN THE TOWER AT THE PAD.
IF YOU ARE TUNING IN.
NO LAUNCH TODAY.
WE HAD TO SCRUB BECAUSE OF
WEATHER WE'LL MOVE TO OUR SECOND
ATTEMPT TO SATURDAY.
GOING TO CONTINUE TO STAND BY.
ONCE ALL THE PROPELLANT IS OFF
WE SHOULD SEE BOB AND DOUG
SHORTLY THEREAFTER.
>> WHAT YOU ARE SEEING ON YOUR
SCREEN IS A LIVE VIEW OF BOB AND
DOUG ON THE RIGHT SIDE INSIDE OF
DRAGON AS THEY ARE WAITING FOR
PROPELLANT TO BE REMOVED FROM
THE VEHICLE.
SO THAT IT IS SAFE FOR THEM TO
DISARM THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM.
THIS WILL TAKE A BIT OF TIME.
WE ARE GOING TO STAY LIVE WITH
YOU TO WATCH THIS AS THEY EXIT
THE VEHICLE EVENTUALLY AND COME
DOWN FROM STANDING DOWN ON
LAUNCH TODAY.
>> UP UNTIL THE POINT OF THE
SCRUB, WE HAD A REALLY CLEAN
COUNTDOWN.
WEREN'T TRACKING ANY ISSUE YOUS
WITH FALCON 9 OR THE DRAGON
SPACECRAFT.
ALWAYS A GOOD THING TO SEE.
WE HAD TO SCRUB BECAUSE OF THAT
WEATHER.
TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE
SPECIFIC, WE ARE STILL IN
VIOLATION OF ONE OF THE WEATHER
CRITERIAS, IT WAS THE STRENGTH
OF HE CAN LICK TRICK FIELDS IN
THE ATMOSPHERE THAT THE 45TH
SPACE WING AND OTHER MONITORS
ARE MONITORING AROUND THE LAUNCH
PAD.
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME]
>> ROUGHLY 50% ON STAGE ONE
LOCKS AND FUEL.
85% ON STAGE TWO FUEL.
>> SO THE PROPELLANT OFF-LOAD
CONTINUING TO GO WELL.
WE NEED MORE TIME IF WE WERE
GOING TO BE ABLE TO CLEAR THAT
LAUNCH WEATHER.
WE WERE NOT ABLE TO MAKE IT.
WE HOPE FOR BETTER WEATHER ON
SATURDAY.
WHERE THE LAWN IMMATERIAL TIME
IS 3:22 EASTERN TIME.
THEY GOT SUIT UP, HAD A GREAT
RIDE OUT TO THE PAD THINK ALL OF
THEIR INITIAL CHECKS ON BOTH THE
SUITS, WITH PRESSURE CHECKS AND
COMMUNICATION CHECKS WE WANT
WOMEN.
ABLE TO GET THE DRAGON HATCH
CLOSED THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM
ARMED AND FALCON 9 STARTED
FUELING, NOT JUST ABLE TO MAKE A
GOOD WEATHER WINDOW TODAY.
>> AS JOHNNY AND SAID EARLIER,
IT WAS JUST ANOTHER GREAT
REHEARSAL TODAY.
I DON'T THINK YOU CAN GET ENOUGH
PRACTICE DOING THIS.
SO WHEN SATURDAY COMES OR THE
DAY THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY LAUNCH
THE VEHICLE BOB AND DOUG AND THE
NASA AND SPACEX TEAM ARE FULLY
PREPARED EXTRA ARE YOU HERS THE
ON THE BELT NOW.
>> AS WE TALKED A COUPLE OF
TIMES THROUGHOUT OUR COUNT DOWN
THE WEATHER IS MORE COMPLEX WHEN
WE ARE LAUNCHING HUMANS YOU HAVE
MORE STRIP GENT REQUIREMENT IN
PLACE NOT ONLY AROUND THE PAD,
BUT IN THE CASE OF THIS LAUNCH
TODAY, WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT
WEATHER THE ENTIRE ASCENT
CORRIDOR, BASICALLY THE ENTIRE
WAY THAT THEY WERE FLYING UP THE
EAST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES
IN THE LAUNCH TODAY.
WE ARE MONITORING THAT WEATHER
BECAUSE THOR IS AREAS IF THESE
AN ASCENT ABOARD OR DRAGON
FLYING OFF WHILE THEY ARE IN
SPACE WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THE
CONDITIONS ARE GOOD SO THEY ARE
NOT LANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF A
HURRICANE WHICH WE HAD A
TROPICAL STORM FORMING RIGHT OFF
THE COAST OF SOUTH CAROLINA
TODAY, JUST TO HELP COMPLICATE
THINGS A LITTLE BIT.
>> AND PEOPLE ARE ASKING WHY
CONTINUE TO COUNTDOWN.
THAT'S THE REASON WHY WE DO ALL
OF THESE CHECKS ALL THE WAY TO
COUNTDOWN IN FLORIDA THE WEATHER
IS SPORADIC, SOMETIMES A
THUNDERSTORM OR HURRICANE WILL
PASS THROUGH WITHIN 20 MINUTES
IT'S GONE AND WE COULD HAVE
CLEAR SKIES FOR A SAFE LAUNCH.
SO WE CONTINUED AS SCHEDULED.
STANDARD PROCEDURE AGAIN TO JUST
CONTINUING -- CONTINUING TO
MONITOR WEATHER ALL THE WAY DOWN
TO THE LAST MINUTES OF THE COUNT
AND WE SEE WHAT HAPPENS, TODAY
UNFORTUNATELY WE SCRUBBED FOR
WEATHER.
BUT WE WILL ATTEMPT AGAIN THIS
SATURDAY ON MAY 30th.
AND AND, DAN, JESSE, A COUPLE OF
THINGS TO ADD ON THERE.
RIGHT NOW WE ARE 11 MINUTES
AFTER THE SCRUB WAS CALLED.
LIQUID OXYGEN AND FUEL COMING
OFF THE FIRST STAGE.
HARD TO TELL FROM THE VIEW.
IT'S STILL A LITTLE MISTY AROUND
THE TANK BECAUSE THERE IS LOCKS
ON BOARD BUT WE ARE BETWEEN HALF
AND A THIRD OF EACH OF THE FUEL
AND LOCKS TANKS FILLED ON THE
FIRST STAGE.
SO PROPELLANT COMING OUT.
RIGHT PER PLAN.
THE SECOND STAGE FUEL TANK IS
OFF-LOADING, THAT'S GOING SLOWER
BUT ALSO A SMALLER TANK DOESN'T
TAKE LONG TO EITHER LOAD IT OR
OFF-LOAD IT.
THE OTHER THING WE ARE WORKING
ON IS THE HIGH PRESSURE HELIUM
SPHERES AS WELL AS THE NITROGEN
SPHERES FOR THE LANDING LEGACIES
TESTIMONY.
THE PRESSURE WILL BE BROUGHT
DOWN ON THOSE EVENTUALLY GETTING
IT DOWN LOW ENOUGH TO WHERE
PEOPLE CAN REENTER THE PAD AREA.
SO RIGHT NOW, THE TEAM IS
PREPARING ONCE THEY GET
PERMISSION, THE SPACEX INGRESS,
EGRESS TEAM WILL COME BACK
INSIDE THE CAUTION AREA AROUND
THE PAD BEING MAKE THEIR WAY UP,
WHEN CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT.
OPEN UP THE HATCH AND ASSIST THE
ASTRONAUTS OUT OF THE DRAGON.
I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT
FOR THOSE WHO ARE WONDERING
WHETHER OR NOT HAVING GONE
THROUGH THIS, PUTTING PROPEL
AMOUNT, PRESSURIZATION GASES ON,
GETTING FAIRLY CLOSE TO THE
LAUNCH, WHETHER IT'S DONE
ANYTHING TO WEAR OUT THE FALCON
NINE OR THE DRAGON, THE ANSWER
IS NO.
IF YOU CAN RECALL THE FALL 19 IS
DESIGN TODAY AT LEAST 10 FLIGHTS
AND ABOUT TIME WE GET UP TO A
10TH FLIGHT WE'LL BE DOING
TESTING TO FIND THAT WE PROBABLY
GOT ENOUGH MARGIN TO CONTINUE TO
KEEP FLYING THIS IS THE FIRST
FLIGHT OF A NEW FIRST STAGE AND
SECOND STAGE SO WE HAVE NOT --
WE HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN THROUGH
THE FLIGHT AND IN ALL OF OUR
MARGIN CALCULATIONS WE TAKE IN
TO ACCOUNT THE FACT THAT WE MAY
SCRUB A LAUNCH SO EVEN TODAY'S
OPERATION WHERE WE HAVE
PRESSURIZED AND STRESSED THE
VEHICLE ATH BIT, THAT IS TAKEN
IN TO ACCOUNT IN OUR DESIGN AND
QUALIFICATION TESTING.
THE OTHER GOOD THING IS THAT THE
MOST STRESSING PART OF THE
FLIGHT FOR THE FALCON 9 ON THE
FIRST STAGE IS THE REENTRY, SO
WE DIDN'T EVEN GET TO THAT.
SO WE ARE SITTING HERE ON THE
PAD.
IT'S A FAIRLY STRAIGHTFORWARD
SITUATION.
AND NOT STRESSING ON THE FALCON
9.
AND ON THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT,
WITH THE HUMAN RATING FACTORS TO
CARRY THE CREW, THERE IS ENOUGH
FACTORS OF SAFETY, MARGINS OF
SAFETY.
REDONE TANS I, THAT JUST HAVING
TWO PEOPLE ON BOARD AND CLOSING
THE HATCH AND EVERYBODY
PRESSURIZING THE PROPELLANT
SYSTEM DOES NOT EAT IN TO THE
MARGINSES.
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME]
>> RIGHT NOW EVERYTHING IS
CONTINUE TO BE OFF-LOAD THE ALL
SEQUENCES THAT WE USE ROUTINELY
BOTH AT THE LAUNCH SITES,
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, CAPE
CANAVERAL ACCOUNT EVEN
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE SPACE AS
WELL AS TEXAS TEST SITES FOR
FIRST AND SECOND STATEMENTS, THE
SEQUENCES ARE RUNNING.
POE PELL APT IS COMING OFF THE
VEHICLE PER PLAN AND WE SEE BOB
EXAMINE DOUG UP IN THE DRAGON
SPACECRAFT WAITING FOR WHEN WE
CAN GET UP THERE AND OPEN THE
HATCH AND HELP THEM EGRESS AND
COME ON BACK DOWN THE TOWER.
ANOTHER THOUGHT I HAD DAN AND
JESSE, IS RIGHT NOW WE ARE
COMING UP ON WHAT WOULD HAVE
BEEN T-0.
AND I AM CUPS WONDERING AT THE
POINT MINUTES FROM NOW WHETHER
THE WEATHER OFFICER WOULD TURN
AROUND AND SAY YES, IT TURNED
GOOD, YOU JUST DIDN'T HAVE A
LONG ENOUGH WINDOW.
WE ONLY HAD ONE SECOND AND WE
NEEDED 10 MINUTES.
SO WE'LL HAVE TO ASK OFF LINE
AND SAY, HEY, DID THE WEATHER
CONDITIONS IMPROVE.
AND ONE THING I WILL TAG ONTO
THAT DAN WAS MENTIONING AND
JESSE TALKING ABOUT THE LAUNCH
OPPORTUNITIES, THE LAUNCH WINDOW
DOES MOVE EARLIER ON SATURDAY A
LITTLE BIT.
SO IT JUST HAPPENED TO BE
ORBITAL DYNAMICS THAT TODAY, IF
YOU WANT TO GO TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, AND
YOU WANT TO LAUNCH NORTHEAST,
WHICH IS THE APPROVED
TRAJECTORY, YOU HAVE TO GO RIGHT
AT 4:33, 35 P.M. DAYLIGHT SAVING
TIME.
YOU PICK ANOTHER DAY, THE T-0
MOVES IT'S JUST LUCK OF THE
DRAW.
WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN DOING THIS AT
8:00 IN THE MORNING WHEN WE WERE
GETTING LIGHTNING OR WE COULD
HAVE BEEN DOING IT A FEW HOURS
FROM NOW WHEN CONDITIONS MAY
HAVE BEEN ACCEPTABLE.
IN THE END WE CAN LOOK AT ISAAC
NEWTON AND JOHANNES KEPLER FOR
ORBITAL DYNAMICS TELLING US WHEN
DO WE LAUNCH AND THAT STUCK US
RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A PERIOD
OF BAD WEATHER.
SO THERE IS MY SCIENCE LESSON
FOR TODAY, DAN AND JESSE.
>> APPRECIATE THAT, JOHN.
THAT HELPS SOFTEN THE BLOW OF
MOVING PAST THAT T-0 TIME.
FOR ANYBODY IF YOU ARE TYPEING
IN WONDERING WHY FALCON 9 IS
STILL SITTING THERE ON THE PAD.
WE HAD A SCRUB FOR WEATHER
TODAY.
JUST NOT ABLE TO CLEAR ALL OF
THOSE CONSTRAINTS, WE KEEP A
VERY CLOSE EYE ON THE WEATHER
AROUND THE PAD AND THEIR WHOLE
BAY --
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME]
>> BOB AND DOUG ARE ARE STILL
INSIDE.
>> DRAGON, GO AHEAD FOR WEATHER.
>> I WANTED TO GIVE YOU MORE
WORDS ON THE SCRUB RATIONALE.
SO WE BASICALLY SCRUBBED DUE TO
THREE RULES, THAT WE WERE
VIOLATING.
BOTH -- ALL THREE WOULD HAVE
BEEN EXPECTED TO CLEAR 10
MINUTES AFTER OUR T-0 TIME AND
THOSE THREE WERE NATURAL
LIGHTNING, THE [ INAUDIBLE ]
MILLS AND THE ATTACHED ANVIL.
>> YEAH, WE COPY JAY, WE
APPRECIATE THAT UPDATE.
WE CAN SEE RAIN DROPS ON THE
WINDOWS, AND JUST FIGURED THAT
WHAT HAVE IT WAS WAS TOO CLOSE
TO THE LAUNCH PAD AT THE TIME
THAT WE NEEDED IT NOT TO BE SO
WE APPRECIATE THAT AND
UNDERSTAND THAT EVEN IS PROBABLY
A LITTLE BIT BUMMED OUT.
IT'S JUST PART OF THE DEAL.
EVERYBODY WAS READY TO GO TODD
AND WE APPRECIATE THAT.
AND THE SHIP WAS GREAT.
AND WE'LL DO IT AGAIN I THINK ON
SATURDAY.
>> COPY CALL AND WE CONCUR AND
APPRECIATE YOUR RESILIENT SITH
THERE IN THE VEHICLE.
>> WE GOT THE EASY JOB.
>> NOTHING BETTER THAN DOWNTIME
CREW ON A SPACESHIP.
>> COPY THAT.
>> SOME GREAT WORDS ON BOB AND
DOUG FEELING GOOD INSIDE DRAGON
THEY WILL BE READY FOR THE NEXT
ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY.
RIGHT NOW WAITING FOR THE FUEL
TO COME OFF THE FALCON 9 ROCKET.
>> ROUGHLY 20% STAGE FUEL 236%.
>> SO THAT CALL RIGHT THERE WE
ARE STILL A LITTLE OVER 20% ON
FUEL, RP1 AND LOCKS, LIQUID
OXYGEN FOR THE FIRST STAGE AND
26% ON RP1 ON THE SECOND.
 STAGE.
>> WE SHOULD HAVE AROUND 30
MINUTES OR SO UNTIL ALL THE FUEL
IS OFF.
AND THEN THE CREW WILL GET THE
GO TO DISARM THE LAUNCH ESCAPE
SYSTEM, WE'LL SEE THAT CREW
ACCESS ARM SWING BACK IN TO
PLACE, AND THEY CAN GIVEN TO
EGRESS OR GET OUT OF THE DRAGON
SPACECRAFT.
>> YOU HEARD IT LIVE THAT
WEATHER UPDATE OF WHAT WE
VIOLATED.
WE WERE JUST 10 MINUTES OFF
UNFORTUNATELY, BUT, AGAIN, TODAY
WAS AN INSTANTANEOUS LAUNCH, AND
AS JOHN EXPLAINED, IT'S DUE TO
THE ORBITAL MECHANICS AND MAKING
SURE THAT AT THE TIME WE LAUNCH
IT WILL ALLOW US TO GET TO THE
SPACE STATION ON TIME AND
ACCURATELY.
SO YOU CAN SEE ON YOUR RIGHT
SCREEN, BOB AND DOUG ARE
PATIENTLY WAITING.
THEY DO STILL HAVE THEIR VISORS
ON AND STILL STRAPPED IN TO
THEIR SETS.
THE LAUNCH ESCAPE IS STILL ARMED
AS WE ARE UNLOADING FUEL AND
WILL NOT DISARM UNTIL PROM
OFF-LOAD IS COMPLETE.
AND THIS IS JUST TO INSURE THE
SAFETY OF BOB AND DOUG AND MAKE
SURE THAT THEY CAN EGRESS SAFELY
FROM THE ROCKET.
>> JUST A REMIND ARE TODAY, JUST
THIS FIRST ATTEMPT, WE ARE GOING
TO BE RIGHT BACK HERE LOOKING
LIKE ON SATURDAY FOR ATTEMPT
NUMBER TWO.
LAUNCH AMERICA IS NOT GOING
ANYWHERE.
STILL ON THE TRACK TO GET BOB
AND DOUG IN IT SPACE AND GET THE
CREW DRAGON OFF TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE SPACE
STATION, ALWAYS GOOD IN YOU ARE
GOING TO SCRUB RATHER SCRUB FOR
BOTHER THAN AN ISSUE ON YOU
FALCON NINE OR DRAGON AND WE
WERE NOT TRACKING ANY ISSUE YOUS
WITH THE FLIGHT SYSTEMS
THROUGHOUT OUR DOWNTOWN TODAY.
EVERYTHING PASSED WITH LEAK
CHECKS ON THE HATCHES AND THE
CREWS' SUITS AND ALL THE
COMMUNICATIONS WORKING GREAT AND
YOU'LL THE TEAMS READY TO GO.
SO AS JOHN AND I SAID NICE TO
HAVE MORE PRACTICE.
AND WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK AT IT ON
SATURDAY.
>> WHERE WOULD THIS LAUNCH BE IF
IT WASN'T EVEN MORE EXCITING TO
TRY TO LAUNCH TODAY AND NOW PUSH
IT TO SATURDAY.
>> REALLY GOTTA BUILD THE
SUSPENSE.
>> YES.
>> ANOTHER THOUGHT CROSSED MY
MIND WHILE I AM WATCHING THE
DIAGRAM SHOWING FUEL IS JUST
ABOUT OFF FIRST AND SECOND STAGE
DOWN UNDER 10%.
LOCKS IS ALSO JUST ABOUT OFF
OF --
>> LOCKS 10%.
>> GETTING THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
>> ROUGHLY 20%.
>> STAGE TWO FUEL IS 20%, LOCKS
10%, CONTINUING TO COBBLE OFF
THE VEHICLE AS EXPECTED.
ON THE MONITOR, BOB AND DOUG
CONTINUE WITH VISORS DOWN, THEIR
LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM IS ARMED AS
WE MENTIONED LITTLE IF THERE WAS
ANYTHING TO HAPPEN TO GO WRONG
RIGHT NOW, THEY STILL HAVE THE
VIABLE PAD ABOARD MEANS.
SOMETHING THAT WE DEMONSTRATED
WAY BACK IN TWO THOUSAND 15 ON
ONE OF THESE WEBCASTS WHICH WE
FIRED THE DRAGON CAPSULE USING
THE EIGHT SUPER DRACOS OFF THE
LAUNCH PAD AND IT SPLASHED DOWN
OFFSHORE IN THE ATLANTIC ON OR
ABOUT HE WERE, THEY ARE STAYING
WITH THE SYSTEM AROUND UNTIL ALL
THE HAZARDS ARE REMOVED.
AND WE BRING THE CREW ACCESS ARM
AROUND THEM.
WE ARE STANDING BY A MINUTE.
WE'LL LISTEN TO LAUNCH DIRECTOR
TALKING TO THE WEATHER OFFICER.
>> ? WE ARE JUST NOW TUNE BEING
IN WE HAD A SCRUB BECAUSE OF
WEATHER.
WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO TRYING
THIS AGAIN ON SATURDAY.
OUR LAUNCH TIME ON SATURDAY IS
ANOTHER INSTANTANEOUS WINDOW WE
HAVE TO HAVE THE WEATHER
COULDN'T AGAIN THAT LAUNCH TIME
IS AT 3:22 P.M. EASTERN, OUR
LAST WEATHER UPDATE PUT US 40%
PROBABILITY.
VIOLATION JOHN YOU CAN CHECK ME
QUICK.
WHAT I SAW COMING OUT AIR FORCE
WAS 40% PROBABILITY OF VIOLATION
I BELIEVE, IT'S ALWAYS TOUGH
BECAUSE THEY REPORT IN MATERIALS
OF VIOLATION, AND THE OPTIMISTS
HAVE TO SUBTRACT THAT FROM
100 PERCENT TO GO HEY, 60%
CHANCE, I'LL PLAN MY PICNIC.
WE WERE LISTENING.
THE SPACEX LAUNCH DIRECTOR MIKE
TAYLOR WAS TALKING TO THE LAUNCH
WEATHER OFFICER ASKING ABOUT THE
THREE TIE CRITERIA THAT SCRUBBED
US TODAY.
SOUNDS LIKE IN THE ANOTHER
MINUTE OR TWO.
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME]
>> CHARGE IN THE ATMOSPHERE, IS
STILL BOUNCING AROUND AND SO,
HEY, WE MAY NEED SEVERAL MORE
MINUTES BEFORE THAT ONE WOULD
CLEAR.
WE WOULD KNEE EVEN LONGER THAN
TIN MINUTES IF LOOKS LIKE FOR
ALL THE RULES TO CLEAR.
BRINGING UP WHAT I WANTED TO
MENTION A LITTLE WHILE AGO.
GOT LOST LISTEN TO GO THE
WEATHER BRIEF.
BUT A LOT OF FOLKS ARE GOING WHY
AN INSTANTANEOUS LAUNCH WINDOW
FOR FALCON 9 AND DRAGON,
TYPICALLY WHEN WE GO TO THE
SPACE STATION AND THE MISSION
PLANNING IT'S AN INSTANTANEOUS
WINDOW.
THERE MAY BE ENOUGH PERFORMANCE
IN THE ROCKET TO LAUNCH
SOMEWHERE IN A 5-MINUTE PERIOD,
BUT YOU HAVE TO PICK A TIME IN
THERE.
IN THE CASE OF FALCON NINE ONCE
WE START PROPELLANT LOAD AT T-
35 MINUTES IT DOESN'T MADSER SO
MUCH IF YOU CAN MOVE FIVE AN 10
MINUTES LEFT OR RIGHT THE WHOLE
SEE AGAINST IS SCRIPTED WE DO
THE FLIGHT FALLS ASSUMING THE
POE TELL APT TEMPERATURE IS
BELOW A CERTAIN AMOUNT.
HOW MUCH IS AVAILABLE TO THE
ROCKET, HOW MUCH MARGIN WE HAVE.
IF YOU START THE COUNT DOWN FOUR
HOURS, EIGHT HOURS LIKE WE WERE
DOING TODAY, AND YOU HAVE A VERY
SHORT WINDOW, ONCE YOU GET THE
PRO TELL APT LOADING IT.
-MENUS 35 MINUTES YOU HAVE TO GO
AS SOON AS YOU GET TO ZERO.
WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO
STOP THE COUNTDOWN, WAIT FIVE
MINUTES, NOW ALL OF SUDDEN THE
LIQUID OXYGEN WINES UP FROM
340 DEGREES BELOW ZERO AND THE
GROUND SYSTEMS AND CHANGES HOW
MUCH PERFORMANCE YOU GET
CARRYING IN TO ORBIT AND WE
DON'T WANT TO CUT IN NO THOSE
MAR GYPPED, IF WE HAD SOMETHING
LIKE A 4-HOUR WINDOW, WHICH SOME
MOVE SAYING -- COMMUNICATION
SATELLITES HAVE.
WE COULD GET DOWN TO ZERO.
HOLD THE COUNT, DETANK THE FALL
19, THAT TAKES A ABOUT AN HOUR
HALF RELOAD MORE FUEL FROM THE
BIG STORAGE THANKS THAT WE HAVE
AT PAD 39 AMOUNT.
BUT IN THAT THAT CASE YOU HAVE
TO LAUNCH ABOUT AN HOUR AND A
HALF OR SO LATER AFTER YOU SCRUB
IN THE CASE OF THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION AN HOUR AND A HALF
FROM NOW IT'S NOWHERE NEAR WHERE
WE NEED TO BE TO GET TO OR QUIT
WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF THE FALL
19 AND DRAGON, TODAY IT'S THE
COMBINATION,.
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME] WITH
THE WINDOW.
ONCE WE GET INSIDE OF 35
MINUTES, IT BECOMES AN
INSTANTANEOUS WINDOW FOR THE
FALCON 9 REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE
CUSTOMER.
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME]
>> THAT IS AN EXPLANATION FOR
FOLKS WONDERING WHY WE HAVE SUCH
A TIGHT WINDOW.
[SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME]
>> WE ARE BRINGING THE LAST BITS
OF FUEL OFF THE STAGE AND BICK
LIQUID OXYGEN IS JUST ABOUT
AFTER THE STAGE, SO THINGS ARE
CLOCKING RIGHT ALONG PER THE
40-MINUTE TIMELINE.
EVERYTHING LOOKS GOOD AND WE'LL
WAIT TO HEAR THAT WE ARE CLEAR
AND THEN WHEN WE GET THE CALL
FOR BOB AND DOUG TO GO AHEAD AND
DISARM, LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM AND
THE CREW ACCESS ARM WE'LL WATCH
COME BACK OUT AND CENTER ITSELF
AROUND THE DRAGON HATCH AND THE
INGRESS TEAM WILL GO UP AND OPEN
THE HATCH.
>> THANK YOU FOR THE SIGNS
LESSON JOHN-I.
>> NO CHARGE.
[ LAUGHTER ]
>> MUCH APPRECIATED.
>> WE DID HEAR A QUICK CALL TO
THE CREW THERE.
WE SHOULD BE JUST UNDER 10
MINUTES AWAY FROM THAT PROP
LOAD, PROP OFF-LOAD COMPLETING
IT LOOKS LIKE WE WERE JUST
TRACKING THE RP1.
THERE WE HAVE THE CONFIRMATION,
STAGE TWO OFF-LOAD IS COMPLETE
AND WE SHOULD HAVE NOW JUST.
THE RP1.
THE -- RP UNIS KEROSENE.
WE SHOULD, UNDER 10%, UNDER 10
MINUTES UNTIL THAT IS OFF AND
THEN WE'LL STEP THROUGH THE
EVENT THAT WE WERE DISCUSSING
WHERE THEY WILL BE ABLE TO
DISARM THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM,
GET THE ARM BACK OUT THERE AND
BOB AND DOUG CAN BEGIN TO EXIT
THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT.
>> STILL NOT THE FRIENDLY EASTED
SKIES IN THE BACKGROUND.
>> THAT IS FLORIDA, THAT'S WHY
WE HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON IT FOR
EVERY LAUNCH WE HAVE OUT THERE.
BOB AND DOUG ARE PATIENTLY
WAITING AS YOU CAN SEE THAT IS A
LIVE VIEW OF THEM ON THE DRAG UP
SWING.
AS THEY ARE WAITING PROP
OFF-LOAD TO COMPLETE.
SECOND STAGE PROP OFF-LOAD IS
COMPLETE.
WE ARE JUST WAITING ON FIRST
STAGE TO COMPLETE.
>> OFF-LOAD IS COMPLETE.
WAITING ON STAGE ONE FUEL IN
ROUGHLY FIVE MINUTES OR SO.
>> WE ARE WAITING FOR PROP
OFF-LOAD TO COMPLETE BEFORE THEY
DISARM THAT.
AND THEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO
EGRESS FROM THE CREW DRAGON
VEHICLE.
>> WE JUST HEARD WE SHOULD JUST
BE UNDER FIVE MINUTES AWAY FROM
THE LAST OF THAT FUEL COMING OUT
OF THE FALCON 91ST STAGE AND
WE'LL SEE THOSE EVENTS START TO
FIX YOU BACK UP AND SEE THE CREW
ARM SPRING BACK OUT.
THEY HAVE BEEN IN THOSE SEATS
FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS NOW THEY
GET INSIDE DRAGON 2 1/2 HOURS
AHEAD OF LAUNCH.
THEY HAVE GUN STABBED IN FOR A
WHILE.
THEY ARE CUSTOM AND SNUG AS
POSSIBLE.
SINCE THEY ARE GOING TO BE IN
THERE A WHILE, THE MOST
IMPORTANT THING IS IS IT'S YOUR
CAR SEAT AND FLASHING DOWN OR
LAND ON THE GROUND LANE LANDS IS
THE NO THE MOST GENTLEST OF
PROCEDURES IN A CAPSULE.
JUST MAKING SURE THAT THEY ARE
SNUG INSIDE THAT DRAGON CAPSULE.
HE SHOULD BE UNDER FIVE MINUTES
AWAY FROM THE PROP OFF-LOAD
BEING COMPLETED.
>> AS DAN MENTIONED THE SUITS
ARE CUSTOM MADE BUT THE SEATS
ARE ALSO CUSTOM FIT FOR EACH
ASTRO NEWT AS WELL.
THEY DO REMAIN ON CREW DRAGON
FOR ALMOST 24 HOURS ABOUT.
AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY
ARE COMFORTABLE AND MAKE SURE
THAT THE SUITS AND THE SEATS ARE
COMFORTABLE IN YOU HAVE TO STAY
IN THAT POSITION FOR A WHILE.
WHEN THEY GET IN ORBIT THEY ARE
ALLOWED TO GET OUT OF THEIR
SEATS AND GET A LITTLE BIT MORE
COMFORTABLE.
BUT IT'S A LONG RIDE FOR THEM.
>> YEAH, ONCE THEY DO GET ON
ORBIT THEY CAN GET OUT THE SEATS
AND OUT OF THEIR SUITS, TOO,
SINCE FOR THIS FLIGHT PATH TODAY
IT WOULD TAKE THEM 19 HOUSER, SO
BOB AND DOUG WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE
HAD ABOUT EIGHT HOURS TO SLEEP
ON BOARD THE DRAGON CAPSULE.
SO WE ARE NOT ABLE TO LAUNCH
TODAY.
BUT THE RENDEZVOUS ON SATURDAY
SHOULD BE SIMILAR OF TODAY.
IT WILLOCK IT THEM ABOUT 19
HOUSER TO GET THERE.
AND THAT'S HAVE A NUMBER OF
DIFFERENT EVENT THAT WE'LL WALK
YOU THROUGH INCLUDING MANUAL
PILOTING OF THE DRAGON.
AND JUST REALLY PUTTING THE
SPACE CRAFT THROUGH ALL OF THE
PACE BEEFS IT ARRIVES AT THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
THIS IS A TEST FLIGHT THE LAST
TEST BEFORE WE CERTIFY THE
DRAGON FOR REGULAR CREW FLIGHTS
BLEEPING BRINGING UP THE LONG
DURATIONS, SIX MONTHS MAYBE EVEN
A YEAR LONG MISSION THINK.
>> THE.
>> RIGHT.
THEY.
>> THEY WILL BE PERFORMING AND
RESEARCH AND TESTS AND DOING
FINAL THINGS FOR THIS
DEMONSTRATION MISSION.
FOR RIGHT NOW WE ARE STAYING
WITH THEM UNTIL WE SEE THEM IT'S
STILL ARMED WHILE WE WAIT FOR
THIS PROPELLANT OFF-LOAD TO
COMPLETE.
THIS IS A OF AT THIS MEASURE ANY
TIME YOU HAVE ROCKET POE PELL
ANTS BENEATH YOU YOU WANT A GOOD
WAY FOR THEM IT TO GET OUT OF
WAIT THE WAY.
WE ARE WITHIN A COUPLE OF
MINUTES OF THE RP1 COMING OFF
THE FIRST STAGE AND HEAR THE
CREW GET THE GO TO DISARM AND
SEE THE CREW ACCESS ARM SWINGING
BACK IN.
IF YOU ARE TUNING THEM EXPECTING
THEM TO BE IN SPACE WE HAD A
SCRUB TODAY DUE TO WEATHER.
OUR NEXT LAUNCH ATTEMPT BEEN
SATURDAY MAY 30th AT 3:22 P.M.
EASTERN TIME.
AND JUST LIKE WE DID TODAY,
WE'LL BE BRINGING YOU EVERY
SINGLE STEP OF THE WAY.
IT WILL LOOK FAMILIAR.
IF YOU CATCHED ALL OF TODAY BUT
JUST AS EXCITING.
>> IT MIGHT BE EVEN MORE
EXCITING WITH ALL THE ACTION
PARTICIPATION THAT WE HYPED THE
LAUNCH UP FOR WITH ALREADY GOING
THROUGH IT ALL TODAY.
MORE PRACTICE WE HAVE THE BETTER
OFF WE WILL BE HOPEFULLY NEXT
LAUNCH ATTEMPT IT WILL BE
FLAWLESS AND WE CAN LIFT OFF
WITH GOOD WEATHER.
>> WEATHER WAS THE CULPRIT FOR
THE SCRUB TODAY.
AND OUR INITIAL WEATHER REPORTS
LOOKING AT ABOUT A 40%
POSSIBILITY OF VIOLATION
PROBABILITY OF VIOLATION, SO AS
JOHN AND-I WAS SAYING THE
OPTIMISTS HAVE TO SAY 60% GOOD,
WE'LL LOOK AT THE GOOD SIDE OF
THIS.
AT'S ROUGHLY WHAT WE WERE IN
THE DAYS LEADING UP TO THIS.
WE WON'T HAVE A ROGUE STORM ON
SATURDAY.
FLORIDA WEATHER IS ALWAYS A
DYNAMIC, WE'LL TRACK AND HOPE WE
GET A GOOD WINDOW ON SATURDAY.
>> JUST A REMINDER, EVERYTHING
ELSE ON THE VEHICLE AND FOR THE
MISSION WAS LOOKING GOOD TODAY.
IT WAS JUST THE WEATHER.
WHICH AS JOHN-I SAID EARLIER AND
LAUREN REFERRED TO HIM
MENTIONING THIS.
WEATHER IS THE ONE THING THAT WE
ACTUALLY CANNOT CONTROL ON OUR
MISSIONS.
SO UNFORTUNATELY, IT DID CAUSE
US TO SCRUB TODAY.
BUT THE HEALTHY -- THE VEHICLES
ARE HEALTHY.
BOB AND DOUG WERE READY.
AND THEY SHOULD BE READY TO TO
GO AGAIN WITH THE NEXT LAUNCH
ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY.
>> JUST LOOKING AT THE DATA IT
LOOKS LIKE THAT RP1 IS JUST
ABOUT ALL OUT.
SO WE'LL JUST STAND BY FOR A FEW
MORE MOMENTS HOME HOPEFULLY GET
THAT CAL SOON, JOHN-I.
>> YEAH, I WAS GOING TO -- WHILE
WE ARE LATE TO GO HEAR THE CALL
THAT THE LAST PERCENTAGE OF FUEL
IS OFF I WAS GOING TO COMMENT ON
JESSE'S DISCUSSION ABOUT IT WAS
JUSTIFY THE WEATHER.
I THINK DURING THIS COUNT DOWN
THERE WERE MORE WORDS SAID ABOUT
THE WEATHER THAN EVERYTHING
ELSE.
>> UH-HUH.
>> I AM LISTENING TO A WEATHER
DISCUSSION IN THE BACK GROUND.
>> FOR PEOPLE WONDERING IF WE
KNEW THAT WE DID HAVE BAD
WEATHER EVEN FROM THIS MORNING,
AGAIN, WE DO MONITOR THIS ALL
WAIT DOWN -- ALL THE WOP WAY
DOWN TO THE FINAL MINUTES OF THE
COUNT DOWN AND WITH FLORIDA
WEATHER BEING PRETTY SPORADIC,
SOMETIMES WE HAVE EVENING
HURRICANESES COMING THROUGH OR
BAD WEATHER COMING THROUGH, AND
PASSING 20 MINUTES LATER AND
HAVING A GOOD WEATHER TO A
LAUNCH.
THIS GOES WHY WE CONTINUE TO
ATTEMPT TO LAUNCH TODAY.
BUT UNFORTUNATELY FOR T-0 TODAY
WEATHER WAS NOT ON OUR SIDE.
>> THIS SAYS JOHN AGAIN, I
DROPPED OFF TO LISTEN TO WEATHER
DISCUSSION.
THEY WERE JUST GIVING THE TIMES.
THE LIGHTNING RULE, WE WANT
GREEN, SO WE COULD HAVE GONE
WITHOUT LIGHTNING CONCERN.
THE ATTACHED ANVIL RULE CLEARED
BUT THE FIELD MILL RULE IS
EXPECTED TO CLEAR AT 58 MINUTES
AFTER THE HOUR.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER 4 1/2 MINUTES
FROM NOW.
SO WE WERE CLOSE.
BUT WE NEEDED ABOUT 25 MINUTES
LATER LAUNCH TIME.
IT DOES REMIND ME AT RISK OF
OFFENDING SOME PEOPLE BUT THE
OLD SAYING THAT SAYS, IT'S
BETTER TO BE ON THE GROUND
WISHING YOU WERE FLYING THAN
FLYING WISHING YOU WERE ON THE
GROUND.
[ LAUGHTER ]
>> DEFINITELY SAFETY FIRST
ALWAYS.
AND MAKING SURE THAT THAT WHEN
BOB AND DOUG DO FLY THEY ARE
FLYING SAFELY AND AS PLANNED.
SO, AGAIN, THIS IS STANDARD
PROCEDURE FOR US TO MAKE SURE
THAT THEY DO HAVE A SAFE FLIGHT
TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION.
>> ALL RIGHT, TO NOW WE ARE JUST
CONTINUING TO STAND BY,
EXPECTING THE CALL THAT ALL OF
THAT PROP HAS NOW BEEN
OFF-LOADED FROM FALCON NINE.
>> VEHICLE TAPINGS TO NOMINAL
TPC SET POINTS OR CURRENT 
EGRESS.
>> AT THIS MOMENT THE LAUNCH
ESCAPE SYSTEM IS STILL AROUND
ONCE THE PROP OFF-LOAD IS
COMPLETE THAT'S THE NEXT STEP IN
THE MORE IS TO HAVE BOO BOB AND
DOUG MAKE THEIR WAY OUT OF THE
DRAGON.
>> WE HAVE THE PROMPT HERE FOR
NOMINAL CREW EGRESS.
>> OKAY READY FOR LAUNCH ESCAPE
SYSTEM DISARM.
>> AS AFFIRMED, READY FOR LAUNCH
SYSTEM DISARM.
>> COPY.
IF YOU ARE READY.
>> LAUNCH TEAMS READY.
GO AHEAD.
ADVISE THE CREW.
>> DRAGON SPACEX DO YOU COPY
THAT DISCUSSION.
SO WITH THAT YOU ARE A GO FOR
DISARMING LAUNCH ESCAPE SECTIONX
SYSTEM FOR SECTION TWO FIGHT
.100.
THAT HAVE THE CALL WE WERE
WAITING FOR PROPELLANT OFF FALL
19, THEY ARE NOW HOW GOING TO
DISARM THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM
ON DRAGON.
LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM HAS BEEN
DISARMED AND NBA AT THAT ALPHA
DECIMAL THREE.
>> SHOWING CONFIRM THE LAUNCH
ESCAPE SYSTEM HAS BEEN DISARMED.
>> DRAGON SPACEX WITH THE
CONFIRMATION YOU ARE GO TO OPEN
YOUR VISORS AND PROCEED TO
SECTION THREE.
>> GO TO SECTION THREE.
>> AS YOU HEARD AND YOU CAN SEE
BOB AND DOUG CAN NOW OPEN THEIR
VISORS.
AND GET READY FOR EXISTING THE
VEHICLE.
AGAIN, THEY KEPT THEIR VISORS ON
WHILE THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM
WAS ARMED WHILE PROP OFF-LOADING
WAS CONTINUING.
AND THAT IS JUST TO MAKE SURE
THAT THEY ARE SAFE.
NOW THAT THERE IS NO MORE PROP
PRO TELL PELL APT ON ANY OF THE
VEHICLES.
HAVE DISARMED THE LAUNCH ESCAPE
SYSTEM AND NOW ARE GETTING READY
FOR THAT CREW ARM TO SWING BACK
THE HATCH TO OPEN AND FOR THEM
TO HE AGREES.
>> SPACEX DRAGON WITH AN UPDATE
ORDER HOLDING IN 3.4.
AND WE ARE READY FOR ROTATION
WHEN YOU ARE.
>> COP THAT I WE'LL WAIT FOR THE
CLOSEOUT TEAM TO OPEN HATCH AND
VERIFIES CLEARANCE AND THEN WE
CAN EXECUTE ROTATION.
>> THERE IS THAT CREW ARM
SWINGING BACK TOWARDS DRAGON,
ONCE THAT CREW ARM IS IN PLACE,
THEY WILL BE ABLE TO OPEN THE
HATCH ON CREW DRAG UP, BOB AND
DOUG'S SEATS WILL ROW
PARTICIPATE BACK OUT OF LAUNCH
POSITION SO THAT THEY CAN SAFELY
GET OUT OF THEIR SEATS AND
EGRESS THE VEHICLE.
>> AND WE HEARD THEY'LL HAVE
WHAT THEY CALLED NOMINAL EGRESS,
SO JUST THE NORMAL PROCEDURES
FORGETTING THEM OUT OF THE
CAPSULE AND MEANS THE SAME
CLOSEOUT TEAM THAT WAS THERE TO
GET THEM IN WILL BE ABLE TO
ASSIST AS THEY COME OUT.
SO ARRIVE AND GET THE HATCH OPEN
AND BE ABLE TO ROTATE THE SEATS
THAT WILL ROTATE BOB AND DOUG
PRETTY MUCH FORWARD.
WHERE THEY'LL BE IN TO THE
ORIGINAL POSITION THAT THE SEATS
WERE CONFIGURED.
WHEN THEY MAID THEIR WAY IN TO
DRAGON AND JUST GETS THEM A
LITTLE BIT OUT AND UNDER THE
DISPLAYS IT MAKES GETTING IN AND
OUT CAPSULE EASIER.
THEY HAVE BEEN IN THOSE SEATS
FOR ABOUT THREE HOURS AT THIS
POINT.
SO DEFINITELY A LONG DAY FOR THE
CREW.
AS THEY WAKE UP ABOUT SIX HOURS
PRIOR TO OUR TT-0 HAD THEIR
BREAKFAST WHICH WE CONFIRMED WAS
STEAK AND EGGS AT LEAST FOE DOUG
HURLEY.
AND THEN THEY PROCEEDEDDED
THROUGH ALL OF THE SUIT UP AND
THE TRIP TO THE PAD.
MAKE GETTING THEIR WAY INSIDE
DRAGON WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN FOR
ABOUT THE LAST THREE HOURS AT
THIS POINT.
WE WERE ON TRACK FOR AN ON TIME
LIFT OFF.
RIGHT AT 4:33 P.M. EASTERN TIME.
BUT DID HAVE TO CUB UNDER 17
MINUTES FOR LAUNCH DUE TO WE
ARE.
FOR NOW, WE HAVE OFF-LOADED ALL
OF THE PROPELLANT OFF OF FALL 1E
SYSTEM IS DISARMED THE CREW
ACCESS ARM IS BACK UP NEXT TO
DRAGON AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE
VIEW ON THE LEFT.
PRETTY SOON WE'LL SEE THE TEAMS
ARRIVE TO GET THE HATCH OPEN GET
BOX AND DOUG OUT AND THEY'LL
MAKE THEIR WAY BACK TO CREW
QUARTERS IN THEIR QUARANTINE.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW
THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROCESS OF
THEM GETTING IN TO DRAGON
SUITING UP ALL OF THOSE
DIFFERENT STEPS, THEY MAINTAINED
THAT SAME QUARANTINE THAT THEY
HAVE BEEN IN SINCE -- FOR ABOUT
TWO WEEKS HOW AND THAT IS
SPECIFICALLY FOR EVENTS LIKE
TODAY.
WHERE WE HAVE TO SCRUB AND JUST
GO TO ANOTHER DAY.
SO WE DON'T WANT TO BREAK THE
QUARANTINE.
 
>> WE DID SCRUB TODAY.
THIS IS NOT AN EMERGENCY STATE.
THIS IS STANDARD PROCEDURE.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS
PRACTICED AND REHEARSED AND MADE
SURE THAT WE DO FOLLOW OUR
STANDARD PROCEDURES TO MAKE SURE
THAT EVERYTHING IS STILL SAFE.
BOB AND DOUG EXIT SAFELY AND GO
BACK TO QUARANTINE AND GET READY
FOR OUR NEXT LAUNCH ATTEMPT.
>> DAN, JESSE, I'M WANDERING
ALONG IN THE SCRUB PROCEDURE
RIGHT NOW.
THEY'RE GETTING THE GOES TO GET
THE FOLKS BACK TO THE PAD.
THEY HAVE NOTIFIED THE TEAM
CHIEF, LAUNCH ENGINEERING TO
RETURN TO THE PAD AS A REMINDER,
AROUND THE PAD, THE AIR FORCE
SETS UP -- AIR FORCE NASA SET UP
ROADBLOCKS TO MAKE SURE NOBODY
GETS IN THE HAZARD AREA.
THEY WILL HEAD TO THE
ROADBLOCKS.
THEY WILL PULL THAT OPEN AND
DRIVE TO THE PAD.
LAUNCH DIRECTOR IS ESTIMATING
ABOUT 15 MINUTES FOR THE CREW TO
DRIVE DOWN OUT TO 39A, GET UP
THE TOWER AND BEGAN OPERATIONS
ON THE HATCH.
THEY HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THE
PURGE OF THE DRAGON SERVICE
SECTION WHICH IS NITROGEN DURING
THE COUNTDOWN TO AVOID AN OXYGEN
LEAK.
THAT IS BACK ON AIR NOW.
THE CREW ACCESS ARM IS ON AIR.
THEY'RE READY FOR THE EGRESS
TEAM TO GET UP INTO THE TOWER.
IT'S GOING TO TAKE LET ME LITTLE
BIT TO DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD IN
THE VEHICLE AND GO UP THE
ELEVATOR.
EVERYTHING CONTINUING TO RUN PER
NORMAL SCRUB COUNTDOWN.
WHICH WE HAVE HAD THE
OPPORTUNITY TO PRACTICE WITH THE
CREW FOR EXAMPLE DRY DRESS
REHEARSAL LAST SATURDAY.
>> I'VE BEEN SEEING A FEW
QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASKING WHY
AREN'T WE JUST TRYING TO LAUNCH
TOMORROW?
THERE WAS SPECIFIC TIMES YOU
HAVE TO IDENTIFY WHEN YOU'RE
GOING TO BE ABLE TO LINK UP WITH
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
YOU ONLY HAVE SO MUCH FUEL WHICH
CAN GENERATE SO MUCH ENERGY TO
MAKE SURE YOU'RE GOING TO
INTERSECT WITH THE STATION WHICH
IS FLYING OVER 17,000 MILES AN
HOUR.
SOME OF OTHER LAUNCH ATTEMPTS
ARE ABLE TO MAKE THE STATION BUT
HAVE MUCH LONGER TIME.
>> PREVENT US FROM LOSING.
WE'LL BE SWITCHING TO UMBILICAL
AT THIS TIME.
WE'LL KEEP YOU UPDATED HERE ON
DRAGON RUN.
>> OKAY, EGRESS COUNTDOWN.
LITTLE OVER THREE MINUTE.
WE'LL STAND BY FOR YOUR NEXT
CALL.
>> THE CREW GETTING THE CALL.
THEY WILL RECONFIGURE
COMMUNICATION.
AS TO WHY WE'RE NOT LAUNCHING
TOMORROW, WHEN WE PICK OUR
LAUNCH ATTEMPT, WE HAVE TO TAKE
IN MIND SOME OF THE HUMAN
FACTORS.
SOME OF THESE OTHER LAUNCH
ATTEMPTS MAY EXIST.
IT WILL REQUIRE DRAGON TAKING 30
MORE HOURS TO REACH THE STATION
WHICH CAN WREAK HAVOC WITH THE
CYCLES NOT ONLY FOR BOB AND DOUG
BUT FOR THE CREW ON BOARD
STATION THAT HAS TO LINE UP
THEIR SCHEDULE.
THE CREWS ON STATION BOB AND
DOUG WILL BE OPERATING OFF
GREENWICH TIME ONCE THEY GET
THERE.
>> SPACEX DRAGON LOUD AND CLEAR,
UMBILICAL.
>> COPY, THE SAME.
>> STILL GETTING GOOD CALL
BETWEEN THE CREW AND THE CORE
HERE IN HAWTHORN.
JUST TO SUM IT UP, WE PICK OUR
LAUNCH ATTEMPTS FOR A NUMBER OF
S.
THAT'S WHY SATURDAY IS GOING TO
BE OUR BEST OPTION.
WE'LL BE TARGETING THAT ONE AT
3:22 P.M. EASTERN TIME FOR OUR
NEXT ATTEMPT.
IT WILL BE LITTLE OVER 19 OR 20
HOURS UNTIL WE ARRIVE AT THE
SPACE STATION IF WE'RE ABLE TO
GET OFF THE GROUND ON SATURDAY.
>> THIS GIVES BOB AND DOUG FEW
DAYS TO KIND OF SHAKE OFF THE
NERVES FROM TODAY'S LAUNCH
ATTEMPT.
GIVE THEM SOME MORE TIME TO REST
AND AGAIN GET READY FOR OUR
LAUNCH ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY.
>> YOU'RE JUST JOINING US, WE
DID SCRUB LAUNCH ATTEMPT TODAY.
WE'RE WAITING FOR EGRESS TEAM TO
HEAD UP THE TOWER AND HELP BOB
AND DOUG EGRESS THE VEHICLE.
>> DRAGON SPACEX, CLOSEOUT TEAM
STATUS
>> GO AHEAD.
>> THE CLOSEOUT TEAM HAS ARRIVED
AT THE PAD.
THEY ARE PROCEEDING.
>> COPY THAT.
>> YOU HEARD THAT CALLOUT.
THE EGRESS TEAM IS AT THE PAD
AND ARE PROCEEDING TO MEET BOB
AND DOUG IN THE WHITE ROOM WHERE
THEY CAN OPEN THE HATCH AND HELP
THEM EXIT THE VEHICLE.
>> WE'LL CONTINUE TO STICK WITH
BOB AND DOUG UNTIL WE SEE THAT
HATCH GET OPEN AND START TO MAKE
THEIR WAY OUT.
THEN THEY'RE GOING TO -- THERE
WE CAN GET SOME VIEWS ONCE MORE
BACK AT THE PAD.
YOU CAN SEE THAT EGRESS TEAM
MOVING BACK IN.
THEY WERE WEARING THE BLACK
CLEAN SUITS THAT WE SAW AS THEY
WERE HELPING BOB AND DOUG GET IN
THE DRAGON JUST SEVERAL HOURS
AGO.
NOW GET ON THE ELEVATOR MAKE
THEIR WAY BACK UP AND GET THAT
DRAGON HATCH OPEN.
>> AS WE SAW EARLIER, THIS IS A
VERY TALL STRUCTURE.
BUT THE ELEVATOR IS PRETTY QUICK
THERE.
WE SAW THEM ENTER THE BOTTOM OF
THE TOWER.
IT SHOULD BE A VERY SHORT TIME
BEFORE THEY MAKE IT TO THE TOP
AND ARE ABLE TO GET SOUTH WHITE
ROOM AND OPEN THE HATCH FOR BOB
AND DOUG.
>> JUST FEW MORE MOMENTS, WE'LL
SEE THAT CLOSEOUT TEAM MAKE
THEIR WAY BACK INTO THE CREW
ACCESS ARM AND DOWN THE HATCH
WAY.
AGAIN, IF YOU ARE JUST NOW
TUNING IN, WE DID HAVE THAT
SCRUB JUST ABOUT LITTLE UNDER 17
MINUTES BEFORE LAUNCH.
OUR NEXT LAUNCH ATTEMPT IS GOING
TO BE THIS SATURDAY MAY 30th.
LAUNCH TIME IS ANOTHER
INSTANTANEOUS LAUNCH TIME.
IT'S GOING TO BE 3:22 P.M.
EASTERN TIME.
OVER THERE IN FLORIDA.
ASSUMING ON TIME LAUNCH, IT WILL
BE PRETTY SIMILAR FLIGHT THAT WE
WERE LOOKING AT TODAY.
IT WILL BE ROUGHLY ABOUT 19
HOURS BEFORE THEY MAKE THAT
INITIAL CONTACT TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
THEY'LL GET ON ORBIT AND EXECUTE
SERIES OF FIVE DIFFERENT BURNS
TO GRADUALLY RAISE THEIR ORBIT
UNTIL THEY'RE JUST FEW HUNDRED
METERS BELOW THE STATION AND FEW
KILOMETERS BEHIND.
THEY'LL DO ALL THE FINAL
APPROACH INITIATION MANEUVERS.
THE TEAM HERE IN HAWTHORN WILL
BE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE TEAM
DOWN IN HOUSTON AND
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
FLIGHT CONTROL ROOM.
WEATHER FOR SATURDAY STILL NOT
IDEAL.
IT'S ROUGHLY WHAT WE STARTED OUT
WITH TODAY.
WHERE WE HAVE ABOUT A 40% CHANCE
OF POSSIBILITY OF VIOLATION.
IT WILL BE TRACKING LOT OF THE
SAME ISSUES WITH CUMULUS CLOUDS
AND POTENTIAL FOR PRECIPITATION.
WE'LL BE KEEPING EYE ON ALL OF
THE DOWN-RANGE WEATHER.
WE'RE SEEING SOME PEOPLE START
TO MAKE THEIR WAY INTO THE CREW
ACCESS ARM NOW.
WE SHOULD SEE THEM GET THAT
DRAGON SIDE HATCH OPEN IN A FEW
MINUTES.
AS A REMIND, WE'LL BE LOOKING AT
WEATHER AROUND THE LAUNCH PAD
AND WEATHER DOWN-RANGE IN THEIR
FLIGHT PATH ON THE WAY TO ORBIT.
THAT WILL CHECK JUST IN CASE
THEY HAVE TO DO EMERGENCY
MANEUVER AND LAND DOWN IN THE
ATLANTIC OCEAN.
WE'LL BE MAKING SURE THE WEATHER
IS AT ACCEPTABLE LEVELS.
YOU CAN SEE THE TEAM COMING DOWN
NOW.
SHOULD SEE THAT THE HATCH OPEN
MOMENTARILY.
WE CAN BEGIN TO GET BOB AND DOUG
OUT OF THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT.
>> AGAIN, WE ARE STAYING LIVE
UNTIL BOB AND DOUG ARE SAFELY
OUT OF CREW DRAGON.
YOU CAN SEE ON YOUR LEFT HAND
SCREEN, THE TEAM GETTING READY
TO OPEN THE HATCH FOR THEM AND
HELP THEM OUT OF THEIR SEATS.
>> AT THIS POINT, THE LAUNCH
ESCAPE SYSTEM HAS BEEN DISARMED.
THAT WAS DEEN WE -- THAT WAS
DONE AFTER ALL PROPELLANTS OF
THE FALCON 9 ROCKET.
THERE ARE PROPELLANTS LOADED IN
THE DRAGON.
THE TEAM IS DOING A SNIFF TEST.
USING A PORTABLE DETECTOR JUST
TO ASSESS THE ATMOSPHERE AROUND
THE DRAGON, CAPSULE ITSELF
BEFORE THEY GET THE HATCH OPEN
AND BRING BOB AND DOUG OUT.
>> ALL THIS IS STANDARD SAFETY
PROCEDURES FOR EGRESSING THE
VEHICLE.
TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THE CREW
AS WELL AS BOB AND DOUG.
>> DRAGON SPACEX.
>> GO AHEAD.
>> CLOSEOUT TEAM IS AT THE WHITE
ROOM.
THEY ARE CONFIGURING THE CREW
ARM FOR EGRESS EXPECTED TO TAKE
NO EARLIER THAN 10 MINUTES.
>> OKAY, 10 MINUTES.
THANK YOU.
>> SHOULD BE JUST ABOUT 10
MINUTES AS A REMINDER, THEY'RE
IN THE WHITE ROOM.
WE WALKED THROUGH THAT LITTLE
BIT EARLIER IN OUR COVERAGE THIS
MORNING.
THE WHITE ROOM NAMED SIMPLY
BECAUSE OF ITS COLOR.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT STARTED
BACK DURING GEMINI MISSION.
THAT'S THE LAST PLACE ON PLANET
EARTH WHERE ASTRONAUTS STAND.
IT HAS ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
APPARATUS.
JUST TO KEEP ALL OF THAT DUST,
DIRT AND HUMIDITY OUT OF THE
CAPSULE.
>> WE'RE RIGHT AT THREE HOURS
ROTATION.
I WANT TO CHECK IN ON COMFORT
LEVELS.
>> I SAY NO CHANGES.
IT HASN'T BEEN TOO BAD AT ALL.
>> COPY ALL.
>> OBVIOUSLY AT THIS POINT, WITH
THE LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM
DISARMED, WE LOOSENED UP STRAPS
AND GOT THE FEET OUT OF THE
STRAPS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE
FEET.
IT'S A LITTLE MORE COMFORTABLE.
>> COPY ALL.
LOOKS COMFORTABLE.
>> CLOSEOUT TEAM WILL TAKE
COUPLE OF MINUTES TO CONFIGURE
THE WHITE ROOM.
THEY'LL SET UP A SEAL BETWEEN IT
AND THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT TO
MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT LET ANYTHING
FROM THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT
GET IN THAT SPACECRAFT, WHICH IS
KEPT VERY PRISTINE FOR THE CREW
MEMBERS.
THEY HAVE A SMALL BRIDGE THAT
CONNECTS THE CREW ARM TO THE
CAPSULE ITSELF.
JUST MAKING SURE THEY HAVE A
NICE CLEAR PATH FOR THEIR
ENTRANCE AND EXIT FROM THE
SPACECRAFT.
SHOULD BE JUST A FEW MORE
MINUTES.
WE'LL SEE THAT HATCH GET OPEN
AND OUR CREW MEMBERS CAN START
TO MAKE THEIR WAY OUT.
YOU HEARD STEEP ROTATION.
THEY ROTATE THE SEATS TO WHERE
LITTLE BIT MORE PARALLEL TO THE
GROUND.
THAT PUTS THEM DIRECTLY IN FRONT
OF THOSE DISPLAYS.
WE'LL SEE THEM ROTATE DOWN TO
GET OUT THE CAPSULE.
>> DAN MENTIONED, WE WANT TO
KEEP BOB OUT OF THE CAPSULE.
THAT'S BASICALLY THAT DOES NOT
BELONG INSIDE OF THE VEHICLE.
NOT JUST LIKE DIRT AND DUST BUT
ANYTHING THAT WAS NOT MEANT TO
BE INSIDE OF THERE.
SHOULD NOT BE THERE.
WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING AS A
STANDARD PROCEDURE TO MAKE SURE
WE KEEP FOD OUT.
ESPECIALLY SINCE THIS IS GOING
TO BE ANOTHER ATTEMPT, ANOTHER
OPPORTUNITY FOR FOD TO ENTER THE
VEHICLE.
AS THEY ARE EG, WE MAKE
SURE THAT WE KEEP EVERYTHING
BASICALLY LIKE A CLEAN ROOM.
>> DRAGON SPACEX YOU MAY HEAR
SOME VEHICLES VENTING.
>> COPY.
>> JOHN WITH THE WEB CAST DEATH
IN HAWTHORN OUT IN CALIFORNIA.
WE ARE CONTINUING TO WAIT FOR
THE CREW TO OPEN THE SIDE HATCH.
WE'VE GOT THE CAMERA SHOWING
ASTRONAUT DOUG HURLEY AND BOB
BEHNKEN INSIDE.
THEY GOTTEN THEIR FEET OUT OF
THE RESTRAINTS.
GLOVES ARE OFF.
THE TEAM JUST OUTSIDE THE HATCH.
THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THE
SEQUENCE NOW.
MAKE SURE PRESSURE CHECKS ARE
ALL GOOD.
MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO CONCERNS
WITH GASES, BE IT THE
PROPELLANTS OF THE GAS OR THE
NITROGEN GAS.
CURRENTLY WE ARE COMING UP ON
ABOUT 15 MINUTES AFTER THE PLAN
T0 TO JUST REITERATE WHAT DAN
AND JESSE HAVE BEEN TALKING
ABOUT EARLIER, WE HAD A GOOD
COUNTDOWN.
HAD LOT OF FUN SAYING THERE WERE
NO ISSUES ON FALCON 9 OR DRAGON
OF A TECHNICAL SORT.
  RANGE WAS READY TO SUPPORT.
THE DOWN-RANGE WEATHER LOOKED
GOOD IN CASE DRAGON HAD TO MAKE
UNPLANNED ABORT SPLASH DOWN IN
ESCAPE MANEUVER IN THE ATLANTIC.
WE HAD THE -- ONCE WE GET ON
ORBIT, IN CASE DRAGON HAD TO
COME BACK EARLY.
THE WEATHER WAS GOOD IN THE
PACIFIC IN CASE IT HAD TO COME
DOWN.
EVERYTHING WAS LOOK OUR WAY,
EXCEPT MOTHER NATURE AND THE
WEATHER IN FLORIDA.
THAT LEFT EVERYTHING DISRUPTED
JUST ENOUGH TO WHERE WE VIOLATED
SEVERAL OF THE WEATHER RULES, WE
DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR
THEM TO GO GREEN.
WHERE CONDITIONS ARE CLEAR AND
YOU'RE ALL RIGHT TO LAUNCH.
WE WERE STILL RED ON THESE
RULES.
THAT WAS THE END OF THE
COUNTDOWN FOR THE DAY.
WE SCRUBBED T -16 MINUTES 54
SECONDS.
THAT WAS DUE BEFORE WE LOADED
LIQUID OXYGEN ON THE STAGE THAT
WAS THE LOGICAL BREAK POINT IN
THE COUNTDOWN PROCEDURE WHERE WE
CAN TAKE A SCRUB WITHOUT LOADING
ONE MORE PROPELLANT ON THE
VEHICLE.
THAT WAS WHEN THE RANGE GAVE US
THE FINAL BAD NEWS.
WE WEREN'T GOING TO GET GREEN
CONDITIONS BEFORE THE CLOCK RAN
OUT.
CONTINUING TO WATCH RIGHT NOW IS
THE CREW WORKS TO GET THE HATCH
OPEN.
THEY SENT FINAL COMMANDS MAKING
SURE EVERYTHING A GO.
ONCE THE HATCH IS OPEN, THE
GROUND CREW CAN VERIFY THAT
THERE'S NOTHING IN THE WAY UNDER
THE SEATS THAT DOUG AND BOB ARE
-- SEATED IN.
THEYSTATE AND THEY'LL HELP
THEM OUT THE SEATS AND THEY'LL
COME BACK OUT AND DOWN THE ARM
AND OFF IN THE TOWER.
>> DRAGON SPACEX FOR STATUS, IT
LOOKS LIKE THE CLOSEOUT TEAM IS
THE ARM SEAL RIGHT NOW.
>> OKAY.
WE CAN SEE FOLKS OUTSIDE THE
WINDOW.
>> WE'VE BEEN QUIET FOR A FEW
MINUTES.
IF YOU JUST TUNING IN, WE DID
NOT LAUNCH TODAY.
WE DID HAVE TO SCRUB TODAY'S
MISSION DUE TO WEATHER.
WE WERE JUST UNDER 17 MINUTES
AWAY FROM OUR T0 TIME AT 4:33
EASTERN WHEN THE CALL WAS MADE.
WE WERE STILL IN VIOLATION OF A
FEW OF THE WEATHER CONSTRAINTS
THAT REALLY THERE TO INFORM TEAM
WHEN IT'S SAFE TO LAUNCH.
WE DID HAVE TO SCRUB.
SINCE THEN, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO
GET ALL OF THE PROPELLANT OFFALF
FALCON 9.
HATCH OPEN AND WE'LL GET BOB AND
DOUG BACK OUT.
>> WE'RE COMING UP JUST UNDER AN
HOUR SINCE THE PLAN T0.
IF YOU JUST JOINING US, WE'VE
BEEN SUMMING UP FOR A WHILE.
STAND BY FOR STATUS CHECK.
>> GO AHEAD.
>> CLOSEOUT TEAM STILL WORKING
TO DO THE HATCH INFLATION.
EXPECT ANOTHER 5 TO 10 MINUTES.
>> OKAY.
>> WE SCRUBBED A T -16 MINUTES
54 SECONDS.
WE VIOLATED THREE WEATHER RULES.
THE SPACEX EGRESS TEAM DID
RETURN TO THE PAD.
THEY WERE SENT THROUGH THE
ROADBLOCKS THAT SURROUND THE PAD
DEMARCATING WHERE THE HAZARD
AREA IS.
YOU JUST HEARD SPACEX TALKING TO
ASTRONAUTS BOB AND DOUG.
THEY'RE WORKING THE SEAL AROUND
DRAGON.
WE MAKE SURE THAT DRAGON CAPSULE
PRESSURE IS EQUALIZED WITH THE
CREW ARM AND WE'LL GO INTO THE
HATCH OPENING SEQUENCE.
WE STILL GOT SEVERAL MORE
MINUTE.
WE'LL CARRY THAT AS WE GO.
COUPLE OF POINTS TO BRING UP,
ONCE THE CREW COMES OFF OF THE
DRAGON AND COMES BACK DOWN, GOES
BACK TO THE CREW CORRIDORS, WE
WILL BE LEAVING --
>> SPACEX AWARENESS COMMAND
VEHICLE AND PREPARATION FOR
HATCH OPENING.
>> COPY THAT.
>> THAT'S GOOD.
THAT WILL MAKE SURE THE PRESSURE
IS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE.
>> THIS WILL EQUALIZE CABIN
PRESSURE.
>> OKAY, THANKS.
>> STARTED TO MENTION, ONCE
EVERYBODY IS OFF, WE'LL LEAVE
THE FALCON 9 DRAGON AND CREW ARM
WHERE THEY ARE.
THAT IS IN THE LOST SUPPORT
POSITION.
THERE'S NO PLAN TO COME BACK
DOWN HORIZONTAL.
THE VEHICLE IS DESIGN TO STAY
VERTICAL.
IF WE WERE TO FIND SOMETHING
WRONG DURING THE COUNTDOWN AS WE
GO THROUGH REVIEW, THAT COULD
MEAN WE HAVE TO COME HORIZONTAL
AS WE DID THIS MORNING.
WE WERE GROUND ISSUE ON THE
TRANSPORTER.
WE WENT RIGHT BACK UP.
CURRENTLY NO PLAN TO COME
HORIZONTAL.
WE'LL STAY VERTICAL UP TO THE
NEXT LAUNCH ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY.
THERE WILL ALSO AS TYPICAL,
ENGINEERS WILL GO THROUGH ALL OF
THE DATA THEY COLLECTED TODAY.
THERE WILL BE A REPORT OUT IN
WHAT'S CALLED A DELTA LAUNCH
READINESS PREVIEW.
PROBABLY THIS FRIDAY BEFORE THE
NEXT LAUNCH ATTEMPT ON SATURDAY.
THAT'S WHY THE ENGINEERING
DISCIPLINES WITH BRIEF
MANAGEMENT AND CHIEF ENGINEER
AND LAUNCH DIRECTOR, NASA
CUSTOMER WHERE WE STAND ON
TODAY'S COUNTDOWN, WHAT WE
LEARNED AS WELL AS OUR READINESS
TO PROCEED INTO ANOTHER
COUNTDOWN ATTEMPT.
CURRENTLY, AT KENNEDY SPACE
CENTER, HISTORIC PAD 39A.
WE'RE GETTING READY FOR THE
HATCH OPENING AND THE CREW TO BE
ABLE TO LEAVE DRAGON AND GET OUT
THEIR SUITS AND WAIT TO GO
ANOTHER DAY, HOPEFULLY THIS
COMING SATURDAY, 30th.
>> DRAGON SPACEX VEHICLES PAD
HATCH OPEN, AVVs ARE NOW OPEN.
>> I HEARD IT.
COPY ALL.
>> DRAGON SPACEX, CLOSEOUT TEAM
WORKING.
SCHEDULING TO HATCH OPEN NOW.
>> COPY.
>> BACK EAR AT THE -- BACK HERE
IN HAWTHORN, CALIFORNIA.
ASTRONAUTS BOB AND DOUG INSIDE
WAITING FOR THE HATCH TO COME
OPEN.
WE'RE SILL IN THE MIDDLE OF AN
EQUALIZATION STEP.
MAKE SURE INSIDE THE DRAGON IS
EQUAL TO THE EXTERNAL AMBIENT
PRESSURE.
WHEN WE OPEN THE HATCH, JUST
COMES OPEN WITHOUT ANY EXTRA
FORCE.
YOU CAN SEE THE SPACEX TEAM IS
UP ALONGSIDE THE CAPSULE.
THEY ARE REMOVING ESSENTIALLY
THE THERMAL PROTECTION DEVICES.
FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU HAVE A DOOR
HANDLE ON YOUR AUTOMOBILE, IF
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO REENTER
FROM OUT OF SPACE, YOU'RE GOING
TO HAVE TO PUT A SMALL HEAT
SHIELD OVER THAT DOOR HANDLE.
OTHERWISE ANY OTHER KIND OF
CAVITIES CAN BE SUBJECT TO BURN.
THEY TAKE THEIR TIME TO MAKE
SURE WE GET ALL THE THERMAL
PROTECTION AND SAFETY DEVICES
OFF SO THEY CAN GET ACCESS
TOTEMISMS AND BRING -- TO THE
MECHANISMS AND BRING THE HATCH
OPEN.
WHAT YOU ARE WATCHING NOW IS THE
EGRESS TEAM GOING THROUGH THE
STEPS.
THIS IS TYPICAL.
WE'RE NOT HEARING ANY CHATTER
OVER THE PAD IF THEY'RE HAVING
ANY PROBLEM.
THEY JUST TAKE THEIR TIME AND
MAKE SURE EVERYBODY IS READY TO
BRING THE HATCH OPEN.
CURRENTLY WE ARE T PLUS 1 HOUR
11 MINUTES SINCE THE PLANNED
LAUNCH.
OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE STILL ON THE
GROUND AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH
THE POST-SCRUB OPERATIONS TO
BRING ASTRONAUTS DOUG BURR HE
--HURLEY AND BOB BEHNKEN OUT OF
THE CAPSULE.
YOU CAN SEE NOW HATCH IS COMING
OPEN.
THERE'S THE VIEW FROM CAMERA
INSIDE THE CAPSULE.
YOU CAN SEE THE HATCH AREA, CREW
GAVE A QUICK WAVE TO THE GROUND
CREW WHEN IT CAME OPEN.
NIGHT -- RIGHT NOW THEY SHOULD
BE INSPECTING THE AREA
UNDERNEATH THE SEAT.
MAKE IT A LITTLE EASIER ON BOB
AND DOUG TO GET IN AND OUT OF
THE SEAT.
>> DRAGON SPACEX, THIS IS FOR
AWARENESS.
THEY HAVE A FEW MUR STEPS IN
THEIR PROCEDURE.
THEY SHOULD BE CALLING TO US FOR
ROTATION CHARLIE.
>> COPY THAT.
WE'RE WORKING ON THAT AND WE ARE
READY FOR THE ROTATION.
JUST LET US KNOW WHEN YOU'RE
READY TO START.
>> CONFIRMATION FROM THE DRAGON
TEAM TALKING TO THE ASTRONAUTS
THAT THEY ARE JUST ABOUT READY
TO SEND THE SEAT ROTATION
COMMAND.
AGAIN THE GROUND CREW IS
VERIFYING, MAKING SURE THAT NONE
OF THE CARGO THAT'S PACKED IN
DRAGON UNDERNEATH THE CREW,
NOTHING IS IN THE WAY.
NOTHING CAME LOOSE.
YOU'RE LOOKING AT ONE ROW OF
CREW SEATING.
BUT THERE IS DRAGON DESIGNED
CARRY UP TO SEVEN.
ON THIS FLIGHT, FOR EXAMPLE,
MUCH OF THE CARGO THAT WERE
CARRYING IS LOADED IN VARIOUS
AREAS DOWN BELOW WHERE THE
ASTRONAUTS ARE SEATED.
THEY ARE JUST VERIFYING NOTHING
IS IN THE WAY SO WHEN THEY SEND
THE ROTATION COMMAND, THE SEATS
WILL PIVOT WITHOUT ENCUMBERING.
>> DRAGON SPACEX, WE ARE
INITIATION SEAT ROTATION.
>> DRAGON COPY, WE'RE READY.
>> CALL OUT FROM THE DRAGON CORE
UP TO THE CREW.
LETTING THEM KNOW THAT WE ARE
SENDING COMMAND FROM THE GROUND
TO RESTATE THE SEATS AND YOU CAN
SEE ASTRONAUTS DOUG HURLEY, BOB
BEHNKEN ROTATING IN THEIR SEAT.
BACK TO MORE COMFORTABLE
POSITION TO GET IN AND OUT OF
THE CAPSULE.
>> DRAGON SPACEX, SEATS ARE
UPRIGHT.
THANKS FOR THE EFFORT TODAY HELP
US TEST FOR THE TIMELINE.
WE'LL SEE YOU SATURDAY.
>> WE APPRECIATE THOSE WORDS.
EVERYBODY DID GREAT TODAY.
IT WAS A GREAT PRACTICE AND
WE'LL DO IT AGAIN ON SATURDAY.
EVERYBODY STAY SAFE.
>> LIKEWISE.
>> DAN, WE'VE HEARD IT.
THEY GOT ROTATED AND HATCH IS
OPEN.
THE GROUND CREW IS GOING TO WORK
TO GET THE ASTRONAUTS OUT.
THE SPACEX DRAGON TEAM, LIKE THE
SPACEX FALCON 9 TEAM WILL BE
COMING OFF CONSUL NOW.
WE DIDN'T LAUNCH, IT WAS A
PRETTY GOOD COUNTDOWN AND
SEQUENCE.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SATURDAY
HAVING EVEN BETTER RESULTS WHEN
WE GET CLOSE TO T0.
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
ALWAYS GREAT WHEN WE DON'T HAVE
ISSUES WITH THE CAPSULE OR
ROCKET.
WE HAVE TO FIGHT THAT WEATHER.
WE ARE LOOKING AT ABOUT 50%
PROBABILITY OF VIOLATION.
IT'S ABOUT WHERE WE WERE TODAY.
IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF TRYING
TO LINE UP CORRECTLY.
DIDN'T MAKE IT TODAY BUT WE'LL
TRY AGAIN ON SATURDAY.
>> SOUND LIKE WE WERE JUST ABOUT
HALF AN HOUR AWAY FROM MAKING
THE LAUNCH ATTEMPT TODAY WITH
WEATHER, WITH 50% WEATHER CHANCE
ON SATURDAY.
HOPEFULLY WE HAVE A BETTER DAY
AT T0 FOR LIFTOFF.
>> WE'RE DEFINITELY GOING TO ALL
BE BACK.
JESSE, MYSELF AND JOHN AND I
WILL BE HERE IN HAWTHORN TO TAKE
YOU ALONG.
WE HOPE EVERYONE ELSE TUNES IN
ALSO.
THIS IS REALLY GOING TO BE A
MONUMENTAL MOMENT.
WE'LL LOOK TOWARDS SATURDAY TO
LAUNCH U.S. ASTRONAUTS ON
AMERICAN ROCKETS FROM AMERICAN
SOIL.
WITH THEM GETTING OUT THE
CAPSULE, THAT'S GOING TO DO IT
WE'LL SEND YOU BACK DOWN TO
FLORIDA FOR ONE LAST CHECK OF
THE TEAMS THERE.
OVER TO YOU.
WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING
FORWARD TO SATURDAY.
>> THANKS A LOT.
WE'RE JUST OUGHT SITTING HERE.
WE WATCHED BOB BEHNKEN CLIMB OUT
THE SEAT.
DOLEY FOLLOWING SUIT.
NO PUN INTENDED.
WE SEE BOB IN THE FOREGROUND AND
DOUG CLIMBING OUT OF CREW DRAGON
IN THE BACKGROUND.
PAD CLOSE OUT TEAM LOOKS LIKE
HELPING THEM OUT.
ANY MINUTE, THEY'RE GOING TO BE
BASICALLY JUST REVERSING COURSE,
COMING BACK THE WAY FROM WHENCE
THEY CAME.
LELAND YOU HAD A SCRUB YEARS
BACK.
>> YES, 2008.
WE WERE HAVING BREAKFAST.
I NEVER SCRUBBED WHILE I WAS HAD
THE VEHICLE.
WE WERE HAVING BREAKFAST.
WE GOT A CALL FROM THE FLIGHT
DIRECTOR SAYING THAT TWO OF THE
-- WE HAD THIS ENGINE CUTOFF
SENSORS THAT WERE BAD.
TWO WERE BAD AND THE FLIGHT RULE
SAY YOU HAVE TO HAVE THREE OR
FOUR TO FLY.
WE SAID, WE'RE NOT GOING TO FLY
UNLESS WE HAVE THEM.
WE ALL NEEDED TO KNOW THAT THE
FLIGHT RULES ARE THERE TO
PROTECT OUR ASTRONAUTS AND THEIR
FAMILIES.
WE GOT VERY CLOSE TODAY.
SOMETIMES WE GET THAT LAUNCH
FEVER, WE WANT TO TRY IT ANYWAY.
WE HAVE THESE RULES FOR A
REASON.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO STICK TO THE
RULES EVEN WITH DIGNITARIES
HERE.
IT'S WAIT WE HAVE TO DO IT AS
OPERATORS.
>> THAT'S A GOOD DRESS EXERCISE.
WENT THROUGH ALL THE EXERCISE
NEARLY TO T0.
WHICH IS INCREDIBLE.
I BELIEVE THIS MAY HAVE BEEN THE
FIRST TIME BOB AND DOUG SITTING
ON TOP OF OUR VEHICLE WITH A
FUELED ROCKET.
THAT'S PRETTY COOL.
>> FOR SURE.
>> CLOSING THE HATCH, EXERCISING
THE ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE SUPPORT
SYSTEMS, DOING THAT FLIGHT LEAK
CHECK AND ALL OF THIS IS A TON
OF LEARNING THAT CAME OUT OF
HERE.
EVEN IF WE DIDN'T ULTIMATELY GO
TO SPACE TODAY
>> WE'RE GETTING A COOL VIEW IF
WE WOULD HAVE SEEN.
THEY ARE GOING TO BE TURNING THE
CORNER THERE, HEADING TO THE
STAIRS.
THAT WILL TAKE THEM DOWN TO THE
ELEVATOR.
PASSING THE WORM.
NOW IT WILL TAKE THEM DOWN TO
THE 255-FOOT LEVEL.
NOW THEY'LL GET IN THE ELEVATOR
AND TAKE THEM DOWN TO THE GROUND
LEVEL.
WE'LL DO IT AGAIN ON SATURDAY.
>> IT'S ACTUALLY VERY REASSURING
THAT ALL SYSTEMS WERE GO.
THERE WAS NO PROBLEMS WITH THE
VEHICLE.
AS YOU SAID, THAT'S JUST SOME
WEATHER AND I THINK IF WE HAVE
SAME PERFORMANCE ON SATURDAY AND
THE WEATHER GODS, WE'LL BE GOOD
TO GO.
>> YES, PLEASE.
WE WERE SO CLOSE TODAY.
IT HURT MY HEART IF WE HAD 10
MORE MINUTES, SURROUNDED LIKE WE
PROBABLY WOULD HAVE MADE IT.
IT WAS NOT TO BE TODAY.
OF COURSE, WE WILL DO WHAT IS
THE SAFEST THING FOR THE CREW.
AS THEY HEAD INTO THE ELEVATOR,
WE WANT TO GO OVER TO OPERATIONS
AND SUPPORT BUILDING 2 WHERE THE
NASA ADMINISTRATOR, JIM
BRIDENSTINE IS STANDING BY.
HE WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE HIS
THOUGHTS NOW.
>> I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF
DISAPPOINTMENT TODAY.
THE WEATHER GOT US.
THIS WAS REALLY GREAT DAY FOR
NASA.
IT WAS A GREAT DAY FOR SPACEX.
I THINK OUR TEAMS WORKED
TOGETHER IN A REALLY IMPRESSIVE
WAY.
MAKING GOOD DECISIONS ALL ALONG.
HERE IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, WE
HAD JUST SIMPLY TOO MUCH
ELECTRICITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE.
THERE WASN'T REALLY A LIGHTNING
STORM OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT,
THERE WAS A CONCERN THAT IF WE
DID LAUNCH, IT COULD ACTUALLY
TRIGGER LIGHTNING.
WE MADE THE RIGHT DECISION.
WE HAD THE PARAMETERS SET AHEAD
OF TIME.
THE TEAMS WORKED TOGETHER.
IN THE END THE RIGHT DECISION
WAS MADE.
I WILL TELL YOU I'VE DONE LOT OF
INTERVIEWS OVER THE LAST TWO
DAYS.
IN THOSE INTERVIEWS I GET ASKED
OVER AND OVER AGAIN, IS THERE
UNDUE PRESSURE HERE?
PEOPLE SAY TO ME WITH ALL OF THE
ATTENTION OF THE WORLD ON THIS
LAUNCH, WITH ALL OF THE VIPs
COMING, ARE YOU GOING TO FEEL
PRESSURE ON THIS LAUNCH?
I WILL TELL YOU, AS I TOLD OUR
TEAMS, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES
SHOULD ANYBODY FEEL PRESSURE.
IF WE ARE NOT READY TO GO, WE
SIMPLY DO NOT GO.
I WILL TELL YOU I'M PROUD, SO
PROUD OF OUR TEAMS WORKING
TOGETHER TO MAKE THE RIGHT
DECISION IN THIS PARTICULAR
CASE.
WE HAVE A LOT TO LOOK FORWARD
TO.
IN A FEW SHORT DAYS ON SATURDAY,
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, WE'RE GOING
TO DO IT AGAIN.
HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW.
WE ARE GOING TO LAUNCH AMERICAN
ASTRONAUTS ON AMERICAN ROCKETS
FROM AMERICAN SOIL.
WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT.
WE'RE VERY CLOSE.
I ALSO WANT TO SAY THIS WAS AN
IMPORTANT MILESTONE JUST TODAY.
WE DID A WET DRESS REHEARSAL.
WE HAVEN'T DONE A WET DRESS
REHEARSAL WITH OUR ASTRONAUTS
FULL GEAR TODAY.
WE DONE A DRY DRESS REHEARSAL.
THIS IS NO DIFFERENT.
WE GET LOT OF GREAT DATA FROM
DOING WHAT WE JUST DID.
TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY.
FOR NASA, IT WAS A GOOD DAY FOR
SPACEX.
WE'VE GOT A LOT TO LOOK FORWARD.
CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH OF THE
TEAMS AND LET'S GO.
LET'S GO GET THIS DONE.
I KNOW WE'RE UP FOR IT.
SATURDAY WILL BE A GREAT DAY.
THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY FOR ALL
THE GREAT WORK.
BACK TO YOU.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
THOSE WERE GREAT INSIGHTS FROM
JIM BRIDENSTINE, THE NASA
ADMINISTRATOR.
CRAWS MAKING THEIR BACK TO
ASTRONAUT CREW CORRIDORS WHERE
THEY WILL REMAIN IN QUARANTINE
UNTIL SATURDAY.
THEY BEEN IN QUARANTINE FOR TWO
WEEKS.
THEY WILL STAY TO KEEP THEM SAFE
AND HEALTHY.
WE HAD TO STAND DOWN FROM LAUNCH
TODAY BECAUSE OF UNFAVORABLE
WEATHER CONDITIONS AROUND LAUNCH
COMPLEX 39A.
WE'LL DO THIS AGAIN SATURDAY MA.
THE NEW LAUNCH TIME WILL BE 3:2.
OUR COVERAGE WILL BEGIN LIVE
HERE NASA TV AT 11:00 IN THE
MORNING EASTERN TIME SATURDAY.
BE SURE TO TUNE BACK IN ON NASA
TELEVISION AND NASA.GOV/LIVE.
WE WILL BE BACK HERE TO TAKE YOU
THROUGH IT EVERY STEP OF THE
WAY.
THANKS FOR STICKING WITH US.
WE'LL SEE YOU BACK HERE
SATURDAY.
