We have the nasa administrator. We have the nasa deputy administrator. We will hear more from them in a minute. First talk to bob cabana. And cabana good morning welcome to the Kennedy Space center. I dont have to tell you how intoing it is to launch dutch astronauts into space for the first time in nine years. Our Shuttle Missions launched from that pad, including my flight. With our partnership with spacex, the pad is being used again and is now for the commercial crew program and for other spacex projects. Truly in his start time from an historic pad. Time fromn historic an historic pad. Jim was a huge advocate and proponent for aviation and spaceflight as the Armed Services committee and the science and Technology Committee and he is no sharing that passion as he needs nasa into a new era of space expiration. Jim. It is great toe be here at the Kennedy Space centers. We are now launching american astronauts from an american rocket on american soil. It has been nine years since we have this opportunity. Youcabana, we want to thank for getting the Kennedy Space center ready. Im think is looking good. As now as of now, we are go for launch. It is 70 favorable for launch tomorrow which is good news. Yesterday, we were at 40 , so the trend is in the right direction and we are very excited. I would like to start icing this room is empty. We would love to have this roomful we would love to have it filled with reporters and filled with space enthusiasts and unfortunately we are in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Our country has been through a lot this is a unique moment where all of america can take a moment and look at our country do something stunning again. That is launch american astronauts on american rockets from american soil. We are going to go to the International Space station and we are transforming how do you spaceflight in general. Commercializing orbit. We have resupply and now we will soon we will have commercial space stations. This is an opportunity to bring all of america together in one moment in time and say, look at how great the future is. That is what this launch is all about. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, taken extraordinary measures to keep safe and we are one day away from launch. This is an exciting day. I echo what jim and bob have said. This is an historic milestone. The reality is that we in the past, nasa developed the operated and built and spacecraft and rockets. This is the first time a commercial company is building and going to operate this spacecraft and capsule. We are really looking to be a and two otheracex companies in the future, and that is what we are trying to do really expand the economy in lowearth orbit. That is what this is about tomorrow. Our commercial crew. It is incredibly exciting to be here. People always ask what it is like to be in the training and what is like to be in the spacecraft. We are starting to lay the foundation for others. It is an incredible time to be training with all of these different opportunities in front of us and we are so robbed and happy for doug and bob. It feels like a close Family Member having a great lifetime achievement. On a personal level, that is definitely how we all feel, so proud for what they have accomplished with the spacex team to get ready for this launch hearing it is so important it is not about launch it is launch america and it is huge. My son is eight years old. And he has never seen this watch from america. It is foreign to him. Yesterday he asked, are we going to the moon . Is this our first flight to the moon . And i said, not technically, but it is the first big step to the moon and into mars. He come as a young boy, sees that and there are a lot of kids will be wanting watching the launch. It is exciting for nasa, spacex, and a proud moment for all of america. Joe. Joe what a privilege to be here and be a part of this team. Commercial and Government Entities working together, spacex and nasa to pull this together. What a privilege to be here today a day away from launch. We are so incredibly excited to be a part of this. I had the opportunity to lunch with International Partners to the International Space station and that is at the core of what we are doing today is to continue that incredible work we have done on the international waystation. We have had humans living and working on that orbital out stte for almost 20 years conducting science in research to expand our presence and to improve life on earth. This represents an extension of that capability and having the ability to launch americans from american soil in u. S. Spacecraft is absolutely amazing. In the about my launch family and just a few family and guests that i was able to have out there, and i think about so Many Americans and so many being able to congregate down here and watch and just for people in florida to go on their porches into look up from a parking lot and to see this vehicle claw its way into space, to watch americans flying into orbit into the International Space station and the absolute power of that to inspire our future generations it is truly a provenge to be proud of this and to see where this journey ultimately takes us. With that we will take our first question, but before that, just a reminder, if you are interested in what we are doing to watch the launch, you can go to our website get more information. We will take our first question from asp, ivan. Will be flying the second of the dragon . And will you have a european or russian on admission . Adm. Bridenstine the crew dragon one has been selected. I dont you were on that . I am not one but ive had the opportunity to back up bob and doug in crew one, and the following crew assignments are being processed. Europeans or canadians or russia flying on crew dragon for the first time . Adm. Bridenstine that is undetermined at this point. Crew one, we will have japan with us, our First International artan are on lunching our First International partner on lunching the dragon. As far as other International Partners, that has not been determined. Our next student is from gina from abc news. You. Thank can you talk to me a little bit about the gono go process. Who is making those calls russian mark calls . Adm. Bridenstine we have a Mission Management team who is working all of the checks as we go through the process. All along the way, people can say no go if they need to, but there will be a final countdown to the launch, where about 45 seconds out they will make a determination note go or no go. Sr. Cabana it is a space launch and it is in the Launch Control center through a partnership and it will be a space s launch spacex launch director that gives the goal the go, and everyone will be watching closely. Next question. Thank you for your time a followup to the question that was just asked. I am wondering if nasa personnel are allowed to intervene and take over from spacex if at any point nasa feels it is necessary. Adm. Bridenstine the answer to that question is yes. We, of course, are the customer here. So we do. Our goal is to have spacex be able to do missions one date without nasa. We want them to go get customers who are not us. Want to make sure they are making decisions, but if we see something we disagree with, certainly we have the right to intervene. I dont see that being necessary. But at this point, yes, we can intervene if necessary. Question comes from paul burkman from upi. Paul i would like one of you to builtinn the sort of uncertainty of this mission in terms of the length of the mission, anywhere from six to 16 weeks, i believe. Space flight or cruder flight has uncertainty, but im wondering how much of overeadiness reviews went the astronauts training and the uncertainty of that time period. Adm. Bridenstine there are a lot of things that go into this. Number one, we have to get our astronauts to the International Space station once they are there, there are different elements that come into play as to when they come home. The highest priority is to test the vehicle and get home safely and then be prepared to launch crew one. Once one some of the things that go into the mix when they will come home include the arrays of 114 days for we cannot go beyond that. Some engineers might argue that we can, as we are on the space station, we will understand how the solar arrays are performing. We are looking at a limitation of 114 days for the solar arrays. We have to consider the weather. We have to make sure that the wind and the dictation and lightning and all of those angst create a metric as to how safe it is to come home. All of those things create a metric as to how safe it is to come home. Remember, this is a test flight, and as such, if we have a good we do to come home and they are not necessary on the National Space station, we will take it. The International Space station, we will take it. Right now we are targeting august 30 for the launch of crew one. What that means is we can keep our astronauts during the maintenance of the iss and doing experiments on the iss for a period of time knowing that they can be there probably until early august. We need to get the spacecraft home and then evaluate the spacecraft, collect all the data , make sure it performed the way we wanted it to perform, and then get ready to launch crew one. The big parameters are the weather, the solar arrays, wind when crew one will be ready theres a lot of flexibility built into the back and of this mission and that is intentional. It is a test flight. The goal is to get them to the International Space station and get them home. If they can do more while on the iss, that is ok, but this is a test flight. Our next question is from keith. Willknow jim or hart remember that when we are kids, rehartted jim moore will remember when we were kids, and when asked about the , we found outs that that is not disclosed. How do you tell a six that we cant tell them what they are eating. Why cant me disclosed why cant we is close this . Dir. Cabana i can tell you in the past, astronauts get anything they want for breakfast. You got your choice, whether it is fist, lunch, dinner. It is made to order whether it is breakfast, lunch, dinner. On my first flight, i heard that some folks get airsick and i didnt want to get airsick. I had a toasted english often in a cup of coffee. One of my crewmates had steak and eggs and hashbrowns and pouring the hot sauce on it he did not get sick, but they may not have decided what they want for breakfast yet tomorrow. It is hard to release what you dont know, that i am sure they will make a decision and get anything they want. Adm. Bridenstine maybe some of the current astronauts like to answer. I know you have done a mission. What did you eat . We got anything we wanted as long as it was being served that morning. You, directorlike cabana, that i wanted to take it easy because i did not know how i would react to being on orbit. I went easy on solids and my fair share of coffee. We ate really well while we were in quarantine, but we didnt have the choice of what we were going to eat, and i honestly cant i was so excited i cant remember what we ate, but it was 20 and great for what we needed to do that day it was plenty and great for what we did for that day. We will go to our next question. It is Jackie Gothard with the times of london. Wondered what you would say what you have said that you can share so that the two little boys know what their debt is doing and the significance of it. I had a hard there dad is doing and the significance of it. I didnt hear some of that. Astronauts are fathers and i wondered what you said to their children. Their dads are the heroes and they are laying the foundation for a new era in spaceflight, where more space is going to be available to more people than ever before. Whereision a future lowearth orbit is entirely commercialized, or nasa is one customer of many customers, where we have numerous providers competing on cost and innovation and safety, but driving down costs and increasing access. We are approving out a Business Model, a Public PrivateBusiness Model that will enable us to go to the moon, this time sustainably. In other words, we are going to go to the moon to stay. We left apollo, that era was fantastic. The problem was that it ended. And now we want our sustainable return to the moon named after artemis, the goddess of the moon. This time we get to go with all of america, diverse, highly all fight as to not war that includes women. Qualified crew that includes women. It will drive down costs and enable us to go not just to the moon, but go sustainably, with reasonable landers to the service of the moon. All of this is for a purpose and that is to get to mars. When those little boys are 40 years old, and we have a permanent presence on the moon, and we have astronauts on mars, they are going to know that their dads played a Critical Role in enabling not only this country but the world as we lead International Partners to humanity going further into the solar system than ever before. Beyond that, i would remind children that their dads are both military aviators that have served their country boldly. Yesterday was memorial day, and we had an opportunity to reflect on those who served the country. Of course, these two men have done that as well. They are heroes in so many ways. When they arrived here at kennedy, i am 44 and about to turn 45, when i grow up, i want to be like bob and doug. Our next question is from joey at reuters. Joey it has been a long run to get to this point. Itm wondering the road that got to get the true dragon crew dragon to this point and how this shape your views. Adm. Bridenstine this is an important milestone. We have been very successful with commercial resupply of the International Space station and now we have crew tomorrow, knock on wood and that will be a successful mission. We need to build commercial space stations in lowearth orbit. In order to create the market for these kind of programs can be capitalized with Public Private partnerships, we need to prove there is an economy for human activity in lowearth orbit. That is what we are using the International Space station for right now. Some of the most salient projects happening and going on for a long time would include a immunizationsg being developed for so manila, pneumonia, salmonella and ammonia. Microgravity salmonella and ammonia. Proving that we can create human tissue using adult stem cells, adult skin cells, creating stem cells that can create human organs in 3d. We are at the tissue level right now. That is a capability that will transform life on earth. Retinas sortificial that people with Macular Degeneration do not have to lose their eyesight. And drives down costs increases fiberoptic networks for humanity across the globe. All of these things are Market Drivers that enable a future human spaceflight capability that would be capitalized by the private sector. Nasa will be a customer. We will always be a customer. We have a lot of science and exploration we need to do. But those are the kind of activities we need to do to see for the future that we believe exists. Is about a 400 billion market. We believe that with human spaceflight of course that is communications and sensing, but with human spaceflight, it opens a much broader marketplace, and we think it is rapidly getting to be not just a 400 billion market but a 1 trillion market. I am a big believer in the commercialization of space. It is how we are going to get to the moon and onto mars. Usingkeep developing american taxpayer dollars to develop capabilities in low earth orbit, we will never get to the moon and onto mars. This program is about commercialization, where we are ready to commercialized and using nasa money to do the things commercial industry is not yet ready for with a purpose to eventually commercialize those capabilities as well. Here . Are we we are here to expand the human condition for all mankind. That is exactly what jim is talking about. Right now we have one astronaut on the space station. When we get the full complement back up astronauts, we will increase our research 300 . That is about helping others. That is why we exist. That is what we are going to do. Side, years ago, after shuttle, there was no market share. We now have 70 of the market share, and that is going to expand starting tomorrow. That is what this is about. Do you have anything to add . Will just go to our next question. Ast way we can get as many possible. Marsha smith. Expand more onou the discussions for the russian about flying on the commercial crew ships . There were comments yesterday and he talked about being enthusiastic about having an alternative, then he said he was confused about nasas land for gateway. Could you just fill us in on where the negotiations stand about us flying and russians flying in the crew . Are you trying to get a whole big package of future u. S. Russian space cooperation . Adm. Bridenstine when we think about the commercial crew program, remember, the goal is to have the International Space center, half is russian and half is american. On the american segment we have lots of International Partners. A we are going to maintain complement of both russian and american astronauts on board, then we need to be willing to launch russian cost not on commercial crew and they need to be willing to launch american astronauts. Him,st conversations with we were both in strong agreement that was necessary for both nations as we move forward. Earth orbit,e low International Space station, commercial crew, and their program and we are in agreement how to go forward there. It is true when we talk about the gateway, that is a separate kind of level of discussion for what the future looks like. Yes, we have made proposals to russia as far as, we have asked them how they would like to participate in the gateway, we have offered suggestions, and right now we are in a Holding Pattern waiting to hear back. The partnership has been strong and goes back to 1975, the year apollo h, with the program. Program intle mir the International Space station program. This is had been a this has been a break in shiny object that space expiration can unite people and above terrestrial geopolitics, literally above terrestrial geopolitics. It is a relationship we are interested in maintaining and we will continue working with them. Bob, did you have any thoughts on that . Dir. Cabana it is something that we need to work on as we continue down the road. Ando have a strong worship, it is necessary to have multiple vehicles to get us to the International Space station. We need redundancy not only between boeing and spacex, but the russian partners as well. We built a dream the shuttle area and we will prove it again in the future. Our next question is Robert Perlman from collect space. Robert there was a return on this flight as it became homes as it came more and more prevalent. Was it your idea . Of thatld be the role Going Forward beyond this notion . We missed the first part of the question, can you repeat the question . About the worm, the nasa logo. How did it come to be it was idea . Ected question resurrected . What is its role with the agency Going Forward on this mission . Adm. Bridenstine that is a good question. I would love to say it was my idea. I would tell you the nasa administrator and i have heard from a lot of people that you are to bring back the worm. I have heard it over and over again. I am the first nasa administrator in history that wasnt alive when we had people walking on the surface of the moon. To. In 1969 and not a night and not in 1972. My generation grew up with the worm, and when i say that it is the nasa logo that is read and written out. The logo is blue, we call that the meatball. I grew up the worm as the logo of nasa. It is personal to me, because that is how i grew up. The meatball, the blue logo, the circle logo, that is a logo that is very near and dear to a lot of other people, the people of the apollo generation, for example. The nasa style guide is very clear, the worm no longer exists , but i read the style guide, so i made a determination that for this particular mission and this particular day, we were going to bring back the worm, and he did. The reason i thought it was important to do it on this launch was because it got so much attention. I wanted all of america to know this is a 3. 5 billion investment by the american taxpayer. This is an american launch. Crew, but commercial this is nasa. It is nostalgic for me. I am a navy pilot by trade, and i grew up with my favorite airplane being the x 29, a and it looks awesome. I had a big poster of it and on the side was the nasa worm. I will be honest, i love the worm. We brought it back. It is important to note that on this rocker rocket we have both. We are bringing people together. We have the meatball in the worm, so we are going with both. With the worm and the meatball, you see a ton of kids Walking Around with nasa tshirts and the worm on jackets and it has helped to energize the Younger Generation and folks who havent seen lunches in their entire life or maybe they were very young. You get a lot more questions when beget the opportunity to speak to children at schools. It is different than when we were growing up. I remember growing up thinking and asked her not, that is some farfetched idea. If somebody does that or it it is or if it is summit in the movies, that will not be our future or if it is somebody in the movies, that will not be our future. But i think the Younger Generations are starting to realize and understand it is not the movies, it is not scifi, it is reality. I am kind of glad the worm was making a comeback. In the 1970s, it was the futuristic look. My first nasa flight jacket i have a worm on my shoulder and a meatball on the front. I think they are both awesome. Adm. Bridenstine when doug and bob launch tomorrow and you watch the rocket, look for the worm. It will be there. Going to the next question lauren grush. Lauren thank you for taking my call. So about the toilet no, im kidding. Interestedesting if you could walk us through what the process is when the astronauts get on board. When do they get off and what do you have to do to make them safe, and where do they go . What does that look like . I am having a hard time hearing that. Did you say scrub, lauren . , so if you scrub in the astronauts are aboard, what does that procedure look like and what do you have to do to make sure they are safe . Adm. Bridenstine it depends on what point the stroke occurs. The scrub occurs. The crew access arm will come back to the vehicle. We will make sure the vehicle is safe to approach. We will have the folks from spacex come in and unbuckle bob and doug an escort them down to the ground. They will prepare to give the next launch opportunity a shot. It is all done in a manner that make sure that everybody thats involved is safe. Enrightquestion is leo from irish tv. Leo as i understand it, there are not one, but to abort modes which would involve splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of ireland. I am wondering, what is the plan there . There do not appear to be assets stationed there. How would the crew be retrieved in this very unlikely scenario . Will you be waiting for a boat to come and collect them . There are a number of abort modes. As the vehicle crosses the atlantic, we have various sites that we are aiming for. We will abort to some of those sites or do a retro abort to come back to these areas. We have assets stationed off of the coast prepared to assist the astronauts. As we get into the longer transatlantic abort modes, we will be partnering our military assets to deploy divers and folks to get into the water to help the astronauts and then bring helicopters alongside and whatever assets are available in that particular area. It is our partnership with the military that really helps us, particularly the air force, that helps us deal with those downrange reports. Next question marsha done. Dunn. marsha russia marsha how many astronauts will be there tomorrow and how will you prevent launch fever from taking over on such a big mission with high expectation with the president of the United States in attendance . Adm. Bridenstine as far as the number of astronauts, we have taken a lot of precautions to limit the number of people coming in general. I dont know what the total number of astronauts that will be here is do you know offhand . I think it is under 10. Definitely under 10. Adm. Bridenstine will not have a lot of contingent of astronauts here. Lunch fever this is a serious issue. As a naval aviator, there is something that is called get homeitis. We have been so diligent about making sure people have the authority to say no, we went ahead and purchased a seat on a rocket for october. We did that intentionally, because we want people to feel free to say no and not feel any iessure to go on this lunch talked to doug and bob and i asked them if you want me to stop this for any reason, i will stop it if you want me to. They both came back and said we are go for lunch. They are ready to go. Part of my job as a nasa administrator is to make sure that they know their safety is our highest priority and give everybody in the loop permission to say no for relaunch. Your point, we have a small number of astronauts out here just for the covid concerns, but we are also able to virtually deploy folks in different areas. There is a lot of the Astronaut Corps prepared to support media outlets, social media, things that are online, whether online or virtual. It is hopeful that there will be a lot of opportunity for us to reach out to a larger audience than we normally would. We will not have the crowds at ksp. I know the launch team and the commercial crew and this is a test flight, and they are going to make sure it is right before they launch. They are not concerned about who is here to see it. They are concerned about doing their job and doing it correctly and they have acted this practiced this and will do the right thing. Our last question is from ken chang. a few days ago you tweeted noting President Trumps readership and getting to this moment. Was pointed out that commercial crew started in 2010 under president obama and commercial cargo goes back to george w. Bush. I was wondering if you could talk about credit in adding to this milestone for your president s and previous president s. Adm. Bridenstine this is a program that demonstrates the success when you have continuity of purpose going from one administration to the next. If we go back all the way to commercial crew that started ,nder president george w. Bush commercial resupply, and then commercial crew under president obama. The nasa administrator did incredible work at a time when this particular program when it didnt have a lot of support in congress. Charlie bolden who is international an astronaut anro and is a nifty astronaut and a hero and an f15 pilot, he did yeomans work in order to get this off the ground and get it going. Here we are all these years later having this success. I will reiterate that the Human Spaceflight Program under President Trump has really blossomed. Our budgets now are as high as they have ever been. In real dollars, they are still very high but not maybe as high as apollo, but that was a little bit of an anomaly in the history of nasas budget. It is also true that it is being backed up. The rhetoric isnt just there but it is being backed up with the budget, and it is bipartisan. I did and event with spacer Speaker Pelosi at the ames center last august. Dayas a womens equality and i thought it was important and we reached out to her and asked if we could womens equality day, she was going to do in San Francisco and we asked her to do it in ames. In a press conference after, we talked about artemis and the important to going to the moon and doing it with women and we did it on womens equality day. She said, we are all counting on you to get not just the next man but the first woman to moon to the moon. And she said i am so glad you called the program artemis. This Space Program we have in this country unites people, period. We think about the vietnam war, the 1960s, not just the war but the protest, we think about the civil rights abuses in the civil divisivests, the very challenging times. Here we are all these years later in midst in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and we can reunite people again. That is with the launch is going to do. It will not just night republicans and democrats will unite the whole world who will be watching this particular launch. All of our International Partners are interested. They participated in the flight readiness review, because there astronauts are one day going to fly on this rocket, and they are already big operators of the International Space station, where this crew dragon will dock. Mission is a very uniting michigan uniting mission. It unites people across geopolitical boundaries, and that is what is unique about nasa and what is unique about space. I will not hesitate to tell you that President Trump has been a massive space advocate. He promised to lunch american astronauts on american rockets. He promised to create a moon program, and he has done of those and has backed it up with west, not just with words. With that, we are going to close todays press conference. Thank you for joining us. For more information, go to nasa. Gov. Thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] we will share the briefing with gate nasa administrator and Kennedy SpaceBanner Center director tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, here on cspan. Lift off. [applause] watch live coverage of the lungs of the launch marking the first launch of american astronauts on american soil since 2011. 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Cspan, created by americas Cable Television company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. The editorinchief of the auto finance, and we will spend the last half hour talking about the future of the restaurant industry. Andy, good morning. So, what has been the overall impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the restaurant industry. Devastating,n right after cruise lines and the airline business, i think restaurants, bars have been hurt the most and its a very different kind of business from the two i just mentioned, the crew ships and the airlines, which are concentrated, there are just a few of those big companies. But with restaurants, youve got millions of restaurants out there. Sales for these areanies, 99 of them familyowned with less than 50 employees. The great majority of them have millionsed down and 15 people who work in restaurants, up to 15 million have been collecting Unemployment Insurance already. So, thats a good chunk of the nearly 40 Million People who apply for Unemployment Insurance. So, business has been devastated. Billion, the businesses estimating they will lose a good queue hundred 50 billion to three and 50 billion this year, and that may be conservative. Host looking at them information from the american restaurant association, to put that in stark terms, aprils eating and drinking sales of 32. 4 billion was the smallest 2005 inince march, nominal terms. However adjusting for inflation, Consumer Spending at eating and drinking places png