Dragon visible in this view from one of the japanese cameras. [no audio] again, we are inside the undocking sequence now, good umbilical retraction and we are driving the first set of hooks. First set of hooks open and nominal. Nominal hooks on the first set. The first six hooks have completed their driving first set down, the second set is now driving and we are committed to undock. [no audio] seeing good motion on the second set of hooks, continuing to drive. This is the final set of hooks, there are six of them holding dragon into place now. Afterwards, we will conduct two undocking burns to physically separate dragon. [no audio] dragon spacex, all hooks open and nominal. All hooks open. Dragon departing. Dragon spacex separation confirmed. Physical separation, 4 35 pacific. Thrusters looking good, coming down to a nominal departure burn zero coming up shortly. [no audio] dragon spacex depart zero complete. Complete. You heard depart burn zero complete, dragon moving slightly faster away from the iss, using dracos. Bob and doug have concluded their stay from the iss and they are back to earth. Confirmed physical separation as the station and dragon are flying 2067 statue miles over johannesburg, south africa. Next departure burn coming up in about five minutes. We will monitor crew dragon throughout the departure sequence, but with the dragon flying free that will do it for us from Mission Control houston. Godspeed, bob and doug. To take you to the rest of the sequence, we send it back to hawthorne. Departure burn zero sets bob and doug on the journey home. Dragon ship endeavor is on a trajectory to head up and over the station before additional maneuvers take it below and in front of the station. Dragon will autonomously accomplish that through three additional departure burns with the next one coming up in a couple of minutes to get bob and doug well away from the space station and on their way home. A beautiful view of the relative Navigation Center, providing an infrared you of the iss as bob and doug drift away from it. As they drift away, going into the higher orbit, just balancing the force of gravity along with their acceleration, they will move a little slower than the space station. Expect the space station to move ahead as they conduct additional burns getting out of the ellipsoid and keep out sphere. They will come out below the space station with apogee about 10 kilometers below the space station. Next up in a couple of minutes, scheduled for 4 30 p. M. Pacific time and 11 30 p. M. Gmt, 22nd to further increase the opening rate between crew dragon and the International Space station. That view, what we previously had, you can see it on the righthand screen of bobs display, a relative Navigation Center providing an infrared view from the forward hatch of dragon looking back toward the forward module of the International Space station. Thats where dragon has been the last 63 days. In less than a minute is departure burn number one. That is about five minutes from separation. This will increase the opening rate. Between the space station and dragon. Separation occurred on time today, as with Everything Else, occurring on schedule, sending bob and doug back toward earth and home. Very exciting moment. We should hear a call at for departure burn number one. Departure burn number one is short, only about 21 seconds. It will get us on our way up out of the way through the keep out sphere and through the approach ellipsoid. The keep out sphere about 200 meters fear around the iss, and the approach ellipsoid, four by four by two kilometers. Imagine two central parks in new york city, thats about how big that is. We are seconds away from the burn one. These are autonomous. They are programmed into dragon and we will look for that in a few seconds from now. That is the view from the space station, the two lights, the green light is the view on the righthand side of the dragon vehicle, the side that bob was sitting on. Made quick work getting away from the station. Let me see if i can get the actual distance to the station right now. Departure burn one has begun, a 20 second burn. Dragon spacex departure burn one complete. Reminder, the ground will be deactivating the big loop following exit from the approach ellipsoid, approximately 1214 minutes from now. Ok. Endeavor on the big loop. Go ahead endeavor. We cant thank you enough, it has been an honor and a privilege to be part of 63 with you. It has been a great two months and we appreciate all you have done as a crew to help us crew that dragon on its maiden flight. I would also like to thank Mission Control in houston for the incredible amount of work they have done to make this successful for dragon, and also the teams at spacex who keep us going on a mission. I would also like to wish you Great Success on the rest of your expedition and a safe flight home in the fall. Take care, friend. Endeavor, thank you and stay safe. Thank you everyone, thank you and thank you spacex. Endeavor station, bob and doug, wholeheartedly agree with those sentiments and it has been a real pleasure and an honor to serve with you. Safe travels and have a successful landing. Endeavor is a great ship. Godspeed. Endeavor copies. Thank you. We just heard some kind words exchanged between crew dragon and endeavor with bob and doug now on the way home. Iss and dragon on the big loop, dragon has exited the keep out sphere. Endeavor copies. Bob and doug leaving behind three people aboard the iss that will return in october, Chris Cassidy, anatoly and yvonne from russia. They exited the keep out sphere, that is an imaginary sphere around the space station, a safety zone set up to govern any spacecraft arriving or departing. Spacecraft have to be configured so they would not cross the boundary for at least four orbits, even if the spacecraft were to for some reason lose all maneuvering capabilities. That capability, what we are looking to here is the spacecraft is im having a hard time saying this it is on a 24 hour safe free drift trajectory. If we were to completely lose Commanding Authority over the spacecraft, we want to make sure we would not potentially interact with the iss in an uncontrolled way. The burns help us get away from the space station in a way that we could if something were to go catastrophically wrong on the spacecraft the dragon spacecraft has been rocksolid this whole mission and has a lot of redundancy. That scenario is unlikely but it is a good safety standard. Departure burn zero and one are bringing dragon up and over the iss, not just making a straight journey home. That will be determined later once the burn is complete and the deorbit burn commits us to leaving space and bringing bob and doug asked to earth. Com check with cabin mic. I hear you loud and clear. Loud and clear. As we heard, they are testing the cabin mic, so they may be taking off their suits, which is allowed now that the first two departure burns have been completed, the next is scheduled for 5 27 p. M. Pacific time, that will be departure burn two. It is really the middle of the night for the space station crew right now, everybody getting ready to go to sleep soon, but our astronauts will be awake a while. They got a chance to take a nap to be awake and alert for these operations. As you mentioned, the crew are in the middle of getting out of their suits. That was a dynamic period of time around the station, a time where there could have been to pressurization or if there was a problem, we wanted them suited. Now with the dragon on a confirmed trajectory away from the space station on its way out of the approach ellipsoid, they can get into something more comfortable. The test step of verifying the cabin microphone, the spacesuits have microphones in them near the jaw in the base of the helmet. With bob and doug removing the spacesuits, they are testing the cabin mic to make sure they have Good Communications with operations here in hawthorne. We should expect a few more calls here as dragon moves away from the approach ellipsoid. We heard some calls from capcom as well about the big loop as well and transitioning dragon to the ground. The big loop is a com network that controls Flight Controllers in Mission Control in houston and the iss crew, visiting vehicles, and of course, our Mission Control in hawthorne, altogether on one loop so we can communicate with one another if anything needs immediate attention. As we step out of the integrated operations or joint operations with the International Space station, we will transition into Mission Control here in hawthorne having Mission Authority and transition all of those calls to the dragon to ground loop. Life on the space station is kind of back to normal now that dragon has departed. They are still monitoring the departure. The crew on board crew dragon specifically. I imagine the astronauts on board the space station might be getting a final view of dragon before it returns to earth. Maybe in the cuppola window to have on the space station. As we mentioned, dragon is outside the keep out sphere and a little more than 500 meters away from the iss. We will be looking for it to exit the approach ellipsoid in about six minutes. Right now, dragon moving away just under one meter per second, close to three feet per second, away from the space station, as it starts to get further and further away. The speed will pick up a little bit until we get into an orbit where eventually we have our highest point of orbit be about 10 kilometers below the space station. Coming up after the approach ellipsoid exit, we will have three more burns schedule today, two more departure burns as well as a departure phasing burn. That should button up the activities. These are the activities for today and bob and doug should hopefully be able to get some rest before an exciting day tomorrow. I imagine they are very exciting. Tomorrow, they wake up and several more milestones to look forward to, including the deorbit burn, the commitment to bringing them home. If there were a change in the weather over the next several hours, we would still see bob and doug in earths orbit and they have enough crew supplies on board they could stay there a couple of days. That way we would have an opportunity for the weather to clear or to find another splashdown site. Everything is looking good for us to come home to pensacola tomorrow. Right now on your screen, views of Mission Control. On the righthand side, that is Mission Control in houston, on the lefthand side is Mission Control in hawthorne. Currently still in joint operations. As we transition out of the approach ellipsoid, we will Transition Mission authority to the Mission Director in hawthorne. We have had integrated operations and been attached to the space station, any command and operations we wanted to do on the dragon spacecraft, we are getting permission from the flight director in houston to connect those commands. The Flight Control team in houston is really responsible for the health and safety of the crew aboard the iss as well as the safety and performance of the International Space station. It is wild to think about, sometimes i think about the iss as a destination but it is really a spaceship. Earlier, about two weeks ago, it had yaewwed completely around and was flying backwards, so to speak. It is the spacecraft just like dragon, but bigger. It is an orbiting laboratory. We talked about some of the science bob and doug conducted. While they were there, they completed 114 hours approximately of Scientific Research aboard the International Space station. It is amazing how much of that benefits life on earth. The space station is in microgravity, which gives us an opportunity to test things and look closely at phenomenon cannot do on earth. The iss has provided countless medical advances and technological advances over the past 20 years. This is the 20th anniversary of the International Space station this year, so it is a big milestone. We will be celebrating that they are in november, and that means there have been People Living in space continuously for 20 years. Quite a feat. I love that it is international and this is such a good example of how when we work together, we accomplish something that at one time no one could have dreamed of. Reading some of the books by former crewmembers, they like to talk about the food aboard the space station, the International Cultural events they do between the crews, and they consider themselves a big family. Those kind words we heard between bob, doug and the station crew shows how close they became over a short time. Just a couple of months. I am sure they all knew each other well from training in houston. Something about being there with a common goal and those are your family while you are there. Astronauts get the opportunity to speak with family pretty regularly because we dont want them to get too homesick. They get a pretty good view in exchange. But yes, we are coming up shortly looks like a minute until we exit the approach ellipsoid, and end joint operations between Mission Control houston and Mission Control hawthorne, just behind us. The approach ellipsoid, an imaginary elipse around the space station. Its really a marker as craft closes in on the iss. They need to coordinate through Johnson Space center in houston. On your screen, short of the Mission Control centers, and also what we call flight rules. Both Mission Controls will establish procedures, sometimes down to specific failures, if a specific engine fails or if an attitude was lost or even the state of a lifesupport system on the vehicle. They come up with go nogo procedures that are analyzed. When it comes time to perform the operation, they check those lists against the health of the vehicle and they make those calls before performing operation and close proximity with one another. The next call we expect to hear up to the crew is that they will have exited the approach ellipsoid. Everything occurring on time for dragon. And the International Space station currently flying over the indian ocean, 269 statute miles. About to come up on the Southern Coast of australia. Really the next major event for dragon will be around 5 27 pacific time, tomorrow morning at 12 27 utc, the next departure burn. A little bit of time before any significant milestones. And we are outside of the approach ellipsoid. [no audio] now that we are outside of the approach ellipsoid, as you said, everything happening like clockwork today for departure. Dragon spacex on the big loop, dragon has exited the approach ellipsoid and is on a safe free drift trajectory. Houston will take on the big loop shortly and expects audio traffic to cease. Dragon copies on the big loop. [no audio] with that exit of the approach ellipsoid or ae, that imaginary ellipsoid, in the same family as a keep out sphere, they are now 24 hours safe in a free drift trajectory so that if the spacecraft lost maneuver and capabilities, it would not cross into the ellipsoid. We heard the call from the ground up to the crew aboard crew dragon endeavor. The crew acknowledging the call. They typically do some com checks when they transition out of the big loop. We heard those earlier while they were doing suit doffing, where they remove their suits and transition into something more comfortable, probably a polo and some pants. And really they will just be an monitoring mode until the next major event, which is the part burn number two, scheduled for about 30 minutes from now. That departure burn two will increase the rate away from the space station and start reducing the apogee and perigee of endeavors current orbit. Following that, and additional departure burn and a phasing burn. That is coming up later on in todays broadcast. The phasing burn is a much larger burn and these two departure burns come on the order of six minutes. Departure burn two will be the longest weve seen today, 43 seconds that will send dragon down, lower its perigee to below the station. It will move down. On your screen is sort of where we are conducting this burn. Burn number two, at the apogee, performing an orbital burn or importing velocity to the spacecraft at the highest part of the orbit, that is the most efficient way to move to the opposite end of the orbit. Because we want to bring our lowest point of our orbit down further, we are trying to connect that at the apogee and get the most for the buck and the most mileage out of our propellant. The part burn three will be a 41 second burn. Kind of like a coolympics burn and it will keep dragon always below the iss. Later tonight, we will look for a phasing burn, the longest one we have seen so far at over six minutes. It will put crew dragon on the proper orbital path to line up with the splashdown zone. Eventually we will have our deorbit burn in tomorrow and we will see the nosecone close and they will come on home, looking for splashdown tomorrow in the gulf of mexico near pensacola, florida. The departure burn expected around 10 48 pacific time. That will be around 5 00 in the morning gmt. That is the last major burn planned for tonight. Bob and doug will get eight hours of sleep and wake up to get them started on preparation steps for final burn of the mission, which will be the orbit burn. Hopefully a successful reentry. I dont know if you heard, when they arrived on the International Space station, Chris Cassidy asked bob behnken and doug hurley if the ride was smooth and they got any sleep. They said yes. Hopefully they get the same opportunity tonight for the splashdown tomorrow. Tomorrow they will arrive back in houston. They will fly back to ellington field. That is part of the Johnson Space center. They will have a welcome with their families and then it will be three people on the International Space station until october. That is a busy day for them. They will get up around i want to say 5 00 a. M. Pacific time. Splashdown time is around noon. If they are flying to their final site near ellington field, that is a pretty packed day considering they have been up that long. It is one of the most dynamic days of the mission with the splashdown and being recovered in the ocean and getting to see your family after 63 days. It has to be pretty exciting. We were talking earlier looks like no call that time. One thing we are expecting is the teams in Mission Control will be conducting a no go pull to make sure the systems remain healthy. Before each of these burns, the engineer will give a call to the crew to let them know if the Mission Control team believes dragon is healthy for the burn. After those burns, we expect a call to provide a quick status update on whether the burn was nominal. Some things we are looking for our performance of the engine as well as the amount of impulse transmitted to the vehicle. The navigation officer paying close attention to the amount of momentum transferred to dragon as well as the current orbit as described by onboard navigation sensors. It is all part of responsibilities of the Mission Control team. That burn expected about 25 minutes from now. 5 27 p. M. Pacific time, or 12 27 utc. We dont have a signal from dragon at this moment, but we are taking your questions. If you are on social media, specifically twitter, use the hashtag asknasa. This one asks how much time it will take for the dragon spacecraft to reach earth after undocking from the International Space station. Bob behnken and doug hurley have begun that journey and they are on their way, scheduled for splashdown tomorrow at 11 48 a. M. Pacific time. That would be 6 48 gmt. Dragon to ground. Friendly heads up that your audio destination is on iss, so if you are calling us, we will not hear you. That splashdown tomorrow is looking like about a 19 hour mission for bob behnken and doug hurley from the time they dock until they splash down. That time can be made shorter for this mission. We opted to give them a 19 hour opportunity. Spacex, say again for endeavor . Yes, just wanted to give you a heads up that your audio destination was on iss, but icu swapped that over to ground i see you swapped that over to ground. Thank you. I appreciate the heads up. That fuzzy dot is a look at dragon currently on its way away from the International Space station. Speaking of the International Space station, another asknasa question. How do you keep time on the iss . You heard us working to convert that in our heads. The International Space station uses greenwich meantime. It is the in the middle space between russia and houston. Since those are two of the major partners in the International Space station operations, we use that time on board. Cool views aboard the cameras on the International Space station. Gmt is sometimes referred to as utc, or universal coordinated time. Slightly different nomenclature. You might hear those calls. Leah it has now been 30 minutes since the crew dragon departed from the International Space station. Separation coming up 11 30 p. M. Gmt. It has completed its first two departure burns, depart burn zero and depart burn one. The next will happen in about 22 minutes. We will be looking forward to part burn two. Astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley are out of their spacesuits and wont need to put those back on until tomorrow just before the deorbit burn. Siva so another question on social media right now, lines up well with the view we have of dragon. Why is dragon glowing right now . Actually, dragon isnt glowing. What we are seeing is the reflection of the sun. Right now, both dragon and the International Space station not in the earths shadow. Just from this view on the camera compared to Everything Else being so dark in the background of space, dragon is just coming out looking a little bit whitewashed from the exposure. So not glowing, but just seeing the reflection of the sun as we sort of adjust the white balancing. Siva dragon right now departing 4. 4 meters per second, about 3. 3 kilometers away from and the space station. What we are seeing on the screen is the view from the International Space station. Dragon, about 5k away excuse me, about 3. 3 kilometers away from the space station. We got a question on what the main differences are between the draco thrusters and the other burners. I think what lucas is referring to is the super draco thrusters. Dragon has two different types of Propulsion Systems on the spacecraft. We have eight super draco thrusters that live in those pods on the sides of the capsule. They are only used for launch escape. They are pretty powerful thrusters, that if we were to experience an anomaly in the descent portion, we could accelerate away from the falcon 9 launch vehicle. We actually had a demonstration of that in our inflight abort test that preceded the demo two mission. The draco thrusters are much smaller thrusters. We have more of them. We have 16 of them around the vehicle. 12 of them around the Service Section of the vehicle that we actually have been using for these departure burns. We actually have a set of four of them that we refer to as the bulkhead thrusters around the forward hatch. A propellant as the oxidizer and if you squirt them together, you get fire. Leah we have another question from a viewers fouryearold son, fritz. Can the astronauts feel how fast they are flying aboard the dragon . If not, why not . It is interesting, if you think sitting is if you are in a car, and lets say the car is going 60 miles per hour, you dont feel like you are going 60 miles an hour because you are essentially a part of that vehicle as it moves. Of course, you would notice if it stopped, but as the astronauts are inside the International Space station and it is constantly moving at 17,500 miles an hour, they dont feel that speed. And when they are outside the space station, they dont feel that speed either because there is no wind to feel as it moves around the earth. Siva that is part of the fun of microgravity. Gravity is still acting on anyone who is in orbit, but it is a matter of you are in a state of freefall while your spaceship is in a state of freefall. You would only feel acceleration if you pushed against something or the spacecraft pushed against you. During those burns, bob and doug will probably feel a little bit of thrust in their seats, but otherwise, not too much. And we have a question here from glenn about, if the astronauts can get out of their seats during any part of the trip home. That is partially true. Actually, during this phase of the mission, the crew are free to roam about the cabin. But during earlier portions of the mission, we had them be seated. During the earlier undocking burn, the crew were seated. Part of the reason for that is if there were depressurization, we need them to be seated so their suits can act as safety devices. Then, of course, when we get to deorbit, that is a dynamic time as well where they will be seated. Leah as for this moment now, they actually have the opportunity to be out of their seats, roam about the cabin, and out of their suits as well. They may have donned or put on some more comfy clothes for this relaxing portion of the ride, burnf until deorbit tomorrow. Siva if youre just joining us, dragon is on its way away from the International Space station. We separated from the space station around 4 30 p. M. Pacific time. Is that right . Do i have my time wrong . Leah separation was on time at 4 35 p. M. Pacific time. 11 30 p. M. Gmt. Siva spacecraft is on its way away. We are awaiting departure burn number two. We have conducted two undocking bursts from those draco thrusters, as well as the first departure burn. Departure burn two coming up. It will last 43 seconds. It will use a combination of the Service Section and draco bulkhead thrusters to reduce the lowest point of the orbit, the perigee of dragon, closer towards the earths atmosphere. Leah weve got a question from karens nineyearold who wants to know what the astronauts eat on the International Space station. They actually did a variety of choices. We have a food lab at the Johnston Space Center in houston, texas. The for the astronauts go on a mission, they have the opportunity to taste test some of their foods, so there are a variety of types of food available aboard the station. A lot of it needs to be reheated with hot water. They can eat anything at holidays, they have a lot of the same food we have here, Sweet Potatoes and turkey. Those kinds of good foods. They have candy like we have here on earth. They are not lacking on some of those sweet things. One thing they dont typically have are a lot of the fresh fruits and veggies that we get to enjoy. That is something that sometimes can arrive on a cargo dragon spaceship. The crew loves that, but it is hard to get that food up to them because it has to be fresh when it is packed. By the time it arrives, sometimes that can be several days. Whenever they can do a load of that cargo and get fresh fruits and veggies up to them, it is always greatly appreciated. There is always some good pictures of people juggling oranges. Deground is go for depart burn two. Spacex, copy for depart burn two. Siva confirmation from the core. Good read back from the dragon spacecraft. That vehicle is go for depart burn number two. That is expected in 12 minutes from now. What we expect to happen is dragon will slew, that is just a term for adjusting its orientation or attitude. There will be a few draco pulses to adjust the orientation of the spacecraft. Then we will use a combination of the forward bulkheads and Service Section dracos to perform this burn. The burn is expected to last 43 seconds. That little impulse, because of the orbital altitude we are at, will lower the perigee to our desired target. The burn after that will get us into our desired orbit below the International Space station, 10 kilometers below the space station before performing the final departure phasing burn for the afternoon. Leah this is the third of those four departure burns. As you mentioned, this one lasting about 43 seconds. Depart burn three at 1 14 a. M. Or6 14 p. M. Pacific time 1 14 a. M. Gmt. That would last around 42 seconds. That will be the next burn until we have the phasing burn later this evening. Then it will be time for bob behnken and doug hurley to get a little shuteye. Siva they will have a chance to have a meal aboard dragon. They have got plenty of food and water on board the spacecraft of course for the expected trip of this mission, which would have them landing tomorrow. They really have meals ready to eat on board the dragon. We actually have a question here from the denver og. How many gs to the experience on entry . Gs here referring to the Gravitational Force they will experience from the reentry forces. Took a look at the data earlier from the demo one mission. As well as some of our simulations and we are expecting the crew to experience somewhere around 4 to 5 gs during reentry. A lot of that will happen when the chutes deploy. On the way up, the experience on the order of 3 to 4 gs. During falcon 9s ascent. Nothing too far out of family for the crewmembers. Leah this view of crew dragon is from the International Space station. These cameras can be controlled by Mission Control houston. Joint operations with Mission Control houston have ended now that crew dragon is outside of the approach ellipsoid. It is entirely under the supervision of Mission Control in hawthorne, however houston is still monitoring the status of the astronauts and the vehicle. These cameras can be controlled by teams on the ground. They help us to find what we are looking for whenever the astronauts are on a spacewalk or get a better view of an arriving or departing spacecraft, as we have today. Crew dragon looking pretty small compared to how we saw it just even 40 minutes ago. Just before undocking, you can see the trunk near the top of your screen. Crew dragons capsule down at the bottom. That is the only portion that will return tomorrow at splashdown in the ocean. The trunk itself will be jettisoned and burn up upon reentry into the earths atmosphere. Siva we have another question from David Hernandez about if the dragon crew vehicle will be visible from earth. There were cool photographs when the iss passed in front of the sun while dragon was attached. You could make out from those photographs, from a telescope, the silhouette of the dragon vehicle. I think right now if you had a telescope pointed in the right direction, you may be able to see it. Sort of depending on whether or not the sun was behind the vehicle or not, but definitely definitely not visible with the naked eye. Definitely need help from a telescope. Leah your telescope would need to be set perfectly, because crew dragon is moving very quickly. Right now, it looks like crew dragon and the International Space station are flying 261 miles over the North Pacific ocean and moving at 17,500 miles an hour. So dont want to miss it. Siva we have a question from supermom hk fan, their fiveyearold. Why does the rocket need a heatshield . Dragon does have rockets on board, although we refer to it as a spacecraft. Dragon has a heatshield on board for the intense heat upon from reentry. We use the atmospheric drag to slow down the spacecraft. As the dragon spacecraft hits into that part of the earths atmosphere, it will compress the air and form a plasma at the base of the heatshield. That plasma is very hot. Very, very hot from the friction. Leah they will reach at approximately 3500 degrees fahrenheit on the outside of the vehicle. That is probably not uncommon for bob behnken and doug hurley, considering they both live in houston. [laughter] they are probably used to pretty hot temperatures outside, but they will have air conditioning, as anybody in houston, texas ows is aa kn necessity. Siva ground controllers here in hawthorne will do a check on the internal temperatures, potentially run some cooling. Before we get to that phase, we will detach the trunk. With that goes away our ability to radiate heat. We will do precooling during that toasty part of the mission. Leah eight cool a cool little glimpse here. You can see the dragon and the nosecone open. They will be using those forward bulkhead thrusters to make that burn. It will be the longest we see throughout the return home to slow crew dragon down enough to drop it out of that and bring it out of orbit and bring it back into earths atmosphere. It will then close after that burn. It serves as some protection for the vehicle upon reentry. Siva it protects navigation sensors on the top of the vehicle. The ones we were getting those the wefrared with and ones use for relative navigation when we are in proximity to the station. All of those underneath there. Coming up in four minutes from now, we will get a brief glimpse at those four bulkhead dracos. They will be used during this next burn, departure burn two, expected about 43 seconds to reduce the perigee, get that a little bit lower. Leah we will be looking for that burn at 5 27 p. M. Pacific time or 12 27 a. M. Gmt. That is the time zone the astronauts have been used to living aboard the International Space station. Now that they have departed, they will begin shifting their time zone back to life on earth and back to that of houston, texas, which is central time. Siva another question about who from Kevin Shannon about who the core is and what their role is in astronaut and vehicle health. The core is a position in hawthorne Mission Control, very similar to the capcom role at Johnson Space center. It stands for crew operations responsible engineer, and really they are responsible for understanding all of the procedures the crew run, as well as looking out for the crew and providing them updates on the status of the vehicle. They synthesize information from the other Mission Controllers as well as think ahead to other things the crew will need to know to conduct their orbit. And transport that information loads. E calcomm on the capcom side, role has traditionally been an astronaut. Leah it was at one time solely astronauts who held that capsule communicator position. Nowadays, it does not have to be. It is always someone who has Extensive Knowledge of the vehicle or the space station or the task at hand. At one point, it was always an astronaut, because they have experience in that vehicle. Now it can be any other very experienced individual. Another question, i heard you say there is no up or down in space. Can you explain . When you are in microgravity and you can orient yourself in every which way, there is really not the same up or down that we have on earth. I am standing on the floor right now, but when you are on the International Space station, the floor could be where some of the research racks you are working on are located. You flip upside down to get better access to them. There is not necessarily an up or down because that gravitational pull is not as strong in microgravity. Direction really goes out the window when you become an astronaut on the space station. Siva orientation is still very important, so we have frames of reference defined for the spacecraft. If you noticed when we were showing views of dragon attached to the space station, the nosecone was up, so to speak. The guidance officer and team prop systems officer and team here are understanding the orientation of the vehicle, but up or down is sort of a relative sensation. Leah we are a minute and a half away from departure burn two. This one is going to bring this will lower dragons perigee, or the lowest point of its orbit, to below the space station. Weve had dragon above the space station at this time. It will be bringing it back down and in front of the space stations orbit. It will be a 43 second burn. We will be looking for that in just about a minute now. Really cool to still be getting a disease from the International Space station. Dragon right getting these views from the International Space station. Dragon is about 10 kilometers from the space station. Probably have a pretty good lens on that camera giving the views. Leah if you have ever run a 10k, that is how far dragon is from the International Space station. They have made pretty good time, too. They separated at 4 35 p. M. Pacific, 11 35 p. M. Gmt, so under an hour for their 10k so far. Leah depart burn two in just a few seconds. And the burn has begun. We will be looking at i43 second burn using a combination of Service Section thrusters and thrusters on the forward bulkhead, which is that area that the nosecone would be covering when it is closed. Dragon spacex burn complete. Nominal burn. Dragon copies. Nominal burn. Siva there is confirmation from the core of a nominal burn, that burn happening just off the west coast of the United States in the pacific ocean. Leah the next burn will be depart burn three. That will be 41. 8 seconds and that will occur at 6 14 p. M. Pacific, 1 14 a. M. Gmt. That will be the last of those four depart burns. Then we will be looking later tonight to the phasing burn. Siva in between them, bob and doug will get some time to get a meal. They will start their sleep preparations. They have an hour before they go to sleep to get some time to sort of collect themselves, do whatever presleep activities they need to do. As i understand on the space station, that is some time for them to hang out, take photos, maybe talk to folks on social media. Leah they love to talk to their families as well. They are able to videoconference with their families every so often. It is important to us that we keep the astronauts connected with their families. It is important for mental health. We have seen a lot of this on earth going through the coronavirus pandemic, people being apart from each other. We have seen people connecting virtually now more than ever, so that is something the astronauts have been doing for a long time and dealing with isolation. We have teams on the ground that research how they are able to deal with that. He also feeds into the future of spaceflight. Looking at when we go out on these missions to the moon and eventually mars, that the astronauts will be gone for extremely long periods of time, how do we give them the opportunity to feel at home, to feel connection with people back here on earth . Especially an interesting problem when you consider mars, the light and signal delay can create anywhere from a 25 minute to 45 minute delay, which is why it is more impressive about perseverance and the other mars rovers that have to do everything autonomously. There is really no time for an operator to issue a command and see if it worked. That adds an interesting aspect to connecting with your families because that is a long time to wait for a reply. Leah a lot of research we are doing on the space station is in preparation for that. We have the Artemis Missions coming up. We are looking to go back to the moon in the first time in a most 50 years. That is scheduled to be 2024. We will be putting the first woman and the next man on the moon, so a lot of the research we are doing on the International Space station is paving the way for how we are going to establish a more permanent human presence on the lunar surface. Our coverage of the return of the spacex crew dragon from the International Space station continues sunday, starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. We will have live coverage of the final preparations before the spacecraft begins its trip back to worth. Weather permitting, the vessel is scheduled to splash down off the coast of florida at 2 42 p. M. Eastern with a News Conference to follow at approximately 5 00 p. M. Eastern. That is live sunday on cspan. Cspans washington journal, every day, we are taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day and will discuss policy issues that impact you and coming up sunday morning, author and the New York Times times editor will discuss his new book to start a war, how the Bush Administration took the america into war. Then spaceflight now Stephen Clark discusses sundays return dragon spacecraft, the International Space station. Also, Tommy Sanford of the commercial Spaceflight Federation will talk about the world of private industry in space tourism. Live atshington journal 7 00 eastern sunday morning and joined the discussion with your facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. After meeting for more than three hours at the capital today on another round of covid relief, we heard from top negotiators. First, House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Minority leader chuck schumer, followed by white house chief of staff mark meadows and treasury secretary steven mnuchin. Though a deal was not agreed to, both parties said the meeting was productive and that talks will continue. Minority leader schumer this was the longest meeting we had and it was more productive than the other meetings. There are many issues that are still very much outstanding, but we had a serious discussion. We went down piece by piece and saw where each side is at. The staffs will be meeting over the weekend, tomorrow, to go through some of the things we went through, and we will meet again on monday. We are not close yet, but it was a productive discussion. Now each side knows where the other is at and we will work hard to come to an agreement that meets the needs of the moment. We still believe, and discussed with them, that this is one of