Again, first set of folks driving to navigation light. The forward end of the dragon clearly visible from this view. Again, we are inside of the undocking sequence now. Good umbilical retraction. Dragon space x, first set of hooks open in nominal. The first six hooks have completed their driving first set down. Undock. Ow committed to seeing good motion on that second set of hooks. Continuing to drive. Folks, there of are six of them holding dragon into place now. Afterwards we will conduct two undocking to physically separate dragon. Dragon spacex nominal. Dragon, departing. Dragon spacex separation confirmed. Physical separation, 435. Thrusters looking good, counting down to a nominal departure coming up shortly. Dragon spacex, complete. Are visors up. And you heard part burn zero complete, moving slightly faster way from the International Space station. That, bob and doug have concluded their stay aboard the International Space station. The station and dragon are flying 267 statue miles over johannes berg, south africa. Part of burn coming up in about five minutes. Crew dragononoring crowfoot departure sequence but with dragon flying free, that will do it from us here. Godspeed, bob and doug. To take you through the rest of the departure sequence, we will send you back over to hawthorne. Bob and doug on their journey home. Endeavor is now on a trajectory to head up and over the station, the four additional maneuvers will change the orbital path to take it below and in front of the station. Dragon will autonomously accomplish that through three additional departure burns with that next one coming up in just 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 sectors providing an infrared view of the International Space station as bob and doug drift away from it. Of course, as they are drifting away, going into that slightly higher orbit, just because it is balancing the force of gravity along with their celebration, they will move a little bit slower than the space station. They conduct those additional burns, getting out of the approach and to keep out fear, they will come back down below space station about 10 kilometers below. A couple of in just minutes scheduled for 4 40 pm pacific time and 11 40 p. M. Gmt. 20 second burn, first increase in the opening rate between crew dragon and the International Base station. That view, what we just previously had, you can see it on the righthand rate of bobs display, it is a relative Navigation Center is providing infrared view from the forward toch of dragon looking back the forward module of the International Space station. That is where dragon has been for the last 63 days. Coming up in less than a minute is departure burn number one. Just about five minutes after separation, this is going to increase that opening rate. Between the space station and dragon. Separation occurred on time today, Everything Else is occurring on schedule. Sending them back toward earth, back toward home. Very, very exciting moments. We should expect to hear a call out for departure burn number one. Departure burn number one is pretty short, it only lasts about 21 seconds but it is going. O get us on our way about 200utsphere, meters around the International Space station, and if you have your two if you imagine two central parts of new york city next to each other, that is helping that is. And we are seconds away now from departure burn one. They are not pushing any buttons to make this happen. These are programmed into dragon and we will be looking at that in just a few seconds from now. Thats a view from the space station, that greenlight is the view that is on the righthand side of the dragon vehicle. That would be decide that bob was sitting on. Actually made pretty quick work getting away from the station. I will look at some data and see if i can get the actual distance to the station right now. Departure burn one has begun, that 20 second burn. Dragon spacex, depart burn one complete. Nominal burn, you are go to dr. Suits for decimal 012. Reminder that the ground will be deactivating following exit from ellipsoid which is approximately 12 to 15 minutes from now. We just cant thank you enough, it has been an honor and a privilege to be a part of this expedition with you. It has been a great two months and we appreciate all you done us prove outhelp dragon on its maiden flight. Thank missiono control for the incredible amount of work they did to make and successful for dragon also the team at spacex to keep us going toward the end of our mission. To wish you a Great Success on the rest of your expedition and a safe flight home. Thank you. Bob and doug wholeheartedly agree with those sentiments, it has been a real pleasure and an honor to serve with you. Safe travels and have a successful landing. Thanks, chris. And we just heard some kind words exchanged between crew dragon endeavor with bob and doug now on their way home. Iss and dragon on the big loop. See you guys in your back home. When you are back home. Leaving behind three people aboard the International Space station that will return in october. That is Chris Cassidy. You just heard they exited the keep out sphere, that is an imaginary sphere around the space station, one of several safety zones set up to govern any visiting spacecrafts either arriving or departing the station. Before moving in, spacecrafts have to be configured where they would not cross that boundary for at least four orbits, even if, as we mentioned, the spacecraft worked or some reason lose all of its maneuvering capabilities. That capability is really for, i ame looking having such a hard time saying that. It is on a 24hour safe friedrich trajectory and that is the call we are hoping to hear from. If you were to completely lose Commanding Authority over the spacecraft, we want to make sure that we would potentially interact with the International Space station in an uncontrolled way, so these burns are helping us to get out and away from the space station in a way that we could, if something were to go catastrophically wrong, protect the crew aboard the space station. Of course, dragon spacecraft has been rocksolid this entire mission, as a lot of redundancy into it, so that scenario is pretty unlikely but it is a good safety standard. This departure burn zero and one as you mentioned is bringing dragon up and over the International Space station. It is not just making a straight journey home, that will be determined later. And then the burden which commits us to leaving space to bringing them back to earth. Check. On to ground, i hear you loud and clear on dragon to ground. Loud and clear. As we heard, they are now testing out the cabin mics so they may beginning to take off their suits which is allowed now that the first two departure burns have been completed. The next is scheduled for 5 27 pacific time, that will be depart burn two. A. M. Gmt. Be 12 27 awake forauts are several more hours before they get their sleep later. Of course, they all got a chance to take a nap to the alert and awake for these operations. As you mentioned, the crew are in the middle of getting out of their suits. That was a pretty dynamic time , a time when it couldve been a potential depressurization. Burnurse, with that big out of the way and dragon now on a confirmed trajectory away from the a station, on its way close can get out ofy the spacesuits and get into something a little bit more comfortable. That test of verifying the cabin mic, the spacesuits asked to two microphones in them in the base of the helmet. Doug were moving the spacesuits they are testing their cap microphone to make sure they still have Good Communications with the crew operations engineers here in hawthorne. So we should expect a few more calls here as dragon moves away from the approach ellipsoid. The big loop is a network that connects Flight Controllers and Mission Control houston to the International Space station crew, visiting vehicles and our Mission Control team here in hawthorne, so we can all communicate with one another if anything needs immediate attention. The integratedof operations or joint operation with the internationals a station, we will transition into Mission Control here in hawthorne, having Mission Authority and transition all those calls to the dragon to ground loop. Is kind ofe station back to normal now that dragon has departed and they are still monitoring the departure, the crew on board specifically. I can imagine that the astronauts aboard the space station might be looking out and getting a last view of dragon before it returns to work, maybe in those windows we have on the International Space station. Now as he mentioned, dragon is outside, and it is a little more than 500 meters away from the International Space station, so we will be looking forward to exit coming up 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 really starts to get further and further away, thats the will pick up a little bit until they get into an orbit where eventually we will have our highest point 10 kilometers below the space station. And coming up after that exit, we willsoid also have three more birds scheduled for today, two more departure burns as well as a departure phasing burn and measured but not the activities for today and bob and doug will hopefully be in to get some rest before a pretty exciting day tomorrow. I can imagine they are very excited. Tomorrow they can wake up and several more milestones to look forward to including that final commitment to bringing them home , because of their rate change in potentially the weather of the next several hours, we would still be able to have bob and doug in orbit and they would have enough supplies on board that they could stay there for a couple of days, that we would for theopportunity weather to clear or to find a different splashdown site. But everything is looking clear for us to come down home in pensacola tomorrow. Right now underscore reviews of Mission Control on the righthand side, this teams Mission Digital in houston, and on the lefthand side, Mission Control in hawthorne. Currently still in joint operations as we are still on the approach ellipsoid and we in wetion out of that will Transition Mission authority to the Mission Director here in hawthorne. While we have been attached to the space station, any operations on the dragon spacecraft, of course, we are getting permission from the toght director in houston connect those commands because the Flight Control team in houston is really responsible for the health and safety of the crew and the International Space the safetywell as and performance of the International Space station. Kind of wild to think about it, i think that the International Space station as a destination, but earlier this, about two they had adjusted its orbit, so it was flying backwards, so does the. It is a spacecraft just like dragon, just your. Is actually an orbiting laboratory. We talked about some of the science that they conducted, and while they were there, they completed 114 hours of scientific research, and it is really amazing how much of that benefit life on earth. It gives us an opportunity to test they and to looking little closer at phenomenon that we cant and we are on earth. The International Space station has provided countless medical advances and technological advances for over the past 20 years. We mentioned earlier, this is the 20th anniversary of the internationals they station this year, so it is a big milestone. We will be something that later in november and that means there have been People Living in space continuously for 20 years. That is quite a feat. I love that this is such a good example of how when we work together, we accomplish something that at one time, no one could have ever dreamed of. Just reading some of the books by former crewmembers, i know they like to talk about food aboard the space station and the International Cultural events between crews, they consider themselves a big family, those kind words that we heard between them and the station crew. Just a couple of months. Im sure they all know each other pretty well from training. Something about being there with a common goal, they are your family when youre there. Of course, our astronauts get the opportunity to speak with their families pretty regularly because we want them to not get too homesick. They get a pretty good view in exchange. We actually are coming up very shortly now, looks like about a minute until the exit that of roche ellipsoid exit that approach ellipsoid it n, that approach ellipsoid is imaginary ellipse around the space station designed as a marker at the trajectories enter into the space around the station. They need to coordinate their operations with the Flight Control team. The way that we do that is of course through the loops that we have, and also through a set of flight rules. Both Mission Control teams will establish operating principles, philosophies, procedures, sometimes even going down to specific failures if a specific engine failed or if a certain attitude capability was lost or even the state of the lifesupport system. Criteria come up with that are very specifically analyzed and when it comes time to perform the operations, they will check those lists against the help of the vehicle and make performing before operations in proximity with one another. The next call we do expect to hear is that they will have exited the approach ellipsoid, everything occurring on time for dragon. And the International Space station currently flying over miles,ian ocean, 269 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 upc. That will be the next larger burn. Departure burn. A little bit of time before any significant milestones. And we are outside of the approach ellipsoid. Now that we are outside, as we said, everything happening like clock work today for the departure. On the big loop, dragon has exited. Houston will be taking down shortly. Expect audio traffic to cease. Dragon copies on the big loop. With that exit, that other imaginary threedimensional ellipsoid measuring three kilometers by two by two kilometers, that means that they are now 24 hours safe in a friedrich trajectory, so if the spacecraft were to lose maneuvering capabilities, it would not cross into the approach ellipsoid. Weve heard that call from the ground on Mission Control, hawthorne up the crew aboard for dragon endeavor. The crew acknowledging that call, they typically do some checks on dragon to ground when the transition. We heard those earlier while they were doing removing the spacesuits to transition into something a little bit more comfortable, probably a polo and maybe just some pants. Really, they will just be in monitoring mode until the next major event, which is the part or number two, scheduled for about 30 minutes from now. That depart burn will really increase the rate away from space station and start producing the current orbit. Following that will be an additional depart burn coming up later on in todays broadcast. A muchsing burn being larger burn than these two departure burns in the order of 60 minutes. Two willeparture burn be the longest weve seen so far burn that3 second will send dragon down and lower, the lowest point of orbit to the need the station. It will move down and out front. Ofon your screen is sort where we are conducting this burn. Performing ano orbital burn or imparting velocity to the spacecraft at the highest point of the orbit. Actually the most efficient way to move the optic end of the orbit. In this case because we want to bring the lowest point of the orbit down a little bit further, we are trying to connect that to get the most mileage out of that propellant. They will have depart burn three, that will be a 41 second burn. Downll keep dragon always below the International Space station. Later tonight we will be looking for a phasing burn, the longest one we seen so far at over six minutes. It will put crew dragon on the proper orbital path to lineup with the splashdown zone, and then eventually, we will have our burn tomorrow. Jettisoned,e trunk and they will come on home looking for a splashdown mexico, in the gulf of specifically at our pensacola landing site. The departure burn, taking a look at the data expected around 10 48 pacific time, that would be around 5 00 in the morning or so gmt. Again, that is the last major burn plan for tonight, right before they end up getting some shut eye for the night. They will get about eight hours of sleep and then tomorrow morning they will wake up from the core to get them started on preparations for the final burn of the mission which will be at the orbit burn. Hopefully for successful reentry. I dont know if you heard when they arrived on the International Space station, commander Chris Cassidy asked bob and doug how the ride was and they said it was very smooth and he asked if they got any sleep and they said yes, they did get some sleep. So im hoping they get the same opportunity tonight that will leave them up and ready for tomorrow. The reunion with their families, tomorrow they will also arrive back in houston, so they will fly back to Ellington Field and that is part of the Johnson Space center where we do a lot of our astronaut training. They will arrive back there tomorrow, have a welcome with their families and that it will mean, three people on the International Space station until october. That is a pretty day for them pretty busy day for them. Around 5 00t up a. M. Pacific time and the splashdown time is around noon. Then if they are flying to their final site, that is a pretty packed day. Absolutely. Its definitely one of the most dynamic points of the mission with the splashdown and eventually flying back, the recovered in the ocean and then getting to see your family after 63 days. That has to be pretty exciting. They were talking a little bit earlier. Looks like no call that time. One thing we are expecting here is the team and Mission Control of the conducting a gono go poll just to ensure that the Vehicle Systems remain healthy. Before each of these burns, the crew operation responsible engineer will give a call up to the crew to let them know if the Mission Control team is healthy for the burn. After those, we expect a call to provide a quick status update on performance of the system and whether the burn was nominal. Some of the things were looking for our performance of the engines as well as the amount of impulse transmitted to the vehicle, navigation officer paying close attention to the amount of momentum transferred to dragon as well as the current orbit as described by onboard navigation. Its all part of the responsibilities of the Mission Control to him. That bird expected about 25 minutes from now. Time, or27 pacific about 12 27 upc. 12 00 a. M. 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 our coverage of the return of the spacex crew dragon from the International Space station continues later today starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. We will have the final preparations before the spacecraft begins its trip back to earth including the splashdown which is scheduled ar 2 42 p. M. Eastern with News Conference to follow at. Pproximately 5 00 p. M. Eastern watch live coverage on cspan. This morning, author and New York Times writer Robert Draper talks about his new book, to start a war how the Bush Administration took america into iraq. Tommy sanford from the commercial Spaceflight Federation looks at the role of private industry in human spaceflight and space tourism. Also an update onod