Earth, splashing down in the waters of the gulf of mexico on sunday. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us at the Johnson Space center for the splashdown News Conference. Doug hurley and Operations Commander splashed down in the gulf of mexico after 64 days in space. In space. Completing the first crewed flight of the spacex crew dragon. Their mission was to test the capabilities of the knew commercial space vehicle for regular crew transportation to the International Space station, but they contributed a whole lot more than that on their mission, during their 62 days aboard station they dedicated more than 100 hours to science investigation and worked with the competition 63 crew to upgrade the stations power system on four space walks. Today is the first opportunity after splash down to ask questions to bob and doug, well be taking questions on our phone bridge as well as associate media platforms if you are on the phone press star 1 to ask add yourself toll queue. We would like to share some of the messages around the world welcoming bob and doug back to planet earth. Splash down. Welcome back too planet earth and thanks for flying spacex. Yeah. Music playing one, two, three, four. Music playing live from india, launchamerica. Music playing thanks to all who submitted these messages using the launchamerica. Well now pass to the demo2 for opening comments, start doing doug lure hurley. Its great to talk to you today. We are just a couple of days removed from splash down off the coast of florida, near pensacola. Excited to be back. We are already working through our exercise and Rehabilitation Program to kind of get our earth legs back. We were lucky that we worked out pretty hard on space station and i think we both have done pretty well up to this point. We also are lucky in the fact that we landed in some pretty smooth waters, thanks to the weather folks. And so i think that helps a lot. Just incredibly excited to be back. And incredibly excited to share the mission with all of you. In another way. And just so proud of the spacex and nay nasa teams to get dragon through its first crewed flight flawlessly. We are almost kind of speechless as far as how well the vehicle did and how well the mission we want. And all of the things that we did on board i. S. S. With Chris Cassidy and anatoly and eye von. So just glad to be back. Its gray its to see how excited everybody was. For our mission and follow it along and we hope it brings some brightness to a pretty tough 2020. Thank you, doug we now hand it over to bob behnken. I think doug covered most of what ekedder one of us would say about the mission itself. I would add its a humbling experience to be a part of what was accomplished with the spacex vehicle just a Wonderful Team on the nasa side and spacex side to pull it off. It took years in the making. Doug and i have been working at for a good solid five years to get to this point and its just awesome to see it to fruition. One of the things that we are most proud of is bringing launch capability back to the florida coast, back to america. And of course landing safely at the end of all of that. Just again humbled to be a part of such an awesome team and awed by what they accomplished. Thanks to you both for those initial remarks. Well now open it up for questions. Again, if you are on our phone bridge, please press star 1 to submit a question to. Insure that we get to everyones questions, please refrain from ask more than one at a time. With he have a lot of questions if you find that yours has already been answered press star 2 to withdraw it. If you are social media use the asknasa. Lets start on the phone bank first with laura from the verge. Reporter hi, bob and doug good to talk to you and congratulations on such a great launch. Leading up to this mention, the date of the launch was so uncertain and you mentioned you would plan your lies in inning increments of weeks and months at a time. I am winding how it feels now that you have a little more certainty in your schedule, thanks. Thats a good question. I dont know if certainty is the right word at this point. For both of us it still feels pretty surreal. I know thats overused but i dont know how else to describe it. One minute you are bobbing in the gulf of mexico and less than two days later newer a News Conference you know, its been a time to reflect and thank about a lot of the things that went on, the lead up to the mission, the mission itself, the launch, the on orbit time. The entry, landing, but, yeah, at least we know know we are done with the mission. Which we didnt even really know launch dates until just a few months after we launched. We didnt note discour didnt kf the mission until a few months before we came home. Its nice in that respect to be back with our family and friends here at nasa. And working through the post flight activities that we had. And they are pretty well scheduled for the next few weeks for sure. In fact, there is a lot of stuff to do over the next few weeks. We are hoping at some point to just take some time off and share a little more time with our families since they were the ones that really had to sacrifice over as bob said, over the last five years. Because we were most had i in california and mostly obviously the last two months in space. Next well go to andrea linefelder from the houston chronicle. Reporter welcome home. Bob, you gave a really great description of what it was like to launch in the crew d i was hoping you could give us a similarly have have i ever i hd account of what it was like to lands. Thank you. Thank you, andrea. You know, the landing was, i would say it was more than what doug and i expected. Things are always pretty smooth as you work through a deorbit burn, because, of course, you are still in lower earth orbit, while you take that little bit of energy out that it takes to lower new to the atmosphere and start the trip home. As we kind of descended through the atmosphere, i personally was surprised at just how quickly it all the events all transpired. It seemed like just a couple of minutes later after the burn was complete that we could look out the windows and see the clouds rushing by at a much accelerated rate. One of the things we didnt have a lot of time to do during our time docked to station with how busy we were was to really focus on the earth for an extended period of time. And during free flight in dragon we were able to do that. And probably had a good feel for the rate that the earth was moving below us and we could definitely tell things were picking up quick after we started that burn. Once we descended a little bit in to the atmosphere, you know, dragon really it came alive. It started to fire thrusters and keep us appointed in the appropriate direction. The atmosphere starts to make noise. You can hear that rumble outside the vehicle. And as the vehicle tries to control, you feel a little bit of that shimmy in your body. And our bodies were much better a tuned to the environment, so we could feel those small rolls and pitches and yaws, and all of those little motions were things that we picked up on inside the vehicle. As we did h descended through te atmosphere the thrusters were firing almost continuously and i think just the sound that that makes. I did record some audio of it. It doesnt sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere with all of that all the you haves that are happening from the thrusters and the atmospheric noise it just continue to gain magnitude as you decent down d n through the atmosphere and we all noticed those things. The trunk separation, the parachute firings were much like getting hit in the back of the chair with a baseball bat just a crack and some sort of a motion. Pretty light for the trunk separation with a pair sites it was a pretty significant jolt. And a couple of jolts as you go through the parachutes disconnecting as well. We talked about it, i think i took a line from an old movie and doug and i were both familiar at one point because of the g load of 4. 2 g. S i said do you wanna get some coffee. Much like we had seen in an old movie we had watched that was the feeling that we had had thats the best way to describe it if you have seen an old movie that happened to have some guys who had been in the centrifuges thats what we felt like. When the time came to splash down we were afternoon the altimeter which was a gps altimeter so its not super accurate everywhere that you are located so we got for below zero for altitude on that indicator which was surprising. And then we felt the splash and saw it splash up over the windows. It was just a great relief, i think for both of us at that point. And i cant say enough about how well the spacex team trained us. They provided us some audio clips of what it was like inside the demo1 vehicle so we were familiar with the sound, reassuring not the right word because we think it have more in technical terms as pilots and engineers ride ago long with the vehicle. But when it performed as expected and we could check off those events, we were really, really comfortable coming through the atmosphere. Even though, you know, it felt like we were inside of an animal. Lets go to david curly from the discovery channel. Reporter what a description, bob. Welcome back to both of you. I have a lot of Clinical Questions lets do the fun question and then the big question. Bob, did you leave something for megan. You dont have to tell me what it is. Will sportsnet leave ispacex wit there and doug you said you would talk about the historical meaning afterwards. Here we are, big picture, what does this mean . Thank you, gentlemen and welcome home. Its side the speak its something we dont do is leave things behind. We do our best to keep it in ship shape. We did leave a patch inside the speak. There is a demo1 sticker and we named it he endeavor i hope they keep those as we go forward and they add their decal to the interior of every den. Endeavor. For me the historical aspect, i think certainly the first u. S. Crewed vehicle since the shuttle, nine years ago. For me its significant because i was the last shuttle pie lit and the first commander of dragon, its neat to think about now. And i certainly maybe a year from now more important for me is historical for nasa and spacex for a company only around for a decade or a little more than that to build a spaceship that takes crew in to orbit and returns them safely, that part of the historical aspect for me is the most significant. And to be part that have for me is also by far the most important and one of the most incredible highlights that i will have from a professional career. To just share in that journey, that odyssey, that endeavor, as we named our ship was just a one of the true honors of my entire life but certainly my professional career. Can. Now go to marsha dunn from the associated press. Reporter hi. I am wondering did either of you realize real time that you were surrounded by pleasure boats filled with gawkers so soon after splash down . If so were you concerned . If you were unaware of them, were you surprise today find that out afterward . And bob, a real quick question, when is the puppy arriving . Well, i guess since bob has a really important question to answer ill talk about the boaters. You know, this is something that we discussed others a nasa spacex group prior to demo1 actually. And we certainly appreciate the folks wanting to participate in the event. There are some safety aspects that i think, you know, as the administrator said well have too take a look at. That cant happen like it did before. But certainly we were not k. And its mostly due to kind of the ways the windows looked after splash down. The reentry say fairly dynamic event and you can see from just an overall view of the capsule, reentry is a pretty demanding environment with the different scorches on the vehicle. And the windows were not spared any of that. To look out the windows you could basically tell that it was daylight but little else, we didnt see anything clearly out the windows until the spacex recovery crews got near us with the fast boats and we could see a head or two out the window. So, yeah, i had absolutely no awareness of the other flo flota out there until we were back on board go searcher and in the medical facility. I would add to that. Folks need to realize we were delayed with actually opening the hatch for an extended period while the teams made sure that everything was clear and the vehicle was safe for us to exit and for them to get as many people as required to perform that extraction for us. And so just a word to the wise for folks who have ideas of coming that close again in the future, that we take exspring precautions to make sure it is safe and we do that for a reason and hopefully theyll appreciate thats required with the safe operations. As far as the pup egos, wore a twoweek time frame where we need to teach nigh son a little bit about the things that are required to have a dog in the house. And make sure hes comfortable with picking up his responsibilities associated with the dog. I have done a lot of that with the i. P. Phone from the space station over the last couple of months. But now hes gotta put his work in to get the dog bed in the right location and show me that hes ready to take on that responsibility. And, you know, hes going to love that puppy and needs to bring him up right and well set him up for success otherwise it will be my dog instead of his. Lets go Robert Perlman from collect space. Reporter hi, bob and doug, great to see you back on earth. Enough in him now after the historic nasa first flight like yours it would be a given that something from the mission, the spacecraft or space suits would be headed to the smithsonian, given the commercial nature of your flight very little of your mission belongs to nasa, were it up to you, what would you like to see spacex donate to the national air and space museum or otherwise pout public display . And might we see your sons agree to donate tremor . Well, the they might make that agreement. I am sure they would request something in trade. I dont know. At least an opportunity to go see where tremors new home would be. I think there is a lot of tremors out there as well at this point. And so i think it could be that the marketplace is saturated with those tremors. As far as what i would like to see donated . , you know, i still think there is an opportunity for the history to play out and this capsule to still end up in the smith zonsmithsonian. It can be used and reused and find that permanent home. Spacex has done a wonderful job if you have visited or seen pictures inside the facility inside hawthorne, they have hardware that they have flown or tested and imagined to put on public display. Right here we have a here in houston, at the space center houston, they have a first stage now that was used and its nice to have that in full public view. And i am sure and confident that they are going to share pieces of the hardware with the public at large. You know, if you go out to hawthorne, there is a first stage sitting right there on the corner of the Property Line there. And its just awesome for people to see that hardware and be able to recognize it has hardward that was used for Space Missions and, you know, take a picture next to it. And be a part of it. And so i know theyll do it. And if it was up to me i think all of this hardware has a home someplace in the future when its used up. Its just not used up yet. Thank you. We are now switching to social media for a second. First of all, you have folks from all over the world on twitter and facebook saying hello and congratulations, brazil, england, canada, argentine arc the netherlandss all over the u. S. To name a few. This seems to be a common theme this is from shaneka, who gets to keep tremor . I think we are probably going to go along the lines of i believe its the nhl where the team that wins the stanley cup, if you are familiar with that. Each member of the team gets to have the stanley cup for a day or two. And i think well probably work out something along those lines where we just have a, you know, he spends some time at bobs place and then he spends some time at our place. I think thats fair. And then i think at some point obvious had the boys will grow up and potentially outgrow tremor and well figure out a good place follow tremor as well, just like hopefully with the endeavor and our suits and anything else that was associated with this mission. Its just a neat memory for bob and i as fathers, you know, to share this type of thing with our sons and we are just thankful that we were allowed to take tremor with us, and its frankly just amazing to see the response to tremor and how much people enjoyed that part of the mission along with some of the other things. We really appreciate that and thank folks for understanding, you know, that it was important to us. Well take one more ask nasa questions from leanne on facebook, asking whats the first thing you ate after returning to earth . I think for both of us the first thing we ate was the pizza that they had available on the jet that brought us back in to houston. So we had a good pizza. You know, we have done a lot of travel on the Aircraft Operation folks here at Johnson Space centers aircraft over the last 20 years, frankly. Whether it was t38s or was we responded to covid and used the larger airplanes to help us get from place to place from a training perspective. They have a good plan for taking care of crews on board and our landing day was no different than the other days, they had us all hooked up and set up and the pizza was waiting when we made it on board. Thank you. Now to the phone bridge, eric enter kerr from [ inaudible ] reporter hi, guys, congratulations on your excellent timing, houston in august is lovely. If i may ask a nontremor question. Were there any surprises from the mission . It looked so smooth from the launch, landing to us watching on the ground. Was it really that perfect . Did the vehicle perform that well . Or was there anything that happened like maybe you went in the capsule on orbit and that was a funny odor or, you know, something that alarmed you during the two months that you were up there . Or was it all just that smooth . Thank you. Frank lurk the dm2 mission part of it, as well as the docked i. S. S. Mission that we participated in composition 63. Certainly the dm2 mission, i personally expected there to be more, you know, certainly not issues with the vehicle but some challenges or things that were maybe not quite what expected. I mean, even on our shuttle flights we had things that happened on both of mine and i know, you know, bob and i have talked a lot about his missions as well, there were things that happened that were right out of a simulator event and something that you certainly wouldnt have expect ed in a real flight. But my credit once again is to the folks at spacex, the production folks, the people that put endeavor together. And then certainly our training folks the mission went just like the simulators. Honestly from start to finish all the way, there was real know surprises. For me personally, i expected the entry to diverge somewhat by what we saw in the simulator. And what i mean by that is, as a capsule gets in the thicker air of the atmosphere, some so somewhere 20k down to maybe 10k prior to the drogues with dragon, i expected there to be some divergence in attitude control. Its a real tough problem for the ship as it gets in to the thicker air to maintain perfect attitude and control and at some point, in the design of this vehicle, is for the drogues to come out potentially earlier than they nominally would come out to kind of right the vehicle. I fully expected that to happen. And it did not. The vehicle was rock solid. Right up until the nominal drogue deploy altitude and as bob described, you could feel it it, you knew exactly, you felt the desell. You knew the drogues worked. It was the same with the mains. Right to the impact in the water. We kind of have a feeling it would be not as much as a soyuz landing as it was described too us but it would be a firm splash down. And then, you know, how we bobbed in the water and how the vehicle sat in the water, so my compliments to spacex, and the commercial crew program and the vehicle performed exactly how it was supposed to. And you feel really good about crew1 and what they should expect and see in they fly their mission. Next is Chris Davenport from the washington post. Reporter hey, guys, welcome back. Good to see you. Two quick ones. Just looking for maybe bob a description of what it was like inside dragon when the heat was building and that plasma was building were you cool, what the view was like. Maybe doug if you could talk about how calls you made on the sat phone and who you called. Thanks. You know, as we came through the atmosphere, i think we had a pretty good view out the window. Until the gs started building at least for me, my focus kind the shifted towards the display content and the windows are down by our feet and so being able to look at those requires kind of head motion and pushing your body around and so just didnt seem like the smartest thing to do as the vehicle was maneuverings and putting gs onto move our heads and around turned around in the seats. At that point we were make sure that we were good and strapped in. I do feel like i felt some warming of the capsule on the inside the feel notice was when i got a chance once the gs came down to look out the windows again, they were obscured as doug described earlier. We saw the clouds racing by and the g load started building up and we focused on monitoring the vehicle and paying attention to the small bobbles that we could feel. As it controlled the attitude and then there was not much to see out the windows by the time we had another chance to do i i. Ill just add i had an entry that was a night entry and then a day entry and its tough with shuttle even to see the plasma in the daytime. Its almost just this really thin pinkish hugh that in the front seats of the shuttle you could pick up just very, it was very difficult to see. I certainly didnt expect with a full daytime entry like we had with dragon and then as bob described the position in the windows well to to where we seat until the seats adjust for th the basically to get our heads more vertical than our feet after we are under parachutes, you real way to work hard to see out the windows. And as far as the sat phone, yeah, that probably was a pretty funny to hear to have astronauts calling whoever we could call. But there was a real reason for it, you know, nick hague, when he had his abort on board soyuz, theyve phone where they are able to call folks but some of the numbers either werent correct or werent loaded. As i think most people know in this day and age we know very few phone numbers by heart like we knew many years ago. So we wanted to get a test objective out of the way which was to call the core station at hawthorne and when we called to say, hey, we would like to do that. They said stand by and so we decided we would exercise our judgment and use the phone to call some other folks we called anthony at the flight director console here, hi, this is bob and doug we are in the ocean and we also called our wives who happened to be together. I think they were here at Mission Control and, of course, they were excited and as all folks know, that have gone through this, as a Family Member you are kind of helpless until you hear the voice of your loved one on the other end. And this was a great chance to reassure them that we were in the water, we were okay. We were feeling good. And then at that point we were still waiting on spacex and so we just decided to call a few other people that we knew their phone number numbers to we got f a few. As anybody has used a sat phone sometimes they work, sometimes they dont connect. It was a very successful test and we are confident that future crews if they need it its a good option for communication. Next is steven clark from space flight now. Reporter hi, guys, congratulations on a Successful Mission and welcome back to earth. Thanks for taking my question. I just wanted to, you know, by all account it was a very successful test flight. Just based your experiences, can i get one of you to comment on if you think crew dragon is ready to go for crew rotation missions to the iss with your successful return . Thanks. I think both of us are in agreement no questions that the crew dragon once they finish the certification process, they need to look at the data from our entry, you know, its not just the end users anecdotes of how well it performed. They will do a very thorough review both on the spacex side and the nasa side to make sure they are comfortable. But from a crew perspective. I think its definitely ready to go. There are things that can be improved just jut like even with the final flight of the space shuttle. I know doug will tell you there are things that could have been improved or would have been improved if we flew 136, there will be things that well have ideas about how we can make things more form am or more efficient inside the vehicle for those crews but from a crew perspective. We are perfectly comfortable say crew1 is ready when they finish the engineering and analysis associated with certification. One thing i would like to add about that. Bob and i talked many times over the last few years about the duration of the flight. Until the beginning of that year. It would be little same length as the dm1 flight just a few days in space. I personally feel better even though there were challenges dealing with the duration of the flight and when all of that would come together, i certainly feel much better from the crew one perspective and gent flights osubsequentflights having dragoy station for two months is a much better outcome for me than if we would been up there for a few days if you are asking the crew one folks to be up there for a full six monthish type duration, i think they should have a lot more confidence that the vehicle does fine and the why he is sent mode docked to station and there wasnt anything that maybe wouldnt have been uncovered. That wouldnt about been uncovered if we were just there for a few days. We have gina from abc news. Reporter what mission would be on the books for both of you next . What would you like to do . At least for me, i think in the shortterm i transition to a support role. As you know my wife is assign today a Spacex Mission and we have a young son and so ill definitely be focused on make sure that her mission is as successful as possible and supporting her university as she did for me over the last five years with the uncertainty in our launch dates and our uncertain any in our return dates. Its definitely her turn to focus getting her Mission Accomplished while i take care of the things that need to be taken care of for our home life. Next is Elizabeth Howell from space. Com. Reporter welcome home. And i wanted to know what kind of Lessons Learned or advice that you would give to the crew one when they get ready to go. Thats a great question. We have a tag up with those guys i believe early next week and i think we have mentioned before that we talked to them shortly after launch and once we were docked just to kind of while it was fresh in our memories, a data relay to all of the things that we noticed or saw, sounds, and things that really cant be emulated very well in a simulator. That would trigg, you know, any of the other Training Objectives that they are going through right now as they wrap up their training. Lessons learned, you know, there are always lessoned learned. That we could be more efficient about or we learned or thought would work juan way or maybe would work better for another. But generally speaking its more just relaying the experience and what we did in those particular situations. And throwing too imagine what it would be like to have four people in the vehicle rather than two. We did some docked operation evaluations with four people and, you know, we had anatole and i chris act as another two crew members and their vast experience in flying soyuz and space flight in general they had some great suggestions. And we at the time passed those things on in the debrief and will talk to the crew one folks about that as well. Yeah, there is a formal process and then an informal process and well try pass on everything that we learned and what we think might work the best with a crew of four. Joey roulette from reuters. Reporter thanks for doing this. And, bob, i really appreciated that description of the descending in crew dragon you gave early in the call. Do you think there is anything spacex can or should do to make crew dragons descent calm or is thatted way it should be or what you expected . I think from a crew perspective. Whats important is that you understand the events that the vehicle is going to go through. And know what to expect. The thing i found most valuable having gone through that experience is something actually the launch team put together for us, pulled together some a scent video from both demo1 and the a port test they performed to show what the sound in dragon were sync up with the video feed. Being able to watch that and hear the sound and see what they corresponded to on the video from the outside tracking cameras that were some place was invaluable for me understanding what the vehicle would be going through and comfortable as we monitored it sai it. Appropriately. Doug and i both had confidence like we described earlier that the drogues had come out and that the briefing had happen ahead cord to go schedule just based on being able to watch that video and hear the sound and have all sider up we knew what to expect. This maybe sound boring and i will get probably some flack from talking about a movie cliches again, but, you know, there is a move ground how long day where they sequence through and everything is predictable for Dynamic Events like a space flight, for a scent and for entry. Its invaluable as you control your body whether its gloading or dynamics pitch, yaw, and roll signed the vehicle sets you up for success to do anything that you might due in those dynamic situations and i think that video that the spacex team put towing was just wonderful i watched it again on orbit and before we came home and that will be on our list of things that we recommend to the crewrun guys if they havrun gt watchewatched it its somethingt they should and everybody consider having baseball on orbit. Next up is Morgan Mcfall from business insider. Reporter hi, bob and doug, welcome home and thanks so much for taking my question. I am wondering what you would most like to see for the partnership between nasa and spacex Going Forward . What are you most excited about in the knew era of human space flight . Thank you. Well, its neat to see spacex is in the competition to build the lunar land we are two on companies. And we have had as an agency, we have had a Wonderful Partnership with spacex from commercial cargo to commercial crew and they continue to work towards the goal of getting humanity in to the cosmos. Giants person visual relationship for both spacex and nasa and again the successful dm2 proves it should be something that we should continue. And i think a excited to see that happen. It was a it was a lot of work to get from where we started five years ago to now. But its just they are a Wonderful Company to work with. And they have some incredibly talented people. And i think there is plenty to come from the relationship that nasa and spacex have. From my perspective, it really is critical to continue to building build on that relationship that doug has referred to. It wont be appropriate if we take the next step which is to restart with a different nasa team and a different spacex team. We really need to leverage those relationships and continue with all of the five years of experience that we have of figuring out the things that nasa can best share with spacex to make them as successful as quickly as possible and that applies to all of the partnerships that nasa sets up is figuring out the best way to communicate and share information is how we all cooperation to get to our end objective i am really excited as we go forward that the relationships and the work that the groundwork in place will be leveraged to accomplish even more great things in the future. Tale wake one from mark from aviation week. Reporter wondering what the primary question is you are getting from your astronaut colleagues is and what you are telling them about the experience . We havent had a ton of interaction where anybody. Given that when you get back from space you have a pretty compromised immune system to some degree, so we are taking every precaution that we can to try to stay away from most folks. Although there is a lot of medical testing and rebil rehabilitation going on, but there will be time to do debriefs. I think as i mentioned before certainly with the crewrun folks, coming up here shortly. We are not seen a lot of them because we are in the stage of the pandemic where we are still i think even the folks that are havent gone to space are trying to distance and wear masks and those things. We definitely know that there are a lot of questions, we have certainly gotten a lot of texts and emails and hopefully we can describe everything from memory that is pertinent and as problem said, spacex will certainly have a synced up video with audio for our ascent as well as our entry that will be passed down for multiple crews for them to use. I would say we are still in the phase where all of our astronaut colleagues are not asking us for information. They know now is not the time for that. They are asking us do we need anything. Are our families well taken care of. Are we in good shape. Thats their primary focus right now is taking care of the team, which is the astronaut office. And so all of the well wishs that come in, are do you need anything, is there dont climb a ladder ill change the light at your house, those sorts of things and its been wonderful how many folks have reached out to try to, you know, make sure what we are well taken care of off after the mission that we just went through and its like that for every mission when crews come back. Wail well go social media for a few more questions there using asknasa this is from natalie on twitter what is the reconditioning process like to get reacquainted with gravity . We spend two hours every day with our strength and conditioning specialist and its essentially just walk before you run literally type process, we do stretching. We do aerobic exercise, we do some lifting. And some agile at this drills and its you are pretty tired after the two hour process. And we have just started it yesterday. So on day two. And it will continue for roughly 45 days. And most people really adjust in that time. Certainly before you get to 45 days, but its a continuous process to get you right back to where you were preflight. One more from Associates Media from leo on twitter, what is the greatest lesson that i young person can learn from this mission, especially in these challenging times . The greatest lesson folks can take from our experience is one of persons convenience. Doug and i didnt get to this opportunity this team didnt get to this success without years of hard effort. You know, challenges along the way. Doing some complicated like developing a new spacecraft and launching, developing a new rocket and putting a spacecraft on top it have and launching it to the International Space station its a tremendous level of effort thats required to accomplish that. And there are setbacks. There are challenges where you know, rocket performance isnt what you expected. Or propulsion system on board a capsule isnt exactly everything that you thought it was. And you have to adapt to those challenges. And you have to overcome them and continue forward. And maintain both optimism and paranoia as you go through that perseverance and so those are all normal things as you try to accomplish, you know, challenging task and so i am hopeful that our experience, the entire spacex teams experience and the nasa teams experience one of just the focused effort for an extended period of time. You know, can lead to just awesome results if you stay focused. And so that message of perseverance is the one that i would want to share. Well now go back to phone bridge starting with marina from the atlantic. Reporter hi, bob and doug, welcome back. What advice would you give to future crew dragon passengers who are not astronauts . And a quick second question. You have been Close Friends for years, did your friendship survive this historic experience . [ laughter ] all right. What advice would we give kind of the nonprofessional astronaut when they are flying on crew dragon . Purely that spacex and nasa collaborate today build a tremendous vehicle that is very capable of the mission to go to and from lower earth orbit safely. Its a comfortable vehicle. There are things that are just aspect of flying in space that i think most folks dont quite realize or understand. There are times when its uncomfortable. There are times when of course you cant take a shower. You know, going to the bathroom is a challenge, but i think in general, its an outstanding vehicle. And they should be excited to fly on board to get that experience if they are lucky enough to do it. And i think as far as our friendship, it certainly survived. If anything it just got stronger. You know, being part of a crew with chris and anatole and i ivon, it was just neat to see the team develop. As bob had mentioned before, and i am sure i did too, we have known chris for a long time. We flew our first flight together and its neat to see the composition 63 crew develop and work through the last few months it was very rewarding and for me personally. Maybe i didnt appreciate that aspect as much because our huge concern and challenge was making sure dm2 flew the way it ended up flying successfully. It was neat and such a huge advantage for bob and i that we are close friend that just the crew coordination part it have and flying dragon we didnt even have to say anything if we were just pointing or at that particular moment look at that part of a display because thats what we knew would be the thing that was most important. I know that did you want necessarily always go in to the selection process, but i think, you know in, this case, when we were selected to fly this Mission Together it give us a distinct advantage over some crews. Little and it was certainly very much appreciated by me. Just as doug the, being able to add chris to our friendship and anatole and i ivan is how it worked out. It was us focused on the mission and chris as the commander of the space station being able to shift in to the support role when it came time for us to get docked and us to shift in to our support roles once we were on board the space station. Of course is spacewalk activities have various sync points where the leadership kind of moves around and we were able to do that very seamlessly. Part of that is related to how close and strong our friendships were across the board. When it came to the end of the mission and time town dock chris jumped back in to the support role again and helped us with the Cargo Transfer that we needed to put in place, some of the power play load activities it was just all very seamless, folks understood what their responsibilities were, we were able to, you know, cooperate and Work Together to make it all happen and get the mission done. And so i would say, you know, our friendship is stronger and we added some folks to our circle as well. Next is Mary Liz Bender from cosmic per perspective. Reporter welcome home, bob and doug. I want to first thank you for sharing wisdom on perseverance. You shared a lot of stunning images of earth while you were on the station and i really enjoyed the perspective you gave with the captions that you used and i wanted to ask what compelled you to share so much and what was your favorite location or future to photograph . I think we can both answer that one. For me, every time you look out the within coast space station and certainly we didnt get the opportunity that i thought we were going to get, you know, based on the description of previous crew members. Our time was used up a lot to make up for the fact that, you know, we were down to three crew members on the space station prior to us getting there. And rightly so, the International Space Station Program needed us to get to work right off the bat. But the time we did get to do that. The perspective that you have from lower earth orbit of our planet, is just one of complete awe, first of all how beautiful the planet is and that there are no borders that you can see from space. That the atmosphere is so thin. And literally every time you look out the window, you see Something Different and even more beautiful than the last thing you saw than the last time you looked out the window. Maybe more so this than in past years, that astronauts have taken photographs out the window the country, United States and the world has been dealing with so much chaos and drama and the pandemic, and all of the things that have been going on in the world and, you know, if it were me, it would make me feel better to see these pictures from space. And so i think we just felt like it was a way to maybe have folks maybe have a distraction for a while. And also to appreciate the planet that we have been given. You know, its unique in that standpoint and just beautiful to look at. And its i personally feel its our obligation to share what we see because not everybody is going to get to go to space. And to just bring as much of the experience to everybody back on earth is something i thought was very, very important. I think for both of us, we didnt expect to have a longer duration mission, we expected to have just a few short days, which would have really limited our opportunity to share the station life aspects or the things that you can see from lower earth orbit or from the space station with folks. And when we got the opportunity for a longer mission i think we both wanted to take advantage of that. You know, i think the earth below is is a wonderful view just some Amazing Things to see. I am a little bit i am a physicsed train engineer background sort of thing i was really interested in the things that were examples of science or engineers on physics below us or above us happening whether it was light shimming across the ocean surfaces or sunrises and sunset and trying too figure out how to get a photo and share it so somebody else could have the same ones their we have when we get a chance it see it ourselves what was really important to me. With we had some interesting things we were in continuous daylight. We got to do a spacewalk in continuous daylight which was crazy to imagine being outside the entire time with the sunup the entire time was a strange thing to get your mind around. And we got to have that experience. And so as a part of that, i think it took away the opportunities for us to get as many shots of the Comet Neowise that was rising and kind of came in that same period so we had too much light to see it very much. But just all of those things that you can see whether its lightning or the cities at night or look out at the milky way and see the stars in the background or see the glow of the earth and see that it is not dark even at night compared to the darkness of space. Just imagery that we wanted to share and maybe spark an interest the wonder that we were able to see and whether its a child or an adult on you ought there. So that in this year, and in years in the future, folks can look at that and be inspired to have the kind of careers that we have had or, you know, chase a different dream than the one we have chosen. Next is irene from aviation week. Reporter thank you. I realize you are still digesting all of this, but if you if the decision were up to you about when to fly a friend, family, other nonprofessional astronaut, do you think that this system is mature enough after just perhaps another two flights to have that kind can have make sense . Thats a good question. I think if it were me and it was a Family Member, certainly as bob described there is a certification process that endeavor hasnt completed yet and it will likely be weeks. And i think from my experience flying fighters and testing fighters, you know, a first flight there is a lot of scrutiny to a first flight and a lot of work that goes in to a first flight. But you cant let your guard down. And you gotta take a look at the data. You have to listen to the hardware and its probably going take a few flights because, you know, we certainly did our best and i think the teams did their best to script this flight to be a fullup test flight. But there are certainly things on dragon that can be tested more. And just for an example, we docked to the forward part of the space station, there is certainly the likelihood that a dragon has to dock to a different docking port either the zenith, i think its the seen i can port that is likely to be next for a commercial vehicle it sound significant but it isnt. All the software that needs to go in to the vehicle. And the analysis they need to do to make that possible. For our flight that was not possible the software had not been written to do at that docking port. Just things like that much i think it will take a few flights before and i think thats prudent a few flights before we can consider this vehicle completely tested. Aas we all know, the Space Business like a lot those technically challenging business is his not forgiving. So you the bigger thing to take a look at is to just not let your guard down and dont just assume because the last flight went perfectly that the next flight is going to go perfectly. You have to do that rigor and that analysis and that attention to detail and you cant get complacent. And you can never get complacent with the a space vehicle. Thats all the time that we have for questions today. Thanks for all who submitted questions and thanks to bob behnken and doug hurley for taking too the time to discuss s historic vent. The demo2 mission is part of Nasa Missions and we have more mile stones stones coming enough future for the latest please visit nasa d some of our cairo our live coverage wednesday. Sally yates testifies in front of the Judiciary Committee as part of the russia probe investigation. The National Governors Association Summer meeting gets underway at 2 30 p. M. At 10 00 a. M. , the Senate Commerce committee holds a hearing with all five members of the ftc. To focus one likely acquisitions by Big Tech Companies like google, facebook, and amazon. Coming
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