Transcripts For CSPAN NASA TV Coverage Of SpaceX Launch 20240711

The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the same caps off procedure that we are using today. The engines were fired for 30 seconds and we did not allow the flight computer to command lift off. Following static fire, we did perform a final dresser her soul with the crew. Dress rehearsal with the crew. We loaded the time sensitive items, what we call the late load cargo, on the dragon late saturday. , the lunchpad 39 a team will perform final checks in t minus two hours. The dragon team has been prep pressurizing their propulsion systems. Asked her a weather briefing, condition the astronauts received a weather briefing. Weather protects a 50 chance of rain on the flight path, thick clouds possibly, static electricity might be an issue. But they sound a little optimistic that the weather we have seen come towards us may not make it and will stay away long enough for the launch today. Also, around the world, splashdown locations for the contingency argo. In the event of an all andomenal scenario, spacex nasa are ensuring crew safety on splashdown. This includes includes extra ships. This will help mitigate safety for any boaters approaching the landing area. We have been instantaneous launch window, that means we cannot move the watch time. We have to go at the planned minute. If we need to delay there is a launch opportunity on wednesday. With everything going at pad 39 , lets go to houston. Welcome to the International Space station control room in houston, texas. Mission control houston is the nerve center for operating the International Space station, working with our Partner Agencies and providers around the globe. We have ensured that the station is ready to welcome crew one. We have the team inside the room with the director. There is a noticeably smaller team inside the room. The crew is currently asleep. Tomorrow we will see a larger group for docking. A few hours before dragon arrives at station, the flight director will take the chair again through dragons approach and docking. Pools, lead the gono go where the integrated operations are with Mission Control here in houston and also in hawthorne, working in sync to bring crew dragon home. Later i will go through the work you have been doing we have been doing to prepare. Until then, we will keep an eye on the countdown to launch and check back in with you soon. Lets go back to Kennedy Space center. Thank you. The astronauts will begin suiting up in just a few minutes. One of the traditions they continued is designing the patch for their mission. This marks the beginning of sustained government commercial partnership missions. And this spacecraft is the focus of the patch. The spacecraft is flying from the bottom left to the top right, rep romantic representing assent. And superimposed on the background of stars completing the outline of a dragons head. The c borders the patch which with the number one represents the mission, shadows the legacy of the human spaceflight programs around the border. Thats a shuttle, apollo, mercury, and gemini, recognizing their contribution to the crew. The outline of the space station is also on the border to acknowledge their destination and its contribution to remaining a lowearth orbit for the u. S. And international partners. You may notice there are no individual names were flags. The patch on his not just the flu member the crew members on board but all of the nasa and spacex employees who Work Together to make this spacecraft. Vision,h honors their service, and support. They dedicate this to their families. I have to tell you, when i saw it, it made me smile because of the blue dragon. One of the traditions we have within the Astronaut Office, in addition to designing the patches for mission is that the class before you gets to name you. When shannons class came on, our class, the bags, class of 2000, got to name class of 2004. They originally wanted to and in themselves. They wanted to name themselves the blue dragons. We denied that, they are the peacocks. But i thought that was funny, no coincidence that shannon is on this mission and theres a beautiful blue dragon. At t minus four hours, we are just inside that, any moment we expect to see the roots begin to suit up just down the road from us. We will have a live look inside the suit up room as they begin to help astronauts put on spacesuits and perform key checkups. The current scheduled wake up time was 11 47. Theyre are probably up a little earlier but that was their scheduled wake up time to adjust their sleep schedule in preparation for launch. They had lunch at 12 15. I got a text message with what they all ate. Mike hopkins had a new york state, medium rare with seasoned fries and dirty rice. Shannon had a juicy medium hamburger with no soggy bun, brioche bun, sweet potato fries and arugula salad. Soichi had and victor had lamb chop medium with sweet potato mash, the same salad but no dressing. I wonder if they had to preorder. You can get premuch whatever you want. Forou are so well taken taking care of us. You are so well taken care of and i think food is at the top of the list. My mouth was watering thinking about all that. Besides lunch, they did some other thing this morning. They had the routine daily medical check, flight day preparations including reviewing the procedures on their tablets before suiting up one final time. They listened to a weather briefing 15 minutes ago. Any minute now we expect a live view inside of the suit up with an instantaneous window. The crew is starting preparation. Checkouts are complete. We are not tracking any issues at this time. In the event of a scrub, the next available launch time will be wednesday, november 18. Open in the event of any crew emergency. 45o into lockdown at t minutes. To personnel are requested stay in their location until lockdown is complete. Healthy and good to go. Copy. Any comments . Successful security test overnight. Any issues. Racking were expecting to have a live view inside the suit up room momentarily. Sound like theres noshes with falcon 9. The primary concern is weather. The down range weather actually looks pretty good. Were going to keep an eye on weather around the pad. Heres our first live look inside the suit up room. Well, it is so exciting to see this. All four of them. Yeah, theres a look at commander, mike hopkins. Kate, walk us through what are they doing in these seats and theyre getting check outs and making sure the fit is good. Walk us through what is happening . Each astronaut has an assigned Crew Team Member to make sure they are part our suitup eteam. That assigned crew member is responsible for communicating any feedback, making sure were getting thumbs up and everything is fitting well and is comfortable. These suit techs, theyre all assigned to each astronaut. Its to make sure each astronaut is undergoing the same checkout list. Theyre doing this would have happened before the suits came on. Those suitup technicians were doing maybe things that we might consider small in detail. They were checking to make sure that the astronauts they didnt have any jewelry, rings, earrings. Only thing theyre allow to wear is the nasa provided watch. Making sure those smaller things are off before the suit gets put on. We can see shannon in the seat now. Tell us about the seats theyre sitting in. Theyre not like the recliner. Theres a special reason for these chairs. Yes. These chairs, these are basically gsc, Ground Support equipment chairs that are pretty identical to the chairs they will be sitting inside of the cacapsule. The reason were suiting them up there, to make sure the umbilical that connects directly to the seat. They communicate they allow the astronauts to communicate and they provide environmental systems. Make sure our friends are nice and comfortable during their ride. We are pumping cool air through the suit. They are sitting in these chairs that are duplications of the chairs inside of the capsule to make sure that all of the umbilicals will get hooked up properly. The recliners nicole is fond of, they are in the room. You might be able to see them in the background in some of the shots. Essentially these chairs allow us to make the essential checkouts prior to econom exit exiting. Nicole you did this twice before. It really does. I dont know, im kind of feeling some level of excitement that they might be at this point. Its nice to see all four of them in there and snug in their seats and getting ready to go launch in space today. This first Long Duration crew to fly on a special spacecraft as a diverse collection of experiences they bring to this mission today. Crew dragon commander mike hopkins was born in lebanon, missouri but grew up outside richland, missouri. He was selected as an astronaut by nasa in 2009. Hopkins is a colonel in the United States air force and holds degrees in aerospace engineering. He flew on the russian soyuz. Logging 166 days in space. Hopkins performed two spacewalks totaling 113 hours. His military experience includes testing c17 and c130 aircraft. Pilot Victor Glover was a native of california. Hes a commander in the United States navy and holds degrees in general engineering, flight test engineering, Systems Engineering and military operational art and science. Which will be gloves first space flight, he has extensive military test flight experience. He was test pilot for the fa18 hornet and superhornet. Hes accumulated 3000 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft over 400 carrier arrested landings and 24 combat missions. Mission specialist Shannon Walker is from houston, texas. She was selected as an astronaut by nasa in 2004. She is a doctor of philosophy in space physics. Walker flew on the russian soyuz on board the iss in space, for 163 days. During that mission, she was the robotics operator supporting the team has arrived with the crew arm on schedule. Shannon is one of only few disease people tdozen people d cosmonaut. During the mission, she lived inside the worlds only underwater research station aquarius, which is 50 feet beneath the earth surface. I can attest that the nemo missions are the best analogue to living and working in space. Mission specialist, Soichi Noguchi is from japan. He was selected as an astronaut by japan in 1996. He has degrees in air nautical engineering and is doctor of philosophy. Noguchi logged total 177 days in space. He became the first japanese astronaut to perform spacewalks on the International Space station, completing three of those spacewalks totaling 20 hours. Each of these four crew members will serve as flight engineers for expedition 64. We will be sure to well continue to give you a close look at each of them as we continue to approach our t20 time. Its interesting, as we introduce the crew members. We have all these small world, brings you back connections. Noguchi was on the flight from columbia. One of his crew mates is shannon husband, andy thomas, who is also an astronaut. Its a small world for sure. You know, we heard a lot about their individual experiences, nicole, how important is it to have a group of astronauts on a Mission Together that do have who have been through so many different things. Whats your perspective . I think its just in general, weve seen across different industries, nasa, i think, exemplifies this fact that when we bring different backgrounds together, we have a more Successful Mission and we can look at solving problems in different ways. The International Space Station Program, without looking at the crew members here today, has brought together 15 different countries, five International Space agencies all working peacefully successfully for this last 20 years. I think its a perfect example of how when we bring these different experiences together we have real success. Its also worth noting, even though this is the second crew to suit up for crew dragon space flight, they will accomplish several first. Walker will be the first woman on a commercial orbital space flight. Noguchi is the First International partner crew member. He will be the First International partner astronaut to fly aboard three different types of orbital spacecraft. Those being the u. S. Space shuttle, russian soyuz and now third the spacex crew dragon. Glover will be the first black astronaut to fly on a special spacecraft and the first black Long Duration crew member to live aboard space station. Making history on many fronts today. Just checking back in with the crew there. We see them lifting the visor what they were doing just before they were actually pressurizing the suits to make sure that everything was fitting properly, making sure all the seals were in place. The spacesuits are custom fitted for each astronaut. They are especially design to fit their specific body. Theres absolutely no chance that you can put someone elses on and you cant mix them up. Same goes for their seat assignments inside the capsule. These suits utilize zippers in certain places to help make sure. Some of what we saw before, making sure the zippers are fully closed in place, making sure we can apply pressure within the suit for environmental controls and also allows us to maintain environment in the unlikely event of cabin depressurization. Safe to say, this mission represents a lot. Its crazy to think that demo 2, lifted off and splashed down earlier. Years of cooperation with the cargo program, the Cargo Resupply Program with nasa going to the International Space station, developing this crew system that we see here. We had 22 trips to station so far to date and nine of those have been completed on reused dragon. Thats pretty exciting. Weve had lot of progress this year inflight abort test was completed in january and demo 2 back in may and splashed down in august. Nicole were you able to follow along with that absolutely. Just because you were tired from the Astronaut Office, doesnt mean you completely separate yourself. I made a point of following along lot of living bob and doug for sure. Its interesting, bob and doug were in my astronaut class. It was like watching family and pretty special to see when meghan and karen there, their wives were able to be out there. While there are lot of firsts that we have accomplished on this mission, for mike and victor, the most important moment so far was when siochi and shannon was assign to their crew. When they had their full one assignment, it was a big deal. The fourmember crew started training together as a unit earlier this year. I remember shannon saying, it was friday, she was management astronaut on monday she was training for the flight. It was really exciting time for her. While training to fly aboard dragon is serious business, the crew was able to have fun and get to know each other better. Shannon told us that in some ways, pandemic made it easier for them to bond. Once covid hit, nasa and spacex had to find ways to make it safe for the crew to travel. You can hear the hilo flying above us. The crew ended up traveling as a unit and lived together in a house while they were in hawthorn instead of stayin sta n at the end of each day, theydinner together. The crew also told us that the emergency trainings they underwent brought them closer together. Training for emergency scenarios is typically very stressful and the crew have to approach each exercise with an exceptional amount of teamwork. The end of these training days, everyone was always a bit sweaty but mostly smiles as they 8 and debriefed around a Conference Room table. For mike, he said those were some of his favorite moments. Sitting around the table, sharing story and laughing with each other. I know they each talked about how it doesnt feel like work. Its like fun. Its serious business. Theyre having a blast with this. Its clear that this crew enjoyed the journey with each other so far. Going to be exciting to tee them lift off 39a. We are at t minus 3 hours 41 minutes and counting. Nicole, the four of them, looks like they are nearing the suit up process. Whats their head space like now . I think its probably little bit of a balance between holy moly im really here about to go to space today. Then thinking about they need to do as they get strapped into the spacecraft. Victor with his first flight, i imagine, theres little bit of hypersensitivity. You coming in this room. This is a historic room itself. The suitup room. Theres this ora about it. I imagine hes taking everything he possibly can in it. Hell be thankful for the pictures and videos. For sure. The people they are there with, kate mentioned this suitup team, you get to know these people. Theyre along with you for the journey in general, training and all the way out to the pad. You feel like youre there with family as well. You want them to feel like theyre part of the experience, the excitement that youre having too about it. Thanks nicole. We got 15 minutes. Lets check in for operations update. Thanks. Were coming up on t minus 3 hours 40 hours as we wait for the crew to walk out of the building. The area around pad 39a was clear personnel t minus 8 hours. Only people remaining on the pad are the ones needed. Well be covering crew arrival at the pad and enter the spacecraft. On the launch pad, falcon 9 is powered on. Were currently monitoring telemetry. The good news, launch director and the chief engineer reported in the t minus 4 hour briefing is nothing significant to report on the rocket. On top of the falcon 9 in your picture, dragon spacecraft, that capsule is ready for the crew. Functional checkouts were performed in preparation for the crews arrival. Most recently the dragon propellant system was pressurized to final flight pressure about 40 minutes ago. Also is the Mission Directorate report. Green and go working no issues at this time. Finally on the weather, were getting ready to release the first of several weather balloons in the last three and a half hours of the countdown. While were waiting for the results on the winds, we are still anticipating acceptable weather for launch. Things are looking good with falcon and dragon and the weather is cooperating right now as we countdown to liftoff. As question get ready for the crew walk out, lets go back to our team at Kennedy Space center. All right, thank you, john. Looking back live inside the room, hilo flying ooverhead. Everybody is getting ready for this crew to make their way just behind us. It is now t minus 3 hours, 38 minutes here at Kennedy Space center in florida. The crew ate lunch at about 12 15 and listened to a weather brief. The main watch item now is weather around the launch pad. We just watched the suit tech from spacex to fit each crew member in their own spacesuit. Just few minutes, the crew will be making their way out of this same suitup room down the hallway, down to the first floor and finally they will make that famous walk outside to see their family and small group of wellwishers before they head out to the launch pad. There are three teslas waiting to drive the crew out ton complex 39a. Riding in the first car will be closeout lead and the second tesla, mike and shannon will be sharing a ride with the flight surgeon. In the third vehicle well have victor, siochi and closeout lead. Well be following that convoy live giving close as possible without being in the car with them. I want to point out, you might notice there on the front windshield there were couple of stickers. Two teslas have those stickers designating that the first car will be the one. We have a little bit of wink there to our previous crew members that will be taking the ride. One other thing i think thats interesting, you will get a quick glance of it when the crew getting in the elevator before they go down stair. If you look closely, youll see when they get in the elevator there will be a poster there with a bunch of signatures on it. Those are signatures of individual female in female e in the nasa and spacex team who made this possible. These folks take it very seriously that the crews lives are in their hands. Its really special for the crew to see the signature on the elevator. We do pay attention. There was something similar to that for shuttle. I hope everyone signs those murals understand that the crew really takes that seriously. Very First Expedition Mission Launched in october 2000. Delivering american astronaut bill shepard and russian cosmonaut 20 novembers ago. Correspon t minus 10 seconds, 9, 8, 7, 6, we have engine start, 4, 3, 2, 1. We have ignition and liftoff. Liftoff of the soyuz rocket beginning the First Expedition of the International Space station. We want to introduce you now to kyle hearing, the National Public Affairs Officer whos voice you just heard. Kyle, you launched you called the launch that day, october 31, 2000. I know you been involved with missions way before in. Now were about to launch Human Missions from u. S. Soil on a commercial spacecraft this time. What do you remember about the day it all began . 20 years ago, its hard to believe actually. I remember almost everything about that day and then again, it was almost in realtime like a blur. It was such a huge team that put that launch not only the broadcast but obviously the Mission Together. I was tied to houston with just a phone line and that broadcast still serves as kind of template in we used for soyuz crew launches to this day. I was tucked behind the russian Mission Control center where the russian Flight Control team that monitors International Space station, the russian segment. I was adjacent to a nasa support team, called the houston support group which is a team of nasa houston Flight Controllers with a flight director at the helm of that team. Above us was balcony that overlook that Flight Control room floor and i remember that the adrenaline kind of built as the hour pass by for the broadcast. Everybody doing a job and it was Pretty Amazing day. After liftoff, theres really no script at that point. You just follow the milestones. Kyle, how does the accomplishment of expedition one compare to what were watching right now . Its similar and different at the same time. Expedition one was the pathfinder increment. Even before launch, there was years of work that was done to ensure that they would have a safe and home Work Environment on the station in which to live and operate. After 136 days on the station, expedition one handed expedition two. Its been pretty much seemless ever since. By the way, the assembly continued around those folks while they continuously worked and lived on board the station at the same time. Kyle, i want to acknowledge, we have nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine and spacex leadership in the room now to greet the crew of course from a safe distance and with masks on. The last question for you, youve been involved with commercial crew since the beginning of the program. You know these astronauts well. Whats it like seeing them suit up knowing that they will continue to carry the torch that was lit 20 years ago. These four astronauts are very familiar to me. Ive been at the Johnson Space center with nasa for more than 33 years now. Its really rewarding to see their training and their hard work come to fruition. Everything that they have trained for makes today probably seem like another training day to them. I know their adrenaline and their excitement builds the closer they get to the reality of heading out to that launch pad in just a short while. The commercial crew program was established for this moment. This flight puts the human aspect of the commercial space flight industry on display for the next six months. Tonight, engineers that are here on the ground, who made this day possible, theyre going to pause and enjoy this moment and then theyre going to start continue working towards the next flight. Its just going to keep building and building as we continue to rotate and augment these expeditions. Nasa enjoys and recognizes its history. The stations built and sustained by what i kind of refer to as steppingstones and bridges. All the missions before and those going to come, will enable the research thats going to continue seemlessly on the International Space station as nasa moves forward and beyond. Kyle harring, thank you so much. Well turn our attention back to the room. We can see the nasa administrator taking selfies with the crew in there. I probably werent taking selfies in the shuttle days, technology has come a long way. This was a really special time. There are people in that room that you want to share it with. We saw them doing pictures with all the suitup team as well. Its nice when the administrator and your leadership comes by to wish you on your way too. I would definitely be taking selfies if i were in that room. Were about 15 minutes away from the crew walkout happening. I want to draw little bit of attention to the preparations they are going on inside the capsule. While the crew members are donning their suits. We have the advance team. Essentially the advance team are the people that are now at the pad doing things like opening the hatch. I did get confirmation that the side hatch is open. We wait as long as possible to do that so make sure that the environmental humidity bugs out here in florida. We wasnt to keep the environmental things out. The side hatch is now open. That advance team is doing stuff like making sure the cabinet lights are on and task lights are functional. Making sure that the cabin is ready to go. Agaitheres a shot of falcon9 live from the pad at 39a now. That side hatch is open. The advance team is making the final preparations inside the cabin, getting ready for the crew to begin their journey out to the pad. Launch weather today is 50 go. That was the weather last checked. Its actually looking really good down range. Things look iffy around the pad as we get closer to t0 of 7 27 this evening. If we can make it past the immediate area, it looks very good for aboard conditions. I heard earlier that the forecast for wednesday, which is the backup day, if we dont make it today, the weather in the immediate area looks really good. But the downrange weather is problematic. We have 5050 odds on demo 2 launch day. Hopefully the odds will tip in our favor. I received the most recent weather briefing. Were still at 5050. Not better but not worse. Again, it should be just couple of minutes before the crew departs that room. I think were going to get another look inside there. We do have i dont know if we can take a look outside the operations and checkout building, we have a convoy stationed out there ready to take the crew. Theres the look and again, there are three teslas. The crew will be split up two and two in the second and third teslas. Exactly. That first tesla will have one of our closeout leads as well as two suit technicians. We ensure that the whole suitup crew transports out to the pad. Car two will have commander mike hopkins as well as hannon shannon. Car three will be mike glover and Soichi Noguchi. Quite the cohort. Theres also Something Else special that we want to mention. Theres a mural in that earlier shot. There is a personal mural that was commissioned in honor of the crew 1 astronauts. Not sure if we can look at that again. The mural was titled aspirin. The kids represent the range of ethnicities across the United States and the world. They look toward the future that the crew 1 mission might bring. The artist, hinted that the dragon represents an immense prehistoric animal that invokes awe and wonder. Shannon will be happy. Nicole i know you got a special appreciation for art. When i look at Something Like this, i think its so special. It allows us to communicate with other audiences. To bring little bit more of that awe wonder into the Space Exploration thing through Something Like a mural. Were standing by outside the Neil Armstrong separations and check out building. Crew donning their suits is complete. They should be making their way out of the room momentarily. They probably just few moments ago, finished up playing the mysterious card game. [laughter] another one of those traditions in the commander has to beat the chief of the Astronauts Office in game of 21 before he can leave the room. Thats whats holding them up. [laughter] weve got our resident social media guru here as were wait, if the crew to walk out. What are folks talking about online . Thanks. Before i get into the conversation, i want to note there are over 200,000 people tuning in the show now across all our social platforms. Ive been monitoring the conversation, looking at our tash hag launch america and that alone is up to 38,000 mentions. Here they come walking down the hall. Awe. Theyre looking for people. They are looking for the people that helped them all along the way too and wanting to make eye contact. Behind them is that the banner a i talked about. That banner behind them in elevator holds the signatures of many of the team members who worked so hard to make sure that this spacecraft and rocket is safe as possible for this crew. Were Just Moments Away from seeing the first multinational crew dragon crew exit, the operations and checkout building outside here. Before we do, we will pause for Americas National anthem performed by travis tritt. Oh, say, can you see, by the dawns early light, what so proudly we haild at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro the perilous fight, oer the ramparts we watchd, were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof thro the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . Special thanks to travis tritt for beautiful rendition of Americas National anthem. This is view outside Neil Armstrong choke out building. Inside here is the historic astronaut crew quarters. Theres look at the doors that the crew will be walking out of any moment now. Youll see stickers around that door. I think the crew did put their mission sticker up the other day. You can see along the door frame, even more stickers, i believe theres one sticker from every mission but i did notice that there was just enough room to put the crew 1 sticker up. Here they come. The crew 1 astronauts now beginning their journey to the launch pad ahead of this Historic Mission to the International Space station. Outside the bil building, we hae friends and Family Gathering there with prior to liftoff. Thats a different thing to the shuttle days. Last time we saw our families would have been a wave across the ditch. The day before launch. Typically, shuttle launches you would have employees and people that would come out to wish us well. I think its a very special thing that the crew families get that up close and personal right before they get into the transport vehicles to the pad. You notice everyone keeping safe distance here. That distance will be enforced regardless whether covid19 was a factor in whats going on. Distance is maintained regardless. Like i mentioned therefore, there are three teslas that will be taking our crew out in the first car, well have couple of suit technician. The second car will be mike hopkins and Shannon Walker as well as our flight surgeon. Then the last car we will have victor glove and Soichi Noguchi as well as one of our other closeout leads. The suits are assigned. The seats in the capsules are assigned as well as the seats in the checklist. Theres no fire drills happening here today. You can hear ambient conversations between the crew and their immediate families. [applause] such a special moment for them to to have. This crew has said a couple of times, siochi is the funniest one of them all. This is all very carefully choreographed. You can see in one of the shots from some of the ropes. There are lots of people involved in the planning of where the immediate families are going to stand, where the small contingent of media will stand, especially in covid times, where we have to make sure were keeping the crew safe and their families safe. They were able to have a little extra time with their families yesterday because we moved off of yesterday as launch day. They had extra down time. I imagine it was nice for them. You mentioned everything is very well choreographed. While this is the first time that were seeing the crew make this journey to the pad on the day of, fingers crossed, they have performed this a number of times including a dry dress earlier this week. Everything that this crew does is rehearsed many times. Whether its putting the suits on, or taking them off. Or even the operations connectivities they have going on during the mission. Everything is rehearsed and practiced. I can tell you, feels a little different. I have no doubt. [laughter] immediate family members getting a chance to have another moment with the crew before they leave. Youll see some of the folks there in the blue flight suits. Those are astronauts from the Astronaut Office that are working as crew support astronauts for the families and the crew members. I mentioned earlier, the teslas we utilized in the last crew mission, you can tell which teslas those are because of the stickers in the lower passenger side window. I cannot get good read of the license plate. For demo 2 they said iss bound. Thats good. I think another one might say later earth. The crew departing for the pad on schedule. We just heard the callout from the core that the crew is departing if the pad. They are right on schedule. They are leaving the Neil Armstrong operations check out building. Now beginning 20 minute across nasas cusse Kennedy Space cent. They will drive right behind where were sitting. There are scores of people around the world watching and cheering on these four souls including many team member who helped get the crew here today. Take a look. This is Stephanie Duncan from the commercial crew program at Johnson Space center. Youre all an inspiration to us. From texas to you, godspeed [indiscernible] aloha, on behalf the production facility, congratulations to our crew on astronauts and as well as spacex and nasa teams. Safe travels and best of luck. We hope you enjoy the journey of International Space station. Go dragon, go nasa and thank you for riding the space. [speaking foreign language] from commercial Program Program team, mike, victor, shannon and Soichi Noguchi. Go crew 1. Go victor, shannon and siochi. This is mike here, we all worked tirelessly and now its time to fly. We hope they enjoy ride. Go dragon. [applause] this is Amber Jacobson at the Nasa Space Communications and navigations program, were all so excited for your launch. Well be working hard down here making sure you stay connected with earth. Stay safe and lets launch america. Hi im im Johnson Space center in houston, texas. Godspeed and good luck to mike, victor, san shannon and siochi. Go crew 1 we love hearing from those team members. It was really great to get the jaxa Team Included in the messages. We are following the convoys out to launch pad 39a. We understand that the crew has ride out play list. We tried and tried, could not find out what that play list was. I think thats top secret. We have some conversation amongst ourselves what they might be listening to. My personal pick will be something from queen. We need to have donate stop me now going here. Perfect going to space song. Mine will be something by with the spacesuit looking futuristic robot, aliens. As were watching the crew, this is from our chase car. The road is shut down in either direction for the convoy. We are on opposite side of the road with a camera literally so you can see along with the crew every step of the way. I know we had to cut things short earlier, i imagine theres been lot of reaction to the things folks are seeing and sure you got some thoughts on a play list as well. Yeah. Lot of patriotism and well wishes for the crew. That ride out play list question so fun. I think if im awesome enough to be an astronaut, i will be playing feeling myself thats something we should pose to the public. For those of you watching now, head over to nasas twitter and were going to get a question out to know to ask, whats one song you would have to have on your ride out play list to launch pad . Ladies, im very excite to see what comes in. Ill keep you updated. I just got notification of the play list what are they listening to now . They are in two different vehicles. Theyre on one play list. We have songs like alicia keys, phil collins, eminem, other vehicle, fly away by lenny kravitz. Up funk by bruno mars. Those are really good ones. Nicole, obviously theyre in a pair of teslas. Little different than your ride out experience. Can you compare, contrast for us . We rode out in something called at a the astro van whichs really cool. Theres something about this ride. The word surreal comes to mind a lot. Youre thinking like, im in a vehicle thats striving to a launch pad to take me to space. Its difficult to believe that can be happening. I wonder how did it feel any different the first time versus the second time . Victor is the first timer here and others second or third. There goes the hilo, thats leading the way. Thats our cue that the convoy will be passing by us shortly. I think just like launch on your second time, you think oops, been there and done that. The adrenaline, the feeling is equally as excited on the second time too. I know you all watching the convoy. Were turning around in our chairs because it looks like, is that the first car . Thats probably the lead vehicle there. I think we see the lead car going by. Were all turned around in our seats to watch them in person. Something thats really cool they are passion the Vehicle Assembly building and vab, very famous building here in nasa. Theyre driving down the road where the shuttle and the saturn used to come down on the crawler. As were getting awesome look of the crew passing by. Among you following along on nasa tv and online. Very special group of folks. Some that the crew might recognize. Take a look. Hellore Aerospace Engineers from university of illinois. University of illinois family like to wish mike very best on his launch to International Space station. Youre a huge inspiration to all of us. Whats up everyone, im from cal poly. Victor gloves alma mater. We want to wish victor all crew 1 a safe launch and wonderful mission to the International Space station. Youre an inspiration to us all. Thank you for representing cal poly well. Hi, im ryan from Rice University students for the exploitation and development of space. Shannon walker and crew mates safe one. Successful mission. Fly high. Im from university of tokyo school of engineering. Siochi youre a huge inspiration. We cant wait to so you in space. Have a good day. Hey guys have a safe trip. Go nasa, go crew 1. This is rob blevins at the Discovery Center in springfield, missouri. We want to thank mike, shannon and victor and siochi, go nasa and go spacex, go make history. Im nasa astronaut drew, im here with my fellow astronauts, to wish crew 1 a successful and exciting ride to the International Space station on Spacex Dragon. Were excite to see you launch in space. Congratulations to mike hopkins, victor glove, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi. Go crew 1. The crew is continuing to make their way to launch pad 39a were at t minus 3 hours 3 minutes. In about 8 minutes, we should hear the announcement of the crew arriving at the pad. Love hearing those shot outs. I think that little girl was mill favorite. Nicole, the first time you saw that video, got to see lot of familiar faces from the astronaut core. Its fun. The other woods are living vicariously. Pretty cool. Now with the eyes so many around the world watching, the crew is nearing their next milestone at this point, the convoy is approaching pad 39a and entering what is known as the bda, or blast danger area. Before any pad technicians, engineers or astronauts enter this area around the launch pad, the spacex and nasa teams have to do internal go, no go polls to make sure everything is clear. The view that we have now, i just love it. This pad is this is the pad where humans went to the moon. This is pad 39a and originally benefit in the 1960s to support the saturn 5 for the apollo program. Was upgraded to support the Shuttle Program. We did remove the rotating Service Structure. The heart and bones of the six Service Structure from the shuttle days is still there. We made some modifications and safety improvements. As something that also little different, the hangar is built there, allow us to the integration much closer to the pad itself than in the shuttle and sat. Its really neat to see them. They are driving up on to the pad. I love thinking about everything that has happened here and appreciate that we have the opportunity to continue human space flight from such a historic location. Really strikes me that the last time we saw this happening was back in the spring with bob behnken and doug hurley. We saw them looking up to take in the height of the pad. Knowing they were about to get on a rocket that will come to leaf. Now we have a full crew of four and its just spectacular to know what is just around the corner for them. From their standpoint, standing out there on the pad, they have to look up about 70 meters, considering everything thats holding the rocket up. I think thats part of the awe of it too. You have to bend back in the suits. You want to take it in little bit. I know heard siochi earlier echo the sentiments, you get out on the pad, the vehicle is already alive before you take off. Little bit of smoke, steam coming out of there and its ready to go as well. I love what youre talking about with the transformation of the pad. I think i was very fortunate to fly times out of 39a on discovery. One side you want the pad to stay the way it was. Hall, its changing. That new opportunities are opening up. Its allowing us to get back to space son a new vehicle and into the future Space Exploration. The Shuttle Program was the Space Flight Program of my childhood. Theres absolutely nostalgia soc. Soc. Associated with that see structure. The reason why we dont see the crew now, we saw them pull up to the base of the pad. They have an opportunity for a bio break before they get into the elevator. Thats something you cant overlook. Important stop you have to make. Were giving them a chance to do that. We will probably hear the official call out that the crew arrived a the pad at t minus 2 55. One other thing, for folks arent familiar with the operational timeline for falcon 9, theres no fuel in the rocket yet. Can you explain that process . In order to make sure that the nine marlin engines have the best performance possible, we wait as long as we can. All personnel has arrived on schedule. Good call there, confirming that we are on schedule. As i was saying, we want to make sure that the nine engines have the best performance possible and in order to do that, we use super densified, super chilled liquid oxygen. We get better performance by having more oxidizer. We wait in the larger time line of things, it is seems like last minute. Its around the t minus 35 minute mark that well begin that loading on first and second stages with liquid oxygen. Crew dragon, though, has already been fueled. Yes, the capsule itself. The dragon capsule use hypergollic fuels that are instantaneously com combustible. You put ther two together, the fuel and oxidizer and they come bust. Those fuels were loaded on to the capsule earlier in the week. It might have been last week. Im losing track of the days at this point. That is all done prior to integration. Thats all done in area called dragon land. We have what is called a dry dress rehearsal of this entire process without fueling the rocket. Theres no fuel involved. That happened on thursday. Im mixing up my days like you, kate. Thursday, there was a dry dress rehearsal where they went through the whole process. So, to recap, we had a dry dress rehearsal on thursday where the teams went through the entire process starting in the suitup room right up to the pad. They ingress dragon, closed the hatch and they simulated a scrub of an hour or so before the simulated launch time. That is the last opportunity i think nicole, during shuttle days, they called it the tcdt. Terminal countdown test. Dry run. How important is that final opportunity to do that before the real thing . I think its really important. We found it was so that we are continuing a now. Theres something about having the team in that really in that launch mode. Real vehicle at the pad, shortly before the actual time its going to come to run through these things. To give the crew an opportunity an hour before to run through what it will be like if they needed to scrub and kind of countdown and escape baskets or down to the base of the pad out of harms way. Just get your head in the right place. We actually had a scrub with bob behnken and doug hurley. That first day, scrubs happened at all the way down to t minus 17 minutes. Falcon 9 was still well into the fueling process and the crew cant egress from the capsule until off load the fuel. Hopefully we wont be in a situation hike that like that today. Well see. Here they are, the astronauts are begun to emerge from their bio break. I think that might be victor and siochi. I think that might be shannon. They are getting inside elevator. We have something called the advance team. When i learned about this thats mike and shannon. When i learned about the advance team, they are responsible for making sure the hatch is open, the cabin has communications and lights. They are responsible for making sure that someone has the elevator key. You cant just get in there. When the astronauts ascend here, just as in the old days, the levels of the tower are not marked one, two and three, they are marked by foot height. They press the 255foot button and ride to the top. Heres our first look at that level where they come out of the elevator. They have a hand full of stairs to climb to get up to the level where the crew access arm is. Thats that long suspended walkway. Look how beautiful. Its listen a long time since i had the privilege being up there and seeing that view up in person. Words dont do it justice. Heres a view. You can see the nasa arm. On the far end, that is where the phone is. Can you talk about the significance of the phone . I think they maintained the same original phone with the big hand set it was one last opportunity to call your family before loading up into the vehicle. I dont know, i love that nasa, now spacex and have maintained these personal touches to the humans that are part of human space flight. I think its really important that we do those kinds of things. One of the thing that you will notice are the white arrows pointing towards us on the camera. Thats not just for design. Theres a very it does look cool they are very intentional. This will be victor and siochi now approaching the pad. Mike and shannon got a head start. Here they go. Its kind of like the preflight, the walk around your vehicle before you get in and fly. I feel like this one carries little more weight. Incredible. I want to come up with a name for the move that they have to do when they turn and bend and look back. Its the dont fall backwards move. Were having lot of fun here. Know the crew is having a blast. There they are. I knew they were going to do it. They must have so much adrenaline pumping through them. You know when you are getting on top of a rocket, your life is at stake. Thats not something in any of the people involved in this mission from start to finish takes for granted or take lightly. The folks who work on this program take that responsibility to heart. Like you said, nicole, when youre talking about relationships, they have those relationships with people across the nasa and spacex team. They walk the factory floor and hawthorn. They know the astronauts and they see them as family. Theres a look inside the crew access arm from inside. I love this shot. When this was being designed, it was definitely a forwardthinking design that we went west. We wanted it to encapsulate the experience of the next era of space flight. Really wanting to make it futuristic. Very sleek very sleek and elegant. Heres victor and siochi. They are standing now inside the white room. Were going to explain that in a minute. You can see the side hatch of dragon open and that is where they are going to ingress or climb inside in about 13 minutes. They are signing the wall there. The crew has arrived at the white room onl on schedule. Just notifying everyone that the crew arrived on time. We see shannon adding her signature to the wall in keeping with tradition, we painted this room white and the advance team, part of their responsibility also making sure theres a shar pesharpie on hand so so crew mes can add their name. I love this is really the last thing you do before we get in the space shutly. Shutly shuttle. On crew 2, one of the crew members will be meghan mccarthy, wife of bob who flew dm2. They are my definition of a power couple. Im here for it. I love it. Im excited to see what the seat assignments will be. It will be really cool if she was sitting in the same position as he was inside the capsule. Theres a wave. So exciting for siochi. Its early monday morning in japan. They set their alarm classrooms early enough to have a chance to watch. We talked about this once before where in the white room before, because with shuttle we didnt have that last meet and greet kind of thing at the onc before getting in the vehicles. We would do, we knew the camerasser were there, we knew families were watching. You couldnt say anything, you can do little love you thing. Sign language. The arrows, you cant see them on the screen, those are for emergency egress. If more any reason the crew has to get out of the capsule and white room and get away from the pad in a hurry, thats the path that it arrows show them go this way. Depending on the situation, you might have some smoke or the water system going. Tip your head down and you grab each other and go. If we were to do a quick exit from the tower, we utilize baskets that are so on ziplines. You can see on your screen, the crew beginning the ingress box already. The timeline has this happening t minus 2 hours 39 minutes. Look like they will be starting that early. There are four astronauts have to ingress. This doesnt happen in an instant. Its a process. Obviously that process has begun. We see some of the suit technicians there assisting them to get into their seat, making sure that boots are able to lock in. Making sewer that were able to do all the check outs necessary both in term of environmental controls but communication audio as well. I wasnt sure, do we have mike and shannon already inside . Okay, mike and shannon are inside. Victor and siochi has not made their way in the white room yet. They are finishing up their phone calls. Again, crew ingress is just a face flight term for getting inside the spacecraft. Mike hopkins and Shannon Walker has ingress crew dragon. Victor glover Soichi Noguchi are making their way. They will be walking down the crew access arm. Theres the outside of it. Theyre making their way down that hallway as we speak. They will be stopping in the white room in a moment. Its hard to see in that shot. Im very happy to say, we got blue skies and couple of puffy white clouds working with us. It might look overcast on the screen. Were pretty happy what weve got at the moment you can see the shadows moving along in the windows into the white room. Okay, there they are. This is a look inside the white room. Its not a very big space. Pretty tight. Thats by design. While victor and siochi getting chance to sign their names. I want to recap. If youre just joining us, youre watching live coverage of nasa spacex crew 1 mission. Today sending four astronauts into orbit on mission of International Space station. Victor glover, mike hopkins, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi, are flying on a sixmonth mission to the International Space station. Good afternoon and welcome to Kennedy Space center in florida im marie lewis. Public Affairs Officer for nasa. Im kate tight, senior certification engineer at spacex. Happy to be bringing you live coverage of the crew 1 mission from Kennedy Space center. Joining us is nicole stott it flown twice on the shuttle. Very nice to be here today with you ladies. The crew has already arrived at pad 39a where falcon 9 will lift off 7 27 p. M. Eastern. Victor glove and Soichi Noguchi are standing inside the white room. Mike hopkins and Shannon Walker are already inside crew dragon. Were fitting up the ear pieces now and just final check. They have ascended the tall structure next to rocket. Theyve walked down that futuristic looking corridor known as the crew access arm. Now they are about half way through the process aboarding dragon. Probablily little bit of ahead of schedule. Crew members are making their final stop. This is the white room. The white room is this small space. This is the last place the crew will be on earth before stepping into the spacecraft for their ride to the International Space station. Like i mentioned before, the term white room it has little bit of history. It was first used during the nasa Gemini Missions where the room was painted white. We continued this one by painting ours white as well. It is a pretty small area and it has enough room for the crew and couple of Ground Support members to allow them to complete late cargo load at t minus 24 hours and crew ingress running ahead of schedule at t minus 39 minutes. Ingress is how we refer to boarding on top of crew dragon. Inside the white room where were looking, theres a moveable platform that gets extended out to the capsule. That helps bridge the gap between crew access arm and the dragon side hatch. This allows for easy entry into the spacecraft. You might expect environmentally control so that the dragon side hatch has to be open. While at the same time keeping dust, dirt, nasty florida humidity out of the capsule to make sure it is just in for steam condition for the crew. Theres a large steel that gets inflated to make sure we can maintain clean environment. This is all really exciting to watch. You saw them take part in that tradition that weve mentioned couple of times. It began with our demo 2 crew of nasa astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley. They are now part of the select few who will have launched after leaving this room. As were waiting for our last crew member to hop inside crew dragon, lets check back in with jesse and leah, back at spacex headquarters in hawthorn, california. Everything is going good. We are so excited watching ingress now. As jesse just mentioned, this is ingress, that means the astronauts are entering the dragon capsule. Youll hear a lot of these space terms in the coming hours and day. Ingress is what we use when crew members getting inside a spacecraft and egress means the opposite. Before climbing in the capsule today, the crew completed foreign object degree check. That they themselves have to be inspected for any substance or debris which can cause damage to dragon. To help protect against debris, the crew has covers on their boots as well as their umbilical cord on their suits that need to be removed before they ingress. Theyre been doing that. Victor is up last completing that spot check. Once the check is complete, mike hopkins, our commander first ingress and then Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi and now were waiting for Victor Glover watching him enter the vehicle right now. They are now getting buckled in and attaching their umbilicals to their suits. The suit techs are there helping as needed. The umbilicals allow the crew to have coms through their suit to help keep cool as well as deliver suit pressure. As we mentioned, this is primary function to protect the crew in the event of a cabin depressurization. I love this view inside crew dragon. There are four seats configured right now. They are numbered 14 from right to left when youre looking at the seats. Mike hopkins is in suit 2 and victor glove in seat 3. Soichi noguchi is in seat 1 and Shannon Walker is in seat 4. Directly in front of them, which you can see here are three displays which theyll use throughout the flight, getting insight into dragon system, seeing any alerts or issues with the vehicle and if required they can take control and manually fly dragon. The crew will do a check to make sure they can hear Mission Control and their seats will be rotated in position to launch. They are finishing getting buckled in and getting their suits connected to the custom seats. Some those things to listen for when were doing com checks. Theyll be doing com checks in multiple paths. Theyll also youll hear ground that refer to ground stations around the globe. That spacex had and upon liftoff, those ground stations will be able to provide a telemetry from falcon 9 and crew dragon. Theres about half dozen checks to ensure everybody is ready in here. You can see those suitup crew. I heard people call them the ninjas before. They are checking to make sure they are super ready. They are helping them connect the umbilicals. They are buckling them in. They each have a very individual and specific role and we just stepped through this couple of days ago for the dry dress. Every ill detail w every sinl we stepped through it and buckle up and the com checks. Its kind of like run two but really day one. Its all very organized doing the practice runs helps make sure that everything goes smoothly on the day of launch like today. Looks like almost everybody all buckled up. Just finishing up with victor. Com check should occur once everybody is buckled in. Lot of excitement. Really cool to see four crew members. Just saw a wave from shannon there in that far left seat. Lets check in with john for the latest with the help of both vehicles. Whats the update so far . Weve got just over two and a half remaining in the countdown to the space station. Right now the dragon launch has completed their major activities prepare spacecraft for the astronauts, check outs maje majr systems are complete. Ingress to the astronauts are well under way getting victor strapped in. Were waiting for com checks with the crew and the ground coming up here shortly. Falcon 19 is located in room 4, they are settling in for final check outs for propellant loading and launch. Theyll be doing com check with the crew that, will happen t minus 2 hours. All systems are go on falcon launch vehicle. The Weather Forecast continues to be acceptable. Were watching the upper altitude rain showers if theyre in the trajectory of the vehicle, also watching thick cloud roll and keeping the fingers crossed. Were also looking at weather around the world. We need to make sure conditions are acceptable if dragon has to splash down in the atlanta. Were monitoring contingency splash locations if the crew has to come back to earth before docking. If this were to happen, spacex and nasa are coordinating with the u. S. Coast guard. That includes extra ships and air assets to control a lockout zone. As the clock continues to count down, all systems are go at t minus 2 hours 31 minutes. Thanks, john. Sounds like everything is looking good so far. Were getting really excited here and the astronauts are still wrapping up, buckling in and getting their suits connected to their seats. Definitely ahead of schedule today. Thats a good sign. Were really standing by those come checks with the crew. Some of people you will hear talking with the crew are the core, which weve mentioned. That is the crew operations and research engineer. We have a similar position at nasa. Thats the person who really takes all the information happening down on the ground and relay it to the crew. Theres the ld, thats the launch director. They are down in florida, they are overseeing all countdown operations. The md is here in hawthorn in Mission Control. Thats the overall flight lead for space station spacex. Theyre all finished getting buckled in. The seats will rotate into launch position. Once theroux state backwards, those display panels will be right in front of them and easy to access. Under two and a half hours now before we launch today. Weather still looking good. Just little bit about vehicle on itself, crew dragon and its trunk are about 27 feet tall. Thats from the tip of the cone to the base of the trunk. Under that nose cone, we have thrusters. Once they launch today, its going to take about 27. 5 hours until they arrive at their destination. That allows them to get little bit of sleep period. At some point, you get little too tired, we want to make sure astronauts are fully focused on the mission. After a long day today, they will get to sleep for about eight hours tonight before waking up tomorrow, continuing on with the mission and then docking with the International Space station. We are standing by for those com checks. Just to make sure compact does work properly before liftoff. Making sure they can hear the core here in hawthorn. High level look at some of the other milestones that will be coming up over the next two and a half hours. Next big milestone is the hatch closure. Then at 45 minutes before launch, will be the propellant loads. Theres not any propellant of falcon 9 now. Theyll begin loading densified kerosene and oxidizer, that will be loaded on to the crew dragon up until just a few minutes before launch. We are still waiting for the com checks. Looks like the crew is almost done getting all strapped in. Their suits connected to their custom seats. Its for them to monitor where they are at. They can take control if need be. This is an autonomous vehicle. After launch today, they should just be along for the ride until we get to docking tomorrow. Spacex, this is dragon, we are ready for com checks. Copy, stand by for umbilical com check. Cdr, ms1 com check. Spacex this is dragon, commander has you clear. Umbilical loud and clear. Ms1 umbilical loud and clear. Ms2, umbilical loud and clear. Copy for good com checks, loud and clear. Stand by for ground station com checks. Dragon, spacex, com check over ground stations. Spacex, this is dragon, have you loud and clear on ground station. I got you loud and clear, ground station com check complete. Dragon spacex, com check over tidrs. This is dragon, loud and clear. Copy. Standby for com checks for md and the launch configuration. Dragon, md countdown one com check. Md, this is dragon on countdown one. Loud and clear. Loud and clear, standby for com check over dragon to ground. Dragon, md, com check. Md, this is dragon, loud and clear on dragon to ground. Copy, loud and clear, standing by for com check swiss ld. This is dragon on countdown one, loud and clear. Standby for com checks over dragon to ground. Ld dragon to ground, com check. Ld, this is dragon, loud and clear on dragon to ground. Ld loud and clear. Copy, thank you. Resilience, that concludes our launch configuration com checks. Please report when youre ready for seat rotation section 2. 4100. Copy. Sounds like we just completed com check sounds like everything is good to go. Were going to head back over to ksc. Were getting up close look the full scale mockup of crew dragon. Astronauts are sitting inside very much like this one. Give us a layout. This is a exact replica one to one scale of crew dragon. You can see size wise the amount of room four crew members have to move around. This isnt the exact training module that they use to train in, they use a mockup similar to this one for things very detailed such as running procedures inside the capsule but something as simple as practicing getting in and out, going through the side hatch. Especially in a spacesuit. Nicole, you flew on shuttle twice. Im sure you had training. We did, you know whats really exciting for crew members, once you start doing lot of training in the mockups, you know youre close to flying in space. You get excited about that. I dont know, i look at this. Its neat to me to be up close and personal with each with the mockup of the spacecraft. I look at it and theres things certainly familiar like a window. What are some of the other stuff were seeing on here, these silver little ovals. I know thats the hatch. These are the ports for our thruster system. Dragon is capable of steering itself in space. That on board propulsion system is here. These are the ports utilized inflight. Over on the side, we have super draco system which is a super high powered system. Those are used utilized in abort system. Theyre important to have as they give the crew path to necessary. We just heard the call for seat rotation. That means that the crew, their seats are rotated into position for launch. Were going to send it over to nasas darrell, at the osv2 viewing location. Thank you for the tour, of the dragon space capsule. Im here with the director of the Kennedy Space center. Thank you for being here. This is the kennedy interview desk. Were in the shadow of little bit of cool hardware. Vehicle Assembly Building which looks outstanding. We touched it up a little. We repainted the flag and we got it all up for this historymaking day. Its another great day, Kennedy Space center. You like to talk about that. First f. A. A. Commercial licensed launch of crew to the International Space station. Why is that important . Its important because were trying to establish a commercial economy in lower earth orbit. We want to be many of customers. By us flying crews to the International Space station, it opens up the door for other people to fly up there. I saw you down there with the crew getting down and they were walking out. They look great. You were holding your phone and getting shots. Im little bit space nerd. Been to space four times. You understand what these folks are going through right now. Its getting real. You can see the seats moving now as they get into position there. This must be a moment where kind of it gets real. Yeah, once youre strapped in, they close the hatch, then its really real. Then its like, were going. Whats the feeling . What kind of goes through your head . It depends. What went through my head, i dont want to screw this up. I want to make sure i dont make any mistakes. I was really focused. You dont what to expect. No simulator on earth can prepare you what its like to ride a rocket in space. You practice everything but it gets up and goes. That acceleration and that force pushing you back in the seats. Its Something Else. Not knowing what thats going to be like, theres little bit of anticipation. When you go second and third time, then you have more idea what to expect and you can relax more. Theres anticipation, what is this going to be like. You think theres some nerves there, just naturally in this moment. These four astronauts, they also ate extremely well. I hope that the nerves dont get them too much. They ate well. Tell me what they got to eat. Anything they wanted. On the menu, whatever you want. I heard new york strip steak and dressing on it. Theres one crew, we used to have a motto in crew corridors. Eat until youre sleeping and sleep until youre hungry. Thats why you dont want to spend too much time in crew corridor. We do great job protecting our astronauts from keeping them healthy. Its not about its just amazing what we do. I would trade places with any one of them in heart beat. Im really proud of these guys. Im proud of what weve accomplished as a nation to have this commercial crew program. Theyve done an outstanding job getting bob and doug early up there and at home safely, paving the way for the first flight under contract with spacex. This is the future. We want to get boeing flying too. Theyve right over here building the cs200. Test launch right around the corner next year 2021. Thank you so much for being here. Appreciate your insight as always. Bob cabana blew into space four times. Back to you guys. Thank you so much. Right now, weve get about 300,000 people tuning in across our social channels. Thats about 100,000 more. Ladies im seeing some great comments coming in online. I got a few i want to show you. This first one is she says, ive always heard nasa astronauts steak and eggs for breakfast. This is the first time i heard of curry rice. Love this, huge thank you to astronaut siochi for sharing this tradition with us. Lets look at another one. Weve got this user saying, this is like watching a apollo 11. This will make history and a private company sending humans to space with reusable rocks, the future is now. Again, marie, people have been super curious about what the zero gravity indicator is. I wonder if you can give us a hint. I know what its going to be. Nicole knows. Were not allowed to say yet. I can tell you to keep your eye out. It will make an appearance at some point. Its a surprise. Its special. You have to tune in. Ladies, were hearing about the larger crew size in the capsule today. I think thats super fun to think about those at home. I think were gong to pose the question to the public to see how big their dream space crew. Well make this a poll and ill share the results with you later on in the show. Nicole, youre the only one up here that been to space and on a few different crew sizes. Do you have a preferred number . Well, six seem to be the number for me. If i can add my family members on top of that, that will be outstanding. I agree. Ladies, for the past month, weve been asking users on social media to show us how theyre getting excited for the launch. We received some amazing submissions from around the world. Take a look at these. Three, two, one liftoff. And thanks to all of you following along, keep sending us your submissions, hour you are watching. We love seeing those. We had seat rotation and com checks. 5. 2 we are ready for dragon hatch closure. We heard the call. Thank you, ready to hatch closure and well keep you posted as that progresses. Okay, so we ar we heard the l that they are ready to hatch closure. Well pause for just a moment. So if you have been following along, we actually heard the callout and saw seat rotation happen a couple minutes early than we had on our timeline. Okay, so hatch closure is coming u but in the meantime we want to learn more about crew dragon commander mike hopkins, hes a u. S. Air force colonel and here say little bit more about the missouri native who has already logged 166 days in space. Music playing sitting on the launch pad is definitely a moment that you are always thinking about, right . Thats one of the more critical phases of the flight as you can imagine. You are focused in, right, it can be a very emotional time. You are kind of pinching yourself because it hard to believe that you are finally there. Born in lebanon, missouri, hes an air force colonel. He was selected as an astronaut in 2009, he spend 166 days on the international the space station, introducing nasa astronaut, mike hopkins. [ cheering and applause ] its funny, a lot of times people think of the dream of being an astronaut as something that a kid would have. And i remember when my wife and i first started dating at the university of illinois and i told her that i wanted to be an astronaut. She laughed at me. And kind of said, are you serious . But at the same time, she stuck with me throughout the years, and to have that dream come true Pretty Amazing. Music playing my role on the crew dragon itself as part of crew1 is as commander of the vehicle. We will be launching to the International Space station and we will be doing a longduration mission. A standard longduration mission. One of the nice things about being on board the International Space station is that you have a lot of connectivity with your family. I was able to call just about every day. My family means everything to me. It was the most important part of my life. My wife julie, my son ryan, my son lucas. We are just such a huge part of this whole endeavor, without family, it just wouldnt be as meaningful. The partnership that we have right now with spacex its pretty powerful. We bring a lot to the table. Nasa brings a lot to the table. We have a ton of experience in human space flight. When you are out there on a daytoday basis and interacting with their engineers and interacting with their trainers and interacting with the people that are actually building the rockets and building the castle itself, you really get to establish the relationship, the personal relationships. Its not just about the astronauts that are on board, but its about the entire team at nasa and spacex that its taken to launch this crew1 vehicle and we couldnt do our job without them. Music playing seated next mike hopkins is crew dragon pilot Victor Glover. Who has flown on 40 different types of aircraft for a total of more than 3,000 hours, helping prepare him for this piloting his first test flight to space, here is more about the u. S. Navy commander and california native. I saw a shuttle launch when i was in Elementary School and i thought, i really want to fly that. And thats where it began. He is a may have commander, a naval aviate or and a test pilot, he was selected as an astronaut in 2013, this is his first space flight introducing nasa astronaut, Victor Glover. [ cheering and applause ] first and foremost i am just grateful to god and to my family to work and live in space is just a humbling and amazing blessing in and i of itself. This is a test pilots dream. Flying has been such an important part of my professional life and i love to do it. 64,000 feet. Thats the highest up i have ever been above the ground. And so to get to a point beyond that, that will be a special moment. I am a rookie astronaut, i am the pilot and i will be learning the ropes from a very experienced crew. Trying balance that enjoying living in the moment but also managing the responsibilities to make sure that we get to space safely, i am looking forward to that juxtaposition of emotion i think. Tell me about how you ended up here . I think for every astronaut thats a different story. Oh, that goes way back. High school athlete, loved being a part of a small high performing team, wrestling and football. I was fortunate to wrestle in college while pursuing my engineering education. I actually originally wanted to be a navy seal. Thats what started my journal knit navy and i wound up deciding to go to in aviation and learn to fly. The love of flying and being a part of a small, very specialized highperforming team that gets to do things in really interesting and challenging environments, the Astronaut Corps is the optime of that. This is truly an exciting time for human space flight. And believe me, its only going to get better as we charge off in to the future. We have been working with our partner spacex for years. Its been its just been amazing to learn about the vehicle. And just spend time get to go know their Flight Control team and their trainers. Its creating a new culture that is some kind of a balance between the two. The fact that it takes thousands of people all over the world to get us ready, its humbling and overwhelming and i want to do my best because i represent them. So thank you for your support. And for your love, and know that you are flying with us on crew1. Music playing okay, so while we were in that video, we saw the hatch close. We have not heard the confirmation of the hatch close. We e are not expecting that untl tmy mine with us one hour and 50 minutes, we are still 10 minutes away from that. Even though the hatch appears to be closed there is a process to completing this and making sure that its sealed and there is no leaking. So, kate, can you explain what the crew is doing now during this hatch closure process. Yeah, for sure little like marie said its not as simple as closing your car door. Of course, they are having to make sure that everything is in place. There will actually be a seal that is inflate today insure that all of the basically that it is watertight. If its watertight it will get to space. So we see the crew excuse me, the closeout techs, the suit techs in their numbered uniforms going through the step. You can see the tablets in their hands, those are our electric procedures, or eprocedures. And they are stepping through each one to make sure that in giving very hal cues saying its complete, we are good. And we are basically just counting through the process step by step getting closer to launch time which at this point we are just a mere two hours and three minutes away from. Nicole, what it was like when you were sitting in the Space Shuttle, that moment when the last door to the outside closed. I think its like all the steps we have talked along the way. Its another one of those wow, this could be real today steps. That is certainly one that makes you think its going to happen. You are at that point, you know the closeout crew is getting ready to depart the pad shortly and you know that you will be out there on your own with your crew waiting to go. All right, and in seat number one today is crew1 specialist sans walker who flew previously on the russian soyuz to the International Space station spending 163 days in space. Here is more on dr. Walker who will be the first woman to fly on a commercial orbital spacecraft. I always wanted to be an astronaut. I just turned four when we first landed on the moon. And i have very kiss teaching memory of my parents taking me and my older sister out in to the backyard and the moon was rising over our house and they pointed up there and said we have people there. And even at four i thought that just sounded like the best idea ever. We have been given the scientific knowledge, the technical ability, and the materials to per see the exploration of the universe. To ignore these great resources, would be a corruption of a godgiven ability. I had seen a new class of astronauts that had been hired for the Space Shuttle and i was reading in the newspapers what their qualifications were. And just going through some of them, i realized i can do that. And that was a big turning point. I am dr. Shannon walker, nasa astronaut and i am getting ready to fly on the crew1 mission to the International Space station. Crew1 is the first Operational Mission of the crew dragon vehicle to the International Space station. I was not picturing the call to be assigned. And so any time you get a flight assignment, its tremendously exciting. Music playing i spent six months on the station previously in 2010 and i am so looking forward to getting back there and having another six months on the space station. There are so many things that you can do on station. What i like about it is every day really is different. You get up, and you may be doing a biological experiment one day, you may be doing maintenance on the equipment the next day. The day following that you will be doing some sort of experiment in chemistry. What i have found being part of the International Space Station Program and not just russia, but our colleagues in japan and europe and canada is that underneath it all, we all have the same goals and we all have the same passion. The dragon spacecraft represents to me just a continuing evolution of better Computing Power that that is evolved over the years and different ways the crew that interact with the spacecraft. Spacex say interesting couple of there are so many young people i imagine it lake it was in the early apollo days with nasa with so many young engineers so passionate about what we are doing. The important thing is we both have learned from each other, and now we have got a very strong bond on what we want to accomplish and how we need to accomplish it together. I do believe that human space flight is an imperative for our planet. And to be a part of that, to keep the progress going i find very inspiring. Crew1 push specialist Soichi Noguchi has spent 177 days in space and this will be his Third Mission in an orbital spacecraft. Here is more on the First International partner to fly aboard crew dragon. Soichi appears to be a very quiet person and yet he comes out with fantastic oneliners. Soichi is probably the quietest, but he is probably the funnest afunniest as well. Earlier i used the word dignified to describe him. But his humor is very dry and subtle but extremely witty and just makes it that much more funny. Name is Soichi Noguchi. I am Mission Special one on crew1 mission to International Space station. My mission will be help support commander and the pilots on crew dragon and once i a rave on space station i will be an engineer and doing science and maintenance and space walks. All kind of work. I am really fortunate enough to have good crew member. And obviously we have a lot of different background and diversity, which gives us great [ inaudible ] to our crew. I wanted to be an astronaut for a long time. High school days i watched a shuttle launch. I studied aerodynamics and airspace engineering and i turned 30, Japanese Space Agency started recruiting another astronaut class. I was fortunate enough to be selected and sent immediately to Johnson Space center. My first flight was 2005, that was on the Space Shuttle discovery. 114. And the next flight was 2009 that was on a russian soyuz. The vehicle, is like a living creature. All the pipes, all the pipe lines or life. I really remember the morning of the launch day, i arrive at the pad, hey, this vehicle is alive and waiting to go off. Lift off Space Shuttle discovery. Beginning americas new journey to the moon, mars, and beyond. I am really looking forward to going back to that launch day. The crew1 is the first operational space flight after the certification given by nasa. Important thing is this is brandnew designed from scratch. 21st century spacecraft. And this is a new design. And obviously the spacex did a very nice job. The spacecraft of this century is not just for america, but this is International Corporation and all the other people around the world have a chance to ride on this crew dragon. This is a new era. Okay, we are looking live inside the white room we are going to hatch reopen temporarily. It sounds like they may be reopening the hatch. Well listen in and see if we can hear anymore chatter about that. Okay, so it sounds like they want to double check a leak check. So we may see that hatch reopen momentarily. Nominally we would expect to hear a call out for hatch close right at tmind us one hour and 55 minutes. We have not heard that just yet. But we did here that the teams are looking at reopening the hatch. To double check some leaks. What you am hearing is the Closeout Team saw a little Pressure Drop during the leak checks. Like i mentioned before, its not like close a door. Its not closing the door to your car, the door closes they check the environment inside the capsule and make sure we are good and then perform a leak check making sure that the cabin and the door are able to maintain pressure and environment. So Something Like this if they have to reopen it might be they have to reposition a seal so its considered a minor issue at the moment. But it might be as simple as allowing us to open the hatch, check the seals in the lock mechanism and able to reclose it. Okay, we are going to john in hawthorne, hes listening to more details. John, can you give us be update on whats going on. Yeah, i have been listening in to the dragon net and falcon 9. You can see the crew inside dragon, everything is safe at the launch pad. We have not gotten in to propellant load. What we were doing is our standard procedures we did communication check. Just right for the crew inside. We command the close the hatch, the team, locks it down, and we run a leak check to make sure that it is leak tight. We are running that leak check and saw a little bit of a drop in pressure, so what you are doing on the screen right now, from the outside of the capsule on the left, the spacex ingress team in the axis arm in the light room they will open that hatchback up again. One thing we want to look at is make sure nothing got trapped in the seal. They have to look at the latch mechanism. And they are also checking their equipment to make sure whether or not its actually in the capsule or might be in the measuring equipment they are holding on to. So you can see right now the latch is hatch has come open and they are beginning the troubleshooting taking a look around the seal of the hatch. Yeah, just wanted to let you know that we have about 12 about 10 minutes of margin in the schedule for this troubleshooting. 10 minutes before they need to start closing the hatch again . That is correct. Yeah, 10 minutes until hatch close and they are taking a look at the seal at this time. Copy. I am only listening to program now. Hey, marie, this is john, did you ask me a question . I didnt pick it up. Yeah, i wanted to first just acknowledge that we heard on the call outs they said that they had about at the point minutes of margin in this schedule, so not necessarily going to throw the timeline off track. But is this something, i know, that people are watching this live have to be wondering is this something that can cause a scrub or, you know, how significant is this issue right now . I would say from a craw safety standpoint, which is what we are always looking out for, if we could not resolve the issue, if we thought we were actually measuring a leak, that would be a probable scrub issue for today. However its premature to say that, they are doing the first round of troubleshooting. And i also heard the comment we have 10 minutes, the spacex crew did you want leave the axis arm until tminus 60 minutes, they could compress other activities since there is still 60 minutes before the crew in the black use form actually has to get out of the area. Sure. When we put out the Mission Timeline ahead of time so folks can follow along. We understand and try to impress upon others these are the time of things that can come up. So that while the timeline is a guide its flew. I had thinking back to demo f schedule in materials of when bob and du doug got in their ses and strapped in and closed the hatch. Given an instantaneous launch window for the space station launches if we didnt have margin that would be a poe shame scrub scenario. About you we heard the call out earlier, we are about 10 minutes ahead of schedule. So glad to have that flexibili flexibility. Just on add onto what kate was saying, looking back over my notes, when we did the first demo 2 launch, it wasnt until about right now in the countdown that the first hatch leak check completed. So by that schedule, which we were ready to support launch on time until the weather got us. We are still looking good i think in the count down. Something i want to point out you heard me mentioned team are following along on tablets. As far as procedures, this is considered the kind of contingency procedure thats written in the to the procedures, what we are seeing them go through on screen now, they are troubleshooting life but we have a procedure written for this contingency, its a matter of working through those sidesteps essentially. Nicole, i wonder, did you have any issue yous that had to be worked through real time on either of your Shuttle Missions that might have been similar to Something Like this . In both cases actually. Its really amazing how the team comes together and works those procedures like kate mentioned. Where, you know, we have tried our best to think about what could go wrong and, you know, in these different scenarios and put those procedures in place to work it. And as a crew inside unless there is something that we can actively participate in, we are just following a thong make sure that, you know, everything is picking back up on to the timeline and waiting in case there is a switch to throw or communication to have to help with the procedure. Okay, so, again, if you are just joining us, we are at tminus one hour and 47 minutes. We did not hear the call out of hatch closure yet because when they were going through the leak check process, they notice aid Pressure Drop inside the capsule. So they opened the match back up, and john i. Explained this s is not a show stopper. So far on track for launch. We are watching troubleshooting in real time. On the righthand side of the screen we can see the crew sitting normally in their seats. Something i didnt get to mention earlier, is that the seats themselves are custom sized for each astronaut. So not only is the length of the bucket. Basically the length from the tailbone to your shoulders, that is specific for each astronaut, but so is the foot rest as well as the armrest. So expected to fly people of many different heights and wanting to make sure that their positioning is not only operational but comfortable as well. It seems like everyone is pretty comfy in there. And we cant over state how important the job is of this pad Closeout Team who is doing these leak checks and making sure that that hatch is secure. And behaving the way it should be before they leave the pad. Because these four astronauts are inside a capsule that is going to be fueled in a little over an hour and head off to space, and so its the job of these people that you see on the left of your screen in addition to hundreds and thousands more around the country that has been working so hard for months and years to keep this crew safe. Again, this is the first operational or rotation mission of four people on crew dragon, the first of many more to come. So the team has to keep the crew safe. So i am now hearing that that Closeout Team we saw there were able to check the seals and clean them a little bit. They found a little piece of sod in the seal, thats probably what was causing the hatch to not maintain pressure. So they are about to i cant quite tell on the screen, but they will be starting to close that. And what is fod. Team. Foreign object debris. What is an example of that what could be . Its hard to tell. But something as small as a piece of lint to Something Like a cell phone or an earring. Thats part of the reason why earlier in the webcast i mentioned that the closeout excuse me, the suit tech nips team are check to go make sure that nobody is wearing unapproved earrings or jewelry, those are all considered fod or foreign object debris. It looks like well be closing the hatch again if its not already and rapport forming the leak check think like i mentioned before we have contingencies built in to our prores, we are running ahead of schedule so nothing to speculate causing an aboard at this time. But that being said well refresrepressurize the hatch. Not like we bring it to pressure and check it and its good. You want to bring it to pressure and allow it to sit for a couple of minutes and watch whatever the decay is if any. Dragon spacex status. Go ahead for dragon. Yeah, the team did find a possible root cause, they are checking other environments and we are getting ready to close the hatch again. Okay, dragon, copies and we see close prep. Copy. So just the ground crew core communicating to the crew inside dragon. Giving them a status update. Letting them know that potential root cause has been found and that they will be closing the hatch and beginning the leak check once again. So we heard that they may have identified the root cause. But we have not heard what the root cause is or what they suspect it is yet. So if we hear that, we will relay that to you. But its not information that we have heard just yet. And dragon spacex catch is closed. Copy. Okay, so we heard hatch is closed. And so we expect a leak check to be forthcoming. Again, we have the pad Closeout Team on the left of your screen closing the dragon side hatch for the second time getting ready to do another leak check and the crew is sitting tight on the righthand side of the screen. We see them performing the mechanical sealing of the hatch. After this complete well begin the leak check. We are at tminus one hour and 40 minutes. So with still in margin in the schedule this is not necessarily going to throw the rest of the launch timeline off track. But we are just standing by to see if the teams can get this issue ar resolved. Sound like we have an update from john in hawthorne, what can you tell us . Right now we are just inside 100 minutes until the falcon 9 launch. We are waiting to hear the results of the hatch leak check the second one is going on as we have mentioned, we think we found a little bit of debris in the seal. And finger crossed that well do that. We are also waiting to hear the com checks between the dragon crew and the falcon 9 launch team. The responsible engineers in the firing room. Dragon spacex for status. To catch up rat now think we are just inside of 100 minutes. Go ahead for dragon. Okay, the leak check hardware is connecting and we are holding pressure now. Still in progress. Dragon copies. And thats good news. Again, i will provide more words on what they identified once we during my post ingress brief. Okay, dragon copies. And i assume we still have more time on the leak check. Thats affirm. They are still performing it. Dragon. Okay we heard chatter. Not sure if you picked it up on the webcast. But they talked briefly to the crew. Gave them an update. Similar to the one we were present to go you all think the good news is they are farther along in the leak check than they got the first. So, again, things are going in the right direction. The second time around. They are also looking at the timeline for the crew ingress team that you can see there on the left monster, the spacex folks, they will be able to leave a little bit later than tminus one hour and still be able to get clear of the area in plenty of time for us to do the propellant loading and the launch. Right now on the falcon 9, we are waitin waiting to do the cok with the crew. Dragon. Hoo here comes the c off. M checks. Go ahead, for falcon check. If you are ready we are going to kick those off. Dragon is ready. Dragon count 11, com com che. This is dragon on countdown one being have you loud and clear. Gnc cloud and clear, stand by for com check by propulsion. Dragon prop on countdown one, com check. And prop. Loud and clear. Loud and clear, stand by for aviation clear. Dragon avian i can on countdown one, come check. Avionics this is dragon i have you loud and clear. Avionics loud and clear, stand by for com check by the ground engineering. Dragon on countdown one, com check. This is dragon on countdown one, we have you loud and clear. Ground segment loud and clear. Stand by to com check for lunch control. Dragon lawn. Control on countdown one, com check. Launch control this is dragon loud and clear. Stand by for the com check by the chief engineering. Dragon, com check. Ce, this is dragon, hans we have you loud and clear on downtown down. Ce loud and clear, this completes the falcon 9 responsible engineering com checks, safe flight. Good news is we have gotten through the com checks it wasnt the spacex team and the dragon capsule. We are at tom one hour and 34 minutes. On the falcon nine [speaking at the same time] [speaking at the same time] at this time we are going to commence health check for the launch escape system, you can expect change by following by transition back to catch closed. Dragon copy. I think we have a moment now listen to them talk to the crew. On dragon other than the side hatch leak check thats been going under way Everything Else has been looking good. On the weather front, the good news is that while we have been watching for rain showers and the trajectory of the falcon 9 we have been watching for heavy rain or thick clouds, currently everything does continue to cooperate as we were hoping the frontal boundary was slowing down and may not reach kennedy base center by the time of lawn. And that continues to look like its going to happen. So the local conditions are good. Upper altitude winds looking at the balloons we have been releasing. And those show us that conditions in the upper altitude for stability are good. So we ought to be go for launch in about 92 minutes with the weather couldnt. Right now well throw it back to darryl while we wait for followon discussions. John i. Thank you very much for the update. We are it the ken any space center and i can confirm for you, john, weathers sleekerring good here. A thin lawyer of clouds overhead here at the launch complexion. We are here to talk about licensing. And we have not heard about that before. This is the first commercially licensed launch by the faa think explain why that is and how it works. You know, darryl, we are it has just been certified for the first time we license a lot of launches. We had 29 launches that were licensed in 2020. And we are expecting another 6 in 2021. Wow. Its going exponential. We have excited about that. We have collaborated with the federal Aviation Administration which is part of the department of transportation. Steve dixon is the administrator, hes here right now. Hes been with us through the week. Working with us, which is just tremendous. A great collaboration between the two agencies. So help the public understand what this means. I think generally speaking, we all understand that we get aboard a commercial aircraft, its that carrier is faa licensed. So now we are licensing space flight. Launches, commercial ones with people on board. What does the public take away from that . You think about it, we have the most complex airspace in the world over the United States. And now we are going to expand it even more in to space. And so we are really integrating both our air no aeronautics, our aircraft that we fly and even joy every day with space operations. Well have both of those things happening at the same time with human space flight. And thats what we are doing here today at the Kennedy Space center. Thats impressive. When you mentioned the airspace, in flight. Right . Very crowded place, space just in Getting Started and as you mentioned, growing where do you see this, when you just gotta dream a bit. Where do you see it going one day . You think about it, first off, its both federal Aviation Administration, but at nasa also our number one priority is safe tiff. Thats what we are focused on. In the meantime, we are commercializing low earth orbit. Right now we have a 350 billion space economy in low earth orbit. Thats true. Thats a big number. 350 billion. And people are talking in the future to going over a trillion. We are starting the dawn of a new space age. Quickly, i think you were telling me that this also increases our ability to do science on the International Space station, right . With these four great astronauts, and Jim Bridenstine and i net with them yesterday and they want to fly. And we want to make sure they fly safely. But with that, when they get to the space station, we have got one astronaut there right now. Its going to increase our Research Efforts up there by 30. And we really believe that thats that demand is going to grow. And the hope is ultimately, that well have commercial space stations that are built by our space industry in United States. Because there is so Much Research to be done. Very good. Illuminating information about the licensing space ports, appreciate your effort and all the work getting the Government Agencies to Work Together and talk to each other. And come together with some consensus, thats good stuff. Its my honor but this is about safety. And well keep doing it. Keep up the good work, jim moreheart deputy ahead menstruate we are nasa. Back to john i. In hawthorne, california, john. Well, maybe not john. Well go to marie. Right here across the way at ksc. All right, thanks, darryl. A brother named johnson ill answer to either. We are standing by if a post up agrees briefing t to the crew. Dragon spacex for side hatch leak check. Okay, go ahead for the side hatch leak check. Good news the leak check has passed and we saw consistent readings to what we saw on dry dress, so it looks good. Thats great news, spacex. You just heard there was the core Team Briefing the crew letting them know that the leak check passed and we are going to bemoving along in the timeline here. They are now attaching the final exterior cover on the side hatch. And they mentioned that the levels that they checked were consistent with dry dress. They were referring to the rehearsal that was conducted thursday. So just a couple of days ago they went through this process its called the dry dress rehearsal, because they do everything exempt fuel up the rocket and, of course, launch. Things were nominate the first time they closed the side hatch they notice aid drop in pressure. They discovered some noren object degree or what we call fod. Cleared it out. We dont know what it was yet. We might bear that in the post increase briefing but closed the hatchback up. Did another leak check, everything looked nominal and thats what we heard confirmation of, they said that was great news. Look like the they took the final closeout photo there or one of the the final photos. You might be able to make out signatures on the wall of our white room. Certainly astronaut sitting inning i had see the crew dragon capsule right now appreciate the attention to detail of this pad Closeout Team. The thing that we appreciate is the team that work on the spacecraft believe the care and feeding of the spacecraft is their responsibility. We know that you can tell as they are working with you, and hear them outside the hatch and on the radio as well. Indication, can yo, can you e seeing now . Its difficult on the screen. Im sorry, i cant tell what they are doing. Its above the frame of the camera view that we can see. Are there things that they have to remove before the seal with the match can pull back . There is nothing attached to the capsule. We are not only taking in to consideration the safety of the crew but the team members, you can see the straps there. They are basically alluring this is mechanism on the access arm. Its kind of lake a airplane door. The metallic places dont go anywhere near the character. There is a seal to control the environment dealing with humidity and rain and drugs here in florida trying to keep all of that out and keep the environment stable and under control there. They are preparing to move that way. They are moving towards the side of the rocket so we have those wires in place for fault protection. We were be hearing a post inning reese grease briefing. We are picturing the crew signed to get a recap. Mack a couple of more minutes before we hear the briefing. We are going on move on. We made mention of the first crew to launch in crew dragon earlier this year, you may remember them as the space dads as they are affectionately known by the nasa and spacex team that worked with them. We watched them lift off from this very spot in may, ending a 9year gap in human space flight from american soil. And we want to honor the courage of nasa a true not bob bank en and doug hurl with a look at their historic demo 2 test flight. Glued morning welcome aboard. Dragon spacex com check. Spacex dragon, we are going for launch. Lets light this candle. Three, two, one. Lift off falcon crew dragon, go spacex, god speed bob and doug. On behalf of the entire launch team, thanks for flying can falcon 9 today we hope you enjoyed the ride and wish you a great mission. We would like to welcome you aboard capsule endeavor, we have a friend aboard with us. Tremor. I think i was requested to do a backflip. Good night megan and theo. And karen and jack. Music playing houston flight, houston is go for und undocking departure. Dragon is committed to undo undock. Spacex dragon on dragon to ground, we are ready for the systems brief. Copy. As stated dragon is in a healthy state. We are proceeding toward the primary landing site and your time line is current. Music playing visual two out. 200 meters. Ready for splash down. Copy, brace for splash down. Endeavor on behalf of the spacex and nasa teams welcome back to planet earth and thanks for flying spacex. Music playing its a humbling experience to be a part of what was accomplished. Its great to see how excited everybody was. We hope it brings a little bit of bright tons a pretty tough 2020. Wow. I dont know about you guys, but that gives me goosebumps watching that recap. Absolutely. My family and i made a point to drive over here to the east coast to watch launch from just down the road in cocoa beach with our dear friends the honeycutts a name familiar with the Kennedy Space Center Family and it was a real joy to watch bob and doug in space and then to have them safely back on the planet with us. And now, special treat. We are going to hear from my dear friends and fellow bugs, aka the space dads themselves. Darryl is standing by to talk with them. Darryl. Thats right, nicole. We have bob behnken and doug hurly the space dads with us live from houston, texas. Gentlemen thank you so much for joining us on yet another historic day here at the Kennedy Space center. Hey, darryl, how are you . How are you, darryl. Good to is he you guys, good to see you. You know this moment, you remember it, i am sure well. When we came to this moment in time, where the capsule the door was closed. Tell us what you guys were thinking in this moment as we see astronauts the four crew1 astronauts getting ready to fly. Well, just thinking about the mission ahead. What you need to do to get through the next hour or two, the timeline. I mean, you know, you dont have a lot of time to think about a lot else. You have kind of wrapped everything up before you have walked down and walked out. Got to the pad, so we are just going through the checked with the teams following along and doing the things that we need to do. You just saw that video that was put together about the whole mission that you guys did. Is there anything that as you watch that stands out to you as that was my favorite moment . I think for both of us our favorite moment was after splash down when we were able to get the hatch open and climb out of the vehicle. As you might imagine, as you embark on a test flight you have to have a lot of things go very smoothly and you gotta get them all done and get to the final test point thats out there which was the splash down and coming home. And so i think we were there is a little bit of relief, but kind of a big kind of a let our emotions come out i think at that point after being focused on the mission in hand all the way up to that point. Doug, what are your thoughts . I agree with bob we invested five years with the teams we went out to how thorn almost every week the last two years before we launched and so just a can you my nation of an incredible amount of work by so many people to be a small part of it and to complete the Mission Successfully and have the mission we had where we were able to do a whole bunch of work on board space station including four space walks and then complete the test flight of crew dragon and get it ready for this crew. Its indescribable to be a part of that type of vent. And you know, we are just excited to see what will happen hopefully here in just an hour or two. Just an hour and 16 minutes until launch. And so i want to know about a conversation that you guys had. You had some important conversations with this crew. What would did you tell them . What advice did you give them . Ding and i got a chance to sit down with the crew1 folks and we tried to give them the benefit of the experiences that we had had and suggestions on things that might help their mission go smoother. But the biggest message we passed onto them is it was a good ship and did i great job getting to us space station and back. And they should have confidence in the team as they east execute our mission, there were things that could be improved after the test flight and they took a lot of those minor things to heart. But overall we just passed on confidence in the vehicle. That goes a long way for a team thats got a lot of things to do as they lead you want to mission this they are about to launch on today and not a lot of time if you look at how quickly the vehicle gotta cescked and changes were made in preparation follow this mission, just a short couple of months ago i think at this point since we came home and we just really wanted to pass our confidence onto them as they got ready for their mission. Commander hopkins, in fact, said that he appreciated doug hurly telling him when he was commanding the landing that he was ahead of the spacecraft. Describe what that means and why you think that help hid. It was a little bit drawing on my shuttle. I felt like i had to work hard to keep wouldnt shuttle as we were reentering, its a little bit about how you operate on orbit and then the quickness of the events that you deal with. On reentry, everything happens fast. Mentally knowing that was coming i tried to force that with the hopper and say you will be in orbit for a while. Your brain slows down in a sense but when reentry occurs those events really happen fast from the time you separate from the trunk to splash down seems like it happens in an intent. We talked a lot about that and i just wanted him to be ca calibrd and be ahead of dragon as best he could and communicate that to his crew. He has a great crew and theyll be ready for it when they come back in next spring. In fact, he said that as a result of that, that he studied hard he knew that he had to be ahead of it in order for these event happening to be ready for them as they come. Bob behnken, doug hurly, astronauts with nasa. We appreciate you guys being here, thank you very much. And enjoy the launch. And now back to the desk. Thank you, darrell. Its tminus one hour and 13 minutes and we understand, john i. Has been listening in to pass along information what information the crew has, john i. Lets hand it over to you in hawthorne. Thank you, marie. Its as she said tminus one hour 13 minutes 24 seconds the good news, is we are on the timeline. While we were he want vowing bob and doug we did hear some discussion with the crew over the spacex to dragon crew net. They gave them an update on a couple of issues that we have been working. The one of great interest right now has been the hatch close. They summarized that as you saw on the monitors, we did we open the hatch. They found a small piece of f off. D and also worked on the seal around the hatch. They also did add a little bit of lubricant. They closed the hatch, and then reran the 5minute leak check and got a good result. So the crew heard that and they are supportive and that issue you is now resolved and behind us. The other issue that we have been working that they briefed the crew on is just above the first stage where the propellant tank and the inner stage meet you cant see on your monitor there but there are some weep holes and what we have seen is water i think from maybe rain that has gotten in there has drained out and that gave a little bit of discoloration. They wanted to make sure that might not be Something Else, like the rp1 fuel thats on board the rocket. They have done some review of data, they see no issues with the fuel system. Or in this case its the brad system in proximate the immaterial at this to the area. He believe its water, they briefed the crew and that issue you is now closed out. So coming up on just inside tminus one hour and 12 minutes and we have closed up those issues and as we heard a couple of minutes ago the closeout crew have left the access arm. So we are on schedule. Jesse, everything in the very busy last 20 minutes or so has come together and closed yo out. What else has been going on. Thats awesome news, john, thank you for that very detailed update. We are just one an 11 minutes fm lawn one hour and 11 minutes from launch its getting exciting especially with the updates of the crew were helped out by the closeout engineers to get their seats and a trap to the umbilical cods that provide breathing air. They conducted leak checks which were successful and communication checks with the corcorps here in hawthorne who l speak to them throughout the mission as well as the launch crew in florida. Ground stations and tracking data relay sat right that well use to talk to the crew the entire way to the station. After those suit checks we were looking for the leak check on the hatch. So we closed the hatch and as john i. Explained there were pressure changes they reopened the hatch and removed what appear to be a piece of foreign object degree or fod. Reclosed the hatch, conducted the leak check and severing is well. The Closeout Team is departing the pad and weather raters are checking the final wind speeds and that will be used for the final go, no go for the launch when he bet do the game go, no go. Various teams at nasa and spacex do an internal go poll making sure its right with the falcon 9, the dragon, crew, range before the and the space station before a go, no go is given. Lets check in the status with the crew on the status of launch that neuqua. Thanks, lisa, the team here in Mission Control houston remains goes on launch. All things required to be healthy continue to look good. Before the station steam is go for launch they verify that key sometimes are function is as expected this includes life support systems like socks general generation, Carbon Dioxide removal and water recycling it is testimony that allows us to reuse 90 of the water we send to station, we are insuring that the computers that allow to us command the stations major subit is terms the Station Service system are functioning normally. We work with on russian partners to make sure the direct the station is pointing are fully functional. This is includes the thrusters fountain in the russian segment both playing a Critical Role during dragons dosting. Mission control houston will be closely monitoring and check off milestones throughout the injury. Anthony leads Flight Controllers in houston for launch they will all be coming back tomorrow for docking. Where we join joint operations with spacex. So ill send it back over to you, marie at ksc. Thank you, shaneequa. If you are just now joining us you picked a great time as we are now at tminus eight minutes and 22 seconds until launch. Welcome to coverage for the mission known as crew1. Nasa and spacexs second flight with crew to the i want the space staying, lift off time is holding for 72 testify p. M. Instantaneous launch window and no issues currently with fall falcon 9 or crew dragon. The weather is cooperating. Reporter last check 50 go. Over the last through hours our crew of Victor Glover, mike hopkins, Shannon Glover and Soichi Noguchi donned their suits. They walked out of that crew quarters building just as every astronaut to fray from this space port in florida has done since apollo 7. They were transport today the pad where the crew entered the spacex crew dragon spacecraft you can see live on your screen. This is spacexs second time flying astronauts in crew dragon it will be the first time a private company will fly a crew of four people to the space station. If up back in may we launched nasa astronauts bob behnken and doug hurly in the historic demo 2 mission and brought them afterly home in august. Over the next hour well conduct a series of polls to get ready to launch. Have the crew arm and launch escape system and well begin fueling falcon 9. Launch is set for 7 27 p. M. Eastern, this will include a 12minute flight to orbit. And then a 27 1 2 hour flight to dock with the International Space station. Set for monday at 11 00 p. M. Eastern. So, nicole, we are coming up on tminus one hour in about six minutes. And i know when we were listening to darryl talk to to be and doug, he talked about doug talked about how, you know, there is not a lot of time to think about your emotions, you are just focused on the operation and your procedures. Your emotions are in you at this point and you are in just trying to make sure as best prepared for, you know, whats about to happen. Sure. And todays flight is the first of six planned rotational missions nasa contracted with spacex as part of the Agency Commercial crew program the success of the demo 2 program allowed nasa to complete certification for spacex to fly astronauts regularly two and from the iss. Bringing back this critical capability of launching from the american soil. Which we have not had the ability to do regularly since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011. If you have been following along you have been able to hear that we have been hearing a little bit from crew on board dragon resilience, currently strap ed in to their seats and already have gun through all of their communication and suit leak checks. Now, they are able to follow along with all of the action still ahead on the displays that are just above them. There are a couple of touch screen displays and that allows them to get insight in to all of dragon and falcon 9 systems as we proceed down lawn towards launch. Er currently tminus one hour and five minutes, lets check in with john for another status on both vehicles. How is it going there, john. [speaking at the same time] to close the v d. A. Once thats complete we are going to cycle the tank valves to equalize the manifold pressure. This is what we we executed earlier this week during dry drives. We copy that. Jay, your com is coming in soft and we are losing you kind of at the end of them. Copy on that call ill let you no he when we are ready for [ inaudible ] cycling. Okay, check, copy and that was much better, thank you. We just heard a little best the dialogue between the crew of dragon capsule resit against and the Spacex Dragon Team Looks Like theyll cycle some pressure and giving the crew a heads up and well probably hear some of that noise. As i have mentioned, we are tminus one hour if four minutes counting down, good news is that as you heard a few minutes ago, we have resolved a couple of issues we were working earlier in the count and while the pace was busy before, now it will begin to pick up again. Falcon 9 in to check yowtz of first and second stage propulsion and evening i understand. Well hear polls on readiness in propellant loading and onto launch. Tminus 35 propellant loading begins. On dragon we have done our check checkout says everything is looking good the is astronauts are inside dragon hatch is closed and leak check complete. Spacex folks have left the access area and clear of the blast area. Two main or he cents coming up. Well see the crew access arm couldntly alongside dragon retract away from the capsule and then follow it pretty much immediately by arming of the dragon launch escape sis that needs to be around prior to loading propellant on to the falcon 9. Launch out of historic pad their 98 from the eastern rage, the range is green and also the Worldwide Network of great stations and on orbit tracking and data relay satellites are ready to support dragon as it heads to or by bit and the good news weather continues to be acceptable both at ground level and upper dragon spacex we are cycling the tank isolatio ice valves toe pressure. Thinker equalize pressure. They are recycling the valves to equally pressure. After the hour, so once get in to the propellant loading there is no opportunity to change the t0 once we get in to the propellant loading and we are committed right now. We cant slow down or add more margin time. We have to finish up the last 62 minutes. The good news is we are go for launch. Great to hear, john, sound like everything is going back to normal is that right . We have extensive history now of flying falcon nine from the florida coast and earlier this year we complete aid test run of mission that we are an hour away from beginning here today. The purpose of that mission was to demonstrate dragons capability to safely and reliably fly humans to and from the International Space station. The success of demo 2 was a truly exciting moment and paved the way for Todays Mission. Dragon spacex valve cycling is complete. Dragon, copy. And good words from corps to the crew. That mission paved the way from where we are today, send this is full crew foley alongduration expedition aboard the International Space station. Dragon and falcon 9 together have years of operation the experience or what we ref to as flight heritage. As william mentioned earlier spacex has successfully completed 23 flights of dragon to and from orbit since 2010. Including 22 trips to the International Space station. Not only have we conducted thousands of hours of testing we have e enhanced and added a none of safety feature toes dragon. Much of what was learned was leveraged in the did he soon of this vehicle, its fully autonomous which means it can fly itself but features full manual override capabilities in case of emergency. Bob behnken and doug hurly tested these capabilities during the demo 2 mission to the station. Reuse na and less refurbishment time between missions. Stand agent 27 feet tall from bottom of the trunk to the top of the nose cone, crew dragon is composed two main element is. Spacex just pressing report go to launch. Dragon copy, 66 is in work. Tminus one hour getting there. The capsule the screw flying is designed to hold crew and pressurize cargo and has an unpressurized section known as the trunk. The nose cone protects the docking system and the Guidance Navigation control system are what we call gnc. The nose cone opens for docking and remains attached to the crew dragon spacecraft unlike the previously version of dragon and that helps toward our reuse na efforts. Opposite the nose cone is the trunk providing attachment points for falcon 9 the dragon capsule and cargo on the outside one half the tank contains a raiaraid 80 or that rejects spa. The other half con apes solar cells use to charge the spacecrafts batteries. The spacecraft is did he seep today accommodate up to seven crew members with modular seats that can be removed and replaced by i additional cargo. Spacex this is dragon resale against 4. 44. 100 launch prep. Dragon is go for launch. Copy go for lawn. We are looking get on goode on weather you can expect the next call to be the c brief at two minus 45. Very exciting. Come i. Very exciting the next call is from the launch director little excite that go wore target to 20 today. The seats are made of carbon finer and will be custom size today any crew members flying on board. That control pam is centered between the pilot and the commander seats, you can see it a little bit here on the right side of your screen. That consists of three touch screen displays allowing the crew to operate the vehicle and fly at t manly. And finally, our super draco launch escape system a key safety feature of crew dragon giving them the ability to safely escape from the time of launch all the way to orbit. And we are now tminus 57 minutes from launch. This day is the beginning of leg crew flights to the space station from u. S. Soil. Nasa have certified spacex for these missions after the successful demo 2 flight test which launched in may and splashed down safely in august. Todays mission is crew dragons Second Mission with astronauts aboard and its first longduration mission to the International Space station. Its been an awesome count down so far. Weather is still looking good [speaking at the same time] Technical Team has been pulled and ready to proceed in to the propellant load. Thank you. Not only is weather good but sound like we are proceed to go nba to propellant load. We are at tminus 56 37. And getting closer and closer to the t0. A few things we didnt expect but everything is continuing on schedule. Starting with suit up just over three hours ago this spacex team helped the crew put on their suits and conduct initial checkouts before crew walk yacht where they gave final goodbyes with friends and family gathered outside the operations and check out building before they began that roughly 20minute raid to pad 39a. And what a cool ride that was. Being see them getting in to their vehicles and waving goodbye. We got great footage of those teslas heading down the nasa causeway before the crew arrived at the pad. And once they got to the pad they took a minute to take in the sites, you can see on your screen, they took some pictures and then they headed up in to the Service Structure to begin a process known as crew ingress where the astronauts entered the vehicle and the spacex team performed a series of checks to insure their suits, seats and vehicle interactions were funking program earley. About 15 step 55. 72 is open for propellant load go, no go. About 15 minutes ago the team closed dragons hatch with the crew safely inside. So with about 55 minutes to go until dragon starts breathing fire, things will pick up as we get close to that gono go to given propellant loading and arming the launch escape system. The crew will pull for readiness which was completed just about five minutes ago. And the dragon poll for prop loading was just called out not too long ago. Next up internal Mission Control hawthorne poll and then the director al poll for the propellant reaching. The arm will retract and the crew will get the call to close their vice ors and arm the launch escape sometimes. This is the Automated System in place to fire the eighth super draco thrusters to quickly separate the crew from the rocket eater on the pad or during the flight on line uphill. Once we reach tminus 35 minutes. Pro tell apt loading will begin, we have heard chatter about whether they are go, no go. Throughout the count down we have been getting incredible views of the astronauts inside dragon making that are final preparations as well as closeup views of the suits. The teams have often described is suits as annex tension of the dragon spacecraft. Its almost a mini spacecraft inside a spacecraft. They are all custom fitted as we discussed earlier. Its very interesting as welling their seats are custom fitted too. Nobody gets for choose where they sit today thats already been decided w that we want to hear more from the [speaking at the same time] go ahead for. Just wanted to check we did notice on the left side of the slade looks like one of the tablets is still in there. When are you planning to bringing that down . With going get that prior to the les arming. Copy. Thats the corps speaking with dragon the crew has tablets they can use to monitor the milestones of the mission. Right now we want to hear more from the ksc side, so darryl. Thank you very much. Back here at the kent did i interview desk. We talk about the as fro thoughts what what they are doing but they have a lot of work to do. They will be doing science. Joying me is dr. Lucy lowe with the nasa its toot of health with one of the experience that our was as true thoughts will be working on. The big one that you are studying is tissue chips, what exactly is a tissue chip . So, yeah, great question, darryl and thank very much great to be here this evening. A tissue chip, this is an example. Its a tiny bioengineered device that contains human cells designed so it mimics the structure and function of human cells and organs in this tiny device, so the idea is that we can use these to understand hugh machine physiology and model diseases, and we can even use them to tuft drugs and therapeutics before clinch tal trials, they are models to use to knowledged disease and test their puth their puththeir puthg engineered no no, sir less. I some of real. You can put them on chips but use Stem Cell Technology to yes eight cells from all kind of different organs and issues heart, liver, lung, skin, brain, bone, lots of different tires can be created from stem cell and put on these tissue chips and you can model diseases can on a chip like this. This is a kid any chip that the Space Program has been funding this is being seeded here you can see the blue fluid in the triangles are cells being placed in to the chip and put in there with this pink stuff, extra cellular matrix that keeps them a live and bubble ago way happily chatting to eachy over the course of a few weeks, what you are seeing there then with the blue fluid is how we feed those cells during that time that they are up on the space station. Gotta keep them alive. Exactly. They need all their nutrients and the stuff that keeps them feeling good up there. What is the benefit of an experiment like this . What can we glean from that this and home hopefully in the futu. Thats a good we. When astronauts go up to the to space station they chase to their bodies that look like diseases or even aiming. When we put cells on the tissue chips we can see the same change that might vanity happ to the astronauts but on a short time scale. Can he seess that make take months or years or decade to be a clinical problem hear in space on earth can be modeled in space in just a couple of weeks. We are super he be site that some of the crew1 will be helping us. Fascinating. Thank you dr. Lose i low from the National Institute of helpful that was face nighting and we hope the astronauts get good work on it so you can further develop your research. Wonderful, thank you, darryl. Very good. Now back to hawthorne, california and john i. For the latest at tminus 49 minutes and counting. Turks darryl. Tminus 49 minutes seven seconds continuing to countdown. Right now the launch director and team are preparing for the readiness for propellant load and launch poll. The spacex launch director has checked with the Dragon Mission director and the launch manager and they are ready to procedure. Directly an electrotonic poll of the Seven Members of the spacex lawn think team for their go to load propellant and then to press on with launch. The falcon launch crew is a adjacent to the historic Vehicle Assembly building at Kennedy Space center. Key nasa launch members are located in the fire room. Now, what we are waiting for right now is expecting about tminus 47 minutes to hear the results of the poll. While we are wait to hear that , the crew is board and the crew access arm is about to be restrict tracted. You can see the access launch arm is in position. Well rotate that out of the way and arm the launch escape system on dragon before we go in to loading propellant on the falcon 9 little launching out of pad 39a heading north east out of the Eastern Range, the range continues to be go for launch. Thurman touring clearance area around the launch pad as well as air and sea space around the corridor. The good news on the weather front. We have been given a new probability of violation of only 20 . Or as the optimists say 80 chance of good weather, there is a small chance after you a shower but it has to pop up right over the pad here at the last minute. They are looking ground wind are cooperating upper altitude wind cooperating. So the weather officer gave us good news 10 minutes as we got inside of tminus one hour. We are coming up on tminus 47 minutes and the spacex team is finishing up their go, in go polls we are wait for a few more people to give the electronics thumbs up so the spacex launch director can check that item off and proceed in to the remainder of the countdown which will include pro tell apt loading at tminus 35 minutes. Lets listen in for a moment to the countdown net. Dragon spacex for arm. Go ahead for the arm [ inaudible ] yeah, we were talking here about the tablet and how much time you have to put it away. Essentially as soon as the tminus 45 minute brief occurs we will begin to retrack the arm and we would lake to be ready to arm the launch escape system immediately as soon as that is complete. And dragon copies. We will go ahead and take care of that now. Copy all, thank you. You heard dialogue between corps and the dragon crew looking at a computer notebook they are getting ready to put a way. Letting them know what the timeline is once we start the go, no go well proceed in to retract of the access arm, its current lay long side of dragon and well go in to arm the of the escape system, apartment, years of previous experience. And then finally, we will get in to propellant leading. Loading. Right now they are getting the last thumbs up. People are lacking at data that we were gathering outside of tminus one hour as we did final checkouts of the falcon 9 on the propulsion and engine systems before we get in to propellant load. Team vied i for access. Or no yo urgent nogo and theyl approve the sequence and proceed in to launch aboard. For urgent issues affecting the civil at this of the operation operators shall called hold, hold, hold on the countdown net. Well aboard immediately and proceed in to the launch auto aboard sequence, operators advised launch director whether structural break oregon fire is immaterial meant. In the owe vent of a fire alarm at fire four today, key operators noted below will remain at their post while the alarm is he valuating in the event that personnel safety is threatened evac the waite to the emergency exit which leads correctly south. Launch control you may procedure with arming the crew arm for movement. Copy arming crew arm. There you heard it. Polls are and we are go to head in to propel at load and the dragon team will begin retract,. [speaking at the same time]. Everything is looking good and we are right on on time with the count down. Thanks for that. It. It with that the arm is retracking. This is one of the last major visual milestones that we have before launch. So the crew access arm now moving away. And we are tminus 43 minutes and 15 seconds from launch. We are standing by as we wait for completion of the crew accessory tract. Shortly there as did have we should hear the callout that the launch escape system is armed and after that well hear that f9 prop loading has begun. And now early there are evening we saw nasa astronauts and jaxa astro suit up about three hours ago. They made the drive out to launch complexion 39a. Up chris about two hours ago and the spacecraft hatch closed a second time after a and then they had a successful leak check. Again, we have just seen the crew access arm retract. And what we heard a few moments ago was that once this process is complete. They are going to go ahead and arm the launch escape system immediately. So well wait to hear the call out that the crew access arm retraction is complete. And then well explain a little bit more about this launch escape system what, it is, what i its armed at this point. And why its so significant. We just watched the crew access arm retract. That is the suspended walkway that attaches the rotating Service Structure to the fix the Service Structure, excuse me. I am talking shuttle speak to the crew dragon capsule the we watched the arm attract away. We see crew dragon [speaking at the same time] complete. We heard confirm action that craw arm [speaking at the same time] with that call you are going to section seven close vice ors and arm launch escape system. Copy. Moving to section seven. Confirm action from core telling true that they are allowed to move off. You hear us move onto section six and section seven thats making sure everyone is on the same page in terms of which procedure we are working toward. That was the corps who is the person thats the single voice communicating to the crew inside. Vice ors are closed and we are arming the launch escape system. Copy. We heard commander. Mike hopkins. Thank you. Commander mike hopkins inform that we are that they are now closing the their vice ors and now commanding the launch escape system to be armed. Not the launch escape system is basically the crews path to safety in the event after an anomaly, quite simple. If we were to have an aboard scenario here on the pad, we have demonstrated the efficiency and success of that system having done a pad abort test previously we did a launch escape system test mid flied earlier. I believe january of this year. [speaking at the same time] i only caught of end it have soundings like launch escape is armed. The system from now on the pad until they are in orbit. The crew is would be able to escape safely in the event of an anomaly. Thats why it is so important that we check the weather all around the world really think not just the weathers hereer at the cape that we are looking at in order to determine if we are a go or no go. It is the weather along that entire escape corridor. Right. And as kate watts mentioning. The launch escape system is armed. That has to happen before the spacex teams will proceed with fueling falcon 9 that process is set to begin at tminus 35 minutes. So just a few minutes from now. And what that looks like, kate, you talked about the tests that were done, did you a pad abort test in 2015, an inflight abort test this year, what that looks like in action if it were to happen, a pad abort test excuse me, a pad abort would be before lift off at any point from propellant loading which begins in just under three minutes know. Think until the moment of lift off. If somebody were to go wrong and the crew were in danger, crew dragon can act as a rocket on top of act as a rocket on top of a rocket and pro free throws pell itself off falcon 9 using its eight built in super draco thrusters the idea is that if that happens it flashes down off the coast and we would have a rescue scenario. Correct. And so we have rehearsed that ahead of time. We coordinate very closely the nasa and spacex teams with the department of defense attach melt three to prepare for that. We are prepared for in there were to be a need to for a launch escape at any point from lift off until they reach orbit. About cuffly 12 minutes after lift off. At any point in that sequence crew dragon could still launch itself off the falcon 9 rocket. It would splash down further away from florida obviously. Thats why the weather down range is just as important as the weather around the pad for lift off because they are thinking about how will we rescue the crew if we get in to a scenario like that. Exactly. Its complicated but a system that we have spent a lot of time designing and testing. And its, you know, its definitely something to consider in terms of that weather criteria that we do look at. And so now at tminus 36 minutes and 20 seconds, and just over a minute, we should be hearing that falcon 9 is ready for pro fell apt loading. That will be with rp1 which is rocket grade kerosene and simultaneously the liquid oka on loading will begin. Once we begin load that go liquid oxygen well see plumes of what will appear to be white smoke its actually the liquid oxygen vaporizing. Turning from liquid form in to gas form around the rocket itself in the rather humid florida air. And we just about 30 seconds from fueling. From your perspective this is not something that the Space Shuttle hats herrerin press an as fro thoughts perspective, nicole, whats your perspective on having the capability to aboard from the pad or in flight. Its what we need to be doing with our space crack. Any time you can better insure the survival of your crew any any situation during, you know, launch and on the way o to spac, thats what we need to be doing. Propellant load has started. We just heard the call propellant load has started. That means fueling of falcon 9 as begun. Fueling is under way the launch escape system is armed. Today in the first in a series of six months missions for nasas crew launch program. The dragon capsule was loaded with propellant a week and a half ago a few miles down the road from us. Thats an area that we affectionately refer to as dragon land. Yep. In order to fly dragon needs fuel and an oxidizeer for the fuel you have to help me, kate, i cant pronounce them. So its mono meth the hydrazine or mmh. And nitro tex odd right or tex odd side also known as n t. O. For the oxidizeer when they cam in to contact they compost. Its great in space flight because you dont need an ignition source. So we use that is tho those to maneuver dragon on orbit and those super power the draco engines as well as the eight super draco engines that would be utilized the launch escape system and aboard scenario. We want topping crystal clear, now that fueling has started, that meansio. We want topping crystal clear, now that fueling has started, that means that the eight super draco engines built in to crew dragon are ready if needed to launch the capsule away from the falcon nine rocket in an instant. If there is anything kind of medical associated with the rocket on the pad. Now lets gopher to spacex Head Quarters in hawthorne for an operations update. John. We are counseling down to the final minutes and everything looking good for an ontime launch 30 through minutes from now. As you heard falcon 9 began propellant loading right on time. The propellants that feed the her len i think i understand are two lick he had, one is the fuel, the other is an oxidizeer. And that fuel is a refined form of kerosene. Also referred to as rp1, our objection identifieser is densified lick we had sock guns also called lox. It takes up less volume. This allows for more oxidizer to be load ed in to the first and second stage, to ignite the fuel an oxidizer in the merlin rocket engine we use an i go nix fluid when it comes in contact with oxygen, it ignites and gives off a greencolored flame, one we have the flame going, we can then add the kerosene fuel in to the chamber and the engine goes to main power. You might see the green flash just as the second stage engine ignites. Following stage separation two minutes 48 seconds in to tonights flight. Now, currently we are early in the propellant loading the first stage fuel tank is about 10 full and that first stage is the bottom 23 of the vehicle. You can see on the screen the black carbon fiber landing legs and the white pro tell apt tank of the first stage topped off by the flack cylinder the inner stage. Lick we had oxygen loading is also under way on the first stage that, will begin on the second stage which you can see just above the black stage, lick we had okay generally lead on the ground stage two begins at tminus 16 1 2 minutes and well continue loading liquid oxygen on both statements until last few minutes of the count down. Now on board the dragon spacecraft. [speaking at the same time] in to the falcon 9 and the call out you just heard ground loading, letting the crew know that helium loading is going on the vehicle right now. So as i mentioned, the astronauts are listening to this right now as part of their training in the simulator we can give them the playback of sound that we recorded during recent flights and they had a discussion with bob and doug after their flight who related what their night experience was like earlier this year. Out on the Eastern Range we hear they are green and ready to go. No problems and go for launch. Finally the weather as i mentioned a while ago, its actually improved during the day we are down to 20 probability of violation. The biggest thing we are watching is just in case in these last half hour, if a rain shower might spring up within a mile or two of the launch pad. But currently, the rain looks like its holding off. Upper altitude winds are good and ground wind light. We have an instantaneous launch time. At this point if we hear a hold for any reason we have to stand down and target our backup launch opportunity you are just under three days from now. Lets turn it over to jeff for overview of event says after lift off. Taste, john, crew one first stage of flight is 27 1 2 hours and journey is much longer but similar to the trip doug hurly and bob made. As we await t0 are0 in 29 minutes. You are looking at a live view of our team at the cape as they prepare for lift off. As we await for the launch clock to hit zero we wanted to give an overview of what the ascent portion of the mission look likes. Once we hit it. T0. Well walk them make their ascent. If i have second in to flight falcon 9s engine help that roll down or what we refer to as max x. Worth note that go once we hit max x the vehicle will go supersonic. Once we through the period of maximum dynamic pressure, we can throttle up our merlin engines again and from there at about 2 1 2 minutes in for flight we have a series of three events that happens in rapid succession. First is mikko, or main engine cut off. This is where all nine merlin n1d engines shut off in preparation for statement separation. Which is our second vents. This is where the first stage detaches with the first stage making its way back to earth for landing as the stepped stage is goes on with the event. The second stage along with our crew 1 astronauts to orbit. Is as stage two heads towards the targeted dropoff or its. Stage one executes two burns in order to mick its way back to earth. First is the entry burn where three of the m1d engines reignite and shutdown helping to slow the stage down in preparation for entry back in to the earths atmosphere. While the first stage is heading back to earth, the second stage will cut off its one merlin engine that was ignite the after stage separation. Once this happens, we will wait for confirmation of a good orbital insertion. And about 90 seconds after dragon gets in orbit falcon 9 land back on earth the landing burn which is a single en engine burn brings the vehicles speed down rapidly in order to land after about 9 1 2 minutes in to the mission. Falcon 9 funnel stage is landing dragon is preparing to separate from the second stage at about three minutes after the second stage gets in to orbit we should have a great view of dragon with its fourperson crew drifting away from the second stage. Once dragon is a short dozens away it will begin checking out its draco maneuvering thrusters to make sure dragon continues to increase separation distance from the second stage. Its worth noting that these are not the super draco engines that would be used during an abort scenario. About 42nd after separation the nose cone deploy sequins begins, it takes roughly four minutes for the nose coast hooks to unlatch exposing the Guidance Navigation controls that helps dragon autonomously fly to the space station. Once the nose cone is deployed the remaining thrusters will be checked. From there over the next 27 1 2 hours dragon will begin its preach phase undergoing a number of phasing burns as it makes a its way to space. [speaking at the same time] statement two cryo helium load. For now lets check back in with marie at Kennedy Space center. Marie. If you are just joining us we are now at tminus 25 minutes five seconds and counting from the second astronaut launch from u. S. Soil this year the first with four astronauts aboard crew dragon. We have to go over to garvey in japan speaking live with the president of jaxa. Garvey, are you with us . Yes, i am. Thank you marie. Hello. I am here in tokyo, japan, this is Garvey Mcintosh and ill will interview jaxa president. Dr. I cant remembe [ inaudible. Could you tell us could you tell us about the partnership between jaxa and nasa. Thank you very much for the question. The u. S. And japan have built a close relation in the Aerospace Field for more than 50 years and nas and jaxa have been collaborating in many fields including earth spines, space science, Space Exploration, human space action tests and aeronautics. Astronaut noguchi and the crew as the first foreign astronaut aboard a u. S. Spacecraft. Showing trust relationship between the two countries. We recognize that is an important milestone towards future International Space exploration and we will primarily support him from the ground. Thank you very much. Could you tell us more about Todays Mission. And what the mission represents for noguchi. As the first japanese astronaut on board three different vehicles. Shuttle, on you use and now spacex. Contribute to this advancement of peoples lives on earth. Private Companies Getting to the use the for the initiatives. Awe[ audio difficulties ]. Thank you. Thank you. And last question. I know recently. You signed the artemis accord. Can you tell us about that and what it means for five future Space Exploration. Last months. Signing. I think japan has expertise in robotic Space Technologies accumulated through our experience [ inaudible ] and with we continues to move forward. With nasa and other international partners. We will couldnt to deepen our cooperation with nasa and other space partners in order to [ inaudible ] contribution to our society on earth. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you for your time this morning and. Thank you very much. [speaking at the same time] thank you. We took a look thank you at thes over half a Million People are tuning in to that broadcast and the launch america is trend agent number 20 on twitter last time we checked. Marie, kate, nicole i have great photos rolling in and i have a few that i have to share right now. So take a look at this first one, this little explorer asking if there is room for one more on the mission. Ahh. I love it. I know. Lets go to the next one, we have seen so many cute space funs today and this course is a the ice on this cake. Yes. I cant get enough space dogs. [ laughter ] okay, lets go next. How incredible is this little patriotic astronaut holding the flag. Now, yall, this one definitely made me emotional in the first time i saw. Yeah fle. Last one, check out how awesome she looks in her blue flight suit wishing her hero Victor Glover well on his launch america mission. So you have seen it there and for those of you at home. Thank you for sharing a piece of what this mission means to you with us. In these final moments lets check in with shaneequa at Mission Control in houston. Shaneequa, whats the latest . Thanks, the space station team here in houston is focused and Critical Systems on the station continue to function normally. The teams have verified the command path from the ground up through the constellation of communication satellites to the station. Everything is nominal and the station will be ready to receive dragon tomorrow. Nasa flight director anthony varia has been leading the operations manning between the nasa and spacex teams through the crew1 mission he passed along this to the teams. No matter the spacecraft our jobs remain the same we will protection the crew. We will protection the vehicle. And we will perform our mission. We remain tough and competent. We operate with resilience. Anthony and team are on console here for launch and back tomorrow for docking. A reminder our launch today takes twoer is 1 2 hours to get to station, docking monday to the node to forward port scheduled at 10 00 p. M. Central time. 4 00 a. M. G. M. T. Once drag sun fully docked. The team here in true toon will assist the drag none spacex excuse me, space station astronauts as they work to open hatches on dragon and the stations pressurized mate ago dap tour. We picture hatch open to take approximately two hours at approximately two hours after docking. Thats it for us here in Mission Control houston ill send it back over to the team in florida. Marie. All right being thank you so much, shaneequa. We are inside of it. Minus 19 minutes in to launch so exciting. We started the day with 50 problem billing of launch and now we are up to 80 chance of the weather cooperating we are so excited well be turning solely to the pad and going to hawthorne to take us through the final count. One thing that stuck out earlier, and i wanted to mention when shannon was talking about her paths to becoming an astronaut. Talking about how she was four year old old when she decided thats what i want to do. It i stuck out to me because my fouryearold daughter is watching and dreaming about becoming an astronaut and its so special for, i think especially for little girls, maybe i am biased, to be able to have a role model like shannon and you, nicole. Because tempt in in shannon was four years olds women were not astronauts and what an amazing time to be in when little girls have women to look up to. And africanamerican children have Victor Glover to look up to and see that, you know, they are representing and they can do this too. Nasa and the world of Space Exploration from the human space flight side for sure has been over the years so progressive and understanding how this diversity makes is so important. And i love thinking about your fouryearold daughter juan offing launch tonight and being excited about this. I am happy to be here with you two ladies kind of representing. I am super excited i have seen spacex launches and shut of launches but never this close to the launch pad and i am just my palms are sweaty with excitement. And its going to be up cred believe. Night launches here they light up the sky and so i am super excited and i cant evening imagine i think a lot about Victor Glover this evening, as we said before, this is his first time going to space. He has thousands of hours as a test pilot. Like super impressive resume. And this is his first time going to space. And i am so excited for him to be part of this mission and get to go to the iss after a long wait. That is a bait. Destination, let me tell you. They will do amazing work there and it will be mentioned a couple of times before. About paul matily improving life on earth. Its worth mentioning we didnt talk about this earlier and i know that you are a humble person and you are fol focused n the crew but you were the last resident International Space station crew member to launch from and then land back on u. S. Soil. So i think thats significant. Yeah, as a shuttle crew member and its kind of weird to think that was that long ago. But you know, i dont think any crew members goes in to it thinking about what, you know, what first or last it is. But ill tell you, having worked at ken did i space center for 10 yearses as a nasa engineer and to be able to support a mission like that, and be here watching this tonight, really historic event, this is the place where we learn, you know, that there is a solution to every challenging problem. And in the words of a person i mentioned earlier, mr. Honey cut, here is how we can we can, not why we cant. Thats ma we saw go on tonight as well. Absolutely. With tminus 15 minutes and 10 seconds and count to go lift off we want to focus in on the pad as we proceed through the final stretch of the count down. Well torn over to law torn no take us through launch at 7 27 this evening at eastern time, john. Thanks, marie. Everything is looking good. Coming in 27 minutes and 17 seconds after the hour just a little under 15 minutes from now. We began propellant load on the ground falcon 9 on time at tminus 35 minutes, you may have heard earlier the call out the fuel is completely loaded on the second stage. So the rp1 kerosene fuel is compete. We also got the start right on time two minutes ago of lexus lexus wide oxygen load to this first stage, the white plumes coming off. Fuel load is continuing. We are about half pleat with fuel load that finish ins eight minutes at tminus 6. Densified oxygen continues to load on the first stage. That will come down and finish about tminus three somebody minutes and as i mentioned the second stage has just begin lick we had oxygen loading two nfl 1 2 minutes that continues down to tminus two minutes. Eastern range is go the weather continues to cooperate. You can talk about it but cant do anything but it but tonight conditions are all good on weather. Finally dragon. Mission and team are report to go issues. They have completed the communication check outs earlier in the counts down the crew arm is retract ahead way. What you have left is the strong back along side dragon, you can see your monitors the crew is strapped in and ready to go. Their next major event is coming up the tminus 10 minutes they will get final instructions, relayed to them. The crew displays will be configured for lawn. And that allows the crew to get insight in to how lawn search proceeding and provide constant updates on Vehicle Health to the crew that you can see on the righthand side of the monitor. The crew will also at that time close their vic visors in preparation for launch. Tminus five minutes well be in terminal count and dragon transitions to internal Battery Power and well hear continued call out on the count net as we get close to zero and lift off. Right now 12 1 2 minutes to go, everything looking good. Leah and i will be commenting but well let you his then to a lot of discussion. And just enjoy the last 12 minutes of the countdown as we head for lift off again 27 minutes 17 seconds after the hour. Thats right, john. Its so exciting. Only 12 minutes, 13 seconds until lift off now. And just some things that you can look for especially upon ascent. Youll hear performance calls as we get in to the final countdown and after lift off. These are spacex Flight Controllers report think the trajectory, speed, booster performance and some of the key milestones for falcon 9 and cred ocdc. Gov covid19 on the way uphill. Nine minutes and then crew dragon separates and flies free on its own, some. Other calls youll hear upon lift off are number and letter combinations they mark different aboard zones throughout the night. The first two are 1a and 1b. This signifies they are in the first stage lasting until they were north of North Carolina. The next are 2a through 2he or two echo, these come in on it play once the second stage kicks in. That last from North Carolina to new finland in the northern atlantic there is a spot we want to avoid in the northern atlantic you might hear the call shannon or forward to shannon. Thats not to be confused with our crew member sha shannon walr but refers to hannon ireland they target off the coast of ireland if they were later in that second stage and needed to aboarabort. The next callout that we are listening for is tminus 10 minutes. In front of the castro thoughts they configure today love. 10 35 to go until lift off. Also the stage two fuel load is complete. Stage one is about 9 90 . Lick we had oxygen load on the first stage is 40 pest and second statement 85 . Dragon spacex confirm crew display is configured for lawn. And spacex this is dragon, displays configured to launch. Resilience. We are honored to have you as our crew as we begin Operational Missions to the iss. Have an amazing trip and know that we are all for one. Thanks, jay. And to all the people at nasa and spacex, by working together through these difficult times, you have inspired the nation, the would, and in small part the name of this incredible vehicle, well is a against and now its time for us to do our part. Crew1 for all. Okay, thank you. That was the voice of commander mike help coins confirming the displays are configured. It was the last check of a wide variety of falcon system data to make sure that we are go in from here on we countdown until tminus seven minutes when the prevalves open. Tminus 8 30 and counting. The next major event tminus minus seven minutes, we well open the prevalves current lit mel lynn engines are isolated by involves between between the pro tell ant thanks and with the merlin engines. That allows us pass a small amount of lick within oxygen through the inlet of the turbo pumps chilling them down to get them ready for when we bring the pumps up to full speed at tminus two seconds. You want to make sure the pumps are chilled so there is not any doesnt for the lick we had oxygen to get in contact with a warm pump and turn in to gas something you want to avoid on a turbo pump. 74 tallet t7 40 until take o. We are almost 100 percent to the densified kerosene. First stage should be complete in tminus 6 minutes. Standing by for presalve pree opening. Stage one engine chill has started. And there is theout. Stage one engine chill has started. Indicate that go we are opening the prevalves liquid oxygen now beginning to flow slowly through the turbo pumps on the merlin 1d first stage engines. Next call out in 30 seconds from now well be looking for stage 1rp load complete. Thats the densified kerosene the fuel on the first stage already full on the second stage and well still be loading liquid oxygen up until about two minutes prior to lift off on the second stage. Standing by for that fuel call. Stage one fuel load is complete. Okay. Right on time. And a great view of dragon sitting on top of the falcon 9 as we load lick we had oxygen on the first and second statements the rp9 kerosene fuel is completely loaded on stage one and two. All continuing to well just under six minutes to launch. In about 30 seconds, well enter terminal count dragons on Board Computers will take control of the vehicle. Both fuel on first and second stage is complete. And lick we had objection general loading continues with the second statement at about 81st, first stage at 95 . Something else you might notice is water rush being the pad thats to suppress the sound and keep any sound from imparting a load on crew dragon as it prepares to lift off. Dragon is in configure for terminal count. Dragon is on internal power. Falcon 9 propellant tanks are pressurizing for [ inaudible ] good confirmation that dragon is in on internal power, and now well be looking for a major milestone before we launch today. That will be the strong back retract. John, do you want to tell us about that . We falcon we get a closeup of the drag dragon and second stage. Strong back retracking. Strong back retracting, thats a two shf accept sequence, first clamp arms around the top of the second stage, psych one of them just before the gash justice oxygen advantage ors coming out of the second stage, those arms will open up, and then just inside of tminus 4 minutes once the arms are released well begin to retract the strong back along side the vehicle. It will move back two degrees in position and by about tminus 3 1 2 minutes we ought to be finished with that. The strong back will retract to 45 degrees away from the rocket. Once we hit t0 as part of the lift off sequence. [speaking at the same time] right now waiting for retract. There you can see the strong back is beginning to move away from the vehicle. Just about in to the prelaunch position, just a couple of degrees away from the falcon 9 and dragon. Everything continues to be go on dragon and falcon 9. Talk. Drag dragon is in terminal count. And drug dragon is in terminal count and we are standing by to hear that stage one lick we had objection loading is complete. [speaking at the same time] statement two should finish shortly after at about two minutes prior to lift off. Now last major event is finish wick liquid oxygen load on the ground stage two. Wrapping up at about tminus 2 minutes, about tminus a minute and a half we have to drain down and vent don the will be wide line alongside the falcon 9 if you see a large cloud, thats normal. Just the gashouse oxygen hitting the warm moist florida air. Stage two locks load is complete. Drag dragon is in auto idle. Good calms that stage two liquid oxygen lead is complete. That means we have full fuel on the first and second stages. That densified kerosene and full of the [speaking at the same time] liquid oxygen on the first and second stains as well. Now just a minute and 20 seconds until lift off today. And as you can hear those sound like Soichi Noguchi said the vehicle is alive. Coming up in 10 seconds well look to hear that dragon is in countdown. And falcon 9 is in start up. [speaking at the same time] falcon 9 is now controlling. Fiftysecond now until lift off. That f it. S you heard it flight termination spacex go for launch. Spacex this is resilience, roger go. Go for launch and at 37 seconds the International Space station flying over Kennedy Space center. [speaking at the same time] crew one for all. Crew dragon poised to go catch it. 20 seconds until lift off. Tminus 15 seconds. 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Zero. Ignition. Lift off. And resilience rises. Not evening gravity contains humanity when we explores at one for all. [ applause ] propulsion is nominal. Thats what we want to hear. Stage one propulsion is nominal. 30 seconds in to this Historic Mission flying crew on board dragon and falcon 9. Stage one is preparing to throttle down. This is in nba preparation for max q which is maximum arrow dynamic pressure. Stage one throttle down. There is the call out for that that rat think down. Power and telemetry continue to be nominal for the vehicle, now traveling at 262 meters per second. Falcon 9 is supersonic. There is that call out that falcon 9 is supersonic and well be passing through mix q here shortly. The largest strut structural hold during ascent. Max q. That is thras call out that falcon farred through max q. One paragraph so. And we have just entered stage one bravo aboard mode taking them through the first stage burning before second stage accuracy t straights off the coast of North Carolina. Traveling 709 meters per second. That call m vac chill is under way. The merlin vacuum engine. With the call out of m vac d chill, similar to what we saw in the first stage merlin engines the second stage engine being prepared for submission in 30 seconds from now, we have a half a minute away from three quick events in rapid succession, well get main engine cut off the nine merlin engines that lot the down and shutdown. Stage separation. Stage one throttle down. And ignition of the second stage engine. We have begun to throttle down in preparation for stage separation. And we have it,. [speaking at the same time] two alpha. Stage separation confirmed. [ cheering and applause ] and you can see that stage separation has confirmed. There goes that m vac engine. Stage two crew one is now on their way to the International Space station. On the right side of your screen you can see stage two continuing to burn. Over on the lefthand side is stage one preparing for its return to earth. Currently on the left side, you cant make out much its a couple of hours after sunset in florida. But the grid fins have deployed on the first stage, the first stage is now unpowered but with the velocity ahead it continues to coast up to an i didnt before it begins to descend damage in to earths atmosphere, maybe well see the lights of florida or they eastern seaboard in the background but otherwise not much to see. Dragon spacex trajectory no, maam thaknowledge nominal. You can hear the call out. We have heard wall out bermuda, bermuda frowned station as has the signals from the second stage of dragon and falcon 9. Still continuing as stage two burns to listen for the abort zones. 2a, two even, two echo taking us over the northern atlantic. Right now you can see the second stage engine glowing with the standard red that we have come to indicates everything is looking good think power continues to run at 220,000 pounds of thrust in the valbuena vacuum of outer space. Dragon spacex trajectory no, maam thanominal. We hear the replay from the crew acknowledging that we have a nominal trajectory. Dragon made it to the falcon 92nd stage heading in to the low earth orbit. Where dragon separates and begins its trip the rest of the way to the space station. Well look for second stage engine cut off coming up 88 48 after launch today. So about 3 1 2 minutes from now. Dragon and falcon 92nd stage currently flying 200979 meters per second. Currently the first stage has begun its descent, its through apogee. Beginning to come back down. Where coming enough another couple of minutes well have the entry burn where we begin to throw down the first stage. Dragon spacex trajectory nominal. Copy, knowledge familiar that trajectory. Another call out. Another nominal trajectory what we love to hear. That voice you hear on board dragon, thats mike hopkins speaking for our fourperson crew as they continue their journey, now 6 12 off lift off. Trajectory still nominal. You can see on the indicator altitude, 201 kilometers. We are not beginning to essentially level out and pick up velocity to get us in to lower earth orbit. A little under one minute from the ignition for the entry burn on first stage. And about two pins dragon spacex, trajectory nominal. Copy, nominal trajectory. Great news, now seven minutes after launch. Second stage engine continues to burn. Everything looking good. And well see that continue to burn for another one minute and about 382nd. Right now stage two. The crew is getting about little more than 2 1 2 gs of acceleration, first stage preparing to ignite. [speaking at the same time] and we have got ignition of the entry burn. Center engine followed by the other two restart engines. First stage now getting ready to reenter the earth atmosphere, this is about a 292nd burn and its design today slow down vehicle way down we shut 70 of the velocity of the dropping first stage by the time this landing burn completes. I should say by the time the entry burn completes, this is now over. First stage on target for the drone ship in the atlantic ocean. Meanwhile, we are watching second stage getting close to getting in to orbit. Thats right, we have about 30 seconds stage two internal guidance. Now just about 20 seconds more of stage two continuing to burn until we see second stage engine cut off or s. E. C. O. Well coast for a few minutes afterward to allow the [speaking at the same time] shannon. Roger shannon. There is the call for shannon, thats shannon ireland, an aboard zone but looks like we continue smoothly to orbit today. Vac shutdown. And we have shutdown of the second stage engine on time. [ applause ] dragon spacex nominal orbit insertion. Launch system is disarmed. And the word we like to hear nominal orbit insertion. Thats right, no, maam knowledge or bit insertion as we mentioned stage two. Looks like some action to on stage one. And i believe we have had touchdown on the drone ship. We have stage one has touched down on the drone ship. In the atlantic ocean. Now the more Important News second stage in orbit right where we want rate on time. Getting ready for dragon spacecraft separation. [ applause ] currently on the second stage, we are essentially venting pressure. Purging the engine out. Making sure that everything is quiet in preparation. Take a look, thats inside crew dragon right now. Our crew1 now coasting in low earth orbit. Still attached to the second stage in just a couple of minutes we should see that second stage separate and crew dragon will be flying free. The Mission Timer shows 90 seconds to dragon separation. Currently dragon is flying at 27,000 kilometers an hour. T. T plus 11 minutes since lift off. Wait on this second stage separation, as you can see our astronaut from left roo to the. Shop you can walker, Victor Glover, mike cop hints and Soichi Noguchi now on their way to International Space station, first trist to space for Victor Glover. [speaking at the same time] new finland. That call act signal . New finland that means the ground station is now reaching telemetry from dragon. Inside Mission Control hawthorne, teams continuing to monitor the vehicle. Now traveling at almost 27,000 kilometers an hour. 10 seconds to dragon separation. [ applause ] and separation confirmed. You can see that second stage departing crew dragon leaving it behind. Now 12 minutes 25 seconds in to todays flight. Our next thing well be looking for is nose cone deploy. Our hooks opening on the nose cone and reveal those forward thrusters underneath. 13 members this Todays Mission a view on the righthand side of your screen coming from crew dragon, we had that short look at the second stage as it departed. That second stage will burn up upon rerinse in to earths had the plus fear. Dragon spacex we see nominal Service Section draco check out yous the unifying activation. Spacex this is dragon, we copy and see the same. Confirmation from the teams on the ground and the crew. You can see them monitoring their journey to the International Space station and where they are in the world right now or over the world i should say. We are until 14 minutes 25 seconds since it was a great lift off. Everything happened. We had a normal normal insertion in to earth orbit. You saw dragon separate. We got the draco check outs were good and right now we are hearing the nose cone hooks are opening up. Everything is happening right per the procedure. And we have got crew on successfully on orbit. So with that, lets head over to our counterparts at Kennedy Space center, marie, how was that launch for you all there on the ground . Oh, my gosh, john, it just it took our breath away. I mean, we could just turn around and nba our seats and watch. We got away from the desk to get a better look. And then we actually could see the booster coming back down. That was outstanding. Outstanding. And i dont even know what to say. High five. We are like high fiving through the shield here. My husband text meet a picture of my daughter watching lift off. I am emotional seeing that. On the first attempt. How often does that happen. As it should. As it should. Very happy. You know, it has been a long day, but the just to be able to stand there and actually feel the rocket pounding the air around you was just it was just incredible. And then looking at the light too long i havent see the m vac ignition, still have spots in high eyes. And the views inside the capsule two with the four of them looking melo, but seeing vector is letting his arms do the floaty thing i bet he cannot wait to get out of his seat. Well, hes going to get i chance here shortly. Yep. Hes owe pcial low his way on his first space flight. Incredible. Victor, mike, shannon and soichi are now on course to arrive at the International Space station, just tomorrow, monday, november 16th around 11 00 p. M. Eastern time. And we are going it stay live on air for continuous live coverage along their entire ride to station. Though our coverage here at Kennedy Space center will concluded. We are going to turn it over to the teams in hawthorne and houston to take us through the next phases of the crew one mission all the way through hatch opening and a welcome ceremony for the crew. For those of you watching online, via youtube take a lack at the description below the video. There youll find the new link for our crew one rendezvous phase is well continue live coverage at that new location shortly. But if you are watching on nasa tv like my parents, you wont notice a thing and your coverage will continue. Thats right. And as you follow along, we also invite to you tune in to a post launch News Conference at 9 00 p. M. Eastern time, right here on nasa tv where nasa and spacex will take questions live. In addition to nasa tv you can always follow along on twitter nasa and nasa. Gov for continuous mission updates, we thank you so much for watching to all of our commentators, nicole, special thanks to you. My pleasure, ladies. Lets do it again. Please, yes, we would love to have you back. Here now are some highlights from the incredible journey thats justified begun. Our first live look inside the suitup room. Crew dragon commander mike hopkins was born in lebanon, missouri. Victor glover the pilot is a native of pamona, california. Shannon walker is from houston, texas. Mission special i was Soichi Noguchi is from yokohama japan. Here they come walking down the hall. Quite peppy there. So cool. Looking for people. Looking for the people that helped them along the way, too. And want to go make eye contact. Music playing here they come. The crew1 astronauts now beginning their journey i to the launch pad ahead of this Historic Mission fo to the intem information the space station. The crew is departing for the pad on schedule. This is chase car, so you can be along with the crew every step of the way. I had lake the preflight the walk around your vehicle before you get in and fly. I love this shot. You know, when this was being designed it was definitely a forward thinking design. And you can see on your screen, the crew beginning the ingress process already. They are check to go make sure that the suits are ready. They are helping them connect the umbilicals, they are buckling them in. Music playing and dragon spacex hatch is closed. Five, four, three, two, one, zero. I go anyone. Lift off. Music playing and resilience rises not even gravity contains humanity when we explore as one for all. Music playing thats what we want to hear, stage one propulsion is nominal. Music playing warm moist flo. Stage two locks load is complete. Drag dragon is in auto idle. Good calms that stage two liquid oxygen lead is complete. That means we have full fuel on the first and second stages. That densified kerosene and full of the [speaking at the same time] liquid oxygen on the first and second stains as well. Now just a minute and 20 seconds until lift off today. And as you can hear those sound like Soichi Noguchi said the vehicle is alive. Coming up in 10 seconds well look to hear that dragon is in countdown. And falcon 9 is in start up. [speaking at the same time] falcon 9 is now controlling. Fiftysecond now until lift off. That f it. S you heard it flight termination spacex go for launch. Spacex this is resilience, roger go. Go for launch and at 37 seconds the International Space station flying over Kennedy Space center. [speaking at the same time] crew one for all. Crew dragon poised to go catch it. 20 seconds until lift off. Tminus 15 seconds. 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Zero. Ignition. Lift off. And resilience rises. Not evening gravity contains humanity when we explores at one for all. [ applause ] propulsion is nominal. Thats what we want to hear. Stage one propulsion is nominal. 30 seconds in to this Historic Mission flying crew on board dragon and falcon 9. Stage one is preparing to throttle down. This is in nba preparation for max q which is maximum arrow dynamic pressure. Stage one throttle down. There is the call out for that that rat think down. Power and telemetry continue to be nominal for the vehicle, now traveling at 262 meters per second. Falcon 9 is supersonic. There is that call out that falcon 9 is supersonic and well be passing through mix q here shortly. The largest strut structural hold during ascent. Max q. That is thras call out that falcon farred through max q. One paragraph so. And we have just entered stage one bravo aboard mode taking them through the first stage burning before second stage accuracy t straights off the coast of North Carolina. Traveling 709 meters per second. That call m vac chill is under way. The merlin vacuum engine. With the call out of m vac d chill, similar to what we saw in the first stage merlin engines the second stage engine being prepared for submission in 30 seconds from now, we have a half a minute away from three quick events in rapid succession, well get main engine cut off the nine merlin engines that lot the down and shutdown. Stage separation. Stage one throttle down. And ignition of the second stage engine. We have begun to throttle down in preparation for stage separation. And we have it,. [speaking at the same time] two alpha. Stage separation confirmed. [ cheering and applause ] and you can see that stage separation has confirmed. There goes that m vac engine. Stage two crew one is now on their way to the International Space station. On the right side of your screen you can see stage two continuing to burn. Over on the lefthand side is stage one preparing for its return to earth. Currently on the left side, you cant make out much its a couple of hours after sunset in florida. But the grid fins have deployed on the first stage, the first stage is now unpowered but with the velocity ahead it continues to coast up to an i didnt before it begins to descend damage in to earths atmosphere, maybe well see the lights of florida or they eastern seaboard in the background but otherwise not much to see. Dragon spacex trajectory no, maam thaknowledge nominal. You can hear the call out. We have heard wall out bermuda, bermuda frowned station as has the signals from the second stage of dragon and falcon 9. Still continuing as stage two burns to listen for the abort zones. 2a, two even, two echo taking us over the northern atlantic. Right now you can see the second stage engine glowing with the standard red that we have come to indicates everything is looking good think power continues to run at 220,000 pounds of thrust in the valbuena vacuum of outer space. Dragon spacex trajectory no, maam thanominal. We hear the replay from the crew acknowledging that we have a nominal trajectory. Dragon made it to the falcon 92nd stage heading in to the low earth orbit. Where dragon separates and begins its trip the rest of the way to the space station. Well look for second stage engine cut off coming up 88 48 after launch today. So about 3 1 2 minutes from now. Dragon and falcon 92nd stage currently flying 200979 meters per second. Currently the first stage has begun its descent, its through apogee. Beginning to come back down. Where coming enough another couple of minutes well have the entry burn where we begin to throw down the first stage. Dragon spacex trajectory nominal. Copy, knowledge familiar that trajectory. Another call out. Another nominal trajectory what we love to hear. That voice you hear on board dragon, thats mike hopkins speaking for our fourperson crew as they continue their journey, now 6 12 off lift off. Trajectory still nominal. You can see on the indicator altitude, 201 kilometers. We are not beginning to essentially level out and pick up velocity to get us in to lower earth orbit. A little under one minute from the ignition for the entry burn on first stage. And about two pins dragon spacex, trajectory nominal. Copy, nominal trajectory. Great news, now seven minutes after launch. Second stage engine continues to burn. Everything looking good. And well see that continue to burn for another one minute and about 382nd. Right now stage two. The crew is getting about little more than 2 1 2 gs of acceleration, first stage preparing to ignite. [speaking at the same time] and we have got ignition of the entry burn. Center engine followed by the other two restart engines. First stage now getting ready to reenter the earth atmosphere, this is about a 292nd burn and its design today slow down vehicle way down we shut 70 of the velocity of the dropping first stage by the time this landing burn completes. I should say by the time the entry burn completes, this is now over. First stage on target for the drone ship in the atlantic ocean. Meanwhile, we are watching second stage getting close to getting in to orbit. Thats right, we have about 30 seconds stage two internal guidance. Now just about 20 seconds more of stage two continuing to burn until we see second stage engine cut off or s. E. C. O. Well coast for a few minutes afterward to allow the [speaking at the same time] shannon. Roger shannon. There is the call for shannon, thats shannon ireland, an aboard zone but looks like we continue smoothly to o