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 hav atour live coverage starts approximately 11 00 p. M. Eastern when they dock with the iss. Thats followed by an onboard welcoming ceremony and a post docking News Conference. Watch live on cspan. Online at cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Here is a look at our live coverage coming up today. On cspan at 10 00 a. M. Eastern gum the middle east Institute Holds a discussion on u. S. Foreign policy under the incoming biden administration. At 11 30 a. M. , republican governor larry hogan of maryland talks about politics in the u. S. In coronavirus response. The house returns for legislative business at 2 00 p. M. , taking up a number of bills on veterans issues. On cspan2, democratic Representative Ilhan Omar talks about the edge live agenda. Thats 11 30 a. M. Eastern. P. M. Enate is back at 3 00 to work on a judicial nominee for the Southern District of mississippi with a procedural votes on the nomination scheduled for 5 30 p. M. Eastern. Nasa held a News Conference after they launched four astronauts into space to live aboard the International Space station for about six months
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