Transcripts For CSPAN NASA Coverage Of SpaceX Docking Welcome Ceremony 20240711

Congress. Watch washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern Tuesday Morning. Be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Spacex crew dragon is making contact with the International Space station this evening. We expect the docking to begin around 11 00 p. M. Eastern once that occurs, there will be a welcoming ceremony for the four astronauts on board. We also expect a News Conference with nasa officials in the early or morning hours. This is live coverage on cspan. We will next move through wave. 1, 220 meters away directly in front of the docking port. Where dragon docked steering demo one and demo two. We will be looking for the go to keep out the sphere of 200 meter radius, and invisible line around the station that helps flight controllers monitor vehicles they approach and depart the International Space station. Such a cool view. Seeing dragon with the canada arm from the station. The earth in the background. We use to use the canada arm to capture dragon before it was configured into this design, the new crew dragon designed. It docs autonomously. Vehicles,of visiting we have to use the canada arm and the astronauts will reach out and grapple the spacecraft it, and flight controllers on the ground will attach it to the poor are the International Space station. But dragon is fully autonomous. The astronauts are strapped in their seats, monitoring the mission, awaiting the milestones as we move through wave point one. Should be coming up in just a couple minutes. And continuing the approach to the lastt two and checkpoint before we move in for docking. Crew dragon approaching. Copies. On and we were ready for that as well. We are about 10 minutes away from waypoint one. That is where dragon will swing up and out in front of the station. That will bring us about 220 meters away from station. Which will bring us to what we have called the docking access, which essentially means we will be right in front of the docking port. We dont have the hold at areoint one, as long as we clear with a 200 meter radiance radius around the International Space station. Helps view the departure or arrival of visiting vehicles. Hawkins and glover monitoring the mission. Dragon is flying autonomously. Away. About 300 meters closing in on just about one meter per second. Go untilt 80 meters to one. Int amazing view of the International Space station. That is from the cameras aboard crew dragon, getting a good look at each other. Kind of cool to see them both looking at each other as they approach each other. Absolutely. And the crew on board also monitoring on their three display panels in front of them. Autonomous, so they really dont have to do much except for enjoy the ride. Watch on those display panels where they are at during this approach here. You can also see the International Space station on the far right and far left panel. They are getting really the same view that we are here. Im sure they are pretty excited about making it to their new home in space. Once they reach waypoint one, they dont have to stop. It will be the 220 meter point. Then the next stop will be waypoint 2, 20 meters away from the International Space station. Dragon will focus on aligning the docking system with the international station based on that it will be about five minutes until contact and capture. We will be looking for that call. The crew hands off to meters before contact. That means the crew is not commanding the vehicle. They have not been at this time, but the vehicle can still have an abort at that time. Not receiving dragon to data from pts. Is that expected . Copy that. Can go ahead and fix that by cycling it from the ground or perform a test, whichever is your preference. Copy, we are putting in work now. Kate reubens, who is on the International Space station, currently the only american on the International Space station, is joined by her russian cosmonaut friends. Welcoming four new crew members to the orbiting laboratory. She is monitoring the approach of crew dragon. Shes also not commanding the approach. She will not be using the canada arm to grapple the vehicle that she was working to get some data, and the ground team will recycle that data for her. As we are mentioning, we are discussing, the crew hands off point, the vehicle notes. At that point, the crew will not be commanding anything. However, everything looking healthy on dragon and the International Space station. Members view that you are seeing here is from the station, from the node two docking port that dragon is currently approaching. This is really our first view of both of them in the picture. It gives you a good perspective on how close they are getting to each other. In the lefthand bottom corner, that is the station, and the white dot on the right side of your screen is dragon slowly approaching. We are just under five minutes away from waypoint one, under 280 meters away from the space station. A little more of what we can look for once we do get that to move Halfway Point two, the 20 meter point. We will reach waypoint one first. We have a couple stops before that. We will take about five minutes to get in toward the station from waypoint two. Then after that five minutes, you hear the call and we will be first. For soft capture there are also rotary spring dampers that will soft in the contact from crew dragon to the International Space station, and that soft capture ring will retract. It will retract until sensors indicate it is time for the hooks to drive and create a hard capture, which will firmly secured dragon to the station. Hook and takeg about five minutes. The full seal will be achieved with 12 hard capture hooks. This is from station, i see data on the port. Thanks. Copy. We are just about 30 minutes with from docking currently dragging approaching waypoint one. Approximatelys 220 meters away from station. Remains rd kate kate rubins, who is monitoring the mission and arrival of crew dragon. Term that stands for rendezvous and proximity program. That is giving her insight into dragons position and how it is moving in toward the International Space station. She will have some work to do once dragon arrives, but not until it gets there. But once dragon arrives, the node two hatch where there docking is currently closed on the station side spacex on the big luke approach one and soft capture ring extension will begin shortly. Dragon will continue approach to waypoint two. Dragon copies. ,ront capture will start here the first one. Crystal clear view of dragon as they get the word that everything is still looking good with the systems and they will be moving through waypoint one to waypoint two and they can expect the capture ring to extend and began preparing them for docking. We are about 240 meters away, just about a minute away from passing through waypoint one. Can seeo close that you the forward bulkhead thrusters on dragon. Four circlesse that you see in the ring where the nose cone is open on the top of dragon. Dragon continuing the slow and steady approach to the International Space station. Every single maneuver very dim deliberate when we have two vehicles this close in space, about 226 meters away. Again, what you are seeing on the lefthand screen is the view from the International Space station, looking at dragon on your righthand screen. That is a camera view. Loop. Cex on the big returning shortly. Dragon copies. And we have passed waypoint one. To 13 metersout away from the International Space station. Meters away from the International Space station. Heard speaking with crew dragon to expect reconfiguration for visiting vehicles that establishes communications between crew dragon and the International Space station. Now we passed through waypoint one. We are about 10 minutes away from waypoint two. Once we approach waypoint two, we will do a go no goal poll for docking. Again, around 30 minutes away from docking here. Depending on the timeline and when we reach each one of these way to we are on our waypoint two which will bring us about 20 meters in front of the space station. We moved right through that 200 meter invisible line around the International Space station that helps flight controllers monitor visiting spacecraft, but we will have to hold at waypoint two, meter mark. They will conduct final checks and prepare for arrival of the International Space station, a very clear view from crew dragon. It is incredible. And again, this is a view looking at dragon from station from the node two forward point. That dragon will be docking today. Of 1. 104. Two i have just connected. Copy all, kate. Flight team to Mission Control houston, continuing to check that rendezvous proximity operation. Phase two, we will reset and see if that works. Thank you. They are resetting some of the data for kate rubins. Notminder, she is commanding any part of dragons arrival, but she is monitoring, looking for some data in that program. Again, we are on our way to waypoint two, which will be 20 meters away from the station. Waypoint two, the vehicle will focus on aligning with the docking adapter, so preparing for docking. Poll will be a go no goal prior to initiating that soft capture approach. The same view we were looking at earlier and you could see how much closer crew dragon has gotten in the short time. Ince we last received it having moved through waypoint one through that time period. A little more about what kate rubins will do once crew dragon docs. Hatch is closed during the docking. For aubins will check leak and open further pressurized adapter and also manually pressurize the vestibule, the area between the the crew dragon hatch. The a hatch is currently exposed space. Vacuum of that also has a docking target on it that allows dragon to align itself with port. Once that pressurization is rubins will be able to open the a pass hatch to let air in, a slow process. She will open a valve on the a pass hatch to let the air in and will hold for thermal stabilization before doing leak checks in the vestibule. We want to make sure there are not any fluctuating temperatures giving us misleading signals on what the pressure is in the vestibule. We will conduct the lead check for those. In the meantime, the crew is drying and sewing their suits in the thermal stabilization and their equipment. Kate will open the a pass hatch and remove the docking target, almost two hours post docking. Dragon look for the hatch to be opened. Spacex on the loop. Link reconfiguration is complete. Soft capture ring extension is also complete. We are planning to hold momentarily at waypoint two. At that point, we will be asking for your input on lighting conditions and your go to proceed. Do remember your visors are not required to be down until our final approach. Dragon copies all and we will be holding momentarily waypoint two and give you a lighting check at that point. As you heard, we are on our way to waypoint 2, 20 meters away from the station and we will hold and do some checks to ensure we are ok to approach for did hearnd we confirmation the soft capture ring is extended and ready for docking. A few minutes ago, we heard commonscussing c2v2, communication for visiting vehicles. They said they would reconfigure and got good confirmation it has been reconfigured. Those are bidirectional confirmations between the station and crew dragon. Station houston on two for kate. We are still troubleshooting the rpop issue. 17 and welcome to sc the main computer. Copy all. We will get it working. Houstonon control, checking back in with kate rubins aboard the station, who is working to monitor crew dragons arrival. As we mentioned, she is not commanding anything crew dragon is doing and neither are the crew themselves. It is completely autonomous. She is trying to monitor some of that data. Key members in Mission Control houston are going to try and pop systeme the r come around a view system, rendezvous and proximity operations program, from the ground. You can see on your screen, again, this is a view from station from the node two point that dragon will be docking to. You can see the sunlight hitting dragon as it gets closer and. Loser starting to get a little bit darker outside as well. Thats because the International Space station and crew dragon are approaching orbital nighttime. They are in daylight for 45 minutes and nighttime for 45 minutes, circling the globe every 90 minutes, currently flying 260 miles over the Pacific Ocean. You are looking at a live view of Mission Control at spacex headquarters in california. If you notice, we have lost video temporarily of crew dragon as it approaches the International Space station, but it is really no surprise to us. It is called the handover, tracking data and relay satellite system. Teams on the ground are able to track when the space station and the cruel move in and out of the handover periods and we expect to regain Video Communications with the space station shortly. In the meantime, it continues, crew dragon continues approach to waypoint two. We have the views back already. As you mentioned, you can really see the four forward bulkhead thrusters the closer we get. If you look at the details of how close we are, approaching waypoint two which will be 20 meters in front of the station. You can see it so close up in the last few. The last view. On space runuston two. Ssc 17 back and running for you. We are working on four now. In addition, let us know when your review is complete and you are ready for docking. Copy, and i saw ssc working, giving me good range. Copy that. We will take a look. Thank you for the extra info. We have now reached waypoint two so we are holding this position. You have a good dragon docking system view on ssc 17. I have a good out the window view so i am comfortable and my review is complete. Copy all, thank you. News from kate rubins, she has the data shes looking for and a great view of crew dragon out the window as well. She has given her go for them to depart waypoint two and move into the International Space station. As a reminder, we moved directly through waypoint one, putting us directly in front of the docking port. You can see it here. Forwardthe note two port where dragon docks. Dragon, this is spacex on the big loop. Big around his go is go for approach two. At this point, please confirm the lighting conditions are acceptable to proceed, and let us know if you are go for approach two and docking. Spacex, this is dragon on the big loop. The lighting is actually getting worse. Ida butve a view of the we do not have a view of the docking target. Dragon, spacex, we are copy. We have six minutes since sunset. Would you like to hold for those six minutes or do you feel comfortable proceeding . Standby. Spacex, we will go ahead and hold for those six minutes. We copy. Hold. The crew dragon has opted to hold at waypoint two for the to get a better view of the docking target. It is on the International Space station. They can hold here and that will give the opportunity for sunset to come aboard the International Space station and crew dragon. They wont have any all shadows theyhey can have ought piloting,ving any crew dragon, it is autonomous. Vehiclet to see so the can make its approach to node two. And the ground is go for docking, but we are just waiting for us to get a little more light so that dragon can actually see where it is going to autonomously dock. I see the target on node two so it can make the soft capture accurately. Another one of those satellite handovers we just discussed as well. We should get Video Communications. Right there, coming back. Dragon is holding at waypoint two, 20 meters away from the International Space station. They are holding until we reach sunset and orbital nighttime for the spacecraft. Once that happens, they will proceed in towards node two. It should take about five minutes. As a reminder, waypoint two is about 20 meters away from station. We are on the docking access and dragon will be aligning itself with the docking point. We are just holding for some sunlight. Continuing for another few minutes. The space station has crossed the line between day and nighttime on earth. They are east of hawaii right now in the Pacific Ocean and waiting for the sun to set on orbit and crew dragon will be able to use infrared cameras to spot the docking target on the a pass hatch on node two, and they will be able to proceed, leaving waypoint two, making a five minute journey approximately two docking. To i should correct what i said earlier, they are waiting for the sun to go down so they dont have any shadows so dragon can actually see the early and locate and align itself with the docking port. As a reminder, we had a con mission that the soft capture ring extended. That will be the first part of capture. There are also rotary spring dampers will soft in the contact soft in the contact they do make contact with the International Space station, and then the ring will retract until the sensors indicate for the hooks to drive. We are looking for 12 hooks to only secure dragon firmly secure dragon to the International Space station. The entire process should take about 30 minutes. We will be standing by the entire time to make sure all of that goes smoothly. Foreverything looking good crew dragon, holding 20 meters away from the International Space station. And it looks like we might be about one minute away from sunset. So we should be hearing a call that they are ready to proceed. Again, there is no rush. There is also no need for the crew to fly dragon. This is all happening autonomously. Just a few more seconds until sunset. You can see it did get quite a bit darker. Flash on the docking port coming from crew dragon. Do like the crew to see the docking, even though it is autonomous. That helps them monitor where they are at and take control if need be. However, all of dragons systems looking good. We are just standing by for the departure from waypoint 2, 20 minutes away from the International Space station. We are currently go on the ground for docking but we are waiting for the crew to confirm that they are ready. We are waiting for the crew to confirm. Dragon, the big loop, looks like we got through sunset. We will get the lights strobe ring. We can see the targets. Visors are down. You are go to proceed and visors are down. Great to hear. We will be commanding the resume shortly. As a reminder, once dragon is inside the crew handoff point, retreat and breakout are not permitted. Copy all. Mission copies all. Weve got confirmation that. E have go from the crew they will start this procedure shortly. Start approaching that docking adapter that you see on your screen. Get close enough, they will do a soft capture followed by the insertion of the hinge for the heart capture. Once we reach the crew handoff point, that is the call we will hear and retreat and breakout are not permitted. That would be from the crew. Continuing to look good for crew dragon ready to depart waypoint two. Final approach has begun. Crew dragon moving toward the International Docking adapter on two. Kate rubins standing by on the International Space station monitoring approach. It should only take approximately five minutes, not too long. Their arrival at the International Space station will be coming about 27 and a half hours since their lift off last night at 7 27 p. M. Eastern from Kennedy Space center in florida aboard a falcon nine rocket. We are now about 15 meters away. Just about three minutes from docking. Very slow, deliberate and Steady Movement for crew dragon making its way to the International Space station. We will be looking for soft capture first. The soft capture ring already extended. Once we have soft capture, the ring will retract and bring us into heart capture. 13t should take about minutes for the entire process, firmly securing to the International Space station. Than they will move into leak check. Spacex from dragon on the check, good visuals. Great to great to hear. We see 10 meters as well. It looks very slow right now. Both dragon and the International Space station are miles perabout 17,500 hour over earth right now. You heard a few moments ago that 10 metersas reached away from the International Space station, so already. Alfway there about a little over a minute from docking. You can see on those display panels, the crew watching as they approach that node, port two. You can see directly in the center of the docking adapter, that is the hatch. Doe we do a hard capture and leak checks, that will be the first hatch that will open, followed by the dragon hatch. If you look closely in the center, at the very bottom, crew handsoff point standing by for contact. Dragon spacex, capture confirmed. And we feelpying the same. As you heard that call out, soft capture is now complete. Next will be hard capture. This is where the pins will insert themselves into that docking adapter and create a ck. D lo we have that soft capture at 8 01 eastern time. Crew dragon and the International Space station idaho. Over traction in progress. That call confirming just what we are looking to hear, the soft capture ring is retracting. We are looking for sensors to indicate it will be time for hooks to drive, create that firm hole on crew dragon. This can take several minutes, 1013 minutes. Crew dragon is now at the International Space station. This view over the shoulder of our commander and mike coffman. ,hey are watch mike hoffman they are watching all of this unfold via three displays. [applause] everybody is pretty excited. I am getting really weve got some folks watching as they confirm that soft capture. I am so excited. This is the home stretch. We have contact, soft capture confirmed at the International Space station for crew dragon 8 01 pacific time, eastern time. We are now in the soft capture ring, retract period. We will be looking for that ring to retract fully, the centers will indicate that we are ready to firmly connect with the International Space station. That was called the heart capture. That means it will be time after that to begin leak checks, taking off their suits and for the rate eventually hatch openings. All of that stuff might take a couple of hours. But we will be here for their first cant say steps, for their first floats inside of the space station. Dragon spacex, ring reduction complete. Holding for reconfiguration. Okay, dragon copies all. We are opening our visors at this time. We heard the soft capture ring retraction is complete. Mco stands for Motion Control system. We are handing off from the russian thrusters to the u. S. Gyroscopes. That other voice you heard was kate rubins monitoring the arrival of her 4 new crewmates inside of crew dragon. Everything is still going smoothly. We are currently awaiting that hard capture to be complete. As we mentioned it can take about 10 minutes. Confirmation we are now on gyroscopes. Dragon station on the big loop. Proceeding with hook driving. Dragon copies. Good news. Good news indeed. Mcs is complete. We have now moved to the gyroscopes instead of the russian thrusters. Meeting the hard capture sequence has begun. The hooks are currently driving into place to give us that hard capture. Once we do have that hard capture though, it will take some time before we can open the hatches. They will perform some leak checks to make sure that it is safe to open both the a pass hatch and the dragon hatch. The it could take up to about an hour after heart capture is complete. We were initially discussing that it looked like we would have an 8 00 p. M. Docking. We did have that contact and capture coming at 8 01 p. M. Pacific time. Very close and that was with us holding for a little bit to allow the crew better visibility. Hard capture sequences now underway. We are standing by for the confirmation. I know the astronauts have to be loving looking at all of this data. Tons of excitement. I know they enjoyed their ride on crew dragon. Theyre having so much fun during the broadcast. I can only imagine their excitement to be at the International Space station right now. They are right there, hard capture coming with closure and a few minutes. Then they will be able to start getting out of their suits again that they put on just for this approach period. We have confirmation that the first six hooks are complete and closed. As i was mentioning, the first six hooks are now complete and close. The next six or on their way to complete. Patiently waiting, watching and monitoring on their three display panels there. We also heard from kate rubins on the station side. Asking if it was time for who to deconstruct her Monitoring System where she has been watching the approach . Again, hard capture is underway. Once hard capture is complete they will perform some leak checks. Once at the a pass hatch is open, they will perform some more checks to make sure that it is okay to open the dragon hatch. In the meantime, dragon spacex hard capture complete. Dragon copies. There we heard the confirmation that hard capture is complete. Dragon is officially attached to the International Space station. After arriving at 8 01 p. M. Pacific time, 11 01 p. M. Eastern time. 27. 5 hours journey since launch yesterday at 7 27 p. M. Eastern time. How exciting. The crew must be so excited. Now that they are going to start doing the process of doing leak checks before they open the hatches. They will start taking off their suits and getting ready to enter the space station. Station houston on 2, you are to go for tool. Copy, thanks. That is the call kate rubins is looking for. She is good to tear down the station she was monitoring the crew dragon. Things will be picking up inside the space station for her. She will start pressurizing that area known as the vestibule between dragon and the station hatches. We are waiting for the umbilicals to connect crew dragon to the International Space station. This will allow crew dragon to use the space stations power audio and data connections. Docking is complete. Welcome to International Space station, resilience. Thank you. This is resilience. Excellent job right down the center. Spacex, and nasa, congratulations this is a new era of operational flights to the International Space station from the florida coast. International space station, kate, sergey kudsverchokov , and Sergey Ryzhikov we will see you soon. [speaking foreign language] resilience station, welcome to the iss. We cannot wait to have you on board. Spectacular job resilience. Behalf of all of the flight controllers around the world, welcome aboard as we embark on a seven crew station. More milestones ahead for this station. With that, ground will be enabling hardline power and calm connection shortly. You are go to dock your suits for decimal 012. We will configure video to go external momentarily and we will let you know when it is ready. Okay, spacex. We copy. Four. Dot 012. Standing by for the cameras. Cameras are external. Dragon copies. We saw some celebration aboard crew dragon once it was confirmed heart capture was complete. Dragon was attached to International Space station. An amazing amazing reminder, just how important it is, and how international the International Space station is. Words from Soichi Noguchi, the First International partner to fly aboard a commercial crew vehicle from the expiration agency. What an amazing, amazing journey this has been. I cant believe they are there now, officially docked to the space station. So excited to see them get out of their suits and eventually get on station. Now that dragon has completed the docking sequence, the spacecraft must undergo a handful of checks before we will be able to open the hatch. The crew on board dragon will now get a chance to get out of their suits before moving into the hatch operations. Which is why they are getting some privacy on dragon right now. That is right, we heard that call for external cameras. As we also heard, kate rubins got to go to take down the station she was monitoring the crew dragon arrival from. She is also getting things ready on the station side. To welcome her new crewmates aboard. She will be getting the hatchet ready for the open on the station side. That is the node 2 hatch. And then pressurizing the area known as the vestibule between dragon and the station hatches. The station hatch that we are looking at, for the vestibule area, is the a pass hatch prayed we had a great view of that. Crew dragon was flying in. We also saw that docking target. For which crew dragon was able to align and kate rubins will pressurize that up prayed we will have a thermal stabilization period as well pray this means we will pause for a while as we begin to do leak checks. We want to make sure theres no fluctuation in temperature that will make it look like there is no fluctuation in pressure. We will pause for 30 minutes for that. Once it evens out, kate rubins will open up the hatch. She will remove the docking target and then it will be a short matter of time before we see our crew dragon crew enter their new home aboard the International Space station. Very exciting lets go to brandy dean for a refresher on what is ahead now that dragon is docked. Yeah, it is so great to see dragon docked on the end of the harmony node and ready for a joint expedition to begin. What better way to celebrate 20 years of continuous human presence in space then by adding a seventh crew member to the crew on board the International Space station allowing them to do more work, and more science. Before we do get to that, we do have to get them on the other side of the hatch. That is what is ahead of us for tonight now at this point. It is still a little ways off. It does take time to get all of these hatches open. There is more than one in fact. When kate rubins gets to go from the team here on the ground, she will be doing a short check of the pressurization inside. That is the tunnel that basically connects now the harmony node to the dragon. Assuming that looks good, it should only take a minute or so um, that will be opened and then she can start the next step which will take a little longer. The small area between the hatch on the space station and the dragon has been exposed to the vacuum of space until now. So, it needs to be filled with air. That takes a little while. Um, tran h will working on that for the next hour or so. After that we will see all of the crew members together for the first time. We will keep following along in the meantime. For now, back to you guys in hawthorne. Thanks. Thank you, brandy. So exciting we are getting very, very close. It has been such an amazing journey since launch yesterday at 7 27 p. M. Eastern time. We watched them from the beginning from them suiting up, making their way to the pad, riding the service structure, getting onto dragon, getting into their seats, getting strapped in, lift off at 7 27 p. M. Eastern time. With a safe ride from falcon. Separating dragon into orbit. It is an absolutely amazing journey. That is the only word i can think of right now. 27. 5 hours later, it almost doesnt even feel like that long. I hope that they have had a good ride in dragon. It was amazing to see crew dragon earlier, that they were able to take us inside to give us a little bit of a tour. They had those five major brands. We had one last night, the crew got to sleep, and we had the rest of today. We also added in a few additional maneuvers in there. I should say the dragon computer added those maneuvers in there to keep us on the right trajectory. Crew dragon arrived at the International Space station at 8 01 p. M. Pacific time. 11 01 p. M. Eastern time. This view coming from inside the International Space station looking at the node 2 hatch. This is where kate rubins will open shortly, and begin pressurizing the vestibule. The area between the two hatches that brandy dean was telling us about. This is so exciting. It has been a long journey, but so worth it. They made it to the station safely. Cannot wait for them to get through these next few processes do the leak checks to make sure everything is safe. And then watch as the crew members, the crew one crew members aboard the International Space station. Tran28 looks quiet in there right now. And empty. In just over an hour. Docked 1. 5 hours, we will see about seven people crammed into this small space hugging and rubbing each other to the International Space station. We will keep an eye on crew dragon and International Space station. Transfer kate rubins will get onto the station side conducting leak checks, pressurizing the vestibule and eventually welcoming our crew members on board. We will have a welcome ceremony. Stay tuned with us paid we will stay live. Yes, we will definitely stay live as we move through these checks. We will keep you updated as they progress. You will get to watch the crew members float through, making their home on the International Space station for the next six months. Dragon spacex on the big loop, iss power is established. Dragon copies. Good news. That is kate rubins aboard the International Space station going through the procedures to bring crew dragon on board. The hatchet she just open is on the station side of node 2. That is the pressurized mating adapter hatch. Shes got several more steps on her side to go. Meanwhile, the crew aboard crew dragon will be taking their suits off, drying and stowing them. They will have to stow any of the equipment that they used. The node 2 forward hatch is open. Copy all. That was kate rubins confirming that the hatch is now open. She is speaking with the capcom in Mission Control, houston. Stands for capsule communicator. That is a term from back in the days when we were just a. Of course we moved it to the Space Shuttle program. They relay everything happening on the ground to the crew members. This keeps them from getting too much information coming from too many different directions. You can see kate rubins and gracing the pressurized mating adapter. She will also need to conduct, um, she will need to pressurize the vestibule. That is the next hatch of the space between crew dragon and International Space station. The vestibule area. We want to make that the same pressure of what is inside crew dragon and the International Space station. It looks pretty easy to get around in the space station. You see her gliding around as she is grabbing some of the tools. She will begin opening a valve on the a pass hatch to slowly let air in, pausing along the way. She will also do a thermal stabilization making sure that the temperature is not changing in the vestibule area giving signals that are changing when it comes to the pressure we want to see inside. We will end up causing for about 30 minutes to make sure that is leveled out. Eventually, tran h will open the a pass hatch, remove the docking target as we saw as crew dragon was flying in. That is with the vehicle uses to align with the iss. And then it will be time for our crew aboard crew dragon to move to the International Space station. What a cool view we are getting here. This is the space station looking out at dragon attached to that node 2 port. A good view of the trunk of dragon. You can see the solar cells and they are wrapped around the body of dragon. I would put a warning there, or a note for the crew about how loud that was. We copy, kate. You didnt sound like that in training in houston. [laughter] we will have to beef up our simulators. Yeah, suck some air out of the room. [laughter] kate rubins is talking to megan evans, who is a trainer. She was saying letting that air into the vestibule was a little bit louder than she expected it to be. But she did let in 75 seconds of air, beginning to pressurize the vestibule. As we were discussing, you could see the solar cells. The top half of dragon, that is the black section allowed dragon to Gather Energy from those sun on its journey to the International Space station. Meanwhile, on the bottom half of the trunk, is a thermal radiator. It can help keep dragon cool. However, crew dragon now being attached to the International Space station is running on space station power, rather than any power of its own. As we are getting ready for these hatches to be open. Dragon will use sensors onboard dragon to check the pressure inside of the vestibule before we open up that dragon hatch. This comes again after crew dragon contact with International Space station happening tonight at 8 01 pacific time. We will be transitioning audio, you will be down calm for just a few minutes. Dragon copies. The houston team letting crew dragon crew know they are reconfiguring to a different audio configuration. They will regain communications with them shortly. As we saw it, the crew asked that the cameras inside be made external so we would not get any interior views of crew dragon. That is because they will be dos seeing their suits getting back into comfortable clothes. Be able to enter the International Space station, once all of this pressurization of the vestibule, and it leak are complete. We want to give you a heads up,. 5 is started for all four suits. It sounds like the crew is out of their suits now and they are now drying those suits. If you are just now joining us, dragon is now hard captured to the International Space station. Kate rubins is helping to get the vestibule ready, and prepared for hatch opening. We also saw kate rubins getting that ready on the station side. Shes already opened the pressurized mating adapter hatch. That is the hatch on the station side of node 2. What you could see on your screen is at Mission Control here in hawthorne, california. They just got got together for a group photo in celebration of this amazing crew one mission. A lot of hard work put into this mission. Definitely want to capture that moment. Absolutely. Right back to their stations they go. Still monitoring the vehicles. It has been 27. 5 hours, maybe a little bit longer now. Of course, the teams rotate out to every 89 hours to keep them fresh. A lot of work put in on the nasa and spacex sides to make this happen today. Bringing the first longduration crew to the International Space station. So exciting very close for the crew to enter station. We are just getting prepared and making sure that the hatch, the leak checks are complete before we open up the hatches and let the crew on board. Crews already out of their suits. They are getting comfortable and getting ready to board the International Space station. We will also be anticipating a welcome ceremony later tonight for the crew once the ingress the International Space station. We will get to watch them reach all of their colleagues currently aboard. And then we will see them speak with a ground for a little while, as well. We talked about a lot of firsts on this mission. As we mentioned this is the first fourperson capsule space flight ever. It will also become the longest flight of a crude u. S. Capsule. Their previous record was skylab for in 1973, it lasted for 84 days. Wow, that is a pretty long journey. Right now, on your screen, if you are just now joining us. You are looking at a live view of dragon docked to the International Space station. The crew still inside dragon, preparing for hatch opening. They are out of their suits now, getting into some more comfortable close. The suits are currently drying, and depending on how long these processes take for the leak checks, pressurization of the vestibule, the crew will be boarding shortly and we will be having a welcomed ceremony. This all comes after soft capture of the crew dragon vehicle happened at 8 01 p. M. Pacific time tonight, 11 01 p. M. Eastern time. Crew dragon and the iss flying 262 statute miles over idaho. I think there are some pretty nice nice sunsets here. You guys are going to like it. It is known objectively to be a very goodlooking vehicle. Absolutely concur. Are you okay with node two cameras for set up. I would do it in front of the cameras that way we dont have to change the view. We are checking. Standby. [inaudible] okay spacex,. [inaudible] good morning, kate. We think that is a good view for now. We may need to to make adjustments once you get into the activity. Copy. Thanks. Dragon houston on space ground 24 calm check. Com check. Dragon houston on the big loop for com check. Houston, this is dragon on the big loop com check. We have you loud and clear. Say it again for dragon on the big loop. Houston, we were giving you a com check. We have you loud and clear. We have you loud and clear, as well. Dragon, spacex on space ground 2, com check. Spacex, this is dragon on space ground 2, we have you loud and clear. Excellent i have you the same. Do we have your permission to come back on board with video . Negative, at this time. We are still doing some configuration inside. Totally fine. Sounds good. Thanks. No problem. Just to let you know, as well, we are not hearing any echoes on board at this time. Copy. That is a good data point. Thank you. If you guys need the i. S. S. Experience a little bit, i can move the [inaudible] camera. Id just rather not set up the cameras that we set up yesterday. And stand by, kate. I think were going to have an input for you. This is a live look inside the International Space station, and we have been covering the arrival of the crew dragon crew1 mission, now arriving at the International Space station, docking coming at 8 01 pacific time, 11 01 eastern time. Kate rubins first opened that impasse hatch on the International Space station in node two or sorry, the p. M. A. Hatch, the pressurized mating adapter. She is inside that right now, and right behind her is the apas hatch. She worked to pressurize the vestibule. The vestibule is a hatch between the hatch on the station side and the dragons hatch. The apas is exposed to space, so we wanted to make it the same pressure as the space station and the crew dragon, so we wanted to pressurized that to welcome the crew members aboard. Once the hatch is open, shell remove the docking target that the crew dragon vehicle used to locate and align itself with node two. Eventually, we will see the crew members come through the crew dragon hatch after that is opened. In the meantime, theyve been doffing or taking off their space suits, getting into their comfortable clothes, into things that theyve been stowing for the journey. With the pressurization of the vestibule, we do a thermal stabilization check, meaning, we make sure that temperatures arent fluctuating in the area, making sure that things are steady. But it looks like things are steady, and were one step closer to welcoming the crew on board the International Space station. Also coming up tonight, well have a welcome ceremony. Theyll be speaking with teams on the ground, and this arrival kicks off a sixmonth mission for the crew members. Our crew of four, pilot vic glover, commander mike hopkins, Flight Engineer shannon walker, and Japanese Space Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi all on board. Mission control, this is kate. For kate. We have been monitoring the situation on hatch two. You are go for ingress part two. Okay. Copy go ingress two. Do i have a copy for the ingress stabilization valve open . And thats correct, kate. Youre go. Copy go. Thanks. Heard kate rubin speaking with the capcom in Mission Control houston, troubleshooting the i. S. S. Experience. That is a payload, allowing them to record whats happening on board the International Space station. Obviously, we have these views here, but that is a special payload. They are just working on getting these views up. Pa path path equalization route is open. Houston copy. Kate just opened up the [inaudible]. And we are equalized. You are go. Thank you. And that was confirmation that the pressure is equalized between the vestibule and the space station. So were getting very close to this hatch opening. Step by step, but almost there. Sounds like were running about 15 minutes ahead in the process, as well, so thats good news, too. Coming up on about our crew launched 7 27 p. M. Eastern time yesterday. Coming up on about 28 hours, 29 hours since their launch, and their journey began in the crew dragon vehicle. [inaudible]. Copy, 524. Kate rubins is in the pressurized mating adapter, now in the hatch. As we heard earlier, the pressure is equal between the crew dragon hatch and the apas hatch is pressurized. Once kate rubins opens the apas hatch, she may get a look at the crew. There is a small window on the hatch of dragon, underneath the nose cone. During dm2, i believe we got a look at bob behnken and doug hurley through the window. Meanwhile, kate rubins taking pictures of the process. This process is still relatively new on the International Space station, to gathering this data helps inform future missions and space flight. Houston, stepping into apas hatch, 3. 02, open. Kate rubin is walking through the procedures, and that is what she is confirming with roost on. A with houston. And even the photos are part of standard procedures. And houston, confirm this is a pull straight out for the apas match . You are correct, kate, and it usually does take a bit of a pull. All right. I didnt want to put force into the system unless you guys were expecting it, but it definitely does have some good seal there because of the vacuum. We are with you. Kate rubins now preparing to open that apas, making sure that what shes experiencing is nominal. The ground confirms it may be a little tough to open that hatch. Houston, call and check before you dead lift it up. Its open. Copy all. Rubins confirming the abas hatch is open, and now, we can see it for ourselves. Taking a look inside with the flashlight, she will also remove that docking target that crew dragon used to align itself with node two when making its approach earlier today. And a really cool shot from drawn, seeing kate inside of that vestibule. Kate saying hi to the world. Getting in there, getting a good look at the hatch seal, looking for any condensation before they proceed. Houston station on space to ground two, vestibule one, the hatch is open, and the i. D. A. Vestibule does not have any condensation. Looks pretty nice. The last time i saw it, it looked pretty good, and there are crew dragon members on the other side. Copy. And as she mentioned, she was able to get a look at the four members inside dragon waiting to come on board the International Space station. Rubins reporting everything looks good, and the next step is to remove that docking target that you see hanging downright there. Itll get that out of the way and maybe prevent anybody from bumping into it. Once shes stowed that docking target, well get ready for drawn hatch equalization. Thatll equalize pressure between dragon and the station, and then, the moment weve been waiting for. We will open the hatch, welcome the crew members to their home for the next six months. As rubins works, we are switching between the tdra satellites, and we should have feedback shortly. Just a. Completes the other four major burns today. That took us out of the rendezvous phase of the mission. Approached main burn and midcourse maneuver and that put us exactly where we needed to be. And finally approaching the docking, with a soft capture, followed by a hard capture of hooks attaching to the International Space station, and then finally arriving at the space station, completing docking. And right now, kate is working on helping getting the hatch ready almost ready for hatch open for dragon. She was able to get a peek inside the window on the hatch of the crew members on board, and shortly, well see them ingress the space station. Absolutely. And its been about 27. 5 hours of free flight time. Its been quite a journey for our crew members. I know they must be excited to have arrived on the space station. [inaudible]. Copy. That is a great confirmation. Thats all i needed. That was just the crandoing inventory on board their spacecraft. As we mentioned before, everything is meticulously tracked in space. That includes any meals being eaten, any experiments being conducted, any equipment be stowed. This is what the crew was doing as they are waiting for kate to finish up her procedures on the space station side. They were able to get out of their suits, dry them off. As we mentioned, this was an autonomous mission. The crew did not have to fly it. The dragon flew itself all the way to the International Space station. Theres kate rubins, configuring the apas hatch. Dragon, its spacex. We are about to takedown the spass, so from this point on, please use the big loop two for all spacex communications. And again, if youre just now joining us right now, what youre seeing on your screen is a view from dragon looking into the space station with kate rubins preparing for the crew to come on board. Getting everything set up inside of this vestibule area prior to opening up the dragon hatch. Dragon spacex on dragon to part ground comcheck. And we have you loud and clear on dragon to ground. Awesome. We just want to let you know we are about to takedown the sband path, which will takedown our dragontoground communications, so at this point, please use the big loop. We i think you called that up a second ago. Maybe you didnt hear us confirm. Yeah. I think your com might have dropped off. Thanks for confirming. That was some communication from the team here in hawthorne something with the crew on board crew dragon, letting them know they are switching their telemetry or sound communications with them, and theyll now be communicating via the loops on board the International Space station. Kate rubins finishing up installing the apas hatch cover. Coming up next, well be looking for dragon hatch equalization, looking for pressure equalization between dragon and the International Space station, and then, it will be time to welcome the crew members board. Aboard. Dragon on the big loop. We forgot to tell you, you can come back on board. Copy. Thank you so much. You just saw kate rubins involving the i. M. V. Dock. Thats intermodule ventilation. Thatll make sure that dragon is sharing the same air as the International Space station, that its all the same air being circulated in and out of the vehicle. The call well be listening for is station is ready for dragon hatch equalization, meaning we want to equalize the pressure between dragon and the International Space station. Once we get the go for that we will stand by for the equalization, and then, we will see hatch opening. Houston and moscow, we are ready for hatch pressure equalization not moscow, spacex. And spacex is ready for hatch equalization. [inaudible] okay. Copy. My apologies to spacex. I came up in a different vehicle, but im really excited to see this one, and im switching over to space to ground link. And the call that we were looking for, that the space station is ready for hatch equalization, to equalize the pressure between dragon and the International Space station. And then, what well be looking for is the hatch to open. And sensors on dragon will actually be what we check to make sure that the pressure is good before we open that hatch. If all goes well, sounds like were five minutes away. This also aligns us pretty well with our projection that it should take about two hours to go through these checks pressurization, leak checks, vestibule stabilization. And as a reminder, once the hatch does open and the four crew members do ingress on the space station, there will be a welcome ceremony, where the folks on board station will join those four crew members, welcoming them on board. We heard kate discussing she came up on a different vehicle, a russian soyuz vehicle. Her crew members may decide to come greet them, as well, part of the welcome alongside the new crew members. Were just a few minutes away from that pressure equalization between dragon and the station. This is Mission Control houston. The team is coming near the end of their shift as we near the outputting the hatch of the dragon. Kate rubin has been working through her part. We are expecting to see that in the next few minutes, scheduled to take place at 12 10 a. M. Central time, but it could be a little bit early. Once we see all of them on board, well be going to a welcome ceremony. Taking part in that, we are going to have kathy leaders and the jaxa or Japanese Space Agency president , and they will be talking with the crew as part of the welcoming ceremony as the crew dragon members thats mike hopkins, vic glover, shannon walker, and Soichi Noguchi join the crew members for the first time. Expecting the hatch to open any time now since kate rubins is working speedily through her procedures. This is only the second time theyve worked through the procedures on the International Space station, so still getting used to the procedures, and like i said, on pace to open it a little bit earlier tonight. Of course, following the festivities, well have one final News Conference to wrap up the activities tonight. Dragon spacex on the big loop, you are go for hatch opening per your decal, followed by the remaining actions in 4. 04. 6. Dragon, copies, and the hatch is open for the decal, and remaining steps in 4. 04. 600. The team on the ground giving the go to the team on board dragon the okay to open their hatch, so we should see them floating through the hatch on board the International Space station momentarily. For mike hopkins, shannon walker, and Soichi Noguchi, it will be a return flight. Mike hopkins was here in 2009, where he spent 114 days. Spacex, this is dragon, on the big loop, 6. 06. 400, hatch is open. We copy. Hatch open, great to hear. And as you can see, this ey have that hatch open. They called downrig right at 12 a. M. Central time. Looks like they are waving hello to their new crew mates now. Also seeing here for the first time tonight, the roscosmos members of the crew, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kudsverchkov [inaudible]. Houston copy. Crew finishing up some intermodule work between the module and the space station. But again, the hatch is open, and that came at 12 02 a. M. Central time. As i was saying a moment ago, this is mike hopkins second trip to the International Space station. He was there in 2014. Same thing for shannon walker. Soichi noguchi has 177 days already in space, but thisll be the first time for Victor Glover to pass across the hatch, and this is the International Space station kicking off their next six months in space, where theyll have seven crew members on board for the duration. Spa. You ahouston from dragon, wat a go for us to continue. You are correct, hopper. Thats a go on 6. 0. 3. Copy. Inward. Crew are doing a few things inside the crew dragon before making their way to the International Space station. Making things are stowed securely and putting away the cartridges that they use to scrub Carbon Dioxide out of the air on the way to the International Space station. Now that theyre on board the International Space station, they dont need those any longer. Theyll use the air system on b the International Space station for that. Again, getting ready to ingress the International Space station. Spacex dragon on the big loop. Spacex here. Yeah, just a question. Just want to confirm that you are supposed to put myocartridge one, the original cartridge, into the active slot. That is confirmed. That is what we want you to do, please. Okay. Thanks. And just so you know, weve got the echo. Copy. Shannon walker going through the final items before the craw makes their way onto the International Space station. They are putting away cartridges used to scrub Carbon Dioxide out of the crew members air. Again, theyre no longer needed because theyre on board the International Space station. Seeing two thirds of the International Situation crew, kate rubins, and Sergey Ryzhikov, the space station commander. They, along with Sergey Kudsverchkov, have been on the space station since october 18. They are waiting for the crew dragon members to join them at any moment. And here they are. First across the hatch is michael hopkins. Next is Victor Glover. You heard everyone clapping here at Mission Control houston. And shannon walker, and finally, Soichi Noguchi, increasing the space station crew numbers to seven, ready to come on board the International Space station and get to work. Huouston. Were ready for space to ground checks. And were ready. Copy. Ill give you a count down. And we are here at spacex control in hawthorne. We just saw the major event of the night. The crew has finally come on board the International Space station. A lot of smiles, a lot of hugs. The welcome ceremony houston, do you copy . [inaudible] mic. Station houston, thats a good scene check. Were checking something here on the audio, so stand by for another count down. Okay. Sounds good, and let me know about lighting. Ive got a work light, so i can move that as needed. And lighting looks good, kate. If you could do a quick count down, well zoo a quick audio check. Copy. And work. These voice checks youre hearing coming from nasa astronaut kate rubins, now joined by four new crew members on board the International Space agency, and they are joined by her russian roscosmos colleagues. We are standing by for the welcome ceremony a few minutes from now. You can hear them getting ready, doing all the mic checks and formal checks to welcome them on board. Very excited to see this. We already saw how excited the crew members were to get on board station. I don i cant wait to see this. Yeah. After the 27. 5hour journey to the International Space station, they docked at 8 01 p. M. Pacific time, 11 01 p. M. Eastern time on the forwardmost part, and they will be there for the next six months as part of their mission. Station houston on space ground two, we [inaudible]. Houston station, im ready for another five count. On the wireless mic, one, two, three, four, five. And that was the best five count of them all. Yea we will have the japanese exploration president joining us as well. They will take part in the welcoming ceremony that is coming up in five minutes. Necessary checkouts onboard, we will wait for everybody to gather before we begin that. Crew members gathering as promised for the welcome ceremony, which is now just moments from crewmembers are gathering for the welcoming ceremony which will begin in a few minutes. Station, this is houston. Are you ready for the event . Houston, this is station. We are ready for the event. Mr. Morehart, please call station for a voice check. Misleaders, please call station for a voice check. Hi, this is kathy leaders here at the Johnson Space center in houston. How do you hear me . Hello, kathy. We hear you loud and clear. Wow, i cant tell you how great it is to see you outside the hatch. On behalf of the nasa and spacex tears, theres a lot of [inaudible]. Well, thank you. Kathy. We just want to say thank you to everybody spacex, nasa, the d. O. D. , just all across the nation. Its been an incredible journey, and its amazing that this is marking the start of operational crew rotation missions to the International Space station missions from the florida coast. So it was an amazing ride. I cant tell you how excited we were when that rocket lifted off the pad, and the last 27 hours have gone really smooth, actually. So we are really excited to be here, we are humbled, and we are excited to be a part of this great expedition, so we are looking forward to the next six months, and cant wait to get started. Yeah, thank you for letting me get to say hello to you all, and being there a little bit on station with you all. And i just want to tell you how proud we are of you. Were expecting a lot from you, a lot of good workup there. Not only with reproud in this nation of you, but our International Partners are extremely proud of you. And i know i have some folks in japan that also want to give you some greetings. So with that, im going to turn it back to Mission Control. Thank you, miss leaders. We now welcome dr. Yamakawa for some remarks. Station, this is yamakawa. How do you hear me . Houston, we hear you loud and clear. Thank you, noguchsan. I really feel relieved by your safe arrival to the station now. Noguchsan. It is very significant for jaxa that you are on board the first operational spaceship from dragon. I believe this is a result of the partnership with nasa and all the other International Partners. I also believe that you will take on more important roles on the International Space station and future missions to the moon and mars. Were always behind you. Good luck, and enjoy your time in space. [speaking foreign language] thank you, dr. Yamakawa. We are now on board of the International Space station, and we will enjoy our time here. We have a lot of activity ahead of us, and we are ready to get to work. [speaking foreign language] thank you, miss leaders and dr. Yamakawa, for your participation. Station, we are now resuming normal audio communication. Wow. Thank you so much, everyone, for joining us for this coverage of our commercial crew mission, the crew1 Mission Board crew dragon to the International Space station. We watched them all the way from suitup yesterday to ingress on the vehicle, liftoff at 7 27 p. M. Eastern time. First stage, giving them a right into orbit as it returned back to earth to dragon separation yesterday and nose cone did he employ, through five burns on dragon and docking as well as ingress to the station. On behalf of spacex and nasa, thank you for watching todays web cast and your participation in this exciting historic mission. Now that dragon has docked with the space station, it will spend approximately the next six months at its new home. Coming up next, were going to have a post docking News Conference live from the Johnson Space center, so stick around and hear from some of the key members of the nasa, spacex, and jaxa team. Be sure to follow nasa and spacex on social media for constant updates. We cant say how proud we are to have been a part of this mission, nasa and spacex. Thank you again for watching. As a reminder, once dragon retreat and breakout are not permitted. Copy. Copy, im ready. Weve got confirmation, and we have go from the crew. They will be starting this procedure shortly. Offnce we reach the hands point, retreat and breakout are not permitted. That would be from the crew. Can abort if necessary. Everything is continuing to look good for crew dragon, ready to depart waypoint two. The final approach has begun. Crew dragon moving toward the isernational kate rubins standing by, monitoring their approach. This should only take approximately five minutes. Not too long. Their arrival at the International Space station coming 27. 5 hours since there left off last night at 7 27 eastern time from Kennedy Space center in florida aboard a falcon nine rocket. We are now 15 meters away. Three minutes from docking. Slow, deliberate, Steady Movements for crew dragon making its way to the International Space station. Hard capture should take 13 minutes securing us to the International Space station. Then we will move into leak ch eck. S 10 meters, good lighting and good visuals. Great to hear. We see 10 minutes as well. Even though it looks low right now, dragon and the International Space station are traveling about 17,500 Miles Per Hour over earth. 260 statute miles over the planet. Just a few moments ago, the crew reached 10 meters away from the International Space station. Halfway there from waypoint two. But only about a little over one minute from docking. You can see on the display panels, the crew watching as they approach that node, port two. You can see directly in the center of the docking adapter, that is the hatch. Once we do a hard capture and leak checks, that will be the first hatch will open, followed by the dragon hatch. If you look closely in the center there is a handsoff oink. Point, standing by for contact. Dragon to spacex, capture confirmed. Dragon copying and we feel the same. As you heard that call out, soft capture is now complete. Next will be hard capture. This is where the pins will insert themselves into that docking adapter and create a hard lock. We have that soft capture at 8 01 pacific time, 11 01 eastern time. The eagle has landed. New possibilities are opening up for scientific cooperation between countries. Off liftoff discovery clears the town. The crew is go for launch. Hello and welcome to the nasa Johnson Space center. After 20 years of continuous human presence, the International Space station is still marking new milestones and has its first longterm crew seven members. We have a lot to celebrate. Here to talk, we have kathy leaders, Johnson Space center and deputyrk geyer, commercial crew program manager, and International Space station manager joe. If you can each give a few opening remarks and then open it up for questions. Each give a few opening remarks and then open it up for media questions. Lets start with kathy. Yeah, what an amazing couple of days. I cant tell you how wonderful it was to see the crew come through the hatch, and weve been talking a lot about all the firsts, right . This mission was a dream. It was a dream of us to be able to one day be able to have crew Transportation Services to the International Space station, and today, that dream became a reality. And it took a huge team of folks, not only spacex folks, but nasa folks, and our federal agency friends, and our whole the d. O. D. A ton of people made this happen today. Just an amazing feat. Was not easy. This was hard. And then, on top of it, one of the other firsts we had was we all had to do this in the time of a pandemic. I think theres some of us, six or seven months ago, that if you would have thought about all the things that this team had to go through, they would have just said oh, this is too much, but it wasnt. This team has done a phenomenal job. The crew on orbit is going to do at the nominal things over this next six months, and were going to keep doing crew missions, and its the start of a new era. Im very, very proud of the nasa, spacex, the agency team, and our nation, for stepping up and doing this. Thank you. Thank you. Well go next to mark guyer. This ank you, kathy, for you leadership and making this happen. Its really exciting to see the seven crew members on i. S. S. Its great to be starting this crew rotation plan and now using i. S. S. As we envisioned, and im proud to wear the expedition 64 pin. You can see the astronauts were excited as they walked through the hatch, and theyre ready and excited to get started. We believe that nasa unites with our partners to achieve bold missions, and in this case, it can be national or International Partners. Next year, were going to have continuing spacex missions, boeing commercial crew, sending orion out past the moon, eventually private astronaut missions, and eventually, these smaller payload Service Missions where were allowing Smaller Companies to deliver payloads. Each of these are how nasa can engage differently with companies. Sometimes we drive the design with the contractors, sometimes, we help with the design. Sometimes were operators with the integrations, sometimes we facilitate integrations. Were taking skills and actually pushing out in the lunar gateway and supporting Lunar Landing systems, as well. A great ending to the year. Terrific to see the crews on i. S. S. , and so we look forward to all the work theyre going to achieve this increment. Thank you, mark. Lets go next to joel montalbano. Welcome, again, to the post docking press brief. To have it happen in the month where were celebrating 20 years of continuous human presence on board the International Space station just puts a smile on my face. You know, today or yesterday, we saw a picture perfect launch, and today, a very smooth docking, and with that, we welcome the drawn vehicle and her crew to the dragon vehicle and her crew to the International Space station. Were looking forward to a significant amount of time in orbit, a significant number of months well be able to increase the amount of science, the amount of technology, the amount of work we can do with the individual crew members. A huge thanks to the commercial crew program, a huge thanks to the spacex team. I promise the International Space Station Program will take good care of the dragon and her crew, so back over to you, brandy. Thank you so much, joel. And finally, well go to vin fang. You know, its an exciting time to be in the Science Field right now. You know, we heard from the crew, and they said they cant wait to get started. Weve had teams of nasa and space agencies involved, as kathy mentioned, the blood, sweat, and tears over the last few years. Were so proud of the teams. The arrival of resiliance marks the beginning of another first time event, and looking back at another first that happened almost exactly ten years ago, with the same team members involved. Nasa and spacex shared a similar accomplishment with the launch to the low earth orbit in early december 2010. Were proud to be part of the 20year anniversary, proud to follow in the foot steps of all the 63 expeditions that came before us, and proud to be part of expedition 64. Many thanks to the nasa and spacex teams. Were looking forward to making this a very successful Operational Mission and many more to follow. Thank you. Great words to start us out there. We have just a few reports on the line. So if you have a question, you can press star, one, and star, two if your question gets answered. Lets start with reuters. [inaudible] i guess this question could be for anything. I wonder if theres any quarrels over who gets to sleep in crew dragon, and i was wondering what value having someone to sleep in crew dragon will provide any data that nasa can use. What are you planning with that . With yeah. I think its been planned to have hopper sleep in the drawn. I think its going to be an excellent opportunity to use that and test it out as a habitable module. So thats our current plan, and we look forward to learning a lot, and we think its going to be very comfortable modern accommodations for him. I think some of us would want to be sleeping in there tonight. Next, well go to business insider. Hi. Thanks for doing this, and congratulations to everybody. This question is for kathy. Youve got a long mission ahead. What are you looking forward to, and whats going to keep you up at night over the next six months . Thanks. Well, you know, joels got a whole list of items that he wants these crew members to start working on. Hes been a little bit starved of crew members, and hes got a backlog of crews and science that he needs them to go get done. You know, when you have people on board, you always are maintaining vigilance and making sure, just like we do with station. This having dragon up there just means we have more people on orbit that we are thinking of and making sure that were taking care of them. Its what makes human space flight so fun and challenging, is that you always have to make sure that youre maintaining human safety in a tough environment. But we have a great space Station Program, like joel said. They will take care of the crew members, and they make my ability to sleep a little bit better at night, so im counting on you, joel. Being on. Our next questions going to come from nashville news. My question is for kathy. As you described at the beginning of this press conference, you know, it was tough to get to this point. What do you feel is the biggest risk when docking to the International Space station . Thank you. Well, what makes it really nice is the spacecraft makes it look easy, right . But to get there isnt easy. It took a lot of joint work between the spacex and nasa teams to share their learning and go through a lot of interchange technical interchange and a ton of testing to make it look like that. It was a real testament that we could all be sitting there, talking about what was going on and not biting our nails. So i think its the dragons a beautiful vehicle, and she did a nice job today. Definitely. Next up, weve got space. Com. Thank you all for doing this, and yeah, congratulations. This is probably for joel. Could you just talk a little bit about what it means to have that, like, extra crew member on board, like, that seventh astronaut. What does that mean for this extra sixmonth stint coming up, and what does that mean as it happens more often . Thank you. So one of the things about having the commercial crew program is were able to double the amount of crewtended research and development and biology. Before, we we before, with three members, we were averaging about 35 hours a week dedicated to science and technology research. With the fourth member, well be able to do 70 hours a week with four members. That will allow us to do not only the science and research that we have, but Technology Demonstration that will help us with the artemis program. Okay. And i think we have a followup next from business insider. We do have time for just a couple of follow ups, so if you do have another question, you can press star, one again, but well try to keep it short because i know these guys have been up for a while. This is insider next. Hi. Thanks for taking another question from me. I guess this question is also for kathy or for anybody else who feels they can answer it. Just wanted to follow up on something that did come up in the last 27 hours, that propellant line heater and the thermal control issues. Were those issues resolved, and would it pop up again . Why wasnt it taken care of on the ground, and im curious if there was anything else that popped up in the investigation. Thank you. Vin, why dont you take this . Yeah, id be happy to. The vehicle is extremely clean. After clearing a few hurdles before launch, the vehicle arrived at the space station with full functionality, full density, no problems whatsoever. Earlier, there was a discussion about the prop line heaters. They did trip off. Basically, it was set that fault detectors were set very tightly on the ground. Spacex was very quick to identify the cause of it. It was barely out of spec, barely out of limits that tripped it for safety reasons. Within an hour, they had a f cause, and within two hours, they had a fix that was checked by the spacex team and cleared afterwards. The problem that they were protecting against was to make sure that the propel jaent lines stayed within their normal limits. In the end, it turned out that that limit was tighter than it needed to be, and it was quickly fixed, and dragons in great shape. All right. It looks like we have a followup question from reuters. Hi. Just to follow up that with van, other than the heater issues, was there anything else that you guys detected during the flight or docking sequence that kind of looked off or something that you didnt see in prior tests . There was only one other thing of note that we tracked, and again, it was also shortly after launch. Had to do with the thermal control system. Theres a loop a and a loop b, and on each of those loops, there are segments of the thermal loop that are isolated from other segments. So based on the differentials from other segments, when youve got different parts of the loop that are exposed to different temperatures, and theyre equalized on the ground and they are exposed to some different temperatures and loads. Once those different loops were open and no longer isolated, it a fitter or fault detection tripped, causing it to off offline temporarily. Again, it was identified and fixed very quickly. Looking back at previous missions, dm2, it was a problem that happened before. The team was over it, able to fix it quickly. So no issues whatsoever now with thermal control. I think both of those are examples of how you learn, you know . You learn how your system operated while youre throughing and kind of how to operate it in a way and how its going to operate on orbit. Like we mentioned in the question, was it something that you learned while youre flying . Yes. There are rogue things from a system perspective that you learn when youre starting to learn a new system. I think its prudent when youre setting those limits. You have thermal, convection on the ground, and you cant simulate all of them. We put in limit types so we can end up seeing those far before it became problematic, and that was the case here. Okay. That looks like our last question. Thank you so much to our briefers. Also to our reporters who stuck through us through the long operations tonight. I think it was worth the wait. Its great to have dragon at the International Space station tonight. Just a reminder, you can tune back in on wednesday to see the two members of the Russian Space crew to take a sidewalk. Sergey ryzhikov and Sergey Kudsverchkov will be going outside the space station to begin the repair of a space station module. 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