Transcripts For CSPAN2 Coverage Of SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch 20240713

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All day, 0 yeah, im sorry i love that the worm is so retro and its only fitting that itll make its way back bringing the historic of nasas past. I will let you have that. But the chevron in the meatballs go back to the tradition when it was in aviation and that get back under bacback to the herit. Truth i feel like this is whats happening online about the worm but the meatball is not going away, its a worm meatball partnership. There is another view of the crosswalk where bob and doug will walk out any moment. Of course theyre going to get there photo taken by all the paparazzi and were just standing by for them to walk out. I will check the time. 113, they walk out any minute they will be right one schedule to start their final goodbyes and waving to folks and im sure they will pause for a photo up, this is just really amazing, have not seen this site since 2011 with sts 135 and of course doug hurley was the pilot on that mission, this is really an incredible moment. One of the crewmates that was with him was rex and we will him later, here they come. Here they come, and nash internationathey made thistwicer done this in a spacex spacesuit, theyve never done this together and theyve never done it to a commercially built rocket and spacecraft. [applause] were looking for an astro v van, its a a new era in space travel. The writing ine tesla model, they have been equipped, once they sit inside, the what i was referring to earlierer will connect to the spacesuit to provide cooling weather inside the vehicle. You can see them talking and waving withh their families, we saw them do a virtual hug with their son. Theres made getting karen. Blowing his family a kiss, doug got to take his wife and son up to the pad on the tower yesterday they tweeted out of photo, that was so cool. You had a prominent worm in the picture. Im telling you worm all day. [applause] they are climbing through the model x, this is from the future. Then you see in the front seat, he is climbing in and the suit technician, number 12, he is buckling in, they are buckling bob in the doug and for folks that were not watching or cannot remember, we are in florida, its superhot, super muggy, how are they staying cool. Theres a portable cooling unit by the building, two in the tesla, to in the elevators and to in the white room when they arrive. Were keeping the cool air flowing, there being integrated into the suits to keep them cool, you can see there saying goodbye to their families. It is awesome that their families get to come up to the window and get a little closer than everybody else. Theres megan. Its about the people in the families and working together as one community to get doug and bob launching to the space station. Its emotional washing that. It really is. [applause] now as we see the convoy begin the journey to the pad 39 a, we are speaking about each and every one of you, our colleagues and friends at] spac spacex in o see the program come to life. We wish every single one of you can be here to see this but we want you to be a part of this journey regardless of where you are watching today. For the next few minutes while theyre making h their way to te pad, we want to highlight those people whose hands and words and thoughts bill although we see here today, we hope all of you watching can feel the pride that each of these nasa and. Kat team members have for tod today. I am from the program, we are so excited about theil historicl day, congratulations on being ca part of the very First Mission for human space, we are behind you bob and doug. [cheering] kat in florida, congratulations to spacex for hitting another major milestone in safe travels to bob and doug. [cheering] we have a lot of our launch Space Program team here and its a quick ride and we are launching america, its time to go. Hi this is carla from hawthorne, we want to wish bob and doug a safe trip to the International Space station, gog dragons. [cheering] this is been nine years in the making, this is such a historic time and her team is worked so hard, were very excited to be here. Go bob and doug. D[cheering] hi this is sam from texas, go bob and doug, go nasa, go spacex. [cheering] im from the space center, wishing your great flight and i want to tell you good luck. [cheering] hi i am dusty with nasa Community Communication and we all want to wish bob and doug safe travels and godspeed. You are both an inspiration to us all, lets get out there and launch america. Lets do it. [cheering] we are following the convoy and i dont or about you guys but i am so glad that we had a chance to hear from the nasa and. Kat working behind the scenes because i know youll all too well, these people have been working not only since 2014 when spacex won the contract but working long hours, long anreviews, coronavirus happens d then their homeschooling their kids, still trying to get through all the final checkouts in closeouts to get to today and we made it. Now were waiting on the weather but its great that they got a chance to wish bob and doug good luck. It is a bummer that we cannot all be here in person but to have the opportunity is pretty cool and you are right, its been years of extremely hard work, fortunately we had little milestones on the way and abort mission, but it was all leading up to this and i speak for all of my friends and colleagues that are still working on this program, today is a career and a high for all those people, it is not the pinnacle. Absolutely, i know doug and bob appreciate them so much, as they make their way to the pad, the next astronauts are watching closely, nasa astronaut shannon walker, victor and mike hopkins in Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency after not will also be flying, they will be in the crew one mission a little later this year and that is after bob and doug return home. Crew one will be the second space for walker and hopkins who each flew on a russian and it will be the first for glover in the third for him and he flew on the Space Shuttle previously. It will be the first in the series of rotational flights to station after demo too, once nasa certified for regular crew flights. Victor and mike are following along from the Johnson Space center in houston and they are standing by to talk to nasas darrell nail. I am sorry we dont have darrell, as we continue to follow the convoy, we have a car following the convoy and we will be talking to victor and mike from here. Victor and mike, are you there . We are here. Im going to askry you first, you are going to be two of the next people to get on crew dragon, what are your thoughts and feelings as youre watching teslaa right now. As you can imagine there is a lot of emotion and we are excited for bob and doug and nasa in spacex and really the whole country and a lot of pride in what its taken to get to this moment, all the thousandsw . Of people that have contributed to get into this moment but there is a bit of c sense of duy and for us we are going to be watching and listening and learning and all of that to help us get prepared for when its our turn. Your mission called crew one i did not mean to cut you off, go ahead. I was just going to say its great to see the market right now and say goodbye to their families and do the virtual hug, that was great, there is a lot of emotions but thats probably the best one. Victor and mike, i know you had sheehan and walker also assigned to the crew one mission with you, what can you tell us about them and your relationship with them in your training with them. I am very excited about crew one, we have a very experienced crew, of course shannon has been with nasa for around 30 years, she has been with the office for more w than 15 years and has a long duration, she seen a lot, he has done it all, 1996 when he became an astronaut shuttled space station, short duration, longduration, space washing, we are late in the game and had the full crew complement and its really helped getting them in with all the experience, its really streamlined the process for becoming more cohesive as a crew. They really hit the ground running, we showed up and it felt like we had done it several times before. It is great because we have a lot to get done, not only learn to fly and operate the crew spacecraft which they will do later today god willing but we have to be ready to do all the things that the crew on board does, the spacewalk, the research, the upkeep of the space station and we also have the training going on as well, thats what weve been doing for the past several months. Ive a specific question for mike, i know you have flown on the russian but can you talk about the right out that we are seeing now. The right out, its very symbolic, it symbolic of the transition from months and years of preparation to the actual execution of thess mission itsef answer for the astronauts, bob and doug, it gives them an opportunity to reflect on all the work that it took to get to this moment but then also gives them time to focus on the job, to mentally prepare for game day and when you think about this particular mission, that is symbolic of this transition from almost nine years where we have not had human launch capability in the u. S. To a new age of government and private partnerships that will be launching humans in the lower orbit and beyond and that is happening right hear from the United States of america. A question for victor, if all goes well when you plan crew one, it will be your first trip to space, can you put yourself in the sea right now in a car with bob and doug, walk me through what that is going to feel like knowing that your heading to the launchpad and youll be launching in the space for the very first time. It will be tough it is tough to imagine what those feelings are going to be like, we were able toouan stimulate tt and launch exercise in writing to tesla to the launchpad of the elevator, up the set of stairs and out the crew arm to where the vehicle would be. Just that day was amazing to me, we were able to do it with the full convoy and to see what that would be like, that was overwhelming after beingou a kid watching something similar on television. I cannot imagine what it will feel like on the actual day but im looking forward to it and to go back to that moment where bob and doug had to say goodbye to their boys and karen and megan i cannot wait to see my kids standing there, something i look forward too, it will be great. Thank you so much, we cannot wait to wish you well and cheer you along on that journey. That was so cool. As you are watching this life from wherever you are, you can send a shout out to the crew with the like were, on twitter or instagram would launch america and be a part of this moment. It looks like the convoy is headed to the assembly building, they have probably about three more miles to go at this point, what do you think is going through their minds right now. I was watching some video of bob and doug, the lighter side and i would imagine the two of them have trained so hard, theyre meticulous of what they do, they might tell jokes like we did when we were in the asked her van and you been together for so long, you know the system and you know exactly what youre doing and we had a moment of levity where we would tell jokes and we would not tell the whole joke, we would tell the whole number. We would say so many times, were highfiving, chest pumping, gettingad ready mentally but it was a moment with all the preparation and now it is game day, were ready to get in the vehicle and go to space. Now were going to go to hawthorne for the last leg of the truck to the launchpad. At this point the convoy is getting really close to pad 39 a, they will be entering the blast danger area before any pad technicians and engineers are astronauts under the area around the launchpad, spacex and nasa dodo internal poles to make sure everything is clear and you already saw people on the arms and crews moving in everything is clear. The story launchpad which has been the beginning point for so many first is the perfect backdrop for todays historic launch that marks a new first in a new era in human space life. With the new vehicles being designed and launch, this requires major upgrade. Enderle is going to show us a couple of the upgrades, where. Kat completed a 21st century makeover to help launch into the next chapter of human space li life. This is our goal. They may well ask, why climb the highest mountain. We have to get down nine, eight, seven, six, five. Open burning two, one, 0, lift off, the final lift off of the shoulders of the Space Shuttle america will continue. Roger l you can see on the screen they are getting very close to pad 39 a, in addition to these launchpad upgrades, they also made changes to both falcon nine and dragon to enable flying crew, a key update to the latest version is an escape system that is incapable of any point during the ascent of the rocket. I am just waiting for that pullback moment on the camera where we will see the cars roll to the pad. Another key upgrade for everything today, dragons new lifesupport system, as you can imagine, there we go, crew arriving at the pad. As you can imagine flying humans requires the environment inside draganddrop the entire flight, that is everything providing breathing air, keeping the same pressure, keeping it free of contaminants, removing Carbon Dioxide, regulating temperature and humidity in implementing a Waste Collection system, the toilet. It is small but extremely meaningful to me the requirements for human spaceflight. And they had to prove a high degree of fault tolerance, meaning that small failures in the system would not lead to mission failure. Falcon nine but this is putting on a failure throughout any space launch would not mean any mission failure. That is a really cool view on your screen with bob and doug getting out of there teslas, that is amazing. And this goes down all the way to control, electronic and wiring and is so much more to keep them safe. With astronauts on location at o pad 39 a, marie, take us through the crew making the final steps towards the spacecraft. And we can see the tesla is on the screen and bob and doug, lets take a nature break before they make their way and we are expecting all in just under three minutes from now, we should get a formal announcement that the crew is on the pad, we will quiet down and listen to that when we get a little closer. But you did not get a chance to mention while we are driving out there, they have a really cool playlist. I remember him saying what should i listen to on the way out, heres what they chose, the first is ac dc, back in black, i think he tweeted that or 70 recommended. The reason being, they are back and they also listen to the elevator music from the blue brothers film. I believe so. Theyve another career, that in meatball. It symbolizes the fact that they are waiting in the third song was the starspangled banner, horn version for very obvious reasons. You have to set the mood and the tone, you know about that. Dont make me come over therh lauren. So we are looking on top of the falcon nine, the impressive crew access arm, that is the black and white hallway that you see, that is how the crew makes their inside. That is falcon nine rocket that stands 230 feet tall, the crew dragon from the bottom of the trump to the top, that is another 27 feet on top, then here in just a couple minutes bob and doug will be making their way up in an elevator, they dont have to find the whole way, its 10 feet of stairs at the last leg of the trip. Lots of people are weighing in onto social media, this person said is happening and i cant read the rest of it right now but lots of people are using the launcht America Online in thee watching live right now and wishing us a fantastic launch, we certainly hope so, lastin we heard was a 50 50 chance with the weather, it is going to be exciting. It looks like, im not sure if that is bobob or doug, i cannot telly from this view but it los like one is getting ready to get out of the tesla in just a minute. Are suits had different colors for what Position Mission position. Do they have suits to designate the twos astronauts . Not that im aware of but their names are on the suits. But if you are trained to find out which suit that you have, its only two of them in summer in astronauts and the dragon is capable of carrying seven buffer nasa it is for. Im going to call them the rydelorean doors. That is totally fair game. Acknowledge inspiration. We are looking at the base level and we talked f about this the d looks different from the shuttled age and how it is different now, the form in the function, the black pad with a white taking, it is really beautiful, if you think about stem education, this is totally steam entering arts and mathematics, i think. Kat has done an incredible job of making things look beautiful and functional and everything fits perfectly, i think when we were having our launchpad, there were hoses and things hanging off but this is a sleek and elegant and futuristic look at the next era of space travel. I just love seeing these teslas versus the astro van. It looks like theyre trying to strain to see the top of the crew dragon. I dont know we can see it briefly on the shot but the license plate says iss d b, iss bound, do you follow. And hopefully they will be today, we just need the weather, it looks pretty nice right now butau obviously they gotta think about downrange and make sure its okay for recovery if we get into a situation like that which is unlikely. So this elevator will take them to 255, not 255 floors but 255 feet and from there they will take want to getre up there, they will get up quickly, they will get out andy walk up another flight of stairs to level 265 and thats world they will greet the crew. I dont know, obviously leland has been an elevator and i pretty sure you been up theree too, the first time i was like well were really moving, a little bit of adult. You get used to it. And then the jolt is a little bit more extreme. The doors are opening and here they come. Its a beautiful view of all of the surroundings of florida and the National Wildlife retreat that we have here. , getting ready for the business at hand and heading to the cosmos. Those are the stairs that lauren mentioned, the 255foot level and now theyre headed up the stairs to the 265foot level, that is the level that will take them to the crew access in the white room. That is the view that they are looking at. What are the chevrons, the white. Chevrons on the floor, what do they lead to. Those are highlighting the exit path in the event that anyone up there needed to get away asap, they follow the arrows to an escape basket, they will hop in their and its like is applying, they will fall all the way down to the Service Structure down to the ground and away from the rocket. At the top right of your screen where you see them, there is a phone next to the worm, there is a worm but you will see the phone. It really pops up there, its like it belongs or something. It is funny. Tell us about the phone, whats the significance of the phone, you can call family members that you were able to come to the launch, in this case there were quite a few but its a last minute to say goodbye in seo talk to them when you get the space. Absolutely, they are taken in the sites before they go intoe the room and the team is there, you can see them, there in black with a white numbers, theyre all members of the team and theyre gonna help them when they get in at about t minus two hours and 50 minutes right now in t minus two hours and 30 minutes, just under two hours and 15 minutes is when astronauts will ingress, that is climbing into dragon and they will have the assistance and gei buckled then and we want to head over to hawthorne for a preview of what is in store for not just bob and doug about future space travelers. Surely after we began to regularly lie nasa astronauts to and from the space station, physics will also begin flying private passengers to this patient and beyond using dragon. It will be enabling up to two private Astronaut Missions to visit the space station each year as part of our support of a broader economy and lower exorbitant. One of the ways they are opening access for companies to manufacture products for new commercial modules and to enabla more people to explore the stars firsthand. The more people out there exploring the stars, the closer we get to becoming a multiplanetary, earlier we showed you a firsthand look at where you would train if you would fly on board dragon but now lets take a peek inside the spacecraft itself. We wanted to take dragon and make a human rated. I think we took a different approach that is previously been done. We wanted it to feel like awi 21st Century Spaceship, we wanted to inspire another generation ofe astronauts, everything when you look at dragon was driven by function, we took into account everything from the placement of all the cargo supplies to the light rail on the top, probably one of the biggest features of dragon of the touchscreen on the inside, we designed them not to be functional but with the User Experience in mind, its very intuitive to know what we need to do at any given moment in time. When i think about comfort for the astronaut, it is really aspect of how you can interact with a spaceship that comes to mind, we have three different sizes, it goes as far as molding the foam around the astronauts body but theres not a Pressure Point and its a pleasurable journey. Its all about safety and reliability. We designed it to be tolerant in any two things could fail, i could use a computer and a thruster and i could still bring the crew back home t safely. We also added a case system if anything goes wrong the crew could get away from falcon. I workedty on dragon since 2012 and when i see dragon left off, i think im going to feel a buildup of emotion of eight years of working with the best engineers and technicians across the country that put their heart and mine into making this incredible moment happened for everybody. We see them signing something in there right now. We give them a black sharpie to sign the white room, and starting a new tradition. We did not do that. It is nice. While we were in the video we saw bob and doug walked down the crew access, that is a futuristic look that you talk about, what did you think seeing that and how that compare and contrast what it was like during shuttle. It is really beautiful, back when i was flying the shuttle, i look at the thumbs up from bob, hes getting excited in a few photos at the end. But its a totally different era, the. Kat team is really looking to make something futuristic, it is looking like something from the George Jetsons or other movies you seen on television and movies. It is something that inspires our country and inspires her children to see that they want to be these astronauts, they want to a study hard and be the next generation of explorers launching from Cape Canaveral in a. Kat rocket, were working for nasa and. Kat or any other company that is trying to get off. And i think this change in the way were doing business is a really great way of getting more people to the table to find space. That was really important, dragon we see it as a 21st Century Spaceship, needs to look like a 21st Century Space ship. Of course the Ground Support equipment and i wonder why all that future facing technology anesthetic is super important. Right now you can see the hands of member number five that is in ecs to come on Environmental Control system a docked wants who just went in, was that doug or bob. I think that was doug. That is awesome. He is ahead of schedule. Somebody tell him to climb back out. He is ready, he is likely lynn. We were joking earlier, we will have to buckle him and to keep them out there. If we had stayed inside i was going to swim acrossye the moat and get in the vehicle with bob and doug. The technicians are helping the crew climb inside and they are holding back the hatch filled to protect the seals but make sure the crew does not hit their head or anything on thend way and even though they have helmets we dont want that to happen. They climbed in a couple of minutes earlier than we expected them to but you know. Kat has rehearsed this over and over again with bob and doug and ive heard them say, we might be a little bit ahead of schedule, it gives them more time to check things out. Right now the suit technicians are strapping the cruise feet into the restraints that the boots fit inside of, they will closee the fivepoint harnesses around them, i know you talked about the harnessing that you had in the past withh the shuttle. This is a sleek design where theres one point to plugin for communication and everything and we had a fivepoint harness, we haveoi these hoses and things al over the place but i think this is a much more streamlined look into the future of space travel. Similar to what was going on in the lmc building, the seat umbilical is going to connect to the spacesuit, there is a fluent module that is connected to the spacesuit and that provides fresh cooling air and night tracks that will come up later but the audio system is going through the umbilical. So while the crew the techs are getting the crew buckle then, they are going to perform a check and that is similar to what was done at the onc building but this time the integrated twoway communication between the astronaut and theic ground crew. We are going to head back to hawthorne as we just saw bob and doug address crew dragon. It is incredible to see them inside the capsule, if you are just now tuning in, great time, youre watching our coverage known as demonstration or demo too, today space and nasa was sent people to a mission to the International Space station fore the first o time from u. S. Soil since 2011, bob banking and hurley are those in their inside, doug hurley really close tray screen and bob on the further state away from us. They are getting to lift off from pad 39 a where falcon nine will liftoff at 433 eastern time they already ascended the structure next to the rocket which is the Service Structure and walked on the corridor as the crew arm and now theyre boarded inside of dragon. Right before they got in we saw them pause for a moment inside the wall, they were in the white room, it is literally that room at the end of the crew arm, thats an opening into dragon, the last place onwn planet earth where they are standing to get in dragon to arrive at space station. Where the room right before it was paintedhe white. They started a new tradition it is a fairly small area that has room for the crew and the Ground Support members for the cargo load and t minus two hours and 35 minutes. And how we refer to the crew boarding dragon. And there is a removable platform that gets extended out to bridge the gap to allowing easy entry into dragon. As you might expect we are have a environmentally controlled to keep it open and were keeping the dust, dirt, 40 humidity out of the capsule to make sure its pristine for t the crew, there s a big field inflated and compressed against the capsule to help maintain the clean environment. They have lots of tools in order to the side hatch, as theyre doing now to prepare for any contingency or emergency encountered. As we heard from lauren and marie and the team, theyre getting into the capsule now in their seats connected to their suits via the umbilical that will give themm connection into audio which will come up shortly and breathing gas and pressurized, this will be the second time that theyve done the g s leak checks as we contie to count on. We are watching bob and doug get into dragon and getting strapped in before they connected their suits to the actual seat, they did something called a foreign object of recheck or fob check which means they get inspected for any substance or debris on their suits that can interfere with the systems on dragon. To help protect they have covers on their boots as well as their umbilical port that need to be removed before they can ingress, they have already removed those and as you can see there getting strapped in and once it is complete our commander entered first and then bob banking followed after him and they are getting buckled in right now as you can see on your screen and attaching their umbilicals to their suits, the umbilicals allow the crew to have it through their suit and delivered night tracks for pressurization. As we mentioned earlier in the broadcast, the primary is to protect the crew and in the event of a cabin depressurization. Just walking through the interior a little bit, there were four seats configured inside of dragon, they are numbered 1 4 from right to left when youre looking at the seat, we had a couple of views from the hatchway and if youre looking at the angle you gog frm 1 for, doug hurley is in situ or the commander seat and bob bacon is in seat three and its a pilot seat, obviously nobody is in seat one and for today. Crew dragon is designed to carry four astronauts on the missions and we met two of the members and heard about the other two crew members earlier. Directly in front ofre our crew members are three touchscreen displays that they will use throughout the flight giving them insight into dragon systems, seeing any alerts or issues withh the vehicle and if required taking control in manually flying dragon. We can see doug hurley manipulating those displays. The crew will do a contact to make sure we can hear missing control in their seats will be rotated so they can see the display panels right in front of them. So now lets check in with john for the latest on both vehicles. Lets go over to you john. Were at t minus two hours and 36 minutes and 36 seconds for falcon nine with dragon to the space station. Dragon has completed their major activities to come. The spacecraft or the astronauts, checkouts with major systems in the escape system, as you can see it is well underway of hooking their suits up to the various cabinh systems. Right now on dragon there areaso issues context will be coming up shortly on the dragon spacecraft with the crew and we might be able to hear some of that and we will bring it to you as it happens. The falcon nine team is preparing for their final check out. Check out and t minus two hours and thats when the majority launch crew will get on console officially in firing at Kennedy Space center. Currently on falcon nine, all systems are go, the air force range continues and no problems with see space clearance, everything is looking good, roadblocks are up around the launchpad, the Weather Forecast continues to be acceptable but something we will watch all the way through. We are not only looking at whether at the launch site but were looking around the world. We need to make sure conditions are acceptable if dragon has to go down to the atlanta in case of an escape. We are monitoring contingency locations that the crew had to come back before walking down to the space station. Right now those conditions are Getting Better as we go through the day at the launchpad things continued to be a 50 probability of violating the conditions, 40 chance if youre an optimist of good weather. But right now the clock is continuing the countdown, also some t minus two minutes two hours and 35 minutes. Now is bob and doug finish their procedures and get comfortable, we will continue to look for the calm checks, they should be coming up in just a minute. I am joined by space Jessica J Jensen and Russ Blackmore to discuss what makes dragon and falcon nine at 21st century launch vehicle and first off thank you so much for joining me today and jessica all start with you, walkthrough dragons history and how we are today. Dragon was designed from scratch 12 weeks ago from space and it was designed to carry cargo from two and from the space station. 12 years ago was not that long ago, we had stateoftheart material, the state of the art computer processors, really dragon started off already a modern advanced spacecraft, there is to other parts in it really led to commercial crew. One part that we were actually able to man break cargo dragon in the facility of the space taste and after the space station. That was a huge learning curve that we human rated the spacecraft for a portion of the mission and for crew you have to expanded to the whole mission. To the space station and attach though space station so that was huge learning curve that spacecraft for a portion of the mission and then for crew you have to obviously expend note it whole mission then the very cool, that is just one part of the equation, walk us through the light history of falcon nine and the Humble Beginnings to where we are today. Falcon 91st flew almost ten years ago today. Even though the first version of that rocket cannot carry humans fundamental design was made with that goal in mind. Over the close of 87 launches weve certainly improve the rocket so now it has twice the payloads that we started out with and we can land and reuse the first known wad and most importantly for today we have to have reliability so what is interesting is about reliability has come from steady upgrades and almost a decade of Flight Experience but its quite hard to prove reliability. This is something the commercial Airline Industry is grappling with for decades. Just like them we rely on lots of testing. For instance, if you take the engine that has to apply for about six minutes continuously to get to orbit and we took one of those and ran it for more than 250 minutes to get the statistical proof of reliability that we need. Its about testing and lots of analysis that gives us, and nasa, the confidence that falcon iset ready to fly humans for the first time. Obviously, a lot of additional upgrades and testing had to go just to make sure that both of these vehicles were human rated. Walk us through the specific upgrades to meet that criteria. First one is pretty obvious bid with a cargo dragon, lots of cargo cubbies so we took all those out and replaced it with astronaut, crew displays and crew controls. One thing people may not know is a part of dragon weave flying mice to and from the International Space station for years but what that meant was we had to divine and and bar mental control and live sport system for dragons. Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide and among other things controls temperature and relative humidity. Even though it was done on a smaller scale for mice it was a learning curve on how to help man put a spacecraft for humans. Same question, what specific upgrades had to go into to certify docket nine for the state . I mentioned the reliability upgrades. One upgrade that is particularly interesting is the launch trigger so people probably know that dragon has the ability in mid flight to separate from falcon and boost the astronauts away to safety in the case thatr there is some kind of emergency and that could be triggered by the astronauts or by the ground crew. What people may not know is that tocon itself has the ability cause that trigger. It will do that entirely autonomously using algorithms, software and sensors. That particularly is important because it means aborting safely and in some cases they can do it quicker and much faster than a human response. Pause, we are getting, from the crew. Coming up shortly we will hear these can indication checks. Bob and doug will be talking to several positions it down on the ground and they will be using both communication and speakers inside of dragon and inside their suits in a series of communication checks. They will be doing these checks over a different satellite. Loud and clear. Loud and clear. Poor, loud and clear. Com complete. Standstill for ground check. You will hear them referred to as cdr, commander, plt pilo pilot that first one we heard was through the umbilical so that communication linked directly through their suit. Now though do the grounds to stations and we will hear one over the tracking and data relay satellites. The sameen satellites we use to talk with the International Space station and that is what we will use to talk and track dragons throughout its entire flight. Again, waiting for a moment for the teams to continue to figure everything. They will do ground checks now and you will hear them talk directly to the core, crew operation responsible engineer and that is essentially as you follow Nasa Missions in the past, the position right here in hawthorne at Spacex Mission control which is a few feet away from us where the team will be watching over the entire flight and that is where the main person whose job it is to talk to them will be sitting. We will also hear them doing checkouts with the launch of director down there at the cape inside buyer room for. You will be hearing those very characteristic dragon readable. Copy, we have viewed the same. Standby. Just to further explain some of those voice protocols you will hear. You might be used to hearing houston station or houston shuttle or houston endeavor, back when we are flying those specific shuttles but today you will your spacex, dragon, spacex team calling the dragon team on orbitz and bob and doug will be able to respond. They will continue to reconfigure and will get checkout stations momentarily and just to remind you you will hear that very unique be being a sound called a quinn jar and that is been something that is been used throughout space to groundd. Or air to ground medications throughout spaceflight history and that is for teams who are in Mission Control or supporting the launch know that when you hear that sounddts it is time to listen. Dragon, spacex, ground check confirmation. Dragon, loud and clear. Much better paid. Core, loud and clear. Ground check complete your standbye. Dragon, spacex, ground check. Direct spacex, dragon, loud and clear. Standby for a check for the launch check configuration. Dragon, com check. Loud and clear, how are you doing . Doing great but how are you doing in there . Standby for com check. Victory. Dragon on the ground. Dragon, com check. Loud and clear. Md, loud and clear. Standby with com check. Com check. Loud and clear, good afternoon. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I may try dragon to ground one. Dragon, dragon to ground one, com check. Loud and clear. Dragon, spacex, com check complete. Proceed with seat rotation check. N][background noise]n. We will report when that wraps up those good indications checks everything going good with spacecraft bob and doug talking to the teams on the ground and they will get their seats rotated. Bringing it back inside hawthorne i want to thank them for giving us that great insight into dragon and falcon nine but hope you got a good spot steak out to watch the launch today been great to have you on. We both right now down to gary jordan at Mission Control houston who i know is also following along t, over to you gary. Thanks, dan paid great to hear good checks from bob and doug in the dragon vehicle. Here at mr. And control houston, flight master has pulled by controllers and all systems are go for launch. Essentially the station is prepared for dragon to arrive 19 hours after launch. Like controllers here will continue to monitor the countdown but really its up to the team and kennedy and hawthorne to get us to lift off at this point. We want to hear your comments as we continue to countdown to launch so lets go to the social does not. Thanks, gary. Taking a quick look, taking a quick look at the numbers right now there are 1 Million People watching our coverage and in launch america is up to the number one trending on twitter. Lets take a closer look at what is being said online. Right now we have alexandria and it looks like she is a personal selfportrait, cosmic foreshore, and her nassau flight suit but this is what im loving seen online with the. It is how everyone around the nation is making this launch in a uniquely theirs but i want to point out one line in her post that says, i believe no matter how far the future is, we are on our way towards it. I cannot have said it better myself. That is what today represents. Lets take another look. Oh my goodness, right now we have jessica with her space club getting ready for liftoff. Im not going to lie, we love to see it. If you have space pets, use the launch america. Everyone is thrilled to be a part of this launch today. Ht i know of one special guest in particular i am so pleased to welcome [inaudible] of physics girl. Diana, i hear you have a burning question port Mission Control, go for it. Hello, thank you so much for including me on this incredible special david and diana from the Youtube Channel physics girl and ive always been so fascinated by space and especially Space Exploration because we bring together so many people for such a complicated task. To send a a rocket up into space so my question is along the lines of what goes into air mission like that . We all know or are familiar with how much preparation and training astronauts had to do but preparing for a mission like this and may be prepared in thes future for a mission to the moon or to mars, what kinds of things did the whole team have to do in order to prepare to launch a rocket . Diana, that is such a great question because sometimes i think it does get overlooked what all goes into making a moment like this happen. Gary, what has the team there in Mission Control been doing to prepare for this historic launch . Thanks. Diana, fantastic question. The operations here are not just starting today. There has been a lot of training and a lot of simulations that have been going into preparing for this moment. Really preparing and getting everyone familiarized with out every step of permission from launch all the way to docking and throwing different scenarios to them in case something were to happen. They will be prepared to respond effectively. I want to make a shout out that it is not just the Flight Controllers here in Mission Control houston that have dedicated so much time to this launch. In fact, i talked to the flight director here in Mission Control houston who said even before he was a flight director back in 2014 they were working on some of the operations for commercial crude missions but really this team expands across the country and youve seen a lot of people working at hawthorne and florida, houston and it takes an integrated and dedicated team to make a mission like this possible. Diane, thank you so much for the question. Thanks to everyone is sendin in questions and for sharing in this historic issue today. Remember, as you are posting to use the launch america. I do want to make a shout out to the Flight Controllers here in Mission Control houston. In fact, traditional powers have been sent to Mission Control houston in the states even back before the shuttle days for every mission to dedicate to the operation and controllers here who are working so closely and are integrated in every part of the mission but now lets head to hawthorne for the latest status on the crew and on dragon. Dan. Thank you, gary. As you can see, bob and doug, in a little different position and ,heir suits have been rotated to the launch position so this puts their backs a little more horizontal with the ground itself or parallel with the ground itself and places those displays directly in front of them. We moved into suit lead check so this is the second time because these leaked checks done on their suits of pressurized night tracks flowing into those entries suits they will be buried throughout the dynamic phases of this mission. Right now we are under two hours and 20 minutes from launch, two hours, 18 minutes and counting from liftoff of the falcon nine from the Kennedy Space center in florida. They will carry our nasa crewmembers today, doug hurley and bob [inaudible] for those base acts dragon spacecraft. We are fighting against of the weather but we are continuing to press on for launch and the crew has been up since about 6 00 a. M. As a repair to head to the International Space station for part of this demoe ocean for nasa. As you can see on your screen it looks like they are just waiting and getting ready for this mission today. Its been such an exciting day so far. Again, as dan said, their seeds are rotated a into launch positn so they can see those screens that you see there on the left side, right in front of them. There suit leaked checks have fbeen done, com checks have ben done. The thought over to lauren. Alright, dragon hatch closed is expected at t minus one hour and 55 minutes. We are just pretty close to that. Its getting ready close. This is one of the final key visual on that time lump to lift off the, the closure of the hatch. We have a couple special guests joining us with darrell at the osc to you in location and that is nasa administrator and space exit chief engineer elon musk. Darrell. Thats right, lauren bid we are here on the fifth floor and we were supposed to be outside on the balcony overlooking that pad 39 d a but have come indoors due to the weather but we are here with two titans of space and though it might look like this is a reunion of a 90s boy ban it is not. We are socially distance for good reason we are here to talk about space bar it i want to thank you both and tell you both its a privilege and an honor to be with you today. We will start off with you, jim. Lets ask you a couple questions here. I want to ask you first of all, its been almost three years that you were sworn in as nasa administrator. You knew from the very first day that you would be right here at the Kennedy Space center in this moment when a commercial partner was ready to launch. Tell me what it is like to be leading nasa at this very moment . I want to be clear, i did not know that when i got sworn in. I will tell you a lot of folks said it cannot be done but of nnurse, as soon as i got the job, elon and i have had a number ofte conversations and he committed that this was something that space exit could achieve. We had challenges and setbacks. We have seen catastrophic losses of capitals and challenges with parachutes on the ground and i want to be clear but that is what is unique about spacex. They can do things that nasa historically has not done. They test and they fail and they fix and they fly and they test and they fail in the fix and apply until the point where we are today where not only is spacex comfortable but nasa is comfortable and we are ready to go. If you would have told me even two years ago we would be right here i might have even questioned it then. This is a monumental achievement and a herculean task, by the space exit team which we are grateful for and by the nasa team. They worked hand in glove with them to get to this point. It is good because we have jim anyone here to fact check together and that is good. Elon in 2002 when he started spacex many in the Aerospace Industry didnt take spacex seriously and you remember what that felt like mick here you are and you just sent to astronauts in a car made by your car company to launch pad 39 a with a spacecraft made by your Space Company and out theyll want to the International Space station. I am wondering, for you in this moment, do just pinch herself thinking is this happening . This is a dream come true. I think for me and everyone at spacex. This is not something i thought would happen so when starting spacex in 2002 i did not think this dayay would occur. I expected 90 chance that we failed to getis to the lower ort with a small rocket. Someone told me in 2002 if you had told me that that id be standing here with the astronauts and the administrator and w we would launch a spacecrt on 39a, the best pad and the world, its an honor to be there, i dont know what youre smoking but itt its not but no way. No way is untrue. It is its a dream come true but i do not even dreamed this would come true. It is, i am incredibly excited to be here on behalf of the spacex team and this is a combination of incredible amount of work by the spacex team, by nasa and a number of other in the process of making this happen. Look at this is the result of 100,000 people roughly when you add up suppliers, working incredibly hard toib make the sy happen. Its hard to believe that this is real. You are here and its amazing and many of us have been amazed0 as we have watched you accomplish these things over the years but jim, back to you. This is all about the commercialization space and so in the early go for commercial crew programs it wasnt something that nasa was used to. Mercury, gemini, apollo shuttle, nasa gave the designs and the contractors went out and built it and this is different. Theyre building and now and what were some of the hurdles that you had to overcome to get to this point . Getting people to recognize that when the government provides both the demand and the supply you are limited in what you are able to do rid of course, when this program was initiated under general charlie olden, astronaut charlie bolden, congress was not supportive. They didve not provide the propr funding. And yet, he persevered and pushed forward and now i think everybody recognizes we have to commercialize space and have success with commercial resupply of the International Space station and now weve got commercial cruise to the International Space station and eventually we need commercial space station. What we are using the International Space station for right now we are proving that we can compound pharmaceuticals and away you cannot do on earth. We are able to great immunizations and wait you cannot do on earth and printing human organs and threeday. Right now its tissue but eventually we will print human organs in 3d using adult stem cells but your skin cells, your own dna and will transform how we do medicine here on earth and we will create advanced materials that you can only create in them microgravity of space, things like artificial retina for the human eye. If you have Macular Degeneration you do not have to lose your eyesight. Bottom line is this, these markets are the future and when they materialize and the art materializing because of the work of nasa we will see capital investment, not just into launch but also in habitation and that ultimately will be transformational for commercial space. Very good grade elon, and getting all of that going, iss, activity that takes place, it is key that this crude dragon operate on a regular basis. As a chief engineer what was some of the biggest hurdles you had to overcome to get your spacecraft ready to fly this mission . The space craft and rocket ive gone. Through thousands and thousands of tests and reviews by spacex and nasa and third parties and we have done a lot of flights. One of the things that i think that is helpful about this flight about what we are about to do is the rocket has blown ia many times. Essentially this configuration has gone about 20 times. That means weve had a well proven record. What we have flown to the space station successfully and brought it back and we have done testing on the ground and we do the testing so that you always push the limits. You push it way beyond what you expect in flight so sometimes you break it because you want to break it on the ground during testing to see where the limits are. This is a result of thousands of tests and design hours and tremendous number of smart people working incredibly hard to make the stay happen. You have two astronauts on board now. Do you feel that responsibility . Yes, absolutely. I felt it most strongly when i saw their family just before coming here. D did you say anything . That you could share. Weve done everything we can to make sure your dads come back okay. Thank you for sharing that with us. Jim, you had words with the astronauts paid what was your take and how they were feeling . I will tell you, doug, marine corps test pilot and veteran of multiple Space Shuttle missions, bob, flight test engineer, United States air force and again veteran of multiple Space Shuttle missions bid this is not new to these guys paid all i can do is convey to them how all of america appreciates what they are doing. The entire world is watching and just how grateful we are as a nation. I will tell you their demeanor is loose. They are ready to go. They were joking around and talking about what they had for breakfast and how it might come up later. It was nice to see that they are in their element and we are just so grateful and proud of them. That is good to hear and gives you great confidence i am sure in your positions that you hear. We go to a social media question and we have got this question coming from brooklyn. She wants to no, i know changes in the cruise space shoots and they look thinner and lighter sweat changes in the space capsule allow to have these futuristic suits . While we spent a lot of time designing the spacesuited ice personally spent time on the space suits and it took us three almost four years to design the suits that look good and work well. You can see the spacesuit in the movie, looks good but doesnt work. Then you can make a spacesuit that works but doesnt look good but fundamentally its a pressure suit that goes by a vacuum. It tends to puff up when it is under pressure and will have to handle that pressure so it took us many iterations to get the suit and to look great. We wanted to inspire kids that say one day you want to wear that uniform did they want to wear that spacesuit. And get them fired up that they wanted to be on a space flight. What today is about is reigniting the dream of space and getting people fired up about the future and excited and it is one things that everyone from all walks of life and political spectrum in the United States and elsewhere should be excited that this is the thing that is made by humans, for humans and is a great exciting and inspiring day in one of those, one of those things that makes you glad to wake up in the morning. Functional and inspiring but theres one on the model right over there and got me so excited and i might run over there and put that thing on, elon. They are custom tailored by the way. You might not fit in that one but we could make you want that you would fit in. Im 68 so the dragon spacecraft can take someone who is 68. My size. Im getting excited bid im ready to fly. Weve got another social media question we will ask. Ashton and jay wants to know how you think launching astronauts on american soil for the first c time since 2011 will revolutionize future missions . What we are doing here is unlike weve done anything before but we are not purchasing and owning the operator. Returning to commercial industry but when back to the spacesuit. Its the same for the rockets, we did not tell industry what to build bid we give them toplevel requirements but we said here is the requirement for payload and the requirement for safety and then we let the innovators, commercial industry, innovate and they came up with solutions that i never been dreamed of before. That is the success of this program and we are revolutionizing how we do spaceflight and i think when we look intors the future we will e these models of doing business with Public Private partnerships are not just lower or avert which rest we are doing today but taken as model to the moon and even on to mars. I hear tom cruise suiting a movie at the International Space station. I tell you what i told a lot yesterday. People ask me about tom cruise all the time and the answer is yes, we would love tom cruise to fly to the International Space station to make a movie and im all for that we will do what we can to make that happen but you should know this, there was a date when i was in Elementary School and i thought the movie top gun and from the day i knew meat i would be a navy pilot. Its the way it was. The goal here and this is what we are doing today. Elon is all about this. Get the kids fired up about wearing that spacesuit or go to orbit or the moon or mars. Reigniting the base and getting all walks of life, young and old, excited about the future, excited about anyone who has within them the spirit of exploration should love wasas going on today. If we could get tom cruise to inspire an elementary kid to join the navy and be a pilot, why cant we get tom cruise to inspire the next elon musk. Thats what we need bid a new generation of many elon musks and that is what this launches about today but i want to say speaking of this inspiration piece its not by chance that we have the secretary of education of the United States of america here. This is all about the next generation. If we have Great Success in our generation is not enough. Has to continue. The challenge with the Apollo Program is that it ended but what we are doing now is sustainable and that is why we have the Public Private partnerships and commercialer capabilities that are coming online. Very good paid good news to tom cruise, he does a lot of his own stunts. Absolutely. [inaudible conversations] you want to capture the public imagination and they want to see cool things happening in real orbits, at the real space station and i would want to watch that movie. [laughter] this is like just the beginning because we want to go from lower orbit, back to the moon, have a moon base like a Moon Base Alpha and build a city on mars and build a civilization out there among the stars. Its a super exciting future and this is the thing where youre like yeah, can wait for it to happen. If cant get excited after listening to you guys, you need to have your pulse check. Elon musk, spacex ceo and chief engineer, thank you. Jim bryden stein, we appreciate you leaving at nasa and the sign, administrator for the agency and we will send it back. Thank you, we saw in the meantime while that interview was going on the hatch closed so that happened a few minutes earlier than we expected. Our timeline has been happening at t minus one hour, 55 minutes so a few minutes ahead of schedule right now with the hatch closed and you can see the padded team theyre working on things now. Yeah, right now it looks like what they are doing is what are they doing . They perform a leak check, a mechanism called the site hatch mechanism that isof closes the hatch and sealed it. What we will do is perform a leak check on that for a few minutes to make sure that that is nice and tight and those orings are sealed really, really well. After that we will install you can see the leak check Ground Support equipment there and the technicians hands. While we are watching this, leland, we just heard them talk a lot about inspiring the next generation and you are a man of many talents but i know after your flight yourself you use to head the head of nasa education paid what did that stir up and you . Marie, what elon said about teigniting the dream of space is so important that we get our young kids thinking about enemselves being in these seeds. When i first became an astronaut in 1998 i was writing on the back of a fire truck celebrating john lenz john glenns return on space. Their dad turned around to point to look at me on the fire truck and was almost when they saw my face they started launching into space with rocket fuel because they were inspired and they wanted to look like them. If we can reignite this dream through spacex launch in the partnership with nasa we can get so many kids to believe in themselves and know that they can be just like doug and bob flying on the Spacex Dragon. Absolutely. Its really just breathtaking to see them there in their suits now. Looking at the screens and front of them. Lauren, we talked a lot about spacecraft and heard about that but for folks that maybe are just jeanine in what are they looking at in front of them now . They have three different touchscreens in front of them prayed over all that assembly there is called the control panel. He had those three lcd touchscreens in front of them where they have the displays are showing them details on the vehicles pressure, temperature, audio control and that central screen has the procedures they are going through today on day of launch. You can see the vehicles attitude and its velocity and apogee and inclination and details on the status of the hatch and the thermal control system which basically all the cool stuff that helps them have Situational Awareness of the vehicle and that is displayed on those displays. Additionally there are actual buttons on that button panel that you see down below. Some of the things that that allowed them to do is if the crew needed to do any manual override like that in the middle under that Center Screen that is the cruise ability to initiate and abort called an abort handle and right in the middle were both crewmembers could use it if they needed to. The audio controls are also on those button panels and when they are not in their suits there is speakers that are coming off the control panel that allow them to hear Mission Control here the core, here iss when they are not in their suits where systems are integrated. We see them using the touchscreens now. Leland, what is your take on this . This is got to look totally different from what you are looking at during shuttle. I touch screens. We had these displays and buttons and it was one of those moments when im looking at this now when i had knee boards and procedures and things on there and the procedures are now on that little screen and the malfunctions and the things that you do to mitigate problems with the vehicle if something happens is on the controller there with the two of them and so its a radical departure from what we did with the shuttle but again its ushering in this new era of space travel. To check on how that suit airfields now. We will listen now for an announcement about hatch closer. Copy. Today we are not checking any issues on dragon and f9 currently. For a weather update to the weather line that is overhead which is what you saw when you were in dressing is not moving offshore. The next radar return is a cell over orlando which is expected to be our decision gate for today and that is currently eroding. Ho thats good news. Thank you. One additional item, the orbit site remains as brief to so no change there. I do want to make you aware that that is slightly west of cabo forgo weather. Target the longitude if needed. Okay. Dragon copies paid slightly west, we will target the longitude in the suit air has cooled off so we appreciate that as well. Copy. Outstanding. Let us know if you have questions and we will keep you posted as we complete the leak checks. Tag and copy. What we heard was a little more discussion about the weather. Still looking at things and we are about one minute away from an announcement about hatch closer. If you are just joining us but we are at t minus one hour, 55 minutes and counting and we are expecting an announcement to confirm hatch closure in just a few seconds. Dragon, spacex for h com ches with falcon nine. Go ahead. We are ready for that at this time. If you are ready. We are ready. All stations up on countdown for section 54. 49, responsible engineer communication check with the crew. Start with guided navigation and control. Dragon gnc, com check. Dragon, clear. Gnc, loud and clear. Standby for the com check with the engineer. Dragon, countdown one, com check. Dragon, loud and clear. Loud and clear, standby with the avionics engineer. Dragon, com check. Avionics dragon, loud and clear. Avionics, loud and clear. Standby for ground check with the ground crew. Inaudible. Loud and clear. Loud and clear, standby with launch control. Dragon, launch control, com check. Launch control, dragon, loud and clear. Launch control, loud and clear,. Dragon, chief engineer, countdown one. Ground check. Dragon has you loud and cle clear. Chief engineer, loud and clear. This completes the com checks. Dragon, chief engineer, dragon to ground. Go ahead, sir. Just doing a com check on this loop. Good luck guys, buckle in. Thanks. We appreciate it. Thank you. We just heard a series of checks they are and i dont know if you want to describe a little more about what is important and we heard the acronym gnc, they said Guidance Navigation and control really quickly and then went back to the acronym, gnc. Could you explain what that means . Launch chief engineer they think him toward the end witiate contact with all the subsystems that those engineers that are on operators today and talking withat crew and making sure that they were able to commit a gate with them bidirectionally and handing that check off from all over the different stations on console today. That was cool. Weng dont do that and this is e first time for a real flight that we done that operation. Very awesome. And now that the hatch is closed a lot of the work of this team is done but they are obviously not finished or ready to lose you were talking about what was going on in this room. They should be completing the hatch leak check. That is the pressurized area between two orings that are there and we want to pressurize that area and see if it holds pressure but its very sensitive test, very high criteria for cssing good ones that leak check is shown to be okay and the capsule or orings are able to hold pressure the team will go back and that they love access panel and install will be called the side pressure equalization plug. Once that is plugged you close everything up and when the cruise splashes down what they will do is pull that plug to equalize pressure across the hatch. This is not college the hatch to buckle or im sorry, the capsule, any of the vehicle to buckle due to a differential pressure and they will cover up the side hatch access panel with a thermal protection panel, close it up and make sure it stays safe. And now we are looking at a view from the outside, top of falcon nine and crew dragon. We confirm a good side hatch check leak. Dragon, copies. We just heard confirmation of a good leak check. If you are just joining us youre looking at the falcon nine rocket with crew dragon sitting on top inside that capsule on top were nasa astronauts doug and bob and they are inside two hours until liftoff. If the weather holds up. There is another stunning aerial view of thehe crew access arm eextended out toward crew drago. That is the final pass that the astronauts took to, board dragon before they strapped into their seats and the hatch closed. No doubt bob and doug are focused on the mission ahead but we also heard the administrator and elon musk talking about how they have been jovial and joking around and leland, you mentioned to me during that segment that that is important. It really is, marie. When we were in the vehicle after we got to this point when the hatch was closed, we were all going back to those moments of our training we were going through training and entry on the shuttle, different phases of flight that we would go through andn we were thing about art instructors who got us there and are crew notebooks we would have names of people that were very impactful in making sure that we were perfect in our training an that looks like a view of air force one. They are flying near launch pad 39 a for a special guest to have a special view of the astronauts on the launchpad. President trump on board, making his way to Kennedy Space center to hopefully file launch at 4 3. There they are. They are in view of the launchpad. No doubt hes looking out the window at bob and doug on and thats got to be an amazing sight to see from on Board Air Force one. We are at t minus one hour 46 minutes, 22 seconds and counting from launch. Guys, the last time we did a little bit of research only found out that the president was coming the last president to witness a launch from here at Kennedy Space center was bill clinton and i was back in october, 1998 for s tf 95. Its been a minute. We are about 56 seconds away from no we are not, we have an hour and 56 seconds away. Nevermind, instead we are one hour 45 minutes away from launch into here you are there with the social teams. I bet you are seeing excitement on all the things we just saw on the screen there. Lauren, like you said, things are ramping up on social media tet right now, especially seeing that hatch close and also watching the flyover happened. We are up to 1. 7 Million Viewers across all of our social Media Channels and lets check out what people are saying on twitter right now. It looks like we got more creativity still going on and some people are crying with pride in houston, feel it. We even have Elizabeth Banks who from the hunger games and that is awesome, we have good luck and c well wishes for bob and dg across theso nation but this is been a constant online today which is so great to see more future astronauts and kiddos getting excited and we even have the ban steel jeanine in for launch. Looks like more people standing by to witness this historic launch today. Guys, on top of what is being said on social media weve got a lot of well wishes from everyone across our country showing us what to date means in their creative ways. Lets take a look at that video. [inaudible] im audrey and i built this. Guys, just look at everybody excited for todays launch. If that does not get you pumped, come on, lets go. We even got to see astronaut sue b which is a purposeful and favorite of mine. I have my lucky snoopy pen and you probably cant see it but hes literally my spirit animal good anyway, get excited, the timeth is almost here. With that lets talk back to lauren at kennedy. Thank you. She likes newbie, i like the little girl during the worm. I want to know what that looks like. I dont. [laughter] clearly this is capturing the attention of people all across the country and the world. Please continue to join the conversation by using the launch america across social media. We have the opportunity to share with you a lot about the spacex crew dragon vehicle the crew is sitting in right now. A lot about the crew themselves and the significance of today as the official return of human launch capability to american shores and now we want to turn our attention to where the crew is going. The International Space station. For that lets take you to Mission Control in houston. Tigary. Thank you, marie. International space station is an incredible facility whose construction operation and ongoing science all of these efforts have been made possible by an unprecedented, international collaboration. To tell us more about the space station we have International Space station chief scientist Kirk Costello with us. Kirk, welcome. Gary, thank you. Its an amazing day to be here to talk to you about this extort launch to the iss. It really is great many viewers may not realize that there is a laboratory and that is the size of a football field, above the earth and is been there for 20 years conducting revolutionary science. Can youal share with us more abt what the space station is and what its accomplished so far. Sure, gary. Over those 20 years weve conducted over 3100 experiments onboard thisha space station. Those 3100 experiment have been done by over 4100 investigators and represent the work of over 108 regions and countries. The work going on on the space station is not only there to help us with our exploration goals or how to go further into space but also to bring back benefits for earth. And to produce a commercial marketplace in low earth orbit. All three of these objectives, along with the International Cooperation that it took to build such an amazing laboratory in space are great examples of the objectives of the iss c program. Kirk, we know Todays Mission is good to go to providing us with a steady cadence of operational flights. Why is it so important for us to have this capability from a Research Perspective . Great question. Todays test flight brings us to the beginning of the commercial crew program, a commercial crew program which will raise our occupancy on the u. S. Segment of the space station 24 astronauts. That fourth astronaut comes as a real premium to doing research on the space station. The tasks dont get particularly more intensive to do systems and maintenance so that is fourth astronaut and the time becomes dedicated to performing more science. In fact, enough time that it will essentially doubled the amount of crew time we have to perform experiments on board the space station. The return to u. S. Soil also brings us the ability to return samples more quickly and get human samples back down to the ground more quickly as well. Kirk, you talk about this Great Research and scientific experiments but what would you say to someone watching this and thinking this is not relevant to me and i will never go to space or do science. What you say to those people . Again, one of the focuses on the iss benefits for humanity. For all of us whove been stuck at home during the covid19 pandemic weve been wondering wouldnt it be nice to have more bandwidth . Why is the internet slowing down . Some of the research we are doing on board the space station particularly in the optical fiber is using the fact that we dont have sedimentation into microgravity w to develop new materials that will help those build more perfect fiber optic t. Cables which will allow us for better bandwidth and lower cost in Implementation Networks here on earth. Then if you are not a tech geek maybe you are interests lie in human health and then we have multiple experiments going on to help us develop new drugs, new treatments on board the iss. Pharmaceutical companies are working on methods that allow us to crystallize, proteins in space in a more pure and more standardized method and this could lead to antibody suspension that we can treat through injection instead of a painful infusion. We also are developing studies into our capability to produce tissues and organs in space. Again, because you dont have sedimentation there is a capability there to produce mor realistic tissues that can someday possibly be used to present human disease . Kirk, i know that you have some cargo going up with them but i understand they plan to bring some science back. Thats right, gary. A lot of their cargo going up with them have been crew supplies and to support them because they have to do eva on board but the cargo that will bring you down is science and it could come from the spectrum. Ut give student experiments in seeds that will be returning with the crew dragon and we also have a number of experiments that are dependent on their samples returning in frozen lockers on the Spacex Dragon to be able to do the science they are. Those include Research Tissues from the national 17 mission and also our veggie experiments which are experiments and growing plants in space that will be needed when we go to more distant locations like the moon and mars. International space station chief, thank you for your time and lets hear from one of the next astronauts to fly to the station on a crew dragon talking with marina. Thank you so much. Am so honored to be a part of todays momentous launch. My guess is no stranger to the International Space station and will return for the first time in nearly a decade for his third space flight with the crew one launch expected later this year. Having logged 177 days in space from flights on the Space Shuttle discovery [inaudible] as to not only spent more time and space than anyc of his other crewmates. It is my pleasure to welcome him here with us today but thank you so much for joining us. [speaking in native tongue] thats wonderful. Marina, thank you for having me today. This is wonderful. Today we are celebrating the launch. Am happy to be here. Thank you so much for being here with us. I am sure you have felt the excitement for todays launch and you will be on the next crew dragon flight after this 100 are you excited to launch from Kennedy Space center again and how are you preparing for this new vehicle . Yes, we are excited to go back to Kennedy Space center but my first spaceflight was from Kennedy Space center on that discovery and that was 15 years ago but my memory is still fresh. I still feel the vibrationm of the launch, the same launchpado of 39 a which they will go up and we will go up with crew one. Our crew is getting ready for the final training phase which will calm in the coming weeks and the mood is high. We are ready to go up. As you know, the International Space station andc Space Exploration is an International Effort and how you whel representing the Japanese Space Agency once again on the iss . I think the strengths of the International Space station is diversity of all the participating countries and adding diversity is gives a reality to the program. The same applies to our crew and our crew we have four of us but quite a different background and quite a different ethnicity and definitely diversity is the key word of our success to crew one back im sure it will be very successful. What are you looking forward toe once you get back to the iss . This will be my third visit to the International Space station. I would like to see my colleagues that keep saying you got to visit the space station again because its getting more comfortable, more roomy and i cannot wait to go back to my station after ten years. Nothing beats that view, does it . Definitely. My last flight we installed the big window and this is the number one time for us and i am ready to shoot as many photos as i can. Amazing. I will look forward to seeing those photos. Obviously. This is the number one tame for astronore t . S and ready to shoot as far as i can as well. Amazing. Well, i will look fornd qlow seg those photos. U the launch experience. So i think they are pretty relaxed and so far, benjamin training i learned that most of the steps before the launch is quite similar to what we have in the Space Shuttle. So a different suit,or different vehicle but and to go up into the capsule shoot seem similar. Actually are. [speaking in native tongue]. We are both in and thank you very much for having me. My bike. Glitter lunch lulus year. I was excited welcome i was in the back to you. I now have the distinct pleasure from being joint with a recordbreaking astronaut. Christina cook. Thank you. We are coming up on 20 years rated on the space station, and you are one of those humans. What is it like to see this launch unfold after so much history already. Is really just such an honor. Not only are we pushing the boundaries of knowledge and expiration. But also on how we accomplish that mission. We are bringing in commercial partners in fostering the space economy. We are making sure that we are always pushing forward and always taken the next step. I think it is such a privilege to be part of an organization to recognize that we are not actually taking a step in innovating every single time we do this, then we are not truly called to explore and push those boundaries. Christina, under the bob and doug, what advice you have for them as a crewmember. Will being able to live in the International Space station and worked there is such a privilege. As such an amazing laboratory. Also learning how we can parse further into the universe. It is an honor. That is the main thing about how it feels to be up there for a long duration. In terms of the device, bob and doug have been quite mentors. They have given me advice and straight to be the one to be in the position to offer them anything. But i would say that as the shuttle requires, they were really intense. Longer Operations Base flight is more of a journey. Take a moment and enjoy it. Really welcome the opportunity to have part of your mission be taking it all in and sharing that with the people that got to their. Thank you again christina. Always a pleasure to hear from you. Once again, bob into, when they arrive at the station, they will be greeted by astronaut Chris Cassidy. This talk to a briefing. Before do that. Gain, be about ad doug, once be about and doug arrive. Th g will be greeted by chris [silence]. [silence]. [silence]. Hello everyone rated i astronaut Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space station. 250 miles flying above the earth. I am excited about todays lunch and the possibility it will bring for america and to the world. But also i am very excited two will be arriving in joining the group. I had the privilege of flying with doug early in both of our Shuttle Missions back in 2009. Together we change the International Space station and help construct the amazing facility than it is today. Although this will be my First Mission with bob it was my honor to follow him as a chief when he left back in 2015 and began his training for this amazing mission. Personally, ive been very fortunate to be part of this. Launching from america on the shuttle most recently launching but i l cant tell you how exciting it is to know that we are once again plunging americans from the coast of florida. And finally, heres a story i would like to share with you. Back in 1981, john young marked the Space Shuttle columbia, the very first light markey the last time i flew americas on brandnew vehicles. With them, a fluent American Flag representing american progress. Thirty years later, the same flag was flown at the International Space station. The remainder today waiting for there are so many things brought to our country in the small piece of america represents what we will be able to achieve together. We will never stop exploring. And so bob and doug can take this very special flag for the next journey. In a few years, the crew will take the flight with and around the bone. All of the stars today. I will be watching outside of the window along with everyone else in america and around the world. The window and see my friends and they approach grading go falcon nine, go dragon and go bob and doug. I will see you soon. That was a very special message, right now the american International Space station though he will be ready and waiting. We welcome bob and doug when they arrived tomorrow. A little later tomorrow morning. The kept up now stands at t minus one hour, 25 minutes and 54 seconds and counting. Until lunch. We would like to share with you just how much is happening here at Kennedy Space center since the last time we had a crew on the pad watching from here. As you can imagine the end of the shuttle error, was a bittersweet moment for many people across this spaceport. But in the end we knew we were striving for the state and here we are. Joining us now is Kennedy Space Center Deputy director janet on the comeback across floridas coast. Thank you marie. Janet was just telling me you werent there as the crew walked out pretty to me a little bit about what you saw between the astronauts and theirlt family. Maria is very historic in an emotional. So when they first came out ofry the doors a cheer went up from everybody. The Vice President was there ilana was there. Chris families were there. And bob and myself in the Center Leadership is there to cheer them on. When they came out, then they went to families and bob said, a he shouted out a virtual hug and apr this motion and of course his child also did that virtual hug. That is a tradition of duty virtual hug with the families. And then they walked and got into the tesla. Either site. The family walked right up to the window of the tesla and were talking and having a private last moment with her father. Hand of the windows. Very emotional. Head tears in my eyes. It was really a special emotional moment. And everybody course was wishing them well. A lot of i love youse and god speeds. Takean care, all of that. It was very special. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. So in the context, you remember, youve been here since 2007, you are here in 2011 when shuttle atlanta came here. Attack to, layoff notices went out what the next day when the shuttle came atto a stop. It was a very sad time. The director here called it. Tell me about that time and how far we have come. Janet so as you know, it was thee end of a very iconic program. A lot of people have spent their entire career working on the Space Shuttle program. So hundred and 35 flights, all of them watching from a a compl, 39 and many from 39 a and where we will be out lunging from today. And then returning back. So to iconic sonic booms was something that all along the space coast, people really resonated with. They felt in their hearts. It was a very sad time. But i will tell you that 30 year program, we had planned for it, the workforce was incredible. Ithere was a lot of people who spend their entire career here and they wanted to safely like that shovel out. And then theyto retired. There is another large group of people that just wanted to put on the resume that they had been privileged to work in a Space Shuttle. So the workforce was incredibly proud of. They were resilient, dedicated, we were committed to safely flying out that shuttle. They do not skip any steps and regardless, as you said, they knew they were getting their layoff notices. I think it landed on a wednesday. And they got it off on a friday and they work in it until the end to make sure we safely flew it out. Of course we which we have a lot fewer here today. And of course our operations, you remember those last shuttle flights predict everybody around the country wanted to be part of that experience. We really leaned forward to maximize how many people we could get both onsite and nevermind how many people were lined up at the beaches, all along the river to watch that last flight. Today with covid19, unfortunately we were not able to have onsite gas operations predict that wasd pretty said this historic flight. But all that there is a a ten of people watching from the beaches and even from the tv as we launch here today. Attribute to your leadership. And getting things turn around here and getting the commercial entities in here. We appreciate all the you have done to get and make that happen. Janet we appreciate you e here. All right vary back a to you. Marie and they have worked for years to get to this moment, Todays Mission opens the door to an entire new era in human spaceflight. Not only for astronauts me but someday for the general public as well. From the beginning, and is been our mission is basics to help make a monetary, well, humanity and Todays Mission is an important step towards that goal. The key to opening up space access for people like you and me is usability. Without it traveling in space is just far too expensive for the average person to do. And thats how expensive a flight, la to new york would be if you had to throw the plane away after a single trip. [laughter]. Exactly. It would cost hundreds of millions of dollars. And no one could ever afford to fly. So the dragon spacecraft and the falcon nine rocket are designed to be reusable. But not only the lie reliability of the vehicle. A flight proven again and again but also drives down costs. This is essential in enabling not just a handful of people but hundreds of thousands of people to get up there and to explore the moon, mars, beyond. And i for one, is my dream to visit jupiters moon europa. It leland has had the opportunity to get off the planet and go explore. What would you like to go next. I think i would like to go to mars. And be there about eight here on the martian surface. But one condition i would have to have, my pups would have to go with me rated because its about exploring new places and taking your family with you. Ou we have these crewmates, the people you get to know and love over the course of training but Something Like having your family with you. I think that is something that we will see in the future. People in other planets. A lot of people want to see your dog. We have seen them in a portrait. The knock skin with you to take a picture in your swimming suit back in the day. It is. No dogs allowed it nasa. They had their moment. And knowing that the opportunity to fly to space as a private citizen, or maybe a prima dog one day. His right around the corner. New question for you on twitter. If you were given the opportunity, when you travel to space and let us know and we will share the results of the two bit later. There is not a lot of cargo. Marie theres two special payloads there carrying empty side from bob and doug of course. The first is a series of custom art pieces entitled humankind by last angeles artist. These indestructible, doublesided paintings, are made from gold, brass and aluminum. Accelerate how far humanity has come as far as and how far we have to go. It includes a beautiful rocket as well is not to bob and dougs current right to space. You can find more images and information about these pieces on space x social chat room. Now we wanted to celebrate the class of 2020. From kindergarten all of the way through graduate school. Space x andnd nasa invited students from around the world to some of t the phone up to ply in Americans First human space light in nearly a decade. Each photo was created as a mosaic which we. In a scene blown over bob and dougs flight. We received nearly 100,000 photos. So thank you and congratulations to all of the world graduates. I am so proud of what were doing today and i think about regular people flying into space on the space x rocket one day. When i first want to space, i thought my primary task of instilling the columbus laboratorynd would be my aha moment. She said you guys will have the rehydrated vegetables will have the meat. [laughter]. Were having this meal and its with africanamerican, french german and russian in the first female commander. Meaking bread at 17500 miles an hour. Lgoing around the planet every nine minutes. When i think about that, looking out the window, line over my hometown, flying over leos hometown of paris. Flying over russia. It brought us all together as ag civilization. I think thats what spaceflight does for us. The more opportunities for people to go to space will feel like an International Family of people working together for the good ofve humanity. Marie absolutely and thats exactly what that piece of art is all about rated and following Todays Mission, we will be one step closer to a future we can all have that experience. We can havet that orbital perspective the ability to explore a new world. And just over an hour for now, bob and doug will be the first people to launch on an american vehicle in almost a decade. It is really hard to put into words how honored we feel about the trust, that bob and doug vanessa put into her teams to carry out this critical mission. I worked on the dragon for two years and i could just imagine what all of my friends and colleagues are thinking right now. As a sit in anticipation and excitement of what is to come. Its been three is speaking of those who have carried those hopes and dreams of science and expiration. We have a few shout outs to share. We are making history again. The nasa program. I am there with you guys in spirit, bob and doug, good luck. I know you will be fine. I will be watching. Youve got everything cross, arms and legs. I am tied in a knot. I cant wait to you guys to get back into safety. This is the first time that it rocket is been taken people into space for over nine years. More rockets means more exploration. More people in space, means more exploration. More countries involved in the endeavor spaceflight, means more exploration. This is how we know the cosmos and the places within it. So congratulations space x, heres wishing your team and your crew especially, a a safe journey and the joy of discovery. Lets goin explanation mark. Marie and a big thanks for those well wishes. Mr bookkeeping and i on the pad, if that name rings a bell, its because he flew three Space Shuttle missions to the International Space station including the final one by atlantis. He was one of the last four people to in space and he currently is Deputy Director of at johnsonrance space center in houston. Thank you for joining us. You and leland, actually flew together. Usual the final shuttle mission. With took effect. What is like u being here now. Is quite pretty this is what weve been looking forward to. After the end of the shuttle program, it was a very important time. We wanted to allow these companies to take their astronauts to the space station. So nine years we have this, we last landed on atlantis. We worked hard for that. We work with our partners and here we are, day today and we are taking that first step in that new era. What do you remember most about launch date for the 135 much. I think it was just, you felt the weight of it. It was a story program. 135 lights. Thousands of people their lives into this program. And of course to build the International Space station. So the incredible accomplishments, if you wanted to finish strong. And then when it finally became the washday. He worked really hard and know it was time to soak it in. And i think that is what bob and doug are doing right now. The city of the vehicle, listening to the sounds and talking to each other and feeling the vibrations. It will be a great experience for them. Marie hi rex, what is your take on private astronauts going to space. I think it is great. The more we can do to commercialize space, to make access easier, the better we are. And i think that is part of this whole program. To get the cost down some of more people can afford it. We could do more science and research. And transformative experience to fly in space in which people can see that. When you look down on the planet, all around the world, it gives you a different perspective. That we are all crewmates on this planet earth. He kind of get that now with pandemic. Were all in this together. List of the Space Program does. I want more people to see the earth from that Vantage Point i think it will bring people together. Very serious question here. People which mark. The worm is also awesome. It is great. Marie thank you very much rex, we appreciate you. As we watch bob and doug there in the capsule, we are an hour d and ten minutes and seconds and counting. Over to jesse for an update. Reporter thanks marie, we are just an hour and 13 minutes away from the launch and things are really getting ready to pick up here. They were helped by a close up engineers to get into their seats, attached their suits to a special umbilical and communication link to dragons system. Theyey inductively jackson wereh successful. And is the person who will speak to them directly throughout the entire mission as well as the launch director in florida. This is where the checking the ground station and tracking data really sites that will use to talk to the crew the entire way to the station. And after those subjects were complete, the hatch got the check and the Closeout Team has its good to go. Theyve already departed in lithere about 25 minutes ahead f their schedule right now whether operators working out the final check on wind needs at the past which willr be used in the reay important for the final go or no go launch. Before we get to that final go or no go, theyre going to do some internal things to make sure that m conditions are good without benign, the dragon and the crew. The range of the space station before the final go is given. So we will check back in with houston real quick for a status on the team there. On their readiness for launch. In which can control the bike civil hasfo been pulled and we e go for lunch. All systems on board the station that s are required to be permission are reported good and we are standing by. The station power and Communications Systems are looking healthy. Lifesupport systems are normal. And the trajectory is right on track to ensure that dragons flight will be right up with the orbiting complex as planned. Aboard the International Space station, it is going through the pre. And will beca able to watch the launch of bob and doug. Largely in the monitor mode for the first 18 hours of the flight. In the team will really jump in the mix tomorrow when the dragon gets into the range of the International Space station and we began integrated operations. Everything is green from the international center. Godspeed to bob and doug. If you are just now joining us, is a really good time because we are one hour in eight minutes and counting away from launch. This is our coverage for this mission. Known as demonstration two. Or demo two. Th434 33 p. M. Eastern. And we are still waiting for the weather to hopefully cooperate. Were still checking a few things i purchase precipitation. We hope that clears within the next 20 minutes or so. Over the last three hours are proof members, doug hurley and bob, they walked out of the crew building just as every restaurant that flies with apollo seven. They were transported to the pad with a gallagher the crew dragon spacecraft and continuing to give you the have them inside of that cabin life. Marie today is a historic launch, the first time a commercial built spacecraft will punch people into orbit. And for the First Time Since the u. S. And set people to the space station from american soil. Over the next hour, we will conduct a series of tolls, and will begin fueling. Lunch is set for 4 33 p. M. Eastern braided this will include a 12 minute flight to orbit and then a 19 hour flight to dock at the International Space station at 11 30 a. M. Eastern time tomorrow. Todays mission is the culmination of years of work between the teams space x and at nasa. Into end flight path. Start with lunch today. All the way to docking with the space station and then whenta bb and doug come home, they will splashdown in the atlantic. This will be the final testt for nasa to survive space x for regular crew flights to the space station. Marie and we been here hearing a little bit from the crew and they are currentlyoi stuffed in their seats as you can see in your right screen. There already throw their strapped into their seats, and through communications and link checks. There able to follow all of the milestones still ahead and those displays. Thats just above a them. We are going to equalize the pressure just to raise them a little bit. So momentarily we will do that. Just wanted to let you know braided. Marie that is fine, we will heke a pause and listen and. So we wait getting insight into the spoken nine systems as we proceed towards launch. At t minus one hour and seven minutes, lets check in for a status update on both of those vehicles. We have had a smooth countdown this afternoon. There having no technical issues on the falcon nine or the spacecraft. From the falcon nine operators, are actually going to complete in a few minutes, checkouts that being done about the first and second stages. The team will be assessing their launch readiness with the final go or no go, a t45 minutes. That will be followed starting it teeth me five minutes. No earlier today, dragon operators perform a series of checkouts of dragons Flight Systems. Spacecraft is also currently go for lunch. Noour nasa crew as you can see inside of the dragon capsule inside of the right hand side of the display, currently going through various expenses, civil checks and their hatch is closed. In the next major event will be reaped track of the the left monitor, thats what happens a mark between 45 and 42 minutes before liftoff. The big one right now is the range. The range is currently red for launch from historic 398. The other is clear the Worldwide Network as well as the tracking, they are ready to support dragon is a heads into orbit. But the rangers run for weather. We recently did claire pray. We went green writing but we are still highlighting several constraints. Rain, humorless clouds. You canrt essentially tell that the atmosphere is energized around the launch site. We are expecting that we will possibly for that. We will hearing weather briefing at one hour. With the expectation that those inditionsns may clear shortly afterwards. Also we been releasing balloons, we are sing at the upper altitudes, the conditions look good for falcon nine with dragon. Though concerns have been expressed by the gmc Guidance Team right now. As a reminder today, we have an. Instantaneous launch window. 433, 35 eastern daylight savings time. Just past 33 minutes after the upcoming power. So we get one chance at it today. But currently at t minus one hour three minutes. Falcon nine, dragon, they are ago. Range is ready to support but now we are waiting on the weather as we have been expecting all afternoon. Marie thinks on. We have an extensive history now of falcon nine from the florida coast braided just last year, a test run of the mission that we are less than one hourad from beginning here today. The purpose of that mission was to. Demonstrate dragons capability to safely and reliably fly to the International Space station. The success of demo one was really an exciting moment and paves the way for Todays Mission where we are Just Moments Away to fully forget that whether from playing uss ross to u. S. Soil from the First Time Since 2011. Marie negative falcon nine together have years ofs experience flight heritage. As i mentioned earlier, they have successfully completed 21 flights to and from orbit since 2010 including 26 to the International Space station. Not only how we conducted thousands of hours of testing, we have also enhanced and added a number of safety procedures to dragon. The cargo dragon, leveraged design. I wanted to hear if you could hear us. We did. We were just making a comment about that. We heard some clicking so absolutely. Copy. Summa and then again that is the crew talking to the core here in hawthorne, california it will be talking to them. They were duped into doing just a quick check out. And they confirmed that they could hear. So still good and still no issues with falcon or dragon. The fact of what were talking talking is describing the systems, a lot of the space exited with cargo dragon has been leveraged into the screw dragon. The vehicle is denying to befi fully autonomous. It could basically fly itself. But it also features if the crew needs to take control in case of an emergency, they can do that. Marie many of the other enhanced goals of less between missions. So lets take a closer look at some of these advances. Almost 27 feet tall from the dottom ofe the trunk, the crew dragons two main elements. We have the capsule up top which is designed wholele the group in any pressurized cargo and then an unpressurized section known as the trunk on the bottom. Marie in the nose cone at the the docking system as well as the Guidance Navigation control system. The nosecone opens the docking and remains attached to the crew dragon spacecraft unlike the previous version of dragon. That helps for the reusability efforts. We are t minus one hour and we are ago. When ready, report go for a launch. Owso the coaches had a couple of checks braided when they are weready for lunch, we will hear the reports that they are ago for launch. Continuing to walk you through opposite of that nosecone is the truck braided we can see in our lefthand string there. Its split and the left side black in the right side white. The dragon capsule and can carry any cargo up there. On the outside, one of the trunk contains a radiator and is using space x is technology. The other half contains solar cells that are used to charge the space craft battery during flight. Bob and i are go for launch. Marie you heard that call out right there. T minus the 45. Marie bob and doug are go for lunchlaunch. Marie this is very exciting. The spacecraft is designed to accommodate up to seven members. The seats areng made up carbon fiber and will be custom sized for any crewmembers flying aboard. Tobetween the pilot and the commander sees consist of three touchscreen displays and that just allows the crew to operate the vehicle and fly it manually. But also look at all of their procedures, relative to the position of the earth, the space station, any alarms or alerts or anything that could possibly want to do ond dragon. Marie and lastly, our launch escape system is a key safety feature of crew dragon. Giving improve the ability to safely escape from the time of launch all of the way to orbit. That launch escape system was put into work a little bit earlier this year. As we look to the future the first operational space x probation would be a little bit later this year after bob and doug come home. Nasa answer owns, and the Japan Aerospace exploration were chosen to support this mission being called crew one. Marie doug hurley is the Space Commission for this mission. He was the pilot on 127. And it was the final Space Shuttle flight. Please you review your launch criteria. Checking the weather still braide. On countdown, thats repg that technical has been completed. All systems are proceeding. We are monitoring the weather. There are also looking at a launch item. The pressure will, but minus eight and 30 seconds and we will be able to, little concerns at this time. Everything is rating phenomenal. But we are watching that item. No other constraints. E will cout ni us in 8 minute and 30 seconds and able to verify the rate and no concerns at. I everything is reading stage two, complete. [silence]. We just crossed the 55 minute mark away from launch sitting right next to doug hurley those closest to your screen, is nasa astronaut bob bacon. He is the joint Operations Commander for demo two. In previously fluent two Space Shuttle missions read 123 and 130. And also served as chief of the astronaut office. Heres a little bit more about the man who has been testing out a revenue space craft as an astronaut three. When you go through the launch preparations, theres a lot of moments that kind of stand up to you. One is kind of the celebratory piece of that which is that youre walking out of the suit up room and getting into the vehicle that will take you to the launch pad. When you close the hatch, now that is really when doug and i are in the vehicle and its hard vehicle. We are in cultural of the mission at that point. Test pilots over their task, proves that man can fly into orbit around the earth and return live in well to talk about it. Theres always a balance of managing risk as you go forward to execute a test point in figuring out a way to collect the data. We hear a sound, is that sound and expected sound rated to be see a light, is it expected. What is the source of it. It doesnt sync up with Something Else that is going on or not. So having all of that in real time in your head, as a lot of things happen like that on launching of a vehicle. Air force col. , an engineer, he flew aboard Space Shuttleis endeavor, twice. Nasa astronaut, bob bacon. My career at nasa, has spanned a couple of decades at this point. Arrived with the class of 2000. And went through the Training Program primarily focused on the Space Shuttle and the International Space station during the systems. Having watched a couple of times on vehicles, the second time was definitely different than the first time. You can feel a little bit guilty, should i study one more thing to have one more piece of information that i can get. I really prepared are not rated thats definitely the difference between where ind was my first flight and where i mess right now. Its been really interesting i think for both my wife and i rated to have fun through the process of seeing each other launch and space. I have seen her take that risk and had to be in front of her. I have done that to her. Theres just Something Different about watching a rocket launch when there are people on board. You feel differently about the pitch of your stomach. I can only tell you is multiplied significantly less of 82 no printing then so many of course its a family it is even multiplied more. For me personally, as a seven watching everything above has put into this over the last five years, the dedication that he is shown in the perseverance is pretty special for both of us. The way our minds work. Movie until the mission is complete, you wont be able to say right andt celebrated. And air Flight Engineer to be part of the demonstration commission of a brandnew vehicle. Its going to be amazing. That same appreciation, i think he can be challenging for some folks. There is a lot of work and a lot of time that takes away from family thats my spouse appreciates friend and i love her for that. Really my role is to make sure that we get this vehicle tested and evaluated so that we can move on to even more Operational Mission on trend missions at the International Space station. We have a lot of objectives on board that we needd to accomplih to make sure it is good to go. We will make sure all the systems are working during the test flight so that the future missions will have them available even if they dont plan to utilize them. Through years of the nasa team, i am hoping to share that experience and teaching them the lessons that we have learned by going through this. Now there is another capability in the u. S. Besides nasa that operates something of this magnitude. What is the last time that humans launched a new vehicle, certainly on the american side, its been several decades. Now there are multiple vehicles under developments. Its a great time, Space Exploration timeframe is to see all ofof that happening and it s become of nurturing of this environment being able to pull in and group of people who can contribute towards the space flight. It is a supercool time. On a deeply personal level, i am really excited that my son is going to get a chance to see me launch into space, being an astronaut is been a little bit of abstraction thing for him. He has seen me do it in all videos but he is not seen me do it for real. So im excited for him to see this launch. I want to thank the entire commercial crew program team, that is were together to get this point were we fast vehicles the launch pad ready to head to the International Space station. We are just over 49 and a half minutes away from launch of the falcon nine caring going into the space station. But now the launch director and the machine are preparing for the readiness pretty much all. Thirteen members of the launch team will electronically indicated go for lunch which is also the go for the loan. We will hear that in a couple of minutes. But while we wait, we are tracking and watching from all over the country. Piercing large numbers of you logging on or tuning in from coasttocoast. As well as around the world. We want to know, is this your first time watching a launched life. If not, how many of you have seen before. Tillis using the watch america. We are social media website. This is not my first one. Ive seen a lot but everyone is excited. Now coming up, we are going to go into a ready nest full as i mentioned. Currently right now on the space x watch director and checking the verified, the dragon team is ready and thaty the Nasa Management Team is ready. They will come back in about t minus 47 minutes with instructions for the space excop in 19. To make their final assessment. And then they log into the procedure, a little different than the old days we very go go go. Position by position all of the down theh road. In this electronic age everybody just clicks on a no or a novell. And then a t minus minutes they will summarize the end of the ball then will provide the instructions for the same. And at the same time we will begin eating ready for the group access on protection and will show you that on one of the screens that we got up. Up. Now, currently we are continuing apparently we are censoring the monitors for the weather. It is read. It is improving. Were looking between her asked oneself. We are keeping our fingers crossed that conditions will improve but we are going to be watching that for about another 15 minutes. So it looked like we will be good once we hear the polls but we still have to get the final range brain so that we can actually do the launch in just 47 minutes from now. Lets listen to the countdown for a moment. [silence]. Right now, coming up on 46 minutes andca we didnt hear any specific chatter. Templates and we have ago to proceed. Control, proceed. T minus 45 minutes. Thank you launch control. Control room, protocol, sequence and nonsupport. For urgent issues affecting safety of the operation, scope hold hold hold countdown. In that much down which show out of sequence. And fires, dragon manual play rules remainder fire alarm instructions, fire alarm, key operators briefly great, and evaluated. And then we went evacuate to the exit which leads directly outside. A final reminder they will be launching this soon. Please state your seats. And you heard the director giving instructions to ther team also discerned that call the retraction is underway. Great view from the camera inside of the white room. As we see the arm moving away from the dragon capsule, one of the major events necessary to get down to the next one coming up will be arming of the escape system on the dragon plaque capsule. Now right now the next plan for falcon nine, t minus 35 minutes, we will begin onto the first and second stages. Now currently, falcon nine is looking good. Dragon is looking good. The rain continues to be go for lunch in terms of the clearance around the launchpad, but the air ande sea space looking at te flight corridor, the ground stations, the nasa tracking and data satellites are ready to support and we just continue to monitor the weather. Our team is getting constant updates. We areg monitoring weather and data sensors around the launch site rated looking to make sure that we can get everything into the right position. The one that we are mostly looking at right now, thats how much rain were going to get between now and the liftoff. Weather is just going to be mild precipitation that is within the rules. Thats what the expectation is tcpretty and we will continue to watch that. So fingers crossed. Right now coming up is the team minus 43 minutes and 18 seconds and counting. Everything but the weather is ago. In the weather is trending in the right direction. Weve got our fingers crossed here. At this time we will send it back to Kennedy Space center. The action is picking up on the launchpad. Marie that countdown clock is continuing to tick and we are minutes away from launch. And as you just saw the crew arm rejected. The senate less visual major milestone before liftoff. We should be hearing soon confirmation that the launch system is armed. When that happens, all eight of the super valves are open, which means that those engines can ignite. Marie that means at eight throttle valves arett open. Oin order for dragon to escape off of the pack, they could. So things running just a little bit ahead of schedule right now. Now we just saw the crew we just saw the crew arm retract just a few minutes ago. And we saw doug hurley. So we just for the astronauts tofirm that they are about launch, excuse me, arm the launch escape system that happened just before fueling begins which we expect to happen in just a couple of minutes. We saw bob and doug suit up a little over three hours ago. Then we watch them drive out to lunch complex 39 a and they were assisted by the granting with crew dragon ingress. That happened a little bit beat before 2 00 oclock this afternoon and then we saw the spacecraft kept close again just a minute ago we saw the crew access arm retract images for this group arm the launch escape system in just a few minutes, we are going to hear the call that they have started loading. Escape system is verified. Marie so we just for the verification that the launch escape system is armed. We are going to send it over to take us through chocolatey. Jesse. From parachutes, to the design to be the vehicle launch vehicle ever form. And during this today, we have space x with the cone it was our mission manager. And currently works on the hurley team. Thank you for joining us nick. Jesse. Im here at the launch and landing Recovery Center with a recovery team. Can you tell us more about the critical safety features on this new version of dragon. It was designed with real multiple layers of redundancy. And we are working to design and test his vehicle the past few years. And if we encounter and unperceived muscle failure, which pushes outside of her design phase, we also have backup operation controls intended to keep bob and doug safe. The system is primarily backup system that we have from the moment the vehicle is here to be fueled. All of the way up until orbit. At a highh level, launch escape system in the event of a major falconr and normally part emergency, will separate dragon from falcon and will use dragon to quickly pull the vehicle away from it. You talked a lot about the launch escape system. How exactly is that activated. As an autonomous. Is it manually activated. This is an to work as its design, that vehicle could be flying in hundreds or thousands of miles an hour through the lower atmosphere so its really important that is extremely fast and highlyo reliable. The launch escape system fundamentally is set to look at a set of three Program Criteria just on board the Dragon Falcon are looking at things looking for vehicle dynamics, communication between critical systems. For manual command he was our lunchch director and chf engineer are capable of sending a manual command to dragon to initiative launch escape bob dugger also always able to actually launch escape handle and initiate unwanted escape as well pretty now that its armed, they are active on the vehicle. This sounds like there is a lot that goes into it. We had two sets pretty can you tell us what we learned from that. Is possibly the most class booster in history. Fully test using a full falcon nine rocket which we had knowingly destroyed in order to get this fully integrated system. We didnt get a chance to see it rated the vehicle normal crew launch launch. About a minute and half, we had the escape system launched. Based on the triggers. And thankfully we had and continued through flight on hadc a successful parachute deployment as much out pretty good see falcon rather spectacularly blowup after ten seconds of separation. It is important to recognize hat all that happened from command to actual separation of the vehicle and under one half of the second. And sounds amazing. Thank you so much nick for us and talking us through those details with us. Enjoy the launch today. We willac it back to ksp the flooring. Thank you. We are about a minute and a half away from the loaded at t minus 35 minutes. We should have the call out on the propellant load started. It is about a minute and 13 seconds away. Seconds away. Hey maria and lauren, i am getting goosebumps over here. This is an exciting moment. Im sitting in the vehicle, trying to overload the, going through accrued notebooks, i was thinking about what might or step would be. There was a malfunction because usually everything is phenomenally well. You have to think about the things that you have to take care of. The first steps to take care of. In my mission i was calling out the aborted calls. I can with boston engine, where would be good next. And these calls around the country and around the world. I think does is a probably thinking about now. Just ready to have this mission off. Were about 20 seconds from when we expect propellant start. To this fueling of the rockets. And we are getting close. We should hear that call out any second now. So lets listen in. [silence]. Load has started. Fan tested. Top load has started pretty liquid oxygen on stage when a stage two. An rp one. And that is par kerosene. Now that we are 34 minutes and 42 seconds away from the first launch of astronauts into orbit from american soil since 2011, we know the launch escape system isou armed. And it happened just before fueling. Dragon top load happened weeks ago actually just a few months or miles down the road called bruggeman. In those are, fuel. And nitrogen texture oxide. Its our oxidizer. Those not onlyo feed the engines that propel dragon on orbit but they also supply the super eight engines of the launch escape system. So i have one right here. A little model. Oh does not come off of the stand. Affect. Dont break it lauren. [laughter]. So you can see, its actually broken up into four parts, the dragon is pretty each one has two of the ages for a total of eight. And they are engines, and oxidizer. Most abort systems from these vehicles, like apollo, the had a decal on top. One, one less thing you have to jettison on a flight. So they are pretty dormant. Unless they are used and hopefully they never have to be. And yes, the other thing that offers you is the ability to escape from the pad all the way to orbit because if you jettison your estate system prior to that , you couldnt. Thats the Little Dragon right there. Thanks for watching us u through that with, lauren. The launch system is armed. That protects bob and doug so that if something goes wrong they could shoot away from the rocket and parachute to safety in the ocean. That is such a crucial safety capability so now we want to go over to hawthorne for an Operational Update with john thanks marie. We are counting down those final minutes. Everything is looking good on the falcon nine and dragon vehicles. The weather is trendingthe wrong way right now. Were keeping our ears open in case we hear that the weather is going to be. [indiscernable] for the rest of the count. Right now counting down at d 32 minutes. The propellant load at t 35 minutes right on time. The propellants we use on falcon nine or a fuel which is rocket grade kerosene also called rp1. Thats the m super chill liquid oxygen or lox as we call it. Those two propellants come together and we need an existing admission tcourse to complete the triangle and falcon nine uses ttep. You get a green colored flame as it comes out into the t oxygen and that ignites the main engine right before the rocket takes off for the second stage inthe general light. Rp1 fuel is 10 percent full on the first state. Thats the bottom two thirds of the stack of the vehicle you can see on the left. The first stage is that long white cylinder at the bottom plus the black cylinder called the interstate. At the entire first aid we are loading with kerosene, thats the part that comes back to earth. Second stage just above it, the light cylinder and above that will be the dragon trunk and the castle. Currently , the second stage is also loading fuel with rp one. Thats about eight percent full right now. We are loading liquid oxygen on the first state. The second stage of licks and liquid oxygen load will begin eg at d 16 and a half minutes if the weather cooperates so loading will then continue on both this first and second phase until the last few minutes of the countdown. Helium loading is underwayand the Pressure Vessels on the first and second stage. We use that to pressurize the n tanks inflight as the propellant is being called out by the turboprops. Dragon onboard thespacecraft, you can see the astronauts are Monitoring Systems while propellant is loaded into the falcon nine. The first demo flight last year and then inflight escape test earlier this year, the sounds inside the castle were recorded. So as part of the training, the sounds of the propellant loading were laidback to acclimate the group to what they were experiencing now. Were listening to some discussion on one of the back net, trying to track where we are with the weather criteria. Were just passing another whether a gate right now trying to see whether or not the conditions are go. In certain situations when the weather is [indiscernable] you have to wait 30 minutes and we are now inside of 30 minutes. But if the cloud moves away, if the conditions improve, we may be able to continue the countdown for another 14 minutes and reassess so we will wait and see whether or not we can continue the count. Currently we are. The range are ready to support with no problems in the air and sea space area. But the weather, thats the one thats looking bad and were going to continue to listen and as a reminder, today we have aninstantaneous launch time so it this point if we hear a halt for any reason are going to have to stand down and target our backup launch opportunity on may 30. For demo two, bob and dougs flight station will take 19 hours and their journey is fairlysimilar to the trip our cargo dragon makes back and forth to the International Space station with 2 noticeable differences. Docking and splashdown. As we await t 0, ground operation seems to be doing those final series of system checks making sure dragon and falcon nine are ready for liftoff and keeping an eye on hethe weather and youre continuing to get live views of the teams. Falcon nine and dragon onyour left and bob and doug on the right as they prepare for liftoff. Once we hit t0 and a successful launch occurs we will watch falcon nine and dragon make their ascent until first and second stages separate and send dragon on its way to the space station. Once it gets on Orbit Mission operators will prepare dragon for on orbit operations where dragon will execute a series of burns that will gradually raise its orbit to align more closely with the International Space station. Youre seeing some of that track in the animation onyour screen. Sounds like were going toget a weather update real quick for the crew. We are currently evaluating a constraint on the field no rule which looks at Lightning Energy dissipation. We expect to have anupdate at d 20. And more information there whether we would be able to continue into the upload or scrub at that time. Thanks for the update, we appreciate it. More words in about six minutes. Okay, so it sounds like. In six minutes, i was referring to a couple of those weather situations where we have to have a certain amount of time, in this case with the fieldnotes about 15 minutes so they have until 15 minutes and 30 seconds to make sure were going to have enough time for that to dissipate so were going to be listening for that weather update in a couple of minutes but it is going to be an interesting trip uphill for them once they get in orbit. A very exciting countdown with six minutes to figure out if we are olaunching today. But targeting back to what we were talking about , next dragon will make its approach and actually. With the space station. This is a very different process from what weve seen with dragon cargo deliveries in the past which is a process called birthing and birthing requires a spacecraft to approach so a crewmember can maneuver the arm to capture the spacecraft. Docking can be done autonomously. With no crew aboard the station. Its typically a fast process of arriving and leaving but it does require pinpoint accuracy to approach safely. Once captured, space x gets attached to a common berthing mechanism, the same that we used to connect modules together and its an slower process than docking but the hatches are significantly larger than docking ports which makes them perfect for bringing up large cargo items. Dragon will spend 120 days. Before preparing to return home. Following successful completion of dragons test objectives, the crew will close out the pcabin, perform final system checks and configure the vehicle for undocking. Once the undocking sequences complete dragon will complete two departure burns using its engines pushing it away from the space station. After dragon departs the station its ready for its trip home and that will have orbit entry and landing and another number of operations. It might look like were playing the end animation we played originally in reverse but thats kind of how it goes, just a little bit quicker. All the operations will include things like trunk separation, closing that nosecone, executing a deorbit burn and once theyre inside the atmosphere main parachutes and finally splashing down off of the florida coast at which time teams will move in, get bob and doug out of the water and get them out of the castle once theyre on the boat. So we have four minutes now until we get that next expected weather update. Kennedy. Thanks dan and if youre joining us we are now d 23 minutes 48 seconds from the first launch of astronauts to the International Space station from us soil in nine years. Were going to find out in less than four minutes if the weather looks good and this will mark the beginning of a new era where more people will be able to fly to space and ever before. We took a poll a little bit earlier to ask you if you had the opportunity to fly to space, would you go . 86 percent of those watching answered that you would go to space. Thats an incredible number. Realizing you donthave to be a military astronaut or a nasa astronaut to fly in space. You can be just a regular person going off to space so i think thats why the numbers are sohigh. We are really real to see all the folks watching along online. We certainly hope that this is ago but again, were going to hear a littlebit of a weather update in less than three minutes. And leland, i know theyre waiting for a weather update and they, almost all the way down thecount, what do you think bob and doug are thinking about right now . On ses 129 we were having weather problems and i think we were getting close to the countdown and then it seemed like the sky just cleared up right above our heads. We saw it and we knew we were going and we always know you can have many types of delays. Fuel, product delays, all kinds of things can happen but weve trained over and over again for these types of scenarios so we want to be safe. We want to be safe for our families and we will do this another day if it doesnt work with theweather. I love that john and i always said weather, its that thing about but no one can do anything about it and it is this interesting thing of just coming to mother earth that shes going to tell us if we can go or not today. If it happens, look at it this way. Bob and doug got rehearsal in. Always best to practice and practice. Were less than two minutes now from that weather update that is going to go directly to bob and doug and we will quiet down so we can listen in for that because i know we cant wait to find out what that is and those of you watching that have been following along, we are eagerly awaiting to hear whether the weather is going to be a showstopper today. These clouds can seem really deceiving at times. You see the blue skies peekingthrough and you think everything is fine but you just dont know. We have those launch whether officers. We talked about it before but its not just theweather in florida they are looking at. It got to look at whether downrange if theywere to have an abort in flight and they needed to come down somewhere in the ocean. They need to consider what the weather is like out there because recovery teams have to go out and get them in a situation like that so theres so many variables and thats why not just with this flight but with everyhuman spaceflight we had in the past theres always a good chance of a scrub. Because you do have so much criteria. That you have to meet. And were going to listen in now. We are seconds away from the weather update. Phase to upload complete. That is liquid oxygen you see fending off the rocket. Thats completely normal and expected. Standing by for a weather update. Unless you can give us another 10 minutes, i dont think we are going to get there any of the rules today. We can give you 10 minutes. I know theyre 10 minutes past the zero. 16 45 local and we are probably clear on all the rules but not quite going to make it for this. We will check back in with you and about 2 minutes and i will call it about 2 17. Okay. Some of them are starting to countdown but wehave one above 2000. That didnt sound great right there. That was the weather not going out but were standing by for a final decision. And were going to continueto listen in for an updatebut in the meantime we will go to john at space x headquarters in california. Dragon space x on whether. T 18 minutes andcounting. We are still read on whether. We are waiting in about tanother minute for one final check withweather. We dont really expect that things will have improved. The weather officer was not optimisticthat the weather would clear up that rapidly. We did here look the launch director will mark taylor joked that if we could move 10 more minutes past the t0 weather conditions might improve but mike was not able to do that and we have an instantaneous window today so at 17 minutes we want to make that call because shortly after that we will begin loading liquid oxygen onto athe second stage so if we are not going to have the opportunity to launch. We continue to violate a adnumber of different weather rules that we do not expect to clear in time for lunch today. Lunch out of sequence and proceeded to launch for out of sequence. Launch abort has started. Dragon space x, unfortunately we are not going to lunch today. You are go for 5. 100 launch scrub. It was a good effort bythe team and we understand and we will meet you back. Copy all. Weve heard the call from the crew. They have been informed. Launch director mark taylor has called a scrub for the day and we got the feedback when the dragon team informed bob and doug that we gave it a good try which they understand and we are here to tryanother day. So right now we did officially hold the clock at looks like it t 16 minutes 54 seconds. The controls, the falcon nine, loading of propellants and cycling of valves, that has also stopped. We now proceed into what is a normal scrub sequence for us. We practiced this every launch so now we move into safely taking the propellant, the pressurization gas back off the first and second stages. So that things get into a seat configuration, then we disarm the escape system on dragon and have the crew come back around. Right now we got down to just outside 17 minutes. The hardware was working very well on both dragon and the spacecraft. We had the fuel loading going on, liquid oxygen loading going on, everything was second stage and the weather just needed a little bit more time to clear the conditions. We didnt have that time because we had an instantaneous window with that space x launch director had to call it for the day for the safety rules that we had for this flight area right now the team is undergoing the post scrub operations on both dragon as well as falcon nine, working with the range. No issues being reported as we start to go through that sequence area and everything looks good. And d,dan, we had a good webcast going until the very end. We will look at it as now we had another great adry rehearsal. Last saturday we did a dry one i should say and today weve done a wet dress rehearsal but sorry, we just couldnt get there, dan. Thanks john. Obviously we cant control the weather. We came right down to the wire there hoping we could squeeze in between those Cloud Systems to get a launch but it wasnt to be. It doesnt mean we are done going to have another attempt coming up in three days so were doing this all over again on saturday. On the 30th, and that launch attempt is going to be coming at 3 20 2 pm eastern time soa little bit earlier in the day. Its going to look largely the same to everything we saw today with the crew waking up going through suit up , making their way to the pad so were going to feel a lot of dcjc vu. Still exciting. Safety is always first so if weather was not for bear for us tonight it will be there for us saturday and we will have a safe launch on saturday. The initial weatherreport at us at a 40 percent possibility of violation for the weather. A little bit better but we are still rolling thedice and it is florida in the spring and summer so storms are always a possibility. The vehicle appeared to be in great health through the day. Dragon and falcon nine so we didnt have to scrub for technical issues. We will follow along with bob and doug until they are out of that capsule. They started loading fuel onto the rocket so they will have to wait until that fuel comes off, disarm the launch escapesystem which stays armed because they are sitting on a partially loaded rocket and once they are able to disarm that launch escape system the crew arm will swing back out and they will make their way once again back the way they came and back to crew quarters for about and on for a few more days. If you are just now tuning in wondering why we are notstill counting down , we didhave a launch scrub today. Predicting about a 40 minute offload time. That call out, the liquid oxygen fuel pumping out of the first page of thefalcon nine. Everything looking good with that. Expecting 40 minutes for all that fuel to come off so once that comes off bob and doug will be able to disarmthe launch escape system and the arm will swing back out and they will make their way back down and over to crew quarters. Unfortunate scrub today because of weather. That was the one thing we were tracking from the moment we started today. Watching bob and doug get suited up for their lunch. We did abort todays launch board scrub todays launch with a little under 17 minutes to go until our t0 time which was 4 33 that moves us to our next attempt which is coming up on saturday and that time is going to be 3 20 2 pm eastern time so a little bit earlier in the day or bob and doug and for everybody else watching around the world. Youre still going to have a 19 hour like to station if thatswhen we launch and a lot of the stuff we thought was going to look similar but we will have to try again, hope for a little bit of weather. Better weather this goes with every launch, we do track everything all the way down to zero to make sure everything is go. Making sure the range isgo, whether is go so this is standard procedure. We always tend to make sure we have a backup launch day in place we do have scrubs like today. This is pretty normal andth standard. Nothing to be worried about. We do this for the safety of our vehicles as well as the day we have astronauts onour vehicle so an even bigger reason for us to make sure we have safe weather for them to fly. Just a reminder for everyone still today and it takes about 40 minutes for all this propellant to come l off the falcon nine and while it is offloading the launch escape system on dragon which is designed to pull capsule away if theres any issue with the rocket or ayanything on the pad, that is still armed so we will continue to stay with this until all the propellant is off and we will see the launch escape system disarmed. Bob and doug will be able to open up their visors again. The crew access arm will swing back and link up with dragon and they will make their way down the tower at the pad but if youre just now tuning in, no lunch today. We did have to scrub because of weather. Were moving to our second attempt on saturday just a little bit earlier in the afternoon. Just going to continue to stand by as this propellant comes off. We heard a call that everything was going nominally or as expected so once the propellant is off you should see bob and doug make their way out of dragon shortly after. What youre seeing on your screen is a live view of the bob and doug on the right side inside of dragon as they are waiting for propellant to be removed from the vehicle so that it is safe for them to disarm the launch escape system. This will take a bit of time so we are going to stay alive with you to watch this as they exit the vehicle eventually. And come down from standing down on lunch today. Up until the point of the scrub we had a clean countdown. We were tracking any issues rwith nine or the spacecraft soalways a good thing to see and we did have to scrub because of that weather. To be more specific, we were still in violation of one of the weathercriteria. It was the strength of electric fields in the atmosphere. The 45th space wing and other weather operators are monitoring around the launchpad and thats one of those rules where we need a certain amount of time if we are in a violation. 85 percent on stage fuel. Propellant continuing to go well that we needed a little more time if we were going tobe able to clear that onesweater constraint. So we do have an instantaneous launch window today and we werent able to make it. Though we hope for Better Weather coming up on saturday. Where again next launch attempt will be at 3 20 2 pm and we will be able 2to go through everything. We saw them get suited up they had a great ride out to the pad. All their initial checks and communication checks went well. Able to get the dragon hatch closed, launch escape system armed and falcon nine target its fueling, just unable to make the good Weather Window today. As i said earlier it was just another great rehearsal today. I dont think you can get enough practice doing this. So when saturday comes or when the day that we can actually launch the vehicle, bob and doug and the nasa space x team are fully prepared with just an extra rehearsal on the belt now. As we had talked a couple of times throughout our countdown, the weather is a lot more complex than when you are launching humans. You have more stringent ayrequirements in place not only around the pads but in the case of this lunch today we are looking at whether you the entire way that they were flying up the east coast of the United States in this lunch today, were monitoring that weather because those are areas that if they havent accident aboard or basically dragon firing off of the falcon nine while they are flying into space we have to make sure the conditions are good around those areas just so theyre not going to be landing in the middle of a hurricane which we did have a Tropical Storm forming right off the coast of South Carolina today, just to help complicate things a little bit. People might be asking if we knew the weather was going to be a little iffytoday, why continue to countdown . That is the reason why we do all these checks all the way to countdown. In florida the weather is pretty sporadic. Sometimes a thunderstorm or hurricane will pass through and within 20 minutes its gone and we could have clear skies for a safe launch. So as we continue to have schedule standard procedure again, just continuing to monitor weather all the way down to the last minute of the count and we see what happens. Today unfortunately we did scrub for weather but we will attempt again this saturday on may 30. And jan, jesse, a couple things to add on their. Right now we are 11 minutes after the scrub was called. Liquidoxygen and fuel are coming off of the first stage. Hard to tell from the view. Still a little misty around the tank because there is lox on board but were halfway through all the tanks filled on the first stage so propellant coming out. The second stage fuel tank is offloading read and filling slowly butits also a smaller tank , it doesnt take long to load or offloaded. The other thing were working on is a High Pressure heliums fears as well as the nitrogen fears. The pressure will be brought gdown on those eventually getting download enough to where people can reenter the pad area. Right now the team is preparing once they get permission, the space x ingress egress Technician Team will come back in. Fire the caution area around the pad. Make their way up when conditions are right. Open up a patch and assist the astronauts out of the dragon. Id like to point out for those who are wondering whether or not having gone through this putting propellant pressurization gas, getting fairly close to launch weather that has done anything to wear out the falcon nine or the dragon. The answer is number if you can recall, the falcon nine t is designed for at least 10 flights and by the time we get to attend we will be doing testing to find that we probably got enough margin to continue flying. This is the very first flight of a new first stage and a new second stage so wehave tnot , we havent even gotten through the first flight and in all of our margin calculations we take into account the fact that we may scrub a launch so even todays operation where we have pressurized and scrubbed the vehicle a littlebit , that took an indoor count in our qualification testing. The other good thing is the most stressing part of the flight for the falcon nine on the first stage is the reentry so we didnt even get through that sitting here on the pad. Its a fairly straightforward situation and not stressing the falcon nine and on the dragon spacecraft the human rating factors to carry group, there is enough factors of safety, margins of safety, redundancy that just having 2 people on board and closing the hatch and even pressurizing the propellant system does noteat into the margins. So right now everything is continuing to offload. The automatic sequences that we use routinely both at the launch site, Kennedy Space center, Cape Canaveral, even Vandenberg Air force base and our test site for first and second stage, those sequences are running. Propellant is coming off the vehicle per plan and we see bob and doug up in the dragon spacecraft just waiting when we can get up there and open the hatch and help them address and come on back down to the dgtower. The other thought i had dan and jesse is that right now we are coming up on what would have been tzero and im wondering 10 minutes from now whether the weather officer would turn riaround and say yes, turn good. You just didnt have asolong enough window. We only had one second and we needed 10 minutes. So we will have to ask why say in the weather conditions improve . One thing ill tag onto that band was mentioning and jesse was talking about, launch opportunities. The launch window does move earlier on saturday a little bit so it just happened to the orbital dynamics today if you want to go to the International Space station and you want to launch northeast to the approved trajectory, you have to go right at 4 33, 30 5 pm eastern daylight savings time you pick another day, that the zero moves. Inits just luck of the draw. We might have been doing this at eight in the morning and we were getting lightning or we could have been doing it a few hours from now when conditions they have been acceptable. So in the end, we can all look at isaac newton and johan kepler for orbital dynamics telling us when we launch thats stuck us right in the middle of a period of bad weather so theres my science lesson for today, dan and jesse. I appreciate that and it helps soften the blow of us moving past that tzero time. If youre wondering whether its still on the launch pad we did havea scrub for weather, is not able to clear all thoseconstraints. Keep a close eye on the weather around the pad. Right now bob and doug are still inside. Wanted to give you some more words on the scrub rationale. We basically scrubbed due to 3 rules we were violating. All three would have been expected to clear 10 minutes after our otzero time and those three were natural lightning, fuel mills and the attack angle. Copy j, we appreciate that update. We can see some raindrops on the windows and just figured that whatever it was was too close to the launchpad at the time we needed it, we appreciate and understand that everybodys probably a little bummed out. Its just part of the deal. Everybody was ready today and we appreciate that and the ship was great and we will do it again i think onsaturday. Copy all. Appreciate your resilience. We got the easy job area. Nothing better than e being flying through on a new station. Copy that. Some great word from bob and doug there. Doing good inside dragon, we will be ready to know though when we make our next attempt on saturday. Waiting for all the fuel to come off the falcon nine rocket. Stage ii fuel 36 percent. Were still at a little over 80 percent on fuel. Irp1 on the first agent 26 percent on rp1 on the second stage so it takes 40 minutes once the process starts we should have around 30 minutes or so until all that fuel is off and the crew will get to go to disarm the launch escape system. We will see that accessarm swing back into place and they can begin to egress or get out of the dragon spacecraft. You heard it live, that weather update of whatwe violated. We were just 10 minutes off unfortunately but again, today was an instantaneous launch and as john explained, its due to the orbital mechanics and making sure that at the time we launch it will allow us to get to the space station on time and accurately. You can see on your right screen bob and doug are patiently waiting. They do still have their visors on and are strapped into theirseats. The launch escape system is still armed as we are offloading fuel. And will not disarm until offload is complete and this is just to ensure the safety of bob and doug and make sure that they can egress safely from the rocket area. Just a reminder today, just this first attempt were going to be right back here e looking like on saturday for attempt number two. Once america is not going anywhere. Tstill on track to get bob and doug into space and get this through dragon up to the International Space station so its always good if youre going to scrub probably rather scrub or whether an issue on falcon 94 dragon and we weretracking any issues with the Flight Systems throughout our countdown. Everything passed checks on the cruise, oka medications working great, all the teams were ready to go to john, i said its always nice to have more practice and we will be right back at it on saturday. What with this launch fee if it is even more exciting to try to launchtoday and now we have to pushuntil saturday. Really got to build suspense. Dan and jesse, another thought crossed my mind while i am watching the diagram here showing fuel is just about off first and second stage, weare down under 10 percent. Theyre giving the announcement. Stage ii fuelis at 20 percent. So just continuing to comeoff of the vehicle as expected. On a monitor, bob and doug continue with visors down. There launchescape system is armed as we mentioned. If there is anything would happen to go wrong right now, they still have a viable abort, something we demonstrated back in 2015 on one of these webcasts when we fire the dragon capsule using the eight super dracos off the launchpad and its down offshore in the Atlantic Ocean so theyre staying there with the system armed until all the hazards are essentially removed and we bring the crew access arm around them. Standing by and were going to listen to launch director talking to the weather officer. If youre just tuning in, we did not launch today, we did have a scrub because of weather. But as we were saying , we are looking forward to trying this again on saturday. Our lunchtime on saturday will be another instantaneous window so we will have to let have the weather cooperated again and that lunchtime will be 3 20 2 pm eastern area i think our last weather update put us in about 40 percent probability violation. John can check me e real quick. I saw coming out of the air force was 40 percent probability. Its always tough because they report violations and the optimistshave to subtract that from 100 percent to go 50 percent lchance, ill plan my picnic. We were listening, the space x launch director mike taylor was talking to othe launch weather officer asking about the three criteria that scrubbed us today. Sounds like in another minute or two lightning and the attached anvil cloud rules will clear. The charge in the atmosphere is still bouncing around and saying hey, we may need several more minutes before that one would clear so we would need even longer than 10 minutes in the window today looks like for all the rules to clear area that brings up what i want to mention a little while ago. It got lost listening to the weather brief, but there are a lot of folks going why an instantaneous launch window for falcon nine and dragon . Typically when we go to the space station, when we do the Mission Planning is an instantaneous window. There may be enough performance in the rocket launch somewhere in a odfiveminute period time in their area but in the case of falcon nine, once we start propellant load at d 39 minutes it doesnt matter so much if you can move five or 10 minutes left or right because the wholesequence is scripted. We do the flight analysis assuming that the temperatures of the propellant are below a certain amount we know how much performance is available to the rocket, how much margin we are going to have to so essentially if you start the countdown 4 hours, 8 hours out we were doing today and you have a short window area as you get propellant loaning d 35 minutes you have to go as soon as you get to zero. We dont have the ability to stop the countdown, wait five minutes. Now all of a sudden the liquid oxygen start warming up from 340 degrees below zero in the ground system msthat changes how much performance you get carrying into orbit and we dont want to cut into those margins. If we had had Something Like a four hour window which some medications satellite, we could actually get down to almost 0, hold account , beat an falcon nine. Wait a while, takes us about an hour and a half. Reload a whole new batch of cold when oxygen and fuel from the big storage tank that we got there at that 39 a and try to launch again but in that case you have to be able to launch about an hour and a half or so later after you scrub and in the case of the International Space station an hour and a half from now is nowhere near where we need to be to get orbit with the performance of the falcon nine and the dragon so todaygoits accommodation. We start in the second window but once you get into 35 minutes, it becomes a window for the falcon nine regardless of what the customer may feel like area theres a little explanation for folks wondering why we have such a tight window. Right now theyre bringing fuel of the state and liquid oxygen is just about off the stage. So things are clocking right along per the 40 minute timeline. Everything looks good and we will wait to hear that we are clear and when we get the call from bob and doug to go ahead and disarm launch escape system and the crew access arm will launch, come back out, centerourselves outside the dragon had and the crew will open the hatch. Thank you for the science lesson. No charge. We did hear a quick call to the crew and we should be under 10 minutes away from prop offload completing. It looks like we are tracking. Stage ii fuel is complete. We have a confirmation, stage ii offload is complete and we should have just the rp1 for that densify propellant. Rp1 is kerosene. We should be under 10 percent, a little under 10 minutes until thats off and we will step through those events we are discussing where they will be able to disarm the launch escape system, get the armback out there and bob and doug can be able to exit the spacecraft. Still not the friendliest skies in the background. That is florida though. The weather is constantly changing over there. Why we have to keep an eye on it through every single launchthat we have out there. Bob and doug are pieces patiently waiting as you can see. That is a live view ofthem on the crew dragon vehicle they are waiting prop offload to complete. Second stage prop offload is complete. We are just waiting on first stage. Waiting on stage i fuel in roughly 5 minutes or so. To the launch escape system is still armed. We are waiting for a prop offload to complete before they disarm that and then they will be able to egress from the crew dragon vehicle. We should be just under five minutes away from the last of that fuel coming out of the falcon nine first stage and we will see those events start to pick back up and see the crew arm swing back out read a bit in those seats for a couple of hours now. They typically get inside of dragon a little over 2 and a half hours ahead of launch so theyve been strapped into the seats for quite a while. They are custom size though so theres as comfortable and as snug as possible. Since theyre going to be in them for a ilong time most importantly when youredoing that splashdown at the end of the mission , its your car seat and splashing down or landing onland is not the most gentle procedure in a capsule. So just really making sure that they are snug inside of that dragon capsule but we should be under five minutes away from the prop offload being completed. As dan mentioned those suits are custommade but the seats are also custom fit for each astronaut as well. They do remain on crew dragon for this mission for almost 24 hours so we do want to make surethey are comfortable. And make sure that the suits and the seats are comfortable enough for them to stay in that position for a while. I believe when they get into orbit they are allowed to get out of their seats and get a little more comfortable, but its a long ride forthem. Once they do get on orbit they are able to get out of d the seat and out of theres two rand for this flightpath is going to take about 19 hours bob and doug would actually have eight hours to sleep on board the dragon bcapsule. So we were able to launch the data. Rendezvous on saturday should be very similar to what we would have had if we had launched today where it will take about 19 hours to get to the International Space patient so they will launch and have a number of different events we will be able to walk you through including manual piloting of dragon and putting the script spacecraft all the pieces before it arrives at the International Space station because this is a test flight and this last test before we started by the dragon spacecraft for regular crew flight to which will be bringing up as longduration, six months andmaybe even a yearlong mission. And it should be a very exciting test flight because its pretty much like an actual mission. When bob and doug get on the space station they will be performing some research while they are up there performing tests and doing some things for the demonstration mission. Right now we are going to continue to stay with them until we see them come out of dragon because the launch escape system still armed while we wait for this appellant offload to complete. Just done a safety measure, having propellants. You want to make sure that we have a good way for them to get out of the way. So we should be within just a couple of minutes with that final bit of our q1 coming off the first safe then we will your crew to go to disarm that one escape system see the crew access arm swing back in but if youre just tuning in, theyre expecting them to the interface , we did have some today due to weather launch is going to meet this saturday, may 30 3 20 2 pm eastern time like we did today were going to be bringing you every single of the way its going to look familiar if you watched all of todaybut its going to be just as exciting area. I can imagine it might even be more exciting with all the anticipation that we is launch up for with already going through it all today. Lagain, the more practicewe have , the better off we will be. Hopefully next what we will have a flawless lunch and actually be able to liftoff. With good weather. Weather is going to be the big thing that will continue to watch it was the culprit today are strong. Our initial orweather reports already looking at about a 40 percent possibility of violation, probability of violation so i would say the optimist in us have to say that 60 percent good so thats, were going to look at the good side of this. Thats roughly what we were in the days leading upto this. You wont have a rogue Tropical Storm forming off South Carolina on saturday. But Florida Weather will always be dynamic and we will continue to track and a chance to hit that window on saturday. Just a reminder, Everything Else on the vehicle and for the mission was looking good today. Was just the weather. Which as john, i have said earlier and lauren referred to in mentioning this. Weather is the one thing that we actually cannot control on our missions reedit so unfortunately it did cause us to scrub today. The healthy, the vehicles are healthy. Bob and doug wereready. They should be ready to go again the next launch on saturday. Looking at our data looks like our q1 is about. So we will just kind of stand by for a few more moments. Hopefully we call soon john area. While were waiting to hear the call but percentage of fuel is off, i was going to comment on jesses discussion, about it was the weather. Hii think during this countdown there were more words about the weather been Everything Else. Im listening right now to me whether discussion in the background. People wondering if we do that we did have bad weather, even from this morning, we do monitor this all the way down to the final minutes of the countdown and with Florida Weather being pretty sporadic , sometimes we have even hurricanes coming through for bad weathercoming through. Passing 20 minutes later and having good weather for a launch so this is why we continue to attempt to launch today. But unfortunately work easier today. Weather was not on our side. There scott again. I dropped off to listen to all weather discussion theyre just getting the times , the lightning rule 23 we could have gone with out lightning concerns. The fact were clear but the field rule is expected to clear at 58 minutes after the hour. So that another four and half minutes from now. N we were close but we needed about 25 minutes, later lunchtime does remind me risk of toffending some people but the old saying that says its better to be on the ground wishing you were flying and w lying wishing you were on the ground. Safety first. Always. Making sure that when bob and doug do fly, they are flying safely and as planned. So again, this is standard procedure for us to make sure that they do have a flight to the internationalspace station. For now we are discontinuing to stand by, expecting the call that all of that product has been offloadedfrom falcon nine. At this moment the launch escape system is still armed and once the proper offload is complete that will be the next step in our procedure to have bob and doug their way out of dragon. We have the prompt to for nominal crew egress. Its ready for launch escape system. Thats a firm ready for launch escape disarm. Launch seems ready, go ahead. Dragon, space x copy that discussion so with that you are go for disarming launch escape system for section 25. 100. O bringing the launch escape system. That was the call we were waiting for. Propellants off of falcon nine so theyre going to disarm the launch escape system on dragon and once thats disarmed, those eight super dracoengines will be out of the mix. Launch escape system has been disarmed. We concur. And schilling then confirmed the launch escape system has been disarmed. With that confirmation you are go to open your visors and proceed to section 3. We will open the visors. As you heard and you can see, bob and doug can open their visors and get ready for exiting the vehicle. Again, they kept their visors on while the launch is case o escape system was armed while proper offloading was continuing. And thats just to make sure they are safe. Now that theres no more prop propellant on any of the vehicles, they are safe to have disarmed the launch escape system and now are getting ready for that crew arm to swing back the hatch to open and for them to egress. Space x dragon with an update. We are holding in three decimal four and we are ready for rotation when you are. Copy that, we will waitfor the team to open the hatch and verify clearance and then we can execute the rotation. Dragon, copy. There is that crew arm swinging back towards dragon. Once that crew arm is in place they will be able to open the hatch on crew dragon. Bob and doug will rotate back out of launch position so that they can safely get out of their seats and egress the vehicle. We heard they will have what they call nominal egressso just a normal procedure for getting them out of the capsule. The same Closeout Team that was there to get them in will be able to assist as they come out so arrive and get that hatch open and they will be able to rotate the seats, that will rotate bob and doug pretty much forward where they will be in the original position that the seats were configured when they made their way into dragon and it just gets them a little bit out and under the display area it makes adding them out of thecapsule a bit easier. Theyve been in those seats for about three hours at this point. So definitely a longday for the crew. They woke up about six hours prior to our tzero and had their breakfast which we can confirm was steak and eggs. Then they proceeded through all of the suit and the trip to the pad, making their way inside dragon where theyve been for the last three hours at this point we were on thtrack for an ontime left off red light at 4 30 3 pm eastern it have to scrub a little under 17 minutes before launch due to weather so for now, weve offloaded all of the propellants of falcon nine area the launch system has been disarmed and the crew access arm is up and back to dragon as you see from the view on the left and soon we pwill see the teams arrive to get the hatch open and they will make make their way back to crew quarters and their quarantine. Its important to note throughout the entire process of them getting intodragon , suiting up and all of those different steps they maintain that same quarantine that theyve been in since for about 2 weeks now and that is specifically for d events like today where we scrub and go to another day so we dont haveto break that quarantine once were putting them into that launch vehicle. Our standard quarantine for any crew member flying to the International Space station, the current pandemic obviously puts a little bit of extra pressure and a little bit of an extra spotlight on that but they are following a lot of the same procedures we have in place to keep crewmembers healthy before they go and spendseveral months in space in an enclosed environment with a couple of people. Its a little bit more difficult to get them all on the space station so we want to make sure that when they do head up to the space station that they are fully healthy of this again is standard procedure area and not just because of this pandemic thats going on area this is a standard procedure for astronauts to quarantine prior to headingto the station. And as dan mentioned, this is a standard procedure to exit the vehicle as well. We did scrub today but this is not an emergency state. This is standard procedure. This is something that is practiced and rehearsed and make sure that we do want to follow standard procedure to make sure everything is safe. Bob and doug exit safely and go back into quarantine and get ready for our next launch attempt. Looks like theyre getting a chance now. They will head to the road blocks so they can drive to the path so watch director it still about 15 minutes for the crew to drive allut the way down at 39 n a and get up the tower and begin operations on the hatch. They have confirmed that the purge of the Service Section which is nitrogen during the countdown to avoid oxygen leaks, that is back on now. The crew is on air so they are ready for the team to get up into the tower. Its going to take them a little bit thoughe i think to drive dn the road in the vehicles. Wverything continuing to run for a normal scrub countdown which we had the opportunity to practice with the crew in for example the dried dress rehearsal last saturday after we had done the static drive a falcon ix the day before. Ive been seeing a few questions people asking why are we trying to launch tomorrow. John i was talking aboutmo him through this the very specific times you have to identify when you will be able to link up at the International Space station and you only have so much fuel which onlyan generates a much energy to make sure it intersects with the station which is why you are going 17000 miles an hour. Some of our other launch attempts have much longer time. We will be switching to a umbilical at this time. We will keep you updatede. Here. The countdown with a little over three minutes and we will stand by for your next call on the cell phone. The crew getting a call. They are going to refigure some canned occasions and as to why we are not launching say tomorrow when we take our launch attempts we have to keep tin mind some of the Human Factors of these attempts and some of these other launches that would require dragon backup for 30 or 40 more hours it could wreak havoc with the cycles not only for bob and doug that the crew on board the station that have to light up their schedule with bob and doug as they ride. The crew was on station in the dash bob and doug will be operating off of greenwich once they get there. Spacex dragon clear on him bill s cole. Still getting good copy between the crew and hawthorne produced some it up we pick our launch attempts for another a number of reasons not just can we make it to the station but how long is it going to take to get there and thats why saturday is going to be our best option. We will beat targeting that 1 43 22 p. M. Eastern time for next attempt a little over 19 to 20 hours until we actually arrive at the space station if gewe are able to get off the ground on saturday. This gives bob and doug a few days to kind of shake off the nurse from todays launch attempt andod give them some moe time to rest and again get ready for our launch attemptun on saturday. [background sounds] if youre just not joining us as john mentioned we are waiting for the team to make it back to the launch pad ahead of the powered help the crew bob and doug regressed the vehicle. [background sounds] spent dragon spacex for closeout. No ahead. The team has arrived and they are proceeding to the white room. Copy that. You heard that call out the egress team are proceeding to meet bob and doug in the weight room where they can open the hatch and help them exit the vehicle. We will continue tob stick with bob and doug until we see theha hatch open and they starto make their way out and then they we can geto there some views once more back at the pad. You can see the egress moving back. They were wearing the clean suits that we saw when they were helping bob and doug it into the dragon several hours ago happening on the elevator making their way back up and then we atll get the dragon side hatch open. As we saw earlier this is a very tall structure but the elevator is pretty quick they are so we saw them enter the tower. Should be a very short time before they make it to the top and are able to get to the white room and open the hatch for bob and doug. [background sounds] it should just be a few more men moments will see the close of team make their way back into the crew down the hatchway and again if you are just now tuning in we have that scrub 70 minutes before launch. To temp is going to be this saturday may 30, launch time is going to be another instantaneous launch. The time is going to be 3 22 p. M. Eastern time over there in florida. Assuming an ontime launch it will be a pretty similar flight that wea were looking at today where all be roughly 19 hours before they make that initial contact to the International Space station. They will get on orbit execute a series of five different versions gradually until they are a few hundred meters below the station will or may be a few kilometers behind and they will do the final initiation maneuvers and by that point the team and hawthorne will be working very closely with the team down in houston and the International Space station Flight Control room. The weather for saturday still not ideal but its roughly what we started out with today where we have about a 40 chance possibility of violation and i will be tracking a lot of the same issues with cumulus clouds and possible precipitation. We will be keeping an eye on this all but downrange whether aklooks like we are seeing some people making their way into the craft now so we should see them at the dragon side hatch open in just a few minutes but as a reminder we will be looking at whether around the launch pad and the weather downrange and their flight path on the way to orbit and thats will be checked in case they have to do a name emergency maneuver and planned in the ocean. We will be making sure that the weather is acceptable all the way into space. So the team coming down now and we should see the hatch open momentarily. They will be taking bob and doug out of the dragon space capsule. Again we are staying live and tell bob and doug are safely out of the crew dragon. You can see on your left hand screened the team getting ready to open the hatch for them andut help them out of their seats. And at this point the launch escape system has been disarmed after they successfully off put it all of the propellants and the first and second stage of the falcon ix rocket. The Team Looks Like they were doing what we call the sniff test using a portable detector just to assess the atmosphere around the dragon and the capsule itself before they get the hatch open and bring bob and dug out. All of this is standard safety procedures for egress thing the vehicle to ensure the safety of the crew as well as bob and doug. Dragon spacex, go ahead. The Closeout Team is in the white room and they are continuing the crew arm for egress expected to take no earlier than 10 minutes. Okay, thank you. It should be about 10 minutes and as a reminder air in the wite room. We had a look at that earlier in our coverage this morning. The white room name simply because of its color and thats something that started all the way back during the Early Missions and that is literally the last flight on planet earth before they get loaded into the vehicle. They have an Environmental Control apparatus that they can pull right up against the dragon juspacecraft to keep all of the dust and humidity out. I just wanted to check in with you. No changes. It hasnt been bad at all. Copy all. With the launch escape system arm we got the feed out of the bottom ofhe the feed. Copy all. Looks comfortable. Right now the close of team is going to take a couple of minutesco to configure the white room between it and the dragon spacecraft to make sure we are not letting anything in the surrounding environmentt get ino the spacecraft which is kept very pristine obviously for the crewmembers so once they are inside they have a small bridge that connects the crew arm to the capsule itself. Just making sure they have a nice clear path for their entrance and exit from the spacecraft. It should just be a few more minutes and we will see if the hatch gets opened and their crewmembers can start to make their way out. You heard rotation could they rotate the seats prior to their actual flight to where they are little bit more parallel to the ground and that puts them directly in front of the displays and just giving them easy access to get out of the capsule. As dan mentioned we want to keep bob out of the capsule. Its foreign object in greek debris so basically anything that does not long inside to be a call. Not just dirt and dust but anything that was not meant to be inside of their and should not be there so we are doing everything as a standard procedure to make sure we keep it out especially since this is going to be another attempt and another opportunity for it to enter the vehicle. As they are exiting we still eeke sure that the keep everything basically like the clean room. [background sounds] dragon spacex hehe may hear vehicles and about five. Copy. [background sounds] broun [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] john here with the web can does skin top third out in california. We are intending to wait for the crew to open the side hatch. We have got the camera showing doug hurley and bob behnken inside. The visors are up and they haveh their feet out in the restraint gloves are off it looks like in the team is just outside the hatch. They are going to the sequence right down to make sure pressure checks are all good and to make sure there are no concerns with gases, be it the propellants in the vehicle or just nitrogen gas currently we are coming up on about 15 minutes after the planned tzero to just reiterate what we have been talking about earlier we had a good countdown. We had a lot of fun saying there were no issues of a technical sort. But downrange weather looks good and case dragon had to make an unplanned aboard splashdown and maneuvers somewhere in the atlantic and once we get in the orbit in case dragon has to reenter and come back early the weather was good in the pacific and in case it had to come down so everything was looking our way except mother nature, the weather its florida and we got into the backend of a Tropical Storm which is now gone to sure in the carolinas but unfortunately it left everything disrupted just enough to where we violated several weather rules and we did not have enough time for them to go green, green meaning where the range of conditions are clear and you are all ready to launch. Still red on those rules and that was t the end of the countdown for the day. Again we scrubbed the team at 16 minutes and 54 seconds charlie before we were due to begin loading the liquid oxygen that was the logical breakpoint in the countdown procedure where we could take a scrubbed without letting propellants out of the vehicle and at the same time that gave us the final bad news that we werent going to get green conditions before the clock ran out at tzero. Continuing to watch right now as the crew works to get the hatch open. Final commands making sure everything is good to go. Once the hatch is opened the ground crew can verify that there is nothing in the way under the seats that doug and bob are sitting in and people get to see rotation again and get them back a little bit more vertical in the launch position. Then they will help them out of their seats and theyll come back out and down the aisle and off to the tower. [background sounds] n dragon spacex it looks like the team essentially the hatch to get the arm seal right now. Okay. We can see you folks outside the window. [background sounds] [background sounds] broun [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] [background sounds] we have been quiet for a few minutes but if you are just now tuning in we did not launch today. We did have to scrub Todays Mission due tor the weather. We were just under 17 minutes away from our tzero time at 4 33 eastern. We were still in violation of a few of the weather constraints that are there to inform teams when its safe to launch so we are looking at the weather around the pad and the weather all the way to orbit. We did have to scrub and since then we have been able to get all of the propellants off a falcon ix. The launch system has been disarmed and right now the close of teams are there in the white room so right at the end of the crew access arm they continue with the big steel that goes around the castle to make sure the environment is insulated with all that Florida Weather and they will get the hatch open nd will get bob and doug acca out. Ill get bob and doug acca