Thank you for joining us for this post docking news briefing of the nasa spacex demo two mission. Hurleynken and douglas arrived at the International Space station aboard the crew dragon. We will hear more from nasa leadership talk more about the mission. Administratornasa jim bridenstine, mark geyer, isse fitch, kenny todd from , the International Space Station Program director, and shall linger in and shall longer and and an astronaut. Up, our nasa administrator james bridenstine. I want to say congratulations to the nasa team and to the spacex team, and it really congratulations to the United States of america. This has been an amazing two days. We are still at the beginning. We have a mission in front of us and we need to make sure we bring bob and doug home safely. Launchingbout american astronauts for the first time on a brandnew rocket, this has been done four times in the history of the United States. Apollo, spacei, shuttle, and now crew dragon. So actually five times. This ha
Today we will hear more from the nasa leadership. Joining us is the nasa administrator, the director of the Johnson Space center, the Program Director of the kennycial crew program, from the International Space a nasa director and astronaut. Thank you for joining us today. We will start with opening remarks and then go to questions from reporters. First up is our nasa administrator. Thank you. I just want to say thank you to teamasa team and space a and congratulations to the United States of america. Days. S an amazing two we have a mission in front of us and we need to make sure we bring bob and doug home safely. When we think about launching american astronauts on a brandnew rocket, this has been done four times in the history of the United States. Spacey, gemini, apollo, shuttle, and now crew dragon its actually five times now. This has gone as well as we could have expected it to go. I want to say a big congratulations to nasa, a big congratulations to spacex, and we are going to
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Minute. First, lets talk to bob cabana. Dir. Cabana good morning and welcome to the Kennedy Space center. I dont have to tell you how exciting it is to have the first flights of humans to space from the Kennedy Space center in nine years. And what a historic pad to be doing it from. We went to the moon from pad 39a. 82 of the 135 Shuttle Missions launched, including three of my flights. With our partnership with spacex, the pad is being used again and is now for the commercial crew program and for other spacex missions. I think it is absolutely outstanding. Truly an historic time from an historic pad. We are pleased to have our nasa administrator with us this morning. As a member of congress, jim was a huge advocate and proponent for aviation and spaceflight as a member of the Armed Services committee and the science and technology committee. Now he is sharing that passion with all of us as he leads nasa into a new era of space exploration. Jim. Adm. Bridenstine it is great to be here
Tanker from iran in open waters heading for venezuela and as you can see in the video its being escorted by a venezuelan mabel warship youre going to see that just as we pull out here hold on there it is see it right there now why would an oil tanker need to be a score to buy a gun ship right and the reason is this the United States has threatened to stop the tankers from reaching venezuela a country where citizens are waiting in line for hours because theres a shortage of fuel so let me show you im out of what were talking about thats taking place here heres heres a map of 5 ships that are making their way all the way from over here into iran. To vent as well. And the 1st 2 ships by the way the fortune and the forest theyve already arrived in venezuela and the remaining ships thats the petunia faxon and the gavel clavell sorry all 3 of those are still in midocean theyre following behind they could arrive today they could arrive tomorrow unless the United States makes good on its promi