To the traditional prelaunch News Conference ahead of the falcon and crew 1 dragon launch to the iss. Here to provide all the details are folks that were part of the review today and also have been part of the preparations that led up to this moment as an exciting day for everybody in nasa and spacex. An everyone tuning in today. Let me introduce the panel, and i will let each one of them give you some words before we take questions. Steve stich. He is the nasa manager for the commercial crew program here at kennedy. Also joel montalbano, the nasa manager of the International Space Station Program at Johnson Space center in houston. Norm knight, the deputy manager of Flight Operations director at johnson. Also joining us is benji reed, the senior director of human spaceflight programs at spacex. We are glad to have him with us. Also, kirt costello, the nasa iss program chief scientist at Johnson Space center. And arlena moses, the launch weather officer for the u. S. Air force 45th wea
The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the sa
Decision to take her off life support. Kron fours dan thorn talking with her family this afternoon. Hes live tonight. In the newsroom with their story and obviously dan heartbreak that no family has to experience absolutely jonathan this has been an extremely difficult time for this family, they have no idea why someone would do Something Like this. The victim leaving behind a young son and a grieving family looking for answers. 21 yearold ivana or resolve ul celebrating her sons first birthday a joyful memory just weeks before tragedy struck the young mother and richmond native was killed after being shot in the head in valais how mean i know in the new. Justice is done. The thing that everyone is going through his son. So im going to be healed. For his novels cousin, cuba that remember sir is friendly to everyone and always had a smile. He says the family was heartbroken she couldnt pull through in we were given the up short so that we would have to because pretty much. Her brain can
Here to provide all the details are folks that were part of the review today and also have been part of the preparations that led to this moment as an exciting day for everybody for nasa and spacex. Let me introduce the panel, and i will let each one of them give you some words before we take questions. The nasa manager for the commercial crew program here at kennedy. Of the nasa manager International Space Station Program in houston. Flightuty manager of Operations Director at johnson. Also joining us is the senior director of human spaceflight programs at spacex. We are glad to have him with us. Also, kurt costello, the nasa iss program chief scientist at Johnson Space center. And last but not least is arlena moses, the launch weather officer for our 45th weather squadron. I know everyone is looking forward to hearing from her as well. With that, i will turn it over to steve and let them take it from there. Thank you. It is great to be here, following the launch readiness today. It h
Those counties are in the orange here also on tuesday napa county is expected to move back into the purple tier which is the most restrictive in the reopening map. Currently napa county is in the orange here also on tuesday contra costa and santa clara and warren counties will ban Indoor Dining a ban on Indoor Dining in San Francisco started yesterday. Meanwhile doctor Peter Chinhong with ucsf says businesses are paying the price for that rapid rise in cases. He said in a statement that the restrictions targeting entire classes of businesses arent very fine tuned. And dont address specific activities that are driving up those increases. A big story were following this sunday night a bay area mother killed in a senseless shooting last week Toledo Police say the 21 yearold mother of little boy was hit by bullets during a shooting friday that womans family making the painful decision to take her off life support. Kron fours dan thorn talking with that family this afternoon is live tonight