Pacific time last couplemazing of days. I just cant tell you how wonderful it was to see the crew come to the hatch and weve been talking a lot about all the firsts. Uss mission was a dream of to be able to one day be able to crew Transportation Services to the International Space station. And today that dream became a reality. A huge step for us. ,t took a huge team of folks not only spacex folks, and our and allagency friends of the dod, a ton of people made this happen today. Feat was notng easy. This was hard. On top of this, one of the other firsts was we all had to do this in the time of a pandemic. I think there are some of us that if you would have thought about all the things this team had to go through, they wouldve said this is too much. But it wasnt. This team has done a phenomenal job. The crew will do phenomenal things of the next months. We will keep doing crew missions. Proud of the nasa team, and ourency nation for stepping up to win this. Thank you. We will go next to
Lets kick it off with kathy. What an amazing last couple of days. I cant tell you how wonderful it was to see the crew come to the hatch. We have been talking about all of the firsts. His mission was a dream for us to one day be able to have crew Transportation Services to the International Space station, and today that dream came a reality. A huge step for us. Folks, a huge team of not only spacex folks but nasa folks and our federal agency dod come a ton of people made this happen today. It was not easy. If you think about all the things this team had to go through, they would have said this is too much, but it wasnt. This team has done a phenomenal job. Do crew on orbit is going to phenomenal things over the next six months and we are going to keep doing Crew Missions and it is the start of a new era. Am very proud of the nasa, and for stepping out and doing this. Thank you. Will go next to mark. You forwant to thank your leadership in making this happen. It is a terrific day for na
Congress. Watch washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern Tuesday Morning. Be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Spacex crew dragon is making contact with the International Space station this evening. We expect the docking to begin around 11 00 p. M. Eastern once that occurs, there will be a welcoming ceremony for the four astronauts on board. We also expect a News Conference with nasa officials in the early or morning hours. This is live coverage on cspan. We will next move through wave. 1, 220 meters away directly in front of the docking port. Where dragon docked steering demo one and demo two. We will be looking for the go to keep out the sphere of 200 meter radius, and invisible line around the station that helps flight controllers monitor vehicles they approach and depart the International Space station. Such a cool view. Seeing dragon with the canada arm from the station. The earth in the background. We use to use t
President and his refusal to concede. Calls for justice growing following the death of 15yearold Quawan Charles, the mystery surrounding his death and what his family is saying about the preliminary autopsy report. Hurricane iota rapidly intensifying. The catastrophic rainfall forecast for a region just hit hard by hurricane eta earlier this month. Our weather team tracking the storm. And ready for launch. The Spacex Crew Dragon Team making final preps for their historic mission. The experiments on board they hope will lead to medical breakthroughs and the vips Just Announced for the liftoff. Good morning. This morning there is basically no part of this country not feeling the surge of this pandemic. Cases are going up in almost every state. In 47 states, plus d. C. , puerto rico and guam cases are higher and staying high. The death toll in this country now surpassing 245,000 people with cases nearing 11 million. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. This week the biggest Public
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