Spacex crew dragon was able to dock with the International Space station on monday. This was the first fully operational approved mission for spacex following an earlier test mission back in may. A look at the docking process courtesy of nasa tv. We are waiting for the crew to confirm that they are ready. We are waiting for the crew to confirm it looks like we have gone through sunset, and we will get the lights strobe being so we can see the target. We are good to proceed. Blinders are down. Copy. You are go to proceed advisors are down, that is great to hear. We will come and the resume shortly. As a reminder, once dragon is inside the crew hands off break. Copy all. I am ready. We have go from the crew. They will be starting this procedure shortly. They will start approaching that docking adapter that you see any screen. Once we get close enough we will do a soft capture. Followed by the insertion of the pins for the heart capture. We also heard the core mention that once we reached
That they are ready. We are waiting for the crew to confirm it looks like we have gone through sunset, and we will get the lights strobe being so we can see the target. We are good to proceed. Blinders are down. Copy. You are go to proceed advisors are down, that is great to hear. We will come and the resume shortly. As a reminder, once dragon is inside the crew hands off break. Copy all. I am ready. We have go from the crew. They will be starting this procedure shortly. They will start approaching that docking adapter that you see any screen. Once we get close enough we will do a soft capture. Followed by the insertion of the pins for the heart capture. We also heard the core mention that once we reached the crews hands off point, the chop call, retrieve and break out are permitted. That will be from the crew. The vehicle can still abort if necessary. Everything is continuing to look good for crew dragon. Ready to depart waypoint two. The final approach has begun. Crew dragon moving i
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
Six months, and when you keep doing Crew Missions. Its the start of a new era. I am very, very proud as the nasa space x, the agency team, and our nation for stepping out and doing this. Thank you. Thank you, kathy. Next to mark geyer. Thank you kathy ottawa to thank you for your leadership especially in making this happen. It is a terrific day for nasa and for the country in general. Its really exciting to see the seven crew members on iss, four a, two russian and our japanese partners. Its great to be starting this crew rotation plan and not being able to utilize iss as we envisioned. Im honored to with the increment 64 pin today, so its a great start to that mission. The astronauts are doing great. You saw them as they came through the hatch. They are excited to start their mission. They are very well trained. They ready to get started. We believe nasa unites with our partners to achieve bold omissions and in this case they can be commercial partners or international partners. Next