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
Well, were just 60 meters away. We should get there in just over two minutes. Meanwhile, teams in hawthorne and in houston doing their internal go and no fold. Once its go, well get the dragon autonomously fly in, doc with the International Spay station. Just about one minute and 45 seconds. At this point it will be 20 meters away at the international dock. Number two attached, meeting adapter number 2 at the very forward end of the harmony module. Right there around the center, you can see the hash, you can see a couple of handles. There is a feature that looks a little bronzeish. Thats part of the soft capture system. So pretty wild, were so close that were getting shadows from the station on dragon, wow. These are viewed from two cameras. The movement is a little jarring at times. These cameras are being commanded by a person at th thee console through houston. They continue to follow dragon in. We thank them for their diligence to give us these views as were just less than 30 minut
Hawthorne teams in and in houston doing their internal gono go for docking. Once everyone is go, we will be able to give the final goahead. 0 meters away at the international dock. Number two attached, meeting adapter number 2 at the very forward end of the harmony see the hash, you can see a couple of handles. There is a feature that looks a little bronzeish. Thats part of the soft capture system. So pretty wild, were so close that were getting shadows from the station on dragon, wow. These are viewed from two cameras. The movement is a little jarring at times. These cameras are being commanded by a person at th thee console through houston. They continue to follow dragon in. We thank them for their diligence to give us these views as were just less than 30 minutes away from docking. Right above the nasa meatball logo you can seethree of the Service Section draco thrusters. Thats right, 12 in all. Four of those clusters spread around the vehicle. Used for a lot of attitude control. An
Houston go for docking. Steps three and four. Three and four approach and retrieve monitor. Copy steps three and four. Our visors are down. Copy, visors down. The crew confirming the crisisser down. We should see the final approach resume. Approach has resumed. Dragon closing in. Were inside 20 meters. That crew hands off point should come up in about three minutes or so. Right before we get that final docking, it comes 20 seconds prior or two meters away from the station still. And thats just the crew not issuing any abort commands. At that point it would be too late, so any aborts would be executed automatically by dragon itself. Were closing in at less than a tenth of a meter per second. You can see theyre doing all these very small minor attitude corrections. Really, the autonomous docking system at work making sure that the vestibule and the soft capture system was lined up with the docking adapter. You can see much more clearly there. The four black circles are th thethey are not
Search box on her homepage on our homepage. Video earlier today leading up to the docking of the Spacex Dragon with two astronauts aboard with the International Space station. You will hear communications between ground control, the spacecraft, and commentary from nasa t. V. As the docking takes place. They will get all of the teams pulled. Once all the teams go, we will get dragon the goahead to fly in and doc with International Space station. It should be coming up to arrival in just about one minute and 45 seconds. At this point, it will be 20 meters away from that docking at two,adapter number pressurized to meeting adapter number two at the end of the module. Center, you can see the forward hatch with a window, a couple of handles, and there are some features that look ronsish. Those are look bron zeish. Pretty wild. We are so close that we are getting shadows from the station on dragon. Wow. And we are getting these views tworagons approach from cameras from that adapter. The mov