Hello. Thank you for joining us today. We have one day to launch of the historic nasa spacex mission. We moved the press conference indoors due to weather, but we have good news the weather has improved. We have a 60 chance of favorable weather for launch. We will hear lots about the launch by the great guests today. We have bob cabana, the director for the Kennedy Space center. Jim bridenstine the nasa , administrator. We have astronauts. We have the nasa deputy administrator. We will hear more from them in a 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. We went to the moon from pad 39a. 82 love 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 projects. I
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
International space station. Hello. Thank you for joining us today. We have one day to launch of the historic nasa spacex mission. Hello. Thank you for joining us today. We have one day to launch of the historic nasa spacex mission. We moved the press conference indoors due to weather, but we have good news the weather has improved. We have a 60 chance of favorable weather for launch. We will hear lots about the launch by the great guests today. We have bob cabana, the director for the Kennedy Space center. Jim bridenstine, the nasa we have commercial group astronauts. Commercial crew astronauts. We have the nasa deputy administrator. We will hear more from them in a 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
Lets start off with aggression from bill cbs. Can you hear me now . Testing one, two,. Loud and clear, bill. Sorry about that. I want to go back to what bob was in yesterday describing the riot you are comparing it to the shuttle but i was more interested in the first stage of the falcon how did it feel and the second stage feel and you made it sound like maybe it was rougher than the shuttle on the main engine. Wondering if there was ever a point when he looked at doug and said this is not what i expected . Well bill, you took the words right out of my mouth. The summary from yesterday was good, smoother and first stage little rougher second stage and then we saw in shuttle and both of us were expecting. We did comment on it while we were going uphill. I think we tried to verbalize it as much as the new experience that we were having to make sure they were for real between the two of us that we were sensing the same things. Lets go to question from steven clark. Hello, thank you for t
Question from twitter. Probably for you, chris. From rick. When they opened the hatch to dragon have that new car smell . It absolutely did. In fact, there was a space smell in the vestibule that when we got that hatch open you could tell it was a brandnew vehicle with smiley faces on the other side, smiley face on mine and just as if you had bought a new car, the same reaction. Wonderful to see my friends and wonderful to see a brandnew vehicle. We will start off of the questions from bill, cbs. Lets start off with aggression from bill cbs. Can you hear me now . Testing one, two,. Loud and clear, bill. Sorry about that. I want to go back to what bob was in yesterday describing the riot you are comparing it to the shuttle but i was more interested in the first stage of the falcon how did it feel and the second stage feel and you made it sound like maybe it was rougher than the shuttle on the main engine. Wondering if there was ever a point when he looked at doug and said this is not wh