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
A place at the negotiating table. When more and more migrants are risking a dangerous new atlantic route from africa to europe via the Canary Islands. And a planet transformed into an uninhabitable hell a un report says World Leaders are failing in their duty to stop climate disaster. We start in the United States where a divided senate is pressing ahead with the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Kearney Barrett just 3 weeks before the president ial election she was nominated by President Trump and her confirmation would increase the conservative majority in the Supreme Court alan fisher has been following events on capitol hill in washington d. C. The goal to have amy quiney bennett on the u. S. Supreme court before the president ial election the 1st step the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing 16 days after her formal nomination from the Committee Chair a lament that politics plays such a big part in nominations now the bottom line is Justice Ginsberg when asked abou
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