To earth courtesy of nasa tv. Nasasng to you from Johnson Space center. Bob behnken and doug hurley spent nine weeks aboard the International Space station traveling 27. 1 million miles an orbiting earth over 1024 times. As of today, our crew is home. 45 years and nine days after the last american splashed down on earth. Our two favorite space dads splashed down on the coast of pensacola thus concluding our first lunch America Mission first lunch America Mission. It marks the first return of american spacecraft from the International Space station. To discuss the mission and talk are ourunch america brief first. First, nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine. President and ceo of spacex. Steve stich, commercial program manager. The International Space Station Program manager and the entire crew of spacex crew one. Mike hopkins, victor glover, Shayna Walker who are quarantined together and speaking to us today. We will start with opening remarks and take questions from reporters who have dia
We will have lots about the launch of a great guest today. We have bob cabana, director for the candy space to come Jim Bridenstine, administrator, commercial crew astronauts, and nasa deputy administrator jim or more hard. Well be hearing more from them in a minute but first lets talk to bob. Thanks. Good morning and welcome to get space center. I dont have to do how exciting it is to the first light that humans to space from the Kennedy Space center in nine years. And what is tort bad to be doing it from. We went to the men from pad 39a, 882 over 135 Shuttle Missions launched off that path including three of my. Brazzaville brushing away in the air through a partnership with spacex, that pat is being used once again and it is not for commercial crew program as well as of the missions for spacex and thats absolutely outstanding. Truly an historic time on historic pad. We are pleased to offer nasa administer Jim Bridenstine with us this morning. As a member of congress jim was a huge a
Question. Start off with the administrator, everybody seems to be on the same page about the importance of cooperation. What do those words get transformed to the concrete actions like an extension of the iga, Bilateral Agreements or something firm and finding against the various agencies working together. I try to answered what you are staying. You are asking very general. All of these agencies over here, they are already activities going on in cooperation. Not only the International Space station but also other programs, agreements. If you asked concretely this is another question. For that we are looking our meeting already since now, two or three years at least. This is more important than that just the agreement. The agreement has to follow up i hope. Scenic thats right, it starts with those of us up here working together to come up with a concept that we think it would work. It ultimately ends with those taking it back to the Political Leadership of our countries are our organiza
Theyre going to be talking about International Cooperation in space. So youre asking it in very general terms and, of course, with all these agencies oef here, there are already activities going on in cooperation not only on the International Space station but also in other programs so there are bilateral and multilateral agreements. If you ask concretely about gateway, this is another question. And for that, we are looking we are meeting already since now, since two, three years, at least, working on it, and this is more important than just the agreements. The agreements is something which has to follow us, i hope. Jim . Thats right. So, you know, it starts with those of us up here working together to come up with the concepts that we think would work and then it ultimately ends with us taking it back to the Political Leadership of our countries or our organizations. The European Space agency, for example, has to go to its ministerial. Nasa has to go to the United States congress. And
I think the woman who will under the keys vigorously for them to be cool and orderly, multiple world and universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization and visiting serbia and then hungry sheets and things as china is always open to expanding cooperation with states that put their National Interest above the russell will the racial ruble live in moscow. Youre watching archie international. The idea of has struck rafa once again, an area to where most displaced dozens have fled. But it shows heavy smoke rising above residential buildings in southern gaza. This tries come after cease fire negotiations in cairo failed once again with a mouse and israel unable to agree on core demands. Journalist criminal satari says the situation in rafa is deteriorating rapidly amid the relentless bombardment from israel. The hey target seriously populated area. They conduct concurrent strides and bows, different parts of the neighborhood, the story a good theories of houses and they bought