To the traditional prelaunch News Conference ahead of the falcon and crew 1 dragon launch to the iss. Here to provide all the details are folks that were part of the review today and also have been part of the preparations that led up to this moment as an exciting day for everybody in nasa and spacex. An everyone tuning in today. Let me introduce the panel, and i will let each one of them give you some words before we take questions. Steve stich. He is the nasa manager for the commercial crew program here at kennedy. Also joel montalbano, the nasa manager of the International Space Station Program at Johnson Space center in houston. Norm knight, the deputy manager of Flight Operations director at johnson. Also joining us is benji reed, the senior director of human spaceflight programs at spacex. We are glad to have him with us. Also, kirt costello, the nasa iss program chief scientist at Johnson Space center. And arlena moses, the launch weather officer for the u. S. Air force 45th wea
Here to provide all the details are folks that were part of the review today and also have been part of the preparations that led to this moment as an exciting day for everybody for nasa and spacex. Let me introduce the panel, and i will let each one of them give you some words before we take questions. The nasa manager for the commercial crew program here at kennedy. Of the nasa manager International Space Station Program in houston. Flightuty manager of Operations Director at johnson. Also joining us is the senior director of human spaceflight programs at spacex. We are glad to have him with us. Also, kurt costello, the nasa iss program chief scientist at Johnson Space center. And last but not least is arlena moses, the launch weather officer for our 45th weather squadron. I know everyone is looking forward to hearing from her as well. With that, i will turn it over to steve and let them take it from there. Thank you. It is great to be here, following the launch readiness today. It h
Houston and thank you all for joining us today. We have many questions already in the queue for our crew. As a reminder for media on the the phone bridge please press starone if you have a question and star2 to withdraw your question if it gets answered. All right. Lets jump. In we will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking my question. I hope you can hear me. Im curious to hear more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time youve been up there as well as do you guys feel like youre getting ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that youd rather see staying up there or coming back to test out the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats several questions, ill see if i can remember all of them. But i think from an onorbit testing standpoint we did have an ability we did inhabitability test, we tested emergency equipment, and just generically how we work with the dragon docked on boa
The phone bridge please press starone if you have a question and star2 to withdraw your question if it gets answered. All right. Lets jump. In we will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking my question. I hope you can hear me. Im curious to hear more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time youve been up there as well as do you guys feel like youre getting ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that youd rather see staying up there or coming back to test out the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats several questions, ill see if i can remember all of them. But i think from an onorbit testing standpoint we did have an ability we did inhabitability test, we tested emergency equipment, and just generically how we work with the dragon docked on board. Transferring equipment, transferring supplies. Were going to do a fair amount of that again tomorrow when we return equipment or supp
The phone bridge please press starone if you have a question and star2 to withdraw your question if it gets answered. All right. Lets jump. In we will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking my question. I hope you can hear me. Im curious to hear more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time youve been up there as well as do you guys feel like youre getting ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that youd rather see staying up there or coming back to test out the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats several questions, ill see if i can remember all of them. But i think from an onorbit testing standpoint we did have an ability we did inhabitability test, we tested emergency equipment, and just generically how we work with the dragon docked on board. Transferring equipment, transferring supplies. Were going to do a fair amount of that again tomorrow when we return equipment or supp