Thumbsup. Welcome to the press conference as we celebrate conclusion of this Historic Mission and the official return spaceflights to american soil. L nasas Johnson Space center. Hurley spent nine weeks aboard the International Space station traveling 27. 1 millionmilance orbiting over 1024 times, and, today, our crew is home. And splashing down 45 years and nine days after the last american smash splashdown on earth. Melts ago, our two favorite space splashed down off the coast of pens control and aboard the spacex crew dragon and just concluding our first launch america mission. This historic landing left the first return of commercial built and operator american spacecraft from the International Space station. And to discuss this Historic Mission. Talk more about watch america and what we have in store for nasa is we have the briefers. Let me introduce them. First Jim Bridenstine, nasa administrator, president and ceo of spacex, steve stitch, commercial crew program manager, Interna
Jcpoa, loud and clear. Welcome to the space station. Thank you. Great. Well, welcome and good morning from houston and thank you all for joining us today. We have many questions already in the queue for our crew. As a reminder for our media on the phone bridge please press star what if you have a question and start two to withdraw your question if he gets answered. Lets jump in. We will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking the questions and hope you can have a pretty well up there. Im curious to hear a little bit more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time you have been up there, as well as if you guys feel like youre ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that you would rather stay at there a come back down to test the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats some question. Ill see if i can remember all of them, but i think froman on on orbit testing standpoint we did have abi
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
Looks like we have got him out. We have got him seated. There we go. Another thumbs up. [applause] following the flash dap splashdown, nasa and others held a news conference. This is just under one hour. Hello and welcome to our post press conference. Returning to american soil. Dougastronauts bob and traveling 27. 1s million miles an orbiting earth over 1024 times. As of today, our crew is home. Splashing down 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 about launch america are our 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 ho
Earth, splashing down in the waters of the gulf of mexico on sunday. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us at the Johnson Space center for the splashdown News Conference. Doug hurley and Operations Commander splashed down in the gulf of mexico after 64 days in space. In space. Completing the first crewed flight of the spacex crew dragon. Their mission was to test the capabilities of the knew commercial space vehicle for regular crew transportation to the International Space station, but they contributed a whole lot more than that on their mission, during their 62 days aboard station they dedicated more than 100 hours to science investigation and worked with the competition 63 crew to upgrade the stations power system on four space walks. Today is the first opportunity after splash down to ask questions to bob and doug, well be taking questions on our phone bridge as well as associate media platforms if you are on the phone press star 1 to ask add yourself toll queue. We would lik