Welcome from Kennedy Space center. I am with nasas office of communications. What a day were here to discuss nasa spacex demo2 mission and the return of u. S. Space night from the american soil to the International Space station withs a. S Robert Ben Ken and Douglas Hurley the crew spacecraft in the falcon 9 rocket lifted today from complex 39a at mas sas Kennedy Space center at 3 22 p. M. Bob and doug are safely on the think would International Space station to talk another about this Historic Mission we have a great panel of guests starting with nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine, elon musk, the chief engineer of spacex, kathy, manager of the Nasa Commercial Crew Program and Kirk Shireman the manager of the iss and nasa chief astronaut pat forrester. Well start with opening comments and presenters then well take your queens first start with our nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine. Jim thank you. What a great daze for nasa. What a great day for spacex. What a great day for the day of U
A really important day for the us Space Program, lay it all out for us, whats going to happen today in florida. We are counting down to the launch of two astronauts, Doug Hurley Bob Behnken at 4 43 eastern time today. This will be the first time american astronauts or any astronaut has launched from us soil into orbit since the retirement of the Space Shuttle nine years ago, july 8th, 2011, was the last time this happened here and the weather permitting it will happen again this afternoon. Tell us more about the mission itself, walk us through the next period of time with this launch. The astronauts should be waking up about now. They will have breakfast, get a weather briefing, then they will be suited up in their spacesuits around midday and head out to the launchpad a little after 1 00 pm eastern and board the spacecraft, go through the final leak checks and voice checks in Mission Control and then, all things being go they will on 4 43 eastern, get into space or get into orbit abou
Science and precision is starting precisely at 2 30 and zero seconds. That is an auspicious way to begin this discussion. Earlier this year, on one of the hottest nights of the summer, nearly a half Million People crowded onto the national mall. They werent there for a protest or to celebrate a national holiday. And they werent there for a concert or to watch a fireworks show. No, instead a half Million People went there, drenched in sweat, to watch the story of the apollo 11 mission as it was projected onto the Washington Monument, commemorating the moment 50 years ago when Neil Armstrong and buzz aldrin took that giant leap for mankind. As everyone in d. C. Knows, if there are a half Million People on the mall and it aint a protest, Something Big is going on. And landing the first humans on the moon and returning them safely to earth marks as one of the epochal moments in the history of mankind. As we look out over our space landscape today, what we see is very different from the lan
An American Company part of the fight on the front lines now were on the ground live all that, plus, time in space . The nasa astronaut accused of a criminal first music with a message inside Stevie Wonders surprise performance overnight at a benefit concert for the city of dayton. And the 15 million man. Rory mcilroy wins the biggest prize in golfs history, getting a very fortunate break from a wellplaced storm drain. The assist worth millions. Today, monday, august 26th, 2019 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza welcome to today. Thanks for joining us on this monday morning craig melvin alongside Kristen Welker, who is in for savannah this is the last week of hodas maternity leave, as well did you see that shot . Unbelievable shot 15 million day. All in a days work. Rory mcilroy making it look easy. Incredible. Tiger did it last year. This year, he did it. The storm drain kept it from going into the water
As you continue to enjoy your dessert, id like to begin our program because we have a very special program today. I think the most special of the eight that weve had in this annual observance of steve indicators birthday. Im Stuart Mclaurin and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association. Welcome you to our campus here at historic Decatur House and on behalf of our board of directors, our National Council on white house history and my staff colleagues, i would like to welcome you here to the White House Historical association and historic Decatur House for this eighth observance. This actually began in 2006, and weve done it every year. Of course, with covid. We had to go virtual, but weve had wonderful, extraordinary speakers each time. And this time is going to be no different. You had the opportunity to hear earlier from former secretary of the Navy John Dalton, and also hes also a former member of the board of directors here at the associat