And its been a rough week in new and well get to some of that later but i deliberately want to begin tonight with an update on a real good news story that has happened just this past week and which we continue to follow until now governments had sent men and women up into space but when we retired the Space Shuttle we began meeting to hitch a ride with the russians to join our russian partners at the International Space station and 86000000. 00 cab fare so when private enterprise got the usa back into the game with the reuse of all rocket no less it was a proud moment a respite from all else thats challenged us lately here on earth where in space do we boldly go next lets ask a long time Network Space correspondent john beers nico on. There with jail pickering of among other books the handsome picturing apollo 11 rare views and undiscovered moments and the space age presidency of john f. Kennedy are rare photographic history john space x. Had already been shuttling cargo up to the sas
A ride with the russians to join our russian partners at the International Space station and 86000000. 00 cab fare so when private enterprise got the usa back into the game with the reuse of all rocket no less it was a proud moment a respite from all else that challenged us lately here on earth where in space do we boldly go next lets ask a long time Network Space correspondent john business coauthor with jail pickering of among other books the handsome picturing apollo 11 rare views and undiscovered moments in the space age presidency of john f. Kennedy a rare photographic history john space x. Had already been shuttling cargo up to the i. S. A. s how is ferrying astronauts there a game changer as we continue to explore that final frontier. I think its significant on several fronts holland 1st of all as you say its the 1st time a private company has done that and thats sort of been the goal of the series of us have ministrations going back for a period of years they wanted too. Move t
Today we will hear more from the nasa leadership. Joining us is the nasa administrator, the director of the Johnson Space center, the Program Director of the kennycial crew program, from the International Space a nasa director and astronaut. Thank you for joining us today. We will start with opening remarks and then go to questions from reporters. First up is our nasa administrator. Thank you. I just want to say thank you to teamasa team and space a and congratulations to the United States of america. Days. S an amazing two we have a mission in front of us and we need to make sure we bring bob and doug home safely. When we think about launching american astronauts on a brandnew rocket, this has been done four times in the history of the United States. Spacey, gemini, apollo, shuttle, and now crew dragon its actually five times now. This has gone as well as we could have expected it to go. I want to say a big congratulations to nasa, a big congratulations to spacex, and we are going to
Minute. First, lets talk to bob cabana. Dir. Cabana good morning and welcome to the Kennedy Space center. I dont have to tell you how exciting it is to have the first flights of humans to space from the Kennedy Space center in nine years. And what a historic pad to be doing it from. We went to the moon from pad 39a. 82 of the 135 Shuttle Missions launched, including three of my flights. With our partnership with spacex, the pad is being used again and is now for the commercial crew program and for other spacex missions. I think it is absolutely outstanding. Truly an historic time from an historic pad. We are pleased to have our nasa administrator with us this morning. As a member of congress, jim was a huge advocate and proponent for aviation and spaceflight as a member of the Armed Services committee and the science and technology committee. Now he is sharing that passion with all of us as he leads nasa into a new era of space exploration. Jim. Adm. Bridenstine it is great to be here
International space station. Hello. Thank you for joining us today. We have one day to launch of the historic nasa spacex mission. Hello. Thank you for joining us today. We have one day to launch of the historic nasa spacex mission. We moved the press conference indoors due to weather, but we have good news the weather has improved. We have a 60 chance of favorable weather for launch. We will hear lots about the launch by the great guests today. We have bob cabana, the director for the Kennedy Space center. Jim bridenstine, the nasa we have commercial group astronauts. Commercial crew astronauts. We have the nasa deputy administrator. We will hear more from them in a minute. First, lets talk to bob cabana. Dir. Cabana good morning and welcome to the Kennedy Space center. I dont have to tell you how exciting it is to have the first flights of humans to space from the Kennedy Space center in nine years. And what a historic pad to be doing it from. We went to the moon from pad 39a. 82 of