Foster not chief astronaut. We will first start with our nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine. Nasa,t a great day for what a great day for spacex and the United States of america. It has been nine years since we have launched american astronauts from american soil and we have done it again. I want to be clear the mission is not yet over. We are at the beginning, but so far, everything has performed very, very well, and we are excited about the fact that bob and doug, our american heroes are safely in orbit and on the way to the International Space station. Congratulations to nasa team. Congratulations for the leaders who have been on the nasa side leading our commercial crew program all along, and you and your team have done an absolutely marvelous job. Of course, elon musk and your team in spacex, this launch represents the best of everything that america has to offer. Showso will it also the process, to my nasa administrator who got the program off the ground when there was not a lot o
The Artemis Program and the moon to mars program, i think the Business Model has proven it well very successful. We are bringing down costs, increasing access, and that will spacexe to happen and and others can get more customers. Nasa does not want to be the owner and operator of the heart or the only customer. We want spacex to go get customers that are not as. When that materializes, i think what elon is talking about, this vision for humanity being able to live on the surface of the moon for long periods of time and eventually on mars for long periods of time, that is the eventuality of the Business Model we are currently developing. Thank you. Our next question is from Chris Davenport of the washington post. Thank you for taking my call. Thank you further trampling quote. That was classic. The, you put the window in cargo dragon as a symbol of your ambition of flying people. I wonder if you could talk about how over these long years, you it asour team focused on the ultimate goal,
198 of the 302 new positive cases are from walkout, dallas, lk counties. We have had an additional 14 islands that have passed away due to covid19. Today we had 1028 new negative cases for a total of 35 cows and 35,542. Over 46,000 total tests have been completed in iowa, and one in 74 islands have been tested. Iowans have recovered from covid19, for a recovery rate of 38 . Beginning tomorrow, restrictions put in place to slow the spread of covid19 will be eased in counties where there is low virus activity or none at all. To attendbe able at their sunday, eat local restaurant, or walk down main street if they choose. We should expect normal to look a little different, look and feel a little different for a while. Covid19 isnt going anywhere anytime soon. The virus will continue to be in our communities, and unfortunately people will still get sick until the vaccine is available. Keeping businesses closed for weeks or months longer wont change that fact, and it is not sustainable. It i
The yield down below. 6 last time i checked, it was at 0. 597 dr. Fauci saying the first human trial testing for a covid19 vaccine is now on track calling it the ultimate game changer but that public distribution is still 12 to 18 months away. President trump was asked if the stom pile of personal protective equipment was nearly depleted. We are sending it directly to hospitals. We dont want to take it before it gets there. We asked many states to do this. Many states have people or where they make clothing, we said see if you can get it directly from those manufacturers. The president considering halting flights to hot spots in the country, which would be a shift in this batter and also potentially have an impact on when and if the economy will return to some normal si in the meantime, total death numbers have topped 5,100. Confirmed cases have topped 200,000. In new york, topping 81,000 cases. In italy, the lowest daily death toll the new number of active cases declining. The hate he
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