It completes its trip to space with people on board for nasa. Joining me is the Nasa Public Affairs officer. It is great to be back here for this historic milestone moment and nasas commercial crew program. Expected toome is last roughly 19 hours. That includes four departure up with burn to line the landing location, and a final burn. The trip home also includes an eight hour sleep period where both crewmembers can get some rest before arrival gone are the tomorrow after a little more than two months in space. Dragon is targeted to splash down off the coast of pensacola florida pensacola, florida at 11 48 pacific time tomorrow followed either crew getting picked up. The Mission Began on may 30 at kennedypad 39a space center and sort of. After a successful launch, the astronauts enjoyed a 14 hour flight on dragon before they came to the International Space station. Bob and doug have been doing real work aboard the station. Captain completed spacewalks and theyve also taken spectacular
Lift on the back and the end of dragon up out of the water. They got them climbing around and getting that fixed. Still doing good from all of their reports and were going to see the vessel continue to close in. It is 1. 3 nautical miles still away. You see things sharpen up as it does draw up closer. One thing i didnt get to mention as the sequence was happening, everything was going so quickly, just before the drove deployment, the seats rotated to 25 degrees and if you think of bob and doug while they were still on orbit and during the orbit burn and departure burns, they were laying closer to on their backs and they were essentially looking up at the tap. They were at the top of the nose cone. Now the seats would be rotated and theyre in more upright position and thats done to insure that the load is experienced from landing are doesnt hurt them. So at this point, theyre not laying on their backs in the ocean, theyre seated upright which would allow them to have a better view of th
All of the fumes of concern are away and that it is safe to open the side hatch and retrieve bob and doug. Once that side hatch is open our Flight Surgeon will be the first to say hello, get a quick medical checkup, but based on the reports that theyve been that the crew have been have been giving us along the way, it sounds like theyre doing great, theyre feeling good and theyre pretty comfortable inside of crew dragon. Dragon spacex, we show being below limits and proceeding with hatch opening. Okay. Great news. Thanks. All right. So theres the green light weve been waiting for. And in fact the green light weve been waiting for for for months at this point, this is our first opportunity to say hello to bob and doug our favorite space dads as they are now about to to to egress or exit from dragon crew endeavor. The culmination of what is about a 19hour journey home, all starting yesterday. As they departed the International Space station. It will be manually opened and Flight Surgeon
Super duper smooth. Almost like class, which is certainly ideal for a again, now, were expecting 20 minutes for the for the main recovery vessel to go navigator to reach dragon. By that point the rigging will be fixed and they use at frame lift on the back and the end of dragon up out of the water. They got them climbing around and getting that fixed. Still doing good from all of their reports and were going to see the vessel continue to close in. It is 1. 3 nautical miles still away. You see things sharpen up as it does draw up closer. One thing i didnt get to mention as the sequence was happening, everything was going so quickly, just before the drove deployment, the seats rotated to 25 degrees and if you think of bob and doug while they were still on orbit and during the orbit burn and departure burns, they were laying closer to on their backs and they were essentially looking up at the tap. They were at the top of the nose cone. Now the seats would be rotated and theyre in more upr
And dragon, the purge is complete and we can proceed with hatch opening. Good news. Thats good news, indeed. Confirmation that the purge is complete and near going to do one more test to make sure that all of the fumes of concern are away and that it is safe to open the side hatch and retrieve bob and doug. Once that side hatch is open our Flight Surgeon will be the first to say hello, get a quick medical checkup, but based on the reports that theyve been that the crew have been have been giving us along the way, it sounds like theyre doing great, theyre feeling good and theyre pretty comfortable inside of crew dragon. Dragon spacex, we show being below limits and proceeding with hatch opening. Okay. Great news. Thanks. All right. So theres the green light weve been waiting for. And in fact the green light weve been waiting for for for months at this point, this is our first opportunity to say hello to bob and doug our favorite space dads as they are now about to to to egress or exit f