By that point, all the rigging will be affixed and they will be able to use the hydraulic lift on the back of the vessel to begin to pull dragon out of the water. Bob and doug did report they are seeing the guys climbing around outside their window of the capsule. Still doing good from all of their reports. We are going to see the vessel continued to close in. It is a little over 1. 3 nautical miles away. You can see things starting to sharpen up as the view does draw closer. One thing i did not get to mention is the sequence events was happening, just before the drogue deployment, the seats rotated to about 26 degrees. If you think back to when we saw bob and doug when they were in orbit and during the departure burns, they were closer to on their backs at the 40 degree position where they were looking up at the top of dragging capsule. Their stomachs were facing the top nosecone. At this point, the seats would have rotated. They are in a little more of an upright position. That is do
Is converging. S there are three gps units that are being used. That helps along with the pressure sensors. Give a solid altitude to the henght computers on w these are supposed to deploy. We are standing by for the deployments. We should be under five minutes away from splashdown. Testing 15 kilometers. Captain. We are braced. Just about 14 kilometers in altitude. Continuing to descend. On your screen, we have a shot of the capsule as it is preparing to deploy the initial parachutes. Help, these parachutes slow the vehicle down even further and help stabilize in preparation for main chute deployment. What about now, the capsule is going about 400 miles per hour. Decelerating quickly. And, standing by for drug deploys for deploys. On your screen, we have confirmation of the deployments. Theiry are going to do slowing and stabilizing of the dragon spacecraft. They should be detaching in a few moments. Then we will see four parachutes, the main parachutes deployed. Descent rate nominal.
Spacecraft, but everything looking good. We are five minutes into the de orbit burn. The dragon was flying 260 statute miles off the coast of australia. During this burn we heard a call we are halfway through and everything is looking great. Dougg this burn bob and are currently monitoring the de orbit tool which captures the reentry interface, how much distance remains before the burn itself is terminated, they are monitoring burn duration and the firing of the draco thrusters located on the forward bulkhead of the capsule. On your screen you can see what bob and doug are seeing. On the left and right of the Center Screen is the de orbit monitoring tool. Just past seven minutes into overurn and a little four minutes to go. Continuing to be on track for our splashdown. At splashdown time is right 11 48 a. M. And 24 seconds pacific. Is 18 48 universal. We are through the major steps to initiate reentry, the trunk burn hasthe deorbit begun. We have three and a half minutes remaining. On
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 upright position and thats done to insure that the load is experienced fr
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 from dragon crew endeavor. The culmination of what is about