Johnson space center. S bob behnken and doug hurley spent nine weeks aboard the International Space station traveling 27. 1 millionmilance orbiting over 1024 times, and, today, our crew is home. And splashing down 45 years and nine days after the last american smash splashdown on earth. Melts ago, our two favorite space splashed down off the coast of pens control and aboard the spacex crew dragon and just concluding our first launch america mission. This historic landing left the first return of commercial built and operator american spacecraft from the International Space station. And to discuss this historic mission. Talk more about watch america and what we have in store for nasa is we have the briefers. Let me introduce them. First Jim Bridenstine, nasa administrator, president and ceo of spacex, steve stitch, commercial crew program manager, International Space Station Program manager and end fire crews . Astronautses, who are together and speaking us to today. So well start with
[no audio] we are still following along with bob and dougs journey home today. Smoothlyg continuing with the departure of dragon from the spaced station space station. They are awake. Everything is coming up in about three hours. We have a never things that will be happening. We are looking for our event to begin in three hours and 42 minutes. Have a separating of the trunk. That is claw separation. The clod delivers power and theds between the trunk claw delivers power and fluids between the trunk and the capsule. We will jettison the trunk. Atmospherenter the and disintegrate during that process. The dragon capsule will be in its final physical form prior to reentry. We will then initiate a deorbit burn. It will last about 11. 5 minutes. That is designed to place dragon on its final trajectory to its landing site, which is off the coast of florida, near pensacola. Once that happens, bob and doug will then sit back and continue to monitor all the telemetry and data they have on their
Well, were just 60 meters away. We should get there in just over two minutes. Meanwhile, teams in hawthorne and in houston doing their internal go and no fold. Once its go, well get the dragon autonomously fly in, doc with the International Spay station. Just about one minute and 45 seconds. At this point it will be 20 meters away at the international dock. Number two attached, meeting adapter number 2 at the very forward end of the harmony module. Right there around the center, you can see the hash, you can see a couple of handles. There is a feature that looks a little bronzeish. Thats part of the soft capture system. So pretty wild, were so close that were getting shadows from the station on dragon, wow. These are viewed from two cameras. The movement is a little jarring at times. These cameras are being commanded by a person at th thee console through houston. They continue to follow dragon in. We thank them for their diligence to give us these views as were just less than 30 minut
Hawthorne teams in and in houston doing their internal gono go for docking. Once everyone is go, we will be able to give the final goahead. 0 meters away at the international dock. Number two attached, meeting adapter number 2 at the very forward end of the harmony see the hash, you can see a couple of handles. There is a feature that looks a little bronzeish. Thats part of the soft capture system. So pretty wild, were so close that were getting shadows from the station on dragon, wow. These are viewed from two cameras. The movement is a little jarring at times. These cameras are being commanded by a person at th thee console through houston. They continue to follow dragon in. We thank them for their diligence to give us these views as were just less than 30 minutes away from docking. Right above the nasa meatball logo you can seethree of the Service Section draco thrusters. Thats right, 12 in all. Four of those clusters spread around the vehicle. Used for a lot of attitude control. An
Search box on her homepage on our homepage. Video earlier today leading up to the docking of the Spacex Dragon with two astronauts aboard with the International Space station. You will hear communications between ground control, the spacecraft, and commentary from nasa t. V. As the docking takes place. They will get all of the teams pulled. Once all the teams go, we will get dragon the goahead to fly in and doc with International Space station. It should be coming up to arrival in just about one minute and 45 seconds. At this point, it will be 20 meters away from that docking at two,adapter number pressurized to meeting adapter number two at the end of the module. Center, you can see the forward hatch with a window, a couple of handles, and there are some features that look ronsish. Those are look bron zeish. Pretty wild. We are so close that we are getting shadows from the station on dragon. Wow. And we are getting these views tworagons approach from cameras from that adapter. The mov