Agenda, the nomination of judy shelton to serve on the Federal Reserve board of governors. Watch the house of representatives live on cspan and the senate, live on cspan two. We are just standing by. This is a view outside the Neil Armstrong operations and checkout building. Inside is the historic astronaut crew quarters and sit up room. Quarters. Theres look at the doors that the crew will be walking out of any moment now. There is a view of the door the crew will be stepping out of any moment. And you see the sticker on the door. You can see along the door frame, even more stickers, i believe theres one sticker from every mission but i did notice that there was just enough room to put the crew 1 sticker up. Here they come. The crew 1 astronauts now beginning their journey to the launch pad ahead of this Historic Mission to the International Space station. Outside the bil building, we hae friends and Family Gathering there with prior to liftoff. Thats a different thing to the shuttle
The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the sa
You can see along the door frame, even more stickers, i believe theres one sticker from every mission but i did notice that there was just enough room to put the crew 1 sticker up. Here they come. The crew 1 astronauts now beginning their journey to the launch pad ahead of this Historic Mission to the International Space station. Outside the bil building, we hae friends and Family Gathering there with prior to liftoff. Thats a different thing to the shuttle days. Last time we saw our families would have been a wave across the ditch. The day before launch. Typically, shuttle launches you would have employees and people that would come out to wish us well. I think its a very special thing that the crew families get that up close and personal right before they get into the transport vehicles to the pad. You notice everyone keeping safe distance here. That distance will be enforced regardless whether covid19 was a factor in whats going on. Distance is maintained regardless. Like i mentione
Have live coverage. Heres a portion of todays coverage courtesy of nasa tv. The astronauts. [cheering] they each made this journey twice before, for the Space Shuttle missions. But they have never done this in the spacex space suit, theyve never done it together theyve never done it on their way to head to ay commercially dealt rocket in space. Putting astra down in one time its a new era in space travel. They are writing an tesla model exes. They have been equipped with cooling units. Once they sit inside that umbilical i was referring to earlier will connect to the spacesuit to provide cooling where they are inside the vehicle. You can see them talking and waving with their families now. We sell them to a virtual hug with their sons. Megan and karen and their sons here. They are the dads. The dads yet. So awesome. Bob split his family kiss, doug got to take his n wife and son up to the pad on the tower yesterday they tweeted out a photo that was so cool. I saw that picture it had a p
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