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
Welcome to the 2020 National Book festival. And our conversation with two distinguished guests who join us in honor of the centennial celebrations of american author and space age visionary rate bradberry a master storyteller whose legacy exemplifies the festivals theme of american ingenuity. I am john, director of the center for bradberry studies at Indiana University school of liberal arts. Red berries encouragement led to the creation of the center will re preserve his entire home office, a lifetime of words and mementos of the papers correspondence and working library that remained in his home at the time of his passing in 2012 part his remarkable career spans seven decades. He grew up in the great depression. His family, his father had to take the family all the way from illinois to los angeles to find work in rate bradberry was never able to go to college. He developed a great style, his own unique lyric, metaphor rich style. In his own kind of subjects writing fantasy, weird tal
Terrellly in the rose garden. Youre seeing some live images from there. The white house says this will be President Trumps vision Going Forward, executive order. As it relates to Police Reform it will really have a three main components to it. Let me walk you through them real quick. First off credentialing, certification. Make sure there is incentive for recertification that highlights newest best practice. Information sharing on use of force which will allow Police Departments to make sure one officer cant necessarily go from one department to the next if they have too much on their file. Secondly what is being described as coresponder programs to address medical, psychological and homeless incidents. That would also allow social workers to go on nonviolent calls. That Senior Administration official adding in advance of this, quote, the goal of this is to bring police closer together with the communities. Were not looking defund the police, were looking to more to incentivize best pr
We have the nasa administrator. We have the nasa deputy administrator. We will hear more from them in a minute. First talk to bob cabana. And cabana good morning welcome to the Kennedy Space center. I dont have to tell you how intoing it is to launch dutch astronauts into space for the first time in nine years. Our Shuttle Missions launched from that pad, including my flight. With our partnership with spacex, the pad is being used again and is now for the commercial crew program and for other spacex projects. Truly in his start time from an historic pad. Time fromn historic an historic pad. Jim was a huge advocate and proponent for aviation and spaceflight as the Armed Services committee and the science and Technology Committee and he is no sharing that passion as he needs nasa into a new era of space expiration. Jim. It is great toe be here at the Kennedy Space centers. We are now launching american astronauts from an american rocket on american soil. It has been nine years since we h
Hello. Thank you for joining us today. We have one day to launch of the historic nasa spacex mission. We moved the press conference indoors due to weather, but we have good news the weather has improved. We have a 60 chance of favorable weather for launch. We will hear lots about the launch by the great guests today. We have bob cabana, the director for the Kennedy Space center. Jim bridenstine the nasa , administrator. We have astronauts. We have the nasa deputy administrator. We will hear more from them in a minute. First, lets talk to bob cabana. Dir. Cabana good morning and welcome to the Kennedy Space center. I dont have to tell you how exciting it is to have the first flights of humans to space from the Kennedy Space center in nine years. We went to the moon from pad 39a. 82 love the 135 Shuttle Missions launched, including three of my flights. With our partnership with spacex, the pad is being used again and is now for the commercial crew program and for other spacex projects. I