Navigator recovery ship in about 21 minutes. Then in 28 minutes, we will be opening that hatch and beginning crew egress also known as exit. We did hear the rigging is pretty much complete. Right as they arrive there at the castle, the main recovery vessel will get it up out of the water. Now the recovery vessel, go navigator is getting closer to dragon. Dragon position off the coast of pensacola, florida, were able to see it in more detail. It is certainly no longer a a bright shade of light. Like we said the external temperatures were reaching up to 3500 degrees fahrenheit, so the thermal protective system, thermal protection system, enabled dragon to return while keeping the internal temporary temperate. Youre seeing a few more boats than expected. The team is working with a few private vessels in the area making sure that they get out of there. Now we see one of the spacexs moving in. So were being advised that the Recovery Team is radioing out to the vessels in the water near crew
Thank you. There on your screen oh, camera view change, that is a view from go navigator the recovery velocity. The two fast boats out there. Getting to getting ready to basically excuse me. Install the rigging equipment required to hoist dragon out water. One the other fast boat is collecting the hair parachutes from the water. To bring them back on board with us. We should see one of the team members crawl up on to the side of the capsule in order to install that install the rigging like i mentioned. That particular team member is highly experienced and highly trained. As you can imagine. Climb on the ground top of an oddlyshaped thing in, you know, the ocean, could be a little tricky. So this person has undergone a lot hours and hours of training and certification in order to perform this very important task. There on the righthand side of your screen screen we can see the second fast boat approaching. Of course both of these boats needed to wait for their cue from the Water Recover
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
History center website. As lisa and i are talking can please submit your question you can use the q a feature at the bottom of your screen. I will try to integrate as many as i possibly can as time allows. We will be broadcasting excerpts of the interview on on Second Thought this friday. You will hear me do bid to keep consistent sound while we are going. Im so excited to speak with lisa napoli, who got her first journalism job at cnn after interning at cnn new york and dc bureaus as a teenager. Shes a reporter for the new york times, marketplace msnbc and many other outlets stop shes the author of two previous books radio shangrila and ray and joan, thats about the man who made the mcdonalds fortune and the woman who gave it all away. Lisa, thank you so much for being with us, really excited about talking about the book. Back at you. Thank you so much. I use the Atlanta History Center for research so im delighted to be virtually with the constituency now. We are glad to have you. I t
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