Historic pad 39a with four astronauts. Americans mike hopkins, victor glover, shannon walker, and japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. We have a great group of people to talk about the crew 1 mission in this postlaunch press conference and talk about the many historic elements of this historic launch. Joining us today is nasa administrator jim bridenside, kathy leader, nasa headquarters, Vice President and director general of jaxas human space Flight Technology directorat. Steve dixson, administrator of the f. A. A. , and gwenn, president and chief operating officer of spacex. In the moment well hear the opening remarks. And then well take questions from the media. So lets start with administrator jim bridenstein. Thank you. Another historic night. And i want to congratulate the nasa team and the spacex team for an amazing job yet again. So the big milestone here is that we are now moving away from development and tests and into operational flights. And in fact, this operational flight w
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
Reporters on the upcoming Space X Mission with a 4 crew heading to the International Space station for six months. It is scheduled for sunday evening. Well, hello, everybody, and welcome from the Kennedy Space center in florida. I would like to welcome everyone to the traditional pre launch News Conference following todays launch readiness review ahead of the crew one falcon 9 and dragon flight to the International Space station. Here to provide all of the details are folks that were part of the review today. And also have been part of a lot of the preparations that have led up to this moment. Its an exciting day for everyone for nasa and spacex and hopefully everyone tuning in today. Let me introduce the panel and ill let them give you words before they take questions. Steve, the program here at kennedy, and joel montbano, of Johnson Space center in houston, and norm knight, the deputy manager of Flight Operations director at johnson. Also joining us is bengy reed, the senior director
Session next week. Senators have been working on judicial nominations. Also curt costello, the nasa chief scientist at Johnson Space center and the last but not least is arlena the launch weather officer for the u. S. Air force squadron. Her i know everybody is looking forward to hear from her as well. Turn it over to steve and let him take it from there. Great k you, kyle, its to be here following the launch review today. Its been a busy few days. On tuesday. Vehicle e falcon 9 through a static fire. Engines ure that the and the systems were functioning as expected. We reviewed all of that data and the last few days rocket looks really good. It was important for us to also o some inspections after that static fire. We swapped out a couple of engines on this vehicle and did inspections and everything looked really good. Dry dress practice with the crew. They got in their space suits went to the launch pad and installed in the vehicle. The first time we put four dragon, that was an impo
The nasa Space Shuttle atlantis crew 1 mission blasted off from historic pad 39a with four astronauts. Americans mike hopkins, victor glover, shannon walker, and japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. We have a great group of people to talk about the crew 1 mission in this postlaunch press conference and talk about the many historic elements of this historic launch. Joining us today is nasa administrator jim bridenside, kathy leader, nasa headquarters, Vice President and director general of jaxas human space Flight Technology directorat. Steve dixson, administrator of the f. A. A. , and gwenn, president and chief operating officer of spacex. In the moment well hear the opening remarks. And then well take questions from the media. So lets start with administrator jim bridenstein. Thank you. Another historic night. And i want to congratulate the nasa team and the spacex team for an amazing job yet again. So the big milestone here is that we are now moving away from development and tests and