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Flying military satellites. This event is hosted by space news. Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks everyone for joining us. Were happy to have you. And wed like to welcome our panelists. Good afternoon general sean, Major General john sean joining us from Vandenberg Air force base. Welcome, can you hear us. I can hear you. Can you hear me . Perfect. So Major General john shaw is the commander of the Space Operations command under the u. S. Space force and hes also the commander of the combined force Space Component under u. S. Space command. So general shaw, im sure this was a very exciting weekend. You commanded the task force 45 that was responsible for being on alert in the event that the nasa astronauts had to be rescued. So i guess maybe if you wouldnt mind starting walking us through what happened with this launch and also telling us more broadly in the Space Force Im sure a lot of people ask you what do you do in the space force and im sure you tell them everything that you do, we
2027488000. Mountain and pacific, 2027488001. You can also send us a text at 2027488003. You can also post to twitter and facebook. With thoseis morning numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. The total number of confirmed cases in this country approaching 1. 7 million. On the right side of the screen, there is that figure, the death 98,929, 98,000 929. Nearly 100 thousand americans have died. A special pullout on the usa today, these are 100 people out of the 100,000 americans who have died from the coronavirus. Different ages, races, and backgrounds they point out. The next 100 days could define a new era, right usa today. It did not take longer than 100 days for the virus to claim the lives of nearly 100,000 americans. Thenimaginable toll, since first person in the u. S. Died from covid19, which is thought to have been february 6 in california. Borne out by the diminished rates of new infections and deaths in may is not enough to keep the u. S. From reaching that grim mileston
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A really important day for the us Space Program, lay it all out for us, whats going to happen today in florida. We are counting down to the launch of two astronauts, Doug Hurley Bob Behnken at 4 43 eastern time today. This will be the first time american astronauts or any astronaut has launched from us soil into orbit since the retirement of the Space Shuttle nine years ago, july 8th, 2011, was the last time this happened here and the weather permitting it will happen again this afternoon. Tell us more about the mission itself, walk us through the next period of time with this launch. The astronauts should be waking up about now. They will have breakfast, get a weather briefing, then they will be suited up in their spacesuits around midday and head out to the launchpad a little after 1 00 pm eastern and board the spacecraft, go through the final leak checks and voice checks in Mission Control and then, all things being go they will on 4 43 eastern, get into space or get into orbit abou