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
To get jones and berlin. Good to have you with us. And were starting with news from china, which says it has given 2100000000 dollars worth of debt relief to developing countries as part of its trillion dollar belt and road initiative. China has financed Large Infrastructure Projects throughout africa. That critics say have left many poor countries overloaded with debt. Its been called the railway to nowhere. Kenya celebrated the opening of this train connecting its capital nairobi, and the port city, mombasa, in 2017, built in finance for a china. It has now become a symbol of the controversy over chinas presence across the continent. China has loaned over 100000000000. 00 to african countries as part of its transcontinental infrastructure program, known as the bolton road initiative. Many african countries were already crippled under the weight of the money they owe china for projects like the money losing kenyan railway. Now the coronavirus pandemic has made it nearly impossible for
That we saw over the summer in july. Weve talked so much about the twindemic, that covid surge combined with flu season. This could overwhelm hospitals in a matter of weeks, and despite the gloomy outlook, many local Health Leaders are feeling much more confident this time around. Here is nbc bay areas anousha rasta. Reporter if the latest surge in covid19 cases wasnt bad enough, now hospital workers and Health Care Workers need to worry about the looming flu season as well. We have been preparing for capacity. Making sure that we have equipment and supplies and just making sure that our protocols are in place to keep our patients safe as well as our Health Care Workers. Reporter dr. Sam shen is an emergency medicine doctor at Stanford Health cares palo alto campus and tells me he thinks the team and the hospital are ready to face a surge in covid patients. Should we hit a surge scenario, you know, we have prepared different backup plans. We have a scenario to manage surges and then we
Zero. Ignition. Lift off. And resilience rises. Not evening gravity contains humanity when we explores at one for all. [ applause ] propulsion is nominal. Thats what we want to hear. Stage one propulsion is nominal. 30 seconds in to this Historic Mission flying crew on board dragon and falcon 9. Stage one is preparing to throttle down. This is in nba preparation for max q which is maximum arrow dynamic pressure. Stage one throttle down. There is the call out for that that rat think down. Power and telemetry continue to be nominal for the vehicle, now traveling at 262 meters per second. Falcon 9 is supersonic. There is that call out that falcon 9 is supersonic and well be passing through mix q here shortly. The largest strut structural hold during ascent. Max q. That is thras call out that falcon farred through max q. One paragraph so. And we have just entered stage one bravo aboard mode taking them through the first stage burning before second stage accuracy t straights off the coast o
Princeton. She is a specialist in 19th and 20th century history. She specializes in gender, race, labor, and the history of the United States south. A little bit about her publications, which are multiple awardwinning, her most recent book is bound in wedlock slave and free black marriage in the nineteenth century. Published in 2017. A book about African Americans and marriage in the 19th century, a winner of multiple awards. And a variety of other prizes. The list goes on and on. Let me mention her first book about women after the civil war. Another multiple prizewinning book. Dr. Hunter has agreed to come here today and talk with us specifically about the history of emancipation, the end of slavery during the civil war, a topic always on peoples agenda for teaching and discussion but particularly widely discussed earlier this summer the anniversary of juneteenth. That is what got us started thinking about inviting her to speak with us about that history, which is complicated, excitin