Agenda, the nomination of judy shelton to serve on the Federal Reserve board of governors. Watch the house of representatives live on cspan and the senate, live on cspan two. We are just standing by. This is a view outside the Neil Armstrong operations and checkout building. Inside is the historic astronaut crew quarters and sit up room. Quarters. Theres look at the doors that the crew will be walking out of any moment now. There is a view of the door the crew will be stepping out of any moment. And you see the sticker on the door. You can see along the door frame, even more stickers, i believe theres one sticker from every mission but i did notice that there was just enough room to put the crew 1 sticker up. Here they come. The crew 1 astronauts now beginning their journey to the launch pad ahead of this Historic Mission to the International Space station. Outside the bil building, we hae friends and Family Gathering there with prior to liftoff. Thats a different thing to the shuttle
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
You can see along the door frame, even more stickers, i believe theres one sticker from every mission but i did notice that there was just enough room to put the crew 1 sticker up. Here they come. The crew 1 astronauts now beginning their journey to the launch pad ahead of this Historic Mission to the International Space station. Outside the bil building, we hae friends and Family Gathering there with prior to liftoff. Thats a different thing to the shuttle days. Last time we saw our families would have been a wave across the ditch. The day before launch. Typically, shuttle launches you would have employees and people that would come out to wish us well. I think its a very special thing that the crew families get that up close and personal right before they get into the transport vehicles to the pad. You notice everyone keeping safe distance here. That distance will be enforced regardless whether covid19 was a factor in whats going on. Distance is maintained regardless. Like i mentione
InterNational Space station. Humans a new era of spaceflight and i could not be more pleased with what the nasa and spacex team has accomplished. Its truly an exciting time. Its great we are flying cruise on a regular cadence crews on a regular cadence from here to Kennedy Space center on u. S. Rockets and great we are doing it with our International Partners. Weve got one from japan on board. I could not be more pleased with what the team has accomplished. Im proud and humbled to be a part of it. Introduceleasure to our nasa administrator, jim bridenstine. Through his outstanding leadership and advocacy for the commercialization of lower lowearth orbit, the commercial route program, and transformation of the Kennedy Space center, to a multiuser spaceport that becomes a reality, please welcome a Great American to the stand, our administrator, jim bridenstine. [applause] jim thank you. And q, bob, for that introduction and thank you for your amazing leadership here at the entities base
With the successful test flight of the dragon on the vulcan 9, that safely delivered the two that safely delivered the two astronauts from the one International Space station and brought them home safely, it set the stage for the crew one Mission Tomorrow afternoon. This is the first flight under contract the Crew Rotation Mission with spacex to the International Space station. This is truly a new era of human spaceflight and i could not be more pleased with what the nasa and spacex team has accomplished. Its truly an exciting time. Its great we are flying crews on a regular cadence from here to Kennedy Space center on u. S. Rockets. It is also great that we are doing it with our International Partners. Suichi from japan on board. I could not be more pleased with what the team has accomplished. Im proud and humbled to be a part of it. It is my pleasure to introduce our nasa administrator, jim bridenstine. Through his outstanding leadership and advocacy for the commercialization of lowe