Everybody at nasa basics. Let me introduce the panel and i will each one of them take some words. Steve is the director for the program here at counter arid and joel, the nasa manager of the space Center Program at houston. The deputy manager of Flight Operations director at johnson. The joining us is benji, senior director of human spaceflight programs at spacex. Nasa kurt costello, the program chief scientist and last but not least is arlena moses, the launch whether officer for our 45th weather squadron. I dont everybody is looking forward to hearing from them as well. I will turn it over to steve and let them take it from there. Thank you. Is great to be here following the launch readiness today. Since we talked on tuesday, we have put the falcon nine through a static fire, an important test for us to check out the rocket and make sure all of the systems are functioning as expected. We removed all of that over the last few days and the rocket is really good. Its important to do som
Have live coverage. Heres a portion of todays coverage courtesy of nasa tv. The astronauts. [cheering] they each made this journey twice before, for the Space Shuttle missions. But they have never done this in the spacex space suit, theyve never done it together theyve never done it on their way to head to ay commercially dealt rocket in space. Putting astra down in one time its a new era in space travel. They are writing an tesla model exes. They have been equipped with cooling units. Once they sit inside that umbilical i was referring to earlier will connect to the spacesuit to provide cooling where they are inside the vehicle. You can see them talking and waving with their families now. We sell them to a virtual hug with their sons. Megan and karen and their sons here. They are the dads. The dads yet. So awesome. Bob split his family kiss, doug got to take his n wife and son up to the pad on the tower yesterday they tweeted out a photo that was so cool. I saw that picture it had a p
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Say in terms of the pain theyre going through and questions they have about what happened . I feel terribly for anyone that goes through that. Thats why i was honored to meet the pastors. Feel terribly for anybody. As you know, its under investigation, big thing happening right now. I guess under local investigation. So never once, neither there nor during rest of the visit did the president utter jacob blakes name. Not sure he ever has said it. Not sure he knows it. What does that tell you about his views on the pain felt by so many africanamericans . And when asked about race and policing, systemic racism, heres how the president responded. I dont believe that. I think the police do an incredible job, and i think you do have some bad apples. Agree every once in a while you see something. And you do have the other situation too, under this tremendous pressure and dont handle it well. Call it choking, and it happens. Choking, interesting choice of words, horrifying when compares it to
Theres a new more contagious coronavirus variant that could become the dominant strain. Were seeing viruses do what viruses do they mutate. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Well, weve been here an hour, waiting for you. Waiting for the sun to come up at 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. Im christi paul. Were so grateful to have you with us. Right now, the u. S. Capitol is bracing for some potential unrest ahead of joe bidens inauguration. We know Law Enforcement Officials Say they are tracking dozens of people who may be headed to washington right now. The department of homeland security, along with several others say domestic extremists posed most likely event to that event wednesday. And were learning from federal officials there were some major intelligence failures ahead of january 6th. Investigators have opened at least 275 criminal cases. 98 people have been charged in connection with those events. And before we get to president elect joe bidens inaugur