Johnson space center. S bob behnken and doug hurley spent nine weeks aboard the International Space station traveling 27. 1 millionmilance orbiting over 1024 times, and, today, our crew is home. And splashing down 45 years and nine days after the last american smash splashdown on earth. Melts ago, our two favorite space splashed down off the coast of pens control and aboard the spacex crew dragon and just concluding our first launch america mission. This historic landing left the first return of commercial built and operator american spacecraft from the International Space station. And to discuss this historic mission. Talk more about watch america and what we have in store for nasa is we have the briefers. Let me introduce them. First Jim Bridenstine, nasa administrator, president and ceo of spacex, steve stitch, commercial crew program manager, International SpaceStation Program manager and end fire crews . Astronautses, who are together and speaking us to today. So well start with open remarkance take questions for reporters who are dialed in as a reminder please take questions from the public who have used the hashtag ask fas sa. Lets begin. Jim . Opening remarks . Well, thank you bettina. This is a great day for nasa. This is a great day for the United States of america, i want to thank our spacex partners, and of course, the commercial crew program here at nasa. What an amazing day, today, we really made history, and we are entering a new rear of human spaceflight, where nasa is no longer the purchaser, owner and operator of the hardware and going to be a customer, one customer of many customers in a very robust commercial marketplace for human spaceflight to lower earth orbit buzz we want to have numerous providers that are competing against each other on cost and no innovation and safety, driving down costs and increase access to space in a way that never has been seen before and so this is really an amazing day and we need to remember, that this is just the beginning and now, is the time to capitalize on all of the great programs that have recently been established to to include going sustainably to the under a program called artemis which is mine shirt. Were going to the moon sustain be go with commercial part fers and international partnerrance outs the resource of the moon to live and work on another world for long periods of tame and take that knowledge and go to mars. This is an amazing moment, and the commercial crew program has really just proven the Business Model for how we go forward and we do more than work than we have been able to be do before, so i want to say congratulations to spacex, and elon musk, congratulations to Gwen Shotwell and certainly congratulation entire nasa team which worked diligently on this for so nan if i years, it was really, really remarkable day that couldnt have gone any better and look forward to getting into the questions. Thank you, jim. Next we go to gwen. Thank you, bob and doug northern honor you have given us to be here today and have this great achieve. I have to do a callout the great spacex team, they did extraordinary work, this was an incredibly smooth mission. I am sure we will gol that be decks perience over the 62 days here, in the q a, but i do think it is important to point out this was an extraordinary mission, an extraordinary day for nasa, for spacex purchase frankly for americans, and anyone interested in spaceflight. As he jim mentioned, this is really just beginning. Were starting the journey of bringing people regularly to and from lower earth orbit and on to the moon and then, ultimately, on to mars, so today is a great day. We should celebrate what we all accomplished here today, bringing bob and doug back but we should think about this as a springboard to doing even harder things, with the Artemis Program and then of course moving on to mars. Thank you,gwne and go on to steve. Thank you, bet ty na. Well are almost speechless. We dame into today. We had three objectives, the flight objectives really to execute the deorbit and en triv the dragon capsule to demonstrate we could recover that capsule, and then we could also bring back cargo from space and valuable science we brought back in two freezers onboard the dragon vehicle and then we demonstrated all thief those things today it was incredible day. Cannot thank enough the men and women across the country spacex and nasa who works so tirestly over five years to make this day happen to make the whole mission go sentence smoothly and it was just a great effort, i would like to thank the iss program and the partnership as well, today, we had a perfect day to land. The wind was two miles an hour landing in a clear day with no waves and the work that we did with the kenny todd and the space Station Program and actually, they moved a cargo vehicle to allow us to have this day and so thankful for that and you foe, the whole part of deorbit and entry went nominally. The trin was as expected and the parachute performance was grateful that they deployed as expected. We touched down just fine. We did have one slight issue as we were bringing the vehicle back ton the ship and we noticed a few slight toxic vapors and for oxidizedder and they were slightly with, they were within limits where we could have actually had the craw out. We took a little time toll do a purge to purge those vapors and to make sure that bob and doug were safe. We took a few readings inside of of the cabin as well, so just an incredible day. When i left the counselville, the helicopter landed on the ship ready to take bob and doug back to shore and bob and doug were out of the capsule getting medical checkouts so things were going well. Again, incredible day. Thanks to our team and the hard work to make this happen. Thank you, steve. Joel . American smash splashdown on thank you. For 60 plus days, bob and doug, the commercial team, the spacex vehicle were onboard doing Critical Science for us. Bob and doug completed over 110 hours of science utilization, research, Technology Development, work that will help this Great Laboratory that we have help us lower earth orbit and allow us to go to the moon and to mars and with the Artemis Program just an in cred dabble and this is just a small window to what well see in the future, this mission had two crewmembers, we have four crews members and alog us to do an incredible amount of science and Research Technology development onboard. A huge thanks to the spacex team. A congratulations to the spacex team. And congratulation commercial crew program and congratulations to all involved in human space flight. With that, thanks very much. Back to bettin pavement thank you, joel. Now the crew one team. Over to you guys. A thank you. On behalf of crew one, al the families, we want to say congratulations to bob, doug, their families. You heard it already. I was big day. It was big day for our nation. I was big day for nasa for the human spaceflight and spacex and the International Partners w. Had the opportunity to witness all of the work and the dedication that has taken to pull of the dm2 mission and it has been truly impressive and inspiring. As you can i panel gin, crew one, we got big smiles on our phrase what we saw from the dn2 mission and then, i said after the launch in a well say it again after watching splash down, it did not seem like this was the first nasa Spacex Mission with astronauts onboard, and it seems to go extremely smooth and also realized there is a lot of to work go and lack at the data. But again, overall, things need to go very, very well. And then, just a little bit on crew one. Were wrapping up the training later or earlier this week. We had a chance to see the crew one capsule, and it is a beautiful vehicle and we cannot wait to have an opportunity to talk it into space. But again, today, today is really about dm2 and Successful Mission bob and doug than the families congratulations. Thank you, mike. Were all excited to celebrate when the crew launcheses at the International Space station s. With that we art with questions are the media. Again, press star 1 to ask a question. Our first question comes from lauren gresh. Report hi. Thank you for taking the question. Obviously, a lot of us took note of the boats that were southerning the crew dragon at landing and very curious how that was allowed to happen and what nasa and spacex plan to do to prevent than the future and assuming that can get quite dangerous, if not, you know, thank . I will talk about it for second then turn it over to steve. That is not what we were anticipating. Of course, we wanted to make sure this was clearing for them to land. The coast guard did an excellent job of ensure hag, then, of course, after they landed, the boats just came in, and we need to do a better job next time sure . You will tell you, i is a beautiful sunny day. I lot of boaters were out there and certainly intrigued. Think all of america was very and thousands see the capsule land in the water. Yeah. Yeah. It is something we need to do better next time. I will just add couple of thing. We do clear area. We have like a ten not call mile area that we clear. We have a couple of coast guard cutters throughout clearing this are air and they did an excellent job waits clear for the actual splashdown event. Then as jim said, it was beautiful day, lots of people out, maybe boating or fishing and then, then saw the capsule and kind of came in. We have some work to do with spacex, well Work Together to do a better job for the next splashdown. Operate purchase thanks. Our next question comes from chris davenport. Congratses on great mission. I am just wondering if you had any updates did on bob and doug and looked like they were feeling well, but just any updays on the hos health and thanks, again, congratses everyone. When i left the control center, be about and doug were doing with. We watched them in the capsule. They were moving around, looking at dus plays. We asked them to take few readings to make sure it was fine. We had gotten them out, and they were going through medical checks and all ind cooperation they were doing well. The plan from now, the rest of the day, some helicopters will take them off the ship to Pensacola Naval air station and return to houston tonight and then looking forward to seeing them when they get here. I hats been a great flight. Thank you for that question. I am know were and thousands see be about and doug. The next question keem coms from keith. Well, before i asked that question, then, i got till, i can remember see ithing in the hotel lobby nearly 20 years looking at the first drawing, i got say it was too cool for you guys. I think everybody had a tear in their eye. I want to do a followup on the question about the boats. I took all the safety classes. It is not something you mun qi. Why did you drop the space capsule in a into a location where powerboats are going to be and a guy on a sail bet and another guy with big trump nag feet away and no one tried to be shooing them off. Are you going to maybe try not to be that close to shore next time . Well look at a pump before he options. Are rooting. We can do better. Certainly, we had al the clearance that was required at landing. And then, as soon as, as soon as, i mean, that capsule was in the water for good period of time and, you know, the boats just made a b line for it. Soon, so it is a big area to have to clear and to clear all of it is probably going to require more resource and but it is, yeah. There are things that we are going to lack at to do better next time for sure. The crews that we deployed there, their focus was to make sure bob and doug got on the boat and exited safely be a not their job police the area and had to go out there for that. The Lesson Learned here we need more asset and maybe more spacex and nasa assets as well what is important that is bob and doug go on the bet and able to keep the area clear for landing then, then ask people to move back as they came a little bit too close to the dragon capsule which they did. We will be better prepared next time. Thank you. Our next question will come from irene. Congratulations, everyone. It was impressive to watch today. Cut out a little bit. Thanks for the question. Yeah. This mugs was incredibly smooth. Not say there are thing we need to work on and do better. The capsule worked but a beautifully. The operations worked extremely well, 1 00 we certainly feel comfortable that we are on the right foote carry commercial passengers. Not too long from now. Obviously, four cuss is ensuring that we get crew within lifted off in time to do a handoff with crew 2 two, but yeah, i think base on the results we have seen so far. There is more data obsly to look at. But based on the respects so far. I am comfortable. Ok. Moving on. A quick question from twitter, we have gary ask how long will it takes a very out toes to normalize after you lose the capsule. How much to return to normal life on earth . Steve, do you want to take that . Sure. Bettina, i can certainly take that. Yeah. You know, it really genes. Bob be a doug were in space for couple of mops, and so, they will come back here and they will start doing special train so you know, sometimes wan matter of a few days or weeks there. They are back to normal. So it varies a little bit from drew cru and get them back hear and start doing some special exercise and special things to get them readapted to the gravity. So far they are doing well so were look forward to getting them back here in houston. We take the next question. Thanks for going this. A question for gwynne. Based on the results so far, how Many Missions before you see flying private crewance planning to reuse crew 2 or reuse the capsule toll craw i was wondering if cue break down the process thor and how i guess nasa came to agree to reusing these capsules after they splash down and then, jim, i would love to hear your take on that as well. What kind of happened to make the crew cap soul reusable for humans. Thanks so much. So appreciate the question. Obviously, we are trying to really change the paradigm of human spaceflight in order to do that you need make sure the capsules are rapidly and readily reusable and we have been work on this with our launch customers and with nasa for probably have a decade sore and the dragon 2 vehicle itself was designed with far greater certainty and ensuring it can can be reused and the capsule days sooned for five to ten mixes, and we have to see how things worked out after we examined the capsule when it gets back to port and back to the cape to our facilities there, but, but based on the telemetry and any vill im case wes had so far. The vehicle looks like it ins good shape. And i will let steve and jim talk a little bit about the journey on getting reusability about its with, it was part of our original bid for the commercial crew program. We took a look that data and continuing to look through that and for us, it looked liability was reportable thing to go do. I think part of the question was how long does tight referb shall the vehicle, it takes about four months or so so we have a lot of margin gettinging into the fligt for crew 2 and the vehicle will start actually as soon as it gets back to area 59 at the cape and go through the maintenance and well have a nasa as part of that and press since area 59 and well polo along with every step of that painence and also, relook at the certification to make sure that there is nothing on tour and well do as this we get the about build up to the crew one launch here in the physical and paque sure we have overlap between crew one and crew two to ensure that we have access to iss anding that with joel and the iss program. A not in every case, but in most cases, and spacex has prove then channel offing that. So we are looking for ward to drew with the count still a came home. As steve said, there is a lot of to be dope between now and then and a lot of eveilvation that need donees. As she said based on what we see, it looks looker in good shape. Great. Our next we could comes from marsha dunn. I am wondering if you foe, once the deorbit burn had occurred, was it pretty tense inside Flight Control there at spacex prop sitting next to elon musk and, what was it like for him and for you during those final minutes of the flight and especially right after successful splash down . Cue describe those moments, please. Thank you. So no question, it was enormous relief after months of xine ty making sure we could bring bob and doug back home safe ply, but splash down was really beginning. We wanted to make sure that bob and doug exited the vehicle safely and looked good. And so, a lot of people were cheering after splash down. I got at i love congratulations on my cell fen and emails, but we were not done until we got bob and doug out of the capsule. He hopped and flight and go to houston and meet up with the astronauts and then i still have a crew here in Mission Control making sure that bob and doug got safely on the helicopter and will get safely back to shore. Sop not tefs job is done yet, but then, it was initial relief, for sure. I was greater leaf when i saw be about and doug come out of the capsule smiling thumbs up and looking cheerful that was good moment. Thanks so much. Our next question were eric burger. Yeah hash high, thank for doing this. s question for gwnne when falcon one failed on the third plight. That is 12 years. Since then, launched three different rocket, a couple of spacecraftance put two people into space and brought them back. 12 hear heres is not a long period of time. Can you roz ses some of the transformation of spacex has hap personned during the timeframe . You foe,er, i 12 years seems like a really long time to me. Candidly, it is hard to process. Thank you for reminding me of that. You know, i never shy away are the failures. They are Incredible Opportunity opportunities to learn this company has learned a lot. I have to say we would not be the company that we are today. We would not have achieved this goal without the support the moral support, the financial support, the Technical Support that nasa has given offers the years in august of 200 when we started working clos