Earth, splashing down in the waters of the gulf of mexico on sunday. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us at the Johnson Space center for the splashdown News Conference. Doug hurley and Operations Commander splashed down in the gulf of mexico after 64 days in space. In space. Completing the first crewed flight of the spacex crew dragon. Their mission was to test the capabilities of the knew commercial space vehicle for regular crew transportation to the International Space station, but they contributed a whole lot more than that on their mission, during their 62 days aboard station they dedicated more than 100 hours to science investigation and worked with the competition 63 crew to upgrade the stations power system on four space walks. Today is the first opportunity after splash down to ask questions to bob and doug, well be taking questions on our phone bridge as well as associate media platforms if you are on the phone press star 1 to ask add yourself toll queue. We would like to share some of the messages around the world welcoming bob and doug back to planet earth. Splash down. Welcome back too planet earth and thanks for flying spacex. Yeah. Music playing one, two, three, four. Music playing live from india, launchamerica. Music playing thanks to all who submitted these messages using the launchamerica. Well now pass to the demo2 for opening comments, start doing doug lure hurley. Its great to talk to you today. We are just a couple of days removed from splash down off the coast of florida, near pensacola. Excited to be back. We are already working through our exercise and Rehabilitation Program to kind of get our earth legs back. We were lucky that we worked out pretty hard on space station and i think we both have done pretty well up to this point. We also are lucky in the fact that we landed in some pretty smooth waters, thanks to the weather folks. And so i think that helps a lot. Just incredibly excited to be back. And incredibly excited to share the mission with all of you. In another way. And just so proud of the spacex and nay nasa teams to get dragon through its first crewed flight flawlessly. We are almost kind of speechless as far as how well the vehicle did and how well the mission we want. And all of the things that we did on board i. S. S. With Chris Cassidy and anatoly and eye von. So just glad to be back. Its gray its to see how excited everybody was. For our mission and follow it along and we hope it brings some brightness to a pretty tough 2020. Thank you, doug we now hand it over to bob behnken. I think doug covered most of what ekedder one of us would say about the mission itself. I would add its a humbling experience to be a part of what was accomplished with the spacex vehicle just a Wonderful Team on the nasa side and spacex side to pull it off. It took years in the making. Doug and i have been working at for a good solid five years to get to this point and its just awesome to see it to fruition. One of the things that we are most proud of is bringing launch capability back to the florida coast, back to america. And of course landing safely at the end of all of that. Just again humbled to be a part of such an awesome team and awed by what they accomplished. Thanks to you both for those initial remarks. Well now open it up for questions. Again, if you are on our phone bridge, please press star 1 to submit a question to. Insure that we get to everyones questions, please refrain from ask more than one at a time. With he have a lot of questions if you find that yours has already been answered press star 2 to withdraw it. If you are social media use the asknasa. Lets start on the phone bank first with laura from the verge. Reporter hi, bob and doug good to talk to you and congratulations on such a great launch. Leading up to this mention, the date of the launch was so uncertain and you mentioned you would plan your lies in inning increments of weeks and months at a time. I am winding how it feels now that you have a little more certainty in your schedule, thanks. Thats a good question. I dont know if certainty is the right word at this point. For both of us it still feels pretty surreal. I know thats overused but i dont know how else to describe it. One minute you are bobbing in the gulf of mexico and less than two days later newer a News Conference you know, its been a time to reflect and thank about a lot of the things that went on, the lead up to the mission, the mission itself, the launch, the on orbit time. The entry, landing, but, yeah, at least we know know we are done with the mission. Which we didnt even really know launch dates until just a few months after we launched. We didnt note discour didnt kf the mission until a few months before we came home. Its nice in that respect to be back with our family and friends here at nasa. And working through the post flight activities that we had. And they are pretty well scheduled for the next few weeks for sure. In fact, there is a lot of stuff to do over the next few weeks. We are hoping at some point to just take some time off and share a little more time with our families since they were the ones that really had to sacrifice over as bob said, over the last five years. Because we were most had i in california and mostly obviously the last two months in space. Next well go to andrea linefelder from the houston chronicle. Reporter welcome home. Bob, you gave a really great description of what it was like to launch in the crew d i was hoping you could give us a similarly have have i ever i hd account of what it was like to lands. Thank you. Thank you, andrea. You know, the landing was, i would say it was more than what doug and i expected. Things are always pretty smooth as you work through a deorbit burn, because, of course, you are still in lower earth orbit, while you take that little bit of energy out that it takes to lower new to the atmosphere and start the trip home. As we kind of descended through the atmosphere, i personally was surprised at just how quickly it all the events all transpired. It seemed like just a couple of minutes later after the burn was complete that we could look out the windows and see the clouds rushing by at a much accelerated rate. One of the things we didnt have a lot of time to do during our time docked to station with how busy we were was to really focus on the earth for an extended period of time. And during free flight in dragon we were able to do that. And probably had a good feel for the rate that the earth was moving below us and we could definitely tell things were picking up quick after we started that burn. Once we descended a little bit in to the atmosphere, you know, dragon really it came alive. It started to fire thrusters and keep us appointed in the appropriate direction. The atmosphere starts to make noise. You can hear that rumble outside the vehicle. And as the vehicle tries to control, you feel a little bit of that shimmy in your body. And our bodies were much better a tuned to the environment, so we could feel those small rolls and pitches and yaws, and all of those little motions were things that we picked up on inside the vehicle. As we did h descended through te atmosphere the thrusters were firing almost continuously and i think just the sound that that makes. I did record some audio of it. It doesnt sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere with all of that all the you haves that are happening from the thrusters and the atmospheric noise it just continue to gain magnitude as you decent down d n through the atmosphere and we all noticed those things. The trunk separation, the parachute firings were much like getting hit in the back of the chair with a baseball bat just a crack and some sort of a motion. Pretty light for the trunk separation with a pair sites it was a pretty significant jolt. And a couple of jolts as you go through the parachutes disconnecting as well. We talked about it, i think i took a line from an old movie and doug and i were both familiar at one point because of the g load of 4. 2 g. S i said do you wanna get some coffee. Much like we had seen in an old movie we had watched that was the feeling that we had had thats the best way to describe it if you have seen an old movie that happened to have some guys who had been in the centrifuges thats what we felt like. When the time came to splash down we were afternoon the altimeter which was a gps altimeter so its not super accurate everywhere that you are located so we got for below zero for altitude on that indicator which was surprising. And then we felt the splash and saw it splash up over the windows. It was just a great relief, i think for both of us at that point. And i cant say enough about how well the spacex team trained us. They provided us some audio clips of what it was like inside the demo1 vehicle so we were familiar with the sound, reassuring not the right word because we think it have more in technical terms as pilots and engineers ride ago long with the vehicle. But when it performed as expected and we could check off those events, we were really, really comfortable coming through the atmosphere. Even though, you know, it felt like we were inside of an animal. Lets go to david curly from the discovery channel. Reporter what a description, bob. Welcome back to both of you. I have a lot of Clinical Questions lets do the fun question and then the big question. Bob, did you leave something for megan. You dont have to tell me what it is. Will sportsnet leave ispacex wit there and doug you said you would talk about the historical meaning afterwards. Here we are, big picture, what does this mean . Thank you, gentlemen and welcome home. Its side the speak its something we dont do is leave things behind. We do our best to keep it in ship shape. We did leave a patch inside the speak. There is a demo1 sticker and we named it he endeavor i hope they keep those as we go forward and they add their decal to the interior of every den. Endeavor. For me the historical aspect, i think certainly the first u. S. Crewed vehicle since the shuttle, nine years ago. For me its significant because i was the last shuttle pie lit and the first commander of dragon, its neat to think about now. And i certainly maybe a year from now more important for me is historical for nasa and spacex for a company only around for a decade or a little more than that to build a spaceship that takes crew in to orbit and returns them safely, that part of the historical aspect for me is the most significant. And to be part that have for me is also by far the most important and one of the most incredible highlights that i will have from a professional career. To just share in that journey, that odyssey, that endeavor, as we named our ship was just a one of the true honors of my entire life but certainly my professional career. Can. Now go to marsha dunn from the associated press. Reporter hi. I am wondering did either of you realize real time that you were surrounded by pleasure boats filled with gawkers so soon after splash down . If so were you concerned . If you were unaware of them, were you surprise today find that out afterward . And bob, a real quick question, when is the puppy arriving . Well, i guess since bob has a really important question to answer ill talk about the boaters. You know, this is something that we discussed others a nasa spacex group prior to demo1 actually. And we certainly appreciate the folks wanting to participate in the event. There are some safety aspects that i think, you know, as the administrator said well have too take a look at. That cant happen like it did before. But certainly we were not k. And its mostly due to kind of the ways the windows looked after splash down. The reentry say fairly dynamic event and you can see from just an overall view of the capsule, reentry is a pretty demanding environment with the different scorches on the vehicle. And the windows were not spared any of that. To look out the windows you could basically tell that it was daylight but little else, we didnt see anything clearly out the windows until the spacex recovery crews got near us with the fast boats and we could see a head or two out the window. So, yeah, i had absolutely no awareness of the other flo flota out there until we were back on board go searcher and in the medical facility. I would add to that. Folks need to realize we were delayed with actually opening the hatch for an extended period while the teams made sure that everything was clear and the vehicle was safe for us to exit and for them to get as many people as required to perform that extraction for us. And so just a word to the wise for folks who have ideas of coming that close again in the future, that we take exspring precautions to make sure it is safe and we do that for a reason and hopefully theyll appreciate thats required with the safe operations. As far as the pup egos, wore a twoweek time frame where we need to teach nigh son a little bit about the things that are required to have a dog in the house. And make sure hes comfortable with picking up his responsibilities associated with the dog. I have done a lot of that with the i. P. Phone from the space station over the last couple of months. But now hes gotta put his work in to get the dog bed in the right location and show me that hes ready to take on that responsibility. And, you know, hes going to love that puppy and needs to bring him up right and well set him up for success otherwise it will be my dog instead of his. Lets go Robert Perlman from collect space. Reporter hi, bob and doug, great to see you back on earth. Enough in him now after the historic nasa first flight like yours it would be a given that something from the mission, the spacecraft or space suits would be headed to the smithsonian, given the commercial nature of your flight very little of your mission belongs to nasa, were it up to you, what would you like to see spacex donate to the national air and space museum or otherwise pout public display . And might we see your sons agree to donate tremor . Well, the they might make that agreement. I am sure they would request something in trade. I dont know. At least an opportunity to go see where tremors new home would be. I think there is a lot of tremors out there as well at this point. And so i think it could be that the marketplace is saturated with those tremors. As far as what i would like to see donated . , you know, i still think there is an opportunity for the history to play out and this capsule to still end up in the smith zonsmithsonian. It can be used and reused and find that permanent home. Spacex has done a wonderful job if you have visited or seen pictures inside the facility inside hawthorne, they have hardware that they have flown or tested and imagined to put on public display. Right here we have a here in houston, at the space center houston, they have a first stage now that was used and its nice to have that in full public view. And i am sure and confident that they are going to share pieces of the hardware with the public at large. You know, if you go out to hawthorne, there is a first stage sitting right there on the corner of the Property Line there. And its just awesome for people to see that hardware and be able to recognize it has hardward that was used for Space Missions and, you know, take a picture next to it. And be a part of it. And so i know theyll do it. And if it was up to me i think all of this hardware has a home someplace in the future when its used up. Its just not used up yet. Thank you. We are now switching to social media for a second. First of all, you have folks from all over the world on twitter and facebook saying hello and congratulations, brazil, england, canada, argentine arc the netherlandss all over the u. S. To name a few. This seems to be a common theme this is from shaneka, who gets to keep tremor . I think we are probably going to go along the lines of i believe its the nhl where the team that wins the stanley cup, if you are familiar with that. Each member of the team gets to have the stanley cup for a day or two. And i think well probably work out something along those lines where we just have a, you know, he spends some time at bobs place and then he spends some time at our place. I think thats fair. And then i think at some point obvious had the boys will grow up and potentially outgrow tremor and well figure out a good place follow tremor as well, just like hopefully with the endeavor and our suits and anything else that was associated with this mission. Its just a neat memory for bob and i as fathers, you know, to share this type of thing with our sons and we are just thankful that we were allowed to take tremor with us, and its frankly just amazing to see the response to tremor and how much people enjoyed that part of the mission along with some of the other things. We really appreciate that and thank folks for understanding, you know, that it was important to us. Well take one more ask nasa questions from leanne on facebook, asking whats the first thing you ate after returning to earth . I think for both of us the first thing we ate was the pizza that they had available on the jet that brought us back in to houston. So we had a good pizza. You know, we have done a lot of travel on the Aircraft Operation folks here at Johnson Space centers aircraft over the last 20 years, frankly. Whether it was t38s or was we responded to covid and used the larger airplanes to help us get from place to place from a training perspective. They have a good plan for taking care of crews on board and our landing day was no different than the other days, they had us all hooked up and set up and the pizza was waiting when we made it on board. Thank you. Now to the phone bridge, eric enter kerr from [ inaudible ] reporter hi, guys, congratulations on your excellent timing, houston in august is lovely. If i may ask a nontremor question. Were there any surprises from the mission . It looked so smooth from the launch, landing to us watching on the ground. Was it really that perfect . Did the vehicle perform that well . Or was there anything that happened like maybe you went in the capsule on orbit and that was a funny odor or, you know, something that alarmed you during the two months that you were up there . Or was it all just that smooth . Thank you. Frank lurk the dm2 mission part of it, as well as the docked i. S. S. Mission that we participated in composition 63. Certainly the dm2 mission, i personally expected there to be more, you know, certainly not issues with the vehicle but some challenges or things that were maybe not quite what expected. I mean, even on our shuttle flights we had things that happened on both of mine and i know, you know, bob and i have talked a lot about his missions as well, there were things that happened that were right out of a simulator event and something that you certainly wouldnt have expect ed in a real flight. But my credit once again is to the folks at spa