Session next week. Senators have been working on judicial nominations. Also curt costello, the nasa chief scientist at Johnson Space center and the last but not least is arlena the launch weather officer for the u. S. Air force squadron. Her i know everybody is looking forward to hear from her as well. Turn it over to steve and let him take it from there. Great k you, kyle, its to be here following the launch review today. Its been a busy few days. On tuesday. Vehicle e falcon 9 through a static fire. Engines ure that the and the systems were functioning as expected. We reviewed all of that data and the last few days rocket looks really good. It was important for us to also o some inspections after that static fire. We swapped out a couple of engines on this vehicle and did inspections and everything looked really good. Dry dress practice with the crew. They got in their space suits went to the launch pad and installed in the vehicle. The first time we put four dragon, that was an important test for us. It went really, really well. Looking at erms of the weather and also looking at recovery of the booster for this flight, we have adjusted the launch date, we are targeting a launch. We adjusted the launch date 24 hours later and today were a sunday launch at 7 27 p. M. Eastern time. Will put docking on monday at 11 00 p. M. Eastern time. Looked carefully at the weather and the onshore flow saturday. T so good for also, we need to get the drone recovery ship in place to booster, for nasa and spacex, this booster is important for us. Going to reuse the first stage that were using for crew for the crew two mission coming up in the springtime. A launch date of march 30. Important to recover that booster. We needed to get the drone ship in place. An exciting flight. Crew one will be the longest exceeding flight ever what we had on the final sky lab mission, sky lab 3. The First Mission to have four crew in the capsule which ere excited about to enhance the science on the space station f. A. Well its our first. Flight launch as well as we move into the next step. Ere excited to fly this for the space station program. Be look forward to a good launch turn it over ill to joe. Thank you, steve. Welcome again to todays press brief. You know, these past few days, we have had a number of reviews has perations as steve mentioned and today as we concluded the launch readiness you that the Tell International space Station Partnership is ready for this mission. A steve said, looking at launch time of 7 27 eastern p. M. Eastern time on sunday giving us a docking late onday evening at approximately 11 00 p. M. Eastern time, shortly do the cking, well standard lead checks and then have a welcome ceremony onboard, 2 1 2 hours after docking. This week we have been doing a of discussion with kate and sergii on or bit today and on speed with the launch preparations. Theyre excited and ready to ave some new crewmembers onboard. This vehicle is also bringing in pproximately 240 kilograms of pressurized cargo, again, to enhance what were doing onboard the International Space station. As steve said, with the four crew members adding to the three onboard, we will have a total of seven for sustained increment. Will stay up there and return in april of next year, so looking forward to having the extra capability onboard which will allow us to increase do, increase the development we do for the artemus program. Celebrating 20 years of on theous human presence International Space station. During those 20 years, we set the standard for international operations. And we keep learning. We learn every day. Nasa with american industry has developed these commercial us to s that will allow bring more people to lower bring more people to the nternational space station and allow more commercial opportunities. Add a huge thanks to the spacex to program, to get us where we are today, the International Space station to be here. Is glad were excited for the launch on sunday and looking forward to docking and a Long Duration increment, with that, ill turn it over to norm, thank you. Thank you, joel. S was stated, the launch readiness review today went very well. We echo that and stepping back kind of reflected on demo two in the Development Cycle now cycle just tional with the journey leading up to l. R. R. , it was really evident there was great improvement on the closed out the less open work there was and the overall Readiness Team for this vehicle. O it was very encouraging, an absolute focus on crew safety and Vehicle Safety which both the nasa and spacex teams have a great job with and were very satisfied with that. Heels of drive dress yesterday that steve mentioned, that went very well. First opportunity really to let the crew suit up try out their vehicle for the first time before launch fit was ke sure the right and there were no type things that needed to be tweaked prior to launch. That went very well, very about that. I had an opportunity to meet with the crew this morning and alk with them a little bit about their upcoming launch. They were absolutely excited and radiant just feel the excitement coming off of them. N fact, when i walked out of that briefing, i was excited myself. You could just feel the energy crew and we see that throughout the team, which is because it means were real close and were ready to go very important. The message that they wanted to resilience and to echo nce again, the journey to get here is one of resilience. It was a hard journey with a lot covid f going on and affecting the teams. It was that resilience and determination by a lot of folks to this point, well safely get them into orbit and safely get them docked scienceng six months of and get them back to earth safely as well. A lot of folks that were just an with that and appreciation for that hard work this point. Us to so it was very good. Turn it hat, i will over to benji and look forward to questions later. Great, thank you very much, norm. First of all, sitting here and m sitting here, i am excited again that this is our third time we have had the opportunity to come and launch year from Kennedy Space center. We did our inflight test at the beginning of this year and we did our demo two mission in the now we are coming up on crew one, our first Operational Mission to start providing crewed services the station and keep the program running. At sixmonth intervals, it is just incredible and if you watch the beginning he saw the montage about all the commissions. To hear joel talk about 20 years in space, it is so cool and in honor to be here. Im certainly stoked. On behalf of all of the spacex employees, our vendors, and partners, all of our families, i want to take this opportunity to say thank you to nasa and all of our partners to let us be a part of this to help us carry the sacred honor and responsibility on our shoulders. This is the culmination of years of work and effort from a lot of people and a lot of time and we have built i think what i would call one of the safest launch vehicles in spacecraft ever and it is an honor to be part of that. That. We culminated our efforts with that with our static fire on wednesday, and steve mentioned that and i think that we have a video to show that. That was a full 7 seconds static fire, and they finished that up. Those reviews, we did joint reviews with the nasa teams and our teams and it looked great. We assessed everything that came from the vehicle and we felt very good about it. As you know, we did work on the engines and the vehicles, and getting ready for that launch, and that static fire is very key to ensuring that were ready to go. Those 7 seconds looked awesome and the next thing i want to show you, a picture that we have from dry dress, and thats the dress rehearsal that we do from the crew. And they do the whole thing, where they get suited up in the onc building here in Kennedy Space center, and they come across in their tess laz, and go up the tower and go all the way to the dragon and its an important process that we do, we walk through that and the ground team is working with the crew and the crew itself and making sure that everything checks out. When i look at this picture, i get excited about the next it step on the big journey we have ahead of us. We have four astronauts going up, and we have one person who has never been to space, victor, who is very excited. We have savicci, our First International partner and its really really cool. Lets talk about whats going to happen on launch day itself. And as i talked about dry dress as a practice for that. And four hours before launch day, the crew will be in the onc building, in the area getting suited up and our suit techs will be helping them get ready and well be doing various leak checks and fit checks as we go through that, and the astronauts will come out 3 hours before launch and get into the teslas, and wave goodbye to their families and come across to the launch pad. Come across the launch tower and come across the crew arm and 2 and a half hours before launch, they will get in the vehicle. They will get inside of the vehicle and get all strapped in and safe at about approximately 45 minutes before launch and they will do the final go poll for loading the vehicle and for arming the escape system. We have a launch escape system on dragon thats ready to go just in case something goes wrong with the launch vehicle, dragon can escape the crew to safety and splash down in the ocean. At that point, 30 minutes before launch is when we start loading the launch vehicle with propellant. And were off. Lets go next to the line drawing that we have. And this gives you a sense of what it looks like doing the launch. I wont go through all of the details, and coming through the highlights here, 2 minutes 40 seconds, we have the first and second stage separation, and after that happens, the first stage will land on the ship, which is heading out right now to be in position to be ready for that. And in the second stage, were going to be carrying dragon to orbit. 8 minutes 50 seconds intoed mission, the second engine will cut out and shortly that, dragon will separate and theyre off to the journey to station. If we go to the next line drawing, we can see that. And get a sense of what this looks like. So phasing is the process where were essentially catching up with space station. And the process is, space station is zooming around the earth very fast and so is dragon. Youre trying to use the game where you are using the dragon and minimizing the amount of fuel to catch up and get the two vehicles to come together. So you go through this process of phasing, and based on the mechanics and the day and time of launch, in this case, the particular phasing time will take about 25 hours, and 25 hours well be close to where we need to be to basically be in position to come up to the station, and then a few hours that, we will have docked to the station. Im going to talk about whats going to happen once they dog. The crew dock on the station, and they will be welcomed by the other crew up there, and get to work quickly. The two things involving spacex during their six months on station, one is coming up in a few weeks. We have our first cargo dragon, our new dragon 2 cargo vehicle, that will be our cirrus 21 mission, and thats full of science for the crew to be working on. And so the first few weeks after they docked, theyre going to be getting ready for that and wrapping up other work and they will be spending time working on all of the Critical Science going on there, and near the end of their time, well be sending up another dragon, so crew 2 dragon will go up, again with another four astronauts on poured and that will dock to station, and again, there will be a handoff and they will see each other, hand off the work and about a week later our crew one will come home. Lets look at that. You can see here, we do another departure. The docking process, its fully automated and autonomous. And the astronauts were able to take control. And the astronauts on the iss are able to see that everything is happening correctly. And as we head away, we start the phasing to come home and its the same process that i talked about. We need to phase to make sure that we hit the right spot on the earth at the right time for splashdown. After that happens, our recovery crews will come out and they will be meeting the crew. We have a large recovery vessel and fast boats, and the fast boats will go out and meet the crew and the first thing they will do is check the area and make sure that everything is safe for approach. And the second fast boat will be recovering the parachutes, and then well go ahead with the larger vehicle, which will pull dragon out of the water. All right, one of the things i do want to mention as we talk about this recovery process, we know that everybody is very excited about launch and very excited about recovery and human space flight in general. And we ask that everybody is resolved and if you come out to watch the launch and everything that were doing, wear your mask and follow social distancing guidelines and keep everybody safe. And second, we ask that all of the boaters Pay Attention to what the navy and the coast guard regulations are and add advisories. Its very important that we keep the recovery crews and the astronauts themselves safe. I want to take one more moment to do a couple of important things. Number one, i want to thank all of the spacexers and their families. And then all of our different teams and partners involved in the effort to get us here. Its a very big team. And part of the certification as we have gone will you and talked about the other day, that nasa has certified all of our systems for human space flight. That certificationest is really important and it represents the countless hours and hours of work that were put in by all of these teams. Dragon and falcon, the ground team, the launch site teams, and its all of our hardware and software operators and everybody, all of them put our time in and sacrifice and dedication needed. The same is true for all of our nasa partners and vendors, a big thank you there. And finally, a very important special thank you to the astronauts who will be flying. Victor, mike, shannon, and to your family, we thank you for the trust that you put into spacex to get you to space, to be there as a lifeboat and get them home safely. Thank you on behalf of all of us. Well hear from kurt, talking about the science and the reason that these guys are actually going up there, take it away, kurt. Thank you, as joel mentioned earlier, it was less than two weeks ago we were celebrating 20 years of continuous crude presence on orbit. And we were not celebrating an ending, but just the end of the beginning. The launch coming up with additional crew members to the iss is the start of an era for research and discovery onboard. The capabilities much the crew dragon bringing additional crew and samples back to the site at ksc is an amazing capability. We hope to double the crew time for science and research, and we hope to get easier access for those satchels when they come back to earth and easier access for our crew members, pre and postflight to conduct some of our human research. We have self investigations going up on this flight. We have 28 kilograms of payloads going up, and some of those experiments will be going up to include education and Public Outreach experiments for him. And then we have a human experiment looking at the humble fruit fly, and how it adapts in orbit for rhythm. And if you can imagine when you have 16 day and night cycles every day, it can be confusing to the body. They are great little organisms, they share 95 of the genes that cause disease in the human body. And last but not least, our astronauts are on the research team, and they will be before and after the mission, one is food physiology, which is looking at whether nutritional changes in the astronauts diet can be for the astronauts diet. And again, mike and victor and especially for my old alum, shannon from rice, godspeed and thank you so much for the hard amount of work and research youre going to be putting in. Thanks, kurt. And something that everybody likes to talk about is weather. So lets turn it over to arlenea and have her give the latest launch forecast. For us in florida, we have been plagued by Tropical Storm eta for most of the upcoming weekend and it was uncertain at first if it was going to clear out this weekend. But thankfully eta is well out to sea and moving further with time and with its passage, it brought a bit of a cool front here into florida. It doesnt feel like it much now, its still warm and humid. But overall, its going to give us a pretty good shot for weather for the primary launch date. As we look at the forecast, we are looking right now with a possibility of 40 with that kind of weak front that came through. A couple of days ago, its going to kind of creep back towards us, and were going to keep the winds light and variable. So its not going to be as much of a concern for our attempt to launch on sunday. But were going to see a few showers in here with cumulus clouds, and election the concern for flying both the dragon and the capsule, during the launch time. As we look at our backup window going into wednesday, so a couple of days later, we dry out quite a bit. A nice area of high pressure, and we get a true florida cold front coming through, and the temperatures are going to be a bit cool for at least us in florida, maybe not for everybody. But the rain chances drop quite a bit. A concern for only a few clouds, and the downside, the winds coming from the northeast, a little bit stronger on that particular day, but its something that well be monitoring with the weather. So good luck, everyone, and well be doing our part with the weather to make sure that we launch successfully. Great, thanks a lot. And thanks everybody else, and were ready for questions. There are a lot of people in the queue as you can imagine, and it has been a long day. We have half an hour or so for questionandanswer, and im going to call on you by name and affiliation, and if you can try to limit your question to a onepart question so we can try to get to as many folks as we can on the line, and first up is marsha dunn, associated press. Reporter yes, hi, and hoping that you can hear me. For steve, im wondering what is nasas thinking about elin being allowed into the Launch Control and for benji, to have him in person for the launch. Thank you. I think marshas question, i dont know who this would be directed to, is there a concern relative to the covid concern