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
Houston and thank you all for joining us today. We have many questions already in the queue for our crew. As a reminder for media on the the phone bridge please press starone if you have a question and star2 to withdraw your question if it gets answered. All right. Lets jump. In we will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking my question. I hope you can hear me. Im curious to hear more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time youve been up there as well as do you guys feel like youre getting ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that youd rather see staying up there or coming back to test out the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats several questions, ill see if i can remember all of them. But i think from an onorbit testing standpoint we did have an ability we did inhabitability test, we tested emergency equipment, and just generically how we work with the dragon docked on boa
The phone bridge please press starone if you have a question and star2 to withdraw your question if it gets answered. All right. Lets jump. In we will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking my question. I hope you can hear me. Im curious to hear more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time youve been up there as well as do you guys feel like youre getting ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that youd rather see staying up there or coming back to test out the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats several questions, ill see if i can remember all of them. But i think from an onorbit testing standpoint we did have an ability we did inhabitability test, we tested emergency equipment, and just generically how we work with the dragon docked on board. Transferring equipment, transferring supplies. Were going to do a fair amount of that again tomorrow when we return equipment or supp
Space. Splash down in the gulf of mexico after 64 days in space, completing the first crewed flight of the spacex crew dagen. They were testing the capabilities of the new space vehicle to the International Space station. They contributed more than that on their mission. During their 62 days aboard the station, they dedicated more than 100 hours to Scientific Investigation and worked with the expeditions 63 crew on four space walks to upgrade the power system among a number of other items. Todays crew News Conference is the first opportunity after splashdown to ask questions to bob and doug. Well take questions on our phone bridge as well as on our social media platforms. If youre on the phone, press star 1 to add your name to the queue and ask a question. Before we get to opening comments from the crew, we would like to share some of the messages from around the world welcoming bob and doug back to planet earth. Splashdown. Welcome back to planet earth and thanks for supplying spacex.