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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 sti ....
Center. All said they were pleased with the flight. Mr. Brian stein leads off after introductions. Good afternoon and welcome from Kennedy Space center. Day. A we are here to discuss the nasa Spacex Mission and return of u. S. Human spaceflight from u. S. Soil to the International Space station. The crew dragon spaceflight spacecraft and the falcon nine rocket lifted today from the launch complex. At 3 22 p. M. On and doug are now safely their way to the International Space station. To talk more about this historic mission, we have a great panel of guests starting with nasa administrator, Jim Bridenstine. Elon musk, kathy leaders, kirk and ton, pass forrester. We start with opening comments and our pr ....
Foster not chief astronaut. We will first start with our nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine. Nasa,t a great day for what a great day for spacex and the United States of america. It has been nine years since we have launched american astronauts from american soil and we have done it again. I want to be clear the mission is not yet over. We are at the beginning, but so far, everything has performed very, very well, and we are excited about the fact that bob and doug, our american heroes are safely in orbit and on the way to the International Space station. Congratulations to nasa team. Congratulations for the leaders who have been on the nasa side leading our commercial crew program all along, and you and your team have done an absolutely marvelous job. Of course, elon musk and your team in spacex, this launch represe ....
That is not a good thing. So right now, we are waiting for tminus seven minutes. That will start the engine chill. Shortly after that, we will also get the fuel shut down. Listening to the spacex launch director in the background. As i mentioned, tminus seven minutes, as we start to chill, we will get into the final topping off of stage one fuel, and then the fuel load will complete. Stage one and stage two, engine chill has started. We have heard the callout. Stage one engine chill has started. Soy have got up to the crew, they have situational awareness. We mentioned the prevalves are open, now we are topping off, getting ready to finish the fuel load. Liquid load will continue until the last three minutes to two minutes of the countdown. We should hear about callout, complete coming up in about six minutes. Rp1 is that densify kerosene or rocket fuel at falcon 9 that will be used to power bob and doug today. Stage i fuel is closed up. Right on time. That callout indicates that the f ....