Jcpoa, loud and clear. Welcome to the space station. Thank you. Great. Well, welcome and good morning from houston and thank you all for joining us today. We have many questions already in the queue for our crew. As a reminder for our media on the phone bridge please press star what if you have a question and start two to withdraw your question if he gets answered. Lets jump in. We will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking the questions and hope you can have a pretty well up there. Im curious to hear a little bit more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time you have been up there, as well as if you guys feel like youre ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that you would rather stay at there a come back down to test the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats some question. Ill see if i can remember all of them, but i think froman on on orbit testing standpoint we did have abi
Looks like we have got him out. We have got him seated. There we go. Another thumbs up. [applause] following the flash dap splashdown, nasa and others held a news conference. This is just under one hour. Hello and welcome to our post press conference. Returning to american soil. Dougastronauts bob and traveling 27. 1s million miles an orbiting earth over 1024 times. As of today, our crew is home. Splashing down 45 years and nine days after the last american splashed down on earth. Our two favorite space dads splashed down on the coast of pensacola thus concluding our first lunch America Mission first lunch America Mission. It marks the first return of american spacecraft from the International Space station. To discuss the mission and talk about launch america are our brief first. First, nasa administrator jim bridenstine. President and ceo of spacex. Steve stich, commercial program manager. The International Space Station Program manager and the entire crew of spacex crew one. Mike ho
And you can watch full programs on our website, booktv. Org. Welcome back everybody. Lets get started. Imdealer kites, your room host of the day. Were a little weary by this time but im glad to be here. Im also chair of the brick 11 literary society. Turn your cell phones off, thank you all for coming. Lets thank our sponsors, we need to do that in every session because they are so important to the success of the fair so thanks to knight foundation, poway gel, or a gain of construction, bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. As always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. We hope everybody who is in this room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all the activities that are available for friends during here. We thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miamidade college. Thanks to all. [applause] we have a big crowd for a mighty important author to let me start by introducing his introducer. Marcia dunn is a longtime miam
Time, but glad to be here. Im also chair of the brickle avenue literary society. Turn your cell phones off, please. Thank you all for coming. Lets thank our sponsors. We need to do that in every session, because they are soan important to the success of the fair. So big thanks to knight foundation, ohl, the bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. As always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. We hope everybody whos in thisr room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all thee activities that are available for friends during the year. We thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miamidade college. [applause] okay, thanks so all. [applause] we have a big crowd, so let me start by introducing our authors introducer. She has been, talk about good examples, a friend of the Miami Book Fair since the very first year. How many of you are founding book fair friends . Anybody else been around as long as marcia . A few. Okay, good. A
Eastern time. Last night, we powered up the core stage, all look normal. We had finally shanks on the inner leak tank umbilical, the area that had a leak during countdown launch event one. All passed the test servicemaster umbilical. Could be checks there. Yesterday evening, we completed moving access stands. And began vinyl launch preps for the umbilicals. On our plate today is a series of lunch relief systems checks, charging batteries on flight elements, finishing final walk downs making sure everything looks and is in the appropriate configuration. Weve got a busy afternoon moving everything into final punch configuration. Handrails, heavy equipment, things like that. We will be talking about going into tomorrow and the day of launch. Activities pick up early, 2 00 a. M. , a full clearing of the blessed danger area. We get energy to switch over at 3 30 a. M. , that allows us to go into a tanking meeting at 4 45 am, we expect to get a decision coming out of their at about 5 30. 8 00