The nasa Space Shuttle atlantis crew 1 mission blasted off from historic pad 39a with four astronauts. Americans mike hopkins, victor glover, shannon walker, and japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. We have a great group of people to talk about the crew 1 mission in this postlaunch press conference and talk about the many historic elements of this historic launch. Joining us today is nasa administrator jim bridenside, kathy leader, nasa headquarters, Vice President and director general of jaxas human space Flight Technology directorat. Steve dixson, administrator of the f. A. A. , and gwenn, president and chief operating officer of spacex. In the moment well hear the opening remarks. And then well take questions from the media. So lets start with administrator jim bridenstein. Thank you. Another historic night. And i want to congratulate the nasa team and the spacex team for an amazing job yet again. So the big milestone here is that we are now moving away from development and tests and
And our japanese partners. And the spacex team led by elon musk. The energy in the room is it is a tremendous accomplishment for our country and for humankind as we begin the next significant step towards the commerce ally station, in this case, of lowearth orbit. This launch is another major milestone in space transportation. Is the culmination of a lot of hard work from a lot of people in government and industry all working closely together. It is also the first faa licensed orbital human spaceflight launch. Our job in this nation is to protect public safety, property, and national security, and we have done that. We will continue to work with the space industry and nasa to ensure we continue to meet these priorities and we will continue our efforts to help make the airspace system more flexible and dynamic so we can export support the increase in Space Operations in the coming years. As a matter of fact, i received a text from our command center just outside of washington, d. C. Tha
Ago the at 7 27 p. M. The nasa Space Shuttle atlantis crew 1 mission blasted off from historic pad 39a with four astronauts. Americans mike hopkins, victor glover, shannon walker, and japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. We have a great group of people to talk about the crew 1 mission in this postlaunch press conference and talk about the many historic elements of this historic launch. Joining us today is nasa administrator jim bridenside, kathy leader, nasa headquarters, Vice President and director general of jaxas human space Flight Technology directorat. Steve dixson, administrator of the f. A. A. , and gwenn, president and chief operating officer of spacex. In the moment well hear the opening remarks. And then well take questions from the media. So lets start with administrator jim bridenstein. Thank you. Another historic night. And i want to congratulate the nasa team and the spacex team for an amazing job yet again. So the big milestone here is that we are now moving away from deve
Welcome from Kennedy Space center. I am with nasas office of communications. What a day were here to discuss nasa spacex demo2 mission and the return of u. S. Space night from the american soil to the International Space station withs a. S Robert Ben Ken and Douglas Hurley the crew spacecraft in the falcon 9 rocket lifted today from complex 39a at mas sas Kennedy Space center at 3 22 p. M. Bob and doug are safely on the think would International Space station to talk another about this Historic Mission we have a great panel of guests starting with nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine, elon musk, the chief engineer of spacex, kathy, manager of the Nasa Commercial Crew Program and Kirk Shireman the manager of the iss and nasa chief astronaut pat forrester. Well start with opening comments and presenters then well take your queens first start with our nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine. Jim thank you. What a great daze for nasa. What a great day for spacex. What a great day for the day of U
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