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 into operational flights. And in fact, this operational flight w
Everybody at nasa basics. Let me introduce the panel and i will each one of them take some words. Steve is the director for the program here at counter arid and joel, the nasa manager of the space Center Program at houston. The deputy manager of Flight Operations director at johnson. The joining us is benji, senior director of human spaceflight programs at spacex. Nasa kurt costello, the program chief scientist and last but not least is arlena moses, the launch whether officer for our 45th weather squadron. I dont everybody is looking forward to hearing from them as well. I will turn it over to steve and let them take it from there. Thank you. Is great to be here following the launch readiness today. Since we talked on tuesday, we have put the falcon nine through a static fire, an important test for us to check out the rocket and make sure all of the systems are functioning as expected. We removed all of that over the last few days and the rocket is really good. Its important to do som
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
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
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 presenters and then we will take your questions. We start with Jim Bridenstine. Nasa and great day for spacex. What a great day for the United States of america. It is been nine years since we launched american astronauts from american soil and we of done it again. I want to be clear. The mi