Agenda, the nomination of judy shelton to serve on the Federal Reserve board of governors. Watch the house of representatives live on cspan and the senate, live on cspan two. We are just standing by. This is a view outside the Neil Armstrong operations and checkout building. Inside is the historic astronaut crew quarters and sit up room. Quarters. Theres look at the doors that the crew will be walking out of any moment now. There is a view of the door the crew will be stepping out of any moment. And you see the sticker on the door. You can see along the door frame, even more stickers, i believe theres one sticker from every mission but i did notice that there was just enough room to put the crew 1 sticker up. Here they come. The crew 1 astronauts now beginning their journey to the launch pad ahead of this Historic Mission to the International Space station. Outside the bil building, we hae friends and Family Gathering there with prior to liftoff. Thats a different thing to the shuttle
To the traditional prelaunch News Conference ahead of the falcon and crew 1 dragon launch to the iss. Here to provide all the details are folks that were part of the review today and also have been part of the preparations that led up to this moment as an exciting day for everybody in nasa and spacex. An everyone tuning in today. Let me introduce the panel, and i will let each one of them give you some words before we take questions. Steve stich. He is the nasa manager for the commercial crew program here at kennedy. Also joel montalbano, the nasa manager of the International Space Station Program at Johnson Space center in houston. Norm knight, the deputy manager of Flight Operations director at johnson. Also joining us is benji reed, the senior director of human spaceflight programs at spacex. We are glad to have him with us. Also, kirt costello, the nasa iss program chief scientist at Johnson Space center. And arlena moses, the launch weather officer for the u. S. Air force 45th wea
The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the sa
You can see along the door frame, even more stickers, i believe theres one sticker from every mission but i did notice that there was just enough room to put the crew 1 sticker up. Here they come. The crew 1 astronauts now beginning their journey to the launch pad ahead of this Historic Mission to the International Space station. Outside the bil building, we hae friends and Family Gathering there with prior to liftoff. Thats a different thing to the shuttle days. Last time we saw our families would have been a wave across the ditch. The day before launch. Typically, shuttle launches you would have employees and people that would come out to wish us well. I think its a very special thing that the crew families get that up close and personal right before they get into the transport vehicles to the pad. You notice everyone keeping safe distance here. That distance will be enforced regardless whether covid19 was a factor in whats going on. Distance is maintained regardless. Like i mentione
This is the. Most. And he ran approves and plans to make russias vaccine the countrys foreign minister exclusively tells r t why tehran isnt supporting. The big good. Russian the russian mixed about you have a very bad experience with another country but i do not want to name. Broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our 2 International Im sean thomas. Now the high flying meeting in the swiss alps for the World Economic forum is very different this year davos has gone digital because of the pandemic and a little earlier the russian president gave a lengthy address covering a raft of topics through video link. Through the key points he raised. This is that to me putins 1st speech appearance or that of all since 2009 when he was Prime Minister and perhaps you know it hints at how severe the situation in the world is and that is what Vladimir Putin devoted a significant portion of his speech to this crisis that the world is facing today the severity of this crisis it is an uph