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
A wall of flames threatening homes. The effort to contain this welfare. Now at 5 00, the threats of fines and police crackdown. Partiers are showing up at lake merritt. We sent Wilson Walker to find out whats going on. Wilson . Reporter we have been following this for many weeks now. The controversy continues now. As we have been reporting, the city has been reluctant to call what they are doing here a crack down. They have kind of refused to the use the woenrcent. Whawae of difference . Take a look and see. So we got here and we found out we should not be here. But we decided to just come out and take a risk anyway. Reporter no food, no alcohol, no cannabis. That was the citys policy after many weekends of large crowds and a wave of complaints from People Living around the lake. They are selling all kinds of stuff. Weed, barbecue, it is quite the circuit during the covid situation. Reporter city councilmembers rejected calls for a crackdown. They called for more education. Yesterday,
Hello. Welcome to the programme. For the First Time Since the Apollo Programme 45 years ago, an american spacecraft has landed safely with a splashdown in the sea. The commercially owned capsule carrying astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken launched for the International Space station in may. Its all part of nasas plan to hand over such flights to private companies. Our science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle reports. Mission control 200 metres. Brace for splashdown. Copy, braced for splashdown. History in the making as the dragon capsule returns home. As you can see on your screen, we have visual confirmation for splashdown. Applause. The first private spacecraft to bring astronauts back to earth. Dragon spacex, separation confirmed. Their journey began from the International Space station. The spacecrafts owned by us company spacex. Inside, Nasas Bob Behnken and doug hurley are at the controls. As they hurtled through the earths atmosphere, a heat shield protected them as temperatur
Days until joe biden takes over the west wing and inheriting the pandemic reaching another milestone. Amid the chaos, you have the opportunity to witness history. Americans set to rocket the final frontier in a matter of moment. Their mission, their International Space station, what makes tonights lift office monumental. This is american voices. We begin with the president s dangerous denial. It has been eight days since joe biden secured the electoral votes needed to become president. While donald trump said joe biden won, he said in quote i concede nothing. Here is bidens staff on meet the press. Not through any of the rest of that tweet, not through fraud or anything else the president is baselessly alleging. He won because he got more votes. The popular votes by a lot and he won the same number of electoral votes that President Trump called landslide four years ago. If the president prepares to recognize that reality is positive. Donald trumps twitter feed does not make joe biden p
And alex padilla taking the empty u. S. Senate tonight, the news coming in late today, reports pfizer is now in talks with the u. S. Government to providen thes of millions of additional doses of the vaccine. And that new variant of the virus. Theyre now testing for it here in new york. All of this as the nation now marks the deadliest year in american history. Were now seeing an average of more than 2,600 american lives lost every day. As concerns mount tonight over that new variant of covid. The testing in new york and the new steps from some airlines to test passengers for flights from the uk to the u. S. But dont, dr. Anthony fauci saying we must assume its already here in the u. S. As he gets his own vaccine shot before the cameras. And that news tonight, pfizer reportedly nearing a deal with the Trump Administration for more doses and what we know so far. Hospitals tonight under growing pressure. We have an alarming look inside. And now, the fears that the millions traveling for