Pacific time last couplemazing of days. I just cant tell you how wonderful it was to see the crew come to the hatch and weve been talking a lot about all the firsts. Uss mission was a dream of to be able to one day be able to crew Transportation Services to the International Space station. And today that dream became a reality. A huge step for us. ,t took a huge team of folks not only spacex folks, and our and allagency friends of the dod, a ton of people made this happen today. Feat was notng easy. This was hard. On top of this, one of the other firsts was we all had to do this in the time of a pandemic. I think there are some of us that if you would have thought about all the things this team had to go through, they wouldve said this is too much. But it wasnt. This team has done a phenomenal job. The crew will do phenomenal things of the next months. We will keep doing crew missions. Proud of the nasa team, and ourency nation for stepping up to win this. Thank you. We will go next to mark. To thankyou and i want you for your leadership in making this happen. And a terrific day for nasa for the country in general. Its really exciting to see this seven crew members on iss. Its great to be starting this plan and now being able to utilize it as we envisioned. Start to that mission. The astronauts are doing great. You saw them as they came through the hatch, they are excited to start their mission. Nasa unites with our partners to achieve Bold Missions and in this case, it can be commercial or international partners. Next year, we will have a lot of Exciting Missions including continuous spacex missions, a boeing commercial crew. Eventually private Astronaut Missions and also the smaller commercial Payload Services missions for enabling country or Small Companies to deliver payloads to the lunar surface. Each of these are examples of how nasa can engage differently with companies. Sometimes we drive the design with our contractors, sometimes we evaluate. Sometimes we are the operators, sometimes we integrate the operations. All these ways we are melding our skills, achieving national nasas mission but also creating a commercial capability thats a big part of our job. We are taking those skills and pushing out in the lunar region with gateway and supporting lunar lander systems as well. A great ending to the year, terrific to see the crew. We look forward to all the work they are going to achieve. Lets go next to joel. To the postgain docking press brief. What an incredible achievement and to have it happen in the month where we are celebrating 20 years of continuing human presence at the International Space station puts a smile on my face. Yesterday we saw a pictureperfect launch an today a very smooth docking. We welcome the dragon vehicle and they crew to the International Space station. We look forward to a significant amount of time on orbit, a significant number of months we will be able to increase the amount of science and research, the amount of technology development. A huge thanks to the commercial crew program. Congratulations to the spacex team. The International Space Station Program will take good care of the vehicle and her crew. Finally we will go to its an extremely exciting time in the Space Business right now. Started. T wait to get we have had teams of nasa and spacex and other agencies through in many ways blood, sweat and tears over the years. Thats what culminates in the hatch opening. Teams. So proud of the the arrival of resilience marks the beginning of another firsttime event. Crewovernment commercial rotation and looking back at another first that happened almost exactly 10 years ago with the same team members involved, nasa and spacex showed accomplishment with the launch of the demo flight Number One Mission in summer of 2010. That showed the capability of falcon and dragon and the partnership and have since then have had 20 successful cargo flights of the iss which have landed. As joel mentioned, we are proud to be part of the 20 Year Anniversary which is this month. We are proud to follow in the footsteps of all the other 63 expeditions that came before this one. We are glad to join for expedition 64. If you shout outs to nasa and spacex teams. Excellent job. We arerd years of work looking forward to this being a Successful Operation and more to follow. Great words to start us out there. We have a few reporters on the line. If you have a question you can press star one. Star two if its answered before you ask it. Direct your question to who you would like to answer it. Congrats on a successful flight. I guess this question could be for anybody who wants to answer. I wonder if there was any kind of quarrels over who gets to sleep in crew dragon and what value there was it could provide to spacex and are you getting any data out of that or what kind of test will you perform with that . I think our plan is to have hopper sleep in the dragon. Its been checked out operationally. I think its going to be an excellent opportunity to use that and test it out as a habitual module then we look forward to that. Several of us would like to be sleeping in there tonight. Next up, a business insider. Congrats everybody. This question is for kathy. What are you most looking forward to and what can keep you up at night if anything over the next six months . Joel has got a whole list of items he wants these crew members start working on. Start fora little bit crew members and he has a backlog of work and science that he needs to get done. ,hen you have people on board you always are maintaining visual and making sure just like we do. Having dragon up their means we have more people out of in orbit that we are thinking of and making sure we are taking care of them. Its what makes human spaceflight so fun and challenging. Is that you always have to realize you are maintaining human safety in a tough environment. But we have a great Station Program. They will take care of the mywmembers and they make ability to sleep a little bit better at night. Im counting on you, joel. Question comes from nashville news. My question is for kathy. As you described at the beginning of this press conference, it was tough to get to this point. What do you feel is the biggest risk when talking to the International Space station. It nice is the spacecraft makes it look easy. But to get there is not easy. It took a lot of joint work between the spacex and nasa team to share their learning and to interchange,lot of a ton of testing to make it look like that. It was a real testament today but we could all sit there and be talking while it was going on and not biting our nails. That the dragon is a beautiful vehicle and she did a nice job today. Definitely. Next up we have space. Com. Thank you all for joining us and congratulations. This is probably for joel. Could you talk about what it means to have that extra crew member on board. What does that mean for the rest Research Potential coming up and maybe beyond as you travel more often . One of the cool things about having the commercial crew program is we are able to double the amount of crew tended sites and research and technology development. So with three crew members we were averaging about 35 hours a week of science and research. ,ith the fourth crew member that time is dedicated to science utilization and research of 70 hours. We will be able to do 70 hours with four members. Ust sets the standard for for the next years as we continue to develop the International Space station and allow us to do not only the research we have, but Technology Demonstrations that would help us in the arts program. Followup we have a next from business insider. We do have time for a couple of followups. If you have another question, you can press star one again, but trying keep it short. Thanks for taking another question. Kathy orhis is also to for anybody else who can answer it. Followup ono something that came up, thus the thermal control system. Were those issues fully resolved and if you can talk about what happened there. A leak that popped up in orbit around the ground. Im curious about any other issues you are tracking that needs further investigation. Why dont you take this one. The missionin control area following the launch pretty diligently. These are your teams issues. Id be happy to. The vehicle is remarkably clean. Afterclearing a couple launch yesterday, the vehicle arrived today with full functionality, and no issues whatsoever. Earlier on there was a discussion about the heaters. Basically it off was based on a fault detection limit set very tightly on the ground. So spacex was very quick to identify the cause of it, being it was barely out of fit or limit the trip get off. One identified it within hour. They had a solution that was ready to be checked by the space josh by the team. The problem they were protecting against was to make sure the propellant lines stayed within the thermal limits just to make sure there is full functionality. In the end it turned out it was tighter than it needed to be. It was quickly fixed and dragon also a followup question from reuters. Just a followup on that. Other than the product line heaters, was there anything else you guys detected during flight or the docking sequence that looked off or something that was unexpected in prior tests . There was only one of the thing of note and it was also shortly after launch. It had to do with the thermal control system. On each of those loops, there are segments of the thermal loop that are isolated from other segments and so based on a differential with the temperature essentially, when youve got a certain part of the loop that are exposed to different temperatures that are equalized when on the ground at the same temperature, they were exposed to some different temperatures during this early phase of flight. Those wasion between a transientsused which ended up causing a fitter detection to trip and cause one loop to go offline temporarily. There was no issue and was one of these cases where the problem was identified quickly. Looking back at previous tests and the previous mission, it was something that was seen before but not enough that it tripped off any sort of issue. It was identified quickly. The team was able to fix it quickly. No issues whatsoever with thermal control. Both of those are examples with how you learn. You learn how your system operates while youre flying and how to operate it in a way on orbit. Like we mentioned in the the question was it something that you learned while you are flying. Yes, those are both things from a systems perspective are pretty normal things to learn while you are starting to bring on the system. It is prudent, things have been cautioned people have been setting those limits. Effects. Other we do have limits. Before they become problematic. That looks like our last question. Thank you so much to our brief errs and reporters. I think it was well worth the wait. And just a reminder that you can tune back in on wednesday morning to see the two russian members of the space station crew take a spacewalk. They will be going outside the preparingdo some work for the arrival of a new Russian Research module. The spacewalk is expected to start at 8 30 a. M. Central time. Thank you and have a great night. 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