Lets start off with aggression from bill cbs. Can you hear me now . Testing one, two,. Loud and clear, bill. Sorry about that. I want to go back to what bob was in yesterday describing the riot you are comparing it to the shuttle but i was more interested in the first stage of the falcon how did it feel and the second stage feel and you made it sound like maybe it was rougher than the shuttle on the main engine. Wondering if there was ever a point when he looked at doug and said this is not what i expected . Well bill, you took the words right out of my mouth. The summary from yesterday was good, smoother and first stage little rougher second stage and then we saw in shuttle and both of us were expecting. We did comment on it while we were going uphill. I think we tried to verbalize it as much as the new experience that we were having to make sure they were for real between the two of us that we were sensing the same things. Lets go to question from steven clark. Hello, thank you for taking my question. Steven clark from spaceflight now. Followup on that, what was the sensation [inaudible] and it was something that was an experience during the shuttle to shut down the engines and ignite a new engine in flight and im curious about your experiences with the spacesuits in flight. Thank you very much. I think the question was about the difference with staging between the Space Shuttle and the dragon since we did not shut down the main engines on the Space Shuttle like we went through for first stage and a second stage grade there was a significant difference between the solid rocket booster on the shuttle and that second stage and so i think we all definitely felt that separation in her the clunk associated with it. Doug and i both commented on and i commented on it first we did feel early 0g when we came off the first stage and we were getting ready to transition to the second stage and we felt that second stage. I think the next question was about the suits. I will let doug, if you want to talk about the suits. Yeah, the suits in general, bob and i have had a ton of time in those suits britt i bet you we have donned and often those suits a couple hundred times. The suits themselves if you are not familiar with them they are customdesigned and custom fitted so they are very comfortable. They were actually much easier to get in and out of in 0g as we figured out over the course of the two days. We complemented the suited team and those things worked very well. Everything you expected going uphill. [inaudible] is there any feedback perhaps worst space x and nasa about potential changes you would make for the next cruise that fly in the dragon . Were there any changes we would make . I think was your question i dont think that there was anything we are not hearing you, lauren. Lets move on to rose. Hello, thank you for taking my question. Im glad to see you are all well up there. As you know, houston is the home to spaceflight and in many ways the people here who know you personally from timber grove, clearlake, those who watched from nassau bay, webster, have seen you train in your journey to get where you are at today, some of them may be like your sons who are younger and may be inspired by the things you all are doing. What is your message to those who are watching from houston and from all these areas in space city . What is your message to them . Well, i think my first thing i would say about that is, you know, just never quit what you are doing. This was an extremely long road for bob and i. We last flew in 2010 and 2011 and when nassau stopped flying chattels that was in the middle of 2011 and it has taken that hard work and dedication over the last nine, almost nine years to get us where we are at now. Back in launching rockets from the United States, back at space station docking to the front of the space station where suttles used two doc and i would just say take a message from nassau and that anything is possible and we had a really rough couple of months and just be able to show the country what the agency is made of and what the commercial crew program did and what space x did. I hope they take some pride and a sense of accomplishment at seeing that. I think for both of us also that houston area is where we call home now and it certainly is true that the home of Johnson Space center, home of spaceflight takes seriously that that is our home and that is the home of human spaceflight and we have excellent support there and i had a parade of appropriately addressing only social distancing individuals lining my neighborhood and a half mile or so as i departed on my way to the fields to head down to florida and i know that i just had wonderful support and to all our friends and families at home thank you guys for everything and we just cannot have done it without all of you. Thank you so much but i know that probably means so much to them. Godspeed. Lets go to question from Chris Davenport. Hello, Chris Davenport from the washington post. Thank you for taking the time and congrats on your flight and i will try not to leave you hanging this time for the followup on bill and stephens question about the ride, i wonder if you could walk us through some of the technological differences between shuttle that led to the difference in the experiences and may be a little more of what were some of the key moments during the phase that stood out to you guys . Thank you. Chris, good to talk with you. I think just generically the falcon nine is a liquid fueled rocket but remember, shuttle had solid rocket boosters to start with and those burn very rough for the first two and a half minutes. The first stage with falcon nine for the nine maryland engines and roughly the same amount of time and it was much smoother ride im busy because it was a liquid engine. Where the difference started for i think both bob and i am a commented on it at the moment was at staging and was similar to what you saw in the apollo 13 movie where they stage from first to second stage so the first stage engine shut off and then it takes a second almost a second and might have been less than that but it seemed like it took sometime between the booster separating and then the maryland engine is starting pretty at that point we go from roughly 3gs to 0gs for, i dont know, half a second probably and then when that vacuum engine fires then we start accelerating again for the next five, six minutes until we achieve orbit. Totally different than shuttle and it was smooth and got rougher as bob mentioned before with the maryland vacuum engine and it will be interesting to talk to the space x folks to find out why it was rougher ride on second stage that it was for shuttle on those three main engines. Lets try marsha, associated press. Doug, good to see everybody up there. Im wondering have you captured the flag yet and have you put your hands on it . Is it a board . What are your thoughts about laying claim to that flags since you are one of the ones who put it they are nine long years ago . Thanks a lot. Hello marcia. The short answer is, chris had it right on the hatch where we left it nine years ago and it is right here and i think hes got a note, do not forget to take with crew dragon so depending on how long we stay up here you can bet we will take it with us when we depart back to earth and from that standpoint we talked about this flag before many times over the last years since we left it here and i think the important point is as i said before returning launch capability to the United States, to and from the International Space station. That is what this flag really means and i think a little bit more it is to the thousands of people that made it possible from the folks at space x to the folks at nasa to the folks within the commercial crew program and we just are lucky enough to be able to take it home with us and i will be our plan here in a month or two or three or four, depending on what, as bob says, what uncle kurt lets us do. Lets go to question from aviation week. A question for chris cassidy. From your perspective what skills and iss training do doug and bob bring to the iss mix, especially now and how will those help to ramp up operations internally and perhaps externally in the coming weeks . Well, you know, experience goes a long way and both these guys are in their third flight. It doesnt matter in my opinion, shuttle, Flight Experience or station Flight Experience it is all has to do with working space, working efficiently, understanding the system and the methodology with which we work back and forth and handinhand with Mission Control. Once you understand that and grasp all those concepts the work part is i dont want to say easy but it happens together and we have already seen that today as day one and they are hitting the ground running, unloading the vehicle and we got each tv at our feet and we will be working in their very short order, probably after we hang out from this conversation. Together the three of us will be tackling the Overall Mission of the space station which is conducting science and enabling that science with maintaining the space station and then operational objectives sprinkled and the max and at some point we will get our plan for potential spacewalks and we will execute all of that. We dont set up here at dinner and decide when all those activities will be done with the prioritization is done in houston and then we secured the plan paid the three of us are pretty excited to get after it together. Joy with writers. Hello, thanks for doing this. I was wondering since you upgraded to the space station how did it feel not knowing how long he would stay there . Does it feel weird and i was wondering if at any time during the trip to the space station if you noticed anything unexpected that you did not experience during training . Thank you, its a good question. Several recent crews have had a more recent uncertainty than we had historically for how long their Mission Duration was going to be but i guess maybe on that percentage scale doug and i had may be the most uncertainty because it could be relatively short or we could potentially double or triple may be what was original expected for us just a few short months ago and so, little bit strange. Im trying to explain it to my son just six years old and from his perspective he is excited that we will get a dog when i get home and he is accepting that uncertainty and continuing to send messages to meet while i am on orbit. As far as unexpected things, while we were headed uphill i said a little bit about this yesterday but the biggest differences is the dynamics that is involved. The vibration and the experiences that we felt actually writing a real rocket going to the fueling operation of the new experience for us and as you probably know the Space Shuttle was fueled when the astronauts arrived and doug and i went through the fueling operation on board dragon which was different from us and so going through and hearing the venting and the valve sounds and the little vibrations associated with that operation was a new experience for us and so that was different than training but nothing out of family. The team did a great job of report recording that audio during the demo one mission, the mission there was little bit over a year ago and they came to the space station when no people on board and play that back for us, tied to the audio so weve heard of those sounds pretty much before and so that was extremely helpful. We have the same tool for coming home and look forward to seeing how well that matches up with our experience. Robert. Thank you. Hello, chris, doug and bob. For doug and bob i wonder if during the ascent or during your overnight time was there a point for that sense of history received in where you allowed yourself to consider the history that you were making and what were those specific moments, thanks. Honestly, robert, good to talk with you. I dont know if we ever reflected on it over the 19 our rendezvous. I mean, i think you may have a random thoughts going through your head every now and again but both bob and i are over the last five years been pretty focused on this mission and flying this mission and i think that that is really what we put our entire effort mentally and physically into from the time we walked out of the onc building until we docked with the space station and we are still doing it but you know, it was focusing on everything we could do to make sure we did what we needed to do to make it a successful accent, rendezvous and docking. Also, we tried to take in all the things that the falcon nine and the dragon showed us, the noises, maneuvers, any nuances, anything we can let other folks know to be aware of as they apply that vehicle. I think, you know, for me anyway the historical aspect of it is certainly notable but i think it is something to may be consider after this mission is complete. We are not even in any way, shape or form halfway through the mission yet. We just docked and we still have got to do our mission here with chris and then undock, depart into a reentry and then a landing and a recovery. Plenty of work to do. You know, we will probably make a lot more about that when the time comes. Thank you for taking my questions but this is for bob and doug. I am wondering what were some of the first things that you wanted to see or do after you arrived at the space station and has it changed much since you were last there or does that still feel like a second home to you . Thanks. I dont want to speak for dog on this one but one of the things i was most excited about was being able to make a phone call home. Its been a long time since ive launched into orbit and ive got a little boy who had a chance to watch me do that for the first time in his life and i just wanted to understand what his experience was and share that with him while he was still fresh in his mind. He was able to make the trip back to houston after watching the docking from down in florida and was pretty excited about the whole thing so that was wonderful for me. As far as the space station goes i will tell you it seems a lot like it did when i was here last. There is quite a bit more science going on, quite a bit more equipment on some of the spaces over the gym side or down in no to three but the overall structure and layout is very similar. We did comment yesterday on the airlock configuration. It is not as clean as chris and i remember it from our shuttle experiences because those flights were about the assembly of space station in the airlock was ready to go. We are in a different mode of operation on board space station right now. I know the way space station works is you pre much have to configure each specific area for the tax at hand and so the mating adapter we docked to on the forward part of the station was all cleared out for our arrival and all that stowage was moved around and quite a bit of stowage was probably repositioned for the hpv arrival from japan and we will have to do reconfiguration in other areas as we continue to conduct operations on board the space station. So much going on that youve got more stuff than you have places to stowage without fully being able to conduct the operation. Anything to add . Lets go across the pond to Jackie Goddard with the times. Thank you. Jackie goddard from the times of london paid congratulation paid this mission feels so much more funky and futuristic from the capsules look to the touchscreens in the technology and the suits. Does this feel like the jetsons . Can you describe some of the emotion around it of the ride uphill and somebody has to ask it that all important question that the child and all of us needs to know, how was the crew dragon toilet . Its good to talk to you. Let me think. From a futuristic standpoint i think, you know, space acts from the very start of that company has tried to be very forward thinking and cutting edge and it is one of the factors that went into the design of the crew dragon and our space suits and every thing about the vehicle. You know, for us as the test pilot, so to speak, you know, we are there to evaluate how it does the mission and so far it has done just absolutely spectacularly. It is a clean vehicle and i think most people think it is a really cool looking vehicle and i know my son thanks so. It does everything we needed to do for this mission. We are very happy with that part of it. Lets see, the toilet. I think we had a bet to see when that question was going to be asked about dragon and it works very similar to the one we were used to in the Space Shuttle and worked very well. We had no issues with it. Next is peter king. Good morning, peter king with cbs news radio. I know bob and doug that you are up there to help chris overcome that shorthanded situation but it also gives a space x people a chance to evaluate the dragons longterm performance during its exposure to the elements while you are up there. What are some of the things that are going to be looking for. Well, you are absolutely right. It will put the dragon through its paces in preparation for the crew one flight. We already spent quite a bit of the day repairing basically dragon to serve its purpose as a lifeboat for an emergency departure vehicle so doug and i spent quite a bit of time getting the equipment prepared so that vehicle is ready to go and execute thats mission and we probably did a little more as a part of that than other crews will do in the future but we have performed some connections with the Computer Systems to make sure that we can configure communication between everything from the soil be used to the space station back to dragon if we needed to do that from inside our small little vehicle and we established that that works. We will continue to do small checkouts like that. We will go to the process of powering down dragon, taking it to its hibernate state and then bring it back here in a few short days just to make sure that process goes smoothly. Again, every crew wont need to do that sort of evaluation but since it is the first flight we really are putting her through her paces to make sure that any of the little aspects of the mission that it might be called upon to support is ready to do that. That is from the hibernated stage and a regular departure or from serving as another environment to go in safe haven should we need to have there was a problem on board space station. We will do all those things before we call her operational and then pick up with primary focusing on helping chris out on the space station side. Leo enright with irish television. Congratulations, bob and doug. As we say in ireland,. [speaking in native tongue] i have another question about the launch and what was different this time. Her final callout before [inaudible] to which hawthorne replied roger, shannon. Obviously, shannon is in ireland and i rather expect we will hear from this call out in the years to come. A lot of people in ireland are wondering what was that all about . Well, hello ireland. Thats a great question. So, the asset term directory offers us opportunities if needed, if we have a failure with the launch vehicle to abort and some of those scenarios involve aborting fairly close to Kennedy Space center, along the east coast of the United States all the way up toward newfoundland into canada. And then once our trajectory hits a certain point and we get high enough we will abort forward to the uk and the ireland area, specifically and we can do that in the later stages of our powered flight before the engine shut down. That is our call to Mission Control in the hawthorne to let them know that we see that change in the abort destination, if that eventuality is needed. Sophie sanchez, chicago now. Hello, im from chicago. Doug, is a test pilot what was it like for you to take control of endeavor for the first time and as you could you share a little bit about the docking procedure and how compared to the other procedure . Thank you. Flying the dragon was exactly how we expected it to be and that was one of the reasons we wanted to do the manual flight test twice so we did it shortly after we got the orbit on our first day and then when we were on the final portion of the docking access we did it again yesterday. It is all to prove that that capability works for future cruise if need be. Most folks are familiar with the fact that dragon is designed to be totally automated from the time it launches until the time it returns to earth but if there is any systems failure or other issues we would like to know with confidence that if we take over manually the vehicle will do what we needed to do. Dave mosher. Thank you for taking my call. Congratulations on your flight. It was amazing to watch but chris, what was your biggest thing you felt or thought of endeavor as they approach the iss and some question for you, doug. What were your biggest thoughts or emotions as you pulled up to this place you have not been in many, many years . Im curious and want to ask the safety question a different way, what is your five star review . What would you rate it, what would you say about the spacesuits if you had to review them online . I will take the first part of that question from the space station side of things, what was going through my mind while they were there were several phases. One was during launch and that was quite exciting for the three of us on board. We flew directly over the Kennedy Space center two minutes before launch and got nice pictures of the launch pad and we were out over the ocean at the time of engine ignition so we cannot quite see plus we were in the day so we do not see the actual launch but that was a very exciting for the three of us were just cheering just much like you where i am sure. Fastforward to yesterday when we were watching the vehicle do its stairstep maneuver up to our altitude and yvonne and i could see and we looked out the window and saw very far away about 19, 20 kilometers and it got brighter and brighter and bigger and bigger and it struck me that that little tiny. Was going to be fixed to a piece of metal that was about 15 meters from where i was standing. So to speak. And then they came up to our same altitude and started coming directly in on the docking access and i had the camera out at one particular point in a cracked open the window to get a picture and i realized that inside that spacecraft were two of my colleagues and friends. They were going 17005 on a miles an hour and we were going 17500 miles an hour and we are bringing these two vehicles together with the computer and then backing it up and i could monitor this process on the telemetry and so from a technical nature i was pretty amazed at the whole thing just realizing what was happening but then you fold into that the historic aspect of the whole day and what it means to america and what it means to our nations Space Program and what it means to the international cooperation, commercial cooperation and it just was kind of aweinspiring, to be honest with you. And then there was a fleeting moments back to the operations but it was pretty impressive day and im honored to be a part of it. As far as the docking was concerned dragon flew pretty similar to shuttle and had very similar characteristics. The automation would have made or did make the same corrections that i think either bob or i would have as we were coming in and the thing that stood out to both of us and we mentioned it as soon as we docked is we didnt feel the docking. It was so smooth and then we were docked which in shuttle he felt a little bit of a jolt, nothing real heavy but you felt it and we asked the guys on board space station the same question they said we did not feel it either which is difficult, more typical but anyway that really surprised me so either just the velocities or the strength of the docking mechanism absorbed any inertia as we came into dock and it was pretty neat that we cannot feel anything at all on board endeavor. I think for both dog and i we would have to give the suits a five star rating. Each suit is. Designed for very specific mission and this one is point designed for us to sit in our seats and protect us if there is a fire or any sort of problem with the atmosphere on board dragon bread if it was leaking out or had smoked an aunt or anything like that. The suits do not have to do that job for us which was nice. It was clear they were ready and we had a great checks of the suits as we continued uphill and prelaunch and i just cant say enough about the space x team. Chris trigg, eric, maria and all the other members of the team have done an outstanding job supporting us, getting them tailor fit to fit on us and we look forward to seeing how they performed. [audio difficulties] station, this is houston, that concludes our event as we look at humans living and working on the International Space station. 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