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 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
Houston and thank you all for joining us today. We have many questions already in the queue for our crew. As a reminder for media on the the phone bridge please press starone if you have a question and star2 to withdraw your question if it gets answered. All right. Lets jump. In we will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking my question. I hope you can hear me. Im curious to hear more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time youve been up there as well as do you guys feel like youre getting ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that youd rather see staying up there or coming back to test out the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats several questions, ill see if i can remember all of them. But i think from an onorbit testing standpoint we did have an ability we did inhabitability test, we tested emergency equipment, and just generically how we work with the dragon docked on boa
The phone bridge please press starone if you have a question and star2 to withdraw your question if it gets answered. All right. Lets jump. In we will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking my question. I hope you can hear me. Im curious to hear more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time youve been up there as well as do you guys feel like youre getting ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that youd rather see staying up there or coming back to test out the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats several questions, ill see if i can remember all of them. But i think from an onorbit testing standpoint we did have an ability we did inhabitability test, we tested emergency equipment, and just generically how we work with the dragon docked on board. Transferring equipment, transferring supplies. Were going to do a fair amount of that again tomorrow when we return equipment or supp
Station, this is houston. Are you ready for the event . Houston, this is the International Space station. We are ready for the event. Copy that. We are also ready, so over to you. Welcome aboard the International Space station and the crew of expedition 63. It is an exciting day for us all, as we bid farewell to our two friends and colleagues bob and doug colleagues, bob and doug, as they complete the journey of the amazing test mission. It was roughly two months ago when we were at this very hatch and greeted them aboard, and changed from a crew of three to a crew of five, and we executed two months of fantastic space station science and technical objectives with spacewalks and proud of we are very that and we are happy to have doug and bob be part of that. Sad to see them it but very excited for what means for our International Space program, to add this capability to bring people back and forth to the space station in lowearth orbit, with another capability such as the crew dragon.