And dragon, the purge is complete and we can proceed with hatch opening. Good news. Thats good news, indeed. Confirmation that the purge is complete and near going to do one more test to make sure that all of the fumes of concern are away and that it is safe to open the side hatch and retrieve bob and doug. Once that side hatch is open our Flight Surgeon will be the first to say hello, get a quick medical checkup, but based on the reports that theyve been that the crew have been have been giving us along the way, it sounds like theyre doing great, theyre feeling good and theyre pretty comfortable inside of crew dragon. Dragon spacex, we show being below limits and proceeding with hatch opening. Okay. Great news. Thanks. All right. So theres the green light weve been waiting for. And in fact the green light weve been waiting for for for months at this point, this is our first opportunity to say hello to bob and doug our favorite space dads as they are now about to to to egress or exit f
Thumbsup. Welcome to the press conference as we celebrate conclusion of this Historic Mission and the official return spaceflights to american soil. L nasas Johnson Space center. Hurley spent nine weeks aboard the International Space station traveling 27. 1 millionmilance orbiting over 1024 times, and, today, our crew is home. And splashing down 45 years and nine days after the last american smash splashdown on earth. Melts ago, our two favorite space splashed down off the coast of pens control and aboard the spacex crew dragon and just concluding our first launch america mission. This historic landing left the first return of commercial built and operator american spacecraft from the International Space station. And to discuss this Historic Mission. Talk more about watch america and what we have in store for nasa is we have the briefers. Let me introduce them. First Jim Bridenstine, nasa administrator, president and ceo of spacex, steve stitch, commercial crew program manager, Interna
Dragon has three g. P. S. Units that it use in the parachute deployment issue as it helps the pressure sensors give a solid altitude on when theyre upposed to deploy. We should be just under five minutes away from splash down. Passion b 15 closmogsm 4 bout 14n another tuesday. 8. 4 miles continuing to descent. There on your screen we have a shot of the capsule as it is preparing to deploy the initial parachutes, the drogue parachute. Again, these parachutes help slow the vehicle down. Even further, and help stabilize in preparation for main chute deployment. Right about now the capsule is going about 400 miles per hour. Did he celebrating quickly. And standing by for drogue deploys. Visual two drogues out. There on the screen we have visual confirmation of the two drogue december h deployment. 2 of 2 the drogues now out they will do their slowing and stabilizing of the dragon spacecraft. They should be detaching in just a few moments. And then well see four parachutes, the main parachu
Navigator recovery ship in about 21 minutes. Then in 28 minutes, we will be opening that hatch and beginning crew egress also known as exit. We did hear the rigging is pretty much complete. Right as they arrive there at the castle, the main recovery vessel will get it up out of the water. Now the recovery vessel, go navigator is getting closer to dragon. Dragon position off the coast of pensacola, florida, were able to see it in more detail. It is certainly no longer a a bright shade of light. Like we said the external temperatures were reaching up to 3500 degrees fahrenheit, so the thermal protective system, thermal protection system, enabled dragon to return while keeping the internal temporary temperate. Youre seeing a few more boats than expected. The team is working with a few private vessels in the area making sure that they get out of there. Now we see one of the spacexs moving in. So were being advised that the Recovery Team is radioing out to the vessels in the water near crew
Jcpoa, loud and clear. Welcome to the space station. Thank you. Great. Well, welcome and good morning from houston and thank you all for joining us today. We have many questions already in the queue for our crew. As a reminder for our media on the phone bridge please press star what if you have a question and start two to withdraw your question if he gets answered. Lets jump in. We will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking the questions and hope you can have a pretty well up there. Im curious to hear a little bit more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time you have been up there, as well as if you guys feel like youre ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that you would rather stay at there a come back down to test the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats some question. Ill see if i can remember all of them, but i think froman on on orbit testing standpoint we did have abi