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This is the first time that we have performed a landing siting on a crew mission. coming up -- coming up next will be second engine cutoff or seco. it will coast for a couple minutes until dragon is commanded to separate. >> stage two is in terminal guidance. >> were expecting seco to occur in about 20 seconds. >> copy shannon. >> commander peggy whitson continuing to call out the abort motes. >> seco. >> all right. on time.

Leading that flight team. but as jason was talking about earlier, the landing on land is the big deal. >> so as we go to that split screen, when it goes back, the left is coming towards earth, the one on the right is going up into space. here it is the landing, it is amazing to he that they can take this rocket and land it so smoothly. look at that. [cheers and applause] that is absolutely phenomenal. [applause] >> landing confirmed. >> you can see the first stage has landed back at lz-1. this i...

And you can see the contrail. were coming up, three big sequence, and a view, live of the crew inside dragon. theyre getting ready. were going to get three events here. main engine cutoff and then were going to light the second stage engine. in preparation for stage separation. >> stage separation confirmed. copy two alpha. [ cheers and applause ] >> stage one start-up. >> all right. stage separation, weve lit the second stage engine. working its way back towards cape canaveral.

An altitude. were aiming just over the carmen line, the internationally recognized line of space of 100 kilometers, about 328,000 feet, and a gorgeous view down the rocket. now weve had main engine cutoff, the be 3 engine shus off. in just a moment well separate the capsule from the booster. at that point our astronauts will have an opportunity to get out of their harnesses and enjoy the beauties of zero g. lets wait to listen . there you can see a clean separation between the capsule and the bo...

In a nominal orbit. in a few minutes here well begin opening that -- excuse me, in a few minutes well separate from the second stage and shortly after that well begin opening that nose cone. at the same time, we landed our first stage on the drone ship, which is super exciting. >> thats the second stage action wasnt exciting enough. >> so theres that mbac engine like we mentioned before. it has already shut down. an event known as second engine cutoff and the crew are now -- >> cal, it sounds li...

>> there it is. i think -- i think it may have just touched down. well get confirmation of that, but i think if the rockets went off, it may be down. well get confirmation on that. the one on the right, thats definitely the second booster rocket. they can fire it multiple times if they need to. sort of what we were talking about, it is the reusing of these materials to make it cheaper hopefully to open the door to this quote, up quote, space tourism. theyre trying to get four civilians onto the ...

>> stand by. >> okay. >> mark. capability. >> roger. >> houston, be advised the visual is go today. >> this is houston, roger out. >> altitude is 100 miles. down range 883 miles. outboard engine cutoff. >> and ignition. >> mission confirmed. thrust is go, 11. >> and we have a good third stage now. >> velocity, 23,128 feet per second. down range 1,000 miles, altitude, 101 miles.

>> this is houston, roger out. >> altitude is 100 miles. down range 883 miles. outboard engine cutoff. >> and ignition. >> mission confirmed. thrust is go, 11. >> and we have a good third stage now. >> velocity, 23,128 feet per second. down range 1,000 miles, altitude, 101 miles. >> apollo 11 this, is houston at 10 minutes, you are go. >> and roger, 11.