Welcome from Kennedy Space center. I am with nasas office of communications. What a day were here to discuss nasa spacex demo2 mission and the return of u. S. Space night from the american soil to the International Space station withs a. S Robert Ben Ken and Douglas Hurley the crew spacecraft in the falcon 9 rocket lifted today from complex 39a at mas sas Kennedy Space center at 3 22 p. M. Bob and doug are safely on the think would International Space station to talk another about this Historic Mission we have a great panel of guests starting with nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine, elon musk, the chief engineer of spacex, kathy, manager of the Nasa Commercial Crew Program and Kirk Shireman the manager of the iss and nasa chief astronaut pat forrester. Well start with opening comments and presenters then well take your queens first start with our nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine. Jim thank you. What a great daze for nasa. What a great day for spacex. What a great day for the day of U
A beautiful sight, beautiful ship, too. I would say its a beauty. They have a long way to go, but thats a very dangerous part, a big part of the danger. Were very proud to be here. [inaudible] pres. Trump yes i am. I speak to him all the time. Great guy. One of our great brains. We like great brains and elons done a fantastic job. That was a beautiful sight to see and i hope you all enjoyed it. Were going to be saying a few words inside, so ill see you inside. Thank you very much. Great honor to have you here. [inaudible] pres. Trump i did, i did. Just god bless you. Nothing else you can say. God bless you. A lot of courage. More credit, more courage, even en, our senators, a i dont know. Would you do it . He might. You know who would do it . Brian would do it. I would be the first one. Pres. Trump you would do it, too. I know you. [laughter] pres. Trump now, an amazing honor. Four years ago, this place was essentially shut down. The Space Program was over. The Shuttle Service program
Center. All said they were pleased with the flight. Mr. Brian stein leads off after introductions. Good afternoon and welcome from Kennedy Space center. Day. A we are here to discuss the nasa Spacex Mission and return of u. S. Human spaceflight from u. S. Soil to the International Space station. The crew dragon spaceflight spacecraft and the falcon nine rocket lifted today from the launch complex. At 3 22 p. M. On and doug are now safely their way to the International Space station. To talk more about this historic mission, we have a great panel of guests starting with nasa administrator, Jim Bridenstine. Elon musk, kathy leaders, kirk and ton, pass forrester. We start with opening comments and our presenters and then we will take your questions. We start with Jim Bridenstine. Nasa and great day for spacex. What a great day for the United States of america. It is been nine years since we launched american astronauts from american soil and we of done it again. I want to be clear. The mi
Search box on her homepage on our homepage. Video earlier today leading up to the docking of the Spacex Dragon with two astronauts aboard with the International Space station. You will hear communications between ground control, the spacecraft, and commentary from nasa t. V. As the docking takes place. They will get all of the teams pulled. Once all the teams go, we will get dragon the goahead to fly in and doc with International Space station. It should be coming up to arrival in just about one minute and 45 seconds. At this point, it will be 20 meters away from that docking at two,adapter number pressurized to meeting adapter number two at the end of the module. Center, you can see the forward hatch with a window, a couple of handles, and there are some features that look ronsish. Those are look bron zeish. Pretty wild. We are so close that we are getting shadows from the station on dragon. Wow. And we are getting these views tworagons approach from cameras from that adapter. The mov
Foster not chief astronaut. We will first start with our nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine. Nasa,t a great day for what a great day for spacex and the United States of america. It has been nine years since we have launched american astronauts from american soil and we have done it again. I want to be clear the mission is not yet over. We are at the beginning, but so far, everything has performed very, very well, and we are excited about the fact that bob and doug, our american heroes are safely in orbit and on the way to the International Space station. Congratulations to nasa team. Congratulations for the leaders who have been on the nasa side leading our commercial crew program all along, and you and your team have done an absolutely marvelous job. Of course, elon musk and your team in spacex, this launch represents the best of everything that america has to offer. Showso will it also the process, to my nasa administrator who got the program off the ground when there was not a lot o