Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the United States department of defense, we welcome you to the annual september 11th observance to honor and remember the 184 lives lost on American Airlines flight 77 and at the pentagon at 9 37 a. M. On september 11th, 2001. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the arrival of the official party and remain standing for the National Anthem performed by Staff Sergeant adam strube and the invocation delivered by deputy chief of chaplins chaplin Brigadier General william green. O say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . Please bow with me on this important day in ou
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
Johnson space center. S bob behnken and doug 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, International Space Station Program manager and end fire crews . Astronautses, who are together and speaking us to today. So well start with
Thank you for joining us for this post docking news briefing of the nasa spacex demo two mission. Hurleynken and douglas arrived at the International Space station aboard the crew dragon. We will hear more from nasa leadership talk more about the mission. Administratornasa jim bridenstine, mark geyer, isse fitch, kenny todd from , the International Space Station Program director, and shall linger in and shall longer and and an astronaut. Up, our nasa administrator james bridenstine. I want to say congratulations to the nasa team and to the spacex team, and it really congratulations to the United States of america. This has been an amazing two days. We are still at the beginning. We have a mission in front of us and we need to make sure we bring bob and doug home safely. Launchingbout american astronauts for the first time on a brandnew rocket, this has been done four times in the history of the United States. Apollo, spacei, shuttle, and now crew dragon. So actually five times. This ha
Today we will hear more from the nasa leadership. Joining us is the nasa administrator, the director of the Johnson Space center, the Program Director of the kennycial crew program, from the International Space a nasa director and astronaut. Thank you for joining us today. We will start with opening remarks and then go to questions from reporters. First up is our nasa administrator. Thank you. I just want to say thank you to teamasa team and space a and congratulations to the United States of america. Days. S an amazing two we have a mission in front of us and we need to make sure we bring bob and doug home safely. When we think about launching american astronauts on a brandnew rocket, this has been done four times in the history of the United States. Spacey, gemini, apollo, shuttle, and now crew dragon its actually five times now. This has gone as well as we could have expected it to go. I want to say a big congratulations to nasa, a big congratulations to spacex, and we are going to