Agenda, the nomination of judy shelton to serve on the Federal Reserve board of governors. Watch the house of representatives live on cspan and the senate, live on cspan two. We are just standing by. This is a view outside the Neil Armstrong operations and checkout building. Inside is the historic astronaut crew quarters and sit up room. Quarters. Theres look at the doors that the crew will be walking out of any moment now. There is a view of the door the crew will be stepping out of any moment. And you see the sticker on the door. You can see along the door frame, even more stickers, i believe theres one sticker from every mission but i did notice that there was just enough room to put the crew 1 sticker up. Here they come. The crew 1 astronauts now beginning their journey to the launch pad ahead of this Historic Mission to the International Space station. Outside the bil building, we hae friends and Family Gathering there with prior to liftoff. Thats a different thing to the shuttle
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
You can see along the door frame, even more stickers, i believe theres one sticker from every mission but i did notice that there was just enough room to put the crew 1 sticker up. Here they come. The crew 1 astronauts now beginning their journey to the launch pad ahead of this Historic Mission to the International Space station. Outside the bil building, we hae friends and Family Gathering there with prior to liftoff. Thats a different thing to the shuttle days. Last time we saw our families would have been a wave across the ditch. The day before launch. Typically, shuttle launches you would have employees and people that would come out to wish us well. I think its a very special thing that the crew families get that up close and personal right before they get into the transport vehicles to the pad. You notice everyone keeping safe distance here. That distance will be enforced regardless whether covid19 was a factor in whats going on. Distance is maintained regardless. Like i mentione
Endangerment of public health. Hes investigating. In boston, a packed party boat making headlines. Absolutely no social distancing. That party boat operation has been completely shut down. In new jersey, no pictures yet, but 700 people attended a liberian Independence Day party. It was staged at an airbnb rental. Plenty of alcohol and twerking. It took police five hours to break it up. Hundreds ticketed. There is, however, positive news on the virus. Pfizer is now in phase 3 testing for its vaccine. That is the final stage. Just like moderna. And the increase in virus cases in two key states, california and texas, is slowing down. You better take a look at this. Kodak. Remember them . They are getting 765 million from the government to make the ingredients for pharmaceutical products. They will replace china, which currently dominates the supply chain for the Building Blocks of drug products. Watch that stock go. The dow industrials, they are going to be on the down side this morning.
What is affecting the markets, especially when it comes to economic concerns. Lets see how markets are shaping up for the asian session. We are joined from hong kong. Isshery, the spreading japan off for the long weekend, which was to mark the start of the tokyo olympics. We are seeing futures for asia pointing to losses. We will be watching to see if those concerns around the u. S. Tech rally will weigh in the region, what the nasdaq looking bubbly. We are also looking to the aussie dollar, holding declines below 71. Is trading atlar the highest level since april 2019 throughout this choppy week. Pulling up the terminal, the asiana is tracking towards 77 after a four month decline, but it has not been able to track to that level yet. Increased option activity this week could lead the way for more gains for this currency pair. In hong kong dollar and offshore yuan options. Yuane seeing offshore taking a breather after a twoday advance. Traders dont seem to be expecting too much Materia