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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 ...

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 furth...

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. L...

Their summer state period at the end of the week. You can watch live coverage beginning at 3 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan two. Tonight on the communicators, bob latta on the need for better maps so Internet Access can be delivered to underserved areas. A really good thing was that they admitted it, we have to look at this. We have a problem. We put money out there to help get these maps correct and we had legislation, which i was a part of, and it is important to get it done. If the maps are not ri...

Thank you. There on your screen oh, camera view change, that is a view from go navigator the recovery velocity. The two fast boats out there. Getting to getting ready to basically excuse me. Install the rigging equipment required to hoist dragon out water. One the other fast boat is collecting the hair parachutes from the water. To bring them back on board with us. We should see one of the team members crawl up on to the side of the capsule in order to install that install the rigging like i men...

Were getting ready to purge the section, and the lingering fumes that theyre detecting gets flushed out. The Service Section is not the interior cabin where bob and doug are. It is actually the part of the capsule that is outside of the place where bob and doug are and is external to the cabin. Inside the capsule itself. You can think of it as the space between the exterior of the dragon capsule and the interior space. The air pressure essentially. Yes. Bob and doug are fine, theyre breathing ma...

Looks like we have got him out. We have got him seated. There we go. Another thumbs up. [applause] following the flash dap splashdown, nasa and others held a news conference. This is just under one hour. Hello and welcome to our post press conference. Returning to american soil. Dougastronauts bob and traveling 27. 1s million miles an orbiting earth over 1024 times. As of today, our crew is home. Splashing down 45 years and nine days after the last american splashed down on earth. Our two favori...

Dragon visible in this view from one of the japanese cameras. [no audio] again, we are inside the undocking sequence now, good umbilical retraction and we are driving the first set of hooks. First set of hooks open and nominal. Nominal hooks on the first set. The first six hooks have completed their driving first set down, the second set is now driving and we are committed to undock. [no audio] seeing good motion on the second set of hooks, continuing to drive. This is the final set of hooks, th...

Again, the first set of hooks driving the navigation lights. Dragon visible in this view from one of the japanese cameras. [no audio] again, we are inside the undocking sequence now, good umbilical retraction and we are driving the first set of hooks. First set of hooks open and nominal. Nominal hooks on the first set. The first six hooks have completed their driving first set down, the second set is now driving and we are committed to undock. [no audio] seeing good motion on the second set of h...

Again, first set of folks driving to navigation light. The forward end of the dragon clearly visible from this view. Again, we are inside of the undocking sequence now. Good umbilical retraction. Dragon space x, first set of hooks open in nominal. The first six hooks have completed their driving first set down. Undock. Ow committed to seeing good motion on that second set of hooks. Continuing to drive. Folks, there of are six of them holding dragon into place now. Afterwards we will conduct two ...