Nasa launch four astronauts aboard the space x dragon capsule to the International Space station on sunday. Afterwards, top officials at nasa and spacex held a News Conference on how the launch went and what is ahead for the mission. Thank you for joining us. Moments ago at 7 27 p. M. Nasa space x space x crew1 mission blasted off from Kennedy Space Center Historic pad 39a with four astronauts. Americans, mike hopkins, victr glover, Shannon Walker and japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi today we are joined to have a great group of people to talk about thehe crew1 missionn this post conference and talk about them in historic elements of this historic launch. Joining us today is nasa jim bridenstine, kathy, associate administrator for operations, at nasa headquarters. Vice president and director general of jackson Human Spaceflight Technology directorate, steve dixon administrator of the federal aviation administration, faa and president and chief operating officer of spacex. Ar in a in a
Cspan2. Next, nasa administrator jim bryden sign talks about future emissions and changes at the agency due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is one hour and 40 minutes. [inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order. Nd20 has been a year of challenge and triumph for Americas National space agency. Covid19 pandemic has disrupted planning and daytoday operations but nasa and its commercial partners have achieved many successful outcomes. These include longchain american astronauts to the International Space station and returning them safely to earth. And returning that launch vehicle safely to earth. Launching a perseverance rover to mars in preparing the space launch systems sls rocket and iranian crew capsule for the first deeps place but Nation Program next year. Im pleased that nasa administrator jimpl is here to provide us with an update on nasas mission and programs and the agencys plans for the future. Further progress is critical to achieving the goals of landing the
Houston and thank you all for joining us today. We have many questions already in the queue for our crew. As a reminder for media on the the phone bridge please press starone if you have a question and star2 to withdraw your question if it gets answered. All right. Lets jump. In we will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking my question. I hope you can hear me. Im curious to hear more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time youve been up there as well as do you guys feel like youre getting ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that youd rather see staying up there or coming back to test out the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats several questions, ill see if i can remember all of them. But i think from an onorbit testing standpoint we did have an ability we did inhabitability test, we tested emergency equipment, and just generically how we work with the dragon docked on boa
The phone bridge please press starone if you have a question and star2 to withdraw your question if it gets answered. All right. Lets jump. In we will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking my question. I hope you can hear me. Im curious to hear more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time youve been up there as well as do you guys feel like youre getting ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that youd rather see staying up there or coming back to test out the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats several questions, ill see if i can remember all of them. But i think from an onorbit testing standpoint we did have an ability we did inhabitability test, we tested emergency equipment, and just generically how we work with the dragon docked on board. Transferring equipment, transferring supplies. Were going to do a fair amount of that again tomorrow when we return equipment or supp
Jcpoa, loud and clear. Welcome to the space station. Thank you. Great. Well, welcome and good morning from houston and thank you all for joining us today. We have many questions already in the queue for our crew. As a reminder for our media on the phone bridge please press star what if you have a question and start two to withdraw your question if he gets answered. Lets jump in. We will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking the questions and hope you can have a pretty well up there. Im curious to hear a little bit more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time you have been up there, as well as if you guys feel like youre ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that you would rather stay at there a come back down to test the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats some question. Ill see if i can remember all of them, but i think froman on on orbit testing standpoint we did have abi