That is not a good thing. So right now, we are waiting for tminus seven minutes. That will start the engine chill. Shortly after that, we will also get the fuel shut down. Listening to the spacex launch director in the background. As i mentioned, tminus seven minutes, as we start to chill, we will get into the final topping off of stage one fuel, and then the fuel load will complete. Stage one and stage two, engine chill has started. We have heard the callout. Stage one engine chill has started. Soy have got up to the crew, they have situational awareness. We mentioned the prevalves are open, now we are topping off, getting ready to finish the fuel load. Liquid load will continue until the last three minutes to two minutes of the countdown. We should hear about callout, complete coming up in about six minutes. Rp1 is that densify kerosene or rocket fuel at falcon 9 that will be used to power bob and doug today. Stage i fuel is closed up. Right on time. That callout indicates that the fuel loading on the first stage is complete. Forning back the lines now first aid and second stage fuel are complete. Liquid oxygen loading is continuing on both stages. You can see on the view on the left side of the monitor, the condensation, the coal gas wrapped around the stages, as the tank scans are chilled by the liquid oxygen picking up the humidity. It looks like at this moment, we are a little more than 90 full on the oxidizer on the first stage, picking up toward the 80 mark on the second stage. We will be counting down to around two or three minutes, as john and i said, and then we will be go for launch. Configure for terminal count. Vehicle tanks pressing. Dan they are pressurizing the falcon 9 tank. We are going to open the clamp arm around the second stage and we will move back about two degrees. That will get us into lift off position. The strong back will then decline. The launch director called out the retractor has started on the left. Go back a couple of degrees see it go back a couple of degrees. Stage i has lift. We are four minutes away from lift off. At this moment, bob and doug are just laser focused on those displays. They have inside directly into dragon and the falcon 9. They are able to see where their fuel loading is that, how things are resting with the count. Final set up started. Three and a half minutes from launch. Is nowthe strong back reclining from the falcon 9. Dragon has transmission to terminal count. Stage one, block, load, call back. 2 42. K, we are tminus stage one is closed out. Stage two will continue to load for about another half a minute or so. Once we get to the completion of stage two offloading, we have to vent down the line, so you will see another large, white cloud coming off of the strongvac. That will be normal. That will happen about tminus 1 40. We are going on internal power now. Just a few seconds away from the stage to lock load being complete. A lot of work being done by thousands of people to get to this point. All of our eyes are focused on two now. Stage two is closed up. They are complete. Idle. Is in auto stage two lock, load, complete. All fuel, all oxidizer on falcon 9, 1 44 to launch. The clock is starting. Falcon 9 is in startup. It is con for launch. Under a minute now. The system has been armed. Dragon to spacex, go for launch. Spacex, dragon, we are go for launch. Tminus 30 seconds. Stage i tanks prepping for flight. Tminus 15 seconds. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Zero. Falcon 9 andt off, crew dragon, go nasa, gove spacex, godspeed, bob and doug. [applause] america has launched. The new generation continuing the dream. 20 seconds into the flight is nominal. Are 30 seconds into this historic commission, fly and crew on board Dragon Falcon 9, and look at them go. Nominal. We are throttling down to get ready for the period of maximum dynamic pressure. We are in the throttle. All systems are go. Vehicle is supersonic. We have exceeded mach one on the falcon 9. D throttle up. We are throttling up, back up machll power as we hit 2. Copy one bravo. We heard the bravo callout. They will continue to do that until the first stage has done its job, and it will switch over to the second. At this point, bob and doug 2. 3 timesout 2. 3 gs, the earths gravity, 1500 miles an hour. You heard the callout for the mback engine chill. Right now, everything continuing to look good. The next major event coming up is going to be the triple. We will have made engine cut off of the engine, stage separation, and then ignition of the second stage engine to continue to carry astronauts into orbit. About 20 seconds. D throttle down. You heard we are throttling down to merlin engine on the first stage. Meco. Meco. Falcon. Her a. Copy two alpha. [applause] contact ignition. Alright, we have space separation confirmed, the first stage beginning its flight back, the second stage being powered nowhat single merlin 1a, carrying bob and doug into orbit. They will continue into the power of the second stage. Nominal. Which will cut off at seco, or second engine cut off. A little over five minutes to go still on this the second stage. You heard the callout, two alphas, so this is the longest up to north carolina, up the eastern seaboard, up to canada. Things are looking good, nominal propulsion on that second stage. Bob and doug continuing to make their way into orbit. Dragon spacex nominal trajectory. Spacex dragon, nominal trajectory. All right, hearing nominal trajectory, so dragon pointed in the right direction, continuing to make their flight uphill. One of the other ground stations they are using to get data back. Stage two propulsion is still nominal. A little over four minutes, 40 seconds into the flight, bob and doug flying at more than 5600 miles per hour. Nominal trajectory. Already more than 200 miles from the Kennedy Space center, nominal trajectory continuing. And while they continue uphill, it looks like we are getting a view of the first stage as well. Screen,on your right you can see the first stage with the grid deployed, making its way back, attempting to land, of course, i still love you today. We are a couple of minutes away from the entry burn. That is where three of the nine merlin engines do ignite to help slow the vehicle down as a reenters back into the earths atmosphere. And after the entry burn will be the landing burn, which is just a single burn. Dragon the spacex, nominal trajectory. And you heard that callout, they are still on a nominal trajectory on dragon. Second stage, and that is the engine on the second stage, your left screen. Again, your right screen, that first stage booster coming back. Of course i still love you. We are about a minute away from entry burn. Meanwhile, that second stage continuing to go into orbit. Minutes from two now, we will hear the callout, seco. Stage two propulsion is still good. It will be a little over three minutes until dragon physically separate from the second stage of the dragon nine. Dragon to spacex, nominal trajectory. Dragon copies, nominal trajectory. Continuing to check in with bob and doug, as they are on a nominal trajectory. About 10 seconds away from that first stage, starting that entry burn on your right screen. You should be able to see that you live. Stage one entry burn started. And there is that entry burn beginning. 36 secondsasts about long. While that entry burn continues, we are about a minute away from seco. We will have a number of events all happen in rapid succession, second engine cut off, ready for the stage one landing burned shortly thereafter. Actually just within a few seconds of each other. View on your left screen, seeing bob and doug on dragon, and now you can see the displays that they are seeing right now themselves. Up 25 seconds or so away from seco, or second engine cut off. The point where bob and doug are experiencing the highest geforce. You see the counter pickup. Copy, shannon. You heard shannon, which means they are in their final aboard zone, to abort orbit and land off the coast of ireland. Mback shut down. Secondirmation of seco, engine cut off. Now we are waiting for the first stage to make its way, of course i still love you. Confirmation. Thehat you are seeing on screen is a live view of our drone ship, where the first stage will be coming down. It looks like we lost that live view, but we will wait for confirmation of that landing shortly here. Falcon 9, for stage, successfully landed. And there you see on your screen, falcon 9 has landed. This is the first falcon 9 to carry humans to orbit, so very exciting for us. And as you can see on your right screen, bob and doug are still making their way to their targeted orbits. Recovery one. So exciting today. [laughs] it doesnt stop. It does not stop. We did hear out that next callout, good orbital insertion, so that means falcon 9 and dragon right now are exactly where they should be. We need an frc on recovery launch. 0 gt looks like we saw indicator floating around your dino bob and doug around. I know bob and doug are wondering exactly what that is they brought up with them. And before separation, before dragon initiated separation from the second stage, they do make the they do ensure that vehicle is not spending, and it is in Good Condition before reseparating. That is right. The second stage does a small attitude maneuver using cold gas thrusters built into the rocket body itself. Exactly, so we do expect that separation to occur in about a minute from now, but they do wait until they have full confirmation that it is ready to separate. Such cool views. I cannot get over this view we are seeing right now. Bob and doug on the right screen, inside of crew dragon, out in space. Yeah, already 200 kilometers over planet earth, little over 120 four miles, traveling in excess of 2700 27,000 meters per second, about 16,000 miles per hour. We are just stagnating by standing by. That separation event should happen shortly, and it will be a draco of check on thrusters, power on its way to the International Space station. Standing by for separation. It sounded like we had an expected los, loss of signal come up with one of the ground stations. Waiting dragon separation confirmed. Dragon separation confirmed. There is a great view right in front of you have dragon separating. Dragon separation confirmed. And there is that callout. Dragon is now officially making its way to the International Space station today. [cheers and applause]. Spacex, separation call, we have a few words for you. Standing by. Dragon, chief engineer, dragging the ground, bob and doug, on behalf of the entire launch team, thanks for flying falcon 9 today. Well be you enjoyed the ride, and we wish you a great mission. Thanks. Congratulations to you and the team for the first human ride for falcon 9, and it was incredible. Appreciate all of the hard work, and thanks for the great ride to space. Copy all. Thank you so much for what you have done for us today, putting america back into lower or thorough but lower earth orbit from the florida coast. Copy all. Godspeed. Doug ight, so bob and nominal,firm superdraco section checkoff, deploy in progress. Copy all. We are monitoring. Here in hawthorne thatg the crew a heads up we have confirmation the nosecone is deploying. The nosecone will open up a little more than 90 degrees, comes to i think 195 degrees, and that will expose the actual docking ring and the hats they will be going to once they attach to the International Space station. And also, four of those draco thrusters, the bulkhead thrusters, that will be used for these major phased burns or firing of those thrusters to actually raise their orbit gradually over the coming hours. Also, we heard good activation ss, the environment of controlled lifesupport system, keeping the dragon a habitable environment, where they will be living for the next 19 hours until he arrived at the space station. Exactly. Falcon 9s job may be done for today, but the mission is not over. Crew dragons job is not over. As you can see, bob and doug are in crew dragon, making their way, it will be a 19hour trip to the International Space station before they dock tomorrow morning. And such cool views. I love that we can get these life views here live views here and see what they are doing now that they are in orbit. It is incredible to just be looking over their shoulder, to be along for the ride. And we are going to be with them, and we are going to be it with all of you, the entire way for their journey to the space station. We are going to be covering live throughout. Bob and doug will always lay have a sleep period, where they will get about eight hours of sleep later today before they wake up for their final approach. One of the major things we are will can forward to in the next couple of hours will be their controls, so the they are going to actually be using those touchscreen displays to take control and manually pilot dragon. We will walk you through what that is going to look like, and, assuming we have some good ground station coverage, we will be able to get you right inside dragon, looking over their shoulder as they manipulate the controls at the display. But, i mean, we had a smooth ride uphill both sages of the falcon 9 doing their job, placing bob and doug into orbit. I mean, this is a day, this is a historical day, this is us kicking off the new era of spaceflight we have all been talking about and longing for since the Space Program came to 2011. In and the weather cooperated. Yes second times the charm. Right. So a day for the history books. As you can see, we have lost some live signal there, but the Mission Still continues, and we will turn it over to ksc to continue broadcasting live. Yeah, jessie and dan, we are just in awe over here. When i woke up and looked at the weather forecast, i thought, man, we will be here on sunday, but we did it. Everybody was outside watching, inside, the lights were shaking, cameras were shaking, lauren came back and with tears in her eyes. Lauren [laughs] marie this is really amazing. Lauren i cant believe i saw it with my own eyes. I am a little bit speechless, just so grateful that we got them up there, and theres a lot more to go. A lot more to go, but i am just so happy they are safe right now. I am just so happy. Marie yeah, it is amazing what we can do when we Work Together. Yes, american astronaut on an american rocket on american soil, showing you what americans can do when we come together as a team. Blast bob and doug off to the cosmos. This is what it is all about, and their families and everybody is working together to take them up to space safely. I dont know what to say. That rocket fuel is filling my veins, and i want to go get on the rocket. [laughter] marie it is too late now. Maybe on the next one. I now. I know. Marie we want to get over to darrell and the administrator, who hopefully have more words than we do, because we are speechless. Darrell . Beenll marie, there have applause from the beginning to the end. Some very special guests are here to watch it, including President Donald Trump, Vice President mike pence and nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine. Humana is back, launching astronauts again. Tell me how you feel about that, and tell me about the president watching the launch and what happened there. Mr. Bridenstine so this has been a long time coming. It has been nine years since we launched american astronauts on american rockets from american soil, and now it is done. We have done it. I want to give a lot of credit to charlie bolden. He was my predecessor as a nasa administrator. He fought hard for this when it did not get any support in congress. We now have an administrator that is fully of our spaceflight administrative, not only on discovery, going to the moon onto mars, but also from a space force perspective. Our budgets are going up, and it is just an amazing think youre one of the things the president did right out of the gate when he became president izzy created the National Space council, and he put the Vice President is chairman of the National Space cancel. Counsel. You have got the secretary of defense, secretary of commerce, the secretary of transportation, secretary of education, the chairman of the joint chiefs, all of these different, amazing individuals that deal with space day in and day out. A lot of people do not realize how many different parts of the federal government deal with space. The Vice President invited those members of the National Space council here as well. Then we have members of congress, bipartisan members of congress, republicans and democrats, who have been involved in supporting this program for a long time now. So i will just tell you, i am breathing a sigh of relief, but i will also tell you i am not going to celebrate until bob and doug are home safely. Tomorrow, they are going to talk to the International Space station. Tonight, i am heading to houston to be at the Johnson Space center when that happens. It is a bit of a relief. The nosecone is now open. It is now deployed, which means that, you know, now we are going to go into some burns. We are going to have some phasing burns. We are going to have some, you know, boosting burns, and we will get as much as we can in alignment with the International Space station as early as possible here, but also, i know it is hard, but, you know, the big thing to do now is we have got to get bob and doug, who has now gone through this exercise twice, they need to get some rest, but i can guarantee you, there will be no rest for a good amount of time while they are of in orbit. Are certainly on their way, and a lot of people joining us for this rocket celebration, as we just heard, 10 Million People watching live as this launch happened, and President Donald Trump becoming the third sitting president to watch a launch live from the Kennedy Space center. Mr. Bridenstine to be clear, i think he is the only sitting president to watch american astronauts to launch on a brandnew rocket that has never launched before, and that is a big risk. You know, he also said we are going to go to the moon by 2024. He is putting himself at risk to say look i am going to be accountable, potentially, i am going to be accountable to the initiatives that i put forward, and we have not had that kind of leadership for space in a very, very long time, and we are so grateful for it. Darrell what is it like watching the launch with the president . How did he react . It is something that is near and dear to hi