Foster not chief astronaut. We will first start with our nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine. Nasa,t a great day for what a great day for spacex and the United States of america. It has been nine years since we have launched american astronauts from american soil and we have done it again. I want to be clear the mission is not yet over. We are at the beginning, but so far, everything has performed very, very well, and we are excited about the fact that bob and doug, our american heroes are safely in orbit and on the way to the International Space station. Congratulations to nasa team. Congratulations for the leaders who have been on the nasa side leading our commercial crew program all along, and you and your team have done an absolutely marvelous job. Of course, elon musk and your team in spacex, this launch represents the best of everything that america has to offer. Showso will it also the process, to my nasa administrator who got the program off the ground when there was not a lot of Political Support and now there is a lot of Political Support because there has been success after success, so this is an important round stone for the nation, and i am so honored and grateful to have really theres moment in my life to be at the head of this agency, so what an Amazing Group of people who made all of this happen. Thank you, administrator. Next, elon musk. I would like to, yeah, acknowledge the incredible work nasa, people of spacex, culminated ins getting astros back to orbit astronauts back to orbit after almost a decade. This is something that should get people right in the heart of anyone who has the spirit of exploration. And i think this is something particularly important. It appeals to everyone throughout the world who has within them the spirit of exploration. I am really quite overcome with emotion this day, so it is hard to talk, frankly it has been 18 years were towards this goal, so it is hard to believe this has happened. Of course, we need to bring them back safely and repeat the mission and have this be a regular occurrence, so it is a lot of work to do, but it is incredible. Craft made by humans, for humans. It is something that i think humanity should be excited about and proud of occurring on this day. Think this is something that everyone , this is a craft made by humans, you know, for humans, like something, think, humanity should be excited about and proud of occurring on this day. Thank you, elon. Next, kathy. Well, i was not really expecting this today, will tell you. We woke up this morning, think, jim, actually called me this morning and said, what do you think . What do you think . Are we going to tried . With what do you think . Are you going to fly today. Yeah 6 05 walkup phone call. But, you know i didnt think you every slept . [laughter] but, but, i think i am, you know, jim stated. You think i was really proud of the team. The team sat there this morning. We looked at the weather, it didnt look great, but we looked at the different options that were out there and we realized how important it was for us to kind of step through this carefully and weigh the readiness of the hardware and then, you know, not have launch fever but to kaurfully access the situation and be able to clear gates and milestones along the which and nasa and spacex team did a fabulous job with that and i am very grateful for the weather clearing one hour before we were getting ready to launch, main, all weather constraints were cleared on a day we were not really sure how it was going to work out. For both our abort track and our launch area, which we have very, very tough weather constraints. But like both jim and elon have said. This is a test flight. Bob and doug are already up there accomplishing a lot of the goals of the test mission, you know, they got to do their demos shall they got to feel, now i, what it is like to be able to use the touch screens when you are in zero g. They got to be able to, you know, check out all the different parts of the system and, and, and liberate their zero g it cantor which think you all have and probably have on order right now. And they have a lot more things, they are going to get to try to sleep, i a a. M. Not sure how they are going to do that but they are going to try sleep then tomorrow morning, well be approaching space station and it will be some of the most important demonstrations that they will be able to work in on how do we safely check to international spatial station. So i am so grateful and proud of our nasa and spacex team. They are still vigilant. They are still on done ul sill. s stay. I will stay in the lcc this they get docked to the International Space station because we are going to stay vigilant until we bring them safely home. Very, very proud of this team. I cannot tell you how happy i am and amazed that were here today. Thank you. Well, a a great day. Very, very great day for human spaceflight. Big congratulations to the elon musk than the spacex team and Jim Bridenstine and, and his leadership together with kathy and the commercial cargo and the crew team and just a fantastic day, really, really happy to be a part of it. A lot of the iss team couldnt be here in florida today, buy can tell you, they were watching it virtually. They had a virtual launch watching party and and they were very excited to see the launch as well. And finally, our International Partners i had a chance to get congratulationses from many of my counterparts across the partnership and they have been a big part of commercial crew and the spacex efforts along the way today they were watching in a can tell you, they are all excited about hague their crewmembers fly in the near future on the dragon and come up to International Space station. Today, onboard the iss the three crewmembers Chris Cassidy, ivan vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin are getting ready. They are very are excited, in fact i would be surprised if they dont have Something Special cookedp for them when they arrive. We look forward to that. There is lots of to work be den on iss i and i know bob and doug together with the folks on orbit are really ready to get busy. You what saw today, hopefully what you saw today was really smooth. Calm. It is like a duck on the water and looks smooth and calm but there is a lot of paddling going on underneath the surface. And you what will see tomorrow, lackly, we certainly expect very, very smooth and nominal and i want you to know, though, it us very, very dif as a result. Tremendous amount of efficient on the part of the designer, the test engineers in terms of the planners and the operators and the drew make that happen so smooth and nominal is actually really, really hard. So, wait min mun. It has been a great day. Very, very happy to have bob and doug on the way to the International Space station and looking for toward the rest of the test flight. Pat . I tell you, i am very happy to be sitting here in a post launch press conference, and that is not something you hear me say very often. Probably not as happy as bob and doug are right now. I am pretty happy and no doubted i have a group of astronauts jumping up and do in houston that with are happy, too, because we promised them some flight assignments and those are sure that come once we got be about and doug up and so i just wanted to just say thanks to the team for being able to do that and to give the tunes to our other crewmembers. I want you to know, that i have been libbing with bob and doug in the restaurant crew quarters here over the last week plus and never seen a crew so calm and focused leading up to arch as these two were. Now no chute has to do with the experience. It do with the training buy think it is a demonstration of the trust that they had both in the nasa team and the spacex team to get them safely to or pitt. This is the first time i have been in the Flight Control room as the chief astronaut while we were trying to launch a crew, in a will tell you, accepting risk on behalf of others is a big responsibility. Is with amazed what was going on in the loops as kirk said. There was a lot of pad lung underneath and want everyone to know, we were surrounded by heros on the ground that got us to where we were today. With that, think i will say thanks gain forgetting our crew safely to orbit. We look forward to seeing them dock to the International Space station tomorrow. Thank you. So today we have media joining us remotely so they will be on the phone and watching on Nasa Television like everybody else. So to ensure as many people asepsessable, our report remembers can ask one question to make sure that all of their colleagues have the opportunity to participate in this press conference. Please state your name, afullation, whom you are direct your question to. The first question comes from mareiam kramer. Report hi, thanks some of. This question is for elon or for the administrator or both. I was wondering, so this launch is often referred to as a moment of hope for the nation. The back drop of protest and demonstration around the country today, i wonder what you want to sti those people out there protesting this is launch for them, too . Thanks. Jim will be happy to field it look, this launch is all for america. We have had moments in time in American History where we had challenges as nation. We think back to the 1960s. We think billion the vietnam war and the protests. We think in the 19 60s the civil rights abuses and civil rights protests. We think about the height of the cold war and yet we have a moment in time, july 20th, 1969 when all of america stopp stopped, literally, just stopped because we had american astronauts walking on the surface of the moon. Then, we repeated that five more times. The challenge is, the Apollo Program eventually ended but what i think is great about nasa is that we bring people together. Everybody loves exploration. And it is not just political divides, it is also international divides, and it is unifying, and i would hope, i think it happened today as a matter of fact. All of america stopped. I have seen some of the numbers, the amount of viewership on what we accomplished today was off the charts and 1 00 i am hoping that poll can see this as something that is bright, hopeful, that people know tomorrow is a mu day, a better day, and we are going to strive do better. Thank you. Our next question comes from jackie waddles of cnn. Reporter thanks for did this. I was curious this question is for elon. If you had heard from President Trump yet and what he might have told you whan you might have said to him about this. Thanks so much. Elon well, i have not spoken oneonone with him. I eventually heard the press conference along with everybody else. We have not exchanged any direct comments. Jim we had few moments in the firing room there after the launch. I will tell you, yeah. The president is excited, pk, he congratulated elon in the spacex team, and i thought it was, a good moment. Elon yeah. With a w a group of people. Jim sure sure. Elon yes. He congratulated everyone involved, nasa, the spacex team, yeah, i think to echo the nas administrator ecomments, i think this is a day that is, i think, everyone can be proud of, it is a good day to be this even is something that all of humanity can get excited about. A fundamentally positive good thing. And you know, i think we need more positive good things as well. Our next question is from joey of reuters. Reporter thank you for doing this. One question, twopart question, first for Jim Bridenstine. Have you heard from the russian counterparts . I know kirk mentioned that International Partners reached out to nasa with the success and the others for elon musk and with spacexs success today. You have heard from the boeing counter parts and what would you sti them, thanks . Jim so dimitri is the head in russia. I have not talked to him. I have seen his public comments, of course, was overwhelmingly congratulatory toward nasa and spacex and he made some cop meant about how it is, it is like flying an iphone or something. I know i have made similar comments as well. But he does, he does, he decks press this is an exciting day, not just for us, but also for them. And they believe in the partnership, signed think it is going to remain strong. Elon. The trampoline is working. [laughter] it is inside joke. Yeah. [laughter] our next question from marsha dunn. Reporter thanks. Your Company President said before liftoff she was super nervous. Duke about how you were your emotions, feelings leading up to liftoff and especially seeing them make it to orbit safely. Thank you very much. Was this for me or elon . I think it was for elon. Reporter for elon, please. Elon . Spar, could you repeat the question . Reporter yes. Elon, she said before liftoff, she had stomach in her throat and super nervous. I would lake to know how you were feeling in the minutes leading up to liftoff today, your emotions, your feelings of having to stand there and watch that unfold. Thank you. Elon well, i mean, just straight the heart, like wednesday, the first countdown, i would say that my adrenaline was 100 . When launch called off it went to 0 . I basically collapsed and slept for the longest time i have slept in a year. Then oddly enough today, i think it was aligned. I didnt feel nervous. It felt like it was going to work and the right thing would happen. So for whatever reason i did not feel nervous. Jim can i Say Something real quick if. Sure. Jim i got note moments ago, doug hurley announced the crew dragon is named endeavor. Elon. Cool. Jim we are going to look forward to hearing from them shortly. Elon they have planning. It is cool, actually. They took it off automatic and manually flying the craft around. It has got to be pretty fun. Zipping around space. You snow spacecraft. Everyones childhood dream. Elon yeah. Next emery kell life florida today. Reporter hi. Thanks for doing this. I appreciate. I am wondering with this being the first time humans have had a chance to experience flying on a falcon 9 and crew dragon after all of these years of them flying, you have gotten any input from bob and doug . Is it a smooth ride . What was it like . Thank you. Jim i have not heard specifically as to how it flies. I do know we will hear from them soon. I dont know at what point that will take place, i dont know if you have that information . No. Elon i think a friend of mine who is a film maker said you need to puttic . The cram to make it look more realistic. [laughter] our next question is from paul of upi. Reporter yes. I would like to ask elon. I realize the mission is not over. It is significant achievement at this point. What is the impact of success for this program on spacex as whole . Including development of starship . Elon. Well, think, obviously, an accomplishment for spacex in partnership with nasa and number of critical spires in fact, think about the total number of people involved and make this Mission Successful adds up to 100,000 way so like to just express a word of appreciation and congratulations again to everyone involved in making this successful. And, actually, and just a special work to administrator kathy, just everyone involved, it is just, it is just wow. Anyway it is that ready to process. To try come up with cohesive sentences that make any sense is quite difficult. I think the first step on a journey toward civilization on mars and life based on the moon and expanded beyond and likely coming a multi planet. Livesp billioning multi planetary for the first time in the hust riff earth. Hopefully this is the first step on that journey that will require tremendous amount of no innovation and Technology Development to make going to orbit and beyond orbit routine matter where thousands perhaps millions of people can travel to other planets. That base we need achieve over time. That is actually very difficult. That seems increasingly real with what happened today. Geg people to orbit finally after 18 years. Then life can become multi lan tary. This is a goal we should strib for. Jim fully a nasa perspective what this did for starship and a lot of others is kind of established this is a successful Business Model and if we look at how we did commercial reresupply of the international and commercial crew of the International Space station and the Lunar Payload Service program to deliver payloads to the surface of the moon and now for the First Time Since 1972, we have funded a human landing system and of course, we are very proud that spacex is going to be a partner in that Development Program as well. We have contractors developing that human landing system so i think as far as how, how this relates to the Artemis Program and the noon mars program, i think, think the Business Model has proven itself very successful. Were bring down costs. Were increasing access. That is going to ton happen. As we onramp more partners and of course as spacex and others go get more customers. Nasa doesnt want to be the owner and operator of the hardware and dont want to be the only customer. We want spacex and others to get customers thats are not us. When all of that materializes, i think what elon is talking about here, this vision for humanity, being able to live on the surface of the moon for long periods of time, and eventually, on mars for long periods of time, that is, that this is eventuality of the Business Model that we are currently developing. The next question from Chris Davenport of the washington post. Reporter thanks, guys, for taking my call. Thank you, elon, for the trampoline quote. That was classic. Elon, if i could ask you. You put the window in the cargo dragon as symbol of the ambition of flying people. I wonder if you could talk a little bit over how over the long years, you catch your team focused on human spaceflight as the ul