Thank you for joining us for this post docking news briefing of the nasa spacex demo two mission. Hurleynken and douglas arrived at the International Space station aboard the crew dragon. We will hear more from nasa leadership talk more about the mission. Administratornasa jim bridenstine, mark geyer, isse fitch, kenny todd from , the International SpaceStation Program director, and shall linger in and shall longer and and an astronaut. Up, our nasa administrator james bridenstine. I want to say congratulations to the nasa team and to the spacex team, and it really congratulations to the United States of america. This has been an amazing two days. We are still at the beginning. We have a mission in front of us and we need to make sure we bring bob and doug home safely. Launchingbout american astronauts for the first time on a brandnew rocket, this has been done four times in the history of the United States. Apollo, spacei, shuttle, and now crew dragon. So actually five times. This has gone as well as we could have expected it to go. A big congratulations to nasa, to spacex, and we will continue out untily in and day bob and doug are home safely. With that, i will turn it back to you. Thank you. Next we will hear from director mark geyer of the Johnson Space center. Thank you. A tremendous day in Mission Control as we watched the dragon approach and dock. We have been launching with our russian partners for so many years, so it is nice to see astronauts enter from the u. S. Side of the space station. Great to see bob and doug on orbit. For the johnson center, it is great. We have the astronauts, Mission Control, and we also think of ourselves as the spacecraft experts. Great to see this mission executed so well. We look forward for a great continuation of them issue of the mission. Fitch, director of the commercial crew program. A great day to be here for commercial crew. The launch yesterday was phenomenal and today, to dock at the space station, many of us have been working on this for years. I cannot tell you how many people across nasa, spacex, and across the whole country putting in tireless hours, missing time with their families, hard work and dedication to make today happen, but we are just thrilled. Docking happened just happened before 9 30 central this morning. What has been happening since launch over the past 24 hours is to gets of rendezvous into orbit. We are learning a lot about the vehicle. How to manage it, watching a life support systems for the first time. It is certainly different than demo one. Those life support systems are doing well. The crew got into their suits again today for the rendezvous timeline. That went well. So really dragon is performing extremely well. Over the next few hours and into there is ahe crew safety brief going on today around 4 30 this afternoon. Ton they join the station execute what we need on station. It is kind of this hybrid mission. We will have other objectives while we are docked to demonstrate other capabilities of dragon. We will do some other tests just to verify all the dragon systems. Again, we are excited. We will continue to look at all the data. Great mission so far, but we have got to look we have to be vigilant while we are. Docked. Todd,will hear from kenny iss director. Thank you, great to be here. What an incredible 24 hours for human spaceflight. You do not have to be american if you are just a fan of human spaceflight and exploring and going beyond the levels of what we understand to discover. You cannot help but be excited over the last 24 hours. It was great from an international Station Program standpoint. The station certainly was a good, stable platform. Andcommercial crew program the spacex team delivered an absolutely beautiful spacecraft. We are glad to have it onboard the space station. And equally as glad to have bob and doug on board. Right now, Chris Cassidy was lonely out there. Having two friends up there. To keep theur best three of them busy, continue working with steve and the commercial program to continue to learn as much as we can about the dragon. And as others have stated this is a test flight. The is really important for iss program is really the next mission of the dragon, which is the crew one mission, which is set to be a longduration flight. Learne wanted want to is to learn as much as we can. When the time is right, get them back safely and start looking towards getting the crew one mission on board. Were looking forward to the next few weeks, couple of months, whatever it turns out to be, but certainly it is off to a great start. We will hear from the astronaut. Thank you. What an incredible privilege to be part of this phenomenal team, this nasaspacex partnership, and to be a part of this historic past 24 hours, to see that launch, to see that vehicle dock at the International Space station. Incredibly happy for bob and doug, for nasa, spacex, and america. I have had the privilege to train as the backup for this mission. It was so cool to get to see all of that training, those procedures, the simulations all culminates in a happening real time. I am so incredibly excited to see bob and doug get to work now as they do the space Station Mission and return safely home. I know my colleagues and friends are excited too. This represents the opportunity to launch in the future. Where excited about that mission and the opportunity to find the future on this and other spacecraft. Thank you, shell. If you would like to ask a 1n, press star one andy will be part of the q and you will be part of the queue. We will start with our first question from marina karin. Congrats on a successful docking. Jim, this question is for you. Said before this mission is it is clear that a space mission, even one as historic as this one is can do that. Do you think the message should . Hange our country is going through challenges. That is true when you look at the unrest and at the coronavirus pandemic. Times are tough. But we have been through tough times before and even in those tough times the United States of an amazing ability to accomplish astonishingly impressive achievements. That is what this was. There say that i think was a moment yesterday when these two astronauts launched when everybody paused and we thought about what the future could be and how much brighter it could be that it is right now at this moment. Nasa has a history of doing these astonishing things in tough times. It requires leadership. We have been able to achieve it. Even in the coronavirus pandemic, we made sure we protected this mission. This was the highest priority for the United States. Or at least for nasa. We were launching american astronauts on american rockets from american soil. Our objective was to get that done. We moved very quickly when the pandemic first broke out to move to stage three and then to stage four, making sure everybody was working from home. We protected this mission, the mars perseverance mission. We named it perseverance because we need to persevere right now. The mars mission is going to launch in july. These are very unifying things, yes. When we talk about human space exploration, it has strong bipartisan support. When we talk about spacex exploration ine general, these are unifying kinds of things. Democrats, and even internationally we get support for these kinds of activities, so i do think this was a moment in time for people to reflect on what is great about exploration, what is great about the United States of america, and what we can achieve we Work Together. Thank you. Our next question comes from stephen clark. Thank you for taking my question. Stitch. Estion is for over the next few weeks, i know we will be looking at data on the solar rays to determine how long this mission can remain in orbit. Do you have any time how long that might take . How long that might occur . Weeks ast is days or we monitor the solar array solar array performance . One difference between the spacecraft and crew one. Can you describe those . To address your first question, how long is the Mission Going to be, we have certified the systems on this dragon vehicle to be able to last about 120 days. That is the capability and that is driven by the solar rays. They slowly degrade over time. We will power up the spacecraft about once a week and get some data on those solar rays. It will take some data. Today, the dragon is extremely healthy. There are no major problems so it should be able to stay for a longer period of time. We are looking ahead to crew one. As kenny said, that is an Important Mission for us. Has full crew. That is what commercial crew is about. It is being targeted toward being launch ready at the end of august. We will continue to look at this vehicle, if it is performing well, the readiness. And in a month or so, we will be able to make a decision as to how long to keep this vehicle in orbit. The second question was what is different between this version of dragon and the crew one vehicle, which is the next dragon. They are very similar in terms of their systems, the life support. The crew one vehicle can land at a higher wind state. Spacex has changed some of the outer composite panels to make that a little stronger. It can land in higher winds. Ted also has the capability to dock not only to the port of the space station but it can go to the zenith port as well. It has a couple other features, but it is largely the same vehicle and it is set up for full crew. A little bit better capability relative to landing and higher wind. Those would characterize the big differences. Thank you. Our next question comes from stephen cowan. Did you mean keith cowan . Sorry. Keith, join us. Your question please. Been. Bryden stein, i have screens,tv with split nassau on one side and riots on the other. It reminds me of kid it reminds me of when i was a kid in 1968 with the apollo missions. Can you provide some more detailed stats to back up your claims . Convince how do you the millions of angry and upset people who are not watching tv . Spaceship is in a more important than the problems than we have here back on earth, the line used back in 1968 . There is not seem to be a isnection between what nasa doing and the subset of the population looking for answers. I think what nasa does is astonishing. It is impressive. It does bring people together. If the expectation was that things on the ground were going to change because we launched a rocket, i think the expectation might have been a little high. Do youl you that have the numbers on how many numbers watched . We are still collecting the across allur metrics of our platforms was at least 10. 3 million concurrent viewers, the most never tracked. Ever tracked. I think it is impressive and i think a lot of people saw it. We are very proud of that and i want to make sure we can continue to congratulate the spacex team and the nasa team for doing amazing work even in the midst of tough times. Those numbers are only for the nasa spacex. It does not count other News Agencies promoting this achievement for humanity. We will go to our next question. Marsha done. Dunn. If you have heard from him, and how he dealing with all the good news today. Can you repeat your question . We missed the first half of it, and if anyone has other questions, please press star 1 to be added to the queue. For mr. Bridentstine, have you had a chance to speak since the docking. I have not, since the docking occurred, a few hours ago i have not had an opportunity to speak with elon musk but that would be coming up in a few hours. I can say from the whole spacex team. I have spoken with their leadership there, and theyre ecstatic. Their engineers, the lead of the dragon production. They did an outstanding in the first 24 hours of the mission. When you talk to spacex employees theyre very proud of what theyve done. They have worked very hard and theyre excited. If there are any other questions. Weve gone through most of our questions. I guess there have been so many great media events we tried to give access to reporters. If anyone has a question, you can press star 1 to be added to the queue. In the meantime, well sayi know the administrator, weve gotten a lot of questions what is happening with the astronauts. We heard them recently, thankfully through the down link that you spoke to them on Mission Control. Any thoughts on that, anyone joining us on the panel, what the astronauts are doing now and whats going on in the next few weeks and what is happening now that theyre part of the iss team. Yes, maybe i could speak to that. Its great to see them all together. I know chris was looking forward to having help, so there is a great video of them together. I think the key part now is that the vehicle is there. The crew is on board. That was the main thing. Lets make sure dragon and the mission is going well. And kenny can speak to this. There are some options for actions in. We have a test where well get four crew members to get a field perspective. There is a mode of drag where you can go into it if the station were to have a problem temporarily. You can transition to the dragon for a period of time. For 24 hours, a safe haven. Were going to test that out in the next week. Well test out some of the emergency systems and other crew systems so we have a few of those things planned for the next week to get our test objectives done. For us it is still a test flight. Then ill hand it over to kenny for the thanks that theyre planning over the next few weeks. Were integrating the plan between what we need to do for the dragon crew vehicle. What kinds of things we need to learn. Test objectives that will help to get a step closer to being able to support the crew one mission needs. But in addition to that, we have a couple of spacewalkers on who have an incredible amount of experience. Being outside of the station. Were blessed at this point with a whole new set of lithium ion batteries that just arrived. That will take somewhere on the order of four or five ebas to install those. At this point were looking at all options that could allow us to do those evas while we have bob and doug on board and get those lithium ion batteries installed in their permanent home. Theyre fine where theyre at, but i do worry. This is fairly expensive hardware. The batteries are currently installed on station, on f 6 for the last set of batteries that we need to replace with these new lithium batteries. The fact of the matter we have the new batteries up there when it goes away well have to temperature stow these batteries, so it would be our best interest to have those installed and have that work lined us and not have these assets basically in this temporary holding pattern. Thats something that were going to be looking at as we start to put the requirements together for what we need to do with commercial crew program as well as what we need to do with these batteries and some of the other things on station. In addition to that, any time we have more than a single crew member on board, were in a much better to dealing with issues, failures that might come up. Thats part of the bale, the riskbalance we have to strike in terms of trying to look at what well try to accomplish on this mission versus trying to get these guys safely home sooner rather than later. And again, start working towards the crew one mission. I would just add from a crew perspective that i know bob and doug are just excited to be in lower earth orbit, successfully docked to the space station, and i think at this point they can breathe a sigh of relief. The launch was an incredibly dynamic phase of flight. And having the opportunity to fly a spaceship in lower earth orbit. Its away from the station and then to the station, to demonstrate that capability, and then to have a successful docking and come through that patch that at this point they can relax a little bit and enjoy being on the International Space station, having that opportunity to look out the window and to see the earth below, to have a meal with the crew on board that theyve just joined. I know theyre doing a safety brief right now. I recall doing that, meeting up with scott kelly and the rest of the crew members that were on board during my expedition. And going through all of the emergency equipment. Kind of being shown, hey, this is where the toilet is and this is where youre staying, this is where the food is, crossing all of those important items and then having an opportunity to again, get used to floating in space. Being in that weightless environment. Bob and doug are veteran space flyers, so that adaptation will happen very quickly. I know theyre enjoying being in lower earth orbit and looking forward to the work ahead. But at this point reflecting on this incredible experience and the incredible 24 hours. The team nasa and space ex. Their family and friends that really helped them get up there. I know we were talking about what is next with the program. Anything to add on that . Obviously, you know, weve had a big agenda to commercialize lower earth orbit. Thats under way. Were launching american astronauts commercially. We need spacex to get customers that are not nasa. Weve seen evidence of that, which is a positive thing for the agency because it will drive down our cost in the long run. We need to get another commercial partner on board. Boeing is working towards that objective with nasa, and i think that were going to have success there within the next year. We think about really why are we doing these commercial publicprivate partnerships . Were doing it because were changing the business model. You know, if the government is providing all of the demand for human space flight and then the government is providing all of the supply for human space flight, we will always be limited by budget. Many times those budgets are whimsical based on the desires of the politicians who happen to be in those roles at the time. So if we want to have a sustainable, longterm Exploration Campaign that clues not just governor money but private money we have to build these partnerships. Its proving to be successful. Costs are coming down. Access is coming up. We dont want to just stay in lower earth orbit. We want to go to the moon and then to mars. That will require more investment. More resources will be available for the moon program. We call it artemis, and then eventually mars. Thats what were looking forwards to. We need to be focused on how we use the mr. Station so private capital will slow in with publicprivate partnerships. Not just that theyll be funded but that space stations thems