Today we will hear more from the nasa leadership. Joining us is the nasa administrator, the director of the Johnson Space center, the Program Director of the kennycial crew program, from the International Space a nasa director and astronaut. Thank you for joining us today. We will start with opening remarks and then go to questions from reporters. First up is our nasa administrator. Thank you. I just want to say thank you to teamasa team and space a and congratulations to the United States of america. Days. S an amazing two we have a mission in front of us and we need to make sure we bring bob and doug home safely. When we think about launching american astronauts on a brandnew rocket, this has been done four times in the history of the United States. Spacey, gemini, apollo, shuttle, and now crew dragon its actually five times now. This has gone as well as we could have expected it to go. I want to say a big congratulations to nasa, a big congratulations to spacex, and we are going to continue to work day in, day out until bob and doug are home safely. From marke will hear geyer, director of the Johnson Space center. Thank you for joining us. It was a tremendous day as we watched dragon approach, dock and hatch open and bob and doug come forward into the space station. We have been lunching with our russian partners for so many years so it was nice to see astronauts enter from the u. S. Side of the space tatian. Great to see bob and doug in orbit. We have the astronauts, we have mission control, and we think of ourselves as the spacecraft experts for human spaceflight. So it was great to see this executed so well. We look forward to a great continuation of the mission. Next, we will hear from the Deputy Director of the commercial crew program. Good afternoon. Its a very exciting day to be here for commercial crew. The launch yesterday was phenomenal and today, to dock to andspace station, the u. S. The program have been working on this for many years. I cant tell you how may people cross nasa and the whole country putting in tireless hours, missing time with their family, hard work to make the day happen, but we are thrilled. Before 9 30ened this morning. What has been happening since march is a series of rendezvous burns to get into this approach face today. Today went really well. We are learning about the vehicle, how to manage it and watching the lifesupport system. It is certainly different from demo one. Those lifesupport systems are doing well. The crew got into the suits for the rendezvous timeline and that went well. Dragon is performing extremely well. Intothe next few hours tomorrow, the crew is now joined as part of the space station crew. Thiswill go to sleep afternoon and then they joined the space station. Its kind of this hybrid mission and we will have missions as we dock to demonstrate other missions of dragon and we will to verifyher tests the dragon systems. We will continue to look at all the data. Next, we will hear from kenny todd. Thank you. Its great to be here. What an incredible 24 hours for human spaceflight. Be americanto if you are a fan just going beyond the levels of what we understand to discover, you cant help be excited about what has happened the last equally as glad to have bob and doug on board. Chris cassidy was the only one being from the u. S. , so having two friends up there, we will do our best. In concert working with steve and the spacex team to learn as much as we can about the dragon and, as others have stated, this is a test flight. Is the nextrtant mission of the dragon, which will be a longduration flight. As much as wern can, keeping bob and doug busy. When the time is right, to get them back home safely and getting the crew mission on board. We are looking forward to the next few weeks, whatever it turns out to be, but it is certainly off to a great start. Will hear from shall. Inger in, nasa astronaut what an incredible privilege to be part of this nasa spacex partnership. Past part of this historic 24 hours, to see the launch, to see the vehicle. At the International Space station. For the past year and a half, i had the opportunity to train as a backup and work with bob and , and it isx and nasa so cool to see those procedures, the simulation all culminate in it happening in real time. Incredibly excited to see bob and doug get to work now as they do and then return safely home. Friendsy colleagues and are incredibly excited. This mission represents the opportunity to launch from u. S. Soil and we are excited about the mission and to have the opportunity for this and other partner spaceship other partner spacecraft. Ask ayou would like to question, press star one and you will be part of the q. Questionsk for a one per recorder per reporter. Please direct your question to the person you want to get answers. We will start with the first question from marina curran. Everyone and congratulations on a successful docking. Ground inion on the the United States escalated and you said before that this mission is meant to bring people together and unite america. Afortunately, its clear, Space Mission even one as historic as this one, cannot do this. Not in 1969, not in 2020. Do you think the message here should change in anyway way . How can we celebrate while also recognizing what americans are going through at home . I will just speak from the heart. Our country is going through some real challenges right now and that is crew true when you look at the unrest and the coronavirus pandemic, times are really tough. We have been through tough times before and even in those top times, the United States can andmplish astonishing impressive achievements. That is what this was. There was a moment of time yesterday when these two astronauts launched that everyone paused and we thought about what the future could be and how much writer it could be than it is right now at this moment. Nasa has a history of doing these astonishing things. It requires leadership and we have been able to achieve it, even in the coronavirus pandemic, we made sure we protected this mission. Prioritythe highest for the United States of america, at least for nasa. Americanaunching astronauts from american rockets on american soil. When the coronavirus pandemic, we moved to stage iii and then stage iv to make sure everyone was working from home. We protected this mission, we protected the mars Perseverance Mission. We named it that intentionally because we need to persevere. The Perseverance Mission will launch in july but these are very unifying things. When we talk about human space expiration, it has strong bipartisan support. When we talk about Space Exploration in general and the science and discovery that comes from it, which is what we will get from the mars mission, these are unifying things. Republicans, democrats, even internationally, we get support for these kinds of activities. 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 when we Work Together. Next question comes from stephen clark. Thank you for taking my question. We are looking at data on the solar arrays to determine how long it can remain in orbit. Do you know when that assessment might occur . Whether it is days or weeks to monitor the solar array performance . I know there are some differences, could you describe some of those . Address your first question, how long is the Mission Going to be, we have certified the systems on this dragon vehicle to last about 120 days. They slowly degrade over time. We will power up the spacecraft about once a week and get the data on the solar arrays. That will probably take a few weeks to get trending to see if that is right. Today, the dragon is extremely healthy, so it should able to stay for a long time. Crewe looking ahead to one. That is an important mission. It is what commercial crews are about, having a vehicle to do these missions. Toward being launch ready at the end of august timeframe, so we will look at this vehicle, is it performing well, we will look at the readiness of that vehicle and in a month or so, we will make a decision as to how long to keep the vehicle in orbit. The second is what is difference between this and the crew one vehicle. The crew one vehicle can land and spacex has changed some of the composite panels. It can land in higher winds. It has the capability to dock not only in the ford port but they can they be go to the zenith port as well. Largely it is the same vehicles. Andan dock at either port better capability and i would characterize that as the big difference. Thank you. Our next question comes from stephen callan. Happy you can join us. Your question please. Ofi have been watching a lot tv with a lot of split screens. Nasa on one side and riots on the other end it reminds me of 1968 when i was a kid watching the apollo missions. Topsay that the coverage everything but these heat charge seemed to suggest the only interest you are seeing is from the states where the dragon was old and flown california, texas and florida. Can you provide more detailed stats to back up your claims . Convince angry and upset people who are out in the streets with their phones and wearing gas masks that two guys in a spaceship is more important than the problems that we have here back on earth, which is the line that was used in 1968. There doesnt seem to be a connection between what nasa is doing and this subset of the population who is looking for answers. I think what nasa does is astonishing and impressive. It does bring people together. Onthe expectation was things the ground were going to change because we launched a rocket, i think the expectation might have been a little high. Do you tell you have the numbers on how many people watched . We are still collecting the for may peak viewership 30 broadcast across all platforms was at least 10. 3 million concurrent viewers, the most watched event weve ever had. And think it is impressive 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 for doing amazing work even in the midst of tough times. Those numbers are only for nasa. That doesnt count other news agencies. Question, to our next marcia dutton. I wonder if you have heard ism elon musk and how he dealing with the good news today . Can you repeat your question . I think we missed the first part of the question. Could you please repeat the question . Yes. Im wondering if you have had a chance to touch base with elon musk since the docking and, if so, what he is saying about it . I have not, since the docking occurred a few hours ago, i have not had the opportunity to speak with elon musk, but that would be coming up in a few hours. Wholean say from the spacex team, ive talked to a lot of the leadership there. , hisission directors vehicle did outstanding in the first 24 hours of the mission. When you talk to the spacex employees, they are proud of what theyve done, they are excited to have this phase behind them. Otherthere are any questions we have gone through most of our questions. There have been so many great media events throughout the last couple of days. Weve been trying to give access to reporters. If anyone has questions, please press star one to be added to the queue. Meantime, we have got a lot of questions like what is happening with the astronauts. We heard them recently through the downlink. That or anyone joining us on the panel on what the astronauts are doing now and what is going to happen that they are part of the iss team . It was great to see them all together. I know chris was looking forward to having help, so theres a great video of them together. I think the key part is, as steve said, the vehicle is there, the crew is on board, that is the main thing. Lets make sure dragon and the mission is going well and kenny can speak to this. There are some options for bob and doug, some actions to help chris while they are there and that will be part of the assessment as well as making sure that we have a landing and, that we have a safe fairly straightforward landing plan for bob and doug and that is what the team will be fleshing out in the next few weeks. Talk a bit about the major objectives. We have a test plan for sometime next week. We will see how it works, operating in zero g is different than on the ground. Planned. Test there is a mode of dragon where you can go into it if the station were to have a problem temporarily. You can transition and stay as what we4 hours call a safe haven. We are going to test that out and do a test of some of the emergency systems so we have a few of those things planned over the next week to get some of our test objectives done. We can talk about some of the station planning over the next few weeks. We are starting to integrate the dragon crew vehicle, what kind of things we will helparn that them get a step closer to support the crew one mission needs. In addition to that, we have a couple of spacewalkers on who have an incredible amount of experience. Point blessed at this with a whole set of lithiumion batteries that just arrived, thats going to take an order of days. We are 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 home. They are fine where they are at, but i do worry that this is fairly expensive hardware. Installedies that are , the last set of batteries that need to be installed, they are in good shape at this point but we have the new batteries up there. We will have to temporarily stow these batteries and it would be in our best interest to have those batteries installed and have that work behind us and not have these assets in these temporary Holding Patterns and that is something we will be looking at as we put the requirements together for what we need to do with commercial do with what we need to these batteries and other things on station. More than ahave single crewmember on board, we are in a better position when it comes to dealing with issues and failures that might come up. Thats part of the risk balance we have to strike in terms of looking at what we want to try trying toish versus get these guys safely home sooner rather than later and start working toward the crew one mission. Add from thest crew perspective that bob and doug are excited to be in lowearth orbit, successfully docked at the space station and at this point, they can breathe a sigh of relief. Launch is an incredibly dynamic phase of flight, having the opportunity to fly a spaceship in lowearth orbit away from the station and close to the station, to demonstrate that capability and have a successful docking and come through the hatch, at this point they can relax a little bit and enjoy being on the International Space to maybe have a meal with the crew that they desk that they just join. I know they are doing a safety brief right now and i recall doing that, meeting up with scott kelly and the crew members on board during my expedition and going through all the emergency equipment, being shown this is where the toilet is, this is where you are staying, this is where the food is, all of those important items. Ton having the opportunity get used to floating in space, being in that weightless environment. Bob and doug are veteran space flyers, so that adaptation will happen quickly. I know they are enjoying being in lowearth orbit and looking butard to the work ahead, kind of reflecting on this incredible experience these past 24 hours and team, nasa at spacex, their family and friends that helped get them up there. Thank you so much. You were talking earlier about what is next with the program. Anything to add to that . We have had a big agenda to commercialize low or lowearth orbit. We are launching american astronauts commercially. We need spacex to get customers that are not nasa. Weve seen evidence of that, which is a positive thing because it will drive down our cost in the long run. We need another commercial partner on board. Going is working toward that objective with nasa and i think we are going to have success there in the next year. Why we are doing private publicl partnerships. If the government is providing the demand for spaceflight and supplying the is supplies, we will be limited by budgets. They are whimsical based on the desires of the politicians that happen to be in those roles at the time. If we want to have a sustainable longterm expiration campaign that includes not just government money but private money, we have to build these partnerships and it is proving to be successful. Cost is coming down, access is going up and we dont want to just stay in low earth orbit. We want to go to mars and its going to require more investment. More resources will be available for the moon program. We call it artemis and eventually mars. That is the future we are looking toward. On how we be focused use the International Space station for a commercialization effort so private capital will privatepublic partnerships were not just experiments are privately funded but space stations themselves are privately funded and the Johnson Space center here where we are will be a leader in that effort. When we go to the moon, we want to be able to stay. To achieve that, we need commercial partners on the surface of the moon. To that end, the president signed an executive order saying the resources extracted from the moon are available for the people who extract those resources. Many years of law and precedent as it relates to International Waters, resources extracted from International Waters belong to the individuals. To the moonapply and other celestial bodies stop to be clear, the United States of america will always, always follow the outerspace treaty and the moon and other celestial bodies cannot be appropriated for National Sovereignty like the ocean cannot be appropriated for National Sovereignty, although some nations dont follow that, that is the international law. Apply international values as we go forward. The Artemis Program, weve established what we have called the artemis accord which establishes how we expect nations to behave in s