Space smell in the vestibule. When we got the hatch open you can tell it was a brandnew vehicle with Smiling Faces on the others and and a smiling face on mine, just as if you had bought a new car. Wonderful to see my friends and to see a brandnew vehicle. Bill fromion from cbs. [indiscernible] can you hear me now . Testing 12. Sorry about that. Saying what bob was yesterday, describing the ride up. Did the first stage of the falcon 9 feel compared to the the secondw did stage feel, you made it sound like it might have been rougher than the shuttle on the main engine. Was there a point where you looked over at doug and did not think it was what you expected . Bill, you took the words out of our mouth. The summary from yesterday was good, smoother first stage and a rougher second stage then we saw on shuttle. On it while we were going uphill, i think we tried to verbalize as much of the new experience as we were having to make sure they were real between the two of us and we were sensing the same things. Fromts get a question stephen clark. Stephen clark from spaceflight now. , during the sensation stage separation, that is not something experienced during shuttle to shut down engines and ignite new engine in flight. Also curious about your experiences in the space suit in flight. I think the question was about the difference with staging between the Space Shuttle and the dragon since we did not shut down the main engines on the Space Shuttle like we went through the first stage and second stage. There was a significant difference between solid rocket boosters on the shuttle and that second stage. I think we all felt that. Doug and i both commented on feeling some early zero g when we came off of the first stage and we are getting ready to transition to the second stage and we felt that second stage. The next question was about the suits, doug, if you want to talk about our experience with the suits. Doug bob and i have a ton of time and those suits. We have done those suits a couple of times. Aresuits themselves, if you not familiar they are customdesigned and custom fitted so they are very comfortable. They were much easier to get in and out of in zero g. They worked very well. The verge. Is there any feedback for spacex and nassar that you have about any potential changes you would make for the next crew to fly into dragon. To fly in on dragon . Where there any changes . I think that was your question. [indiscernible] [no audio] we are not hearing you, lauren. Lets move on to rosa. For taking my question and i am glad to see you all well up there. As you know, houston is the home to manned spaceflight and in many ways the people that know you personally from kimber grove, those who have watch from nassau bay, senior train and your journey to get where you are at today, some of them might be like your son who is younger and maybe inspired by the things you are doing. Thoses your message to who are watching from houston or all of these areas in space city, what is your message . I think my first thing i would say about that is, never quit what you are doing. This was an extremely long road for us. And 2011lew in 2010 and when nasa stopped flying shuttles that was in the middle of 2011 and it has taken that hard work and dedication over the last nine years to get us inre we are at now back launching rockets from the United States and back at space station docking to the front of space station. I would say that take a message from nasa in that anything is possible. We have had a rough couple of months and to be able to show the country what the agency is made of and what the commercial crew program did and what spacex did, i hope they take some pride and a sense of accomplishment in seeing that. I think for both of us also the houston area is where we call home now and it certainly is true, the home of Johnson Space center and human spaceflight we take this seriously, that is the home of human spaceflight. We have excellent support. I have a parade of social distanced individuals lining my neighborhood in the half mile or so as i departed on my way to ellington fields down to florida, i know that i had wonderful support and to all of our friends and family at home thank you guys for everything and we could not have done it without all of you. Know thatou, i probably means so much to them, godspeed. Lets get a question from Chris Davenport. It is Chris Davenport from the washington post, thanks for taking the time and congrats on your flight. The followup on the question about the ride, i am wondering if you could watch us walk us through the technological differences between shuttles that led to differences in experiences and more of the key moments during the phase that stood out for you guys. Chris, good to talk with you. Generically the falcon 9 is a liquid fueled rocket remember shuttle and solid rocket boosters burn very rough. Or first stage with falcon 9 the nine merlin engines, roughly the same amount of time and a much smoother ride because it was a liquid engine at that point. Where the differences started for bob and i and we commented on it was at staging. It was very similar to what you saw in the apollo 13 movie where they staged from first to second offe, the first engine shut and it takes a second, almost a second, might have been less than that. Timeems like it took some between the booster separating and the merlin vacuum engine starting. At that point we go from roughly three jeez to zero gs for about half a second probably. Engine fires we start accelerating again for the next five or six minutes so we achieved orbit. Totally different than shuttle. It was smooth and got rougher with the merlin vacuum engine and it will be interesting to talk to the spacex folks to talk about why it was a rougher ride on second stage than it was first shuttle on those three main engines. Lets try marsha from the associated press. Good to see everyone up there. ,ave you captured the flag yet have you actually put your hands on it, is it a board dragon . What are your thoughts about laying claim to the flag since you are one of the ones who put it there nine long years ago. Hey, marsha. Hadshort answer is, chris it on the hatch where we left people nine years ago and it is right here. I think he has a note, do not forget to take with crew dragon. Depending on how long we stay up here, you can bet we will take it with us when we depart back to earth. , we have standpoint talked about the flag before many times over the last nine years since we left it here. The important point is, as i said before, returning launch capability to the United States to and from the International Space station and that is what this flag really means. More, it isttle bit to the thousands of people that made it possible from the folks at spacex to the folks at nasa and the folks within the commercial crew program. We are lucky enough to be able to take it home with us. That will be our plan in a month or two or three or four depending on what uncle kirk lets us do. Lets go to a question from mark in aviation week. Chris, fromon for your perspective what skills and iss training do doug and bob mix . To the iss and how will those help to ramp up operations internally and perhaps externally in the coming weeks . Wayxperience goes a long and both these guys have their third flight. Opinion,t matter in my shuttle Flight Experience or station Flight Experience. It has to do with working in space and working efficiently, understanding the system and methodology which we work back and orth and hand in hand with Mission Control. Once you understand and grasp of those concepts the work part is, i dont want to say easy, but it happens together. Dayave seen that, today is one and they are hitting the ground running unloading the vehicle. Wehave hdv at our feet and will be working there in short order after we hang up from this conversation. Together the three of us will be tackling the Overall Mission of the space station, conducting science and enabling that science with maintaining a space station. There are operational objectives sprinkled in the mix. At some point we will get up plan for potential spacewalks and we will execute all of that. We dont just sit up here at dinner and decide when those activities will be done. Prioritization is done in houston and we execute the plan so the three of us are excited to get after it together. With roulette reuters. Thank you for doing this. Since you guys have been at the space station, how does it feel not knowing how long you will stay there for . Is it weird . If at any time during the trip to the space station did you notice anything unexpected you during yourrience training. Goodank you, thats a question. Several recent crews have had more uncertainty than we have had historically for how long Mission Duration was going to be. On the percentage scale doug and may be the most uncertainty. It could be short or we could double or triple what was originally expected for us a few short months ago. Strange, i tried to explain it to my son at six years old and from his perspective he is excited that we are going to get a dog when i am home. As far as unexpected things, i think i said a little bit about this yesterday, but the biggest differences are the dynamics involved. The vibration, the experiences we felt actually writing a real riding a new rocket. The Space Shuttle was fueled when the astronauts arrived. Doug and i went through the operation onboard board dragon which was different. Hearing the venting and the valves and the vibrations associated with that operation was a new experience for us. That was a little bit different than training, but nothing out of family. The great team did a good job of recording that during the mission over a year ago that came here with no people. We have heard all of those sounds before and that was extremely helpful. We have the same tool for coming home and we look forward to seeing how that matches up with our experience. Caller hello. I wonder during your overnight period was there a time where it seeped in you allowed yourself to consider the history you were making . What were those specific moments . Thanks. Honestly robert, good to talk to you. I dont know if we ever reflected on it over the 19 hour rendezvous. You may have random thoughts going through your head every now and then, but both bob and i, over the last five years, have been focused on this mission and actually flying. I think that is really what we put our entire effort mentally and physically into from the time we walked out of the onc building until we docked. We are still doing it, but it was just focusing on everything we could do to make sure we did what we needed to do to make it successful. In all of theake things the falcon 9 and dragon showed us. The noises, the maneuvers, any nuances, anything we can let other folks know to be aware of as they fly that vehicle. Me, the historical aspect of it is certainly notable, but i think it is something to maybe consider after this mission is complete. We are not even in any way, shape, form halfway through the mission. We have still got to do our mission here with chris, depart, and do a reentry and landing than recovery. Plenty of work to do. Think a lotably more about that when the time comes. Caller thank you for taking my question. This is for bob and doug. What were some of the first things you wanted to see or do after you arrived . Has it changed much since you were last there or does it feel like a second home to you . Thanks. I dont want to speak for doug, but one of the things i was most excited about was being able to make a phone call home. It is been a long time since i launched into orbit and i have a little boy who got a chance to watch me do that for the first time. I just wanted to understand what his experience was as sure that with him while it was fresh in his mind. He was able to make the trip back to houston after watching the docking from florida and was pretty excited about the whole thing. That was wonderful for me. As far as the space station goes, it seems a lot like it did when i was here last. There is quite a bit more science going on, quite a bit more equipment especially on the gym side, but the overall structure and layout is very similar. We did comment yesterday about the airlock configuration. It is not as clean as how chris and i remember it from our experiences. Those flights were really about the assembly of space station and the airlock was ready to go. We are in a different mode of operation right now. I know the way space station works is you pretty much have to configure each area for the task at hand. Wasadapter we docked to cleared out for our arrival. It of that was moved around, was repositioned for the arrival from japan and we will have to do reconfiguration in other areas as we continue to conduct operations on board the space station. There is so much going on that you have more stuff than you have places to stow it without being able to conduct the operation. We go across the pond to jackie. Caller congratulations. This mission feels more futuristic with everything from the capsules to the touchscreens , technology, the suits. Can you describe some of the emotion of the ride uphill . Somebody has to ask. Dragon toilet . W it is good to talk to you. Let me thank. Ink. From a futuristic standpoint, spacex has tried to be very forward thinking and cutting edge. It is one of the factors that went into the design. For us as the test pilots, we are there to evaluate how it does and so far, it has done absolutely spectacularly. It is a very clean vehicle. I think most people think it is a really cool looking vehicle. My son thinks so. Everything we needed to do for this mission. We are very happy with that part of it. The toilet. I think we had a bet to see when that question was going to be asked about dragon and it works very similar to the one we were used to in the Space Shuttle and it worked well. We had no issues with it. Next is peter king. Caller good morning. There to help up chris overcome that shorthanded situation, but it gives the spacex people a chance to evaluate the dragons longterm performance. What are some of the things they are going to be looking for . You are absolutely right. They will put the dragon through its paces in preparation for the crew 1 flight. We spent a good part of the day preparing dragon to serve its purpose as a lifeboat or emergency departure vehicle. Doug and i spent a lot of time getting the equipment prepared so that vehicle is ready to go and execute the mission. We probably did a little more as part of that than other crews will do in the future. We performed connections with the Computer Systems to make sure we can configure the communication between everything to the space station back to dragon if we needed to do that inside our vehicle. We established that all works. We will continue to do small checkouts like that. We will go through the process of powering down dragon, taking state, andibernated bring it back up here to make sure that process goes smoothly. Again, every crew will not need to do that evaluation, but since it is the first flight, we are putting her through her paces to make sure any of the little aspects of the mission that might be called upon is ready to do that. That is from the hibernated state, regular departure, or serve as another environment to safe haven in if there was a problem on board space station. We will do that before we call operational and pick up with primary tasks focused on helping chris. Wright with irish television. Caller congratulations. I have another question about launch and something that was different this time. Shannon callout was to which they replied roger, shannon. Shannon is in ireland and i expect we hear this a lot in the years to come. A lot of people in ireland are wondering what was that all about . Hello, ireland. That is a great question. Trajectory offers us opportunities, if needed and we have a failure with the launch vehicle, to abort. That involves aborting to Kennedy Space center all the way into canada. Once our trajectory hits a certain point and we get high enough we are going to abort forward to the u. K. And ireland area. We can do that in the later stages before the engine shutdown. That is our call to Mission Control and hawthorne to let them know we see that change in the abort destination if that eventuality is needed. Sophie sanchez. Pilot doug, as a test what was it like for you taking control of endeavor for the first time . If you could both share a little bit about the docking procedure, how it compared to others . Thank you. Dragon was exactly how we expected it to be. That was one of the reasons we wanted to do the manual flight test twice. We did it shortly after we got andrbit on our first day when we were on the final portion of the docking access we did again yesterday. Proof thathe capability works for future crews if need be. Most folks are familiar with the fact dragon is designed to be totally automated from the time it launches to the time it returns, but if there is any system failure or other issues, we would like to know that if we take over manually the vehicle will do what we needed to do. Dave mozer. Caller congratulations on your flight. It was amazing to watch. Chris, whats the biggest thing you felt or thought as endeavor approach . Bob and doug, what were your biggest thoughts or emotions as you pulled up to this place you have not been in many, many years . What is your five star review . What would you rate it . Thank you. I will take the first part. From the space station side what was going through my mind while there were phases. One, during launch and that was quite exciting for the three of us on board. We flew directly over the Kennedy Space center to meant before launch, got pictures of the pad. We were over the ocean at the time of ignition. We cannot really see and we were in the day. We did not see the launch, but that was exciting and the three of us were just cheering much like you were. Whenforward to yesterday we were watching the vehicle do its stairstep maneuver up to our saw ite and yvonne and i very far away, 19 or 20 kilometers, and he got brighter and brighter, bigger and bigger. Tiny was me that that dotg to be fixed tiny was going to be fixed about 15 meters from where i was standing. They came directly into the docking access and i had the camera out at one point and i cracked open the window to get a picture. I realized that inside that spacecraft were two of my colleagues and friends and they are going 17,500 miles an hour and so are we. We are bringing these two vehicles together with a computer and backing it up and i