[no audio] we are still following along with bob and dougs journey home today. Smoothlyg continuing with the departure of dragon from the spaced station space station. They are awake. Everything is coming up in about three hours. We have a never things that will be happening. We are looking for our event to begin in three hours and 42 minutes. Have a separating of the trunk. That is claw separation. The clod delivers power and theds between the trunk claw delivers power and fluids between the trunk and the capsule. We will jettison the trunk. Atmospherenter the and disintegrate during that process. The dragon capsule will be in its final physical form prior to reentry. We will then initiate a deorbit burn. It will last about 11. 5 minutes. That is designed to place dragon on its final trajectory to its landing site, which is off the coast of florida, near pensacola. Once that happens, bob and doug will then sit back and continue to monitor all the telemetry and data they have on their screens. Their primary mission for today is to just keep a tap on things. You can see on your screen that they are not in their suits yet. It will be longer yet before they have to don their suits. They are moving about in crew dragon. They will perform that deorbit burn, lining up the capsule for that final reentry and it splashed down off the coast of florida and splashdown off the coast of florida. It will utilize the four forward thrusters. We will not need to use them. For the remainder of the mission, and we want to protect that forward hatch, the hatch used for ingress and egress, or entering and exiting the space station. We definitely want to protect that hatch, so we close and lock that nosecone, and then after the nosecone is in place and we confirm that it is locked up, we maneuver to that deorbit burn excuse me, the nosecone will close, and then we will then begin the process of reentering the earths atmosphere. We just saw bobbitt restowing his we just saw bob restowing his spacesuit. Toer they are able successfully rinse or the earth sadness fear, we will get out of comms blackout. Out, duringill come the initial slowing and stabilization, followed by the four main parachutes, around 11 a. M. Pacific. Splashdowns up for a across the coast of florida near pensacola. 18 40 universal time. To meet them will be the crew of the navigator, which has left port. Some live views of the boat itself as it continues to make its way to the recovery zone. It was able to leave the poor around 9 20 a. M. Eastern this morning. Issue withracking an one of the backup generators on board the go navigator. They were trying to get a replacement for that, but were unable to get that on board in time. Go navigator still has a functional generator on board, and not having that backup is not any constraint on normal Recovery Options this morning. Speedigator steaming full ahead heading to that recovery zone. They will be there several hours before splashdown. They will maintain a distance of about three nautical miles from the anticipated splashdown point and will standby for wind bob whenoug four w for bob and doug are in the water. Trying to determine where exactly where were going to point dragon for its return home. For multiplellow excuse me, in order to allow timesltiple departure from the International Space station, so, again, trying to line up things like sleep eather, weand w identified seven potential splashdown locations, four on the west coast of florida and three on the east coast. It has been priority number one for the Recovery Team to determine which of those seven locations bob and doug would be splashing down at. The weather around florida is everchanging, especially when you have something like, as we currently do, a Tropical Storm rolling through the area. Having that storm roll up the east coast of florida prevented us, obviously, from being able to land at any of those. The selection was narrowed down to the four on the west coast of florida. We continue to evaluate the wether at designated continued to evaluate the weather at designated intervals and determined the best place for recovery would be off pensacola. Requirements are essentially that they cannot be in the middle of the body of water. Blending zone has to be close to a medical facility and to the landing zone has to be close to a medical facility and close to a port. We have continued to watch the weather. We got pretty lucky with the weather we are looking at today. We had some weather criteria that we are looking for. We have to meet those criteria in order to get go conditions the splashdown two splashdown to splashdown. Wind is barely over one mile an hour right now in the splashdown zone. It should be a stable operation for this recovery today. We just locked in panama city a few hours ago. Kind of our last chance toilet lock in an alternate site was our last chance to lock in an alternate site was a little over half an hour ago. It has the capability to change sites in free flight, and we have seven different locations, just based off the weather and every thing else we looked at. Panama city was chosen as the alternate. It was already looking like our best based on the weather and they locked that in a few hours ago. Everything continuing on track for this pensacola splashdown. Itsgo navigator is well on way to the location, and they are just a couple hours away from that deorbit burn. We are taking your questions from twitter. Be sure to use the asknasa. This question comes from tim. What is the current distance to the iss . Good question. Something i find people often assume is that the International Space station is really far away. It is actually not. It is about 250 to 300 miles above earth. I think when i saw a report earlier, or maybe it was leah who mentioned it, it was about 263 miles above the surface of the earth right now. Depending on where it is in its orbit, it might be higher or lower. So, yeah, it is actually not that far away. It is basically the distance from los angeles to San Francisco as the crow flies, just above us. It is not as far as many people think. Again, this is using the asknasa. This comes from nicholas. How far off the coast will the capsule land . Fully be possible to see any of the action from the coast will it be possible to see any of the action from the coastline . It varies. We stay far enough away that you would not be able to see it from the coast. You want to be coming down far downarea from land in an area far from land, as you do have to clear air zones, make sure you have notices going out to ships not to go into a certain area. Kilometers orral miles offshore. The cape is the closest one, about 20 miles offshore. Anywhere to 50om miles to about 200. Where we landed last year was about 240 miles up the cape. It is different depending on where you are going, but one of the things we have in our recovery arsenal our helicopters, where bob and doug will get recovered by the go navigator, the main recovery vessel, and then a helicopter will land on the deck. Minutenly about a 10 helicopter ride from the go navigator to pensacola, where they will move onto a nasa plane ready to take them to houston. One thing to note. Thecapsule will be entering atmosphere, and we will have parachutes starting in about of000 feet above the gulf mexico. Spacex timeline and recovery status update. Update to the current now. To the crew now. Go ahead. Update, wea timeline are now within four point five hours of splashdown for Contingency Planning purposes. Copy. 4. 5 for splashdown. Copy. Believe jayery, i told you we were working a backup generator on the vessel. We were unable to get that aboard before go navigator had to depart due to timing constraints. It is expected to be on site at approximately 1700 utc. Ok. Go navigator will be on site for splashdown. Good read back. As jay mentioned before, we are down to one generator due to the loss of the other one. We copy. That was a quick update, giving the crew on board dragon the latest. As you heard, go navigator on its way. Expected to be in the splashdown zone on time. 1840 universalat time. They talked through the generator issue. This fully equipped morning, but they are down one of the generators on board. Still able to use the hydraulic lift to get dragon out of the water and on board. The ship has a full deck area, where has it a frame on the back of the ship. We will get some full views. Is typically used to lift dragon out of the water onto the deck. The crew stays in their suits the entire time they are in the water. They will get picked out of the water and put onto the dragons nest the dragons nest onto the boat. Going back to the twitter question we had a minute ago, if it would actually be available to view from onshore, i did a little bit of slough thing a uthing, i think if youre in the pensacola area, you may be able to spot the parachute deployment. They are deployed around 6000 feet above the earths surface. The parachutes will deploy. It takes about a minute for them to fully deploy out into their larger state. If youossible, i think, are in pensacola and you have keen eyes, you might be able to spot parachutes in the distance. The capsule from that distance would be pretty small, so no promises, but it might be worth a look. If you are in pensacola, take a look south around 11 48 a. M. 18 48 universal. It is what we call an ascending approach. It will be heading towards you from the south. Will be moving southeast southwest to northeast across the gulf of mexico as it makes its approach. There are also descending orbits, essentially when dragon is traveling from the northwest to the southeast, which would bring it over the u. S. Before it splashed down. We are ascending today, so it will largely be over the gulf of mexico the whole way in. Again, we are taking your questions through twitter this morning. Use the asknasa. We will try to get as many as we can. The next comes from andrew. He asks interior. Go for spacex. Mike, could you take the interior cameras down for a few minutes . In work. The crew just making a quick ask, having those interior cameras brought down. They have cameras so they are able to get Rapid Response to any questions they may have come in the help they need they need, buthelp they giving the astronauts privacy. Back to this question from andrew. Why cannot dragon make a straight downward dissent instead of orbiting around the world . You have to keep in mind that when dragon is in the International Space station, it is the same velocity. It is going 7500 Miles Per Hour and it is orbiting the earth. In orderfor habit to have it performa landing straight down, you would need some sort of force to stop it going that fast. That is not really possible due to constraints like fuel and the size of the capsule and all that good stuff. Spacex, we should be external cameras at this time. Thanks. There was that confirmation from spacex core that the internal cabin cameras have been shut off. Bedragons reentry cannot straight down because he would need some sort of force in order to stop it thanks to newtons second law. That being said, in orbital anntry like we do use orbital reentry like we do use is highly calculable. We can have details about where it is going to land and at what time. So there is really no downside to doing it in the way that we do do it other than from the fact that, from a physics standpoint, the straight down approach is not really possible. Our next question from elaine. On theifference is there route map between the red and yellow lines . That is where you that is showing you where dragon is in sunlight or indiana clips or in an eclipse. Whereine in the orbit is it is in sunlight the yellow line in the orbit is where it is in sunlight. I think is up here in california. There are not many windows. That is all that line is signaling. He might wonder why there are two lines. It is actually one continuous line. Dragon is in the top right portion of your screen right now. The icon is currently to the north of india, over china. It will pass over southeast asia. Head is about to head into and orbital nighttime it is about to head into an orbital nighttime. It is about to cross what is known as the terminator line , the line between night and day on the earths surface. You can get some pretty spectacular views as the earth goes from night to almost pitch black beneath you. One of my favorite views we get from the National Space station is as they are transitioning from day to night and night today. You get to see the sunrise and sunset from their perspective. I absolutely love it when we get to see the lightning as well. It is such a cool phenomenon to view from above. Fewe will hang out for a minutes here and watch dragons track as they continue to circle the globe. We are still about three hours away from things really starting to pick up once we get into trunk separation. We will stick with it as we continue to get ready to welcome bob and doug home later this morning. Audio] if youre just now tuning in, we are still following bob and home at theey back conclusion of our demo two mission. Everything started back on saturday when they made their way into the dragon spacecraft. They had been on board the International Space station for about 62 days. Willthey splashed down, it be just shy of 64 days spent in space bob and doug made their way into the spacecraft, closing the hatch on their side. They were able to get the hatch closed on the station side, with a docking target affixed to it. That created an area between the two known as the vestibule. That gets exposed to the vacuum of space following undocking. We first have to depressurized it, draw the air out. After that and some leak checks are completed, the crew gets ready for their actual departure from the International Space station. The teams on the ground in hawthorne and Mission Control, houston, did go no go, getting them ready for departure. Forowing a successful go undocking, it is time to move dragon away. The docking command was sent, and about five minutes ago, the dragon fired its thrusters, two small bursts, to separate itself from the International Space station. Did four evening, it departure burns to bring it over and above the International Space station. All of those burns done successfully. Openingpoint, dragons away from the station got larger and larger until it was time to move into its departure phase burn. Long burn six minute to finetune dragons path to its eventual splashdown site. That was completed last night after bob and doug had gone to sleep. Once that was in the book, we only have one more coming down the line. We were going to get ready for this reentry. Bob endo did have about an eight hours sleep period. Tois a bout a six hour trip the ocean off the coast of pensacola, florida. They woke up a couple hours ago. More dynamic action is about to pick up soon. Coming up next will be the claw and trunk separation. When we separate the trunk, it will be the finally physical form of dragons two reentry. The capsulese after jettisoning that trunk. Dragon is on its final trajectory to the landing site off the coast of florida in the gulf of mexico. That deorbit burn will last about 11. 5 minutes. After that deorbit burn completes, we then close the nosecone. The deorbit berm will utilize the four thrusters at the top of dragon burn will utilize the four thrusters at the top of dragon. We went to close that nosecone and lock it up. After that, dragon will begin to reenter the earths atmosphere and we will experience a six minute communications blackout. We will not be able to sing commands or receive telemetry, but that is ok. Dragon is autonomous, designed to steer itself anyway. That blackout communication period will last for about six minutes. A couple minutes after that, after we regain communications with the crew, we will deploy the parachutes. These are designed to begin to slow the vehicle down even further and also to stabilize the dragon capsule. About a minute or two after they deployed, we will fire off the four orangetes, and white parachutes that will create more air resistance, slowing the vehicle down to a mere 16 Miles Per Hour as the capsule splashes down into the gulf of mexico. We have aed a designated landing location off the coast of pensacola, florida. Confirmed,hdown is the parachutes will be cut from the capsule autonomously, and the recovery crew will begin to move into position to retrieve bob and doug. The team will be waiting three nautical miles away from the splashdown site. Whenever the splashdown approaches, they will move closer. They will get the capsule ready to be lifted onto the recovery vessel. Once that is secure in the nest, they will get to open the hatch and have bob endo egress or bob and doug egress or exit. Breath of their first fresh air in two months. We are excited. All of that will be coming up shortly. Those events we have in the future, the deorbit burn and the jettisoning of the trunk, will all be in three hours exactly. My countdown shows that the trunk separation will be happening three hours from now. So we are looking forward to all of those events coming up. It is going to be a very exciting morning. Like i said, seeing bob and doug come out from the capsule on that recovery vessel, go navigator, will be the first time they are back down on earth for the first time in two months. Safety is everything. And of course, the human body experiences microgravity. Just to be safe, we will place mynto a wheelchair mind is blank a stretcher. Essentially, we will be helping bob and doug after they get out of the capsule. You see the crewmembers get typically lifted out of the capsule physically, and then put into chairs, where they are able to do medical checks, take their pulse, and give them a moment to rest. It can be pretty jarring on the body when you reenter a gravity environment after living in space for several months. We are doing Everything Possible to keep them safe, not only aysically, but we also have lotta protocols put in place with the coronavirus. Are really awesome morning coming up a really awesome morning coming up. The recovery ship. On your screen, and we have live views coming your way from go navigator as it makes its way off the coast of pensacola, florida. On the righthand side of your screen, you see the hydraulic lift that will be used to hoist dragon out of the water and into the nest, which is just barely out of view their. Out of view there. It will be moved toward the interior of the deck and that is where we will open the hatch and have bob and doug come out. It is a pictureperfect day. The cds look really,. Really calm. Ook we were looking at about one mile per hour for, which is fantastic. A live view coming to us from go navigat