Spacecraft, but everything looking good. We are five minutes into the de orbit burn. The dragon was flying 260 statute miles off the coast of australia. During this burn we heard a call we are halfway through and everything is looking great. Dougg this burn bob and are currently monitoring the de orbit tool which captures the reentry interface, how much distance remains before the burn itself is terminated, they are monitoring burn duration and the firing of the draco thrusters located on the forward bulkhead of the capsule. On your screen you can see what bob and doug are seeing. On the left and right of the Center Screen is the de orbit monitoring tool. Just past seven minutes into overurn and a little four minutes to go. Continuing to be on track for our splashdown. At splashdown time is right 11 48 a. M. And 24 seconds pacific. Is 18 48 universal. We are through the major steps to initiate reentry, the trunk burn hasthe deorbit begun. We have three and a half minutes remaining. On your screen is a shot of Mission Control at spacex headquarters in california where the dragon operators and Mission Leaders are monitoring dragons progress. They continue to watch the propulsion data, making sure everything is looking healthy and nominal. We are just about two minutes and 30 seconds until the end of burn. We will listen to the call up to the crew on the performance of the burn and they will move into the next step. We get a three minute breather before the next milestone comes up when we get ready to close the nosecone protecting the docking ring, navigation sensors, and these four thrusters performing the de orbit burn. Our at just under two minutes from deescalation of the burn. Dragon is committed to its splashdown point. There is no going back. Yeah. We have the Recovery Team ready and on standby. They have been there for quite some time now. We have about 90 seconds left in the burn. The weather is looking great off of pensacola. Around 2. 5 Miles Per Hour and the sea is like glass. We ended up getting fantastic weather for this splashdown of dragon. We are one minute away from the orbit burn. This is landing off the coast of pensacola, florida in the gulf of mexico and our recovery vessel and the Recovery Team are ready and waiting to see bob and doug come back through the atmosphere. [indiscernible] dragon burn complete. Performance nominal. Nosecone closure initiated. All right. Burn complete. We heard nominal burn. Bob and doug are on their way back home. This commits them to reentering the atmosphere. All we have left is to wait. That was one of the last major moments before they reenter the atmosphere. We will have the closure coming up next. That will come in a couple of minutes as we have a threeminute span. The nosecone is currently in the closing process. It does not just snap shut. It slowly closes and locks. That nosecone is in the process of moving back into closed position and we will have the call out for whenever it has fully closed and latches have secured. It looks like it is about halfway there. It opened a little more than 90 degrees. I think the exact count was 110 degrees for range of motion. We are a little more than halfway of getting that closed. I just heard we have visual on nosecone closure. It will take a minute for the hook to close. They close in a series. The first will close and the second will follow and that will take about a minute to complete. As we wait for the finish to that nosecone closure, we will , a little 20 minutes over 21 from now, before we reenter the atmosphere. Time we willthat also be looking for that blackout we have been talking about. We have had a little bit of ratty comms. Breakup in the audio transmission because of how dragon was oriented for the burn. Due blackout period will be to the plasma interfering with the antennas. I heard the call out that the first set of hooks for nosecone closure are in motion. This will complete in two sets. Really good news to hear that. Everything looking good so far. Before, in thed background, dragon has inhibited the forward bulkhead draco thrusters we used to complete orbit burn. Thevehicle has initiated nitrogen and oxygen burn. It is being purged into the system and cooled allowing the cool air to circulate the cabin, but also inside the suits. It will keep them cool and comfortable during reentry which will be coming up in 20 minutes. We are currently tracking 23 minutes and 20 seconds until entry begins. If you are just joining us, the nosecone has closed. The forward thrusters have been we are latching the nosecone, currently underway with the first set of hooks. Ets. First of two s confirmation the first set of hooks has closed, so the second set will begin to close as well. As we mentioned after this nosecone is closed we will have a couple of minutes to catch our breath, about 20 minutes, until dragon will maneuver itself into the entry altitude, pointing the heatshield in the direction of travel as it will be leading the way through entry into the atmosphere. We will look to run into that Communications Blackout 36 minutes after the hour and that will last about six minutes. We will get that back shortly before we deploy the parachutes followed less than a minute later by the main parachute and then we should have views of dragon reentering the atmosphere, parachuting to a splashdown in the gulf. In the front row of Mission Control in the center you can see ceo elon musk and our president , gwen, sitting sidebyside. Two, it is to those filled with Mission Leaders and operators who are monitoring the health and telemetry of the crew and capsule. Hooksrst of two sets of latching has completed and we heard a call out nosecone is secure for entry. Copy. Great confirmation back and forth from michigan control to bob and doug in dragon endeavor that bob and doug confirmed on their display the nosecone has closed and is secure for entry. That nosecone close completion. A lot of tongue twisters coming with dragon still flying over the south pacific. It is on its way home. We are going to gradually see its altitude dip. Already 207 miles over the earths surface. On theat 260 when it was other side of the pacific off of the coast of australia when it fired the engines for the de orbit burn. Once it gets to about 100 kilometers or 62 miles it will begin entry interface and that is when it begins to feel the effects of the atmosphere. Dragll experience lift and that is no longer in the vacuum environment. We are essentially stepping into the second half of entry. Dragon is beginning to flush nitrox into the cabin and the suits. This is cool air flowing through the cabin and suits and will allow them in the cabin to remain comfortable during reentry while external temperatures reach 3500 degrees fahrenheit. Dragons orientation is such that the heatshield is pointing forward. Leading the capsule toward the landing site. If you have been following along, weather has been a big ticket item for us. The Recovery Team has been busy over the last week working to determine the selection of a landing site. In order to increase the options for space station departures, they identified seven splashdown locations. In order to meet the timeline requirements for crew recovery these potential locations have to be close to a port and they have to be close to medical facilities. Add all of that in mind you the ever evolving weather conditions of florida, but also the Tropical Storm that was moving through and it is easy to see how determining that landing site is quite a complex process. Since dragon is capable of splashdown on either side of the Florida Panhandle we have two identical recovery vessels ready to support. One in the gulf of mexico, which is what we are utilizing, and the other located off the east coast of florida able to service landing sites in the atlantic ocean. Today we will be splashing down in the gulf of mexico off the coast of pensacola, florida. Waiting for bob and doug. 57 plane if it has not taken off already, it will soon. It has taken off. That will provide the views of dragon during reentry. It will allow us to see the capsule as it reenters. If you were tuned in for our demo broadcast, it was basically a big ball of light coming at us. We will also have cameras on vessel, so asvery dragon gets closer and is deploying those parachutes, we will be able to have, hopefully, really clear footage of that occurring. Dragons altitude continuing to dip. 174 miles over planet earth. We are 11. 5 minutes when we expect to hit interface. Dragon will feel the effects of being in a denser atmosphere and we are tracking that blackout to come around that same time. We are under 27 minutes away from splashdown. We are under 27 minutes away from bob and doug being on mayet earth since the 30. The dragon capsule departed from the International Space station several hours ago, but according to what dan said, it is essentially halfway home just based on altitude alone. The International Space station is 250 miles above earths surface. Milesright now about 263 above the surface. The telemetry is from, and altitude standpoint, dragon is halfway home in the second half will be covered in the next 27ish minutes versus the several hours we have been covering since yesterday. Yes. We will continue to see its speed drop as it is dropping out of orbit and starting to hit the atmosphere. Heat on therate heatshield and building the plasma up. 17,000 massy below per hour and it will drop to terminal velocity of 350 Miles Per Hour as the parachutes deploy. They will pop out when sensors on the dragon spacecraft, both gps and pressure sensors, tell the spacecraft it is at the right altitude and they will automatically deploy. They come out of the top section of the spacecraft using two slowingfor the initial and stabilizing of the capsule. After that the main parachutes will pop out further deaccelerated to 119 Miles Per Hour. By the time the capsule is splashing down in the gulf of or 16 it is only going 15 Miles Per Hour. That is a pretty comfortable speed. The way the astronauts have described it previously with other types of missions also landing down at about the same rate, they said it feels like you are in a minor fender bender. You are definitely running into something. You will feel it, but they do a lot of work with the seats and restraints to make sure while it may be a fender bender, you have more than a seatbelt holding you in. They are very secure in their suits and seats. They will stay in their even after dragon touches down. Communication once they touched down. The air conditioner will continue to work while they are in the capsule and the gulf of mexico and much warmer temperatures than they have seen for the last couple of months. We will still be able to talk to them from here in hawthorne and so will the Recovery Teams. Yeah. One of the things we might afterem do, depending on the touchdown, they will still have demonstration tasks to carry out. They have a Satellite Phone inside the capsule that has its and theylite antenna are able to use that independent of dragons communication systems. The one thing we might hear them do is do a test call to the teams in hawthorne. Thatould hear the go to do over the ground audio we have been listening to. We still have a couple of demonstration steps as this is a test flight. This is the flight to prove out dragons system to bring crewmembers from Kennedy Space center to the space station and return them to earth. We have had a flawless ride downhill. Burnve completed deorbit and dragon is at about 132 miles over the pacific ocean. Soon we will see the ground track cross over central america, over the gulf, coming in just off the coast of pensacola. Dragon spacex 4 entry brief. Go ahead. Doug, we have no update because the burn went great and your vehicle is still looking good for entry. No Health Issues at this time. Ok. Dragon copy. Thank you. The Recovery Team is go and the weather is still great. Winds about 2 knots. Copy. Good weather in the atlanta area. The last piece is we expect additional ratty com. If you could get is your entry check report a little prior to entry, we would appreciate that. Wilco. Y, thank you, doug. We had a bit of a briefing between Mission Control and bob and doug up in the crew endeavor. Just confirming the burn was pads and the timing on the does not need to be updated. Timese able to update that remain live depending on how the burn goes and, at this point, they do not need to be updated. Doug, the primary mission right now, is to continue to monitor the vehicle status and telemetry and data being presented on their touchscreen displays in front of them. During the more Dynamic Events they want to be aware when parachute deploy will happen. Making sure the timeline is accurate is certainly important. Dragon is out over the Central Pacific and down to 108 miles in altitude. Dragon should be in and out at around 100 kilometers and that experiencestarts to a lift and drag. Continuing to drop in altitude and still looking for a ontime splashdown. Do have that blackout coming. The atmosphere gets thicker and will generate more heat and heat up the outside of dragon to 3500 degrees fahrenheit. It will also be forming a plasma around the spacecraft. Prep isx dragon complete. Copy. Entry prep complete. Thank you. A call from spacecraft commander doug hurley. Entry prep is complete. They are monitoring and ready to come home. Have finalep should configuration of the flight suits. We had confirmation if the visors will be up or down. They should be down at this point as part of the entry prep check. In that last briefing we heard the weather is looking good. The phrasing was, it looks like glass. That is certainly ideal for a water splashdown. The recovery timeline, you know, bob and doug should be out of the capsule within one hour of splashing down. Good to hear the weather is good. We saw blue skies and some fluffy clouds in the gulf of mexico as we got views from our recovery vessel. Glad to hear conditions are winds alsoand that looking good around 2. 5 Miles Per Hour. Really could not ask for better conditions for a splashdown day. We threaded the needle once again like we did on launch. Your upper limits for wind or 10 Miles Per Hour, so we are well below that threshold for a splashdown today. Dragon coming up on 82 miles in altitude, continuing to dip down. We expect that interface to start soon with the vehicle is going to start heating up. It will continue to use the draco thrusters as it continues through the atmosphere and we will have that blackout coming up in a few minutes. The cabin purge has started. This is when they flush the cabin of dragon with cold air and they will do a suit purge running nitrox through the suits to keep things at a comfortable temperature as the capsule goes through reentry and starts to heat up. We are anticipating a brief blackout period where we are unable to communicate with the capsule. That should start in about three minutes. That will last six minutes total and we will be unable to command the vehicle oversee telemetric. That being said, dragon is designed to be fully autonomous. It is driving itself anyway. Bob and doug will stay fastened in their seats. That anticipated loss of signal last just six minutes. Period the blackout capsule will encounter entry interface. This is when the capsule is now really in the earths atmosphere and beginning to be subject to aerodynamic forces. This is also when that friction will begin to build up and raise the external temperature. Dragon spacex, we show two minutes until blackout. We will see you on the others. Other side. Dragon, copy. There is that headsup communication from Mission Control to dragon endeavor confirming that blackout. During the blackout the capsule will be going through entry interface where it is encountering aerodynamic forces, really starting to build up the external temperature, and that temperature will reach about 3500 degrees fahrenheit. However, the interior of the cabin is environmentally cooled so bob and doug should remain comfortable during the descent. There will be cool air flowing not only through the cabin, but also through their suits. Sensors that are able to detect the temperature inside that suit and once that reachedeads that it has maximum temperature threshold it will flush the soup with cool air and really circulate suit with cool air and really circulate and cool it down. We are right around the time. Ted lack o blackout expecting to regain communication at 42 minutes after the hour. For these next ask minutes, they are less than 60 miles in altitude and this is when the capsule is really heating up during reentry, reaching temperatures around 3500 degrees fahrenheit. You are essentially hitting the atmosphere at more than 17,000 Miles Per Hour and the friction builds up the plasma around the space craft. That will prevent us getting data for six minutes. It is going to continue to maintain its appropriate trajectory and attitude having attitude determination devices on board not reliant on communication with satellite. It will continue dragon down the correct path for this splashdown off the coast of pensacola. We are in that blackout period. We are going to continue to stand by until we get them on the other side. Just about two minutes after we signaluisition of we are going to be looking for the parachutes. We should be getting views from some assets at the landing zone including the High AltitudeResearch Plane which is going to be rely on the telemetry to lock onto it in the sky and give us a infrared view during reentry. We will look for the deploys at 44 minutes after the hour, and they will come out when the vehicle is still moving at 350 Miles Per Hour at an altitude of 80,000 feet. They will do some initial slowing and stabilization and less than a minute later they will detach and the four main parachutes will deploy. They will look closed up initially and then do something called reefing. They open in stages to minimize the load on