Jcpoa, loud and clear. Welcome to the space station. Thank you. Great. Well, welcome and good morning from houston and thank you all for joining us today. We have many questions already in the queue for our crew. As a reminder for our media on the phone bridge please press star what if you have a question and start two to withdraw your question if he gets answered. Lets jump in. We will start with michael sheets from cnbc. Thanks for taking the questions and hope you can have a pretty well up there. Im curious to hear a little bit more about your experience testing out crew dragon in the interim time you have been up there, as well as if you guys feel like youre ready to come back now, given the amount of time its been already, but whether or not this experience is one that you would rather stay at there a come back down to test the splashdown . Thanks. Michael, thats some question. Ill see if i can remember all of them, but i think froman on on orbit testing standpoint we did have ability testing. We tested interfaces, emergency, emergency equipment and just generically how we work with the dragon talk on board, transferring equipment, transferring supplies. Were going to do a fair amountr of that again tomorrow when we return equipment or supplies back to earth. So most of that went exactly as we plan to those a couple little tweaks here and there but for the most part we fed pretty good luck with endeavor as far as are all orbit testing performed just like it did for launch and rendezvous. So we expect nothing different for the splashdown. Our experience up here has been like i think every spaceflight for most of us is onceinalifetime experience, and this one probably is a great top or at least for me personally just to be able to live and work aboard the station, for so that three of us all helped build during the shuttle flights. Operations, supporting science, supporting maintenance, the four maintenance, the four next up we have russell pounds from pacific rim media. Good morning. Im not sure which of you may have had this experience but ive always appreciated a quote from Arthur C Clarke that says any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The question is what experience did you have that gave you that half feeling that embodies that notion of hthe first gas of the light . Its an interesting question. I think to really put something out there so advanced technology that we would have to describe it as magic in theway that it works. For all three of us, im personally from the show me state in misery if Something Like that was to happen to me and i was baffled by it, we wouldnt be scientists and engineers if we didnt strive to understand what it was so theres that initial moment of wonder when you see something that you dont quite understand and then we strive to understand. I think thats really our calling as folks that seek out and contribute, continues to try to findthe answers to unknown questions. Anything found like that we would pound flat until we did understand. Those sorts of situations probably for us have been most when it comes to things that dont go exactly right. We think we fully understand something and it doesnt proceed the way we expected it to you we have a failure and a piece of equipment for an operation and its a failure of the imagination and thenwe strive to take it apart bit by bit. Every face program has had its share of those sorts of events that we had to really dig down and try to understand what we didnt understand and make sure we had a handle on it before we continued with operations. I think probably the three of us at least from a technological perspective believe in magic. Thanks bob. So now we have Chris Davenport from the washington post. I hope you are well. Quick question, obviously this is the first water landing since 1975 and i was curious if youve spoken to any of the apollo astronauts about that and what advice they may have given you and also i was wondering if you could talk a little bit about your training and how much was dedicated tosplashdown given the differences from a shell landing. Morning chris. We didnt talk specifically with the apollo astronauts that i remember specifically when i was still for i was even assigned to this flight pe working at Flight Operations reading that after action reports from the skylab astronauts was a little bit more applicable and that those flights were longer. And you know, the water landing portion of it is pretty challenging from a physiological standpoint just after coming back from being in microgravity on the order of 1 to 2 months and i think the longest skyline mission was three months which is terry similar to what bob and i are doing. Obviously there was him challenges, post splashdown folks didnt feel well and that is the way it is with a water landing even if youre not deconditioned like were going to be so we think what we need to do is do our fluid loading properly. We exercise very hard while weve been up here and were just trying to put ourselves in the best posture to be able to deal with those effects and we will just see where it goes from there ground teams are fully aware g of the challenges of the water landing and what it does to the human body and we will just take it from there monce we get on board the ship. Weve got the flight surgeons on board that will help us as well all those things have been thought about and are in place and other than that time to go give it a try and see how it goes. We will go to eric berger from ars technica. Looking forward to seeing you come home hopefully this weekend had a couple questions, is it true technical documents referred to the on board as Komodo Dragon and how would you characterize the volume inside dragon . Did you be comfortable and therefore more than a couple of days with two or three people or is it kind of crept . Eric, good to talk to you. I think were not familiar with that Komodo Dragon reference or are on orbit procedure so thats not what we call, the only other name other than through dragon weve used is endeavor and we appreciate the space x guys allowing us or be comfortable with us for a moniker on board the ship. Its something we cherishthe opportunity to do. And as far as the capital of habitable volume inside dragon capsule, its relatively small. So if you try to put the phone through seven like we have on the Space Shuttle asians i that volume it would be a stay in your seat of the situation but with three or four people, the operation is normally, your job will be to be in your seat for the accent and the docking and of course the splashdown though theres plenty of room in those locations. And around the interior of the vehicle, there is some spaces that folks can get out of their seats and kind of have their own small area to be in. So i wouldnt say its a phone booth sort of a densely otpacked but it definitely is cozy if you were to get up to four people. Now we have james rogers from fox news. Morning. So i have a quick question with regard to the splashdown , two questions really really the splashdown is such an iconic moment in terms of the Space Missions weve been seeing. Whats your first experiences watching splashdowns on tv and also kind of related to that we have these spacecraft and itsbeen designed to perform back up in the splashdown scenario. How does this capture our difference to the what weve seen in previoussplashdowns . We had a hard time understanding the question but i think just in relation to splashdown, as far as what we would experience, is that what you are asking . And also just in terms of how does this capture it in terms of the prior captures we used in splashdown scenarios . I know a lot of attention is being paid to that so how is it different . I think weve got it that time. The recovery of dragon after splashdown is that there will be a couple of what we call fast boats will come to the capsule at that point and make sure everything is safe on the outside of the council for it to be hoisted on board the recovery ships and then at that point the recovery ship is moving in and in communication with the fast boats and once everybody gives the thumbs up that we are ready to be hoisted aboard it will get listed on board by a train and cradled on board the portion of the ship. Then at that point once its secure on the back deck of the ship then they can open the hatch and it will be time for us toget out. Believe that answer your question. Thank you doug. Next wehave david curley with discovery channel. Thank you and members of the station you for taking the questions. Everybody knows there are parts of flights that are extreme. It is reentry in this case. The chief engineer of space x is a little bit worried about plasma and potentially getting into the pot. You said you were nervous, youre a lot closer now what did you think and did you say youre goingto have a bag ready which is understandable splashdown . Howdy, i think as we get closer we focus more and more on our preparations to be ready for thesplashdown activities. Weve spent today working through the onboard training that will refamiliarize us the splashdown activities and what our responsibilities will be, the things that we will monitor and i know the space x team , the chief engineer and the nasa team are all looking closely at all of the things that could possibly, that they wish they had more information on or that they feel the most uncertain about and they share those with us on a routine basis. We got sian update on the flight readiness review activities and i know that the chief engineers job is to make that list of things that are areas of concern and then kind of balance that risk with what they currently know and whats Going Forward that information has been shared with us rwand splashdown is closer than it was the last time we were asked tquestions about it but i still dont feel nervous and we are focused on the things we will need to do to be as safe as possible as we come back. And it does take a little bit of time so ill answer for doug and say we will both have the appropriate hardware little bit sick on board g a while we are in the vehicle after splashdown but we know the team is going to get us pulled up and onboard the ship relatively quickly so were expecting to be as prepared as we can be and have a really good feeling about being on the under control as we get through all that. Next up we have and realign folder from the houston chronicle. Hello guys, looking forward to having you back in houston. My question is also about splashdown. The vehicle pretty much lands itself so im curious what you think youll be doing or what thatexperience will be like. If youll be monitoring anything looking out the windows or holding on. For the preflight portion of the flight in other words after we undock and phase our way back towards the reentry, we will spend a good share of that sleeping and then monitoring the systems prior to and after we wake up. And once we wake up we will eat fluid load, go through suit up and then work our way into the entry portion of the flight. And then ntburn that entry so we will be fairly busy when we are awake throughout the whole process and then those last probably 2 and a half to 3 hours will be very busy as we get ousuited up, strapped into our seats and then we will be monitoring all the different systems of the vehicle ensuring that its doing what supposed to be doing as we work our way back towards florida. And then it carries on all the way down through splashdown there. Very key milestones we have to go through that have to happen in sequence and in order and on time in order for everything to go the way its supposed to and if not, we along with Mission Control out in hawthorne california, space x Mission Control will be there to assist or intervene if they need to as well so it will be very busy. There will be a lot oflooking out the window at that point. Where we sit in the vehicle we can see through those forward windows somewhat but mostly we are focused on the displays inthe systems of dragon. We will go to gop has from abc news. Great to speak with you again and see that youre doing well area i have two quick questions. First, we are all looking at that forecast. Are you all concerned this storm maybe two for comfort and the second one bob, we hear your wife megan is going to be going up this spring and this is her first dragon flight , what tips do you have for her . I think from a weather perspective, just like everybody else on the nasa space x team we work forward look forward to the Weather Forecast daily at this point and they will even get more frequent as we get closer to the actual splashdown. I think on launch the owdeparture day will start to get every six hours we will get another forecast sort of an update so were watching those closely mostly to maintain awareness see the trend these and understand what the timeline would be our recovery out of the water for example was delayed a little bit re. We have confidence that the teams on the ground of course watching that much more closely than we are and we wont leave the space station without some good landing opportunities in front of us. Good splashdown whether in front of us and so theyre keeping us informed with Alliance Chair that work happens on their end and we dont control the weather and we know we can stay up here longer. Theres more chow and i know the space station programs got more work and we can do for the pis and other folks that have set science up here to the space station. As far as my wife goes shes super excited and to be assigned to a Space X Mission right on the space x capital here and of course ill have a lot of tips for her. A lot of them will be about how life on the space station goes. I think that in that they expend more unique rather than the capsule itself. Thats probably where i have the most to share with her but ill definitely have some advice about living inside of dragon and where best to pack all your personal items so that you can get to them conveniently because if you just like any trick that you make if you pack things appropriately it can be a very fun trip. If you pack everything at the bottom of the exam that you take when you go on vacation and you got to get it all out one item at a time at various times it can be tiring and eat into your enjoyment on the trip so ill definitely have some tips for her but it will be hard to camp out all the excitement that she has with anysuggestions i have. Now we have joy roulette from reuters. What about the process of returning to you and the space x team wish you had more information on an earlier said will have the appropriate hardwareready in case you guys get sick. Is that something as simple as a paper bag or disprove dragon or the flight suits, do they have some kind of hardwarefor anticipating sickness . I didnt get your first question i can answer your second one. The appropriate hardware, just like on an airliner there are bags if you need them and we will have those handy. We will probably have towels handy aswell. And if that needs to happen it certainly wouldnt be the first time thats happened in a space vehicle. It would be the first time in this particular vehicle if we do but not the first time by any stretch as folks flying in space know that sometimes going uphill and be a little bit, have an effect on your system and sometimes coming downhill is the same way so we will have to see how it goes and we will let you know. What was your first question again . The first question was what about the process of tureturning to you and the team wish you had more information on . I think the biggest challenge and it was that way with shuttle is just the weather that we need in order toreturn home. The shuttle had some fairly significant weather criteria elected to dragon or capsule vehicle but it was, we still had weather to deal with and of course anybody whos lived on the gulf coast or anywhere in the south along the coast in the United States knows that august and september are tough months to deal with the hurricanes that always tend to crop up and 20 20 seems to be an active year by all accounts so i think the biggest thing we all like to know is just the weather but as with any tropical system there even with todays technology is somewhat unpredictable eand they wobble, the centermoves. And you have fronts that affect them and where they go and that obviously has an effect onour landing area. So if anything we just like to be able to predict the weather better than we can but we have some of the best people in the businessworking on this for us. And if the weather is not good we wont try toleave tomorrow. Well leave on a different day when it is. Lets go to marcia dunn on the associated press. For bob and wondering if you had a hunch before your flight that megan would be writing your same dragon to orbit so soon after your flight and secondly, have you or doug been in touch directly with you on much during the flight and if so whats he telling you, whats he asking . Is he being reassuring about splashdown . Of course i think marcia we all having things or hints that things might be in work as we go forward but as anyone whos will tell you whos been a part of the flight time in process, chris and i have both assigned people to roll and really the decisions are kind of made and final really towards the very end of it so while there are hints of what might happen in thearfuture , we dont count our chickens until they are hatched so to speak with respect to flight assignments so while i had a hint, we always wait for the final day before we goforward , as far as elon goes we did spend some time with him prelaunch. And of course with the dim one mission we wereable to spend time with him as well. Once weve gotten on orbit weve heard from the Management Team space x. I know gwen reached out to us and hans reached out to us and of course lee rosen and then their ops team lead so weve been in contact with the entire spectrum of folks on the space x side. Theyve all been, its not reassuring is the wrong word but they certainly have confidence in the equipment and the plan we have in front of us and they continue to tweakand make it as best as it possibly can. For the splashdown that were going to go through here in a couple of days so i think thats probably the thing that really is most impressive about that theme is that willingness to continue to improve, to continue to make corrections or things that have changed area things that theyve bought a lot more about tested on the ground prior to our splashdown but since we launched and we gotten some updates on those things, its the mark of a good team that continues to strive to make the event as successful as it canpossibly be. Now we have Robert Perlman from collect space. Hi guys. The first spaceship named endeavor splashdown on th