Six months, and when you keep doing Crew Missions. Its the start of a new era. I am very, very proud as the nasa space x, the agency team, and our nation for stepping out and doing this. Thank you. Thank you, kathy. Next to mark geyer. Thank you kathy ottawa to thank you for your leadership especially in making this happen. It is a terrific day for nasa and for the country in general. Its really exciting to see the seven crew members on iss, four a, two russian and our japanese partners. Its great to be starting this crew rotation plan and not being able to utilize iss as we envisioned. Im honored to with the increment 64 pin today, so its a great start to that mission. The astronauts are doing great. You saw them as they came through the hatch. They are excited to start their mission. They are very well trained. They ready to get started. We believe nasa unites with our partners to achieve bold omissions and in this case they can be commercial partners or international partners. Next year we are going to have a lot of Exciting Missions including continuing space x missions, boeing commercial crew, sending paul ryan out past the moon. Eventually private Astronaut Missions and also the smaller commercial lunar Payload Missions were enabling Small Companies to deliver payload to the lunar surface. Each of these are examples of how nasa can engage differently with companies. Sometimes we drive the design with our contractors come sometimes we evaluate the design. Sometimes we are the operator, sometimes reintegrate the operations. All of these are ways where we are melting our skills, achieving nasas missions but also creating commercial capabilities in this country. That is a big part of her job and, of course, were taking those skills and exit pushing out in the litter reaching with gateway and supporting lunar lander systems as well. So a great ending to the year, terrific to see the crews on iss and so we look forward to all the work they are going to achieve this increment. Thank you, mark. Lets go next to joel. Will come again to the post docking press brief. What an incredible achievement and have it happen in a month when were celebrating 20 years of continuous human presence on board the International Space station International Space station just put a smile on my face. Yesterday we saw a pictureperfect launch and today a very smooth the docking. With that we welcome the dragon vehicle and took her to the International Space station. We look forward to significant amount of time on or become significant number of months will be able to increase the amount of sites, amount of research, a technology on development we can do with the additional crew members. I should stick to the program, huge thanks and congratulations to the space eckstein. I promise you National SpaceStation Program will take good care of the dragon vehicle and her crew. The back over to you, brandy. Finally will go to thank you much. It an extremely exciting time being Space Business right now. As the crew just and right after hatch opening theyant wait to get started. Weve had teams of nasa and space x and other ageies involved in many wayshrough as kathy mention blood sweat a choose over the years, sort of culminates in the hatch opening of the crew joined the iss for sixmonth stay on board space statn so were so proud of the teams. Arrival of resilienc marks the beginning as was mentioned before of another firsttime event. The government commercial Crew Rotation Mission to the i and looking back at another first that happed almost exactly ten years ago with the same team members involved, nasa and spacex shared a similar accomplishment with the launch to lowearth orbit o flight Number One Mission in early december010. That flight demonstrated the capability of falcon and dragon and the partnership, and since then has had 20 successful cargo flights to the iss which have now led in the last six months these two Crew Missions in may and crew one arrival jus today. As jules mentioned were proud to be part of the 20 Year Anniversary which is this month with the arriv. Were proud to follow in the footsteps of all of the other 63 expeditions they came before this one and gd to join expedition 64. So huge shout outs to the national and spacex teams. Excellent job come in hard years of work and were looking forward to make use of her successful first Operational Mission and many more to follow. Thank you. Great words to start is at. We just have a few reporters on the line, so if you have a question you can press start one. As we call on you if you could direct your question to whom you would like to answer it. Lets start with reuters. Congrats on a successful flight. I guess this question could be for anybody who wants to add to. I was wondering if theres any like quarrels over who gets to sleep in crew dragon . As when he what kind of value having some sleep in crew dragon provide to spacex and nasa . Are you guys getting any data out of that are what kind of tests are you going to perform with that . Thanks. I think our plan is to have sleep in the dragon. Its been checked out operationally. Inhalation in the mornings moro force would be an excellent opportunity to use and test it out as a habitable module. Thats our current plan and look forward to learning a lot and we think it would be very comfortable modern accommodations for him. Several of us would like to be sleeping in there tonight. Next well go to business insider. Thanks for doing this and congrats, everybody. This question is for kathy. You have long mission ahead. What are you most looking forward to whats going to keep you up at night, if anything, over the next six months . Thanks. Well, you know, joel has got a wholeistf items that he wanted these crew members to start worng on. I mean, hes been a little bit starved of crew members and is got a backlog of worknd science that he needs them to go get done. When you have people on brd you always are maintaining vigilance and ming sure just like we do with station, having dragon at the justeans with more people on orbit, that we always are thinking of the making sure were taking care of them. Its what makes human spaceflight so fun and challengg, is that you always have to realize that you are maintaining human safety in a toug environment. But we have a greattation program, like jolts that. They will take care of the crew members and they make my ability to sleep a little bit better at night. Counting on you, joel. Okay. Our next russian will come from national news. Question as you described it was tough to get to this point. What do youeel is the biggest risk when docking tking to the International Space station . Thank you. What makes it really nice is a a space craft makes it look easy, right . But to get there isnt easy. It took a lot of joint work between the spax and nasa teams to share their learning and to go through a lot of interchange, technal interchange and a ton of testing toake it look like tt. It was a real testament today that we could all sit there and kind to be talking what was going on and not fighting our nails. Its the dragon is a beautiful vehicle, and she did a nice job today definitely. Next up we have space. Com. Thank y all for doing this. Congratulations. This is probably for joel. Could you talk a little bit what it means to extra crewmember onboard come le the seven astronauts, wha does it mean for the research pottial of this next next months coming up and maybe beyond as we see this happ more often . Thank you. One of the cool things about having the commercial crew program is we are able to double the aunt of crew attended science and development than we do on the International Space station. With three crew members were averaging about 35 hours a week of crew science and research. Th the fourth crewmember that persons time, equivent time is dedicated to science and utilization and research, so 70 hours. We will have be able to do 70 hours with the four crew meers. With that, sets the standard forth for these next years as we continue to develophe International SpaceInternational Space station, continue to use it and allow us to do not onlyhe site and research we have a Technology Demonstrations that will help us with the artemis program. Okay and i think we have a followup next from business insider. We do have time for just a couple followups so if you do have another question you can press star once again but will try to keep it short because i know these guys have been up for a while. Thanks for taking another question from me. I guess this question is also for kathy or anybody else who feels they can answer it. Just wanted to followup on something that did come up in the last 27 hours that propellant line peter and a thermal control system issue, whether this was clearly result and if you could talk what happen. Is it any reason this popped up in orbit and not on the ground . Im curious about any of the issues are tracking or anything so far from this light that needs further investigation. Thank you. Ven, why did you take this one . You have been in the Launch Complex area and the Mission Control area following a long pretty diligently. These are your key issues. Id be happy to. Yes, so the vehicle is actually remarkably clean. After clearing a couple of alarms although after launch yesterday, the vehicle arrived at the station today with full functionality, no issues whatsoever. Earlier on yesterday was a discussion about the prop line heaters. They did trip off, basically it was based on fault detection limits were set very tightly on the ground. So spacex was very quick to identify the cause of it, barely out of spec, barely out of limit that trip it off for safety reasons. The identified i would say within an hour. They had a fix proposed within two hours. They had a solution that was ready to be checked by the joint nasa space eckstein and shortly after that fit uplinked it and everything was fine afterwards. The problem they were protecting against was to make sure the propellant lines stayed within the thermal limits. Just to make sure theres full functionality at the prop and in the end it turned out that limit was tighter than need be so was quickly fixed, and dragon is in beautiful shape. Okay. Looks like you also follow question from reuters. Thank you. Just to follow up on that for ven. Other than the prop line heaters, other than issue was anything else you guys detected during flight or drink the talking sequence that kind of looked off or something was unexpected you didnt seem prior test . Theres only one of the thing of note that we track and can its also shortly after launch had to do with thermal control system. Theres a loop a and b and on each of those loops are segments of the thermal loop that are isolated from other segments and so based on differentials with the temperature essentially when you have got certain parts of the loop that are exposed to different temperatures and there a class when theyre on the ground at the same temperature as a work exposes different temperatures and loads during early phase of flight. Once i station between those parts of the loops was opened and the look isolated it caused a pressure transient which it is also causing a fault detection to trip, and caused one loop to go offline temporarily. Again there was no issue. Again was also one of these cases with the problems identified very quickly looking back at previous tests and the Previous Mission it was something that was seen before but not enough such a tripped off any limit. Again it was identified very quickly. The team was all over it and was able to fix it very quickly, so no issues whatsoever now with thermal ctrol. I think both of those are examples of how you learn, you know . You learn how your system erates while youre flying and ten at how to operate it in a way and i was going to operate on orbit. Like we mentioned, wast something you learned while youre flying . Yes. Those of both things from a systems perspective are pretty rmal things that you learn whe youre starting to bring on a new system. I think its prudent come folks have been very cautious setting those limits, and so absolutely you learn with thermal. You have convection on the grant and of the fix and you can simply write all those so we do put in limits which are tight so that we can see those far before the end of becoming problematic and that was the case here. Okay. That looks like our last question. Thank you so much to our briefers and also to the reporters who stuck with us through the long operations tonight. I think it was well worth the wait. Its great to have crew dragon at the International Space station tonight. Just reminder you can tune back into nasa tv on wednesday morning to see the two russian members of the space station crew take the spacewalk. They will be going outside the module to do some work, preparing for the arrival of a new Russian Research module. Coverage will begin at 7 30 a. M. Central time and the spacewalk is expected to start at 8 30 a. M. You want to be back on wednesday for that and again thank you, and have a great night. Listen to cspans podcast, the weekly. 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