Space. Splash down in the gulf of mexico after 64 days in space, completing the first crewed flight of the spacex crew dagen. They were testing the capabilities of the new space vehicle to the International Space station. They contributed more than that on their mission. During their 62 days aboard the station, they dedicated more than 100 hours to Scientific Investigation and worked with the expeditions 63 crew on four space walks to upgrade the power system among a number of other items. Todays crew News Conference is the first opportunity after splashdown to ask questions to bob and doug. Well take questions on our phone bridge as well as on our social media platforms. If youre on the phone, press star 1 to add your name to the queue and ask a question. Before we get to opening comments from the crew, we would like to share some of the messages from around the world welcoming bob and doug back to planet earth. Splashdown. Welcome back to planet earth and thanks for supplying spacex. Love from india. Thanks to all who submitted these messages using the launchamerica. Well pass it to the crew for opening comments starting with doug hurley. Well, its great to talk to you today. Were just a couple days removed from splashdown off the coast of florida near pensacola. Excited to be back. Were already working through our exercise, Rehabilitation Program to get our earth legs back. We were lucky that we worked out pretty hard on the space station and i think we both done pretty well up to this point. Were lucky in the fact that we landed in some pretty smooth waters thanks to the weather folks. I think that helped a lot. Just incredibly excited to be back and incredibly excited to share the mission with all of you in another way and just so proud of the spacex and nasa teams to get dragon through its first crewed flight flawlessly, just were almost kind of speechless as far as how well the vehicle did and how well the mission went and all the things we did on board iss with Chris Cassidy and others. Glad to be back and its great to see how excited everyone was for our mission and followed along and we hope it brings a little bit of brightness to a pretty tough 2020. Thank you, doug. Well hand it over to bob. I think doug covered most of the things that either one of us would say about the mission itself. Its a humbling experience to be a part of what was accomplished with this spacex vehicle. A Wonderful Team on the nasa side and the spacex side to pull it all off. It took years in the making. Doug and i have been working at it for a good solid five years to get to this point and its awesome to see it to fruition. I know one of the things that were most proud of is bringing launch capability back to the florida coast, back to america and of course landing safely at the end of all of that. And so just, again, humbled to be a part of such an awesome team and awed by what they accomplished. Thanks to you both for those initial remarks. Well now open it up for questions. If youre on our phone bridge, press star 1 to submit a question. Well have a lot of questions. If you find that yours has already been answered, press star 2 to withdraw it. If youre on social media please use the asknasa. Lets start with lauren from the verge. Hi, bob and doug, good to talk to you, and congratulations on such a great launch. Leading up to this mission, the date of the launch was always so uncertain and you mentioned you would plan your life in increments of weeks or months at a time. Im wondering, how does it feel now after all of that build up now that its over and you have a little more certainly in your schedule again . Thanks. Thats a good question. I dont know if certainty is the right word at this point. I think for both of us it feels pretty surreal and i know thats a little bit overused. I dont know how else to describe it. One minute youre bobbing in the gulf of mexico and less than two days later youre in a News Conference. So, you know, its been a time to reflect and think about a lot of the things that went on and the leadup to the mission, the mission itself, the launch, the orbit time, the entry, the landing. But, yeah, at least we know were done with the mission, which, you know, we didnt even really know launch dates until just a few months before we launched. We didnt know the duration of the mission until a few weeks before we came home and so i guess its nice in that respect to be back with our family and friends here at nasa and working through the post flight activities that we have. And theyre pretty well scheduled for the next few weeks for sure. In fact theres a lot of stuff to do over the next few weeks. Were hoping at some point just to take some time off and share a little more time with our families since they were the ones that really had to sacrifice over the last five years because we were mostly in california and we were mostly obviously the last two months in space. Next well go to andrea from the houston chronicle. Welcome home. Bob, you gave a really great description of what it was like to launch in the crew dragon. I was hoping you could give us an account of what it was like to land. Thank you. Thank you, andrea. The landing was i would say it was more than what doug and i expected. Things are always pretty smooth as you work through a deorbit burn. Youre still in lowearth orbit while you take that little bit of energy out that it takes to lower you into the atmosphere and start the trip home. As we descended through the atmosphere, i was surprised at just how quickly it all typical events all transpired. It seemed like a couple minutes later after the burn was complete, we could see the clouds rushing by at an accelerated rate. One of the things we didnt have a lot of time to do during our time docked to station was to really focus on the earth for an extended period of time and during free flight in dragon, we were able to do that and probably had a good feel for the rate that the earth was moving below us and we could tell things were picking up quick after we started that burn. Once we descended a little bit into the atmosphere, dragon it came alive. It started to fire thrusters and keep us pointed in the appropriate direction. The atmosphere starts to make noise. You can hear that rumble outside the vehicle. As the vehicle tries to control, you feel a little bit of that shimmy in our bodies and our bodies were attune todd to the environment so we could feel all the motions, things that we picked up inside the vehicle. As area descended through the atmosphere, the thrusters were firing continuously. I recorded some audio of it, but it doesnt sound like a machine. It sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere with all that all the puffs that are happening from the thrusters and the atmospheric noise. It continues to gain magnitude as you descend down through the atmosphere and i think we both noticed that aspect of things. All the separation events of the trunk separation through the parachute firings were like getting hit in the back of a chair with a baseball bat. You would get a motion associated with that usually. Pretty light for the trunk separation. With the parachutes, it was a pretty significant jolt and a couple of jolts with the parachutes as well. All the way down, we were talking about it, i think, i took a line from an old movie that doug and i were both familiar with at one point. Under the g load of about 4. 2 gs, i said, you want to get some coffee, much like we had seen in an old move we had watched. That was the feeling that we had add. Thats what we felt like. One vehicle, so that we were familiar with all those sounds and reassuring is not quite the right word because we think of it more in technical terms as, you know, pilots and engineers riding along with that vehicle. But when it performed as expected and we could check off those events, we were comfortable coming through the atmosphere, even though, you know, it felt like we were inside of an animal. Lets go to david curly from the discovery channel. Reporter what a description. Welcome back to both of you. I have a lot of technical questions, but lets do the Fun Questions and the big question, bob. Did you leave something for megan, will spacex leave it there and, doug, you said you would talk about the historical meaning afterwards. Here we are, big picture, what does this mean. Thank you, gentlemen, and welcome home. You go first. Inside the vehicle, its not something we dont do, we do our best to keep it in shipshape. We left a patch inside the vehicle that we added and we gave the ship a name endeavor. And im hopeful theyll be able to keep both of those things as they go forward and add their decal to the interior of endeavor. I guess for me, from the historical aspect, i think certainly the first u. S. Crude vehicle since the shuttle, nine years ago, certainly personally, its significant because i was the last shuttle pilot and the first commander dragon. Its neat to think about now. And i certainly maybe a year from now will think a lot more about it. But im more i think whats more important to me is that historical aspect for nasa and certainly for spacex, for a company thats only been around for a decade or a little more than that, to build a spaceship that takes crew into orbit and returns them safely, that part of the historical aspect for me is probably most significant. And to be part of that for me is also by far the most important and one of the most incredible highlights that ill have from a professional career to just to just share in that journey, that odyssey, that endeavor, as we named our ship, was just one of the true honors of my entire life. But certainly my professional career. Now go to marsha done from t marsha dun from the associated press. Reporter did either of you were surrounded by so soon after splashdown. Were you surprised to find that out afterwards . And bob, when is the puppy arriving . I guess since bobs got a really important question to answer, ill talk about the boaters. This is something that we discussed as a nasa spacex group prior to demo one, actually. And we certainly appreciate the folks wanting to participate in the event. But, you know, theres some safety aspects as the administrator said, well have to take a look at. I cant happen like it did before. Certainly, we were not its mostly due to the kind of way the windows looked after splashdown. So, you know, the reentry is a fairly dynamic event and you can see from just an overall view of the capsule that reentry is a pretty demanding environment with the different scorches on the vehicle. And the windows were not spared any of that the look out the windows, you could basically tell that it was daylight, but very little else. We didnt really see anything clearly out the windows until the spacex recovery crews got near us with the fast boats and we could a head or two out the window. I had no awareness of the other people who were out there until we were back on board and in the medical facility. I just want to add a little bit to that which is, folks need to realize we were delayed with actually hoping the hatch for an extended period while the teams made sure that everything was clear and the vehicle was safe for us to exit and made sure everything was clear and the vehicle was safe to get as many people as required to perform that extraction for us. Just a word to the wise for folks who have ideas of coming that close again in the future that we take extreme precautions to make sure it is safe, and we do that for a reason. And hopefully theyll appreciate that thats really required of us. As far as the puppy goes, were on about a twoweek time frame where we need to teach my son a little bit about the things that are required to have a dog in the house and make sure hes comfortable with picking up his responsibilities associated with the dog. Ive done a lot of that with the ip phone with the space station over the past couple months. Now hes got to put the right in to get the dog in the right location and show me hes ready to take on the responsibility. Hes going to love that puppy, and he needs to bring him up right. We need to set him up for success. Otherwise, itll be my dog instead of his. Lets go to robert pearlman. Hi bob and doug. Great to see you back on earth. Up until now it would be a given that something from the mission, the spacecraft or the space dudes would be heading to the smithsonian. But very little of your equipment belongs to nasa and your space flight is slated to fly again. If it were up to you, what would you like to see spacex donate to the space museum or otherwise put on display . And might we agree to see your son donate tremor . They might make that agreement. Im sure they would request something in trade, an opportunity to see where tremors new home will be. I think theres a lot of tremors out there as well at some point. It could be the marketplace is saturated with tremors. As far as what i would like to see donated, theres still an opportunity for the history to play out and the capsule to end up in the smithsonian. It can be used and reused and find that permanent home. Spacex has done a wonderful job. If youve ever visited or seen pictures inside the facility in hawthorne, they have hardware theyve flown and tested and managed to put on display. Right here in houston at the space center of houston, they have a stage now that was used and its nice to have that in full public view. And im sure and confident that theyre going to share pieces of the hardware with the public at large. If you go out to hawthorne, there is a first stage sitting right there on the corner of the Property Line there and its just awesome for people to see that hardware and be able to recognize it as hardware that was used for Space Missions and take a picture next to it and be a part of it. So, i know theyll do it. If it was up to me, i think all this hardware has a home someplace in the future when its used up. Its just not used up yet. Thank you. Were now going to switch to social media for just a second. First of all, you have folks from all over the world saying hello and congratulations, brazil, argentina, the neglecterlands, all over the u. S. Just to name a few. This is a common theme. Who gets to keep trevor . I think were probably going to go along the lines of, i believe its the nhl, where the team that wins the stanley cup, if youre familiar with that, each member of the team gets to have the stanley cup for a day or two. I think well probably work out something along those lines where we just have a, he spends some time at bobs place and our place. I think thats fair. And then i think at some point obviously the boys will theyre going to grow up and potentially outgrow trevor and well figure out a good place for tremor as well, just like hopefully with the endeavor and our suits and anything else that was associated with this mission. Its just a neat memory for bob and i as fathers to share this type of thing with our sons, and were just thankful that we were allowed to take tremor with us. And its franks frankly just amo see the response to tremor and how much people enjoyed that part of the mission along with some of the other things. We really appreciate that and thank folks for understanding that it was important to us. Well take one more ask nasa question. This one from leann on facebook asking whats the first thing you ate after returning to earth . I think for both of us the first thing we ate was the pizza they had available on the jet that brought us back into houston. We had a good pizza. Weve done a lot of travel on the Aircraft Operation folks here at Johnson Space centers aircraft over the last 20 years, frankly, whether it was t38s or as we responded to covid and used the larger airplanes to help us get from place to place from a training perspective. And they always have a good plan for taking care of crews that are on board. And our landing day was no different than the other days. They had us all hooked up and set up. And the pizza was waiting when we made it on board. Thank you. Well now turn to the phone bridge starting with eric burger. Caller hi, guys. I want to congratulate you on your excellent timing. Houston in august is lovely. If i may ask a nontremor question, were there any surprises during the mission . It all looked so smooth from the lawn toch t launch to landing to us watching on the ground. Was it really that perfect . Did the vehicle perform that well . Was there anything that happened like maybe you went in the capsule on orbit and there was a funny odor or something that alarmed you during the two months you were up there or was it that smooth . Frankly the dmt mission part of it as well as the docked iss mission we participated in, expedition, but certainly the dm2 mission, i personally expected there to be more certainly not issues with the vehicle but some challenges or some things that were maybe not quite what we expected. Even on our shuttle flights we had things that happened on both of mine and bob and i have talked a lot about his missions as well. There were things that happened that were right out of a simulator event and something that you certainly wouldnt have expected in a real flight. But my credit once again is to the folk at spacex, the production folks, the people that put endeavor together. And then certainly our training folks. The mission went just like the simulators. And i honestly from start to finish there was no surprises. For me, personally i expected the entry to diverge somewhat by what we saw in the simulator. What i mean by that, as the capsule gets in the thick of the atmosphere, somewhere from 20k down to maybe 10k just prower to the droegs with dragon, i expected there to be altitude control. Its tough to maintain perfect altitude and control. And at some point and the design of this vehicle is for the droves to come out potentially a little bit earlier than they normally would come out to kind of right the vehicle. I fully expected that to happen. And it did not. The vehicle was rock solid right up until the nominal drove deploy altitude. And, as bob described, you could feel it. You knew it. You felt it. You knew the droves both worked. We felt the different stages of disreef. And right to the impact in the water, it was you know, we kind of had a feeling it would be not as much as as landing as was described to us, but was going to be a firm slashdown. Even how we bobbed in the water and how the vehicle sat in the water. So, my compliments to spacex and the commercial crew program. The vehicle performed exactly how it was supposed to. And you feel really good about crew 1 and what they should expect and what they should see when they fly their mission. Next is Chris Davenport from the washington post. Caller hey, guys. Welcome back. Good to see you. Two quick ones. Just looking for maybe a description of what it was like inside dragon when the heat was building, that plasma was building. Were you cool . What the view was like . Doug, if you could talk about who you called in the f