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Designed, and dragon is now on the recovery vessel. >> dragon is almost a bit of a mix of a rocket spacecraft, and a little bit of a boat. [laughter] >> it does everything you need it to. >> yeah, exactly. >> dragon, welcome aboard the recovery vessel. recovery personnel are completing final checks. standby for translation on to eagles platform in approximately one minute. >> good to be aboard. >> i see some fist pumps from the doctor, aboard the dragon capsule right now. next event coming up after the team does some safety checks is opening the side hatch. that's going to be very very excitin...

>> so we're expecting the team to finish installing all of the equipment needed to lift dragon out of the water in a few minutes. and we should see another boat approach the dragon capsule, and that will be where we essentially hook it up to a crane on the back of the boat, lift it up out of the water, and on to the recovery vessel. >> jon: clayton, let's talk a little bit about orbital versus sub-orbital flights. when the united states launched alan shepherd into space, that was a huge achievement. we were trying to catch the russians back in 1961. it was a sub-orbital flight. he didn't actua...

>> give elon credit that do some great high technology things that allow people to see more of what's going on. that's a huge benefit to them. never bet against elon musk. >> jon: i guess not. doctor, one of the things they did on this flight was because they weren't going to be docking with the international space station, they took the nose cone of the capsule where the docking hatch normally would go, and they put a big bubble, you know, kind of like a skylight in there that all of the astronauts could use to look out at the earth. that had to be a pretty stunning view. >> i'm sure they wer...

Crew emerging from spacex capsule after the historic flight. but i didn't see any moon -- moon walks. i was surprised by that, kristin. i thought at least we'd see a moon walk. >> i felt like i was watching that moment at like a wedding reception where the wedding party comes in and do their own dances. they deserve every fist pump. i would have loved to have seen a moon walk. but think what they went through. three days in microgravity. just re-entered the atmosphere inside a capsule dealing with temperatures of 3500 degrees fahrenheit before splashing down in the atlantic ocean. and the reco...

Many toxins that are used to bring this. they'll go in, open up the hatch. that's when we may or may not get our first glimpse of the crew inside the crewed dragon capsule. and after that, they will be taken to a part of the ship where they'll do some medical checks. they'll check them out, make assure they're feeling okay. nausea really a big problem, or can be a big problem when you're splashing down in an ocean in a claustrophobic capsule, although it is quite nice and spacious when you're in orbit. once they get that all clear, there is a helicopter pad on that ship and a helicopter is goi...