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This is the first time that we have performed a landing siting on a crew mission. coming up -- coming up next will be second engine cutoff or seco. it will coast for a couple minutes until dragon is commanded to separate. >> stage two is in terminal guidance. >> we're expecting seco to occur in about 20 seconds. >> copy shannon. >> commander peggy whitson continuing to call out the abort motes. >> seco. >> all right. on time.
Leading that flight team. but as jason was talking about earlier, the landing on land is the big deal. >> so as we go to that split screen, when it goes back, the left is coming towards earth, the one on the right is going up into space. here it is the landing, it is amazing to he that they can take this rocket and land it so smoothly. look at that. [cheers and applause] that is absolutely phenomenal. [applause] >> landing confirmed. >> you can see the first stage has landed back at lz-1. this is the first time that we have performed a land landing on a crew mission. [applause] coming up next ...
And you can see the contrail. we're coming up, three big sequence, and a view, live of the crew inside dragon. they're getting ready. we're going to get three events here. main engine cutoff and then we're going to light the second stage engine. in preparation for stage separation. >> stage separation confirmed. copy two alpha. [ cheers and applause ] >> stage one start-up. >> all right. stage separation, we've lit the second stage engine. working its way back towards cape canaveral.