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Crew dragon. Where was this weather wednesday afternoon. Obviously it is a challenge to compete with the weather. We are want to do what is right. We are moving ahead. Sounds like we have a 5050 chance with the weather. It is my pleasure to introduce our administrator Jim Bridenstine nine. Jim . Bridenstein r pride thank you, bob. We had too much electricity in the atmosphere. The challenge was not we had a aghtning storm, but launchgood, in fact, trigger lightning. The rocket itself could become a lightning bolt. The nasa and the spacex teams knew what the parameters were. Were exceeded in th...

Theyre getting new air how often . 2 to 3 minutes. Reporter linda bowen and her family are waiting to board a flight after her mother passed away. She admits shes a little nervous. Just the people situation, you know, being in a crowd, if there was going to be too many people around, not practicing the social distancing, not Wearing Masks. But i found that most are. How are you . Reporter she is kboerding by group number, now they are boarding back to front. As passengers get on theyre handed sanitizing wipes. Bowens flight had less than 40 on board. Before taking off, they taxied past dozens ...

Lets start off with aggression from bill cbs. Can you hear me now . Testing one, two,. Loud and clear, bill. Sorry about that. I want to go back to what bob was in yesterday describing the riot you are comparing it to the shuttle but i was more interested in the first stage of the falcon how did it feel and the second stage feel and you made it sound like maybe it was rougher than the shuttle on the main engine. Wondering if there was ever a point when he looked at doug and said this is not what i expected . Well bill, you took the words right out of my mouth. The summary from yesterday was go...

A really important day for the us Space Program, lay it all out for us, whats going to happen today in florida. We are counting down to the launch of two astronauts, Doug Hurley Bob Behnken at 4 43 eastern time today. This will be the first time american astronauts or any astronaut has launched from us soil into orbit since the retirement of the Space Shuttle nine years ago, july 8th, 2011, was the last time this happened here and the weather permitting it will happen again this afternoon. Tell us more about the mission itself, walk us through the next period of time with this launch. The astr...

Are trying to create a robust commercial marketplace in lowearth orbit great we need spacex to get customers that are not nasa. We want to be a customer, but we want to be one of many customers. What we are doing is giving spacex a lot of leash. We have contracted for them to do the launch independently, but make no mistake, our engineers and our technicians have been involved in the developing of this capability, and our astronauts have been involved in it. We want to be one customer of many. We are helping to grow this commercial marketplace by being a tenant customer, but we also want to ha...