Staying on those live pictures out of spacex hq. Historic moment as Spacex Polaris Dawn crew is expected to begin the first ever commercial spacewalk. They were supposed to start two minutes ago. I got a feeling its going to happen in a minute or two. Ainsley get to see it live. Billionaire Jerrick Isaacson and Sarah Gillis. They are going to exit to Dragon Capsule. Steve open that thing up. Brian all these newhouse are from earth originally and plan on coming back. The other two Crew Members will Stay Inside the capsule to help make sure the walk goes smoothly. Lawrence Jonathan Sire is live with the details. What are we looking at right now . Yeah. Very exciting. They are pressure rising the Space Suits, these new extra vehicular Activity Or Eva suits designed by spacex as two members of the four member Polaris Dawn Crew prepare to exit the space capsule. Jerrick Isaacman The Billionaire who is financing this mission, paying spacex undisclosed amount of money to send him and three ot
Protests in israel demanding a ceasefire as President Biden holds a White House meeting this hour with Hostage Rescue teams. Also ahead, a Labor Day double header for Vice President harris. Her two Stops Today including one with President Biden as she looks to shore up the Blue Wall for november. Plus now controversy for Donald Trump. The plans for a fundraiser for January 6th defendants at a trump golf resort. And later, On Strike. Why Hotel Workers for Hilton And Hyatt are on the Picket Lines this Labor Day. Good morning. It is 9 00 a. M. Eastern, 6 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. We have breaking news out of israel where outrage continues to grow today after the deaths of six hostages shot pointblank by hamas as idf forces were nearing their location in gaza. This morning, the largest general strike since the start of the israel hamas war took place, cross. This as prime Minister Netanyahu faces new and growing pressures to reach a ceasefire. Meanwhile at the White House, this
The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the sa
Spacecraft, but everything looking good. We are five minutes into the de orbit burn. The dragon was flying 260 statute miles off the coast of australia. During this burn we heard a call we are halfway through and everything is looking great. Dougg this burn bob and are currently monitoring the de orbit tool which captures the reentry interface, how much distance remains before the burn itself is terminated, they are monitoring burn duration and the firing of the draco thrusters located on the forward bulkhead of the capsule. On your screen you can see what bob and doug are seeing. On the left and right of the Center Screen is the de orbit monitoring tool. Just past seven minutes into overurn and a little four minutes to go. Continuing to be on track for our splashdown. At splashdown time is right 11 48 a. M. And 24 seconds pacific. Is 18 48 universal. We are through the major steps to initiate reentry, the trunk burn hasthe deorbit begun. We have three and a half minutes remaining. On
[no audio] we are still following along with bob and dougs journey home today. Smoothlyg continuing with the departure of dragon from the spaced station space station. They are awake. Everything is coming up in about three hours. We have a never things that will be happening. We are looking for our event to begin in three hours and 42 minutes. Have a separating of the trunk. That is claw separation. The clod delivers power and theds between the trunk claw delivers power and fluids between the trunk and the capsule. We will jettison the trunk. Atmospherenter the and disintegrate during that process. The dragon capsule will be in its final physical form prior to reentry. We will then initiate a deorbit burn. It will last about 11. 5 minutes. That is designed to place dragon on its final trajectory to its landing site, which is off the coast of florida, near pensacola. Once that happens, bob and doug will then sit back and continue to monitor all the telemetry and data they have on their