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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...

0 these are people with families, and the goal here really has been heartwarming. i think you've probably seen the footage of the interactions that this crew has had with children in the hospital. i mean, it's been a fund-raising campaign for st. jude's, 200 million dollars has been the goal. and there's been all kinds of interaction from them there. it just has been an amazing experience to see regular americans, like you and i, in space. only less than 600 people -- >> jon: hang on a second, alexandria. we're getting our first images. let's listen to mission control. >> as part of the inspir...

Experience, to try to make changes and make sure it is the best experience possible. jim. >> we'll be watching, rachel crane, thank you so much. here with me now is retired nasa astronaut leroy ciao. he's performed six space walks and logged over 229 days in space. thanks for taking the time. >> you bet, good to be with you. >> so big picture, i want to ask you, as a nasa astronaut, do you think space tourism which is where both of the businesses are heading to some degree, but for the near future reserved for just the very wealthiest of people, right? we're talking about millions of dollars...