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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...

What a great mission it was and how successful it was. and then they'll probably take questions. that's kind of the natural flow of these kinds of things. and so it really depends on the journalists and the audience and what they want to know. >> stand by for opening. there it is. >> here we go. the endangered for the opening. plan . >> going to be coming up in about ten seconds. >> great comms. [ applause ] there you can see the side hatch is now officially open. so exciting, waves from the crew. >> as i mentioned the person you always see smiling, sian proctor.

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...

Onboard. i'd like to go true that side hatch right now, i'd like to be in the vertical position and take her back up into space again, because she was built to be there, and once you got her in that environment, she performed thawlessly. >> reporter: a bittersweet feeling some astronauts say for seeing this shuttle inside this exhibit instead of being out on the launch pad ready to fly. jenna: really cool to hear from the astronauts and the people visiting as well, steve. thank you. jon: and, you know, the chinese just brought back their astronauts from space. they've got a manned space progra...