Crew-5 Mission | Approach and Docking

shoes hello and thanks for tuning in to the NASA SpaceX crew 5 Mission a long duration rotational mission to the International Space Station I'm Kate Tice quality systems engineering manager here at SpaceX and I'm joined by NASA's Sandra Jones now we're just a few hours away from the Final Approach of docking to dragon to the International Space Station the crew is awake and ready to monitor the final steps so let's recap the mission thus far yesterday launch day preparations started early for our crew members about four hours prior to launch the crew completed their final medical checks before joining the SpaceX team to get into their spacesuits after suit up in the NASA operations and checkout building the crew walked out waving some final farewells to their family and friends who are waiting outside the next destination for the crew was of course the launch pad it was about a 20-minute Tesla ride to pad 39a where the Falcon 9 and crew Dragon spacecraft were waiting for them two and a half hours prior to launch the crew ingressed or entered the crew Dragon spacecraft walking over that crew access arm getting a last look out of those windows at Florida's Space Coast and heading into the white room and the vehicle 40 minutes prior to launch that crew access arm retracted and at T minus 35 minutes before it liftoff the launch Escape system was armed allowing the crew to escape the Falcon 9 on the launch pad or a pawn Ascent should there be any anomaly with the vehicle but it was not needed as we saw a smooth ride into orbit with 35 minutes to go until launch propellant loading began filling the fuel tanks for those nine Merlin 1D engines and just about five minutes before launch Dragon entered terminal count meaning its onboard computers took control of the vehicle and as we just saw on your screen a couple seconds ago at 12 p.m noon Eastern 9 A.M Pacific Time those nine Merlin 1D engines ignited and Falcon 9 lifted off from space launch complex 39a marking the sixth time humans Road Dragon into orbit Falcon 9 first stage at full power our crew began their Journey to the International Space Station just after the t plus nine minute Mark the first stage landed on the autonomous Spaceport drone ship stationed out in the Atlantic Ocean a couple minutes after that we had spacecraft separation where we saw Dragon finally flying free and about 40 minutes after liftoff at 9 49 a.m Pacific Time Dragon executed the phase burn this was the first of five major Burns required to raise dragon's orbit and position it for approach to the International Space Station Dragon raised its orbit using the Draco thrusters over the last several hours as it chases down the International Space Station and just a few hours ago the Boost burn took place at 6 31 a.m Pacific time the booth burn put our crew in an orbit where dragons apogee or highest point will be 10 kilometers lower than the station after that we executed the close co-eleptic burn at 7 16 a.m Pacific the close burn placed dragon on an orbit roughly co-elected with the space station meaning it was maintaining an orbit roughly 10 kilometers lower than the station the entire way around Earth that's in contrast to only being 10 kilometers lower than the station during dragon's G or the highest point in its orbit which is achieved by the booster and from there at 8 26 a.m We executed the fourth major maneuver known as the transfer burn this is where we're raising dragon's apogee or highest point of its orbit to just 2.5 kilometers lower than station then we rounded everything out with a final Co elliptic burn at 9 12 a.m Pacific time to once again maintain a constant orbit lower than the station this time just two and a half kilometers below this was the shorter burn lasting just over 30 seconds now we're getting into the approach initiation and final stages of dragons rendezvous with the space station this is also where we start integrated operations between the dragon control team here in Hawthorne and the space station flight controllers in Mission Control Houston the teams will transition to integrated operations roughly 45 minutes prior to approach initiation which has already happened during the approach SpaceX flight controllers where it will work in tandem with the NASA team in Houston to maneuver Dragon endurance to the proper attitude and initialize the navigation sensors used for the methodical approach to station now they'll also activate and test out a number of systems on Dragon including the bi-directional communications with the station using the C2 V2 system c2v2 stands for common Communications for visiting Vehicles it sets up a data stream from dragon to the station giving another path for Dragon Telemetry to come to the ground and giving additional command capability for the astronauts aboard the station approximately 12 29 PM Pacific Dragon Draco thrusters on Dragon will fire for the approach initiation burn when dragon is about two and a half kilometers below station and just about seven kilometers behind it this will swing Dragon up until it's about a quarter mile which is around 400 meters directly below the space station this maneuver will also move Dragon Inside one of two checkpoints around the station that requires a set of go no go poles with the different control teams the first checkpoint is called the approach ellipsoid or as you might hear it called the AE it's an imaginary shape measuring four kilometers by two kilometers by two kilometers essentially a large three-dimensional oval before dragging is given permission to move inside the approach ellipsoid the capsule is configured to be on what is known as a 24-hour safe trajectory this means that if Dragon lost all control to its thrusters it would be at least 24 hours before its trajectory would move inside the approach ellipsoid that's right the NASA and SpaceX teams will do a go no-go poll to move Dragon Inside the keep out sphere another checkpoint that consists of an imaginary sphere around the station with a radius of 200 meters flight controllers use this to monitor all arriving and departing Vehicles it's another chance to confirm all of the guidance navigation and control systems are working correctly on Dragon before moving it closer to station it carries a similar requirement on the orbital trajectory that if Dragon were to somehow lose control of its thrusters it and the space station would be safe for four orbits or about six hours rather than the 24 hours required to enter the approach ellipsoid once Dragon arrives at the 400 meter below station uh mark it will be at what is known as Waypoint zero and will be the first checkpoint during our approach the vehicle can hold here at 400 meters but if all of its systems check out we can continue the approach to Waypoint one dragons move from Waypoint zero to Waypoint one we'll swing it up and out in front of the Station arriving at a distance of approximately 220 meters at this point it will be on what we call the docking axis which essentially means it is directly in front of the docking port and the crew are headed to the forward most port on station the node two forward port dragon has docked the no two forward Port before and it utilizes the international docking adapters that's where those are located which have been installed for these new commercial spacecraft flights as well as any other future spacecraft that also use the international docking standard once dragon is only 20 meters away at Waypoint 2 the spacecraft focuses on aligning its docking system with the international docking adapter or Ida you may hear the call out chop which stands for crew hands-off point a little less than 30 seconds before docking at this point any aborts will have to be done automatically by dragon and then it will be the moment we've all been waiting for when our crew arrives at the space station Dragon will fly in and make contact with the Ida giving us what we call soft capture the soft capture ring then retracts until sensors indicate it's time for 12 hooks to drive in in place to give us a hard capture and firmly secure drag into its new home on the space station the space station crew namely NASA astronaut chel lingrin will manually pressurize the vestibule or the area between the dragon hatch and the station hatch meanwhile umbilicals that provide Power Audio and data connections from the station to Dragon are put in place and it's time for leak checks and hatch opening which is currently timelined to come a little more than two hours following docking as you said Sandra it is a moment that we've all been waiting for as you heard Shaniqua mentioned it's been about a 25 hour Journey thus far and so we're very much looking forward to getting the crew 5 crew on board with Docking coming later this afternoon so at this point in time the crew has put their suits on when the suits are on they will complete a leak check of those suits to make sure that the Integrity of the suits are still good make sure all the zippers are up all the way and the visor is locked in place and then at that point we'll be given the okay to basically begin the dynamic activities the suit is required to be put on for the dynamic activities of dragon yep that's exactly right and they do wear that spacesuit just in case they were to lose cabin pressure or have any other type of emergency scenario which would require them to wear the suit so like you said during those more Dynamic phases like during launch and docking we do have the crew in the suit but during the other times when they are traveling to the space station they're able to get out of the suit float around and enjoy their time in space have some food get some rest and just really relax and get excited for the moment that they docked the space station absolutely I've said it before if I were an astronaut inside Dragon my face would just be stuck to the window I would be looking out constantly I know there's a lot of things that the astronauts can do to fill their time of course just like astronaut time is on station very scheduled it is also pretty scheduled while in dragon as well in terms of preparing for upcoming Burns even their sleep periods are are scheduled as well absolutely and speaking of upcoming Burns we're now just about two minutes away from that approach initiation burn as we mentioned before there's been several other Burns that have led us up to this point but this one really starts to get us into the position to be able to dock with the space station here coming up pretty soon absolutely now we were talking about the suits a little bit earlier for those of you that might be unfamiliar with the spacesuits that the dragon astronauts wear while inside the capsule hopefully we'll be able to bring you a live view from inside the capsule as you can see it for yourself shortly but they are all custom made for each astronaut they are a really well fitting suit as Sandra mentioned the idea being not only having a safety component to it as well but also a design element we wanted it to look like a spacesuit from the future so we designed them to be really well fitting as I mentioned they are custom fitted for each astronaut and they don't have to wear it the whole time they are able to remove the suit or doff suits during more downtime periods as I mentioned the suits are only required for the more Dynamic activities for the Dragon capsule exactly and we are now just about one minute away from the start of the approach initiation burn this burn will last about 90 seconds and the Draco thrusters will be used for this this particular burn and this will bring Dragon inside of the approach ellipsoid that is that two kilometer by two kilometer by four kilometer invisible line around the space station once we are within the approach ellipsoid we are in what is a 24-hour safe trajectory so again as we mentioned if something were to go wrong and while we never expect that we do have mitigations in place just in case something were to go wrong in order to lose control of the thrusters it would be at least 24 hours before it would be any it excuse me inside of the approach ellipsoid any further that's right and for those that might be unfamiliar with the drawkings excuse me the docking sequence of dragon it is completely autonomous dragon is basically steering driving itself the crew inside Dragon are monitoring the on their crew panels their touch screen crew panels they're able to monitor all the progress if necessary they are able to take manual control at any point but at oh and there on your screen we actually have a live view from Dragon looking at the station SpaceX on dragging the ground no response required AI burn in 30 seconds [Music] zero one zero not the good intercom checks copy good intercom checks and we'll see you on the other side of the burn so that was just uh Mission Control here in Hawthorne which you see there on your screen uh just letting Dragon know that they were 30 seconds away from the approach initiation burn which at this point in time um is like I was saying before is everything is an approaching station is highly choreographed everything is super controlled to make sure that the safety of the station the safety of the Dragon uh crew is first and foremost and that's why we basically have all these different phases and checkpoints that we have to reach in order to arrive and depart the station exactly and as we said that burn is expected to last about 90 seconds so not a super long burn but we should hear a confirmation that that burn is underway here shortly um and uh the the crew has already began those leak checks earlier as you said now that we're starting into some of these more Dynamic phases they are suited up just like they were yesterday when when they did go ahead and launch so we're standing by for the start of the approach initiation burn we should hear any second now and the Draco thrusters on dragon have just started to fire for the approach initiation burn dragon is currently about two and a half kilometers below station and just about seven kilometers behind it this burn is going to swing Dragon up until it's about 400 meters or about a quarter mile directly below the station on the big loop approach initiation complete and nominal as a reminder you may now review your impulsive Retreat recovery cue cards if desired three puppies and you did just hear those words that the approach initiation burn is complete and was successful so this maneuver does move Dragon Inside one of two checkpoints around the station that requires a set of go no go poles with the different control teams the first checkout is called the approach ellipsoid which we've been chatting a bit about and you may hear it called the AE it's an imaginary shape measuring four kilometers by two kilometers by two kilometers essentially a large three-dimensional oval and before dragon is given permission to move inside the approach ellipsoid the capsule is configured to be on what is known as a 24-hour safe trajectory which again means that if Dragon lost all control to its direction SpaceX on dragging the ground for waste system and I'm driving down go ahead I'm driving Grandma I've got a bit of an odd request hey Josh I've got a bit of an odd request here from the back room it's to verify that the waste system funnel is docked as you would expect post you should post usage and it's been left in that configuration how copy so again dragon is now within the approach ellipsoid which means that if Dragon lost all control to its thrusters it would be better on dragging the ground uh we just confirmed that after the last usage it was plugged back in uh firmly and velcroed into place let us know if you need us to get out of the seat and confirm thanks for the confirmation Josh that's good enough thanks for the confirmation Josh that's good enough uh for us at the moment and uh we'll stand by for your completion of suit donning and those words from the ground up to the crew as they step through their procedures now that they are within the approach ellipsoid again that means it would be at least 24 hours before its trajectory would move inside the approach ellipsoid if we were to lose control of the thrusters for some reason that's right so uh as you heard a little bit ago we did have that approach initiation um Dragon does have the ability to perform a mid-course maneuver about halfway through the Journey to Waypoint zero and that's just to help ensure that dragon is positioned correctly under the station uh 400 meters below about halfway from our starting point of approach initiation to Waypoint zero Dragon will execute a small mid-course maneuver and this is just a fine tune our approach to ensure we're targeting a precise 0.400 meters directly below the station yeah now we can see that crew dragon has a very busy afternoon ahead but even in space it still takes two to tango the International Space Station is also a factor in the mix for this it is very much a a choreographed dance basically the the whole approach operation at this point let's check in over at NASA Houston with Shaniqua Vereen to see how things are going on over there thanks Kate good afternoon and welcome back to Mission Control Houston at NASA Johnson Space Center inside the space station flight control room teams are being led by flight director Greg Whitney for dragon's approach and docking onboard station there is currently Seven astronauts and cosmonauts including NASA's chill lingern Bob Heinz Jessica Watkins Frank Rubio copy dragon suits or Dawn crew are seated we are ready to step into leak checks we'll meet you over in 4.011 and we'll bring the cameras back on board and copy seven into four zero one one check and you just heard confirmation from the crew to the core and Mission Control SpaceX again there's seven crew members awaiting crew five as they arrive and dock to the International Space Station that's including NASA's chill lingern Bob Heinz Jessica Watkins Frank Rubio and the current station Commander European Space Agency astronaut Chris Samantha Christopher ready and NASA's Cosmonaut and Ross Cosmos cosmonauts Sergey perkopiev and Dimitri patelan the crew is awake and they have be they've began to continue preparations for crew 5's arrival NASA astronaut chill lingering will be primed to set up laptops to monitor their approach and docking of crew 5 on the ground on crew 5 on the ground teams will work together to feather solar arrays about three hours prior to docking which is a multi-step process which protects the Rays from plumes and keeps them safe when the vehicle will arrives about 1.5 hours ahead of docking around 2 pm central time we just passed that Mark we will hand over control of stations thrusters to Russian gyroscopes so station can have a finer tune out of control while Dragon approaches once softdoc is complete we will hand control back to the U.S gyroscopes the teams on the ground image control Houston and the systems on board the station remain goofed to receive dragon and we're looking for a docking time of 3 57 PM Central Time 4 57 PM Eastern Time that's the latest from Mission Control Houston back over to you Hawthorne thanks Shaniqua so glad to hear that everything is going smoothly in Mission Control Houston and as you have this view of Mission Control Houston there you could see one of our flight consoles the Cronus console and they are in charge of all of the cameras and videos and help configure that throughout the International Space Station and they did actually get views of dragon when it was over 1300 miles away from the International Space Station I'm not sure if that's a record but they have been tracking dragon as it approaches for quite some time will of course continue to see views of dragon as it gets closer and closer and see Dragon grow in the field of view yeah I follow a couple of the Kronos controllers on Twitter and it's so amazing to see uh the images that they're able to capture from the station um and it's I never realized it but it's actually quite quite a skill to be able to capture the things they do and it makes sense because station is constantly moving and uh yeah especially during Hurricane Ian it was pretty cool to see the images coming from ISS so all that being said uh now while we wait for our next Milestone let's take a moment to meet our crew Nicole man holds a master of science in mechanical engineering I'm dragging the ground we're at step 2.2 or four decimal zero one one and we are ready Dragon SpaceX you are go to pressurize We are following along on the ground and you just heard that that call out that they are going to start and we did hear that those suit leak checks are underway during the more Dynamic phases of flight we do have the crew get suited up into their spacesuits and right now we are running through a suit leak check making sure that it can get pressurized to the right levels that we need it to be should that be necessary for any reason so let's continue to learn a little bit more about our crew as they step through those procedures we do have Nicole Mann on board of crew five she holds a master of science in mechanical engineering and is a kernel in the Marine Corps she was an fa-18 internet and Super Hornet test pilot and deployed twice aboard aircraft carriers in support of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan Nicole was selected by NASA in June of 2013 and in the years that followed led the astronaut core and the development of Hardware in the Artemis program today the crew 5 Commander will be flying into space while she is in space now she's in space for the very first time and once she reaches the space station here shortly she will be the very first Native American woman to stay on station now Josh cassida our pilot he grew up in White Bear Lake Minnesota the physicist and U.S Navy test pilot flew the p3c and the p8a and flew in 23 combat missions he later became an instructor at the U.S naval test pilot school which is a common path Military Officers take to join NASA cassida is one of more than 100 graduates who became astronauts going all the way back to the Mercury program now more recently he served as capsule commander in mission control but today he is the pilot on board dragon next up is koichi wakata who is one of the mission Specialists he's a Japanese astronaut who has a doctorate in aerospace engineering and in 1996 became the first Japanese Mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor for sts-72 altogether koluchi has flown in four space shuttle missions a Russian soyuz and was on a long duration stay aboard the International Space Station during his two-decade career as an astronaut koichi has spent 11 months in space and our second mission specialist on crew 5 Russian cosmonaut Anna kikuna she was born in Russia and graduated with honors from the novos sports numbers were great Dragon SpaceX we sell the same four good leak checks and we've got a healthy vehicle headed towards the mid-course maneuver 13 minutes from now all right so we just heard there that they had four good suit leak checks so we are continuing ahead uh now Anna in 2012 officially became a candidate for the position of test Cosmonaut crew 5 will be her first flight into space as part of the recent presumption of integrated Crews on U.S crew spacecraft and the Russian soyuz with the Russian State space Corporation Ross Cosmos that's right so as we mentioned we do have three first-time flyers and then koichiwakata is our veteran astronaut on board but yesterday it was really great to see as the crew got into orbit they had their zero g indicator so cool this is a tradition amongst Crews who have some type of indicator that shows them once they have reached the microgravity environment of space and so yesterday we did get a glimpse of it it was a small stuffed Einstein doll and we had some great words from NASA astronaut Josh cassida who shared the significance of that zero g indicator if you didn't catch it live yesterday I highly recommend going back and checking it out in the broadcast it was pretty special yeah it was really touching I also loved that during the launch broadcast Bob benkin who was one of our two space dads that flew on the NASA SpaceX demo 2 mission actually brought the zero g indicator from that mission his son uh sequined stuffed dinosaur named Tremor many of us here at SpaceX and probably also at Nassau we have a replica Tremor at our desks and so it was really special and cool to to see the real Tremor on the launch broadcast yesterday yeah that was very special absolutely and speaking of the launch broadcast yesterday we also talked about the 50th SpaceX suit we had a helmet that we were able to talk about and Jesse shared some great information on that but the 50th SpaceX suit that's quite the Milestone yeah it definitely is as I mentioned before they were designed in-house they are built in house by hand by our very skilled team of spacesuit technicians and Engineers it's quite an accomplishment to basically be able to provide each astronaut with their own unique suit as I mentioned earlier they are custom fitted to each astronaut so there is no option to switch them out or mix them up during during flight of course they are safely stowed away whenever the astronauts are not wearing them but we're really proud that we were able to design and build and test a spacesuit of the future and each crew Dragon astronaut gets one of their own for each Mission absolutely and as we did mention just a couple of minutes ago we did have four good suit leak checks which is just checking off another Milestone as we approach the International Space Station ahead of docking now if you are following along with us and would like to ask a question please be sure to do so you can use the hashtag asknasa and we'll answer as many as we can while we're on air so let's see if we have any ask NASA questions right now that have came in all right it looks like we do have one from Bob Odair Jr who wants to know what time did crew 5 Wake Up well typically the crew has a prescribed sleep and wake cycle that they utilize on the journey uphill but for crew five they had a rest period or an off-duty time period so they were able to get out of their spacesuits get comfortable and get some rest they did wake up earlier this morning a little earlier than expected which makes complete sense it's probably a little bit like Christmas morning for them they're eager to get the day started and get docked looks like we have another question uh what kind of meals do the astronauts eat prior to docking do they get to choose their meals and this comes to us from uh KC 7z1e so the crew has a variety of different meals that they have the option to eat while they are in space now there is two real different types of meals it's important to distinguish between while in Dragon they have something similar to an MRE or a meal ready to eat that they can easily eat on the journey uphill once they do arrive to the space station they have rehydratable food that has been dehydrated in our food lab in Houston and they have a variety of different foods that they can eat macaroni and cheese different meat products pasta our food scientists really try and keep the menu different for the crew so that they are excited about what they have to eat if you think about they're up there for six months at a time oftentimes they don't have a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables those things can come up occasionally on cargo resupply missions but we do hear a lot from the crew that that's something that they miss so the food science dentist in the Food Lab do try and keep it very interesting and help the crew be excited about their food and then of course the crew will plan out their menu and the meals that they would like before their mission and sometimes they'll swap out with it is the International Space Station so we do have an international crew so that comes with different types of foods for those different areas so sometimes there's some trading back and forth that goes on as well yeah I love the Twitter feed come the holiday seasons for the International Space Station because we see the crew actually sharing meals together really just like passing things around so that everybody can get a taste for whatever holiday it is being celebrated on the ISS and I like that the crew gets to share a taste of home and also get to maybe try some new flavors as well yes exactly all right it looks like we have another question from Hillary and she said I heard earlier in the broadcast that some science payloads were flying up on Dragon with crew 5 but missed the details what new experiments are they carrying up to the space station well we could talk about this question for the rest of the broadcast because it truly is the International Space Station and the point of it is to do science research and investigations so throughout the crew 5 Mission there's over 200 science experiments that the crew is going to work on so of course we can't get into all the details about those but I do highly encourage folks to follow along with us on social media on the ISS research account goes through a lot of that and then we just had the 2022 version of benefits for Humanity come out that's so cool yeah a plethora of science that has been done on board the space station and how it directly benefits us here on Earth so check that out if you're interested but some of the highlights are life science uh in cardiovascular health particularly bio Printing and fluid behavior and microgravity to help prepare for human exploration Beyond low earth orbit and to benefit life here on Earth like I said super cool now the next Milestone that we have coming up for the crew is that mid-course maneuver that's coming up in a little over three minutes as we mentioned before this is an opportunity to make sure that the dragon spacecraft is still on the right trajectory heading toward the International Space Station everything is super choreographed and controlled as Dragon approaches and also when it departs space station so basically the next couple hours are filled with various Maneuvers Burns and checkpoints that dragon has to get through um and approvals in order to ultimately make that final contact uh with station and then a couple of other things are going to happen as we continue um to get closer to the space station um so once we do dock in a short time from now um there will be the soft dock that happens first and that is when we have initial capture and contact with space station and then a short time later the hooks will drive in which connects us through a hard mate to the space station and that's when all 12 of those hooks will clamp together and we'll have that great connection and it does happen in two sets of six so we'll see the first six close and then the next six but like you said we're so little ways away from that we are looking ahead to the mid-course maneuver here in just a couple of minutes from now that's great there on your screen you can see Mission Control here in Hawthorne Sandra and I are sitting on the second floor in SpaceX headquarters and that mission control center is just over our shoulders here that is where the SpaceX team is monitoring dragon and the crew it's also only half the puzzle piece of course the control Mission Control Center over at Houston is also part of the mix we had updates from Shaniqua Vereen earlier in the broadcast and it really goes to show as I mentioned before just everything being highly controlled both teams very integrated with these operations along with the crew in space earlier we heard some communication happening between uh here mission control as well as Dragon though that communication that we heard was actually with the SpaceX crew operations and resources engineer or core that person for this shift right now is Jake fendell um of course we have people on Console 24 7 while dragon is in Orbit uh and so we basically have various shifts and this shifts core is Jake fendel and there are actually you see him on the left hand side of your screen and we are hearing that we're just about a minute away from the start of the mid-course maneuver again this can be a small burn or it could be a significant correction it really just fine tunes the approach to Reach Waypoint uh zero and so that swing from approach initiation to way point zero is pretty big so this is just a chance to really fine tune make sure everything is looking as it should as we uh move ahead to docking absolutely as we mentioned before we are taking your questions so reach out to us on Twitter using the hashtag asknasa we would like to take as many questions as we can get through we are a little bit more than an hour away from docking of crew to station and yeah we've taken a couple questions so far and we would love to get more as the broadcast continues so we are standing by to hear that that mid-course maneuver has begun endurance is about two kilometers from Houston fish ground two for Chell and window shutters Hey Joe we've had some ready KU so we just wanted to confirm that you're able to get those window shutters closed in coupon lab I understand sorry shutters are closed but in the lab Mr blessings we copy thank you yeah three step seven see the two seven we copy thanks for the status and you just heard those words from the ground up to NASA astronaut Chell lingrin discussing the shutters in the cupola the cupola is that window to the world it's one of the places that the astronauts love to hang out when they have free time because you have a beautiful view of the Earth floating by below you but it does have shutters on it that can be open and closed and for docking operations they want to be sure that those are configured closed so he was just giving a confirmation of that so again we are just seconds away from the mid-course maneuver beginning and the mid-course maneuver is underway so we did just start that mid-course maneuver which again is done about halfway from our starting point of the approach initiation to Waypoint zero this burn helps to fine-tune our approach to ensure we're targeting a precise Point 400 meters directly below the station once Dragon arrives at 400 meters below station it will be at what is known as weight point zero and will be the first checkpoint during our approach the vehicle can hold here at 400 meters but if all of its systems check out we can continue to the approach we can continue the approach to Waypoint zero now we are hearing that that mid-course maneuver was completed so uh yeah the next um the next major activity that we have is that approach zero and about a little bit more than 16 minutes until that point foreign endurance does dock to the space station this will be its second time docking to the space station uh it last docked there just shy of a year ago on November 11th of 2021 and that was with crew 3 of course um and that was NASA astronauts Roger SpaceX on the big loop mid-course correction maneuver complete and nominal trajectory is converged on Waypoint zero and you and you just heard those words there that the mid-course maneuver was successful and went just as planned so we are still on track for docking today as I was saying so once endurance docs this will be um its second time on station at last uh docked there on November 11th of 2021 and it just undocked on May 5th of this year so it hasn't even been a year since uh it's been on station so pretty neat that it's going to be back again all right so as we mentioned we are taking your questions on social media using the hashtag asknasa and it looks like we have another one coming our way uh this one comes to us from Jordan T how fast is crew Dragon Drew Dragon although I like that name I think it's a typo crew Dragon traveling at the time of docking yeah this is a great question in order to catch up and really stay in orbit it has to be going just as fast as the International Space Station which is about 17 500 miles per hour so the whole idea is to go fast enough to basically not fall back to Earth so yeah it's going it's going pretty fast and it's incredible to think uh that it really gets up to that velocity in just a matter of minutes uh after it lifts off uh from Earth that's right and it looks like we do have another question here um that is asking why does the flight to the space station take 24 hours so we did touch on this earlier it's all based upon the phasing and where the International Space Station is at the time of launch we do launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida so depending on when that launch window is sometimes it can be a shorter launch to docking phasing sometimes it's a little bit longer for this particular one it's going to be about 29 hours from launch to docking uh similarly on Dragon's ride home um it kind of depends on a lot of things orbital mechanics being one of them but also weather so sometimes the return journey to Earth it can take a matter of a couple of hours or excuse me a few hours to uh depending on whether at the Splashdown locations could take up to 40 or excuse me uh 24 or even a few more hours so yeah everything really has to do with orbital mechanics and trying to get to the right place at the right time and as we mentioned at during the launch broadcast everything has to be super precise and really instantaneous because the dragon is catching up to the space station those orbital mechanics really dictate down to the millisecond the moment that Falcon 9 has to lift off with the capsule exactly right and here coming up soon we should start to get some views of dragging as it approaches the space station or we might be able to get some views from Dragon of the space station so looking forward to seeing those views here shortly and there it is there's the International Space Station as seen from dragon as it approaches we'll continue to see this grow larger and larger in the frame of view and now this great view from inside the Dragon capsule yeah this is our first look inside capsule this morning as we mentioned before the crew put their suits on we got through four successful suit leak checks and there we can see the the same panels that the crew is using to monitor so when we hear the crew communicating they might be saying that we're go for section four or we're in step two dot 2.6 it's right there in front of your eyes you can see the procedure that they are also running through and monitoring now on either side of the procedure screen was a cool visualization of where which Thruster is firing when so kind of a nice visual to be able to tell how dragon is steering itself absolutely and in this view here of the International Space Station you can make out the solar arrays those are those um pieces on either side now right now dragon is getting its power from its own solar arrays that are found on the trunk of the vehicle but once it does dock to space station some umbilicals will be hooked up which will provide power from the space station so at that point Dragon will be configured to be receiving its its power from the space station so a couple of things are going to happen as we Reach Waypoint one the sensors on Dragon are going to basically lock on the forward docking Point port and that is really the Target that we're going for and then once it is locked on it will automatically deploy the soft capture ring again that ring is composed of a ring Dragon SpaceX on the big loop ground is go for approach zero and we will enable the maneuver shortly expected start time is two zero one seven UTC Dragon will continue approach through Waypoint one toward Waypoint two companies and you just heard those words that we are continuing the approach towards way point zero this is that first checkpoint that we will have today and we'll be able to proceed or we could hold here if we needed to so at this point if we did lose control of dragon for some reason it would be at least four orbits or about six hours before we would move inside the keep out sphere and it looks like that is a view from station of dragon so there we can see planet Earth uh rotating uh as Dragon catches up to the space station uh as I mentioned before I love views like this because it kind of shows just how how Grand all the operations are uh as as we've said multiple times everything is very controlled and choreographed and it's pretty cool to see Dragon just get closer and closer I would we saw the the crew in their seats earlier all strapped in with their suits on but as I mentioned before I would have to I would personally just want to have my face against the window the whole time just looking out and this view that you are seeing dragon and the International Space Station are flying 266 statute miles off the coast of Australia looks like they're just about to cross over into Tasmania now the International Space Station travels 17 at 500 miles per hour and orbits the earth every 90 minutes which means the crew on board station sees a sunrise and a sunset every 45 minutes so when you think about it like that it really puts it into perspective just how fast the crew is traveling it looks like Cronus is trying to zoom in for us that we can see that the nose cone it has been deployed we did that several minutes after liftoff I think it was around t plus 12 minutes or so and we do that once dragon has already passed through the atmosphere of earth when it's in then once it gets into the vacuum of space we deploy the nose cone after it separates after the capsule and trunk separate from the second stage of course we want to keep all of the guidance control and navigation systems and the docker and the dock itself protected during the ascent phase but once the Dragon capsule is in the vacuum of space we're able to open it up and I love this shot here because it's very inception-esque to me because the station is looking at dragon dragon is looking at station um yeah and it's just really cool to be able to see Dragon get closer and closer uh now for those of you that are looking at dragon on the left hand side and we're seeing it from the top down we can we can see a blinking light as well as barely make out that uh that forward hatch this of course is the hatch that we will be utilizing to dock with the station you might notice Four Points well technically three because it looks like the fourth one at the top is covered up uh Four Points just like almost tiny arms sticking out those are actually the fins on the dragon trunk so as I mentioned we are looking at dragon from the top down and those fins are what we're seeing from this bird's eye view we can see them a little better once you know whenever the capsules for example at the launch pad and those fins are basically there for aerodynamic purposes but just kind of a cool different view that we get from Dragon um first time that we're really seeing a closer view of dragon in this from this angle absolutely and we are also beginning to see the space station come into view more and more you can make out some of those solar arrays again that's going to continue to just get more clear right now dragon is about 550 meters away from the space station and closing so yeah in that view you can really see the solar arrays starting to come in get a little bit sharper so we are looking ahead to the next major Milestone which will be way point zero when we're about 400 meters away from the International Space Station we have touched on this briefly but that view of dragon um on the left of the screen there now it looks like we're getting another view from the space station and you can see it just barely it's a white dot coming in um it is hard to tell there with the clouds that are on Earth but we'll see that grow larger and larger that is again controlled by one of the flight control positions in Mission Control Houston called Cronus they're able to position the cameras in a variety of different ways that allow us to get these beautiful views of dragon as well as the Earth and Kate you had mentioned we did get some views of hurricane Ian as it was passing over the United States but we are able to get some views here of dragon with that nose cone open like you mentioned you might hear some background noise behind Sandra and myself we are located here at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne California uh that we are an active operations environment so of course while we have folks seated inside mission control um just kind of over to our left um the rest of the building is a little bit more noisy I would say it's pretty quiet in Mission Control uh but yeah so you might hear some chairs moving or some Fork trucks behind us as we are basically you know we still continue production of the Falcon 9 vehicle here regardless of uh the operations that we have going on in in Michigan we're now less than 460 meters from the space station and Kate you had mentioned yesterday that it's a company tradition for SpaceX to come out and watch the launch and everyone to view it and the big screens there so I definitely uh noticed the excitement when we were doing the launch broadcast everyone was cheering very loud it was uh cool to be a part of that a little hard to uh deliver the launch line I would imagine yeah we uh we get really excited for launches here um and it's really awesome whenever it's in the middle of the day as well um because uh people are able to take a break from work and come down and stand behind mission control and and cheer the crew on um it's it's quite an experience I still um you know if I'm not hosting I try to watch uh from mission control and uh I still remember the first couple launches that I ever got to witness as a new employee and it's it's really powerful to be able to to stand here with colleagues and be able to you know really unify and cheer on the mission and we are just about a minute away from Waypoint zero 427 meters away from the International Space Station and we're about 90 seconds away from uh that Waypoint zero as we've mentioned before Waypoint zero basically means that dragon is uh directly below the station by about 400 meters looks like we got some cool views from a coastline of some sort as dragon and space station orbit the International Space Station is flying over some beautiful views like you mentioned it's 262 statute miles approaching Port via as well as Fiji so that explains the beautiful beautiful views we were seeing that's certainly a location name I can recognize all right standing by for confirmation of Waypoint zero and we have just reached Waypoint zero which means dragon is now 400 meters directly below the space station and we can definitely see it now in these views coming from the International Space Station so coming up dragons move from Waypoint zero to Waypoint one we'll swing it up and out in front of the station we'll then pause at a distance of approximately 220 meters and at this point we will be on what we call the docking axis which essentially means it's directly in front of the docking port we did already hear the teams do a go no-go Poll for this approach and everything remains go at this time dragon is now 392 meters away from the International Space Station great view of dragon there once again from the top down as we've mentioned before we keep that nose cone closed through the ascent portion of the mission and then we open it up while the dragon is in the vacuum of space it's able to provide a protection for the various sensors that are used to help Dragon steer itself so all the guidance navigation Control Systems it also protects the forward patch which is what as I mentioned before it's what we use to dock to the space station so it's pretty cool and all I think it's pretty neat that the basically the side hatch which is wow we were able to see it just moments ago whenever we had a little bit more sunlight reflection over there um but it's cool to think that the side hatch which is what Dragon SpaceX on the big loop we see the onboard for GNC Rel nav no crew action required both Dragon Eyes locked on to mismatching reflectors and are now locking onto their correct targets standby one Thinking Of Those sensors it sounds like those Dragon Eyes which are one of the sensors is actually two of them two of those Dragon Eyes they are locking on to the appropriate sensors on station at this point in time so as I was saying uh yes that forward hatch is what the crew will basically Ingress and egress the station from to get in and out of the Dragon capsule 2 station the side hatch which was used for crew Ingress yesterday while the vehicle was on top of the rocket at pad 39a that hatch will remain closed until Dragon splashes back down on Earth so as we mentioned before I'm just making sure that Dragon SpaceX on the big loop for an update we see both Dragon Eyes locked on to their expected retro reflectors and dragon is back in approach zero uh we're going to continue marching towards Waypoint one here so as we mentioned before we have been taking your questions via social uh media so be sure to tweet at us using the hashtag asknasa and we'll try to get through as many questions as we can we have about an hour left until docking is complete and so we would love to take as many questions as we can it looks like we have another one coming our way this time from Lago the question is what's the objective of this Mission uh Sandra I feel like this is another question that we could probably talk about all day but I think in summary the objective for This Crew 5 Mission is it's the next operational rotational mission to the space station for a crew of astronauts and then sub point two would be science kind of as we were talking about before really continuing the science objectives with this Mission with many experiments it's honestly connecting experiment experiments is how the astronauts spend quite a bit of their time on station in addition to exercising and of course eating exactly right and just to add on that the real point of this mission is to learn more about humans and how they interact in the environment of space and how the body changes all of us on earth have grown up our entire lives experiencing gravity all the time impacts every single thing that we do all day long but when you remove that from the equation things act very differently things float water behaves differently Flames behave differently and we have learned a great deal about this in the more than 20 years that we have been continuously inhabiting the International Space Station and this is really important because as we continue to return to the Moon through the Artemis program and then on to Mars we have to make sure that humans are healthy when they are in a microgravity or a different gravity environment on Mars and so this Mission will continue to help us learn all about that absolutely yeah it's it gravity is kind of something that we take for granted here on Earth um even something as simple as your vision um whenever you're on station can change well with the lack of gravity so uh got another question um this come on comes to us from rohan87 love the Lord of the Rings reference there after successful docking how many minutes uh does it uh how many minutes it takes to enter into International Space Station uh how are they prepared for this so it does take a little bit of time there are a few procedures that Dragon SpaceX on the zero in progress with trajectory converged on Waypoint one expect a rival at Waypoint one at approximately two zero four four UTC and we cleaned up your board there after that on board the copies and we see the cleanup thanks so again to finish up answering this question it does take a little bit of time they're not able to open the hatches right away there's a couple of steps that they need to walk through including pressurizing the vestibule that's the space between dragon and the International Space Station as well as making sure that the leak checks there are good once that takes place the crew is able to open up the hatches and flow onto the space station so that takes a little less than two hours in total now we just heard moments ago that was communication between the crew and SpaceX core here and at Mission Control Hawthorne just indicating that uh the we'll hit the next Waypoint so that would be way point one we're expecting to hit that at um basically 1 44 PM Pacific time so about 20 minutes from now and once we do arrive at that Waypoint one that's when dragon is about 220 meters away from the space station and directly in front of the docking port the crew is docking to the node to forward Port during today's mission and before they move any further at this point they will need the permission to move into the keepout sphere dragon now closing in on 300 meters from the International Space Station as we've mentioned before this maneuver from Waypoint zero to Waypoint one basically swings Dragon up and out in front of the station it pauses at a distance of approximately 220 meters at that point it will be on what we call the docking axis which essentially means that it's directly in front of the docking board foreign that we have these different waypoints because they allow the team to really evaluate the status of the vehicle the Readiness of the space station to receive it and we do have these checkpoints for all visiting vehicles foreign to get good views of dragon as it approaches the International Space Station International Space Station is currently flying 260 statute miles over the Pacific Ocean it is approaching the very Northern tip of Hawaii as we've mentioned before SpaceX flight controllers which are based here in Hawthorne are working in tandem with the NASA team in Houston to make sure that everything is going accordingly with dragon as it continues this controlled approach to station there you do see that very Northern tip of Hawaii that we mentioned again Aloha dragon and the International Space Station flying about 260 statute miles above it there on the left hand side of your screen is SpaceX core Jake Bendel foreign and as a reminder we are continuing to take your questions using the social media hashtag on social media rather using the hashtag asknasa so please do send in your questions we'd love to answer them for you we do have a question from Ashley who wants to know even though the astronauts are in zero gravity can they feel the speed of the Dragon yeah that's a good question um generally no so once they are basically you know at velocity inside Dragon you don't really feel how fast it's going it's very similar to whenever you're in a car let's say you're in the passenger seat and you're the driver you know you're on the freeway and if you're going 65 miles an hour you don't really feel how fast you're going you might be able to see it based on looking out the window but generally speaking you don't feel it unless if there is a change in that velocity so if there's braking or if there's acceleration so similarly similarly to Dragon they might be able to feel I thought we were going to get some comms there perhaps not they might be able to feel changes in velocity but because they are also going as fast as the Dragon capsule itself they really can't feel that they're actually going 17 500 miles per and that's of course at this point in the mission now now yesterday during launch that is a little bit of a different story because the crew like you said is experiencing that change in acceleration so at that point they are able to really feel those G's that they're pulling as they do travel a lot faster than they were on the launch pad before they blasted off absolutely so dragon is now under 300 meters from the space station looks like it's about 294 meters away you can see it continuing to get larger and larger in the screen this is a really cool shot because now we have something for frame of reference other than planet Earth so this view from a camera on the port truss segment of the station you are just barely seeing the Japanese robotic arm in the very center of the screen there as well as part of the Japanese Logistics module on the right that houses some experiments conducted aboard the space station and so one of our crew members for this flight is koichiwakata who is a astronaut from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency for just six uh under six minutes until we hit way point one as we've mentioned before this movement from Waypoint 0 to Waypoint one will swing Dragon up and out in front of the station so if you've been watching that capsule that has been moving slightly in that frame um yeah so it'll move up and in front infestation and it'll pause at a distance of to approximately 220 meters at that point in time Dragon will be on what we call the docking axis which basically means that it's directly in front of the docking port that it will be aiming for um that Port is the forward port on node two uh which is the harmony um module and that's where both of the international docking adapters or idas are located those were installed for new commercial spacecraft flights and any other future spacecraft that also use the international docking standard and you could really see in that graphic that was just on your screen how those different Burns in this very phased approach really put Dragon into place into the place that it is now exactly right in front of the docking adapter you can really start to make out the International Space Station you can see the solar arrays there and even some of the vehicles that are currently docked to the space station there's right now four vehicles docked to the International Space Station that includes the SpaceX Freedom capsule which crew 4 arrived on and will return back home shortly as well as the Russian progress 80 and 81 and the soyuz ms-22 once again we are heading toward Waypoint one about three and a half minutes until uh that checkpoint is after that it will be on to Waypoint two and that is once dragon is only 20 meters away uh at way point two the spacecraft will focus on aligning its docking system with the docking adapter Dragon will fly in and make contact with the docking adapter and that will give us what we call soft capture that soft capture ring will then retract until sensors indicate that it's time for the hooks to drive in place and then give us that hard capture which firmly secures Dragon 2 station then after that hard capture is confirmed we'll do leak checks for that hatch opening and that is always a moment that's really fun to watch um well I guess I should say it takes time right once the hatch is open it's another several minutes before they can actually egress but it's really nice to see the crews create each other after dragon's arrival it's worth the wait absolutely and as Dragon continues to get closer to the space station ahead of docking we are hearing that everything is proceeding as expected still looking towards an on-time docking at 157 Pacific this afternoon and you are starting to see some blinking light dragon in station SpaceX on the big loop expect reconfiguration of the c2v2 link shortly copies and you did just hear that call about the C2 V2 system being reconfigured the c2v2 system is the common Communications for visiting vehicles and that really helps to set up the data stream from dragon to the space station and provides another path for Dragon Telemetry to reach Earth I think that should be renamed c squared V squared there we have live views from inside Dragon endurance with the crew 5 crew all four astronauts are in their seats uh buckled in and as you can see their suits are on but the visors are up so earlier the crew donned or put on their suits and we had four good leak suit checkouts kind of to stay there and basically in order to execute that we have the crew put their suits on put the visors down lock it into place and then we they get in their seats they hook up the umbilical just like they did whenever they Ingress into the capsule prior to launch and then we pressurized the suits at a certain determined pressure for a certain amount of time and then we basically just checked to make sure that those suits are holding that pressure and then that's that's the leak check so once that's good we're able to continue on with the approach timeline which uh you know gosh I think it might have been about an hour ago feels that much feels feels that way I don't know time's kind of distorted over the last uh 40 hours it feels like but yeah so with the crew in their seats they are buckled in it's a five point safety harness that it acts basically as a pretty Advanced seat belt um and the crew of of course is basically plugged into their seats uh we had a view just a moment ago um using the umbilical and that of course provides communication Telemetry um of the of the crew themselves uh and also fresh air so while they're sitting there uh in their seats they we are pumping um a nitrogen oxygen mixture through the suit as if as I mentioned before we are active operations building here so you'll have to excuse the the background noise behind us um but yeah the the the crew is is very comfortable in their suits we are flowing some of that fresh air of that nitrox mixture through the suits nitrox being the the same stuff that you breathe whenever you're scuba diving and as we await confirmation of Waypoint 1 the International Space Station is flying 264 statute miles over Washington State in fact just a few moments ago it flew over the city of Seattle so if any of you were outside you might have caught a glimpse of it flying overhead but it looks like it's already passing into Canada and that just really goes to show how fast 17 500 miles per hour is you cover a lot of ground when you're going that quick for sure it's it's uh that that exact point is kind of what makes it easy to spot especially at night um just you know looking up at the night sky I myself have an app that alerts me whenever there's going to be an ISS pass overhead but I've actually accidentally seen it sometimes too and look at it and it's this constant bright light and a lot of people think oh it's an airplane but if you really watch it it's going way faster than an airplane is and if you are interested to see when the International Space Station is flying over where you live you can go to the website Spot the Station on NASA's website and you can put in your address your location and see when it's going to be flying overhead like Kate mentioned it is a pretty cool thing to see yeah it is pretty neat um actually this is a good representation of how we're able to see the station uh while we are on planet Earth so you can see the space station there has lots of solar panels and it's pretty bright when the sun is shining on it so at night time when the space station is orbiting Earth those solar panels in the station itself will reflect the Sun's light back down at us and that's what makes it so easy to spot the other thing to keep in mind is that there's no blinking so that's a good different differentiator between an airplane and a station the space station you won't see any blinking coming from the station and we are now under 250 meters away from the space station and you are getting a view of Mission Control in Hawthorne which is just behind us here this is the room where all of the SpaceX flight controllers responsible engineers and the core the crew operations and resources engineer is positioned excuse me is seated as they are basically constantly monitoring Dragon we have someone on Console 24 7 while there is a dragon on station or in orbit and this is one of the rooms that we do that in and similarly in the International Space Station flight control Dragon SpaceX on the big loop we see endurance two minutes out from Waypoint one soft capture ring extension will begin shortly and dragon will continue approach to Waypoint two and those words there as we continue to make our way to Waypoint one now 237 meters away from the International Space Station as we've mentioned before these checkpoints these imaginary zones that we keep talking about are very important for dragon or really any spacecraft that's heading to or departing from the space station have to abide by because everything is you know everything is designed to keep the crews both inside the spacecraft as well as the crew on station safe there are many checkpoints just to make sure that all systems are functioning properly and as expected with the spacecraft prior to allowing it to get any closer to to the station and we are hearing that we're just about a minute out from reaching way point one drag in 231 meters away from space station so we are coming up on Waypoint one which is 220 meters right in front of the space station and that Milestone will put us right in line with the docking axis so once Dragon reaches that docking access it will have about 20 hours of power so it could easily hold there for quite some time and could reattempt to dock if necessary but everything is really proceeding on track for docking today and we did just hear confirmation that we are at Waypoint one the next Milestone will be Waypoint two and that's coming up in just under eight minutes as we mentioned before everything is a series of checks and um phases are really of approach uh in this next phase we're going to be heading to Waypoint two and at that point in time Dragon wolf basically be uh you know in mind with the dock that it is heading to of course it's using the station who is please monitor approach for step three of one decimal one zero two dragon approach and Retreat monitoring let us know when your review is complete and you are ready for docking and uh Houston procedure review is complete station crew is ready for docking you think and we were just getting an incredible view there of both dragon and the moon with Earth in the background pretty spectacular [Applause] copy that and there you can see that view again the moon in the farthest portion of your screen there the furthest back Circle dragon in the middle and the International Space Station and the closest field of view of course with our pale blue dot underneath it again the station and crew Dragon are traveling at 17 000 miles per hour excuse me 17 500 miles per hour around planet Earth so while it looks like Earth is rotating slowly it's actually going pretty quick the station is roughly 250 miles above Earth you can think of that as the distance from Los Angeles to San Francisco or perhaps from Kennedy Space Center to Miami depending on which frame of reference relates most to you but yeah this view with the moon again that the Moon is on the is that dot on the left crew dragon is the dot on the right of course heading toward the station so at this point in time we have completed we've have reached Waypoint one we are heading towards Waypoint 2 which is expected in about five minutes initial contact between dragon and the International Space Station is expected to occur at about 1 57 PM Pacific time before reaching Waypoint One mission operators conducted a go no-go poll to allow Dragon to begin its approach to Waypoint 2 which is located inside the keepout sphere one of those imaginary shapes that we keep talking about and that is about 20 meters away from the space station and as mentioned previously all visiting vehicles take this phase approach to station stopping at predetermined gates for teams to run quick checks on vehicle performance before approaching the space station and when it comes to bringing two spacecraft together slow and steady really wins the race as docking operations require a great deal of precision to make sure we're keeping this spacecraft and the crew safe absolutely at the 20 meter distance from the station's docking adapter dragon's approach will slow and it will begin to align itself with the adapter to come in for the Final Approach Dragon will first make initial soft contact with the adapter's soft capture ring which will then retract to bring dragon in for the hard capture sequence as a further precaution Dragon soft capture system includes a set of rotary spring dampeners to lessen the force of the contact between the capsule and the station so for now let's check in with NASA's Shaniqua Marine in Houston for an update on station Shaniqua thanks Sandra so far this afternoon the crew on the station awoke around 1pm central time from a nap period understanding they would have a longer day being in Greenwich Mean Time and they continued preparations from crew fives of four crew fives arrival that included in Senator picasa's or temporary living quarters for the additional crew members and special software in the station's cupola to track dragons approach and docking and soft capture ring extension complete dragon is configured for docking I can drop it and you just heard from the core in SpaceX mission control that was Jake vindel reporting to Nicole Mann commander of dragon that they are configured for docking back on the International Space Station we have NASA's chill lingering being Prime for monitoring and making sure dragon and dragon endurance stays in the expected zones once dragon is docked it will join four parked spacecraft at the International Space Station including SpaceX Dragon Freedom which brought up the crew for astronauts back in April Russia soyuz ms-22 cruise ship and progress 80 and 81 resupply ships again after doc Lindgren will also be primed to start hatch opening operations SpaceX on the big loop Houston and Hawthorne have pulled go for docking confirmed visors down and that you are ready for approach too it's x25 all visors are down we are ready for approach to cubby crew five visor's down we're going to enable the approach shortly as a reminder once dragon is inside the crew hands off point Retreat and breakout are not permitted and you just heard another call from the court at mccx responding to the crew that they are in preparation for docking in just about 13 minutes from now and looking at to arrive at Waypoint two in about 3 minutes and 30 seconds again once docked NASA astronaut chill lingering will be primed for getting ready for hatch operations that includes him going to the large hatch on the no too forward giving him access into the pressurized mating adapter the crew then will have to pressurize the vestibule between which is the small space between the hatches on the dragon and the space station this was exposed to the vacuum of space prior to docking so the crew will then need to fill it with air and make sure its pressure is nearly equal to that of that the atmospheric pressure on dragon and inside the station lingering will use a small valve that the station's hat on the station's hatch to slowly introduce air into the station's vegetable flight controllers here in Houston will Monitor and verify the pressure readings here to make sure that everything's leak free before we get ready to open up the hatches for the crew and that's the flight director Greg Whitney is leading teams here in Mission Control Houston for dragon's approach and docking today and it's arriving in just about 12 minutes and 37 seconds to his right is Capcom Amy Dill who will be communicating with the crew of board station right now there are currently Seven astronauts on the station Seven astronauts and cosmonauts living and working on the International Space Station including NASA's chill lingern Bob Heinz Jessica Watkins Frank Rubio and the current station commander and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Christopher ready and Ross Cosmos Cosmonaut Sergey prokopia and Dimitri patelin crew 5 bringing the crew compliment to 11. again we're excited to get our crew 5 astronauts aboard that's the latest from here in Mission Control Houston back over to you Hawthorne Shaniqua now at this point in time Waypoint two is up next and that will put dragon only 20 meters away from the space station from there the spacecraft will focus on aligning its docking system with the internet International docking adapter or as you sometimes hear it referred to as the Ida and dragon is now less than 40 meters away from space station in fact it's Now 37 meters and closing away from docking you're getting a good view right now of the trunk with those solar arrays that we chatted about earlier once Dragon does dock it will be receiving its power from the International Space Station and you can also see some of those small Thruster firings as we continue to close in on docking just making sure everything is precisely aligned and that dragon is directly in front of the international docking adapter we're about 20 seconds away from Waypoint to arrival [Applause] we are expecting docking to occur just a little bit later than planned about 10 minutes from now foreign [Applause] and we did just hear confirmation that dragon has arrived at Waypoint 2. [Applause] once again we're about 10 minutes away from docking to the International Space Station we have a great view there on your screen of the forward hatch of dragon we can see that docking mechanism the gray piece is there now exposed and we have a great shot of it now that dragon is so close to station Houston on the big loop dragon is resuming approach and is go for docking monitor per steps five and six and one decimal one zero two dragon approach and Retreat monitoring station copies we'll go and that's the call we wanted to hear dragon is go for docking just a few meters away from the space station now but when we are about at the two meter uh point you may hear a call called Chop and that stands for the crew hands off period while everything has been done autonomously today so far when we do hear that call Chop It means that any re-rande view would need to be done automatically through dragon and the crew would not be initiating any of that we are 16 meters away from the International Space Station on the left is crew Dragon endurance coming in for docking on the top right with its nose cone deployed is the crew Dragon Freedom that is currently docked to the International Space Station and is the vehicle that crew 4 will return home on that's pretty cool to see excuse me uh both two dragons really in the same shot once again the crew 5 vehicle there on the left making its uh its docking approach uh which we're expecting in under 10 minutes and then and you know of course the crew 4 vehicle there on the previous shot on the right hand side as we get closer we can see more and more of the Dragon vehicle for those of you wondering what those four black circles are those are the forward Drago the forward Draco thrusters SpaceX copies 10 meters and 10 meters away from space station now and if you look at the Dragon Castle you can actually see the side Draco thrusters thrusting helping to steer uh dragon closer to station accurately and hearing we're just a couple of minutes away from docking should be coming up just momentarily dragon now traveling less than one meter per second as it closes in for docking as you've said before Sandra slow and steady wins the race here [Applause] less than 10 meters separating dragon from the space station copy five meters and that call five meters separating drag it from space station should be about a minute until we are docked and crew 5 is home for the next few months [Applause] should hear that call for Chop here momentarily and there it was copy two meters two meters crew hands off point happens about 25 seconds before contact one meter [Applause] Dragon catch B6 on the big loop contact and soft capture complete attenuation and progress and contact conference Dragon made contact with the International Space Station at 201 p.m Pacific just off the west coast of Africa [Applause] now there are still a few steps that dragon has to complete before it is securely attached to the station so we are going to walk through those we're going to have a completion of that sought capture ring retraction and then we're going to begin the hard capture sequence and then a few minutes after that some time passes that we will have completion of that hard docking Dragon SpaceX ring retraction in progress so there is that first thing I mentioned uh that ring retraction for soft capture and that soft cat tracked until its sensors indicate that it is time for the hooks to drive and create a hard capture there are 12 hooks that are going to be driven to form that hard mate and they take place in a series of six so the first six will drive and then the second six will drive just like everything about the approach this morning everything is in sequence [Applause] I might notice the view of dragon is a little darker than it was before as it was coming in of course the station and now Dragon are orbiting Earth and it looks like they are lost the sunlight there live view there from SpaceX Mission Control based here in Hawthorne California and so if you are just tuning in with us crew 5 has safely completed docking to the International Space Station that docking occurred at 401 PM just off the west coast of Africa their Journey began yesterday afternoon when they lifted off at 11 A.M central time from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida three first-time flyers on board crew five and one veteran astronaut from jaxa the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency koichiwakata and then those three first-time Flyers are NASA astronaut Nicole Mann who is the first ever female commander of a dragon and once she floats on board space station will be the first Native American to ever visit the International Space Station as well as NASA astronaut Josh cassida who's the first time flyer as well and the other first time flyer is Rose Cosmos Cosmonaut Anya that's right now we have a little over five minutes left until docking is considered complete um as Sandra was just mentioning the three first-time space goers on this Mission I I would have to imagine that at this point in time they must be like children sitting in a car seat just wanting to get out they have spent a long time making this journey literally since launch yesterday at noon eastern time at noon eastern time and you know they have friends on board station and I bet they're just so excited to get out of their seeds get out of their suits open up that hatch and ultimately go get to hang out with their friends for a couple months absolutely Dragon SpaceX on the big loop ring retraction complete docking sequence is holding for MCs reconfiguration and we did hear confirmation that this soft capture ring retraction is complete so the next step is that hard capture sequence start again nourish 12 hooks that are going to drive in to create that hard dock between dragon and the space station we'll first see six of those hooks begin to drive and then the other six and that will have our docking be complete now looking forward to the next events like I mentioned before we uh docking we have about now four minutes left uh until docking is complete um the team or excuse me the crew 5 crew will have the opportunity to doff or take off their suits and then it's almost 90 minutes until they actually get to open that apass hatch and get to go see their friends and really get to greet the crew 4 crew and the other members uh other astronauts that are on station so as we've mentioned before everything is a series of checks and check-ins everything is a a checklist a sequence of events and so yeah they they're they're at the station Houston on the big loop MCS configured proceeding with hook driving [Applause] so there's that couch there's that confirmation that we will begin to drive that first set of six hooks um and that is uh basically that that hard capture process so hooks are driving this is the second time in the flight that we have done something with these hooks they were also used just a short time after liftoff after Dragon was inserted into a nominal orbit and they helped to allow that nose cone to swing open so hooks are continuing to drive first six hooks driving [Applause] live view there inside the Dragon capsule we can see the crew has their visors down in the locked position again this is to ensure that if you know for any unlikely event that Dragon were to lose pressurization that suit would act as a second capsule basically it's a a it's almost a spacecraft of its own being able to provide environment and pressure for the crew in an emergency and the crew does wear that spacesuit during all of the dynamic phases of flight during launch of course docking but here pretty shortly they will be able to take off that spacesuit and they'll actually hang them up to dry before they begin to pressurize that vestibule and get ready to float through the space station hatch as we've mentioned before those suits are unique especially fitted for each astronaut so they they all have their own storage locations that this suit will get stored in and then they'll actually put them back on not right before they come home they'll do another fit check basically shortly before they come home so the crew 4 crew will be doing that soon in preparation for their return back to Earth hopefully next week but yeah that's basically just to make sure that the spacesuit that they arrived in still fits well no like hot spots for movement um and is you know still good for them to wear home as Sandra mentioned before those of us here on Earth we know what gravity feels like and the body does change with a lack of gravity so in the microgravity environment that the astronauts live and work in for months at a time your bodily fluids change so in space your bodily fluids basically reach an equilibrium across your body whereas here on Earth they're concentrated near our feet you know wherever down is and so um yeah we'll we'll have the crew put those spacesuits back on prior to the prior to beginning their their journey home just to make sure that everything still fits well now we should be getting confirmation that docking is complete here in the next couple of seconds so standing by for confirmation of docking complete and we did hear that the first set of six hooks is driving and has completed that uh process so now the next six are driving and as you said once we have that finished up we will have docking complete and we will have what we call a hard mate so that should happen just a few moments from now foreign set of hooks is continuing to drive and if you are just tuning in with us four astronauts arrived to the International Space Station just minutes ago at 201 PM Pacific 501 p.m Eastern Time and they did complete the soft capture ring retraction which was the initial step in the docking sequence and now we are completing the hard capture sequence we've had the first six hooks drive and we are standing by for confirmation that the last six have driven successfully in all there's 12 hooks that will mate drag into the International Space Station with that live view of dragon there on your screen we can see the pilot and Commander so from this Viewpoint it would be Commander Nicole Mann on the left hand side of your screen Dragon SpaceX on the big loop hard capture complete moving on to ring retraction and then umbilicals all right and there we just heard that uh that hard capture is complete good news there yeah that's the call that we wanted to hear all 12 of those hooks have made it to the space station as expected so again we do have a hard dock at this moment now once the crew gets confirmation that docking is complete they'll then be given the go to doff or take off their spacesuits and then Begins the couple hours long process of opening the various hatches both on the dragon side as well as the station side so even though they have arrived at station and we have a hard dock confirmed hard dock there's still a couple hours left to go before the crew gets to before the crew 5 crew gets to embrace their fellow space station crew members and there will be a couple of different tasks to do after we do get those hatches open and dragging to just get ready for those docked operations most of it is focused on the atmospheric control on board Dragon so they will be removing what's called a lyo canister or a lithium hydroxide canister that is used to help scrub CO2 from the dragon cabin during fruity flight and they'll also remove a seal that essentially integrates dragon's cabin with the rest of the space station foreign we did hear that the umbilical deploy is underway as we mentioned a couple of times once those umbilicals get set up and attached that's how Dragon will get its power from the International Space Station on the flight uphill it utilize the solar arrays that are located on the dragon's trunk Dragon SpaceX on the big loop umbilicals mated docking sequence complete crew Dragon endurance and koichi Nicole Josh and Anna welcome to the International Space Station thank you so much crew 5 is happy to have finally arrived at the International Space Station insurance is is a very proper name for our training Mission and the spacecraft to the mass and the SpaceX teams is huge to thank you especially shout out to our training lead Tyler Carr for all the simulations you put us through and the training we were definitely well prepared and we are looking forward to getting to work foreign [Music] [Music] ERS and I cannot wait to start working with our crewmates on exhibition 68. foreign we'll see you here in a minute and there you just heard some words and dragon on behalf of SpaceX it's been a pleasure working with all of you ground teams will be enabling Hardline power and calm connection shortly as we work towards hatch opening in the meantime you are go to doff suits for procedure 4.012 and we'll bring the cameras external foreign [Music] some lovely words there from the crew 5 crew they have just completed doctors zero one two good read Anna and great words last commentary there from uh Anna kikuna um I I don't speak Russian but I think there's a pep in her step I think she's pretty excited to be there so all that being said now that dragon has completed the docking sequence the spacecraft must undergo a handful of checks before we're able to open that hatch the crew onboard Dragon will now get a chance to get out of their suits Dragon SpaceX on Dragon to ground cameras are external foreign that was just a SpaceX core um just letting the crew know that they're good too okay turn on the cameras thank you just letting the crew know that they are good to take off their suits those onboard cameras have now been turned off for privacy reasons uh so yeah the crew will get a chance to get out of their suits before moving into Hatch operations that's right and things will start to be picking up inside the space station too as NASA's Chell lingrin gets the hatch on the station side ready to be opened and starts pressurizing that area known as the vestibule between the dragon and station hatches with dragon docked that's going to do it for us here in Hawthorne but our coverage for crew 5 won't stop here the coverage will continue with our team positioned in the International Space Station flight control room in Houston so for Kate and I it's been a pleasure thank you so much for tuning in but Shaniqua what's ahead for Dragon oh you go thanks Sandra and goodbye to my friends at SpaceX Mission Control Houston will take you through to the hatch open anticipated at 5 42 PM Central Time and the welcome ceremony expected around 7 15 p.m Central Time it was a very exciting moment to hear for us in Mission Control Houston following Dragon stalking that was a successful docking at 401 PM Central Time 501 PM eastern time while flying 259 statute miles off the coast of West the west coast of Africa it's great to see Dragon docked energy in the room here is high there was Applause and smiles all around the room upon docking now that we are docked Chell lingern is securing some Hardware then moving right into Hatch operations first he will open the large hatch at the node 2 forward giving him access inside the pressurized mating adapter then he'll have to pressurize the vestibule which is the small space between the hatches on dragon and the space station this week's exposed to vacuum prior to docking and we need to fill it with air and make sure its pressure is nearly equal to that of the atmospheric pressure on dragon and the space station lingering will use a small valve on the station's hatch to solely introduce air into the vestibule flight controllers here in the mission control Houston will monitor the pressure and temperature readings inside and um check from the cabin mic uichi on the cabin Mike we've got you five by five how us on the speakers loud and clear on the speakers thank you station Houston on Space ground two for Chell and you just heard a call out from Capcom here in Mexico Houston Amy Dill sitting right next to the flight director Greg Whitney leading the docking and Rendezvous portion we are currently docked to the station and we are waiting for the crew to do some steps sitting here to be ready to open the hatch we just heard a call to NASA's chill lingering and he was given the go to go ahead and begin those hatch operations first he will open the large hatch at node two forward giving him access inside the pressurized mating adapter then he'll have to pressurize the vestibule which is a small space between the hatches on dragon and the space station this was exposed to vacuum prior to docking and we need to fill it with air and make sure its pressure is nearly equal to that of the atmosphere on dragon and the space station linger will use a small valve on the station's hatch to slowly introduce air into the vestibule flight controllers here in Mission Control Houston will monitor the pressure and temperature readings inside and verify that everything is leak free before we get ready to open up the hatches again we're expecting hatch open to happen at 5 42 PM Central Time following hatch open the crew will configure Dragon for on our on-orbit Ops and get a safety briefing with critical research in science a board Dragon today they will begin to unload the hardware a few hours from then we will have a welcome ceremony with all crew members for crew 4 and crew 5 as well as the astronauts aboard astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space station the station on a big loop the no24 attaches open no two forward hatch open foreign go ahead Sam the ethos Equalization value was opened and GMT 2126 Houston copies Dragon SpaceX on the big loop vestibule pressurization in progress reference 4.400 for Telemetry if you'd like copies I'm in 4.400 Houston Station on two on the big loop eight pass valve is closed at two one two seven and the node two camera is on if you'd like to Route it Houston copies all I think you just heard some calls from the crew to the from the crew on board station and inside of dragon basically all confirming that we've had start of hatch operations and pressurization of that vestibule Dragon SpaceX on Dragon to ground for a few vehicle configuration items hey Nicole uh first item ISS power connection has been established uh everything's looking nominal there second item has to do with the waste system report ready to copy exactly we have good power and ready to copy for the weight system all right we are looking for your help characterizing the some power draw we saw on the waste fan while it was being used prior to suit on on approach so we're going to add an addendum to procedure 4.400 step 5.1 the action as it stands now is to work through your cabin configuration for that whole procedure and and just call down when you reach section five we've got an addendum in 5.1 ready to copy and 5.1 and you're ready to copy I think this is going to go smoother if we just wait till you're actually there um and so I'd recommend y'all continue with suit offing and then give me a call when you're at section five gotcha no problem we'll call you when we get into section five thanks Nicole I think you just heard calls from the core Ed SpaceX and Mission Control Jake vindel he's calling to a commander of dragon Nicole Mann Dragon will be also doing some operations on their size preparing Dragon for a long duration stay they are looking at a six month science mission while aboard the International Space Station and you're currently seeing live views of dragon dock to the International Space Station dragon in the International Space Station and almost a sun in an orbital daytime 268 statute miles above the Indian Ocean you're currently looking inside the International Space Station we had views of Commander Samantha Christopher Eddie and NASA astronaut Chell Lindgren just a few seconds ago as they were floating by still making those final preparations for hatch open for the crew fives arrival inside the International Space Station again we're looking for that hatch open happen around 5 42 PM Central Time if you're currently just tuning in you're watching live cover of NASA SpaceX crew 5 Mission to the International Space Station where they had a successful dock to the complex at 501 PM Eastern Time NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh cassida Jack's astronaut koichiwakata and Ross Cosmos Cosmonaut on a kikuna arrived to the International Space Station just about 39 minutes ago yeah following dragons link up to the harmony module the crew aboard Dragon endurance and the space station will be conducting some standard leak chicks and they have begun pressurization of the vestibule between the spacecraft in preparation for the hatch opening currently scheduled for 5 42 PM Central Time 6 42 PM Eastern Time upon hatch opening man Casada will join the Expedition 68 crew of NASA astronauts Bob Heinz shell lingern Frank Rubio and Jessica Watkins Samantha Christopher ready of Issa and Ross Cosmos Cosmonaut Sergey prokopiev and Dimitri patelan for a short period of time the number of the crew on the space station will increase to 11 people until crew 4 departs you currently see a duck dragon to the to the Ford node 2 hatch and on your left and then to the right of your screen you're seeing inside the International Space Station where the crew is eerily preparing for the Ingress of the crew foreign Houston on the big loop stand by for Hardline audio config now looking at views as NASA astronaut show Lindgren is entering the area of the hatch as he continues preparations for the crew 5 crew to Ingress from crew Dragon endurance Dragon Houston on the big loop for Hardline audio voice check you stand the dragon we have you loud and clear I hear you loud and clear as well please call SpaceX for Hardline voice check s dragon for a hard line of Comcast and Nicole we've got you loud and clear as well you just heard the crew Commander Nicole Mann on the big loop doing com checks between hurt and dragon to Mission Control Houston as well as mccx mission control for SpaceX out in Hawthorne California SpaceX dragon on the big loop for suits Dragon we're with you on suits okay just letting you know section four is complete and in section five all suits are drying we have started a timer and do we still have dragging the ground with you or is this our only compact and Dragon SpaceX on the big loop we do have dragon to ground and I think we should head over there we're just gonna have a lot of uh probably bother some calls for the whole ISS crew but I tried here a couple times on a drag in the ground before this with a new response but I will switch over and try you again on Dragon the ground cubby currently seeing a live view of dragon endurance docked to the Fort Port of the harmony module Loop for com just providing some awareness I think we've got spotty tedris coverage and have for some time we can stick on the big loop for the continued coordination here you are go for 4.400 for cabin configuration copy that the suits are drying station Houston on the big loop for Chell and I'm with you on the big one okay the leak check has passed your go for Ingress part two in step three decimal one decimal one Ingress and uh let's not work now thanks Houston copy and you just heard Capcom Amy Dill to chill lingrin that's astronaut Prime for hatch operations inside the International Space Station he was given a go to safing and applying the ISS power to dragon station Houston on the big loop for tell hey Wadi uh for the hatch opening you can continue to execute in step three decimal three we go in three decimal three it's extra dragon on the big loop for toilet hey Nicole I'm with you on the big loop I know you have some Deltas when we secure the weight system but in the meantime is the weight system operational what a question stand by one Dragon SpaceX on the big loop uh report ready to copy I think we should just have you step into the troubleshooting we have planned for later Hey Jake I happen to be up here so I'm ready to execute your troubleshooting if you want okay Josh uh we are gonna have you turn on the waste fan and then head down to location 22 open the access panel and check for flow through the mesh then report back how copy okay copy we're gonna turn on the waistband and then go down to 22 and see if we've got flow through the mesh good copy and that was the core and mccx SpaceX says Mission Control in Hawthorne California confirming with the crew Josh cassida as they continue to proceed through steps making Dragon ready for its long duration stay eventually being configured for a quiescent mode and that will remain there for six months there will be periodic checks throughout Dragon stay to check on the spacecraft's health before departing six months down the road I do feel flow down in uh location 22 and we're guessing you want us to go grab the cat from the earther demo foreign that's a good read you're ahead of us we do want you to go install the cap and we're gonna plan to leave it installed through the doctoration how copy copy that we'll uh we'll install it with the cutter pins and leave it through the doctoration thanks currently seeing dual boxes the dragon endurance attached to the space station on your left and that's actually not chill lingering inside the International Space Station as he continues preparations for the crew fives Ingress into the space station again we're looking for Ingress to be about 35 minutes from now looking at 5 42 PM Central Time 6 42 p.m Eastern station on two on the big loop the gas detector is reading zero after five minutes Houston Guppies Dragon SpaceX on the big loop for waste system hey Josh we've got a few thoughts here um working through it with the back room we're wondering if you've installed the cap already and if you have not or wondering if you could run a quick test to sort of characterize the flow through the funnel standby one okay following up uh we are going to have you install the cap and then you are clear to use the waste system as normal we did verify that we've got good flow at the funnel now thanks okay we copy a good flow at the funnel and and again you are good to use the system as normal we copy that Jake thanks station Houston on the bid Loop conversation all right Eva go to perform step three decimal six and we'll take the gas detector reading from inside the vestibule copy go on three decimal six and we'll give you a guest sector reading from inside the festival Houston copies and that was flight direct that was calm Amy do to the crew on the big loop telling them that they could take some readings for the best the best you will still in those operations preparing for the hatch opening still scheduled now for 5 42 PM Central Time 6 42 PM Eastern Time if you're just joining us we had a successful docking of the crew 5 crew to the International Space Station at 401 PM Central 501 PM Eastern Time while the dragon and the International Space Station were flying 259 statute miles off the west coast of Africa we're currently in a brief Handover period between satellites and should have those views of the International Space Station and dragon back for you shortly and they're back you currently see the apas hatch open that was Jessica Watkins floating through and we now see NASA astronaut chill Lindgren going over to continued that the hatch operations to ready for the Ingress of crew 5. just moments ago they were given a go by Mission Control Houston to do readings of the vestibule making sure that it was right pressure and the Right Mix inside the vestibule before opening the hatch of dragon station readings of zero in the vestibule foreign that there's a zero reading inside the vestibule and that's zero gas being read from the vestibule Houston Station on the big loop for decimal one no condensation in the Ida Festival Houston copies and we currently see it is all hands on deck as crew 4. Samantha Chris Peretti current station commander and Bob Hines in your Forefront view in the center of the screen and off to the right we see NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins oh sorry that is Frank Rubio and they contain preparations for the Ingress of crew 5 from Dragon endurance Houston SpaceX station on the bike Loop Station is ready for Dragon hatch Equalization Houston copies SpaceX copies you just heard a call from the crew to Mr troll Houston as well as Mission Control at SpaceX that the crew is ready for hatch Equalization and you're currently seeing views from a camera inside the vestibule they have a the astronauts aboard the ISS have put a camera facing them to be able to watch as the crew ingresses from endurance dragon you're currently seeing all of crew 4 plus Frank Rubio out still preparing for that hatch open come check hey koichi I've got you 5x5 on Dragon to ground okay we can give you the uh water and food inventory uh tracker reporting we are ready to copy tree from bag 203 we consumed all five bottles and from bag 204 we consumed all five bottles and from a bag 207 two bottles consumed and from a from back two zero eight all five bottles were consumed and that's the end of the world copy on water 203 five bottles 204 five bottles 207 two bottles and 208 five bottles and I've got one more question for you we do bookmark one of those for the waste system plush I wonder if you have already taken that into account yes that we have taken that a bottle into account for the water flush perfect and we're with you for food three zero one breakfast in lunch consumed from bag 302 snack and dinner were consumed those are fully concerned and from back 309 uh three quarters of breakfast and three quarters of lunch were consumed and from back three one zero snack is fully consumed and half dinner is concerned that's the end of the uh the food inventory we copy 301 two meals consumed 302 both items consumed 309 had three quarters of a breakfast and a lunch 310 had snack consumed and half a dinner and I've got one hanging question for you plan to dispose of all these about five minutes yeah Jake that's affirmative we will consume those uh partially consumed ones the food and the on the ISS UE okay we cup y'all thanks Gucci thank you Jake you just heard on Dragon a ground Loop the crew five crew inside of dragon endurance give a reading on the consumables that they used while in flight and approach in docking to the International Space Station we are just awaiting them the crew 5 crew to give an okay for Dragon SpaceX on dragging the ground or working towards hatch opening go ahead and dig for hatch up understand uh you're not quite through 4.400 where we've got some itchy folks here on the ground uh looking to equalize across the hatch uh we're looking to perform the first few steps of section six equalize across the dragon hatch while you continue with section five or the waste system flesh how copy okay we copy and you just heard the core Jake vindel in SpaceX Mission Control in Hawthorne California talked to koichiwakata aboard Dragon endurance he relayed that the ISS crew on board station is ready for Equalization and that they could continue procedures on their side as the ISS crew Begins the equalization of dragon we are looking for about a five minute timer on that after that period teams will verify that the hatch is good to open between the space station and endurance Jake on dragging the ground I am with you here in section six and Bush is working Section Five copy Nicole and just to confirm we want to make sure the dragon crew is ready to equalize across the hatch a firm Dragon crew ready to equalize across the hatch okay copy we will send that command shortly and again you just heard Jake vindel report to the crew that they are ready for hatch Equalization so that's ISS crew and the crew inside Dragon endurance are ready to equalize the hatch again the clock will start about a five minute timer after that period teams will verify that the hatch is good to open between the space station and endurance station and dragon Houston on the big loop stand by for Equalization which is expected to take five minutes Dragon copies commission copies five minutes and you just heard it five minutes for Equalization once that process has begun and that was Jessica Watkins on board the International Space Station and Nicole man inside endurance confirming that they heard the go for Equalization from necessary for Ops products would you Sam yeah I know it's got some critical events going on but we also have some time critical activities after hatch opening I just wanted to mention right now we're not able to refresh Optimus or access the other products uh anywhere on iPads or SSC ope okay we copy Sam we'll discuss down here it seems like one of the laptops now finally uh was able to open Optimus so it might have been just a very slow uh situation for a moment I will keep looking at it okay we copy thanks for the report SpaceX Dragon on Dragon to ground for configuration Nicole we're with you on Dragon to ground okay we're complete with section five uh we're standing by here in section six we've got the suits drawing I've got seven more minutes on the timer uh big picture are you thinking that we're gonna open the forward hatch and then go in for a quick hello and then come back to finish up with the suits and then step into the ISS procedure Dragon uh that's a good read we are gonna step into the hatch open process right now and then have you come on back uh for some final cabin configuration steps okay coffee so we're gonna um on your go we will get that hatch open and then um I'll just go to you before we enter ISS and say hello then we'll come back and finish up with our suits and then we'll also execute 2.102. copy all and that's a good read stand by one and we have confirmation inside mission control that crew dragon is equalized to the International Space Station and the crew and side dragon and the ISS are ready for hatch open Dragon SpaceX on the big loop you are go or Dragon hatch opening for the decal followed by the remaining actions in 4.400 section 6. we're opening the forward hatch and finishing up section six and you just heard confirmation to the crew that they are go for hatch opening and you can see smiling and waving the forward hatch on the crew Dragon endurance has been opened the crew inside the crew inside the International Space Station are all smiles and waves as they see the beginning of Ingress from the crew 5 crew from Dragon endurance and that was a confirmed hatch open at 5 49 PM Central Time 6 49 PM Eastern Time that hatch we've been waiting for is now open since docking at 401 PM Central Time 501 PM Eastern Time hatch opening taking place at 5 49 p.m central 6 49 PM Eastern Time all smiles on on the International Space Station as they eagerly await the Ingress of crew 5. the hatch is open but crew 5 astronauts will need to work through a few more steps and gather some imagery as well at the time of hatch open dragon and the International Space Station were flying 263 statute miles above the South Atlantic Ocean it may be just a couple more minutes before crew 5 astronauts Ingress the space station to be woken onto their new home for the next six months as a part of expedition 68 as they walk through a few more procedures the crew inside of dragon endurance are installing some imv ducting mixing the air of the space station environment with the air inside the crew Dragon endurance they'll seal some of the lyo or lithium hydroxide cartridges that scrubbed carbon dioxide inside of Dragon capsule on the ride to the International Space Station and they'll check some vent valves as well so maybe just a little bit more time until we welcome them on board the International Space Station and here we've come through first one through the hatch it's going to be Nicole Mann commander of dragon and now the first Native American woman to live and stay aboard the International Space Station all hugs and smiles going around next one through the hatch is Josh cassida the pilot of dragon he's getting his welcome and hellos from the crew aboard International Space Station and we see right now right past Nicole man's hair is koichiwakata of jaxa coming through the hatch and last but not least on a kick enough Ross Cosmos just entered the International Space Station and crew 5 is officially Ingress from Dragon endurance into their home for the next six months the International Space Station and with the addition of crew 5 on board there is currently 11 astronauts inside the International Space Station we're currently in a brief Handover between satellites that should have the acquisition of signal back shortly bringing you more views inside the International Space Station and just moments ago we saw crew 5 Ingress the station and now we have the 11 person crew of expedition 67 now all together in node two of the International Space Station typically we'd have a welcoming ceremony shortly after Ingress of the crew however today the crew will be unloading critical science and investigations as well as finishing up some of those procedures to make dragon ready for their six-month stay docked to the International Space Station we are expecting a welcoming ceremony around 7 15 PM Central Time we'll have a brief intermission between the Ingress of the crew as they unload that critical science and Hardware from Dragon endurance into the International Space Station again we're expecting a welcome event for the crew around 7 15. p.m Central Time 8 15 p.m Eastern Time and that was an incredible day and a 25 29 hour Rendezvous for the crew 5 crew after launching successfully yesterday from the launch complex at Kennedy Space Center launch complex 39a at 11 A.M Central Time 12 Eastern the crew docked at 401 PM Central Time 501 PM Eastern Time and just moments ago at 5 49 PM Central Time the the hatch from Dragon endurance was opened and we just saw crew 5 welcomed aboard the International Space Station the population of the space station now had 11 human beings as a part of expedition 68. it's been an incredible 24 hours for crew 5 and from all of us here in Houston it will welcome aboard Crew 5. That's our coverage for now but do join us for the crew 5 welcoming event and remarks at 7 15 PM Central Time this is Mission Control Houston [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music]

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Published: Thu Oct 06 2022