Crew Demo-1 | Splashdown

all stations on Dragon one minute until configure for terminal count [Music] you know 30 seconds [Music] but in 15 seconds [Music] go for it dragon is a countdown [Music] one ignition [Music] welcome to our live coverage of SpaceX's demo1 mission if you're just joining us dragon has performed its final departure burns from the International Space Station and is on its way back home to us today's mission actually began back on March 2nd when dragon launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida following that successful launch dragon arrived at the space station and docked with the orbiting lab on March 3rd dragons return to Earth will mark the third completion of SpaceX's first demonstration mission for NASA's Commercial Crew program well there are no astronauts onboard dragon today this demonstration mission represents an important milestone as we approach our first crewed mission later this year earlier today dragon powered up from sleep mode and began its departure procedures and system checks that's right and then the spacecraft autonomously undocked from the International Space Station at 11:32 p.m. Pacific time just yesterday on March 7th I'm pretty sure it's March 8th now we've been here all night and then it began a series of departure burns to move away from the station we're gonna be bringing you live coverage of the rest of the mission in the moment that dragon jettisoned its trunk to the deorbit burn all the way to that splashdown which we're targeting for 5:45 a.m. Pacific time with Dragon scheduled to splashdown about 230 statute miles east of Kennedy Space Center one interesting historical note for you real quick it's actually been nearly 50 years to the day since Apollo 9 is the last spacecraft built for humans just splashed down in the Atlantic it completed its mission back on march 13th 1969 so a pretty big day and a pretty big historical note here unfortunately due to a communications blackout we're not gonna be able to show you every step of dragons journey home but we're gonna be bringing you live status updates as it goes through the phase of things like the you orbit burn and the trunk separation and we've been getting some pretty great views from the recovery ships out there so we should have good news of Dragon as it comes down towards the water yeah now in this next phase of the mission Dragon has a series of steps to complete before it returns home first dragon will jettison its trunk like Dan just said which is the cylindrical unpressurized part of the spacecraft we do this as trunk is no longer needed to complete the mission yeah that's gonna be coming up in about 15 minutes or so I'm like we said we can't show every part of this for the mission but we are going to be listening to the the flight control teams can we have one here right behind us in Hawthorne and they're the ones basically monitoring all dragon systems just like they've been doing since it lifted off six days ago it's it's flown by so far it natalie has but we're gonna be listening in and giving you the updates as they come in now if you've been watched following along so far this morning you might have seen us on the earlier webcast last night this morning it's hard to tell what time of day it is at this point but you saw dragon complete of a series of burns there were a number of departure burns away from the International Space Station that dragon completed which allowed the spacecraft to move further and further away from the station in a series of choreographed maneuvers everything went really well and like we said now we're just awaiting for that trunk separation and after that we'll have a pretty exciting deorbit burn and a splashdown so we're looking forward to all that yeah yeah at this point the Dragon spacecraft is well below the International Space Station and then quite a few kilometers ahead of it at this point and that's just to make sure once that trunk separated it's not on the same orbital plane basically as the International Space Station is so that'll be the next major milestone coming up and then that deorbit burn which we'll go through all those times in just a little bit but it's gonna be about a 15-minute firing of those throats those thrusters on dragon and that's just basically gonna take it out of orbit so it's gonna fire these thrusters until that trajectory is basically pointing it right back down in the ocean in the Atlantic where we're landing of spacecraft built for humans for the first time in 50 years so this is gonna be a really exciting morning and like I said we'll be bringing you some pretty great views the Sun is up already over on the East Coast so we'll have a nice daytime splashdown as someone who has seen this specific vehicle get built over the last couple of years it's pretty incredible - like I mentioned earlier in today's webcast to actually see the astronauts onboard the International Space Station floating in and out of the capsule as they were opening the hatch and that was very exciting and then upon the departure Byrnes earlier to see the imagery from the station as dragon was leaving it was just incredible we had some amazing shots and we've seen the artistic renderings for a couple of years now what it would look like when dragon was on station and to finally see it was just a wonderful moment in terms of those of us that have had so many hours put into this spacecraft it almost didn't look real yeah actually saw it flying out there but I mean since since it's a part of that it happened early in the crews day on board the space station so they since moved on to a bunch of other tests they actually woke up about an hour before her dragon undock does they're operating on Greenwich Mean Time so it was early in the morning for them but they did offer some great words as dragon undocked and flew away once it was outside of the approach ellipsoid so about a kilometer or so away from the International Space Station and as Kate said it executed all of its departure burns that executed for departure burns following that initial separation basically taking it out in front and then up around and then finally out beneath the International Space Station where it's now on its orbit awaiting this trunk separation and eventually the deorbit burn yeah so in terms of SpaceX history the this demonstration mission is incredibly important as it's like I said the demonstration of our crew program interestingly enough the Dragon spacecraft that's hanging behind me here in Hawthorne California SpaceX headquarters is similarly the same demonstration mission of our cargo program that we've been operating for NASA for the last couple of years in terms of the cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station so who knows if the demo1 capsule will also be hanging behind us here in Hawthorne I don't think we have the structural support for that but in terms of what you see behind me it's similar in terms of historical referencing for the importance of today's mission and that capsule actually already has another mission on the books for it SpaceX is planning to use it in their ascent abort test coming a little bit later this year that'll be between demo one which we're about to wrap up today and demo2 which will be the first flight that we actually have our astronauts onboard that spacecraft Bob banking and Doug Hurley the two NASA astronauts will be the first one to take dragon into space and the asset aboard that will be a pretty cool test yes I wouldn't want to be involved with things that's a lot of g-forces but it'll be really important for us to be able to demonstrate the ability for the capsule to leave the vehicle in an urgent need to do so so we're all looking forward to that that test flight as it's also something we've been working towards for the last couple of years and yeah that should be coming up in a couple of months here yeah and that'll be that'll be the second of all you guys have done because you did a paddle board test already mm-hmm with a dragon spacecraft so basically just really putting the vehicle through all of the paces all these different important tests missions like this one right now all ultimately with that goal of sending humans to the International Space Station not a crew dragon yeah something else really interesting about the today's mission and in fact the Commercial Crew program going forward in terms of space X's approach to landing the capsules we are landing them in the in the Atlantic like we mentioned earlier where as the commercial excuse me the cargo resupply mission Dragon capsule pack capsules have all landed in the Pacific so today is really exciting we're really pumped to bring you footage of our recovery team as we pull dragon out of the Atlantic Ocean it's a lot of firsts today it's been a lot it's a lot been a lot of firsts all week and to say the adrenaline has been pumping around here is an understatement yeah we even I mean we even had a crowd earlier this morning behind us gathered down at the control and there's even more now yeah now what now it's well it's 4:30 in the morning here on the west coast but the crowd is already starting to gather here at SpaceX headquarters but interesting note yeah normally those cargo dragons landing over in the Pacific and while this vehicle ultimately designed for crew it's also carrying some cargo it carried about 400 pounds of cargo up to International Space Station and it's been packed with a little over 300 pounds for the return trip home and that's broken out across a couple of different areas one of the more interesting ones and one of the ones NASA is really keen on is it's bringing back what we call utilization so some science samples it actually has two bags for basically like coolers on board that are packed with these cold bricks that were able to put science samples in so the ones that are coming back home today using some of the human research projects onboard the International Space Station is we like to say the astronauts are experiments themselves poking and prodding while they're up there just to see how the human body changes and reacts in microgravity and a lot of the samples from a couple of those projects are coming home on Dragon today also bringing home a couple of radiation monitors and one thing that our program manager Kirk Charmin for the space station program noted it's also going to have a fan pump separator on it and that's actually a piece it's a piece of the spacesuits the e/m use of the extra vehicular mobility units I'm from NASA way too many acronyms and it's a piece that actually failed on orbit some time back and they're bringing it home to take a look at it it was since or a place with a Sperry unit and we do have some spacewalks coming up in March so very busy time in space right now but right now kind of all focused I'm watching this dragon come home so the next milestone that we have coming up in about seven minutes is the trunk separation we will take a break for a few minutes and while we await that so stay tuned and we'll see you in a couple [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so right now we're waiting to hear for that trunk separation again we are expecting to get that call just on the internal nuts at any moment now that'll be the next major milestone then or beyond a deorbit burn exactly so we should have that call out any minute now as we wait for trunk separation this is the last thing that dragon has to do before it is able to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and splashdown in the in the Atlantic Ocean that's right yeah the trunk not coming home but the rest of the Dragon capsule the more important part is gonna be coming home the other stuff that dragons gonna do before does that final reentry is close that nose cone and we'll get to a little bit of that soon but basically that nose cone is going to protect that top part of the Dragon spacecraft the docking adaptor and also the guidance of navigation and control sensors so that's one of the last major milestones that's another kind of departure from the cargo dragon which that nose cone gets jettison during the launch during the launch phase but with crew dragon keeping the nose going all the way through it helps in the actual reusability of the crew Dragon for future missions now that trunk section is unpressurized and we are able to use it to transport cargo on the way up to the International Space Station but everything that comes back from station is put into the pressurized section so we are able to jettison that trunk as it's no longer needed and we're able to shed that extra weight and I think we just heard trunk separation all right so hopefully we'll be able to bring you visual here shortly actually no we're too far away from station at the moment so yeah so next up is going to be the spacecraft using some forward thrusters to perform the deorbit burn this is gonna be a really major step because once that deorbit burn happens you're coming home and you like you're hit you're leaving orbit you're coming back to earth that's gonna put dragon on a trajectory for that return the burn will last about 15 minutes once it starts so we're gonna again continue to stand by this is kind of the calm before the storm if you will where we're just waiting for things to really get into motion dragons going to pretty soon do that deorbit burn and then following that it only takes about 45 minutes or so until it's in the water down in the Atlantic and ready to get picked up by the teams on the boats out there so once again we're going to continue to stand by we're gonna bring you these updates as they come in but one more milestone down just a few more to go and then dragons home [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and so again right now we're just standing by for this deorbit burn to start we are expecting it to start in about a minute or so and then after that it's gonna take a little over 15 minutes to complete yeah so we have already jettisoned the trunk as you heard us talk about a couple minutes ago that was the last thing dragon needed to do before it is able to read enter the Earth's atmosphere and like we said that that'll be about a 15 minute burn and then we will have parachute deployment and splashdown after that so like Dan said kind of the calm before the storm we're gonna have a lot of activity coming up once we do pass through the re-entry burn but at this point we should be getting confirmation of the deorbit burn in a couple of seconds here that's right and once the deorbit burn is complete it's just about trying to do quick math in my head as I look at everything but it's just about 40 minutes or so until dragon scheduled to be back down in the water so it's it's a pretty quick ride from being in outer space to being right back down in the ocean and we just heard a confirmation of the do orbit burn so like we said this will last about 15 minutes so your burn has begun at this point dragon has begun to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere it's gonna get a little toasty but we're excited to - for this to happen as it is the next step the next milestone in its journey home that's right and again ultimate destination down in the Atlantic Ocean and there are boats standing by we'll go through all the recovery forces and everything on site but there is one main recovery boat it's to go searcher and that's gonna have all of the SpaceX recovery teams who are responsible for actually going out and picking the capsule up out of the water that is a view of the go searcher that was this is actually a camera view from one of the other boats that's in the area the go navigator that has the combined NASA team on board as well so once we actually have crew on board everyone's gonna be on one boat so it'll be a little bit tighter quarters but you'll have obviously the SpaceX people to and recovered the capsule and then the NASA people typically also bring along the flight docs and the nurses anybody who's ever seen a landing and a Soyuz over in Kazakhstan is familiar with that once the crew comes home after about a six-month period it's important we get a quick medical check out with them just take the vitals make sure they're doing okay and help manage as they readapt or it's gravity for the first time and you know up to six months or longer so everyone will be on one boat but for today we do have two boats so we'll get some additional views hopefully from those different cameras as we get to watch dragon come down but for now we are in that dealer Matt Byrne so we got a couple more minutes until that is complete and then we're one step closer to dragon being back yeah so while dragon is reentering the Earth's atmosphere we're going to pause for a few minutes until they do orbit for incomplete so be sure to stick around and we'll see you in a few minutes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and so right now we're about halfway through that deorbit burn so again we expected to last about 15 minutes and 20 seconds the visiting vehicle officer all the way back in Houston was just reporting to the station flight director again that we were about halfway through we're continuing to get a couple of views from the boats and again those are cameras that are going to be tracking dragon once it's coming down under those parachutes and we're also starting to get it looks like this is a view from a WB 57 airplane and so we have a number of assets out there off the Florida coast again there's two boats or two ships rather both with tracking cameras on board and NASA also flying its WB 57 aircraft typically used for high-altitude weather research and other science missions but it has a camera affixed on it and should hopefully give us some views of dragon coming down under those parachutes so there on your screen you see a beautiful shot of go searcher which is our primary recovery vessel there on the front part of the ship you can see what would essentially be the crew's quarters during the wait they could be out to sea depending on how rough the waves are for a couple of weeks - just a couple of days depending on the re or the splashdown point so they're coming into the view on the right hand side of your screen at the top is actually the helipad for helicopters to land if we need to take the astronauts to shore quicker than just having them ride along on the ship and really and something that I just absolutely love about this vessel is underneath that helipad are actually medical quarters so we're able to get the astronauts checked out immediately after egressing from the capsule and we're able to check them out there and give them a warm welcome not on land yet up obviously but it's just such an incredible vehicle there that we're able to to sustain so much activity once the while we're waiting for the astronauts a splashdown and then obviously once they are on board it's also important to note so right now the teams are about 200 or so give or take nautical miles off the coast that won't be the case when we are bringing crew members back that landing zone much closer end I think it typically ranges out about 20 to 24 nautical miles sail away from the port so that gives them the capability to then get back in within just a couple of hours instead of the little over a day that it's looking like it's going to take the teams to bring dragon back after this mission but there we have some views from Dragon as it is re-entering the atmosphere it's a it's pretty dark in space yeah we're still in the midst of that deorbit burn we're expecting that to take about five more minutes so that's that's pretty unique getting used from the spacecraft while that deorbit burn is still underway again this is just the final maneuver that final firing of those Draco thrusters just to bring dragon out of orbit and set it up on a trajectory to ultimately splashdown over there in the Atlantic where as you were just seeing the recovery teams are standing by ready and waiting to receive and again this deorbit burn lasting or planned to last about 15 minutes and 20 seconds and this is just to ultimately carry dragon out of its circular orbit so right now it's been in a circular orbit just beneath the space stations orbit you call it a co olympic orbit for the last several hours in this deorbit burn it's going to radically change that plant orbit basically setting it up to intersect back down with the earth back down there in the water where the recovery teams are waiting now that we have a full view of the recovery vessel on the very right side of your screen you can see a portion of the ship that we weren't able to see before and that's actually the portion of the ship where once the Dragon capsule is close enough it will be lifted up out of the water by that vertical piece that you see there it'll actually actuate out over the water and lift the Dragon capsule up out of the ocean and then bring it back onto the boat and set it down into its nest so pretty cool this is this is new a new technology that we've installed on this ship specifically for our crew dragon missions so it's a like we said before this is a demonstration mission and while a recovery team has been practicing for recovery operations this is obviously the first time that they will be practicing with a vehicle that's coming from space so we're all very excited to be bringing you live coverage as all of this unfolds over the next hour or so and yeah to give you a timeline of that recovery period out it's expected to take a little under an hour or so for the team's actually have the capsule back up on the boat which in a situation where there's crew on board that's about that hour to get the crew out of the water and onto the boat so they can do all their initial medical checks and everything else that we typically do after crew members are returning from these long-duration missions the waves looking pretty calm though looking like really good conditions out there in the Atlantic again there are a little over 200 nautical miles off the coast of Florida and they'll ultimately be bound back for Port Canaveral where the spacecraft's gonna get brought back in and handed over the SpaceX teams there where they're gonna begin processing and pretty much getting ready to turn it around for that asset of work yeah we've been monitoring the recovery weather conditions over the last several days and now that recovery day has has come upon us we can see that we have beautiful skies and and really it will in my unprofessional nautical knowledge relatively calm seas by by my eyes but you know it's really difficult to be able to predict what the weather is going to be like at sea very far in advance so we're all very happy to be able to have clear imagery of the recovery team as we as we make progress here I feel like we've lucked out with Florida weather so far on this mission alright we're here and there's about one minute left in this deorbit burn so just about done with that and this is just that final maneuver to begin bringing dragon out of space and down to the ocean they're still getting a couple of views from onboard the Dragon spacecraft that's what you're looking at right all right now we're just gonna stand by and listen for how the deorbit burn went should be wrapping up momentarily so like Dan said we are waiting confirmation of the conclusion of the deorbit burn it's been going on for the last several minutes and like we said before Dragan departed Space Station earlier today performed a number of departure burns and now we are hopefully just exiting the the final burner that's the reentry burn and there on the left-hand side of your screen you can see our recovery vessel waiting for the splashdown of dragon once we exit the this once we exit the the re-entry burn we will have parachute deployment the first one of those will be the drogue chutes the smaller chutes that slowed the vehicle down followed by the main parachute deployment and that will slow it down even further allowing it to come to a slower velocity as it approaches the the surface of the ocean and we are being told that was a nominal burn so the deorbit burn is complete dragon is on its way home and so the next thing that's gonna happen is that nose cone on Dragon is gonna get closed we heard that process is now and work and then it's time for Dragon of really get through the Earth's atmosphere and ultimately splashdown so that's where the vehicle is going to heat up tremendously because again you have to keep in mind dragon traveling at thousands of miles per hour right now and when it hits the thicker part of the Earth's atmosphere it's going to heat up tremendously from the friction and this is actually video of the nose cone starting to close on the Dragon spacecraft and again that nose cone just closes to protect that top portion of the vehicle from all of the re-entry events not only the re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere but also once it's down in the water and that protects the guidance and navigation and control sensors on top of dragon and also that docking ring that it uses to attach to the space station so again what you're seeing right now is the nose cone closing on the Dragon spacecraft as we await for it to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere alright so the nosecone looks like it's just about closed we'll wait for a final confirmation that everything looks good with it but then pretty soon we're gonna be looking towards the actual entry interface so that's again where dragon starts hitting enough atmosphere that it's gonna start heating up because right now it's still high enough even following that deorbit burn that is still not feeling those effects the atmosphere is gonna get thicker as it starts to descend and that's gonna heat the vehicle up this why you always have this heat shield on the bottom of these spacecrafts and that's why a lot of Morin is this conical shape as a lot of Engineers I've talked to they like to say physics haven't changed since the 1960s when we made the spacecraft back then it was for that was that shaped for a reason and so that's why it's so common to see this capsule design just because of how you reenter the Earth's atmosphere it makes a lot of sense so we just heard confirmation that the nosecone hooks have begun the process of securing the nose cone into place prior to that reentry bird that's right and so there's actually an anticipated time where you lose signal with the spacecraft and that's just because as your reentering the Earth's atmosphere and you go through that intense heat plasma actually builds up on the outside of the spacecraft and you can't send or receive signals from there so it's very common when there's people on board you'll lose the voice communication between them and the ground and you'll lose all the telemetry or the data streams that you have coming from the spacecraft to rooms like the Mission Control Center just behind us here in Hawthorne so that'll be coming up or expecting that to happen at about 5 what time is it 5:30 3 a.m. Pacific so coming up in just about 20 minutes from now exactly and so after we are able to get through that phase of the mission like we said before following that will be the deployment of the parachutes and then splashdown so just a quick recap in case if you have just joined us recently we have departed from the International Space Station dragon completed a series of for departure burns a slowly choreographed maneuver and now we have already jettisoned the trunk of the the the Dragon spacecraft we have completed the deorbit burn and now we're just starting to come back down through the Earth's atmosphere and the final leg on dragons way home bones close and we're just gonna be standing by to wait until we go through that entry interfacing and that'll be about 20 minutes from now and then once it's down through there it's time to the parachutes and we talked about the parachutes a little while ago and we should hopefully get to see those parachutes maybe from the plane but once it's down beneath the cloud deck so we should be able to see them from the boats that'll be standing by and out there after recoveries up and it comes in two different stages can you walk us through the parachutes real quick yeah so with the parachutes we will have the drogue parachutes those are the smaller chutes that will come out that will slow the vehicle down a little bit and then we will have the main parachutes those are clearly visible by the orange and white coloring on them very iconic if you've watched the previous Dragon splashdowns for the cargo resupply missions so we will have that and then that's what will slow the vehicle down enough to have a safe splashdown in the water so at this point another fun fact about Dragon in the return to earth these seats inside the capsule at this point have actuated or turned into the re-entry position so depending on what phase of the mission we are in the seats will actually actuate or or adjust the angle to make sure that the g-force is that the astronauts will be experiencing are in the right places so with that being said we will take a quick active operations here at SpaceX so with that being said we will take a quick break be sure to stay tuned with us as we go through this a period of anticipated blackout with the Dragon capsule we'll be back in just a few as we come back in anticipation of that parachute deployment stick around [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and if you're just now joining us we have had a successful deorbit burn so that was the last major milestone oh we've also confirmed that the nose cone is closed the hooks all engaged and so now we're just waiting for Dragon to begin making its way through the Earth's atmosphere that deorbit burn lasted a little over 15 minutes and was reported that it was done successfully no issues and Dragon is now on its way home they're continuing to get some pretty great views from the boats out there in the splashdown zone we're also going to be on the lookout for some video possibly from an aircraft that we have in the area one of NASA's WB 57 research planes is going to be trying to get some views of Dragon and the chute deploy and actually coming down under the parachutes there are some clouds in the area so the boats might not see it right away but once it's underneath those cloud decks they'll have some pretty great views of it coming down so there on your screen again you can see our primary recovery vessel that is well there went but that is our recovery ship that is fully equipped with medical quarters for checkouts once we do have crew onboard dragon for our upcoming mission they will be able to come out of the capsule and get a full medical check out immediately afterward there's also a helipad there where a helicopter can let it land in the event that we might need to get them back to court sooner than what the boat may be able to Coe and there on your screen you can actually see I mentioned earlier the the lift that will bring dragon out of the water has activated it into its recovery position so that you can see on the right-hand side of your screen at the end of the boat and that is what will actually take dragon out of the water lift it up and then place it into its nest which was the official term for it on the ship and then that would be considered the end at least whenever we get to that point that would be the end of our webcast today but at this point we're still waiting for the the parachutes to deploy and then for the entire recovery operation which like I mentioned before the recovery team has practiced this but obviously not with a vessel that has come down from the international space station yet so a lot of firsts that we'll be seeing today and we're really excited to be able to share that with you yeah and if you missed the very beginning the fun historical said that we have we had for today was it's been almost 50 years to the day since we've landed a spacecraft designed for humans in the Atlantic Ocean that last one was Apollo nine and that was back on March 13 1969 it was actually supposed to land in the Pacific but ended up shooting for the Atlantic and that was the last time they landed one in that area so it's going to be exciting to see this water recovery all of our crewmembers for the last couple of years well basically since we stopped flying the Space Shuttle have come down for land landings over in Kazakhstan on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and but in the not-too-distant future we'll have crew members dot Doug Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken still waking up they'll be on the dragon for the demo2 mission a little bit later this year so everything looking really good so far we're gonna continue and stand by and wait for that entry interface we are just about 20 minutes away from when we're expecting to actually see dragon under those parachutes so not much longer good things to come there's a lot of anticipation there's a crowd growing behind me here at SpaceX headquarters our Mission Control Center is just down there and you can probably hear the voices in in in the room around us and the crowd is definitely starting to grow in anticipation of dragons reappearance so with that being said we will take a quick break as we await for Dragon to re-enter and for those parachute deployments stick around we'll be back in just a few [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and so we're getting a bit of a treat here you're getting a live view inside the Dragon capsule is again it's getting closer and closer to that entry interface coming through the Earth's atmosphere and then splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean but first we have a very special guest somebody who's going to be onboard a dragon in the not-too-distant future NASA astronaut Bob bankin Bob thanks for being here thanks for taking a couple of minutes I know you're following along with the teams there's a lot of excitement how are you feeling about the mission so far well I think I said this before when we were out here for the SFA's and docking just super excited you know of course this one is the precursor for our mission that's upcoming here and so when this one's done successfully we'll be one step closer to our flight that's awesome yeah so what is in store for you between now and that flight what kind of preparations do you have left to do that's a great question we have a significant amount of training that we need to go through so we'll walk through all the various phases in flight so we'll do pre-launch we'll get suited we do that here and not Hawthorne in the buck we'll do a walk-through at the Kennedy Space Center actually on the launch pad learn a little bit more about the emergency escape system if we should need that prior to tune into space and so we'll walk through all those different scenarios then we'll head back out here again for a couple of other events associated with docking and of course said so we're getting views inside the Dragon spacecraft and I mean it cameras okay but it can't do the real thing justice what's it like to be like in a spacecraft when you're coming back through and everything's heating up there's a couple of pieces of coming back through the atmosphere the first one is really emotional for those of us who've seen a lot of spacecraft come back it's just a it's very special to kind of go through that experience and it's a it's a physical thing as well as you actually see the light from the atmosphere as it heats up the external portions of the spacecraft you see some orange lights flickering the plasma and a go past the windows the windows will be down in our near our feet on this vehicle that'll be our our closest view out the window per se but it's definitely something that we'll be able to see and know the outside of the vehicles going through something pretty severe and that will be helpful to takes care of us as it picked us through injury that's incredible I can't even imagine what that experience again there's the physical piece of it you can feel sensations that come in with the light but there's also the emotion of knowing that you're taking all that energy that you put into the vehicle to get it into orbit it's all got to come back out so that you can get back to the ground safely so it's been a while since you've been to space is there anything you're really looking forward to and get to the space station anything like what'swhat's your bucket list once you get back up you know for me when I get back to the International Space Station I'm really am looking forward to seeing it completely complete I was pretty close with my flight we put the cupola on the underside of the space station one of the things close to the construction complete on the International Space Station so I'm looking forward to getting back in there and actually experiencing sunrises and sunsets again they're just remarkable from one orbit not quite the same as they are from the ground did that can get that into place else last question for you I'm sure you've been following along on social media you've seen the photos of our 0g indicator now he's not coming back until you bring him back for us so you'll have a little bit of time to play with him while you're on station is there anything that you would like to teach a little earthy while you're up on station with him yeah that's a that's a good question I didn't actually realize that little Earth Day was going to stay on board this little urchins that lolly rose in one of Europe yes here at SpaceX come in lettuce when we sat down to watch undocking and he said hey we're gonna need her feedback so I think our plan is to have him teach us he's gonna welcome us aboard probably when we get there and I think Anand davit and Oleg have trained him up well so hopefully he can walk us through the emergency brief and he's a full-fledged station crew member by the time that we get there well it definitely looks like he's been getting the crash course and just about everything yeah he should have it all and he ought to be able to transfer it to us that's part of being a crew member that arrives and takes over the responsibilities on the International Space Station that's very cool well we certainly look forward to him coming back as well is you and Doug in our demo - mission in a couple of months so be very exciting very much looking forward to it as you might imagine as well we're gonna get back to the re-entry interface Bob we're gonna go let you go watch along because again vested interest amount thanks a bunch for jumping upstairs for a quick and talking about thank you again thank you very much thank you so with that we are awaiting the deployment our to be the the final phase of the re-entry of Dragon spacecraft as it's coming back through the Earth's atmosphere I'm still kind of reeling from his comments about what it's like to actually come barreling through the Earth's atmosphere something that you see depicted in movies and TV shows of course but to hear it live from the source is pretty cool and that's exactly what dragon and Ripley are doing right now so we brought you a live view of that just a couple of minutes ago that was pretty cool that we were able to get bat shots like we said plasma will be building up on the exterior of the vehicle as its reentering the atmosphere so there's a blackout period that we are but we were expecting and that's where we're at right now so but we can't bring you view of Ripley on her journey back to the Atlantic Ocean you can see a view of our recovery ship there like I said before we can now see that the lift arms have actuated out into the recovery position and they're like that in anticipation of Dragon being pulled in to position closer to that the end of the ship and being lifted up into the into the recovery nest and you got to imagine the teams out there on the ocean are ready for this to come home again since they're about two hundred give or takes two nautical miles out to sea they actually left yesterday so they've been out on the water for some time so they're ready and waiting again the the prime team is on that go searcher and that's a bunch of SpaceX technicians who are going to be responsible for going out on some fast boats that deploy from that prime ship and they'll begin just basically getting the capsule stable and then bringing it in closer to all - Lily get hoist it up on the ship also going off to make sure that they get those parachutes as those get jettison from the capsule and pretty much just at the moment of touchdown so we're just going to be ready to watch all of that unfold pretty soon we should be seeing those parachutes in about 10 or 11 minutes from now right after dragon begins that final plunge to the Earth's atmosphere so we're getting a lot closer things are really going to pick up once we get those first use a dragon over the Atlantic they're absolutely so like Dan just said we've got about ten minutes until we see the first deployment which are the deployments of the drogue parachutes so with that being said we're going to take a quick break and we'll be back in a few as we get closer to parachute deployment [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and so this is a view from that WB 57 airplane you were looking at dragons freaking across the sky on its reentry through the Earth's atmosphere aiming for a splashdown in just a little a while from now so it's pretty exciting that we get the shot right now as it is our first view from planet Earth of the Dragon capsule since it lifted off from Cape Canaveral just several days ago I will say this is this is a pretty rare treat to be able to see this here and again this this video is coming from a NASA airplane that we're flying around that recovery zone there a WB 57 it's commonly used for a lot of atmospheric studies and other science missions but able to put a tracking camera on it to try and get this re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere today we're hearing that they should have a oso acquisition acquisition of signal back with the Dragon spacecraft right now it's about 46 kilometers in altitude yeah so just for orientation purposes if you've seen our launches previously you might be familiar with the angling of this as takeoff reminder this is re-entry the plane is below the Dragon spacecraft and the camera is looking upward as it's coming over the spacecraft so it looks like from the orientation of the the imagery there that dragon is going up when in fact it is it is still coming back down towards Earth and again just keeping you on the timeline so we actually acquired signal about a minute ahead of when it was expected where we're gonna be looking for those initial drogue chute deployments at about 41 minutes after the hour so after dragon gets a little bit lower down we're gonna be keeping an eye out you're gonna see the drogue chutes deploy initially followed by those four main parachutes much larger and able to slow the vehicle down for a much softer splashdown in the ocean we should be getting that drogue drogue chute deployment in just about two minutes now I just heard that we're now below 30 kilometers and if you're just now tuning in this is dragon this is dragon coming home this is from a camera onboard a chase plane there at the the landing zone over the Atlantic about 200 or so nautical miles off the coast of Florida we're under 30 kilometers continuing to descend the next milestone we're going to be looking for is parachute deployment man Haron were now about 20 kilometers in altitude the Dragon spacecraft continuing to descend it's now subsonic so already starting to slow down thanks to the error breaking basically slamming into that of its atmosphere causes a lot of friction and allows the vehicle to eventually reach its terminal velocity basically and then those parachutes are going to kick in to parish disappointment so those drug shoots through the initial slowing and then they're ultimately going to pull out the four main parachutes responsible for really slowing the spacecraft down prior to that flashing you can hear cheering appear at SpaceX headquarters as the employees that have gathered around our Mission Control Center are sharing the same view as you what a quarter shot of Dragon coming back down [Applause] from the main like that begins you capsule more air further decelerating the dragon vehicle down to the Atlantic Ocean really can't ask for a more picture-perfect shot than Matt yes all four shoots now deployed it's gonna continue to descend it's gonna continue to slow down and then ultimately splashdown in the atlantic fair we're now under a kilometer in altitude just about 750 meters to go in case if you're just joining us you can see on your screen there dragon re-entering there has just me entered the Earth's atmosphere after departing from the International Space Station we have a gorgeous shot of for healthy parachutes deployed and slowing the vehicle down as it is approaching the surface of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida and it's continuing to descend under those shoots we just passed 500 meters everything continuing to look good view reports to all the flight control teams now we're at about 400 meters and just passing 300 meters continuing to descend we might be right on time that we were planning on splashing down at about 5:45 a.m. Pacific and we're getting real close to that bingo time just passed 200 meters and we have confirmation that dragon is now under 100 meters as 100 meters above the 8th the surface of the ocean next ups been standing by for splashdown [Applause] and there we have confirmation of slash now back home and you can see on the screen are two fast notes racing out to the capsule now in recovery that splash sound came right on time 5:45 a.m. Pacific 8:45 a.m. over on the east the teams that have been ready and waiting they were stage just a few nautical miles away they're gonna start moving in now you can see those two fast approached already speeding their way towards the castle [Applause] well there's still a little bit more work to be done at this point like you said the recovery team has to safe the vehicle and then lift it on to the recovery vessel however obviously by the excited cheers here at Mission Control the splashdown is an enormous event for us in terms of the safe reentry or to do the safe return to Earth from the International Space Station that's right and you'll notice two boats on their way one boat actually responsible for beginning to save the vehicle and get it ready to go up onto the boat the other ones going to go off and collect those parachutes as those four main chutes actually get jettisoned away from the spacecraft as soon as the vehicle detects that it splashed out in the water but if you've missed it I'm really sorry because that was really cool but dragon did splashdown at 5:45 a.m. Pacific time 8:45 a.m. over there on the East Coast where they're now moving in on Dragon spacecraft in the water ready to recover it exactly so like we said the recovery team has been ready and waiting for dragons place for to me for a dragon splashdown it's been quite the morning evening Dan and I have been here since yesterday night bringing you coverage from dragon departure from the International Space Station Space Station now all the way down to splashdown so it's a great next milestone and we are excited to bring you coverage of the recovery operations as well but we have a few minutes before that happens so I'm we're going to take a break momentarily and we will continue bringing coverage as the recovery operations progressing [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so we're gonna take a quick break from the operations because right now we have Benji Reed he's the director of the Commercial Crew mission management here at SpaceX Benji first off congratulations successful splashdown successful ended M&R demo1 what's it been like to watch through this mission what are your thoughts what are you looking forward to have you had a chance to catch her breath no thank you for having me up here to be honest I'm kind of shaking and I'm super you know excited it was an incredible journey to get to this moment the teams have just done an amazing job both the SpaceX and the NASA teams jointly it's fundamentally this is like a great day for the nation for spacex from nasa for all of us really for the world I think it was Ann who said this is the first time in 40 years that we have a spacecraft designed for humans to fly and not only did she fly and go to the space station do everything she was supposed to do but brought her home safe and sound why end it here in the Atlantic just amazing I can't believe how well the whole mission is done I pretty much anything on every point everything's been nailed all the way along particularly this last piece you know we're all very excited to see as we go through re-entry and parachute drogue deployed and maim deploy splashdown everything happened just perfectly right on time the way that we expected it to the second it was and so you know as a team SpaceX you know we're here we're just super honored to have the opportunity you have done this mission who have worked with NASA to work through this you know in demo one is fundamentally this first major milestone and our process toward certification I always like to remind everybody that like this is a whole system right there's crew dragon but there's the Falcon that's going to be certified to fly humans there's also all the ground systems the operations our entire Factory and production system everything that we do is being certified fail to fly astronauts safely and this is a huge step towards that you know is they kind of look back over what happened over the last few days which is seems incredible to me and really it's the culmination of years of work to get us just to this day we had launch crew dragging deployed beautiful free flight one of things it's hard to test when you're when you're on the ground is how microf how fluids work in microgravity so things like the the prop system at all of the and and and what's amazing is that worked just well we're just like we expected we got the station we've docked and you know it's the first time I think in history that a commercial vehicle and also an American vehicle has docked autonomously yet International Space Station so that's super cool loaded with all kinds of sensors and all kinds of tests that we did we all met with rebuilt ripley yeah you know she's loaded with sensors so we can understand exactly all the forces it'll happen on the crew as they come as if they're launched and sent to station come home Bobby retrieves that's who exciting undocking of course some more free flight and then we came home jettison the trunk hmm close the nose cone and then again like I said just beautiful parachute deployment everything the way we expected all of these gazillions of tests that we've been doing on parachutes all of the analysis and work that we've done on understanding the aerodynamics of reentry and coming home everything is just wonderful the important thing now is we take all this data that we've learned we love data right so we got to do so we take all that great data and we're going to apply that to the next steps so what's coming up next I think si believe it or not is excited and like still shaking as I am about this return there's a lot more to do right because our ultimate goal is to be able to continue to staff Space Station right and provide astronauts rides up to space give them a safe safe place to be safe place to come home in and and do crew rotations every six months so how do we get there so we finished demo one milestone next up we take that data we apply it we learn from it we're gonna go to our in-flight abort test similar to that pad abort test that we did a few years ago except this time we put the dragon it actually the same dragon that we flew on demo one we're going to take that put it on top of a falcon 9 launch it did it going super fast into test conditions and then and then escape it off of the rocket and again do the same thing bring it home safely not as parachutes land it in there and then from there after we get that done we go to demo 2 and that's kind of like the big prize right because that's going to be sending sending Bob and Doug you know our astronauts and our partners and our friends sending them up on dragon taking them to the station safely bring them home safely and then with that done we'll go through final full certification and start those six months rotation missions which we're just all so excited about you know it's important to take kind of case step back and think about all of what it took to get here and all the work from all the joint teams NASA and SpaceX all the support that we've had from you know friends and family and really I think the most important thing is that on behalf of all of the 6,000 people here at SpaceX we really want to thank NASA we want to thank the space station the international partners and thank the American public for their support and partnership as we go through this we're really proud to be part of this endeavor thank you for being here with us it is early Friday morning here and Hawthorne so for those of us that work here at SpaceX we still got a full workday going and obviously you've already been working on demo2 for a while even though today have was the demo1 day so I'm sure that you like me we'll continue our work and start talking about the next step that we've been working on - thank you so much for being here with us congratulations to your team as well on the success of the last week really it's been awesome - for us to be able to share the hard work of all SpaceX employees with the public so with that being said thanks for being here we're going to take a quick break as we bring you more coverage of the recovery operations which you can see is ongoing on you're seeing there on the left so stick around we'll be back in just a couple a while even though today how was the demo one day so I'm sure that you like me will continue our working demo to start talking about the next step that we've been working on thank you so much for being here with us congratulations to your team as well on the success of the last week really it's been awesome - for us to be able to share the hard work of all SpaceX employees with the public so with that being said thanks for being here we're going to take a quick break as we bring you more coverage of the recovery operations which you can see is ongoing on your screen there on the left so stick around we'll be back in just a couple [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] right now we're waiting to get some video back from those recovery teams out there in the Atlantic for now that we do have another guest for today's broadcast NASA Administrator Jim Bryden Stein who's standing by over at NASA headquarters in Washington DC so I'll send it over to you mr. Brydon Stein thoughts about today's mission what this means for NASA and what we have to look forward to in the future absolutely this is an amazing achievement in American history in fact I said on a press conference at 4:00 in the morning after it launched that this was the dawn of a new era in American human spaceflight and really in the spaceflight for the entire world because of all of our international partners on the international space station but this achievement expands many administration's it spans many NASA administrators I want to start by by thanking Mike Griffin who was the NASA Administrator that really caught this program going during the George W Bush administration and of course Charlie Bolden was the administrator for eight years under President Barack Obama he kept this program strong and then of course Robert Lightfoot was immediately preceded me and here we are today with with this amazing achievement and the current President President Trump his his budgets for NASA have been as strong as as they have been in my adult lifetime so this really is an American achievement that spans many many generations of NASA administrators and in fact you know over a decade of work by the NASA team so I want to congratulate first of all the NASA Commercial Crew program all of the amazing engineers that have been involved from the very beginning I want to thank of course the amazing achievement of SpaceX and their entire team and the vision of Elon Musk and what he has done to help really rejuvenate this this very inspirational moment for the this new era in American human spaceflight so this is really a animae an amazing achievement for all of America but it's not just for all of America right now it goes back in time there are so many people that that deserve credit and and and and really what's unique now is that NASA can be a customer and and I know there's a long way to go we launched an uncrewed spacecraft here of course we have demo to which will be a crewed spacecraft in between now and then we have a pad abort that we that we need to test as well and so these are all these are all capabilities that that that are leading to a day where we are launching American astronauts on American Rockets from American soil I have heard when I was a member of Congress I heard over and over again how do we keep constancy of purpose because it seems like we lurch from one administration to the next and changing visions and changing budgets how do we keep constancy well this is a perfect example of a program when we talk about these things that NASA does it takes in many cases decades to achieve this kind of capability and the constancy of purpose here for all of these years is important but now NASA can be a customer we can be one customer of many customers for human spaceflight in what we believe will be a very robust commercial marketplace for space operations and we're going to have numerous providers that are going to compete on cost and innovation and of course that's how we're able to do what we've seen now where Rockets are being reused the idea that we can reuse rockets and drive down cost and increase access to space just an amazing capability for our country and amazing capability for the world just like we reuse airplanes there's gonna come a day when we're reusing rockets and spaceflight is going to become more routine we're not there yet we have a long way to go but this is an amazing an amazing achievement in this path to really a sustainable return to the moon quite frankly which is my charge the president has given me to get us back to the moon so we're driving down costs for low-earth orbit we're commercializing low-earth orbit not just with launch but also eventually with space stations with human activities where NASA can be a customer for human activities and low-earth orbit and then we can use the taxpayer resources that that are bestowed upon us we can use those resources to do exploration to go further to go back to the moon sustainably where we can stay at the moon and ultimately go on to Mars and and this is this is one small piece and that really grand vision but it this is no small piece this is an amazing achievement in the history of the United States of America and it just really exemplifies what we can achieve when we maintain that constancy of purpose all right and thank you administrator Jim Bryden Sun again joining us just there from NASA headquarters over in Washington DC we are still waiting to get some views from all the recovery teams they are so in that recovery process again we expected it to be between 30 minutes in an hour until they get the Dragon capsule back up on the boat so before we do get those feeds back we're gonna head out to JSC real quick the Johnson Space Center in Houston where we have a few more folks standing by including Steve stich who is the deputy program manager for NASA's Commercial Crew program we also have Mike Hopkins a NASA astronaut and one of those astronauts already assigned to a future dragon mission and then mr. kenny Todd he's the operations integration manager for the International Space Station so guys I'll send it over to you real quick to offer us your thoughts on how this missions unfolded and what's ahead in the future hey thank you Dan hey it's great to be here representing Commercial Crew program just what an outstanding day to be part of our program you know we let our contracts in 2014 for these first missions and to sit here today and talk about demo1 and how great the flight went and what we're gonna learn from it it's just amazing I'd like to congratulate the SpaceX team phenomenal job getting the vehicles ready and executing the flight our whole NASA team that worked the mission if you just think about the enormity of what happened in this flight and all the that went into it getting the pad refurbished at 39a getting the flight control room set up getting the vehicles built getting the Falcon 9 ready all the analysis all the mission support that went into it the sims and the practice leading up to this flight over the last year or so just been a tremendous job I would say one of the things that we learned during this flight is the the great relationship we have between the program and SpaceX I would say our teams work seamlessly back and forth with SpaceX not only in the lead-up to the flight but in how we manage the flight through the dragon mission management team and then also working with Kenny Todd and the space station program Space Station program did a phenomenal job supporting our our program while we were docked to station on the way to station and the international partnership as well so a really great great opportunity for this mission the last 24 hours have been exciting for us you know we closed the hatches yesterday around noon got into the undock today about 131 a.m. did a few small separates to get away from station if you watched that on NASA TV that was that was flawless did about three separate us to get down below station executed the deorbit burn at about 652 a.m. Central time and then landed at just a few minutes ago at 7:45 the vehicle was doing well the the recovery crews are out there on the scene they've already been around the spacecraft and made sure it was secure for personnel you might have seen that one of the parachutes happened it was a very calm day with very low sea States and low winds one of the chutes kind of landed on the Dragon capsule there already got that off so that's going really well it'll probably take 32 minutes to maybe an hour to get it back on the ship but then when you kind of look overall at this mission it was a great dress rehearsal for demo 2 we learned a phenomenal amount in the pre-launch timeframe about how to load the vehicle and thinking forward to how we'll put the crews in the vehicle you know the asset profile for this flight we practiced the exact profile that mike hopkins and others will fly very soon Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken we had the abort system these crew escape system and Dragon actually enabled for this flight and we were able to to see how that worked and we'll get the data back and look at those triggers and how it performed you know of on-orbit we got a lot of great data on the vehicle in terms of the thermal performance power performance the vehicle really did better than we expected and then the rendezvous was was phenomenal as we came in checked out those sensors the link to space station work the command leak watching the vehicle come in and then have a real precise docking and seeing how the docking system performed so that was phenomenal and then during the attached phase of course we had cargo ops which will do the same thing on both demo two and then the crew one and other missions and then we did a robotic survey of the of the vehicle to look at the thermal protection system and other systems and and that went really well I will say one thing this mission you know it was only six days long it was a sprint from start to finish and and thinking about you know where we've been in operations in that sprint I think Kenny would probably tell you the same thing it was just a phenomenal job by the team and then of course today you know the undocking watching how those systems performed that went flawless it's a very tight sequence between undocking and the deorbit burn how the nosecone performed how the deorbit burn was executed in the entry was was phenomenal we did have Riley on board a test dummy and that's going to give us a lot of important data for the accelerations during both the ascent phase and then the entry phase under the parachutes and then landing so we'll collect that data and look at that you know over the next few weeks we'll be doing post Lite reviews in fact just next week we'll have one for for the launch vehicle in the ground segment at KSC we'll start reviewing that and then subsequently we'll do reviews with SpaceX on the orbit phase of the mission this flight really sets us up well for the rest of the year the very vehicle that's that's in the water in the Atlantic today will be the in-flight abort vehicle and so one of the first things that will happen is the vehicle will come back to KSC and and go over into the processing area and start getting refurbed for for the in-flight abort test which should be in the in the summer front timeframe in the June time frame and then demo two vehicles at Hawthorne getting built for the first crewed mission that's in progress and going well that work has continued all through the flight so that'll be a busy year for us for SpaceX within flight aboard and the June time frame and then demo to later in the year with the first crewed mission I don't think we saw really anything in the mission so far and we've got to do the data reviews that that you know would preclude us having the crewed mission later this year and then after that you know it's a busy time in our program also if you look in the in the April timeframe we're getting ready for the orbit flight test for Boeing and that will happen very soon and so our program will transition after this after this mission and the data reviews into preparing not only for in-flight abort and demo2 but also the orbit flight test the uncrewed flight test for boeing and that'll be coming up in the in the April timeframe spacecraft 3 which is the Boeing vehicle is coming together at the Commercial Crew processing facility down in Florida and they're in the middle of a bunch of very critical testing right now at a null segundo to verify that's the spacecraft can work successfully in space and then later on this year we'll have the crewed flight test for Boeing as well so if you just look at all the activities and Commercial Crew it's a super busy time in addition to this flight we did in the last few weeks we did parachute tests for SpaceX and Boeing and so if you look at all the activities to get ready for flying our crews it's just a very exciting time so again congratulations to our to our SpaceX team and all the NASA people across the country that worked so hard for many many years on this flight it really sets us up for the rest of the year and it's a super exciting time to be in Commercial Crew and I'll turn it over to hopper all right thanks team so on behalf of the astronaut office and the crew I'd like to also extend our congratulations to the SpaceX team to the Commercial Crew team to really all of NASA and to everyone that was involved in this this major milestone on returning human launch and landing capabilities back to US soil I think that's that's very exciting but as you can see on the on the video of the vehicle work is still ongoing the every procedures process is still ongoing and I'm personally very anxious to hear how I think its Ripley is feeling after they pull her out of the capsule and get her back onto the recovery vehicle in terms of some some major takeaways from from a crew perspective I think one of the things that we're very excited about from this dm1 mission is for the first time we've gotten to see an indian test and so now we've we've brought together the people the hardware and all the processes and procedures and gotten to see how they all work together and and that's very important on this as we as we move towards putting people on board the vehicle and and as Steve also said of course we're very interested in seeing the data my suspect there's going to be some lessons learned some improvements some changes that we're gonna have to make from this that's that's all part of the the testing process in terms of what's ahead for the crew so for all of the crew including the dm2 crew Bob and Doug and and crew one myself and Victor Glover and then the backup crew Chelle Lindgren we're all going to be following very closely the in-flight abort test as well as the the procedures the training to get ready for that DM 2 mission we also have a lot of verification testing final verification testing that will all be involved in as well as test subjects for that specifically for for Bob and Doug is dm2 of course they're going to start focusing even more on on that training for the DM 2 mission they've got after this mission they've got a lot less runway in front of them so it's it's gonna start moving I think a lot quicker for the for the crew 1 crew the team Victor and I and and even for Chell as the backup we've got a lot of training not only for a dragon but also for ISS our our mission is to not only get up there and return safely but is actually to do some work for the ISS program while we're there and so that means we've got to do all of the training for being able to do the spacewalks and being able to operate the robotic arm and maintain the station and do that critical science that's that's been going on for guys over 18 years now I'm pretty pretty amazing so that's what's ahead for us I guess finally I'd like to just kind of emphasize that that this mission this this amazing week that we've had is really just one small step in this very methodical build up approach that we've been going through that the program has laid out that the company has laid out in order for us to put people on board these vehicles and get them up and back to the station and so again congratulations to the entire team and over Kinning thanks hopparoo and just about any conversation you're gonna have today with anybody around here it's going to start with a congratulations and so I'll certainly offer mine to steve stage cathy leaders the Commercial Crew program just phenomenal effort it's not easy doing what what this programs had to do for the last several years and and to finally see see the product of that has just been been incredible for the last week and and our friends out at SpaceX Minzy read already Matthew's the team out there we've been working with them for the better part of a decade doing commercial cargo services and that's we we know that team they're there is every bit excited about human spaceflight as we are and and their passion shows it shows whenever they they launch a vehicle it shows whenever they bring a vehicle home there's just a lot of excitement around that and it's it's quite invigorating for a lot of us to see that kind of passion it really is cool so anyway - Benji and the team at SpaceX certainly we we we pass along our congratulations from the space station program and we'll certainly look forward to seeing you guys again soon as far as the milestones the things we got to do while while the the crew dragon was on board one of the things from a station program that we're really looking to do was to check out the the interface that we installed here a couple of years ago on the front end of PMA - to ensure that that our latches worked properly interfacing with the dragon that we were able to flow flow power through the interface all of that worked just perfectly and so for us we feel like we're in a good position going forward to support the Commercial Crew program and and that we don't have anything else at least on the front end of the PMA - that we need to worry about going forward we are later this year going to install another docking adapter up on the on the node - zenith port which will give us two two ports - to dart to dock the Commercial Crew vehicles and so we're excited to get on get on with that activity later on this year so as far as the team I talked to our team earlier this week and I said I'm probably in about a week from now we'll we'll forget that we had a crew dragon on board just because of what what lies in front of us and and and and that is that we have a new crew coming up later later this this coming week on Thursday we'll see the launch of 58 Soyuz from from Baikonur and so we're excited about that the team has already started to deploy there the crews there and ready to go and so we're excited to to get get the crew back up to size of six again again just gives us more flexiblity the opportunity to do more science and and work on the backlog that we have on board so so we're excited about that and one of the first things we're gonna going to be tackling as soon as we get back up there creo 6 is a set of EBA s we've call it a triple EBA because like it sounds it's a set of threee bas we're gonna do three of them in about 16 days and so right after hatch open we're gonna be hard at work trying to trying to put the final plans in place for for those EBA s and then shortly after that we've got a couple of cargo vehicles coming up in fact another SpaceX vehicle and also a Northrop Grumman Cygnus as is coming onboard as well during the month of April so there's a lot going on again we're we're very excited about what's happened this weekend and next week we'll go go tackle some of the the stuff that's coming forward but at least today and and for this weekend we want to celebrate this accomplishment with the Commercial Crew program and the folks from SpaceX and and and Bascom to go that along with them and enjoy it it was it was quite a quite a few days here at Dan so with that I'll hand it back to you all right Thank You Kenny Mike and Steve over there in Houston thanks for those words and now we're gonna get back to the action we're getting some views back of that recovery of the Dragon spacecraft the teams are in place and now we're just waiting for it to make its way out of the recovery ship exactly so now that dragon has flashed down into get planted ocean the recovery team is going to go through a number of steps as we recovered the Dragon spacecraft and lifted on to the recovery ship now in case if you're joining us well just real quick you can see on your screen there a live shot of dragon recovery the capsule bobbing in the sea there with the dragon team working on those recovery operations in case you are just joining us the mission has gone very smoothly so far today dragon successfully splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean just several minutes ago 5:45 a.m. Pacific 5:45 a.m. so gosh I can't believe how late in the morning it is already time flies and about 240 nautical miles away from Cape Canaveral approximately six hours prior to splashdown dragging the autonomously undocked from the International Space Station completed a series of departure burns jettisoned its trunk section and performed its final burn the deorbit burn and placed itself on a trajectory toward the Atlantic Ocean and this is actually a replay of that final descent from just a little bit earlier this morning at this point dragon was under the 2 drogue chutes and those were responsible for all of that initial slowing down and they also were responsible for pulling out the main parachutes which you can see in the replay here and those four main parachutes deployed successfully we heard from Benji and also the teams during the action that they went exactly as planned everything kind of happening exactly on the time line two but that all came after dragons successfully re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and those parachutes were deployed and now though we're on to the final part of dragons journey as it's pretty soon gonna get lifted out of the water and placed on to the recovery boat so again this is a replay of the re-entry and splash calm that we witnessed live several minutes ago a gorgeous shot of those lovely full parachutes as they are slowing the Dragon capsule down to the Atlantic Ocean yeah it's already been 45 minutes Wow it feels like yeah that's that splashdown was 5:45 a.m. Pacific 8:45 a.m. so a little bit later in the morning over there in the East Coast when dragons splashdown again you have about 200 or so is that their nautical miles out from Port Canaveral if you've been following along with our mission this week you already know that we don't have actual humans on board just strictly our anthropomorphic test device she has lots of sensors placed around the body I guess you would say inside the suit there's a microphone inside as well yeah so this will give us lots of really cool data about the g-forces and what the test device experienced during launch and docking and re-entry however as with all steps so far in our demo 1 mission our teams will be covering the full steps in the recovery process as if it were an actual crewed mission in order to prepare for our first time with Nesterov and with NASA astronauts on board the you saw earlier that the recovery fast boats have went very quickly to the splashdown point go searcher the main recovery vessel followed along quickly which you can see in your screen right now I just it's a picture-perfect day so it's it's it's pretty great so we're gonna be watching as the recovery vessel gets closer to the Dragon capsule and we'll be able to see it get lifted out of the out of the ocean that's a beautiful shot there so our recovery crew has performing already performed the safety person the safety checks that they do after splashdown the vehicle itself Safet itself as well as soon as it detected that it was in the water and the team made sure it was safe for her to approach the Dragon spacecraft and then upon that immediate detection of landing dragon automatically released all those main parachutes and that just prevents the wind from catching them and potentially pulling or dragging the spacecraft across the water and those parachutes also get recovered another one of the fast approach boats was tasked with that immediately after splashdown following that success that successful parachute cutaway dragon automatically saves any of the pyrotechnics still present on the vehicle and it can also automatically perform a couple of additional miles of minor system configurations the astronauts if they were on board would remain seated so Ripley obviously hasn't gotten them right now on the coat but buckled her seat belt yet the astronauts if they were on board would remain seated and they stay in their suits at this point but the Dragon spacecraft has air conditioning onboard and that helps keep the temperatures in check inside the spacecraft and the communication system on board also remains powered so the crew still has their two-way communication as they are just kind of sitting there in the capsule waiting for the teams to move in and pull them up on the boat if I were an astronaut inside the capsule right now I would imagine this point to be kind of like when they're going through a car wash you know you're you're safe you can talk you can you're comfortable in your enclosed environment but you can't open the door just yet there's a lot of water yeah now it'll take it took a little bit over ten minutes for the recovery to to complete their safety checks and they completed their preparation activities and right now as we can see they are making progress toward being able to lift dragon up and on to the recovery vessel as part of the preparation for this lift we saw earlier that a member of their come what an actual a member of the recovery team actually climbs on top of the capsule and that was in order to attach the dragons hoist rings and connect the lifting line so a lot of physical requirements for that particular role I probably would not be able to do it fall right off most likely but it's really cool to be able to see our recovery team has been practicing live in action fair with his beautiful shots from the Atlantic Ocean and so for now we're just gonna continue of getting these great views from the boats out there this view it's actually from one of the other vessels that traveled out to the recovery zone this is from the go navigator and the combined NASA teams with a number of managers flight docks another personnel that will be involved in kind of the game day operations when we have crew on board the spacecraft they're on the go navigator like we've mentioned before the ship that you see there is fully equipped for medical checkout if we did have astronauts on board dragon today as soon as they aggress from the side hatch they would be taken into the medical quarters and given that a medical examination just to make sure that everything is good and everyone's in good health there's a helicopter pad on top of it additionally due to unpredictable sea conditions whenever we splashdown it might take the crew a couple days to get out and back from the splashdown point and so the ship is also capable of housing the recovery crew for a couple of weeks realistically if if absolutely necessary obviously a long time to be on them on on a ship in my opinion but it is it's fully equipped and I've been on that ship myself and it's just incredible to me as someone that keeps my eyes towards the sky and not necessarily I you know water ocean sickness it's just incredible to me that we're able to have a vessel like this in our fleet really when you think of the full encapsulation of what a mission requires it's not just going up it's coming back down and back onto land safely as well and this vessel is a great example of how we're able to do that [Applause] and as mentioned just a little while ago so this is actually a view from the go navigator that's one of the two ships that have traveled out to the to the splashdown zone one of the NASA personnel on board that ship is Shane Kimbrough and he's actually the lead for all of the various NASA recovery teams and pretty much responsible for overseeing all the crews needs and all their recovery all their quarantine before launch he likes to say they I think he told us they kind of belonged to him once there once they're in quarantine and getting ready so he's actually joining us now via a satellite phone from that ship Shane thanks for calling in real quick how's everything looking out there with dragon recovery hey Dan great to talk to us from the go navigator everything's going really well it was just beautiful seeing it come in on the drugs and then the main parachutes and then obviously the splashdown you guys are probably seeing video now the ghost searcher is getting pretty close to getting the capsule and getting it on deck and so Shane what was the trip out there like I know we're kind of at a landing zone a little bit further away than when we have crew actually on board but how's everything looks so far everything's been great the crews taking great care of us it was about a 30 hour journey to get here to the splashdown zone but we woke up this morning knowing we're only a couple hours away from the all the action happening so that was really cool and now it's it's great to be involved in the recovery of demo once that's awesome to hear it was one thing for us to be able to watch it from Mission Control what was it like watching dragon splashdown with your own eyes Shane absolutely incredible everybody that there's a lot of excitement building on the boats you know the 30 minutes or so prior to entry and then once you know one person saw that the droves open everybody's yelling employment and all excited it's really really neat and from our perspective it looks absolutely perfect I'm not sure what the data will show otherwise but it looked really amazing we have a beautiful day out here very calm she's a good natural better weather and so Shane obviously didn't come down this capsule today but you have come down on a capsule but on land what's this experience being out on the ocean been like how does that really compare from when you touch down over in Kazakhstan yeah good question I'm there sitting here talking it's been what 45 50 minutes and splashdown and I'm thinking you know what there's a crew in there and that's a long time to be waiting for to get picked up so we'll tighten up that timeline a bit just know and the crews probably not going to feel very well at this point and the sooner we can get you up and get them on deck and then eventually back on land will help their recovery process all right so we're continuing to get these views what's what's kind of ahead for you and the rest of the teams I know you said it's going to be about a thirty minute or a thirty hour boat ride back into Harbor yeah that'll be probably about the same going back I think we'll be out here another hour so maybe two hours just getting everything situated and the SpaceX team on go searcher once they give us the go then we'll start heading back to port and we're supposed to arrive late Saturday night back into Port Canaveral all right well Shane we'll let you get back to watching all the operations I know you got a job to do other than talking to us but I do really appreciate you calling in all the way out there in Atlantic it was a great splashdown and we'll see you when you're backing Houston sounds great thank you guys enjoy the rest of the scenes out there as you're getting them from go navigator take care not again that was NASA astronaut Shane Kimber oh he's out with the NASA teams we're on a boat watching as the ghost searcher gets a little bit closer looks like pretty soon they're gonna start reeling that dragon in and we're gonna get to see it go up onto the Dragon Nest so you saw a couple of seconds ago the shot in your screen of the back of the boat itself that is the cradle that you saw that's what we've been referring to as the nest it's designed specifically for the crew dragon design and that is exactly where once the lifting arms have lifted the capsule out of the water and it'll place it back down in that spot and then that is basically where if there were astronauts on board that is the position in which the they would be egressing from Alba the capsule looks like we're getting closer and closer to the capsules it should be in range as we've talked about it's expected to be about an hour or a little bit less post splashdown for the capsule to be back up on the boat and as you kind of heard Shane talk about really just want to try and get the crew out of there and in a more stable environment as quickly as possible and then you can actually start take the boat and start heading back into port and if you missed some of the the data earlier in the show they are a little over 200 nautical miles out to sea right now which is why we were hearing it's going to take them about 30 hours to come back in once we have crew on board that's not going to be the case they're going to be in much closer to land within about 20 or 24 nautical miles and so that gives you the option to be back in shore back ashore in just a couple of hours but just keep pointed out earlier there is a helipad on so if for any reason they needed to get the crew back much quicker they could actually airlift and bring them right back to dry land there the gap continuing to close sounds like operations are definitely picking up here in spacex headquarters if you started that but everything looking great so far we should have that dragon on the boat [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] we're continuing to watch Dragons recovery at this point the teams have already lowered the vessels hydraulic lift mechanism down into the water as they're getting ready to bring that dragon spacecraft up into the on deck translation system that SpaceX decided to call the nest and Dragon is going to remain in that nest during its journey back to the coast where it's gonna arrive at Port Canaveral Florida and we're expecting that to take about 30 hours or so for this mission it'll take them that long to make their way back because they're a little over 200 nautical miles out to sea but for crewed missions as we've said the landing zone is only gonna be a couple hours ride away from port and that's just so SpaceX can quickly get those returning astronauts back to dry land where things are a little bit stable and after you've been in microgravity for about six months you will probably appreciate that the capsule pretty soon though is going to get lifted and set into that nest and then they're gonna center and orient the vehicle and then dragon will eventually get translated translate it into the hangar aboard the ship so that the teams can open up the hatch and for missions with astronauts aboard we're almost at the point where the recovery team will be assisting the crew to get out of Dragon so we're almost there that would happen shortly after they get back onto the ship in aerospace terms we called out the crews egress from the spacecraft and under the typical circumstances of SpaceX recovery team is going to be helping out the crew of Dragon within one hour of yes you can see on your screen there dragon is getting closer and closer to the back end of the recovery ship to be the recovery ship just a minute or two ago we saw the crew member that was responsible for attaching all the appropriate rigging to the vessel jump off the capsule and back into the water and right now we're just waiting for dragon to lift up and out of the water and into the nest so they're facing us is what we called the side hatch and that is where as Dan just mentioned the astronauts would if we had astronauts on board today where they would be exiting the top hatch is what we use to connect to the ISS and that is currently hidden underneath the nose cone but like we said astronauts will be coming out of the side hatch yeah and we got a beautiful shot there now the hydraulic lift is coming back back towards us and it is preparing to lower the Dragon capsule into its nest like we said we are treating this demonstration mission with the recovery operations as if there were actual astronauts on board and of course before we were able would be able to open the hatch we would have to make sure that the spacecraft cabin pressure is equalized with the outside environment before doing so so once dragon is seated and you can hear some cheers behind me the remaining folks that we have here on the SpaceX team outside of Mission Control are cheering with the placement of dragon into the nest there as you can see you might also notice that the thermal protective system that we have on the outside of Dragon if you were watching during launch was a pristine white of course upon reentry like we mentioned before there was plasma of course as it re-entered through Earth's atmosphere so we have a we have a lovely toasted marshmallow there sitting in the nest of our recovery ship which is I just think it's just it's such a cool view now that we are we were bringing the dragon down and we are obviously recovering our rockets and it's just really cool to see that that evidence of return back to Earth is really wonderful yeah we had fantastic luck with the weather today the sea states were relatively calm by over porks only a couple of clouds dotting the sky had great views of Dragon all the way down under its parachutes even before its parachutes we saw just after that entry interface and we were getting some really cool views from the WB 57 airplane but with Dragon back on the boat that's about it for us we're just now at about the end of this mission so at this point is we talked about the recovery personnel would assist in the astronauts getting out of Dragon and those medical teams would be standing by and there's medical evaluation rooms on board but no people on board Ripley won't need them back all exam but they will be getting all of the data back from the sensors placed around roughly on that anthem morphic test device on board as they get all of the different g-forces that dragon was exposed to the sound environment everything that the crew would experience Ripley just experienced but this mission started just about six days ago with that early morning launch on March 2nd we had a successful approach and docking to the International Space Station did all of the demonstrations as expected for the mission it was docked for the last five days they tested dragons communications and power systems with the space station they unloaded about 400 pounds of cargo and loaded 300 pounds of cargo back on we have that undocking just a couple of hours ago as successful reentry for great parachutes and a splashdown in the landok ocean at 8:45 a.m. Eastern Time 5:45 a.m. for us and over here on the Pacific coast so it was really a fantastic mission it's been a huge honor for me to be out here at Hawthorne to share this with everybody and to share it with my SpaceX counterparts out here a successful mission the first successful test flight of NASA's Commercial Crew program to the International Space Station so as Dan said it's been an incredible honor to share this mission with the public all the teams are incredibly and thrilled with the success of this demonstration mission which of course paved the way for our first crewed flight later this year be sure to follow along with SpaceX and NASA on our social media for updates and next steps on the Commercial Crew program until next time see you then [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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