SCRUB: SpaceX & NASA Scrub Launch of Crew-6 to Space Station

[Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] you know it's a special day when we go live early it is time for SpaceX to launch the crew 6 mission to the International Space Station and we are watching a falcon 9 on pet 39a which will launch in yeah just under four hours now we will make sure until this countdown reaches uh it's zero time we will answer all of your questions until then and cover everything you need to see and know before the crew will reach orbit my name is Adrian bile for NSF and I'm your host today and I'm here in the studio together with Alicia Alicia how are you doing thrilled to be here with you guys super excited for crew six especially the three first timers on board and hello to everyone tuning in tonight especially those of you who maybe it's your very first launch welcome thank you for joining us and we uh sure uh have everybody on boards for today's launch because we are not only here in the studio with uh with two people but we also have Mr Michael Baylor in the background making sure that everything here is uh properly covered and we see all the amazing scenes today so hello Michael we also have Kevin Michael Reed in the background who's also doing that so we have two people here on Deck uh for for all the producing and directing and then we have loads of people in the field I will start with Mr Thomas Burkhart Thomas how is Florida oh it's a beautiful Florida night here Adrian thanks I'm actually here outside the Neil Armstrong operations and checkout building where we are awaiting those four astronauts to come out from their crew quarters after completing their suit up procedures and get ready to board some Teslas and make the ride over to path 39a so that's where I am starting my evening and we're looking forward to the launch later tonight yeah you really see like we will we will cover F cover every angle we can cover and you will not miss anything here we also have in the field a Chris gephard Chris how are you doing I am doing just fine getting ready to uh watch Steve Woody Sultan and Andre go to space tonight very good night there we go and I don't want to miss more people we have in the field here as well uh we have in the field level Julia Bergeron who will make photographs for for this launch as well as Sawyer Rosenstein who's in the field for us and we have also Steve in the field so we have like I feel like the whole Florida team basically is at the launch so uh yeah definitely an interesting and exciting day and before we start to answer your questions I want to throw to Chris gephard Chris do you mind giving us a mission overview of what we will see today not at all because today is the start of a six month long journey to the International Space Station for the crew six astronauts so uh today we will see Steve Bowen Woody hoberg Sultan alniadi and Andre fed uh fed yevi uh go in uh Boyd Dragon Endeavor capsule and head up toward the International Space Station overall the journey to the station will take approximately one day with a docking with a rendezvous and docking on the 28th with a liftoff on the 27th and they will then spend about six months aboard the International Space Station they will have about a week a Handover with the crew five folks before crew 5 returns and then everything is for crew six including all the science experiments that will take us out through roughly the September time frame on board the station um not exactly the plan that it was but this is the only early 2023 crew rotation flight to the International Space Station it was supposed to be two there was supposed to be a crude soyuz ms-23 vehicle that was to launch three new crew members up to the station but that one ended up launching uncrewed a bit earlier this week to replace the soyuz ms-22 which sprung a leak so only four people being rotated off the International Space Station in the first part of 2023 and the soyuz crew will stay for a full year departing in the September time frame so overall that's a brief overview of the mission but some pretty some pretty important points for this flight one it is a new booster it is b1078 making its first flight but it is not the first flight for the capsule this is endeavor's fourth flight the leader for the crew Dragon Fleet Endeavor previously flew demo 2 Crew 2 and Axiom one up to the International Space Station and is ready to go again but also this is crew 6 which means it is the sixth post certification mission for a dragon which means this is the completion of the original crew rotation contract with SpaceX and NASA there are many flights that have been added to it as part of a contract extension but crew six is technically the end of the very first contract for crew rotation that SpaceX had with NASA so overall a big night there we go and during this big night make sure to attack at NASA space flight in chat if you have questions we will make sure to answer everything we can during the next three and a half hours so you will uh for sure have some time to ask us questions here and before we do that and start answering questions I want to throw it to Elysia for some science overview of this mission do you mind giving us an up an overview of the signs that will be conducted by the crew 6 Mission absolutely so you know these crude missions are always so great there's so much science that they take up with them in their payload um and you know just being up there for six months allows them to do so much so crew 6 in particular is going to be doing actually 222 experiments they'll be specifically conducting a ton of human research programs focusing on astronaut health risks so things like altered immune systems while they're in space one of those things previously the European space agency's immunity assay tested immune functions so they would test them before and after a flight but now they actually have a special newly designed assay tube that will allow them to do those tests while they're in flight so that'll help to provide a bit more clarity for scientists just moving forward how to best counteract some of those immune deficiency changes while in space they're also going to be studying dietary things Woody hoberg actually mentioned he'll be eating a modified diet with more fish than usual extra lycopene that's a compound that's found in a lot of red fruits and vegetables so essentially the pigment that you know dyes your utensils in the kitchen orange you know when you have tomato sauce that stuff um they're also going to be doing space flight Associated neurocular syndrome test so that's an eye safety investigation since astronauts when they're in microgravity you know their eye pressure is always something that's of concern also vascular aging looking at how space flight affects the vascular system and something that's really exciting is they're going to be expanding on some experiments with these things called tissue chips which are these small bioengineered devices that mimic the function of human in organs in a 3D Matrix so things like the heart the brain the cartilage functions while they're on the space station so scientists can effectively model changes in organs that occur really over time spans of months or years while they're in space and then test them and how they react to treatments so two in particular they'll be looking at now are something called the Cardinal heart 2.0 so that'll be testing certain drugs to prevent changes in heart cell function and gene expression throughout space flight so looking at you know possible drugs to treat patient patients with heart related diseases and also the engineered heart tissues to test that will test for therapies that prevent space induced changes in the heart tissue so things that could potentially lead to cardiac disease so again you know things that are helpful here on Earth as well and then they'll also be really you know burning up the space station they're conducting some fire safety investigations so a continuation of some combustion research where they use the solid fuel ignition and Extinction Hardware insert or Sophie for the station's combustion integrated rack some new experiments that'll be burning solid fuel under relevant conditions like that to test how they can actually extinguish some spacecraft fires and also clean up those materials afterwards um that's important because they'll be looking at the flammability of materials used for projects and equipment in the future for space missions um and then also another experience that I think is fascinating they are going to be taking a look at the effect of human space missions on the space environment itself so near the end of the crew 6 Mission they're planning to do some Evas some spacewalks and while they're there they're actually going to be swabbing the outside of the space station near some of the life support system Vents and they'll be looking for microbial life so you know bacteria fungus and whatnot just to see if the ISS is actually releasing some of these microorganisms into space and if so how far they might travel so the samples once they return them to Earth they'll be doing some DNA DNA sequencing and some multi-gene analysis and this is important for planetary protection and really to limit some potential contamination from Earth when we go on to visit places like the moon and Mars and actually they specifically even cited uh Jupiter's moon Europa which hey you know um so that's really going to allow us to study more of these um extrema files these these microorganisms that are able to exist in the harshest of environments that you know we previously thought weren't even possible so yeah a lot of really cool science experiments coming up on this one for sure thank you for that overview and uh I can tease that we will have an interview at a later time which will also go a bit more in the science side of this Mission so stay tuned for that as well uh certainly lots of love for our designs here uh on the broadcast today and I want to start with some questions here and we will start with a question about the crew capsule here today which is uh how many Dragon V2s are they at this point and are there plans to build more also are there any operational dragon v Ones Still Chris do you mind taking that question not at all I'll take the second part of it first there are no dragon V1 still in operation that that line has been retired of the cargo crafts uh in terms of the Dragon V2s there are four crew vehicles uh Endeavor resilience freedom and oh boy endurance there we go um and then there are uh three or four uh cargo capsules that go up to the International Space Station right now the capsules are designed for five flights for certification but SpaceX wants to get each of them and seize a path to get each of them up to 15 flights for certified use of each individual capsule and there is word that there is a fifth capsule that is on the way SpaceX originally was going to build five then they said no four is enough and word on the street is that they will in fact build a fifth as well there we go uh then we have a question here about the uh UAE astronaut alienadi uh Hey NASA space flight will the UAE astronaut be doing some space walks with the NASA astronaut Alicia will is already known who will conduct the Evas for this mission assigned to those just yet um if anyone else knows that you can chime in I guess but he's definitely I'm going to be doing a lot of the experiments with them throughout it they've all been training together um you know for quite some time years now uh in order to do all of these together um but I know that's kind of going to be something that slated a little later on while they're up there there's some wiggle room um for Eva assignments they if they're if it's very specific tests like you're going out and you're installing a new solar array they usually train for that pretty extensively on the ground with both extra vehicular activity folks so the two people who actually go outside and the Iva are intra vehicular person who coordinates between the ground and the crew outside while doing that but there is a bit of cross training just in case you know like if someone pulls a muscle or strains something up there during exercise and they can't go out the hatch to do the airlock sometimes it's better to just swap out the crew member and go anyway and do it so yeah Chris funny you should mention that because that's actually that's something that they are planning to do um later on they're going to be getting some ISS roll out solar arrays the arosas and they will be upgrading those on the space station um and be doing those Evas to install them I think specifically the ones who I've been hearing talking about it the most are Steve Bowen the commander yeah and Woody hoberg the pilot yeah and if we can hear now see the uh new black uh crew Teslas that are standing here so uh just for a reminder in the previous missions we had the white ones here so apparently they changed them uh I do not believe we know why exactly they changed them but uh yeah new crew vehicles and they are waiting there and Thomas is uh standing by to watch the crew walk out as soon as it happens I can report that they also have a new license plate reference on the back so as they drive by we'll have to keep an eye out for that I think so you have not seen yet exactly what the license plate says no I have but I think those who are watching the livestream have to stay tuned and find out oh very good a very good point surprise reveal so so uh I'm looking forward to see what what kind of uh wording we have on the license plate again but they look cool I like them uh I uh I'm really looking forward to City Walker soon that's a question here by Travis which I want to throw over to Chris G which gives us the opportunity to talk about launch Windows to the ISS why so early uh no one has any control over it uh so the way you launched to the International Space Station is uh so from Florida and from Russia uh and from Japan this actually all works the same way for for the three nations that that do launch their own stuff up to it um there's only one trajectory you can go because in Florida you have to go northeast you can't go Southeast because of Bahamas land over flight in Russia you also have to go northeast because you can't overfly China and Mongolia uh and in Japan you can only go Southeast because you can't go northeast for Landover flight of that country so that gives you the trajectory you have to go out on and then the ISS trajectory when it passes over your launch site it passes over twice a day once going Northeast and once going Southeast but you have to align your launch time to that to that moment and for February 27 2023 from the Kennedy Space Center that is 145 and three seconds for the Falcon 9 local time and that is your liftoff time there we go so it's not to make sure that we all get the minimum amount of sleep it's just how it is I believe you can see some footage uh of the suitab of the crew right now yeah that was uh that was Andre fed yev uh who we saw origin who we saw first there the Russian Cosmonaut on this particular flight admission specialist number two for the mission there we go it's uh certainly in a very International Mission with uh yeah free free Nations uh involved here so um we are we might be very soon to the crew work out here at uh getting certainly very close and Let's uh track towards some more questions before that um but another question is how did the crew keep themselves entertained on a long trip to the station space Netflix Alicia would you have trouble to keep yourself entertained in space Oh my God if I was in one of those capsules I would be entertained every freaking second of that entire Mission are you kidding me I'd love to go into space but you know it's funny I remember when we were watching the crew 5-1 um was it Anna kakina I believe was was going in there and didn't look like she was falling asleep and she like slept through the whole thing she was so chill about it I would imagine though you know riding on top of a falcon 9 that would that'd wake you up pretty fast so no I I mean it's a while but it's not that long of a trip so I I don't know maybe they sing songs who knows I feel like the part of the mission that I'll get you is the couple hours you get to sit on the page like once you board yeah there's all that time built into finding troubleshooting stuff like that and if there's no troubleshooting you are just kind of sitting there for a couple hours and before the Rockets even Propel loading or anything like that so I feel like that's the minute that gets you and you might actually fall asleep shots on the mid deck used to fall asleep because they were passengers along for the ride and had nothing to do and and you can hear in some of the calm Loops too the the pilot and the commander would jokingly call down y'all awake down there uh at like five minutes to go yeah the worst seat on the shuttle oh man no windows I know oh sounds like my day but to answer your question about um entertainment uh the personalized iPads uh that they take up with them on the dragons have loaded entertainment um for example uh Chris samburski who was part of the inspiration 4 Mission um for SpaceX and dragon was watching Spaceballs as they were preparing for re-entry uh so there is there is entertainment baked into their baked into their personal iPads that they take with them yes and we I'm again I'm very on the zoom here right now on the on the Walker door so I'm not sure if that is a sign of imminent happening but we gotta Zoom so it's a sign that things are near yes yes it's very was a very slow Zoom to the door so it's like uh this has some yeah some some hype generating here right now so we might be very very close here and of course this is this is this is always exciting part of the crew launches because this is not something we usually get on on the uh on any other Falcon 9 mission of course so this is uh this is the reason why we go live at like four hours and not 45 minutes because there's a lot to talk about during this uh and here they come yes so that's a Woody on the left Steve on the right up front and behind Steve is Sultan alniatti and then behind Woody there is Andre from Ross Cosmos core on countdown I'll step into crew walkout we remain on schedule and Dan was just to call out day they remain on schedule for now which uh it's good to hear um but they of course have some video in the schedule as well so they can sometimes gain time we saw that before that sometimes they they are able to gain some time or have some extra wiggle room to to uh to uh yeah to um catch up on time if they for example have to leak check a little more longer or something like that okay so I don't know the exact anatomy of this building I have to admit here uh they're taking an elevator down I would imagine yes yes so the crew quarters are on one of the upper levels of this building it's not a very tall building it's like three four stories total um not very big but this is um uh but they take the elevator down to the bottom floor there and then there's a little bit of a hallway that they go down and then they emerge in the very famous uh uh very famous image that we see from that uh doorway nice love it that's a that's a needle right here so would I change it for every Mission though that I mean they have to right well they've been changing them for every mission to be fair haven't they oh yeah like somebody else said later Earth uh Earth or bust some of them said yeah the the license plates have been different I love that I wonder who picks them it's like SpaceX doing the jokes and uh and uh plates or is it like the astronauts realized like hey what what do you test them good questions yeah I I I'm actually curious about uh yeah I know but here we have the the families right uh standing by to say uh a goodbye to their their family members before they fly and I believe indeed they're standing in front of the door Yep they're just behind the doors yeah and you can see the armored personnel carrier behind there the security for them today and there's some there's also some price there we see a lot of people standing behind the barricade try to spot I know he's somewhere behind one of those barricades isn't he yeah like uh trying to find Thomas's uh it can be a game here I feel like but I have not been able to find Thomas yet uh let's hit one more question since it's related to what is happening here why do astronauts actually load so early into their capsules uh so Elysia why why are they already go into the capsule this early there's so many tests that they have to do they got to get them all strapped in they got to get them all safe they gotta seal it up and then there's just a whole long list of uh checks that they have to do technical checks to make sure everything is safe for them to actually light it and send it takes a while and uh you know there's always that funny story um with Alan Shepard uh you know he was up there in his capsule it took so long and he oh there they come he ended up having it oh they look all excited well for three of them it's their first time yeah I would be excited Steve is the only veteran of the flight the commander yeah so you're probably like oh I'm chill about this I did this before he's done it three times before yeah I would imagine it would be such a mix of emotions you know they've gone through so much training that they it's it's you know muscle memory I feel like at this point but also it's just it's real final you know these people have been training for years um Andre actually if I have he uh was selected in 2012 it's been over 10 years that he's been waiting to fly but yeah versus Sultan who was selected in 2018 as one of the first two emirati astronauts as part of their astronaut core yeah so yeah it's uh also if like this maybe like one of the emotional moments of this countdown for them since this is really like the saying goodbye for the moment to their families and uh lots of friends so uh yeah I feel like uh this this is after that it might be maybe get for them a bit more operational they're more on the flow but there's this is more private moment among a family interaction moment exactly exactly and I really appreciate that the new sort of tradition that has been started here because the the Apollo and the shuttle Crews never had their families right there where they were stopping and talking to them right they kind of came out they waved they did a little photo op and then they immediately got in the Vans to go out to the pad so taking this moment of seeing the the crews talk to their families talk to their loved ones and seeing those people go to the windows of of the of the cars and the Teslas and say that goodbye to them it it really reinforces the their whole entire reason why this happens and you can see um haza amansuri there on the left and Shannon Walker there on the right Hazard was the first time already astronaut in 2019 on soyuz ms-15 and Shannon Walker was part of the crew One mission to the International Space Station looks like there's Steve our commander today it looks like Steve will be in the in the first Tesla if I see this correctly uh pilot and Commander are usually in the first one and Mission Specialists are in the second one there we go just for for orientation here for folks who keep track of who who's where yes indeed so uh is there a scheduled time when they will start to drive to the pet yeah so they stay out here for about five-ish minutes and then they head out to the pad the timing is fairly um fairly sequenced but there is like a little wiggle room like if they're a minute earlier or a minute late leaving the O and C it's not like oh my gosh we're we're you know we're gonna blow the timeline or anything like that there is um there is some wiggle room built in here so yeah they'll stay out here for about five minutes total and then the cars will depart and I believe you just saw a SpaceX personal telling them yeah it is time to board the Teslas now well you can see Woody and Andre getting here we can see Andre getting into the test on the left Woody just went behind to get into the first one Steve's now in as his Sultan so I'll go in well here for for there for their trip to the launch pad yeah those new black Teslas are so cool I know right they had to match the ninjas yes oh my gosh they do it's really it feels more fitting also I feel like the the suits are more uh popping out now with the yeah with the uh with the dead contrast now so I like that and the wing doors are closing so uh yeah and then you can see the families going going up to the cars now the continuation of that new tradition and core on countdown displays are configured recruiting press and you can hear that that column continuing to configure Dragon uh for the cruise overall arrival and Ingress here so um teams equally working at the launch pad continuing Dragon preparations as the crew is about to depart so this is about a 20-minute drive from the onc out to launch complex 39a they will come up State Road 3 and then up to the Vehicle Assembly Building and then out to the Kennedy Parkway uh to pad 39a so all told about a 20 minute drive here for them quick question to Thomas do you wear a white shirt I believe you cannot answer it right now okay then I saw you one one just got the Thomas game and you can see that's Andre's uh kids and wife there talking to him and then you can see uh Steve's um Steve's family talking to him in Tesla number one it's really like and once that uh they start to drive how long is it to 239a actually how long is the drive uh 20 minutes we go of course ready for crew rivals and you can hear that dragon is ready for the crew and families are leaving so they will be on their way to the pad momentarily it's uh it's time to go we're supposed I believe that's also a real cool moment to drive on the pad and slowly start to see the rocket and there they go on their way out to the launch pad so you'll see several vehicles in front of them the beginning part of the security escort and then you will see a bunch of other um armored carriers and military vehicles behind them protecting them for the first part of the drive out to the launch pad um the Teslas however are the ones that will actually make the full and complete drive as they continue on their way the other vehicles will eventually peel off and not make the complete drive up the ramp with them oh we have a I think we have a POV of one of the cars like that that was interesting yep that is that's totally the lead the the lead Tesla with the with the camera up front just a funny people that usually watching our Starship streams this blue and red light in this case is not a road closure for testing well it is a road closure but this road is certainly closed yes oh and you can see the helicopter as well uh they're flying overhead as they uh head on out to the launch pad and I believe it is time to give some overview of the crew that is on board today so let's start with uh Stephen Bowen actually who is uh the first submarine officer to be selected as an astronaut he flew on sts-126 what sts-132 and sts-133 and I believe the sts-126 mission was part of the Assembly of the International Space Station uh and uh yeah and he did so far only 40 days in space it was a fairly short duration missions for his previous so this is like his first real long-term duration mission right Chris yes uh so all of his previous shuttle missions were up and down about roughly two week flights um so this is his first long duration stay in space and what is interesting about Steve Bowen as well is that um his third flight on 133 was not supposed to happen um he was a last minute replacement for um Tim kopra who was injured in a bicycle accident just weeks before the delayed launch of 133 and he was unable to fly because of that injury so they needed someone who still had training and was still up to date on everything and that was Steve who had flown the previous Mission 132 and he therefore became the only person in NASA history to fly back to back proof lights there we go quite uh definitely a commander of this Mission with a lot of experience and history in space flight and of course uh it's always good to have a Chris on on the webcast if you talk about the shuttle so and this is actually good you can see they are on the on-ramp now to State Road three so they are in route heading for the VAB in fact you can see the VAB in the dash cam there in the in the distance so they are on State Road 3 and headed for my camera right now and of course someone has come to stand directly in front of it is that a what does that a direct call out of them so they might move I I I I'm going to say that let me let me let me mute myself real quick let's get a big stick and start poking him yeah like a like a basically like a selfie stick from like sorry this is a camera hey you see them going down that pathway yeah um let's move on to okay Warren Holberg also called Woody uh who reported for Duty in August 27 as part of the 27th astronaut candidate class he has a degree in Aeronautics and astronautics from MIT he also has a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science and he is a rookie as you can see Zero days in space so far so that will increase quite a lot today by kind of infinity you could say yes it will it will be exponential growth yes um and let's go to the next rookie so from here on out we only have rookies here uh let's move on to Mission specialist Sultan al-nayadi from the United Arab Emirates he's also a rookie on this Mission and uh the uh the second astronaut from the United Arab Aramaic uh my God I can talk today Arab Arab Emirates uh that will go to space right yes uh so uh Sultan was one of two original astronaut Corps members for the United Arab Emirates along with hazel amansuri mansori flew first on soyuz ms-15 and Sultan al-niadi will be the second but not the last because next or later this year on Axiom 2 we have two more emeriti astronauts uh who will be flying and they are both from the second group that was selected for that so the UAE is really making a name for itself um and they are really an agency to watch because not only are they getting long duration missions to the International Space Station without being one of the major Partners they are also getting two seats on the next Axiom Mission and they have stepped up to be a partner in the Gateway module working in the Gateway working with Northrop Grumman to develop one of the primary modules for the Gateway so the UAE is really an agency to watch because they emerged onto the scene and have not stopped and really truly want to be a part part of everything that is going on and really good to see them represented on this flight as well because it is the first long duration mission of the Arab world into space so that is very important for all of them as well yeah suddenly also making use of crew Dragon because uh three of the astronauts will then fly on crew Dragon right so there's uh they certainly use it of that of that new capabilities that come with that um and last but not least we have Mission specialist Andre oh I see them keep talking I see I see the convoys starting to arrive though Andre Philly yeah yes uh who is from Ross Cosmos and will be a mission specialist on this Mission and as we said before another rupee on this Mission so uh yeah certainly a lot of experience to gain on this mission right and today today is actually his birthday also we should say happy birthday to him yes his 42nd birthday to be true to be fair that will be a special candle for him oh yeah although technically his birthday ends an hour and 45 minutes before he lifts off but I think we'll give it to him yeah belated birthday present winner and there's some helicopter action the helicopter is going overhead as the crew continues to arrive passing the Vehicle Assembly Building on their way out to the pad so they are very close to you right now right uh very close yes I believe that's your camera right right this is my camera yes hello there they come quite a convoy of course yes indeed hey Convoy it is there and like a assigned function to each of these vehicles or most of them are just protection there are sine functions to each of them yes oh there's the there's I believe the Space Coast Live VAB shot or as someone I'd say dab they're not driving slow no they don't they do not drive slow the it looks a bit slower at first but then you notice in these some of these shots they're like oh no they are they're really they're speeding I hope there's no speeding tickets on the way that would be an unfortunate one yeah let's use this moment right now to hit some of your super chats as you know we uh we are really thankful for the Super Chat as they allow us to yeah do these marathon coverages and they have all of these cameras at different places so I want to make sure to thank all of the people that uh yeah support us that way I want to start with Nikki the nozzle uh for gifting a red team membership thank you so much Nikki and uh congrats to a person who's received that red team membership through that way uh musicals uh what are the Tesla license plates today I believe we saw them so yeah there you go yeah you have an answer uh and uh then we have guara Yoshi with I think that's uh 40 Indian let me I want to make sure I get the currency right here it's in the Indian rupee uh I believe so thank you for that uh when s24 will get pet or when Polaris down we'll go um I believe like the question is what will go first and I believe the answer right now is probably 24 as Polaris uh recently confirmed they will I think go in the summer so that's most likely issue 24. uh Ninja decimator I always love that name when it appears up 499 for the caffeine fund for watching long thanks for the coverage there is certainly caffeine needed for this one I believe we talked about this earlier it's kind of impressive how it makes both the Europeans and the Americans with this one Sleepless foreign man's on Mars with the 4.99 if you were hoping about this if you were hopping about about this flight and tasked with picking the character stuffed animal to join you uh in zero g what would it be oh that's a good question uh do you have a preferred zero g indicator you would pick to space yes and it's not an animal it would be a zero g indicator of the Starship Enterprise uh well you know uh oh who was it what the the guy that did the Star Trek uh that oh I can't remember his name now he actually brought uh little toys of the Enterprise on the shuttle and filmed it sweet oh I have to look up what this guy's name was now it's so funny yeah that was like I I know there was one astronaut uh in the early 90s who refused to refer to the flight decks of the shuttles as the flight deck and instead referred to them as the bridge and I liked that yes and I believe we do know what the zero Z indicator of this Mission will be and I think we even have a Graphic of it so I'm there we go that's uh the the mascot so hail I'm I'm sorry for the pronunciation and that will be the zero g indicator for this mission um so we will see that flying around crew Dragon very very soon and uh hopefully indicating 0g as they do so there's that musical wolves another another one uh what are the odds the zero g indicator is a Kerbal I'm sorry the answer is in this case Zero because we know the zero Unity indicated it's not terrible they had one of those recently too didn't they have a kerbolize this ERG indicator a couple lunches ago now I'm questioning my my memory it was the one it was the one that had Rosie I believe uh which was the the moon again mannequin not the moon again that was Artemis oh it's not the name munichindo whoever came up with that name deserves definitely definitely a price but I I'm not sure anymore I have not keep track of every zero g indicator because there's so many crew Missions at this point it was the uh the Starliner uh oft2 last year that's what it was they had Jeb the Kerbal yeah there we go fans who just got their uh second iteration of KSP I know yeah occupying everyone's time this week yeah we certainly did uh we we joined that on uh on his twitch channel for some curable fun with the NSF team that was that was enjoyable we uh we built some curse Rockets uh Rosa and the vasto with 19.99 thank you uh thank you so much for that that's very generous of you just joining who are in the cars uh the astronauts for today's mission yep yes indeed so just joining us so um Steve Bowen Woody hoberg Sultan on the ADI and Andre fed yayev are the four crew members for today aside from them various support Personnel are in the cars as well to assist them there we go they are just arriving at pad 39a with three hours to go to uh to launch just on yeah about now it's a very close to three hours I'm just talking a bit more and now it's three hours and you know we got a question earlier why did they go to the pads so early and in addition to everything that Alicia said one of the other things that they do is they build in quite a bit of contingency time into this so like we've seen before like they've closed dragon's hatch and the pressure seal hasn't quite been right and they've had to open the hatch again and reseal it but they they build in that extra time so that if they do need to troubleshoot things after the crew is aboard they have time to do it before they step into the very critical and sequenced fueling flow just uh finishing our Super Chat Q here moldy Space Industries with five red team memberships thank you so much moldy also a very regular and uh and these uh thank you so much for all the support uh Aiden tracker with 4.99 great coverage as always keep up the great work we will and uh Carlton Stein you really picked the right person to for your name to read out with the 10 euros just a shout out to fellow German Adrian going strong at 4 42 on a Monday morning love you all for coverage 24 7. I couldn't miss this one so uh there's a countdown I certainly didn't that before schedule and with that the crew has arrived at the pad on schedule so who of you two Wanna Give Me A rundown what will happen next how what will happen on on the climb 2009 yes fun Traditions that start going on now too right so they get out of the car and there's that that lean right Chris where they take a look at the top of the rocket our spacesuit is one giant suit so we have to hold our helmets and lean back yes that dates back to uh the the Mercury days too yeah they're gonna be leaning looking at their rocket um oh so loading into the elevator recently I know on the internet I was making the rounds the new the new space button right the top of the uh that's right yeah yeah that they they basically hit they have a level that they call space now which is the level they ascend to um to to then take another flight of stairs up to get to the actual level that the arm is on to go across in board dragon I just want to make sure here to point out for people that the elevator is not going to space ah true true but then there's also the phone right Alicia um that is a very important and and kind of a more emotional element to to space flight this was the original phone that was on 39a that shuttle Crews used and it's the the phone that they use to call their loved ones for the last time before they lift off so uh they saved that and they put it on the crew access level um for the dragon reconfiguration of 39a so that phone has a lot of history and a lot of people who have used it to call to call one final time before liftoff and then you have a number of other things too once they cross that access arm in that kind of white room before they load in um I believe they they sign the wall and there's always that that Handover with the patches with the the crew the pad ninjas um they they grab their uh their their patch right exactly yeah usually members of the members of the crew will grab a ground a patch from one of the ground team members and take it with them and the ground crew gets it back when the crew comes back that's uh I'll always love these uh Traditions that we will get to cover now for the for the next few minutes because uh yeah they're cool and some of them are really cool not to face uh space past but also some of them are modern so it's a it's a good mix I feel like okay you know like they start off for example I don't know if this is still the case but they always used to have a meal of like steak and eggs and cake no matter what time you know they're they're liftoff is scheduled for um and again that's a call back to Alan Shepard that was his first breakfast before his Mercury flight in 61. um but also for logistical reasons it's high protein and as I say low residue so helpful for I'm stuck in a capsule for a while um there's another cool tradition they say before a launch the commander has to play cards um with the tech crew uh supposedly it's either blackjack or poker or something and he has to do it until he loses a hand so like however long it takes and there was actually one launch where it was pushing it and they were down to like a minute and they were like all right we gotta like pick this up let's lose the freaking hand um and then uh there's the suit up room which we saw earlier um the recliner chairs that were from the Apollo era those are actually still there for that um and then you know all these other things we mentioned that the phone call and whatnot um and then afterwards beans it's the magic bean show there is a lovely Tradition at Kennedy beginning with sts-1 where cornbread and beans are served after a successful launch so that's always something apparently they do and then of course as we saw with Artemis as well the cutting of the necktie for anyone who was new on Console so uh Charlie Blackwell Thompson the launch director for Artemis had her tie cut and that Harkens back to the aviation tradition where a pilot's shirt tails are cut off after their first solo flight so all these things and then uh in you know in Russia they've got all these other ones oh there's the elevator buttons there we go the top one space that's a good one yeah a lot of the ground level also is Earth Earth it's a very very clear like Earth space nice and the numbers on here is that like feet up I guess the feet above pad level of the of the Tower levels yes um let's dive into more questions I believe here because we have some time here to to answer some of them uh Kylie asking does dragon have a height restriction like zayuse do we know if there's a height restriction for uh riding a dragon to space there is but um they purposely designed Dragon where that height limitation is almost never going to be a factor so it's like far above like oh almost like above two meters or it's above two meters yeah yeah there we go also here we get a nice overview of the uh crew capsule of today's Mission the yeah the what will help the astronauts reach space which is the crew Dragon built by SpaceX um so a very nice and very modern capsule and we of course saw this flying a lot already with not only the crew missions but also Axiom and of course the inspiration Mission there are a lot of crew missions and here they are protein Tower I believe we might see the lean soon or we maybe even saddling already like the lead was the other side they do sometimes look at the rocket from this side but the lean is usual like the group lead is the other side um but I think they're going to go take a look now as well yeah yeah Dad them going past the elevator so yeah but they just take them around to the other side now because the transporter director largely blocks The View but there's the lean and that's the right is that the is that to the right is that the beginning of the transport director yes it's massive and they go in Paris off to up the elevator right they do indeed yes there we go um saikum already asking when prop load begins good question and the answer is propload Will begin at 35 minutes before t0 with the loading of rp1 to the rocket uh before that the like the initial really the launch countdown of this rocket will start at 45 minutes with the launch director of SpaceX verifying go for propellant load so we are about two hours away from the from the launch countdown to begin and there opens the elevator tells already two people waiting in the elevator as well uh it's uh it's a busy one hit some more questions here um where does the crew actually get in this series Alicia what's actually the building where they get into their suits like that's a facility purposely built for that right yeah it's the uh so the building that we saw them come out of with all the stickers around the door that's the building that uh that they were getting suited up and just on a different floor um which is called the operations and checkout building thank you there it is lean there they go again yeah it's uh it's definitely interesting like to stand next to the to the giant rocket that will bring you to space I believe so oh and you can see on the left uh the the stairs that they have to take up the little mini level uh there because the tower was originally built for the space shuttle so um the original levels that were there were for the access needed for the shuttle program and when they had to reconfigure for the Falcon 9 there was no level that already existed at the exact height they needed for a dragon so they had to add an intermediate level and they couldn't really redo the Elevator Shaft and the elevator openings so they just made a Stairway and they've got to take a small little flight after the elevator ride and then that will take a big little flight and then they take a big flight yes I just want um yeah it's a it's only the the sign on the elevator should maybe say stairs instead of space just for advertising purposes um but now you can see them on the uh right yeah but now you can see them on the right side and that is the telephone one of them is using the telephone we were just talking about yep so was that telephone replaced for like or was it already there at that height no it was on the 195 foot level it's always been on the crew access level um whether it's been shuttle or Dragon it's always been on the crew access level yeah for Dragon that's higher like it's around 212 215 something like that the the crew the crew arm is basically kind of the same level as the gaseous oxygen vent arm was that sat over the top of the external fuel tank huh yeah travel was more like a wide vehicle than a like long vehicle contrast to Falcon 9 was like really a stretched long rocket she's barely taller than the tip of the external tank would have been yeah but barely like we're talking a couple we're talking a few feet it's not like the Falcon 9 is not massively taller than the shuttle was yeah so does these elevator buttons mean that potential tower on mars or moon will have Mars and moon as the ground floor buttons yes but there will be if there will be like consistency through this um that's uh that's actually I mean on the moon you could just jump off the tower and you'd still survive when you when you landed like in one sixth gravity no no suspense fight not responsible for but uh you know if we reach that point when astronaut does that because he uh he or she heard it on the NASA space flight stream uh I would be impressed yeah keep it consistent though I like that exactly yeah I like that uh like a consistent naming scheme of all the elevator buttons there's like a documentation that says an elevator button has to look like this um what's the weight of the spacesuit uh they are not light right there's there's some some way to these they're not light but Thomas do we have any idea how much I launch an entry suit weighs I'm thinking 30 40 pounds Maybe yeah yeah we're we're gonna guess 30 but it's a it's an educated assumption you might say probably a good estimate they are so they look so thin I had a chance to see one of those up close I mean you can see it here too they the fabric is so incredibly thin it really makes you wonder how on Earth are these things actually going to be like helpful to save these people should that arise but yeah I would I would estimate it probably about that much the mobility they are 20 pounds each the SpaceX suits there you go and here we go uh they are now arriving at the signing uh you can see on the left side is the NASA logo where NASA astronaut like where crew mission astronauts will sign uh so they will sign on the left side here and of course the commercial missions will sign on the right on the SpaceX logo right correct that is correct yes so uh let's wait now we have the first signature on for today's mission and that is Commander Steve Bowen signing first and that is and now passing the pen to Pilot Woody hoberg Steve making his fourth flight to space today first long duration mission after three two-week up down shuttle flights to the International Space Station and Woody making his first fight we'll uh will Bowen actually keep the glasses on during the uh during the ascent uh yeah they can wear they can wear glasses and everything if they need to see yeah nice I was just curious but I he might take them off now oh no they're switching glasses look at that huh that was on cue I didn't plan that but I love the how as soon as we started about it talking about the glasses I was gonna say Adrian now ask about something else we don't normally see like let's see if we can repeat it please wave into the camera if you can hear us uh that was that was not planned but I love that queue Let's uh see we can also see the entry of of Dragonair which is so cool there it is so he just ripped that patch off if you saw off the pad ninja yep and so he's gonna take that into space and then uh bring it back for them which is really cool a little nice little momento end up with uh you can see the pattern of just names there uh like the the numbers that's a good shot of uh Sultan and Andre still on the tower and one of them using the phone that we've been talking about to to speak to a loved one there James asking is there a reason why they are signing the NASA logo and not a SpaceX logo so this mission is it's a NASA Mission like in the end this is a mission that SpaceX will conduct for NASA so uh the NASA logo is used for these missions estate yeah if as they're basically making sure like every person that ever flew on a NASA Mission here is signing the wall and there we go remaining schedule and uh they they added the SpaceX logo for I think that was inspiration for to uh yeah also give them a place to sign but of course they couldn't sign the NASA logo for inspiration for because NASA was not the one that did the mission so yeah it's just a it could almost make it like a scoreboard like NASA that many SpaceX as many okay let's see if we have more question about uh oh yeah do we know how many times the screwdragon has flown if so how many this will be the fourth and I believe we talked about this at ends of Life earlier currently they are certified for five flights so they could use for one more flight after this but SpaceX actually wants to license them for more flights so they can use them up to 15. 15 yeah which wow could you imagine 15 times like that's if they if they always flying through a four that that single Dragon would then be able to launch up to 60 people to space wow and now I'm how many people okay this is a shadow question oh uh because of course and Chris G disconnected I I will wait with my shadow question but yeah so just to kind of give more flavor on for that question too so Endeavor this will be the fourth one the previous ones were demo two the one with Bob and Doug hi Bob and Doug also uh crew two which uh you'll remember Megan MacArthur actually sat in the same seat as her house we're actually able to complete that test without triggering the onboard alert so uh you can ignore the previous call okay then and then Axiom one which happened uh last uh last year they came back uh in April I believe right before crew four which I remember very well because I was there yes indeed waiting for a week because I'm having the same good morning Arthur good morning and uh for your awareness as promised I am wearing the shirt oh I love it that makes us so happy now I want to know which shirt this this made me curious I won't answer but it seems like there were some some banter some uh talk of between the astronauts and the John Cruiser I always love to see how how close they actually are they are working together for a longer period of time before this actual mission right speaking of shirts does this work can I make this do it segue there we go do it just do it Just Go With It commit there you go we have Falcon 9 shirts and hoodies uh in the store now which you can see our launch entry and Landing is in case you ever forget how uh how a falcon 9 actually lands which uh with the engine profile so make sure to go to the shop and there you can see the launch entry and Landing shirt you don't have it on Long shirts we have also have it on hoodies we had which are Super comfy I'm wearing one right now um we have a Max we have it on a lot of items so you can make sure you really get your uh you do your preferred article for this and also we have one more thing that we recently added with this Mission if you go to the metal print section if we can do that um that is uh there's the the metal prints now of Falcon 9 we added three new Falcon 9 metal prints you can see them here at the top uh which are I think amazing they have uh they have dragon on top and I think it was very fitting for for this mission to add some Falcon 9 metal prints to our store so this is a very cool way to support us and also get something in return and then I really can test you I love these metal prints and they are they're great for you all so if you want to have some Falcon 9 on your wall make sure to check that out shop.nasaspaceflight.com and uh I will I will now ask your shuttle mission to Chris G and I have no idea if he knows but I think there's always a good chance uh what was actually the record of how many people flew on a single like uh like in over the lifetime of a shuttle how many what how many people flew on record on the shuttle yeah the record was seven on the shuttle Franklin Chang Diaz and Jerry Ross each flew seven times they started in the pre Challenger era and both Diaz and Ross I believe they both flew in the year prior to the Columbia accident as well or very close but neither flew after so long careers only one person managed to fly on all five of the shuttle orbiters that was story Musgrave and Steve Bowen is the only one who managed to fly on the three remaining ones in the post-columbia era so yes go and you thought there was a shuttle question you could stump me with yeah I will always try uh I will always come up with uh some you'll always fail yeah it's uh you one day we'll find a shuttle position you're an encyclopedia of shuttle knowledge come on one day we'll get them I doubt it I'm on team Chris I'm sorry I doubt it a good team to be on absolutely I work with a space shuttle I have to be on team credit exactly you work with one named Enterprise too so thank you but this is my this is one of my favorite views on a crew launch day they are all in and in their seats uh and that is what we like to see there we go um let me actually okay all right I was just gonna say actually I was thinking about it if I had a zero g indicator I was between two we have these squishy space shuttles that we use at the Museum so I was like oh that would actually be like kind of a cool like meta zero g indicator to have like a shuttle a squishy shuttle inside of a like a a dragon or something like that um yeah right wouldn't that be cool or a tardis I feel like I'd do a tardis I have to I'm A Doctor Who fan I have a super good question here I'm I'm not sure if like I would be surprised if some of you have the answer to that uh the law and with 4.99 asking how many U.S astronauts that have launched so the space where former Navy shout outs to Auntie and all our military vets I I don't know the exact number but it is the most number of astronauts there is this very strong Naval connection to the the space program for sure they had their uh their uniforms during the Army Navy game actually that were 54 I'm told on the back channels thank you Kevin 55. yeah and that was you know I don't know if you remember uh during Artemis my whole theory about the red team and the red crew where that came from loud and clear C1 help me got you the same they're sometimes trying to invade our answers so uh continue Alicia uh yeah I know what I was just saying there's uh the red crew or the red team where that name came from and during the Artemis delays you know and when that's going on that last day and the red crew went out there to save the day I was like oh why are they called the red crew and nobody at Nasa could tell me like actual NASA people they were like I don't know I don't know where they came from but I truly believe it's it comes from the naval tradition we had the red team which was the ordinance guys running around in their red jerseys on the flight deck who handled all of the bombs and the ammunition and the things that go flaming boom and I think that's where it comes from because they were the ones that were there to help to you know in case anything was going to go boom that day which it didn't it went boom in the best way possible up um but yeah I think that's where the name came from and no one has yet to prove me wrong so I'm gonna die on this hill another question here by William ething uh with a 10 super chat thank you so much for that William are they sending up extra suits or seats in case the rescue soyuz doesn't work out I do not believe that's the case they uh they uh basically they just launched a zoyo's ms-23 which will be their life uh like the the new vehicle to replace ms-22 so there's not like an extra seat on this because right now this is I've really had to tell them right now to talk about that I'm sorry I will do my best to don't do that in the future uh to answer that question though Adrian so uh are they launching extra suits up if somebody actually asked that in one of the press conferences earlier and they didn't say that they were um I don't know yeah no no extra suits no extra seats it's a regular crew Dragon flight with four up four down if they need to move the seat liners into it like they did for Frank Rubio um and they can do it for the other two Russian cosmonauts if they need to do it they can but um they are not launching anything in particular on this one uh assuming a problem with soyuz ms-23 the assumption is ms-23 Will function perfectly but the same contingency workarounds that were in place for ms-22s leak are would-be in play uh should ms-23 develop an issue so let's hope that plan works and that's the Our Hope and expectation at this point I would say so yeah uh juice asking what's the name of this spacecraft this is endeavor yeah so shuttle Endeavor of course flew 25 times James Cook Captain Cook first ship commanded uh in 18th century there Endeavor a long name history there indeed just updating on timeline here as well uh the next thing that should happen uh D is the seat rotation which will uh happen before the hatch closer so that seat will rotate into the position where they would be on Lodge and also we see here the countdown timeline on the left side so on about 40 minutes from now they will hopefully close the hatch of course there is some wiggle room that we as we talked before if they need to perform additional lead checks after that they will actually perform these lead checks they make sure yeah everything is good to go the the capsule is sealed site and after that they will then clear the pad make sure nobody is near the rocket anymore and then get ready to perform fueling the rocket and hopefully in 2 hours 32 minutes uh perform the Falcon 9 liftoff to the International Space Station so that's uh your countdown for the next two and a half hours there we see some fun fist bumps between the the pat ninjas and the crew um let's dive in some more question here I think that's a good time right now uh will NASA name the subsequent Orion Vehicles like was doing uh but done during Apollo so uh Joseph asking with a 4.99 Super Chat I do not believe I have heard anything about the Orion naming but I would imagine there will be names right uh well I would really caution on that um NASA did not name any of the Apollo capsules they had call signs they did not have names um a very very important distinction because NASA got upset with the naming of the Gemini three capsules of Molly Brown and reference to the Gemini or to the Mercury capsule that sank on Gus grissom's First Flight um but he didn't cause it to sync um long story there but uh they got upset with the naming of that so they did not let them name any capsules they're after and so after the Molly Brown the next NASA vehicle that got a name was the Enterprise yeah exactly Alicia was waiting so after that the dragons have gotten names the starliners will get names but no indication from NASA that the orions will get names yet and usually the practice would be that the crew will name the vehicles right uh well uh oh yeah it depends who you ask that is the tradition that they went with on SpaceX Starliner absolutely does not follow that because Sunny Williams in the original crew uh uh crew flight test crew named a capsule before it even carried people because it was originally going to be the one that they were on for the first Prime mission but then that didn't happen because of how the Starliner sequence went with the failures of the first flight so I mean and then none of the NASA Crews got to name the shuttle orbiters they were all named well ahead of time um argue Chris that Enterprise was technically named by Star Trek fans yes originally called the Constitution because it rolled out during unconstitution day uh in 76. but a whole bunch of Star Trek fans wrote in day six copies stand by for umbilical Comcheck and they convinced them to change it to Enterprise that's all I have to say about that okay [Laughter] yeah in a nice way from the crew there is they're about to step into their com checks and you can actually see the mission patches that endeavor has flown is between Woody and Andre on one of the on one of the panels there and you can actually see it just under the crew six sign and the uh the countdown sign there yep uh another question here about the astronauts before launch do this Crews stay in quarantine before launching so they don't bring diseases to the ISS yes just like any crew that launches up to the ISS they do go through quarantine and those who have pilot ms-1 MS2 contract Commander have you loud and clear and Grant has your London clear as well SpaceX pilot we had you land clear pilot loud and clear Master SX ms-1 conchek ms-1 loud and clear uh statistics this is MS2 believe me MS2 loud and clear umbilical Comcheck complete report when ready for seat rotation there we go so next SpaceX Dragon crew is ready for seat rotation I was going to say sometimes it's hard to know if they're stepping into because there are other contracts they have to do too once the hatch is closed um but initiating copy initiate exit rotation this is usually a cool thing to watch so there's a seat rotation um so they they have to get in in a certain way and then the seats as you see now rotate them into the proper orientation for liftoff always very cool to see very good but we did it but we did have a question that was up there about quarantine and yes they are in quarantine as are the people who really interact with them in that final ten to seven days before liftoff but it's usually about 10 seconds see through the launch position basically starting something I wonder if this is like a comfortable position to be in for the next two and a half hours I I imagine it's very comfortable to be in because they would have they would have designed it and tested it that way and the seats are molded to their bodies too it's like they're giving them a hug yeah these are definitely not like uh like Factor just like uh standard size seats there they're very much fitting them Dragon SpaceX you are go for section two suit leak check preparation check preparation and work we'll now enter a part of lead checking first of these suits and then laid off the capsule once that capsule is closed because you want to make sure that everything is properly sealed before you go to space so that's the a lot of things are coming up right now our Elite checks of different parts so they will check their leaks of their league they will perform a lead check of their suits first which will as you just heard it will happen very soon and some might be wondering wait a minute why wouldn't they do a leak check before they leave the operations and checkout building after they suit it up and they do in fact do they checks there but they have been walking they have been moving they've been climbing in and out of vehicles they've been doing some stuff since they did that initial leak check so this is the Fail-Safe leak check that they do once they are fully inside the capsule and ready to go because in theory you could damage your suit like on the wave somewhere or disconnect something or yeah exactly yeah so you want to make sure again the dragon's hair is complete we are ready SpaceX copies your go for section three suitly check and we got section three simply check in work Frank asking why are they the ninjas do they have to be anonymous or something or they uh just addressing like Ninjas for fun um oh they don't have to be um they they don't have to be anonymous no um in the shuttle program this they were called the closeout crew um for SpaceX we we sort of started calling them the ninjas I think that name sort of caught on overall just because uh in the shuttle era they used white suits um for the closeout crew members but SpaceX is using black um to differentiate from the white suits of the fight crew so ninjas but um but the reason they wear masks is not to protect their identity it is to medically protect the crew um so that no last minute pathogen virus or bacteria is imparted to one of them right before they step into the capsule and lift off for the station got it thank you also I want to thank uh Glenn sorry you can also see the suits puffing up as they're doing the leak checks and everything and that's really cool to see too yeah okay getting through to the pressure they want uh Glenn Brent's been uh Prince bam Grant span uh upgraded their membership to Capcom 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just 145 local time it's 1 45 and 3 seconds local time and they can't launch at two seconds they can't launch at four seconds they've got that one shot to get off the ground tonight for the ISS instantaneous window and then yeah if something happens whether or whatever backup opportunity tomorrow at 1 22 A.M and then March 2nd 3rd and 4th but it's going up tonight guys it's going up and it was just the weather is amazing like it's a 95 chance of acceptable weather conditions for all six nice sounds good SpaceX copies and concurs could suitably checks closeout team will now perform final closeout steps and exit capsule proceed to section 4 for side hatch closure and Report when ready to close side hatch also stand by for ground station com checks all right we'll move on to section four for sign hatch closure and we'll report when we're ready for side house okay and there's always that moment of seeing if there's going to be an answer but you can see two of the technicians they're uh inspecting the hatch doing the final looks at the seals making sure everything is ready to go uh maybe putting a little bit of grease on there too but we were talking about the weather really quickly there and whether it is ready for side hatch closure not that good that the crew is ready for side hatch closure weather is absolutely gorgeous you can see SpaceX copies thank you SpaceX uh you can see that the weather is absolutely gorgeous not no rain uh really anywhere along the Florida peninsula there you can see a few showers earlier on but nothing really of concern today the abort a corridor weather up the eastern coast of the United States and across the North Atlantic to Ireland also looking very very favorable for a liftoff here tonight so overall this is about as good as you could possibly get for a crew launch you guys are going to get some awesome shots I'm sure tonight watching it go up I'm so jealous yeah and if you are yeah and if you are along the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S like including you Alicia up in New York um and everything if it is if it is clear you've got a shot of seeing first and second stage Ascent uh it's clear but it's cold so I think there we go and you can also see the orange area with the little blue pin that is the first stage drop zone or danger zone so you can see the little or orange boundaries are the keepout zones for maritime safety and then the blue dot is ideally where the Drone ship is and where the booster will be coming down and then we also have to think about the second stage as well it it does not land but it does re-enter and this is its uh re-entry Corridor for notices to Mariners uh so this is where anything that does survive of stage two from atmospheric entry would come down just south of Australia in fact you can see it almost covers the entirety of the Southern strip there south of Australia so that is where the second stage will re-enter over today we go I just want to hit this super chat here by spherical rat because it's a 99.99 Super Chat uh thank you so much that sorry go right that's super super generous and they're saying wasn't planning on staying up for the launch but it's such a good stream tonight that really means a lot to us and thank you so so much for that support thank you that's so nice and thanks for staying up with us yeah thanks for all the people who are not sleeping right now um and we also have Dragon SpaceX closeout team is taking final steps in preparation to close the side hatch standby for transition to pad hatch closed ensure all items remain secure from now through launch and we're really doing our best to tiptoe around these messages because sometimes it's hard to predict when they stop talking and start talking so uh yeah University yeah we are getting it um and I get with uh some store purchases at store.shop.masterspaceway.com uh thank you so much Anna for for doing that and uh for the support just making sure they appear on stream and we see them closing the hatch slowly now and making really sure that there's no like dip uh some like no uh how you say it debris sand yeah debris do you remember I said you were you watching crew five do you remember that one there was an issue there was a hair there's one hair yeah stuck in the door and that like stopped everything for a while that was wild yeah it really it really gets like that really puts into perspective how tightly close these are if one hair is enough to say like okay this is not this is not uh really sealed but I mean that's your life on the line there right you'd want that to be super tight no hair nothing so this is you know they take it real seriously that's impressive to the sensors and everything that they detect like one hair of Gab right yeah yeah impressive really impressive Richard also with a Dr Chase here thanks NASA space flight for all that you do thanks for uh being here Richard and also enjoying the Falcon 9 metal print there thank you so much Tracy with five gifted red team memberships uh thank you so much Tracy uh crafty geek here with a question uh when you discuss the zero g indicator uh I was on audio only while doing housework and y'all didn't actually date what it was please keep in mind uh a fraction of the audience that listen only to countdown approach 10 minutes there we go uh we'll show you again it's a it's a yeah it's blue astronaut it looks like yeah so it's uh Sue hail I believe is how you say that uh as you can see here second brightest star in the sky um but this little guy looks like yeah like little little astronaut man uh but specifically dressed in the SpaceX space suit which is super cute actually yeah I love to touch up I can't wait to see it once they actually you know once it starts to float up also it's uh I'm getting uh in the back channel the information it's Sue heel uh and it's named after the second brightest star in the sky yeah yeah we go thank you so much uh uh James with the upgrade to Capcom thank you so much James also Sideshow Bob with uh ready membership gift thank you so much people in the chat are saying it looks like a Spacey Smurf I can see that yeah oh this is a Star Trek questions I have no way to answer this uh man's on Mars with the question if you were headed to the ISS about a crew Diagon would would you rather not run into a bar Cube or a Klingon bird of prey um I have no idea I'm sorry I've not watched Chris is a huge Star Trek fan I know I think he stepped away for like two seconds when he comes back ask him that question I will I will make sure that uh that we ask Chris that question once he's done just copy that um so we are absolutely sure that we make sure to ask the Star Trek fan the question yeah because now you had the one moment where he's not here of course any other uh super just though any other questions yeah I'm trying to get through the through them here right now um so a pleasure thank you so much and also music and wolves here with a fan with a question uh why does one of the passengers use a laptop while the other uses an iPad I believe that's just related to the function they have and maybe if they need to be like a performing mobile checks or are more on a different device I do not believe there's that much to read into that what device they use uh it might just be related to their function and what is more practical to use either a laptop or an iPad so yeah I think that answers the question um lots of Navy but how many submariners have been on uh to get those face to fight I believe uh if I recall corrector from earlier uh Bowen is actually was the first Submarina yeah he was the first Submariner to be selected and that will be the second to actually go to space so there there is one other uh submarine fellow who has gone to his face before I don't know his name off the top of my head I should know that but um so yeah but the answer is two it's two yeah I believe um someone asked him to if you know the idea of living in a very tight capsule and you know living in a submarine in a kind of like tight you know confined spaces there um if there were any tips that he gave his crew members and uh and he did say it did remind him a lot of being in a submarine he said it's very close quarters um and even the odor he said kind of reminded him of being on a submarine but the tips were just you know reminding everyone to keep it clean you know keep keep all your stuff you know tucked away where it needs to be just make sure there's not stuff floating around all the time and just be ready to operate at all times which I think is really smart you know we've actually at the Intrepid we have a submarine as well The Growler um that we've you know given tours of and it's tight in there they literally sleep on like food it's like that tight so I would imagine that makes a lot of sense and it's again like the Navy and just a very natural crossover between the two living in such strange circumstances like that yeah it's uh it's definitely you have to use like that's a very common for both submarine and space I guess you have to use every single base you have because the space is still one thing here is very limited off so some some very close similarities between two actually um blue Fusion uh thank you Anderson for helping bring us all closer to the Future longtime fan thank you so much blue Fusion to for being here and supporting us uh we're glad you're you're enjoying this uh Austin Skirvin thank you so much Lords of gaming so this is case P2 huh looks good so far yeah this is this even more realistic than ksp2 it's uh are there Pat ninjas are there Kerbal pad ninjas on ksp2 I do not no no so far so far oh my God that was a German moment of player um uh I didn't so far no Pat ninjas in case we do but maybe in the future hopefully uh Ranger gun uh why hasn't Helen flown on Falcon 9 or taken a trip to the Isis do you think he would have uh would on Starship I mean I it is a longer trip so I'm not sure if uh with with all of his company involvement if he would like to just uh be out for a longer period of time to to go to the ISS or go to space so that might be a reason there for not uh for not going uh New Concept space uh thank you so much as well Richard with the with the store which is let's see what they they bought we have the large entry and Landing shirt good choice Greg also with the of the storm uh purchase with the yes with the Raptor hoodie I love that one it's a really really cool design thank you so much for supporting us there that way and with the launch entry Landing hoodie actually stacking up on hoodies okay let's get into more question how long could an average person survive in the SpaceX suit after an anomaly like a capsule depressurization I believe there's some uh get down pressurized they are they are sealed so uh but I don't know if there's like a time limit on how long I would imagine that depends highly on the circumstances of what exactly how depressurized the environment is and what the situation is so uh yeah see I don't have like a minute answer there at least yeah do you have a minute answer here I don't have a minute answer but I I could say the capsule I don't know about the suits themselves but I believe if something were to happen in like the capsule couldn't dock properly and it just had to sort of hang out floating I think that number is like four to five days I think that they can still hang out inside there but the suit themselves I'm not sure the exact number for that one so yeah it's Basics just an update we were doing some final inspections on the ground but we'll be stepping into side hatch closure now again Stand By and following side hatch closure we will step into contracts in case you wondered about the timeline there we go oh this is actually an interesting question do you think that SpaceX will copy some of the lc39a crew Tower traditions on the Slick 40 crew Tower like some of that I would imagine I think so why not yeah I feel like there will also be a telephone there will also be I mean there will be an elevator you cannot have them run on stairs I feel like there will be the the lean back will also happen I I feel like most of these Traditions will be there and I would be surprised if there's no way to signing a wall as well there yeah of course so actually now what we're seeing here also we've got our uh our patent is closing the hatch door there they right before this they were waving goodbye closing to hatch now the 37 move a bit to the left or right so we see that 37 you're on the way move oh there we go thank you that's the reason they've got their iPad and their laptop they're actually listening to our stream on one of those guys just in case you wonder and 37 was like oh I'm sorry she was asking is smoking allowed on the ISS uh I believe the answer is a very clear no I mean smoking for the flammability study maybe but not like not cigarettes nope I'm not sure if that's a that's another Chris G question which shuttle flew the most people over its lifetime and how many people was that I do not have the answer so that might be a Christy question he probably knows that out the top of his head I think it was Discovery Maybe oh yeah back Channel Discovery it's always the shuttle expert around this time it was Sawyer yeah so many of them on the team it's uh you cannot hide they're all they're overrated we're everywhere uh I also want to take this moment quickly to announce that we have uh the the new way to to support us with the NSF tip jar at tipped.nasterspacelight.com which is a new way where you can support us next to membership or Super Chat on YouTube so uh yeah this is uh this is now live you can see how it's uh how it's set up you can put in the amount you want to do the comment that will appear in the back Channel just like it usually happens uh for every other way to support us so uh you can see Kevin you're typing in some messages that makes my 200 Miss uh so 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countdown one comp check Your Dragon have you allowed player on countdown one DC loud and clear standby for com checks with MD Dragon MD on countdown 1 Comcheck MD loud and clear standby for Comcheck over Dragon the ground Dragon MD on Dragon to ground Comcheck he's gone clear over Dragon the ground MD loud and clear standby for com checks with LD Dragon LD on countdown 1 Comcheck how's your dragon have you land clearance LD loud clear standby for Comcheck over Dragon the ground Dragon LD on dragon ground Comcheck LG dragon have you long clear over Dragon the ground LD loud and clear Dragon SpaceX with that launch configuration comptex are now complete basic tracking copies there we go uh I feel safe again to talk because they just completed the contacts sounded like good context um so that's another point on the checklist you can check mark as they progress through this content and they have a question of we are going to commence health checks for the launch Escape system expect momentary flight computer State change followed by a transition back to pad hatch closed SpaceX Dragon we'll be watching thanks I always sneak up on you that's you're never safe uh Lucia there's a question here about the personal belongings how many personal items you're allowed to bring I believe you have the answer for that right yeah sorry I'm like so tiptoeing around this now uh so um soyuz and SpaceX crew Dragon uh they typically allow about three pounds I think a little over three pounds for personal items that the astronauts can bring with them so you know you've seen people in the past bringing like musical instruments or cameras and stuff um so oftentimes this will include things like you know photos of their family or something like that too um Woody uh hoberg is is actually his father passed away recently um so he's bringing a photo of his father with him um Andrei fetty Ave is also bringing photos of his kids drawings I think from his kids um and some small like little trinkets to give to his friends and family what's really interesting is Sultan on the eye is actually bringing um a few kind of cultural things that mean something to him so he's uh I believe they're going to have an emirati dress this might not be with him now but uh might be coming up on a later Mission but um they'll be bringing something um I believe it's something called a condora um for special occasion things like Ramadan and Eid that they wear and then he's also a jiu jitsu practitioner so he's said a few times he's going to be bringing and wearing a kimono and actually do some moves while up in space so that'll be interesting to watch uh and he's also bringing some small Tintin Rockets from The Adventures of Tintin and at a camera as well so it's it's really interesting to see what people bring from home to you know kind of make them feel a little bit more at home while they're up there in space something else actually interesting to point out too um for for those of you who are familiar with Ramadan it's coming up right so um Ramadan is um the Muslim holiday it's happening this year March 22nd through April 23rd and most adult Muslims are required to fast from dawn to Sunset so you can imagine being an astronaut that might kind of you know cause a little bit of a hiccup in your lifestyle there um but actually he's considered a traveler as I believe we all would agree um so as a result he actually doesn't have to um fast during that time he's allowed to break that um they say that anything that could jeopardize the mission uh and of course some of those things they're doing here relate to dietary experiments it's it's allowed so he will be um at least eating part of the time during that if uh if not completely fasting um but he is bringing some emirati food up as well so he'll be sharing some of that with the crew he said dates in particular he's a big fan of dates uh so well Noah they'll be having some dates up there here we go nice nice overview of of the personal like relations belongings of the uh the astronauts of course you want to have some like some interest like connecting things items to you uh with Future's face because they were there for six months so better better make you at least a little bit more comfortable and a little bit more home right exactly with questioning about the flight uh emergency escape system but I believe we have Thomas Burkhart on the comes to where I can throw this question to Thomas are you here with us you can certainly throw a question my way I take no responsibility for whether no I'm kidding I'll try to answer best I can when is the emergency escape system armed Thomas ah yeah so right before proper load starts so when they reach it's like 45 minutes about and this sequence isn't exact a lot of times in fact on previous missions it usually happens early they'll retract the access arm around 45 minutes before t0 and pretty much once that's complete they arm the launch Escape system so that way the Escape system is armed through the entirety of the propellant load sequence so if something goes wrong at any point in loading the launch report system is active if a paddle board is needed and there you go with this full timeline on the screen again again we are now at uh dragon hatch closed which already happened so there might be a bit more ahead of the timeline uh and the the big step or before the propelled load is the 45 minutes uh ready launch director will verifies go for propellant load which will then kick off the whole launch countdown before the launch in 1 hour and 56 minutes from now so uh let's do some more questions um there's another question about the launcher board system which I will just hit quickly because it was on topic right now if a small issue went wrong in fueling would already be launched by a board system take over or with a long small issue would not spark the the launch system at the launch report system right yeah so there's a whole set of on-board logic that will dictate whether any given issue requires an automatic abort the crew I believe also has a manual board option at any time um but you know a small hiccup like oh we're detecting a small leak or something that's not going to Warrant an immediate abort yeah a fuel aboard doesn't mean you have to board the capsule right and I apologize if you just heard a helicopter fly over us here at the Press site but uh yeah basically smaller dragons in case of a good League check good to know uh if in the event of a sudden catastrophic failure concur that Steve and uh we also have a post Ingress briefing when you're ready to copy we are ready to copy and be posting rust briefing all right uh we have no updates on weather from the previous briefing and drought dragon and Falcon are tracking no issues for launch we're looking good here at the NASA team for your awareness is tracking a possible conjunction for ISS in about 22 hours and is considering performing a p Dam if required we are still go for launch regardless of if the P Dam will be required uh if we do take that avoidance maneuver or if ISS takes that avoidance maneuver they may attempt to perform it prior to the dragon boost burn which helps to minimize impacts to our Rendezvous timeline we will come back after launch with more information as the joint teams evaluate if the pdam is required as well as if there are any updates to your mission timeline I'll copy and SpaceX driving me copy all thank you for the heads up on the P Dam and we'll be bringing those words after we get to order Thomas could you decipher for us what they just said because they always talk about the avoidance maneuver and the P Dam so could you give us an oh he watches that was updated on yes and I PDM I believe is potential debris avoidance maneuver yes thank you Chris and at this time we'll step into contact with the Falcon 9 operators please report when you're ready all right space next time we're ready for contract with the Falcon 9 operators all right they're gonna do contracts we'll come back to in a sec yeah yes first Dragon GNC on countdown one comp check and GNC dragon have you loud and clear and countdown one GNC loud and clear standby for Comcheck by the propulsion engineer Dragon prop on countdown one comp check dragon have you loud and clear on countdown one prop loud and clear standby for Comcheck with the avionics engineer Dragon avionics on countdown 1 Comcheck avionics dragon have you loud and clear on countdown one avionics loud and clear standby for Comcheck by the ground segment engineer dragon ground segment on countdown one Comcheck and ground Dragon heavy Ron clear on what ground segment modern clear standby for Comcheck by launch control Dragon launch control and countdown one Comcheck launch control dragon that be loud and clearance countdown one launch Nicole loud and clear standby for Comcheck by the chief engineer Dragon CE on countdown one comp check ee Dragon happy level clear on countdown one de loud and clear this completes the F9 responsible engineer comchecks let's I'm always uncertain if this was it I I feel like Thomas you can continue your answer at this point yeah yeah I I think we're good so I'll try to answer this quickly but basically in that briefing that they just had again weathers look good no technical issues being tracked and the NASA teams that are monitoring the ISS trajectory have identified a possible conjunction which means some piece of space debris is projected to come maybe near the ISS close enough to maybe warrant and avoidance maneuver hence the PDM the potential debris avoidance maneuver they're currently evaluating whether or not that maneuver is even necessary so looking at that and the reason they told the dragon teams is because while it will not affect the liftoff the launch can still occur no issues because again Dragon does not go directly to the ice of Norbit anyway they said if that maneuver takes place it could affect the Rendezvous timeline although it also sounded like they had a plan where if that maneuver does occur it would happen before the Boost burn which is one of the phasing Burns that Dragon does and they seem to suggest that that would minimize any potential effects to the Rendezvous timeline so the summary to summarize the launch is not affected by any potential debris maneuver that the ISS does it would only affect how long it then takes Dragon to Rendezvous and dock with the station after it's already in orbit um and that's I'm assuming they will keep us updated on that front whether the maneuver even happens or not so that that's the the meaning of that status up it's not a big deal ISS does to avoidance Maneuvers semi-regularly these days so that's what you heard you go and I believe we will switch on-site commentators again here with Thomas you're stepping away for a bit and Chris joining us again yeah I'm gonna go take care of the camera so you've got Chris G back on comms and uh I'm sure I'll talk to you all more later Christy we had a Star Trek question why you were away we did received it for you not sure if he back yet I will I will wait to ask that question and just to make sure uh so everybody now I've been talking on muted for a few minutes talking about no I was unmuted can you hear me now yeah I can hear you okay uh so we got a Star Trek question and we were both not feeling qualified to answer it so we are throwing it over to you if you were headed to the isefs about the crew Dragon would you rather not run into a ball Cube or a Klingon bird of prey oh oh the Borg you could honor the Klingons out of a uh out of an engagement there we go see that's why we asked that to you I honestly okay then let's ask some more question here um okay that's a very specific one was equals but uh does crew 6 have to wait till they get to the ISF to get coffee or does crew dragon have the ability to make coffee I I would be very surprised if there's like a coffee machine I have coffee they can drink on on board the dragon it's just like the ISS yes oh so it's probably like like makes coffee right you um well they they also come in like pre like packaged drinks and stuff like that so yeah no they've got coffee they've got everything that they would normally have yeah there we go um what is so this is the question about what the crew members are right now actually doing on the iPads they are in front of them uh because they have they have these these these tablets out of them so what are they doing with these uh what what is the job of the crew right now uh what's the job of the crew right now um so it depends on what your assignment is on the mission um at this point the mission Specialists are largely there to support the commander and the pilot they're they're kind of along for the ride at this point but so are the Commander in the pilot they they are Dragon is very automated so there is a lot of monitoring of systems but remember too that the commander and the pilot actually have the manual abort button um and lever that they can pull if they absolutely need to the pilot and the commander can take manual control of dragon if they do need to so a lot of what they are doing right now is monitoring but also being ready to take over um if they should need to now uh on board those pads that each of the crew members have are all of the checklists for launch all of the procedures everything that they need for the overall mission they're not just for in-flight entertainment they are they are the basically what what used to be in the Apollo and the shuttle era the physical books you would take into the vehicle vehicle and flip through your checklist as you were going through them it's just all now digital with dragon there we go and we're getting some questions here uh who's actually on com so I will do a quick summary who is on comms and we will start with uh Alicia Seagal who's with me here in the in the state in the studio as we like to say that's right yeah we're two two unlucky ones here that are not next to to the rocket or close to the rocket right now you're a bit closer to me at least that's true you're across the cross the pond in Germany yes uh very much far away from this and also we have on comms uh Chris Gephardt um assistant managing editor from NSF uh in the field we have Thomas Burkhardt in the field as well for us commentating earlier and also I believe we have another voice joining us here from the field here so I believe we have few oncomes Sawyer Sawyer do we have you uh I hope you have me and uh yeah that you have me and happy to be here glad to have you as well do you end the field right uh how how is Florida uh it's a little Breezy here but it is one of the clearest guys I've seen for launches in a very long time no clouds as a gorgeous view Dead Ahead at launch complex 39a wow yeah Chris was saying earlier that it's like gorgeous there right now and I'm starting with a question right now out of bad for you saw you here are they allowed to leave their seats after reaching orbit and before docking with the ISS by Kevin yes they can get out of their seats fairly quickly after they reach orbit and they can get out of their launch and entry suits as well they only wear the lunch and entry suits for launch entry and for approach and um undocking from the International Space Station what he said that's a um ADI ninjas actually SpaceX employees on Nasser employees uh who are there they're SpaceX right yes they are they've got SpaceX uh the logo on their arms there so they're probably like the we sometimes see them even training uh like but that that's probably a recovery Cruise they are not like they had different crew than than the crew that will for example recover The Vessel right or are they also related in the recovery operations of the vehicles anybody know that because you get different crew that are uh there for different parts of it yes so there are Crews that are specifically dying to help with Ingress and cruise letters as if specifically designed to help with egress and that's why you'll see so many different numbers on the back of the ninja suits uh through both the launch and Landing uh Zach Zach asking here what is the Drone ship for today so let's let's talk about recovery operations here because so far we have talked a lot about the the true and the uh yeah the the capsule itself uh so uh yeah what the recover operations uh sorry what's the what's the the protocol here for for recovering this this vessel today and the uh the booster well you have the crew Dragon Endeavor of course on top which hopefully will be split around six months from now in either the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida weather pending meanwhile for tonight uh drone ship downrange ready to catch booster 1078 which as we mentioned earlier is on its first flight and that would just read the instructions located approximately 550 kilometers downrange there we go so uh recovery also for this mission of course with SpaceX always um so so this booster will will hopefully fly more times after this and just taking First Flight which at this point is really rare like we rarely get to see new boosters um so it's always cool to see one one fresh and new one without any it's not completely in white still so always always cool but yeah just coming up on uh one hour and 42 minutes until liftoff so about one hour from now the like the crunch launch countdown will really start from uh so we're getting closer and closer we are always old yeah more than halfway through so from where we started hmm true members allowed to sleep during the time after launcher before docking uh are they allowed to sleep is there a sleep break hahaha I mean I'm pretty sure they're doing stuff uh but as I mentioned before we saw them falling asleep while they were loading into the hatch for trying crew five but there is some time I think you know the the crew dragon is is super automated um Woody hoberg was even saying that as the pilot he's not actually really piloting he's kind of just you know making sure everything is going as it should be going and monitoring more than anything um that's the nice thing you know really about about this new kind of next generation of uh capsules is there's there's very little actual button pushing and things that they have to be doing um because so much of it is automated and it can dock itself and everything we do actually have a little bit of a sleep period in there because it is a one day Rendezvous as opposed to soyuz which can do three to six hours they will have a full day so during that since they've been up also very early once their initial burns are done they will get a chance to doff or take off their suits and then get a little nap in before docking go uh Richard with a star message here I've been watching launchers since Gemini and went to see a launch in person uh that's quite a quite a history in watching uh launches thank you so much and also getting to Texas tank Watcher shirt here that's uh thank you for support and also thank you Bruce T and thank you Nicholas also with uh stopper Chase let's see uh the heavy 27 models metal print a great one uh congrats to that and I'm looking forward to hopefully you enjoying that metal print thank you for the support um Trevor asking yeah we'll throw this to Sawyer uh why aren't ISS missions are TLS so why are they landing on a drone ship for this one that are not returning to the launch site for after launch Sawyer well if you're muted still if you're talking well muted I can take that one would be talking while muted yes go for it I can yeah so that's because crew dragon is a pretty heavy vehicle uh it is carrying crew all of their supplies it also is bringing up some science experiments some things for the station so all of that it is a heavy payload All Things Considered so as a result they rather use that extra fuel to make sure that if for some case something goes wrong they can get it into a precise orbit and also just have that extra fuel on board that you would need to otherwise rtls to lift a heavy payload so that way you instead just go for the Drone ship downrange so you don't have to do the Boost back and use up more fuel so long story short drag and be heavy there we go that's a good overview of why that is the case uh uh see if you were in charge of drone ship naming convention what would you call your next drone chip oh that's a they would name then uh uh I'll be back I have to think about that of a good reference for for returning to a director of to that's a hard one especially with my movie knowledge the the pool of potential quotes is like 20 quotes of all and that's it so uh yeah I'm kind of out of I would call it they're going plaid oh that's a good one that is a good one actually yeah sorry I I'm asking me a good quotation question is probably the worst you could have guessed uh get so yeah um Lisa winter asking how far will this launch be seen from this from in the sky and so yeah where will you be able to see this launch on the on the East Coast where where can you probably launch uh see this anybody of you wanna take this up the Eastern Seaboard United States is basically what you've got today so if it is clear on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and I'm going to close some of my windows to take a look at what the current goes weather satellite is seeing uh so yeah basically if you are along the Eastern Seaboard North Carolina and South Carolina are going to be a bit hard because of weather and then New York and New England are going to be a bit hard because of cloud cover as well but generally up the Eastern Seaboard you should have a good view of this uh DC Maryland New Jersey New York you actually have a pretty good view Philadelphia as well if you head out and look to the southeast you should see good that's what we want to hear too but yeah that's our but that is the view for today and as you can hear that closeout crew has left the crew access arm which is good yeah because they don't want to be near a rocket that will be have an armed uh flight domination system and is getting fuel exactly the safest place right now yeah the the safest place for right now will be inside that capsule once that flight uh termination system is active because yeah that's how it's designed um are there any differences in the boosters that fly crew dragon as opposed to non-human launches Sawyer are they differences they are not they are pretty much identical the only difference is basically the attachment that's used on the transporter erector to hold everything in place but otherwise no we have seen boosters that have flown crew then go ahead and fly regular Falcon 9 payloads afterwards so same type of booster yeah it's uh we also have like seen boosters that I think debuted uh non-crew missions and then launched crew if I recall correctly so there's uh that's pretty much you look into the logo on the second stage that's really about it the second interstage area where you get the worm and the meatball but first stages are pretty much all the same because they're all tried and true and tested yeah there there's uh there's also I remember some some discussions uh I think from Dr uh at some point on Twitter where he mentioned that maybe there's even a thought about having launched boosters for some missions because they are already tested so there's some there's something Chicago may be going on there which I actually had like a first or second flight booster which is an interesting shift in how Rockets are viewed which I which I like it's a it's a cool and interesting idea to think about it the first couple missions were flown on previously or on brand new boosters until NASA basically saw all of their reuse and said okay now we'll let you fly crew vehicles on top of uh previously flown boosters so you know this is a new one it was only a few launches ago that NASA said okay we feel comfortable setting crew on flight proven boosters back at zoo asking when is crew 5 scheduled to come back to earth Sawyer I know you wrote the article do you have that in your mind right now I can jump in and say it's it's typically these are about a six month stay so this would put us uh in August oh sorry the crew five uh the previous went up in October of last year right yeah there's about a week there's about a week of overlap so right now the plan is to bring them back or around the sixth weather permitting in the Gulf or Atlantic I have a West Coast question here and we have nobody from the West Coast on but uh Kyla asking any crucial Dragon launches from the Vandenberg in the foreseeable future and I'm not sure if you would like to answer here I'll go ahead Chris uh to that uh no dragon will not launch from Vandenberg uh dragon is solely an East Coast launching facility there is no crew Tower at Vandenberg to load crew into it for one uh but also the orbits that you could insert a dragon into you could likely do all from Florida from uh 39a and eventually slick 40 from the cape side as well so no dragon will never launch from from the West Coast there's no need also East Coast Best Coast also that I see a few certain members of our team not liking this answer that's not here Jack has no opinion he's not here wow you only get to voice your opinion if you're on air exactly and just to recap what we are seeing right now if you just joined us we are watching the cruise 6 mission of uh space second NASA launching for astronauts to the International Space Station we are right now about 90 minutes away from liftoff with the Falcon 9 on path 39a the astronauts are already in the capsule and the hatch is closed and the hatch crews are already departuring the patch so yeah we are we are getting closer and closer and closer to launch and down the timeline uh we have now we are at the step of the Dragon hatch which is closed next up will be the launch director verifying go for propelled load at 45 minutes with the access arm retracting then we will uh we'll see here oh that's fancy we'll see how long it's until the next step so 45 minutes to to go to propel and loading and I really like this overlay this is fancy and we'll see how this goes but so far the timeline looks smooth and we see I think cars Department to Pat I think we just saw on the right side a car moving so yes there are cars departing the pet I guess that's probably the grand Cruise departing indeed would look like it so what a is what a good uh timing year four or five in the game so there it is the three cars going away from the pad and with that probably at this point the pad is getting close to clear as they are getting getting close for the final operations which is nice uh shout out yeah to Kevin by the way for the making that on-screen overlay it's really helpful yeah I didn't see I didn't see that before and I was like I was Legend surprised seeing that transition to how long it is until the step stuff was that was really cool to see so uh yeah we are we are progressing smoothly so far and weather also looks good in case you're wondering about weather uh because sometimes it can be a bit of annoying to watch the weather but today should not be such a day which is good uh John Mark hochens asking is the construction of a slick 40 crew Tower an indication that SpaceX intends to significantly increase crew Dragon launch Cadence do we know if that's related to like increasing the Cadence or is it more to have alternatives uh sorry you want to take that one sure uh a lot of it again like you said is having Alternatives especially as SpaceX gets ready to hopefully ramp up Starship activities here at the Space Center as well that way you have a second pad so you can either do Starship and a crew launch simultaneously from different pads or we hope this never happens but if in the event something happens with Starship that damages the uh crew Tower at 39a you still have an alternative because as a number of dragon capsules that SpaceX has isn't really going to change and it's pretty much guaranteed that two of them are always going to be for long duration when figure the ISS crew exchanges so you're kind of limited on that side but it's mainly just that at its safety of you've got the tower in case something is happens at 39a there we go yeah it gives you suddenly a redundancy because right now SpaceX can only launch crew from 39a um especially with Starship next to it so uh this in the future I feel like redundancy is a very uh very good thing so let's have a favorite word yeah uh I will go for dragon fish or jellyfish I believe the answer is no right but there's no timing today for a jellyfish correct not as we typically know it the jellyfishes usually happen right around and rise or Sunset but sometimes if the sky is clear enough he will get to see some of the engine effect that can jellyfish in some way so it's not necessarily a jellyfish but with how clear it is there is a possibility of some cool plume interaction yeah that's a there will of course be good visuals uh just not a jellyfish for today yeah we are not close to like Twilight where that usually happens so yeah um said that's like one or two more questions here we talked about the weather we talked about quarantine can can we use SpaceX to use Starship plushie as a zero g indicator for the first start recruit launch please and thank you um yeah I mean contact us uh contact us SpaceX we would love to have our plushie as a zerg indicator yeah thank you very much and I believe I will throw it over to Alicia for some talk about today's Mission patch oh yeah sure so yeah oh there it is awesome yeah so uh yeah the each Mission has its own kind of unique Mission patch design so if you've seen anyone uh you know on their shirts like that uh this is what it looks like so the idea behind it is very symbolic each of the patches really are um so the main thing you see here is this ship right it's like a viking Long Boat and that is meant to kind of represent you know sailing into the stars and the International Space Station which you also can actually see they put it there at the bottom because it kind of does look like an anchor anyway which is kind of neat um and again it signifies the vessels that so many explorers of the past have just steered into the Stars into the unknown um then the ship's Dragon figurehead at the the front of the boat it's also shown kind of looking into the future as well whereas meanwhile you've got the ship's sale which was actually a symbol of the 2012 Cosmonaut class so you've got Andre feriev who is involved in that um that sale is depicted there with the Roman numeral six for crew six it's also overlaying the Earth the moon and Mars so you can see the three different colors there uh symbolizing those with the craters and whatnot and then you have the Draco constellation on the right side uh representing of course NASA's commercial crew program and crew Dragon and also of course sharing the name with the Draco thrusters that maneuver the spacecraft and then around the patch uh around that image there is of course the names of each of the crew with only and fetty I've written in Arabic and Cyrillic to reflect their nationalities as well and I have to say when I first saw this patch I I was actually kind of taken aback I didn't realize that um people who you know don't use Western characters you know to write their names I didn't realize in the past it's been in other languages and other characters like that um apparently it has though for many many years so that's just kind of like a really neat touch I think uh so yeah that's uh some Sawyers on here I'll throw some bad puns that's what it's all about a boat and uh you know announce their mission and leave a legacy and uh say goodbye to their peers maybe I would add more puns but that would just be dragging this out there we go now the party started but yeah in the past you occasionally you've seen little uh you know homages to their Flags or things as well like a lot of the Canada Missions when they had a Canadian astronaut would have a maple leaf and similar but yeah they uh as it is in their native language I really regret the lineup of commentators right now with the amount of puns that are going around right here um I just wanted to point that out gotta have a few chaos monsters on the Stream yeah this is dangerous yeah and I think uh we will take this moment right now to uh talk about the astronauts who are on today's Mission starting with Stephen Bowen who is a NASA astronaut for today uh he is uh already doing his fourth space flight here after the STS 126d sts-132 and the sts-133 mission so three times on the shuttle now on a dragon already are accumulating to 40 days in space this will significantly increase that number because so far the missions were more short duration and this will be a six month stay in space so uh Steven as the mission Commander here uh yeah Crainer increasing is uh his uh time and space so uh looking forward to that also as we mentioned before he was uh former submarine uh yeah from from something background next up we have Warren Woody Holberg uh 37 years old it's a rookie and one of the three rookies here with so far uh zero days in space uh he has a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautics and astronautics uh from MIT and also has a PHD in electrical engineering computer science from the University of California so very much very uh very experienced already with 37 but no space experience uh so far in Pittsburgh shout out to anyone from Pittsburgh on the stream that's where I'm from originally that's nice yeah it's uh definitely uh a cool lineup of astronauts and with free rookies and one very experienced one and the interesting one is they they all will have more than uh more flight experience after this than they had uh than Steven had now so they will all have significant flight experience here in terms of days next up we have uh Mission specialist Sultan Al uh nihadi from the United Arab Emirates also rookie for selected as an astronaut in 2018 if I recall it correctly and uh yeah we'll be the second uh United Arab Emirates astronaut in space which will then increase later with another Axiom mission to four people actually so it's like the second now and then the third and the fourth on the action missions so yeah certainly a lot of activity from the United Arab Emirates in space right now which is uh always good to see always cool to see other nations as well and then we have as the other missions the second mission specialist we have Andre Fair de if uh from Ross Cosmos who is also performing uh it's uh his first flight in in space uh so uh they are very much rookie with the age of 42 um from the background of the Russian Air Force was selected as a cosmologist in 2012 and now we'll debuted on the SpaceX crew 6 Mission so that's the astronauts for today and we are now one hour and 21 minutes away from this rocket lifting off here you can see a beautiful shot of SpaceX Falcon 9 standing with crew dragon on top on Pat 39a so yeah we are we are progressing and let's let's hit some more questions I would say uh lemon King asking do the astronauts keep their suits do they get them to keep them after their mission do we know that if they will keep their suits well I know um Bob and Doug suits are on display at the cape so I don't think so but I don't know I I mean I feel like they would probably maybe reuse them if they were to use them again I don't know especially since a lot of those things are custom tailored for each individual astronaut in fact this is one of the things that I loved when I was first learning about crew dragon is that pretty much all of the serial numbers for inside the spacesuits and the seats that they're sitting in and all the connectors have their names on them so the part number literally includes the astronaut's name so that when people are working on it they remember hey there are actual people involved in this so use extra care and caution but Sawyer if they were to say go up on another mission would they reuse the same suit or do you think they would actually make a whole new one for them for their next mission I would think they would be able to reuse them unless uh they decided to gained a lot of weight or something but yeah so there we go so the answer is sadly we don't exactly know it seems like probably NASA also has some interest to keep some of these suits and have them on display because they're always very interesting to see in museums for example as well um so yeah there's some some people who have interest in these suits probably um let's see what do we have here as well how could the piece of debris impact docking if the ISS needs to make an avoiding maneuver so uh I will actually take that one because yeah I also want to answer the first question so basically if the ISS adjusts its orbit which it would do to avoid basically they would change the orbit a bit so they uh increase the distance between where the object would probably fly that of course means all of the positions might change um so they would be in a different position at a different time and need to make sure that crew dragon is still on the way to that position at that time so so that's how it basically is impacting that path of course they could with knowing that there is a crew dragon in a way could make uh maybe sure that they burn into that direction where they could help couldaan to reach the ISS and of course they are not moving like significantly they are not moving uh like them do not doing like a multi minute burn here they're just adjusting a bit to uh to to make sure they avoid that piece of debris so yeah um Benjamin Brown saying rip Ariana cursed she took her own life on February 3rd I'm very sorry about that and uh thank you for that uh contribution uh James Colby uh what is the airspeed velocity of an unleavened swellow I African or european I have no idea about this question can somebody give me context it's a joke Holy Grail okay I have no idea will get out of here away from I'm sorry uh Matthew with a storm is Achieve major thanks to everyone at Atlanta for all your work in godspeed crusticks and Endeavor uh thank you Matthew and let's see uh what you got from the store um uh it was the metal print of Falcon 9. thank you so much I'm really glad that people enjoy that these new metal prints by uh baby Brady Nathan and Pauline actually uh I really think they're they're awesome metal prints and uh you should check them out at chopped up NASA spaceflight.com thank you so much um um yeah we get is is crew Dragon the safe spacecraft right now I would say it's it's designed with like certain safety requirements NASA has but I wouldn't call it the safest I think for example Starline is also very like designed to the same safety standards so any any other opinions here in terms of which is the safest spacecraft right now I don't think any one spacecraft is more safe than the other every spacecraft has a set of resp of requirements it has to meet to safely carry crew into space and then you also have ones that if something goes wrong can quickly fire them away so while there has been no need for an abort the exception of the in-flight abort test on crew dragon every single spacecraft has a degree of safety and a degree of risk because it is space flight so I would say that I would feel safe getting on board any single crew spacecraft in existence at the moment just knowing how much effort goes into making them safe I think that's probably a safe answer and also you know like this has now been proven many times over you know they're still sort of testing starlander there's still like starters testing awry and we haven't really put people on that yet so I would say probably right now it is today the most proven highest safety standards because of just its modern technology and everything I think that what's all yours so you may want to have a word with you well that's very old technology though they've been using that for a while now spend out of town don't fix it yeah nothing wrong with that should name the repeat the name of the Drone ship and tell us how many successful Landings it has endured so the Drone chip for today's mission is just read the instruction but I am not sure out of the top of my head how many Landings already were conducted on on just read the instructions even though we have Alex in the background so there's a good chance that I will see uh him typing very soon and suddenly have the number in the back Channel but I'm not sure if he has that number out of his head if this does land this would be the 100th successful Landing in a row for SpaceX there we go so uh that would be an interesting record 100 in a row that's that's crazy all right not their 100th ever but they're 100 successful one in a row yes yeah it feels a lot if it's not that I I don't know I would still remember the last time it felt but since then day I have basically launched like once a week so you probably get 200 pretty quick fast with that launch Cadence yeah 61 year 61 launches last year alone will do it oh that's true and they will probably hopefully increase this if more this year if they continue that streak let's hope they they do uh how do they actually detect space debris from Earth or from the ISS itself anybody here filter qualified to answer that question how space debris actually detected it's uh a lot of it is tracked right here on Earth well there's not as many I believe as there should be there are things that are tracking all types of objects in low earth orbit you'll also be able to see some I believe with satellites but the majority of it is ground-based tracking of all objects in space in fact most objects get an identifying number as soon as they get into orbit that they are tracked by including when they can see it debris but depending on how small it is they might not always catch it immediately so a lot of it can be a very last second oh debris coming in an hour get out of the way or in this case hey it'll be happening soon enough that we can have time to move the ISS out of the way and adjust uh crew Dragon rendezvous Trevor asking do we know what crude Mission will be the first to launch from pad 40 and I believe the answer uh to that is we don't know at this point we know it they are aiming for having it ready at like at like fall this year but we don't know if that then instantly the next crew rotation will be the one with the launch from slick 40 if I remember correctly the statements we have gotten so far who designs the patches for these missions is there like one person that designs all of these or is it like a internal team do we do we know the design process of these patches and who designs them so there are different people that oh go ahead sorry I was just gonna say that the design is actually there's a lot of input from the actual astronauts um to kind of tailor it to their missions and whatnot um but there's actually I think in you're probably just about to say this Sawyer I think there's a company in I want to say like North Carolina I think that's that's been kind of creating them for a while for the mission patches since like Apollo it's like a family business 50 years oh oh you you know the story please no that's that's about it they've been doing it for 50 years this one company but a lot of times when it comes to the design itself as you mentioned the crew gets input and there will be different people that design the patches specifically usually within those companies but yes it's pretty much one company that works with the crew to get these amazing designs that we see go and uh I believe okay one more question here one question here is uh when is Cruise six actually docking bearing any timeline changes based on the adjustment so Sawyer what's the timeline here for q6 from here on out if once they launch uh how long to docking uh well once they uh launch they will basically get into kind of like a little parking orbit and slowly do Maneuvers that will eventually get themselves lined up with the inner I believe we just lost you there Sawyer I think we just lost him uh well I will jump in um I so as of right now I don't know if there's going to be any slight changes because of the the debris situation um but originally they were slated to be docking at the harmony module on the ISS at 238 um so so yeah it's it's not too too too too long but I'm not sure what this this PDM stuff if things are going to change foreign connection just dropped temporarily okay and I believe I am now throwing it over to Chris G here for a special interview we have prepared for a year uh take it away Chris all right and now we've got a very special interview here uh with Amar from the Mohammed bin Rasheed Space Center so first question for you is could you uh tell us a bit about your position and your responsibilities at the Space Center yes thank you for hosting me my name is Amar al-ghafri I'm a senior director of Space Engineering department at the Muhammad Space Center I've been uh privileged to be working there for more than 16 17 years now and looking forward to the future with them and and quite a future it's going to be uh so what so let's start with uh Sultan's uh uh Mission here so uh exactly so how does this Mission build off of hazard's one-week Mission um in 2019 to the International Space basically when we started back in 2017. when we initiated the human space flight program at the UAE the goal was to have a sustainable program it's not a one-time off mission where we just want to send one astronaut we wanted to have a sustainable program but we have more than one Mission with a complete systematic program more astronauts training and getting them to go with the knowledge and participate with International initiatives so when hazar went to the International Space Station back in 2019 that was the first one and back then he had a phone call with the his extensively the prime minister of the UAE Sheikh Mohammed and at that time the Prime Minister mentioned that you will be not the last one from the UE and you there will be more and more coming and this is the follow-up Mission Sultan's Mission it's what's unique about it it's a six months duration Mission which is uh the first non-iss country to to have this opportunity which proves uh that the international cooperation is always open and all the ISS members are always welcoming countries to join and we are happy to be the first and we will continue so now we have uh two other astronauts uh the first Arab astronauts is training with Muhammad al-mulah in the next I mean the current ascan program at Nasa so we want to have more astronauts we want to get more engaged in the human space life sciences and and make the space program and the human space program specifically in the UE and region are sustainable and and complementing and adding value to the international Endeavor industry God gotcha um so um specifically um this is uh you mentioned you know the continuation of of different efforts beyond the ISS and uh UAE is part of the Artemis program as well in the Artemis Accords but also that module um cooperation for the Gateway element so I'm I'm wondering how you feel like the culture and the knowledge and the experience of the UAE plays into these future initiatives that the International Community has well I think space traditionally and and even now in the future will always be a challenging I think it challenges all countries so there has to be always International cooperation the UAE looks at space as a unique opportunity to Foster science and technology in the UAE and push it towards the economy itself and make it a main pillar of how we want to go for the future in the next 50 years so when we look at space and the and the programs especially the Artemis it's a new challenge yes the humanity is going back to the moon but we will not be going back there with the old Technologies we have to go back with uh a new uh Direction in our eyes which is Mars and so this this going the this time when we go back to the Moon we want to have advanced mode Advanced systems uh more Robotics and more uh I mean benefit from the technologies that we have been developing all these past years the UAE how we manage our programs we try to make them uh quick we try to make them uh I mean in terms of Technology very Advanced but at the same time we always try to make it in terms of cost and and these things always play a role lesson costs so we try to do things uh in a unique way but that doesn't mean we disregard any level of quality or anything and that's why we are in talks and we hope to be a negative member of the Artemis Accord through our collaboration with NASA gotcha so specifically to this Mission what are some of the experiments that Sultan's going to be doing up there that that in in interact with that Vision in that drive for the UAE so even on Hassan's missions in 2019 we make sure we made sure that a lot of universities a lot of students a lot of research is conducted in that eight days Mission this one is a six months duration Mission and we want to include again more and more Sciences so we have Sciences coming from the agencies NASA is uh Jackson we're coordinating with MV Sciences as well as we are doing uh something very specific with kness the French Space Agency on sciences and we are also pushing more and more for universities in the UAE to be involved in these kind of programs so we have the mbru which is the University of Medicine as well as New York NYU ad and New York University Abu Dhabi they also have their own scientific experiments so these are science experiments will be focused on cardiovascular systems back pain epigenetics immune system uh some Material Sciences and you know it's it's something usually I'm sure you're aware it's something usually is planned and we want to take the opportunity to take it to space so these Sciences they have a lot of science done here on the ground first and then taken to space so we try to make sure that these Sciences will be done properly and will bring benefit and knowledge and new knowledge to the people and scientists here on Earth gotcha and and looking looking at a little bit away from Earth and low earth orbit you've got the alamal probe in orbit of Mars doing very well you've got the Rashid Lander on its way to the to the Moon how are those missions doing overall um specifically the lunar lander well hope Rob is uh alhamdulillah everything is going very well we have been collecting data uh continuously uh I think uh very soon we will be completing one Martian year which is which is the target of this Mission and having the Sciences on the atmosphere of Mars for one uh Martian year uh this is happening very well and uh the the the the probe itself looks very good it's it's well beyond the expectation and there is a I mean there is always the chance for it to to extend the mission and get more and more Sciences Rashid Rover is a very unique a Rover that will be hopefully landing on the moon uh on end of April so we are uh finger crossed so we're looking for a successful Landing uh on 25th of April uh sometime early March the Lander which is coming from ispace will be going into a lunar orbit and then uh 20 25 days it will be hopefully uh nothing gotcha um and uh so so sort of looking ahead to that um and and sort of you said the next 50 years and so so I'm curious pulling that back a little closer in the next two years what are some of the things that excite you the most about the initiatives the missions that UAE has planned so what we have now so far is soul transmission we have the landing of the Rover uh sometime end of April and we have a 12 View satellite that's we are launching also uh mid this year this will have payloads coming from International partners and this is a new program that UE is initiated it's called payload hosting initiative we have 12 of you and the inside that will view we have a five view space that we will launch every year and we'll lack all the nations around the world to join us provide an opportunity to these countries who either cannot have an opportunity to go to space or they cannot manage full system so we are giving this opportunity with the United Nation and by the end of the year we will have the biggest satellite at the UAE to be developed it's almost one time it's called mbzat it's named after the president of the UAE this will be launched into a Leo orbit to provide a very high resolution Earth observation data that will definitely be shared with the international Partners beyond that we were looking at more focus on the next lunar rover that we are talking about a bigger in size and a more sophisticated instruments to study the the moon and also be on that we have several missions to be kicked off for Earth observation around Earth and in general the UAE is expanding the space program so we have uh space agency is also sending a mission to Venus and the asteroid builds so the UAE is looking for I mean in space or looking at space sector as a essential sector to drive a lot of Science and Technology Innovation in the way at the region and and finally you know for Satan's flight it's the first long duration mission for for anyone in the Arab world so what what does that mean from the cultural point I think everybody is excited to be honest it's a you know these kind of missions change the mentality changes the the mindset that anybody would have either as an Arab or a globally so now with these kind of missions we hope that the Arab Nations and the youth in Arab Nations will realize the importance of Scientific Technology and will realize that they are always capable of doing these kind of missions with dedication with support with organized work and with International partners and these kind of missions bring hope and uh with kind well I mean even when we talk with Sultan and how ready he is it shows that the training he has had with with NASA team and the training he had even before that this kind of things built up the capacity and capability in him and and he's ready the country is ready and we hope that this kind of missions will continue and it will have the right impact which is making sure that the youth is benefiting and utilizing what the knowledge that that exists and adds value for the future and brings more and more knowledge and gets them interested in being a part of that future too right yes well Umar thank you so much for taking time a wonderfully exciting uh night to behold with uh with the launch coming up here in an hour and can't wait to see what else uh the UAE has has in store for us in the space sector it's been wonderful following you so far thank you very much so thank you very much and uh gonna throw it back to the studio thank you so much Chris G and Amar what a nice interview I really really uh exciting to hear the contributions of the United Arab Aramaic Emirates to efforts to go to space and go to the moon and Beyond really really cool interview I enjoyed that quite a lot just to update you and more on what happened during this interview we had the crew poll at T minus 60 minutes which is basically the crew being asked uh are you go for launch which they verified yes we are go for launch so the crew is polling go the next poll will be the dragon pole at T-minus 55 minutes and then we are moving into the Hawthorne and the launch director poll which will give the final goal for fueling at T minus 45 minutes so we are now into this this really like checked list and uh and uh final final checkout moment of the stream Alicia it's getting exciting right absolutely oh my gosh yeah now we get into the whole like you said the checklist timeline so things are just going to start going Bam Bam Bam it's going to really speed up now um but I just wanna actually say too look at this shot look at the move have you seen this like this is wild yeah we end up planning this this is just happening and it's amazing uh how how sometimes it really lights up with the perfect shot with the moon and and the Falcon 9 on the pad this is actually somebody in the chest asked us earlier if maybe the Moon is enough to light up the plume a bit so we get that that moon jellyfish and that isn't my moon jellyfish is a thing moon jelly uh I don't know if I mean you might need like a full moon a lot you know brighter than this but but I mean just look at it it just looks really cool too right now yes I really like this shot this is this is amazing view and of course we are getting now into the into the crunch time of this countdown we are getting really close want to hit a few more questions so make sure to tag at NASA space flight in chat uh if you have any more questions about the countdown about what's coming up uh since we are now sub one hour to the launch of crew 6 to the International Space Station oh let's see actually I have a question to ask you where are you guys watching the launch form uh well I'm watching from Germany so I'm with the best views I have right now is this here uh so I'm kind of the far further the way here from the team I think I'm in New York City right now and let's see Sawyer and Chris and Thomas are out in the field um at Cape Canaveral right now where are you guys tuning in from you tell us in chat good in lots of fun places George Canada California Perth Australia Kansas hey Kansas Tennessee Missouri Tulsa Oklahoma Latvia wow awesome what's up you guys thanks for tuning in from all over the world amazing we're seeing a lot of Australians from 44 ones it's a good time zone for them right so yeah I was gonna say what time is it in uh in Australia right now oh yeah waking up with your day I don't even know yeah it's like it's like midday like midday or 3 P.M around that era because right now it's in Europe it would be wake up time we have 7 A.M right now here in Europe I see this it's getting uh right outside and also we see here the uh the control room so we're starting to getting views of that as well here you can see all the engineers controlling the rocket and the vehicles and also there's the NASA control room right the mission control center um so yeah it's a lot of people on station for this launch as always it's crew if it's involved screw uh there will be a lot of people so let's see if we can get a few more um so yeah Luna jellyfish asking uh in a Super Chat will the moon be bright enough to light the exhaust we don't know yet stay tuned for that uh we certainly hope it is a super clear night so I don't want to say Never Say Never but I I feel like it might need to be a bit more full I don't know though I'm not an expert you can ask it yeah I have the same feeling though I am maybe a bit like there's of course it's not like a binary answer it's not one or zero uh there could be a bit of it maybe it's not the most uh exposed and bright though uh also we have Daniel uh Thorne Thornton I'm sorry great interview with Sultan thank you Chris G science is the hope of our future yes thank you so much yeah that was a really cool interview I really enjoyed that one yeah yeah so uh yeah I'm also getting an answer here like 5 p.m uh Australian East Coast so uh it's a good launch time for the influence it yeah someone said uh 3 P.M in Korea huh hi Korea thanks for joining us everyone's telling us what time it is around the world cool it's like a it's a it's a very uh you have to get the right message for for the clock to work here but it's a it's a YouTube chat clock okay uh we have you back on comes as well Chris G right you do indeed very nice interview thank you for that yeah that's great oh that was wonderful yes so we are just 52 minutes away from this launching so seven minutes until the launch director will re will verify go for fueling operations ooh the business end of the countdown yes it's uh it's getting close and this is where we usually would would start our broadcast of course with crew uh we we are tend to be a bit more early because there's so much exciting things we can talk about before the launch um but uh yeah this is very usually would see us go go live for falcon 9. um of course we have seen this part of the countdown a lot of times before but this is a different feeling when there is crew involved um let's dive into some more questions uh Chris uh we were just talking about is there a possibility of a moon jelly tonight or is the moon just simply not bright enough right now um I would doubt it but not rule it out um lighting angle is going to be a little weird for a moon jellyfish but it might be something that's more visible to the people on the ground than it is to the cameras or actually the reverse of that more visible to the cameras than it is to the people on the ground there we go um let me let me check here there's actually a question here about another crew that is coming up uh an announcement do we know when the crew of Artemis 2 will be announced there which I believe oh no not not the one I just went to look I thought we were talking about Axiom there for a second and that was frantically Google it um no uh Artemis 2 screw will be announced at some point this year all NASA told us was that they would announce the crew very shortly after the return of Artemis 1 if Artemis 1 went successfully I think it's been a little bit longer than all of us thought they meant by that um because it's been well it's been over two months at this point since Orion has been back so uh NASA will announce it when they announce it um though I think we're all sort of feeling that little bit of disappointment that it hasn't happened yet given their last statement lunch it's gonna happen in the next two months I think we're gonna hear it in March or April yeah yeah and a reminder of that too uh we while we don't know the names of the people who will be on it and guessing is usually never a good idea because it's usually always vastly different than you think it's going to be um but the main thing to remember here is that we do know that a Canadian astronaut will be aboard uh we do know that CSA has one of the seats but we don't know who it is officially yet from CSA who will have that that chair and then uh the thought is that NASA will have the others on on that flight but also now don't rule out other International Partners being on the first crude Orion flight as well yeah I know from recent interview with Issa Isa is very much also pushing to get uh European boots to the Moon so there's there's definitely some interest in different parties that want to partake in this uh in in this journey to the Moon Yeah and in fact I think it's Artemis five will be the first time that a European participates in a landing on the moon I think that is the current plan based on the crew seat assignments that are tied to the eventual number of modules everyone plans to contribute to the Gateway yeah I think of the horse trading that goes on there I think so far Issa has secured three spaces on Artemis missions so they will get three rights to the Moon however it's not clear how many of these will be Europeans actually going to the Moon although I think it's very much expected that at least uh one European at some point will go to the Moon well as I think even part of that has changed because originally some of the missions Europeans were going to be a part of were not going to have Landing components but now a lot of them have switched to have Landing components to them as well so whether they stay on the Gateway or go to the surface is sort of the larger question now but it does appear that the flights with the Europeans on them will at least all have the option of going to this so yeah we'll see that's definitely I mean there's a lot of international Partners here and often these missions that they really want to probably also get boots on the moon but uh including the UAE who we just talked to yeah yes and with that let's uh look at this gorgeous rocket there standing 47 minutes and 20 seconds ahead of liftoff with the final go for propellant load coming up in just under two minutes so uh yeah we are we are getting really really close here and of course firing room yes of course it's always a different feeling right it's it's uh it's it's just a different than than launching just another satellite for me and actually worth noting as well because we talked here you know the big question now in the in this part of the countdown is obviously the weather um launch weather is absolutely not a problem 95 go uh no constraints in and around the Kennedy Space Center at all and as of last check all abort weather criteria in the Atlantic from the cape to Ireland was good to go for tonight's liftoff so everything does appear to be aligning so far for a launch to night at 1 45 and 3 seconds that's great news awesome there we go so I love these these I think these These are helicopter shots right oh like uh helicopters or drones yeah one of the two yeah there's always there's also this helicopter flying around so but I I almost believe like this might be drone to be fair there are multiple helicopters flying around all with different missions uh let's see we're getting a lot of question about the trajectory so the trajectory is basically if you're not East like south and east coast of the of the United States you have a probably a realistic chance of seeing this uh going up there you go there's again like uh for example South Carolina will probably have a very good chance to see this as well uh going upwards the East Coast a bit as well so yeah watch watch for that rocket in 45 minutes and 30 seconds and again this is uh this is a instantaneous launch window as our ISS windows so there's not a possibility to to just hold for an hour here and wait for something like they are they're very much locked into this launch timeline and we are coming up on the verifying go for propellant load by the launch director in just about 10 seconds so we will see this hopefully and hear the call out very very very soon let's listen in for that oh I really like that countdown timeline and how it's completely ready for crew access arm retract Propel load and launch there we go 45 minutes and remain that state until the launch Escape system is disarmed all operators ought to remain in their console and maintain a sterile cockpit until MD confirms successful disarming of the launch Escape system following orbit insertion propellant offload in the event of a scrub or non-urgent no-go conditions brief the CE or the LD and the approval boarding the launch countdown for Urgent issues affecting the safety of the operation operator shall call hold hold hold hold on the countdown net launch control over the launch ICS immunity and proceed into the launch of our sequence at T minus 10 seconds lost control will be hands off relying on automated working material for the remainder of the count operators advise the lawn tractor whether structural breakup is eminent or occurring for Dragon manual Escape flight rules launch control you may have pursued with arming launcher the crew on for movement foreign it's really hard to find gaps in this commentary um I would just want to point out how much I love this countdown timeline it's so cool yeah and it really is and and and and to sort of go over a little bit I think of what we just heard basically that's all nominal that's what you want the launch director to tell their team at this point in the countdown and that's just basically going over the steps of if anything is seen at this point that would cause a concern depending on the level of concern there are various ways that the launch Team can go about um confirming what the good Next Step can be with obviously have started and there we go and you can see the car access arm retracting there it retracts first to a 90 degree position away from the vehicle and then at liftoff it will swing farther away to protect itself sort of like the transporter erector does as well and I would it's uh also we shouldn't point out uh the Falcon 9 launch sequence is kinda automated at this point so uh they they can of course address some of the issues but like if there would be an issue in the Falcon 9 countdown uh for some reason that would probably mean a halt and with that scrap for for this day just to point that out how this countdown will go from here now and next up will be the Dragon launch Escape system which will be armed to uh once basically they want to arm this before they load propellants onto the vehicle so if something would go wrong during the fueling and since then you have exclusives on the pad you have the Dragon Escape system armed so that this astronauts are able to yeah Evacuate the rocket so that's why this flows in place and first they will arm the system and then fuel the rocket and after that fueling and then go so Indiana really really close is the weather going to be a problem before launch absolutely not weather is basically no concern for this uh which is nice it's a nice change to some other launches we had in the past very true very true to that indeed all good oh it's gonna say in fact it is the dragon Endeavor which is the only one that has suffered a post-fueling abort on a crew mission um all of the others have actually the day that they have decided to load the crew into it they have gone on those days so only demo 2 has encountered a post-crew loading abort and scrub for the day and that was weather related click go so let's hope that Trend doesn't continue exactly do they monitor the genome Magnetic storms uh and team East that are due to hit any like adding any money oh my gosh I love this question I was waiting for this question yes okay the answer to that is a very firm yes they do monitor geomagnetic storms they do monitor the strength of the communal mass rejections and what the models show the intensity of the storms will be when they reach Earth now they do this for a variety of factors one uh obviously being the radiation the energetic and charged particles within the coronal mass ejections can definitely have adverse effects on crew health so you do want to monitor that because if it's easier to just wait to the other side and not expose them to that if it's going to be particularly severe they can do that this one is not as you can tell we're proceeding um as normal today the other big thing that they do have to contend with with solar storms is the effect on the density of Earth's atmosphere at the insertion altitudes that they do if you recall about a year ago there was a solar storm and they lost most of the batch of Starlings that they had just launched into low earth orbit but they deployed the Starlings there we go Crux of some retraction complete um but um the starlings were lost because the atmosphere got thicker and more denser than they were expecting and they're very they're very low thrust to weight ratio Hal effect thrusters the basically ion engines in space um just didn't have the oomph and the power to raise their orbits enough to prevent their orbital Decay dragons thrusters are a lot stronger than that Dragon raises its orbit very quickly from the initial 200 kilometer insertion orbit to begin raising itself up to to catch the International Space Station within a day so those types of solar storms and the thickness differentiation of the atmosphere your go for Section six close visors and arm launch Escape system is in work all right closing and locking their visors and getting ready for propellant load advises the clues so um and just to finish that thought on the on the storms they actually deploy the starlings into higher orbits now um and the batch of Starlings that are set to launch uh later today during the course of this storm are inserting into roughly three times A6 copies perfect arming the launch abort system and launch Escape system exactly what we want um but anyway those satellites are deploying into higher orbits so they shouldn't be affected by the current storm systems there we go thank you for that answer Chris um we got a uh five little tip here from uh www.am who's saying the first time my mom has seen a London alive from our backyard thank you SpaceX and NASA next step to the Moon I mean today it's it's more to the Isis but uh yes get getting there to the Moon uh with probably Artemis 2 and Artemis freedom and also there we go launch Escape system is very fat arm and I just want to point out quickly uh thank you for uh being the first one 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flowing and loading into the first stage but not the second stage um and then uh they load all the rp1 into the second stage first that gets done around 22 minutes at 20 minutes 20 seconds we have a big vent uh called the T-minus 20 minute event that is purging the transporter erector lines from the rp1 kerosene Zone to the second stage and getting it ready for the liquid oxygen load into the second stage just loaded simultaneously second stage does it one at a time because of some peculiar peculiarities to the densified liquid oxygen and how it interacts with some of the pressure vessels in the second stage so that is the overall fueling process fueling goes until about a minute and 50 seconds ahead of liftoff and we have the big final Purge of the transporter erector right around then as well and then at one minute Falcon 9 takes control of the countdown pressurizes its tanks for Flight 45 seconds we have the launch director verification uh I mean you should have expected that I know this countdown at this point because we kind of talk about it like once a week but apparently at least two more tomorrow after this oh yeah there are three today yes this is just number one all three pads launched today so yeah like say this in your sleep at this point but again the fact that the countdown did not stop the fact that nothing halted here does mean that the launch Auto sequence began and fueling of the Falcon 9 with rp1 kerosene and liquid oxygen into stage one and rp1 kerosene into stage two has indeed begun for our liftoff here tonight just want to hit this very quickly Uh crap life's music with a 20 red team membership gift thank you so much crab rice music and uh uh congrats to everybody who gets to enjoy the red team membership perks thanks to them uh thank you a lot and also maglam with the five dollar tip here the best coverage of space flight continues with nsf's crew 6 stream thank you for all your top-notch coverage let's light handle indeed Mark and uh thank you song from the bottom of the rocket which happens at some point where you can that will be the real first visual indicator that the rocket is being fueled um Let's see we talked about this before but I just want to mention again what's the zero g indicator for this Mission I believe we have a quick graphic for that since it's uh coming up with a question here again um not sure if we have it uh but uh yeah it's a it's a it's a cute little uh blue astronaut uh with a with a SpaceX suit on so we'll hopefully see it Fly very soon um Mike with a question here if there's an issue can the astronaut let themselves out once the arms get back to the capsule like I have the ability to for example open that door oh yes they do they do so there are a couple of different options at this point in the count um one if something is going catastrophically wrong the launch Escape system can activate the four Draco thrusters super draco's on Dragon would fire and and pull the crew away from the top of the rocket uh for a splash down in the Atlantic Ocean um about a kilometer 1.2 kilometers or so off the uh Coast uh and away from the launch pad there um however if the issue is not serious um that would trigger the launch Escape system the arm can be put back into place within a few seconds and they can indeed open the hatch from the inside if they need to and run down the arm to the slide wire Escape assets should they need to yeah like 99 of cases where they bought the countdown right now would not be like a big emergency but more like sensors being off or something not being completely right and then they that wouldn't instantly variant an abort of the of the capsule which is the important countdown and then saves the vehicle correct yes somebody mentioning your day love are we trying to find gaps at commentary without interfering with Mission Control talking sometimes it's it's quite challenging those window tones really come in handy for knowing when to stop talking so my gosh do you remember all like the Artemis ones like Daryl yes randomly not even like any intro we're just like oh okay and you can actually see Vapors from the Falcon 9 as that densified liquid oxygen is being loaded into the first stage there so uh definitely becoming Frosty as you would expect and helium is one of the pressures that they use um for the overall system because it is an inert gas so the helium bottles on stage one being loaded at this time as well as you heard the call there yeah Frost woohoo we like frost here at NSF it's a it's an on-brand specialty of us watching Vehicles Frost uh another question here with SpaceX have to change the Slick 40 strong back to support crew missions I believe there are modifications of that right yes yes there are um because you can actually see some of the modifications to the transfer director here because they have to modify the top of the erector because the arm has to swing over to the side hatch of dragon and the way the transporter erector is made for payload missions like startlings and customer satellites and and basically when Falcon 9 fights with a payload fairing um they have to alter at the top of the transporter director to allow the arm to swing over for crew and cargo missions so the same would be true of the erector at slick 40 as well we go uh yeah it's an interesting time to watch slick 40 because uh with rafologist the screw Tower action out there so I'm gonna bring quite some exciting there uh excitement there uh next up by the way we are about 30 minutes away from the second stage locks loading that will begin on second stage of course we will have the T minus 20 minute vents in about nine minutes so just to update you on that we will continuously update you through this this countdown so you're always up to date what's happening next and what to watch Fallout 4. um backyard Zoo asking are there any plans to have any other SpaceX vehicle behind besides Falcon 9 to take astronauts to the ISS so that would be either Falcon heavy or Starship um no not a present Falcon 9 and dragon art yeah heavy would be a bit overkill for launching a Dragon for example to the ISS because a and I can do it so they wouldn't use a falcon heavy and as of now Starship has no plans involved with the ISS let's see [Music] uh cookie mentioning out here by space Park View in Florida a big crowd for the big lawn thank you for keeping us all entertained till the countdown uh that's a I heard it before that some people are using a steam to watch while they are on uh like uh watching launch so they are up to date which is very very cool to see thank you guys that's awesome so we are very very glad and again if you have any questions during this countdown make sure to tag at Master space flight and chat we will get to all of your questions uh during this um and uh try to answer yeah as much as we can we are really like in a lot of already hit a lot of questions during this and uh we have some time for some more yeah well actually I've got one for Alicia uh here uh because we hit it oh no nothing nothing terrible no I know because we talked about it earlier and this stream like right when we began the stream about three hours ago so I'm curious now that we're 27 minutes away from liftoff uh Alicia six-month Mission what is some of the science that this crew will be doing during their six month stay aboard the ISS oh yeah we're wait were you here for the first part when I was going over all that science stuff it was but it was like three hours ago so that's true all right if anyone's tuning in um so yeah they're doing 222 experiments um a lot of them have to do with kind of using the astronauts themselves as sort of guinea pigs um so they're going to be doing some immunity assays uh looking at their immune functions in space flight so um previously the European Space Agency had this test where they would do it before and after while they were in flight but now they have a brand new um type of tube that they can use for it so now they can actually test their blood in saliva in Flight which is going to provide a lot more clarity for the scientists moving forward um they're also looking at things like their diets so they'll be you know trying out different types of diets while they're up there they're looking at um and the neurocular syndrome which is an eye safety investigation some vascular tests as well uh they're experimenting these things called tissue chips which are these little bioengineered devices that sort of mimic the function of human organs so things like hearts and brains and cartilage and whatnot but what's cool about them is they can actually speed up sort of the the rate of you know degeneration or something over time so things that would normally take months or years on Earth um and in space things do speed up a little bit too they're able to now look at them and kind of see how they react to treatments um on a longer scale but in a shorter amount of time specifically they're looking at some heart cell function and some heart tissues for that and then and they're looking at some combustions all right so yeah feeling unloading now um some uh flammability tests to make sure that they um are going to be able to kind of look at the materials and the equipment that they'll be using for future projects um to make sure that uh they have a really you know a good way of putting things out that isn't going to affect them and then my favorite thing I think is they're going to be going outside of the ISS on spacewalks and swabbing the outside um in some of the the vent systems for where the life support systems are looking for microbial life seeing you know what survived out there still in the harsh environment in the space um and actually what's interesting is Ross Cosmos actually previously sampled surfaces on the Russian side of the ISS and they found stuff they found some non-spore forming bacteria that was growing there in space so this test is going to serve as a comparison for that uh and they'll be you know just looking into these extrema files that's what they call them these microorganisms that are able to exist in the harshest environments with an eye towards just you know planetary um you know making sure that when they're going to the moon or Mars or wherever we're not actually contaminating other places as well so there's a lot of science going on in this one it's going to be actually quite I mean they always are but this one in particular has some really interesting stuff and you know it's funny that you mentioned the extreme files because I was just in Yellowstone National Park and we were there to see like bison and wolves and everything like that but our tour guide was one of the biologists who studies the extremophiles and the geysers in Yellowstone and so I just immediately was like oh my God I have so many questions for you because of extremophiles in space and just like went off and everyone else was like but the wolves and I was like calm down we're talking about Europa right now but oh my God I love it that's great of course you did that's so awesome once you went to get the opportunity to really ask a subject matter expert about their topic it's like okay sorry I need to book you for the next 30 minutes it pretty was yeah exactly uh we have another question here by the end DM uh what engines are dragging I used to duck with the ISS so which which are they using here oh yeah so um kind of an interesting interesting question the regular Draco thrusters are the ones that are used to do the honor Maneuvers the phasing burns the short little pulses that get them to the ISS and then get them aligned with the docking Target and then bring them down there um to it um it's a little bit of a misnomer because if they actually dock along the velocity Vector if they talk to the forward uh docking port of Harmony on the issi it's actually the ISS docs with the dragon um Dragon just sort of gets in front of the ISS and slows down a little bit and then just uses its thrusters to maintain alignment and the station just flies up to it and docks it's a little bit different when you dock on the space facing port on our Harmony because then you're on the radial Vector not the velocity Vector so you're basically aiming down at Earth and that's when dragon and the ISS sort of dragon has to do all of it to keep in alignment with the ISS and move down at the right angle and the right um overall horizontal speed and vertical speeds to to maintain that alignment with the docking system so the Draco thrusters or whatever is used but it kind of depends on what you're talking to and the orientation you're coming in at that determines who docks with who if that makes sense that makes a lot of sense uh did Christie just confirm wolves Europa no it was wolves and Europe the discussion yes no rules because we were talking about Europa yes there are wolves in Europe but not on Europa because Europe they're underground what right no in the content or whatever I will move on um space podcast asking uh why have Draco flame inverters been repainted from black to white sense crew demo 2. I still repent Flame diverters some of the like in I think some of the Drake super Draco thrusters the abort thrusters are the ones we're talking about when we talk about super so super dracos are the abort thrusters regular dracos are the everything's fine I'm in orbit and pulsing my thrusters to get why I need to go um I believe the tips and the undersides of the super trick was used to be gray and now they're white it's just a coloration and material change for what covers the opening of them to prevent moisture intrusion and I'm going to pause for a moment because yeah in seven seconds here it starts a bit early actually uh is the T-minus 20 minute vent so this means that rp1 fueling of stage 2 is complete and closed out and they are purging the transporter erector lines getting it ready for the densified flowing there we go the confirmation of exactly what I was saying there uh and you can just see that that wonderful vent Cloud that we've got that indicates that Falcon 9 is happy and healthy we like a happy and healthy rocket at this point on the captain always um look at that yeah Joe Presidio with a 20 super check waiting for in Daytona Beach for crew 6 to light up the sky uh enjoy the launch show and uh thank you so much for that generous support and I hope you you see a bright Sky very very soon which is a big okay so Daytona so Daytona from the trajectory point it will look like the stages are actually separating directly to the east of you um and then don't go inside keep watching that second stage since it's clear tonight in Florida keep watching that second stage if you are in Florida because what you will eventually see is the first stage reigniting its engine for the landing burn about 530 kilometers Northeast of the launch site today is the landing site but you can see that entry burn from the ground in Florida 500 kilometers to the north it's incredible so definitely if you are along the Eastern Seaboard from North Carolina South and you've got good Skies you should be able to see that that entry burn not the landing burn but the entry burn definitely and of course here as we're at 18 and a half minutes you can see that Purge of the transporter erector continuing to go uh full blast there and that will wrap up here in a couple of minutes and then at T minus 16 minutes we will have the commencement of densified liquid oxygen load onto stage two as a reminder stage one is currently being loaded with both rp1 kerosene which is chilled and densified liquid oxygen and the Falcon 9 actually uses chilled rp1 to densify it a little bit more other Rockets do typically use ambient temperature kerosene the atlas V for example is fueled with kerosene right when it reaches the pad and remains in that semi-fueled state up into liftoff normally and I'm back sorry my normal alarm in the morning went off for you Adrian is it not yeah I was like I was like thanks phone and it was lying in the other side of the room so it was like oh well that's actually a really good point I've got to disable my alarm so it doesn't scare me at 8am which would only be like hour three of sleep yes yeah I also want to thank you uh Josh here for 25 just received the red team membership thank you so uh you do uh thank you to all you do this channel brings so much joy to my life and I can't express my gratitude to what you guys do I love you all thank you so much Josh this really is a wonderful message and uh thank you so much for that I uh it warms my heart it really does thank you across your little heart yes so we are we are getting close to a crew launch here everybody 16 minutes 40 seconds uh there's one pressure nearby so I am asking why is one of the water sprayers spraying water right now uh and I think you can see it may I'm not sure if that's light but I think there's actually one that is spring a bit but I don't think there's any meaning behind that no it's just part of the overall prep and priming of the of the suppression systems um yeah that's all it is yeah and here's the launch countdown timeline again just to point out what we are next watching we are now at Second Stage lock slope again it just was called out so uh yeah now they will load a cryogenic liquid oxygen uh to the second stage in preparation for liftoff and uh next up will actually be the engine shell already which will happen in 8 minutes and 40 seconds from now where the Falcon 9 begins uh chilling down it's nine Merlin engines in preparation for liftoff so yeah it's uh it's getting close we we are definitely here in the very exciting moment of this countdown before everything will happen very very soon and also I cannot point this out enough this timeline I love it so much I I'm sorry I know I have to say your timeline is fire I love it I know I love I love the countdowns to the next Milestones that that like that tickles me I don't yeah I have to say it every time I see it I'm always amazed I'm sorry uh are there covers on the uh launch Escape system engines on the Dragon yes to prevent uh weather and moisture intrusion yes I think you can see one of them right now right that is you can indeed yep right under the American flag there in that little protuberance uh that juts out from the main outer mold line basically of dragon is one of the super is one of the four super Draco aboard thrusters yes this is a question that's kind of interesting to answer because the question is does SpaceX track the adrenaline levels in astronauts but I think in general we can ask the question are estrogant Health Data tracked during the launch oh yes um yeah yeah take it away Alicia oh no yeah I mean absolutely I mean they're they're monitoring everything the entire time their suits have so many sensors in them yeah they need to they need to really understand you know the crew's health and and everything and the run up to and the actual flight envelope yeah so there you go they are probably not adrenaline levels because therefore that would have to constantly monitor blood I guess but uh they will monitor a lot of Health Data for of the astronauts and make sure they are fine and healthy and uh feeling good uh does SpaceX strip and repaint the dragon and booster for reuse and so for the booster actually answers no uh the boosters over time get get very very silly and uh have yeah some some marks of their previous flights but I believe the dragons are kind of getting like very very much cleaned right I mean you can see it here on on the crew capsule you can see basically no signs that this flew to space other than some patches on it yeah I'm not honestly sure how much of the back shell is replaced from mission to Mission um versus just cleaned and refurbished um but I'm but I know the exterior a lot of the external exterior egg blah blah blah my gosh that word is hard to say exterior panels um do do do sometimes get replaced just because of the wear and tear on them yeah they installed um the new heat shield new nose cone a new trunk and all forward bulkhead for this there you go um so that helps to withstanding other re-entry heat and docking and cargo face um and then the steering and thrust for the spacecraft and I think that's a good point right Alicia to make is that even though it is a reusable it is a reusable spacecraft that doesn't mean every single little thing on it is reused or if they are reused some critical components like the abort thrusters are and engines would only be certified for a smaller number of flights than others um just because of of the criticality of some of those systems yeah there we go uh David Kennedy uh sorry Derek Kenny asking what type of testing regime is has this booster endure to be ready for a crew launch on its first go and I will take part of this question because uh they first will be fired uh as a booster in McGregor they will perform a full fulleration test there where they fire the engines and qualify the booster for launch and then they also do one another static fire test which is a short iteration static fire they will perform at the cape as well so there's at least two qualification firings that boosters have to do before they launch and I'm sure there will is a multitude of more inspections going on with this booster to make sure it's safe and sound for launching crew and not just that but all of the information from every other Flight of the Falcon 9 crude or not all feeds into the data that goes into determining um flight rationale and flight reliability uh and in fact you know during NSF live today we were covering with Alex some of the open items that they were discussing at the flight Readiness review and launch Readiness review for this particular Mission including a fire on the center engine of another booster but they were actually able on that one to prove that it was unique the issue that occurred was unique to that booster and would not be an issue here today so so the the high flight rate of the Falcon 9 today will be the 205th Flight of the Falcon 9. um so the extremely high flight rate also really benefits the data look and and the understanding that newer boosters just like used boosters with numerous numbers at the uh to the end of them are are safe for crew and with that we are coming up on 10 minutes to launch and with that we want to give you also a way to support us for doing these uh long streams with uh the launch entry Landing shirt for example we have at shop.nasaspacefly.com which through displays are configured for launch you never know when there's a safe we've got to talk half of our entire team at SpaceX we're honored we are honored to have you aboard Dragon capsule Endeavor today for its next trip to the International Space Station we wish you a great Mission good luck godspeed and enjoy the ride the trainers technicians Engineers assistant makers and planners who have defined our mission ahead and trained us and I'm given the faith in us to execute that mission and cruise next is 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looking out the windows and seeing the Vapor Rising against the window there that's gotta be an incredible feeling and they always say too it feels like you're on like a dragon like it's living it's breathing it's like you know like creaking beneath you it's alive and that's it like the the the dragon Crews actually get to experience that thermal contraction and cooling of the rocket from inside the capsule it's really really interesting Sensations gotta be you really sometimes get that a sense of that for example when we have microphones very close to Starship you really hear how everything is moving there's a lot of pumps going on there's uh sounds everywhere and this is of course this is another rocket here this is Falcon 9 it has the same size uh kind of pumps the same kind of sounds of tanks getting filled so yeah it's a it's a very active vehicle and just to confirm here engine chill has begun there it is ah I was faster SpaceX and uh with that the nine Merlin engines below the Falcon 9 are getting ready to be ignited in just an 6 minutes and 40 seconds from now moving down the timeline we have one of two more Milestones before this happens we have the dragon transition to internal power which means the yeah the dragon basically is on eternal power I mean the Madison kind of explains itself at five minutes uh which is 15 minutes all right so fueling closeout on stage one underway now it's really they're closing all these all these parts of the rocket which are getting ready to launch and of course then at one minute which is a very important point in a falcon 9 countdown uh that is where the rocket will take over the like to count on basically and uh the internal com the startup computers of the Falcon 9 are studying and yeah basically it's getting ready to fly then so yeah for five minutes and 40 seconds and just to point that out here again uh because I think we have not talked about it uh at one point in the countdown to see right actually for awareness we are seeing a t-tab load issue and our troubleshooting we are currently still go but have further evaluation before making a final decision we'll get to a final read before t0 oh that is new um so let's very quickly talk about t-tabs so t-tab is how the engines are ignited um it's the igniter material that allows the spark that then allows the propellant and the oxidizer to begin burning together it's that green flash that you see at the engines at ignition figure for terminal count that's good to hear for Dragon uh dragon for strong back retract that is also good um to hear but uh some of the t-tab is loaded onto the vehicle for the ignitions in Flight like the reignitions of the engines but the the engines are actually lit by t-tep from the ground um at the beginning so that is a very interesting thing that they'll we'll see what they end up getting to here but that's very rare to hear on a falcon 9 countdown so far yeah certainly not an expected call out and I should say it's rare to hear Oh I thought I heard them talking and talked very shortly maybe that was just me and I and I heard something else no I heard too okay yeah um weird to hear on a countdown but doesn't mean it hasn't happened before it it seemed like they just wanted to brief the crew on it and make sure that they are also in the loop yeah and you can see strongback retract is in progress the Cradle arms are opening and the strong back will be pulling back to 88.2 degrees here uh from 90 that's its pre-pull back position and then at ignition and liftoff of the engine at the ignition and lift off the transporter erector will throw back to 45 degrees to protect itself from the nine Merlin Wendy engines you can see that slight movement taking place there now on the erector look at that it's just like breathing really is so cool that's so cool to see and uh yeah next up uh again one minute it's the important part and outside 45 seconds the launch director of SpaceX will verify go for launch which is uh which is the final go of course that might be the point where we will maybe not even here or hear any more about the issue they are troubleshooting right now so we'll see how the next three minutes go but uh in three minutes from now we will certainly know what happens yes one way or the other we will know yep there's no wiggle room just to point out again we've said it before but there's no wiggle room in this countdown once they are this it's an instantaneous launch Windows and on internal power there we go alrighty uh yeah as we continue here the final fueling closeout should be taking place right around the LD on countdown one hold hold hold hold oh do a t-tab ground issue oh wow all right so that is a scrub for the day yeah just to point it out this is a complete scrub there's no way I can launch today the launch is aborted at this point the crew will not launch to the ISS today uh now important point to notice is that called LD your go to step into five decimal 100 on script scrub that didn't work and the next attempt should be tomorrow at 1 22 am EST pen NASA if they of course travel to the issue and can't proceed tomorrow again right but right that's the next possible attempt um and you can actually see the ttab flare is visible but that is normal uh so no need to panic on that that is totally normal that you can see there uh but yes so theoretically we could set up for what what it would be called a 24-hour scrub turn around a little bit less than 24 hours due to ISS phasing requirements and orbit but uh yeah we're setting up for tomorrow would be the initial plan but it all sort of will come down to what the actual issue with the t-tab on the ground was but that is a very important indicator the t-tab ground issue um so that indicates to me that that is the um that that is the t-tab that would light the engines on the ground not the t-tab that would be used for the in-flight um reignition of the first stage engines and the Merlin 1D because those T-Type canisters are actually loaded before final integration of the rocket so it it's literally the t-tab that was needed to ignite the nine Merlin 1D engines on the first stage is what this sounds like here today uh could be something very minor and they could try again tomorrow could end up being a few more days we will need to wait and see it is worth noting that this is only the second time in um in eight crew fights now of the Falcon 9. well wait a minute demo two five Crews Axiom and um inspiration yes eight of the eight that's have so far happened this being the ninth um only two have ever scrubbed once the crew has been loaded crew six and demo two so it is a rare scrub for the Falcon 9. it was this capsule it was indeed this capsule on demo too that suffered that suffered the scrub as well uh both times not the capsules fought the first time it was weather in the area that prevented uh having good conditions to permit liftoff and now a t-tab ground issue yeah so hypothetically if there was a t-tab issue and it wasn't caught what would happen would it just not take off because it wouldn't get lit uh either all of the engines or a subset of the engines would not light and that would then trigger the abort um yeah yeah it's it's kind of one of those those interesting thought questions yeah the engine is just really honestly wouldn't ignite um countdown one at this time our offloads are underway vehicle is safe and proceeding not only with offload expecting about a 50-minute offload [Music] so you can see 35 minutes to fuel the Falcon 9 but 50 minutes to drain it uh of all of its propellants and get the crew into that safe configuration of note the launch abort system a launch Escape system is still active ready to pull the dragon away should there be an issue during the detanking process um the LA the Les launch Escape system will only be deactivated once the detanking process is complete and then they will and they know they're safe and then they will move the crew access arm back over next to dragon's hatch and the ninjas will come back out to the pad get the hatch open and help the crew egress um and then the crew will go back to recorders for today as the teams work to figure out when the next launch attempt could happen the earliest it could happen again is 1 22 a.m on February 28th which is technically 24 hours from now there we go we just uh just to to recap again we had a large scrub which uh we all hope didn't happen but hey at least uh they will can try again yes now the other thing that I do think is very much on play here and that everyone should be aware of there are theoretically two starlink missions later today one from Vandenberg and one from slick 40 at the cape the sequencing of those will now become a very interesting thing they had delayed the Starling commission until after this one because crew has priority um so it is entirely possible that if this Mission does if crew 6 does indeed move to tomorrow that the planned starlink launched 12 hours from now from the cape might also be affected by this um little hard to say they weren't really wanting to launch this 12 hours before Dragon so I can't imagine they'd want to do that now just because the days are changing so we will have to see how the starlink flights get affected by this delay as well also might mean a one or two day delay for the return of crew 5 as well depending on how they want to sequence the Handover events between crew 6 and crew 5. just uh because somebody asking and no we will not make a marathon stream until the next attempt oh gosh no [Laughter] sleep yes oh no it's a surprise for everyone but even NSF commentators need sleep uh when sleep yeah and again I do just want to say in case people are popping into our stream because of the scrub here just to hear our commentary I do just want to point out that the t-teb flare that is visible there under well from the Viewpoint underneath the water tower is indeed normal it is not an indication of the issue that they had today that type of burn off is normal for the t-tab sorry yes I know I know what it is I just keep saying it wrong sorry it's like a soda can tab yeah kind of yeah oh gosh like tab soda oh gosh yeah oh no yeah like uh just to give us a quick recap here Chris uh like a preview what will happen now what will they do from here on out to save this vehicle and uh yeah how how are steps forward yeah so they are Indie tanking operations they are offloading the rp1 kerosene and the densified liquid oxygen from both stage one and stage two that entire process takes about 55 zero minutes from the moment the scrub is called and they step into those scrub procedures uh so they've been in them for a couple of minutes now um so probably about 45 minutes of detanking left at this point before the vehicle and once once the vehicle is detanked it is safe they can deact at that point they can deactivate the launch Escape system super Draco thrusters on dragon and swing the crew access arm back over the pad ninjas will go back out to the pad assist the crew with egressing the vehicle um and then the Teslas will take the crew back to the operations checkout building where they will get out of their suits they will and then they basically just go into a holding pattern and if the launch is tomorrow they will go through the same set of procedures just 27 minutes earlier than they did today to align with the new time liftoff time tomorrow of 1 22 a.m and I should preface and just caveat that that is the earliest possible next attempt is tomorrow at 1 22 a.m Eastern 622 UTC again the exact timing of when they will try again will be dependent on what the actual issue with the groundside t-tab to ignite the nine Merlin 1D engines on the ground for liftoff was and how quickly they can get that fixed but crew will just continue uh we'll just go back and basically repeat L minus one there we go thanks for that summary and also I want to point out dream are here with the Super Chat saying so successful cryo test well um a successful tanking test at least yes of the Falcon 9 yes I like I like that optimism because they almost actually got to fuel loading complete on the vehicle they were within a few seconds of reaching that Milestone actually yeah and uh also uh Jason here with Super Chat asking uh do we know if the ground issue was for the first stage or second stage t-tap uh it is for the first stage because the t-tab that is loaded onto the vehicle to permit the in-flight ignitions of the engines both on the first stage and the second stage are loaded before rocket integration so there is ttab on the vehicle right now for the engine reignitions of the first stage for The Landings and for the ignition of the Merlin 1D uh after stage separation so that was not the issue here today it very much appears to be the t-tab that's needed to initially ignite all nine engines on the first stage for liftoff so this is basically really good question there Jason yeah it's kind of like the GSE getting primed to ignite the engines and debts today uh did not properly happen yeah and and to my knowledge that's the first time in Falcon 9 flight history where ground t-tab caused the scrub surprising these days too right uh it is you know this is one of those little things you know like systems are very mature you know like over 200 flights a day would have been this would be the 205th um we'll have to see based on the other starlings if it still ends up being that but with the high flight rate yeah you you start you sort of get to this point where like something happens and you go huh I guess that was one of those roll the dice you know like eventually something might break um yeah and it did of course you know like it could be a variety of things and I really don't want to speculate what the issue is because it really could be something simple it could be complicated we just don't know yet and of course that's the thing we will probably hear with a with this being a crew mission uh expect some updates from probably NASA about this yeah in fact NASA it will usually we'll we'll see what they do here with SpaceX and and with all of this but usually if it's a technical reason there's usually some sort of a press conference or at least a press release detailing what happened here especially for a NASA mission I believe there I did have something or do have something planned in the next few hours anyway though so maybe they'll turn it into that yeah exactly there we go um thanks to Vortex illuminations for becoming a pet rat member uh thanks for gold wolf for uh gifting one red team membership and also thanks for trade to Tracy for gifting five for a team membership uh thank you so much for that support and all the recipients uh congratulations and also Jason becoming a launch director member that's indeed one of the highest tiers we have for becoming a member of our membership program oh Jason you just asked that question too thank you yes good a great question and then becoming a large director as well thank you so much Jason Jason and also see us uh cook with a 9.99 Super Chat as well thank you so much with that um I think we will start uh tossing this over to uh Space Coast Live where we will of course watch this rocket and you will be able to see this rocket over the next period of time and but I believe we will we will start wrapping up this broadcast for today and I want to first off thank uh Alicia for being with me here all broadcast yeah of course have it be here it was fun it's uh gephard also thank you so much for being here with us today and in the field my absolute pleasure looking forward propellant offload update go ahead offloads are proceeding nominally anticipating another half hour until closeout I understand looking about a half out of his uh there we go just one more update as you can see the rocket being maintained here early on we also had Thomas Burke cut on uh for some commentary from the field and also providing some camera reviews thank you Thomas for being here in the studio we had Mr Michael Baylor and Kevin Michael reads on their make sure that we get all these amazing views over the launch broadcast today and in the field we also had Julia beggar on today with us providing for photos we also had Sawyer Rosenstein early on for some some commentary as well from the fields and we had Stephen Marr in the field as well providing photography and with that I want to wrap today's launch broadcast I thank you all for watching uh and we will we will see you all uh hopefully for the next attempt of this and of course for any upcoming uh Falcon 9 launches see y'all there thanks guys [Music] propulsion continues to be Marvel pressure looks good job right now phenomenal [Music] yikes you bet okay we don't need any more of these

Channel: NASASpaceflight

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Keywords: spacex, elon musk, falcon 9, starlink, starlink launch, spacex launch, rocket launch, falcon 9 launch, Liftoff, Livestream, kennedy space center, cape canaveral space force station, Inmarsat, I-6 F2, Inmarsat I-6 F2, SLC-40, Falcon 9

Id: sv16QyIyauY

Length: 235min 32sec (14132 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 27 2023