SpaceX Crew Dragon Returns from Space Station on Demo-1 Mission

[Music] and we have motion you see dragon physically separating from the International Space Station 1:32 a.m. Central Time the International Space Station 253 statute miles over sedan [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] mr. stations Goods watching ifs cluster is enabled copy so there you can see on your screen visual confirmation but a gorgeous shot dragon has undocks from the International Space Station and we are beginning the departure that's right you're going to hear the voice of David saint-jacques again he's the one inside of the station monitor and dragonforce departures slowly backing away everything's looked good so far with the separation Byrne again as gary said that physical separation that undocking coming at 11:32 p.m. here pacific taking houston attitude dragon departure burn zero complete mentioned earlier that we have a series of for departure burn starting with zero zero one two three we have confirmation that departure burn zero has been completed that's right and so with that one down we're going to start seeing dragon begin flying actually above the international space station and then coming up in just a couple of minutes departure firm one ii departure burn will be coming that should be in about four or five minutes from now and so we're gonna see dragon just kind of swing its way over top of the space station and eventually fly out of both the keep out sphere and the approach ellipsoid and so they keep out fear is one of my favorite things it's an imaginary sphere was about a 200 mile radius so two hundred two hundred meter radius that would be a much bigger sphere a two hundred meter radius in all directions and not just governed so kind of like the approach ellipsoid which i explained earlier before your in the keep out fear any maneuvers with the spacecraft have to be safe and not forget engine eyes within four orbit dragons in the corridor and open rate is respected copy and Devine saint-jacques reporting everything looking good so far you heard and say the corridor so they on there overlays that they have on their laptops on board the station where they're actually monitoring dragon they're looking for any perturbations outside of the expected path if they see anything that doesn't quite look right again they're in the loop and they can send commands but everything going smoothly with dragons slowly flying away this kind of an animated representation of the kind of stuff that the crew is looking for they have a corridor so kind of that triangular shape you can see there where they're just looking to make sure dragons pitch yaw approach speeds everything like that are inside of parameters as expected dragan continuing to fly free look everything looking good so far [Music] so just in case if you in case you've just tuned in we are currently watching dragon as it departs from the International Space Station it's been a really smooth operation so far with the undocking procedure and now we're moving into the departure as of right now you can see on your screen the Dragon capsule moving away from the approach ellipsoid there we can see the nose cone still in its open position leaving the forward hatch exposed we will be closing that prior through dragon's reentry and so we're continuing to get really great views dragon backdrop by the inky blackness of space you'll see the the cameras are a little bit jerky and they're in their motions they're actually being controlled by somebody on the ground in Mission Control we always like to talk about how in Mission Control over in Houston that's where they actually fly the space station that's where they control everything from the cameras and the communication to even the thermostat on board the space station if it's too hot for the crew they talk to the ground and they're the ones who concern the ACS but so it's actually somebody at a console right now who's controlling those cameras sending commands just to move all the pan tilt focus everything else they're doing it from a console on earth while the thing is flying 250 statute miles over the earth on the other side of the planet like Dan mentioned before we're going really fast right now we're at about seventeen and a half thousand miles per hour so everything is moving very quickly that needs to readjust the cameras very frequently is inherent to due to the high velocities that we're dealing with and so this is a view from that WB 57 airplane you were looking at dragons freaking across the sky on its reentry through the Earth's atmosphere aiming for a splashdown in just a little while from now so it's pretty exciting that we get the shot right now as it is our first view from planet Earth of the Dragon capsule since it lifted off from Cape Canaveral just several days ago I will say this is this is a pretty rare treat to be able to see this here and again this this video is coming from a NASA airplane that we're flying around that recovery zone there at WB 57 it's commonly used for a lot of atmospheric studies and the other science missions I've been able to put a tracking camera on it to try and get this re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere today we're hearing that they should have a Oso acquisition acquisition of signal back with the Dragon spacecraft right now it's about 46 kilometers in altitude the Dragon spacecraft continuing to descend it's now subsonic so already starting to slow down thanks to the error breaking basically slamming into that Eris atmosphere causes a lot of friction and allows the vehicle to eventually reach its terminal velocity basically and then those parachutes are going to kick in so there's your digital confirmation of the determining of our drug parachutes which is the first of two parishes appointment so those drogue chutes do the initial slowing and then they're ultimately going to pull out the four main parachutes responsible for really slowing the spacecraft down prior to that splashing you can hear cheering appear at SpaceX headquarters as the employees that have gathered around our Mission Control Center are sharing the same view as you what a quarter shot of Dragon coming back down [Applause] from the main [Laughter] capsule more air further decelerating the dragon vehicle down to the Atlantic Ocean [Applause] really can't ask for a more picture-perfect shot than Matt yes all four shoots now deployed it's gonna continue to descend it's gonna continue to slow down and then ultimately splashdown in the atlantic fair we're now under a kilometer in altitude just about 750 meters to go in case if you're just joining us you can see on your screen there dragon re-entering there has just me entered the Earth's atmosphere after departing from the International Space Station we have a gorgeous shot of for healthy parachutes deployed and slowing the vehicle down as it is approaching the surface of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida and it's continuing to descend under those shoots we just passed 500 meters everything continuing to look good view reports to all the flight control teams now we're at about 400 meters and just passing 300 meters continuing to descend we might be right on time that we were planning on splashing down at about 5:45 a.m. Pacific and we're getting real close to that bingo time just passed 200 meters and we have confirmation that dragon is now under hundred meters as 100 metres above the 8 the surface of the ocean next ups been standing by for splashdown [Applause] and there we have confirmation of Flash dragon has the Trixie planet Earth it is now back home and you can see on this screen are two fasteners racing out to the capsule now in recovery that splash sound came right on time 5:45 a.m. 35 a.m. on the East Coast the teams that have been ready and waiting they were staged just a few nautical miles away they're gonna start moving then now you can see the to fast approach already speeding their way towards the castle right now we're just waiting for dragon to lift up and out of the water and into the nest so they're facing us is what we called the side hatch and that is where as Dan just mentioned the astronauts would if we had astronauts on board today where they would be exiting the top hatch is what we use to connect to the ISS and that is currently hidden underneath the nose cone but like we said astronauts will be coming out of the side hatch yeah and we got a beautiful shot there now the hydraulic lift is coming back back towards us and it is preparing to lower the Dragon capsule into its nest like we said we are treating this demonstration mission with the recovery operations as if there were actual astronauts on board and of course before we were able would be able to open the hatch we would have to make sure that the spacecraft cabin pressure is equalized with the outside environment before doing so so once dragon is seated and you can hear some cheers behind me as the remaining folks that we have here on the SpaceX team outside of Mission Control are cheering with the placement of dragon into the nest there as you can see

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Published: Fri Mar 08 2019