>> WELCOME TO OUR LIVE COVERAGE OF SPACEX DEMO ONE MISSION. IF YOU ARE JUST JOINING US, DRAGO IS ON ITS WAY BACK HOME TO US. >>> THE MISSION BEGAN ON MARCH d , WHERE DRAGON LAUNCHED FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER IN FLORIDA. FOLLOWING THAT SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH, IT ARRIVED AT THE SPACE STATION AND DOCKED ON MARCH #RD. >>> IT WILL MARK THE THIRD COMPLETION FOR NASA'S COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM. WHILE THERE ARE NO ASTRONAUTS ON DRAGON TODAY. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE. >>> EARLIER TODAY, DRAGON WERED UP, AND BEGAN PROCEDURES AND SYSTEM CHECKS. >> AND AUTONOMOUSLY UNDOCKED 11:32 PACIFIC TIME. I AM PRETTY SURE IT IS MARCH 8th TODAY. WE WILL BE BRINGING YOU LIVE COVERAGE OF THE LIVE MISSION, TO THE DEORBIT BURN ALL THE WAY TO THE SPLASHDOWN, WHICH WE ARE TARGETING FOR 5:45 A.M. EAST OF KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. >>> ONE INTERESTING HISTORICAL NOTE, IT HAS MATERIALLY BEEN 50 YEARS TO THE DAY, SINCE APOLLO 9 WAS TO SPLASHDOWN IN THE ATLANTIC, BACK MARCH 13th, 1959. SO, A PRETTY BIG DAY. >>> UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO BLACKOUTS, WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SHOW YOU ALL THE JOURNEY HOME. BUT WE WILL SHOW YOU DEORBIT BURN AND TRUNK SEPARATION, AND WE HAVE BEEN GETTING GOOD VIEWS OF RECOVERY SHIPS, AND SO WE SHOULD HAVE GOOD VIEWS OF THE DRAGON SPLASHING DOWN IN THE WATER. >> FIRST, DRAGON WILL -- WHICH IS THE IS A LYNN CALIFORNIA -- >> THAT WILL BE COMING UP IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES OR SO. LIKE WE SAY, WE CAN'T SHOW EVERY PART OF THIS FOR THE MISSION, BUT WE WILL BE LISTENING TO THE FLIGHT CONTROL TEAM. WE HAVE ONE BEHIND US IN HAWTHORNE, ON THOSE ARE THE ONES MONITORING DRAGON SYSTEMS, SINCE IT LIFTED OFF SIX DAYS AGO. IT HAS FLOWN BY, SO FAR. WE WILL BE LISTENING AND GIVING YOU THE UPDATES AS THEY COME IN. >> IF YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING ALONG THIS MORNING, YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN US LAST NIGHT OR THIS MORNING, IT IS HARD TO TELL, YOU SAW DRAGON COMPLETE A SERIES OF BURNS. THERE WERE A NUMBER OF DEPARTURE BURNS AWAY FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, THAT DRAGON COMPLETED WHICH ALLOWED THE SPACECRAFT TO MOVE FURTHER, AND FURTHER AWAY FROM THE SPACE STATION, IN CHOREOGRAPHED MANEUVERS. EVERYTHING WENT WELL. SO NOW WE ARE JUST WAITING FOR THE TRUNK SEPARAT AND AFTER THAT, WE WILL HAVE A PRETTY EXCITING DEORBIT AND SPLASHDOWN. WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. >> AT THIS POINT, THE DRAGON WELL BELOW THE SPACE STATION AND QUITE A FEW KILOMETERS AHEAD OF IT, AT THIS POINT. MAKING SURE IT IS NOT ON THE SAME ORBITAL PLANE, AND THAT WILL BE THE NEXT STEP COMING UP. AND THE DEORBIT BURN, IT WILL BE A 15-MINUTE FIRING OF THOSE THRUSTERS ON DRAGON, AND THAT'S OF ORBIT.CALLY WILL TAKE IT OUT SO, IT WILL FIRE THE THRUSTERS UNTIL IT IS POINTING DOWN IN THE OCEAN, IN THE ATLANTIC, AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THING IN 50 YEARS. THIS WILL BE AN EXCITING MORNING. AND WE WILL BRING YREAT VIEWS. THE SUN IS UP ALREADY OVER ON THE EAST COAST -- >> AS SOMEONE WHO HAS SEEN THE SPECIFIC VEHICLE GET BUILT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, IT IS PRETTY INCREDIBLE. TO ACTUALLY SEE THE ASTRONAU ON BOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, FLOATING IN AND OUT OF THE CAPSULE AS THEY WERE OPENING THE HATCH, THAT WAS EXCITING. AND UPON THE DEPARTURE BURNS TO SEE THE IMAGERY, AS DRAGON WAS LEAVING, IT WAS INCREDIBLE. WE HAD SOME AMAZING SHOTS. WE HAVE SEEN THE ARTISTIC RENDERING, AND TO FINALLY SEE IT, WAS A WONDERFUL MOMENT IN TERMS OF THOSE OF US WHO HAVE HAD SO MANY HOURS PUT INTO THE SPACECRAFT. >> IT ALMOST DIDN'T LOOK REAL. >> Y [LAUGHTER] >> WHEN YOU ACTUALLY SAW IT FLYING OUT THERE. SINCE PART OF IT HAPPENED IN THE CREWS' DAY IN THE SPACE STATION, THEY ACTUALLY WOKE UP ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE DRAGON UNDOCKED. >>> SO, IT WAS EARL IN THE MORNING FOR THEM, THEY DID OFFER GOOD WORDS, AS DRAGON FLEW AWAY. SO, ABOUT A KILOMETER AWAY FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. AS KATE SAID, IT EXECUTED ALL ITS DEPARTURE BURNS, EXECUTED FOUR DEPARTUREBURNS, BASICALLY TAKING IT OUT IN FRONT, UP AROUND AND UNDERNEATH THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, WHERE IT IS NOW ON ITS ORBIT AWAITING ITS TRUNK SEPARATION AND EVENTUALLY THE DEORBIT BURN. >> SO IN TERMS OF SPACEX HISTORY, THIS DEMONSTRATION MISSION IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT IS HANGING BEHIND ME, AND HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA IS ITS HEADQUARTERS, AND SAME MISSION AS OUR CARGO PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE BEEN OPERATING FOR NASA, WE SUPPLY CARGO TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. >>> SO, WHO KNOWS IF THE DEMO 1 CAPSULE WILL BE HANGING IN HAWTHORNE. BUT IN TERMS WHAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME, IS SIMILARLY IN TERMS OF HISTORICAL EVERYONING IN TERMS OF HISTORICAL MISSION. >> THAT WILL BE BETWEEN DEM WHICH WE ARE ABOUT TO WRAP UP, AND DEMO 2, WHERE WE ACTUALLY HAVE OUR ASTRONAUTS ON BOARD. THEY WILL BE THE FIRST ONES TO TAKE DRAGON INTO SPACE. THAT WILL BE A PRETTY COOL TEST. >> I WOULDN'T WANT BE INVD WI IT, BECAUSE OF A LOT OF G FORCES, BUT IMPORTANT FOR US TO DEMONSTRATE THE ABILITY FOR THE CAPSULE TO LEAVE THE VEHICLE IN AN URGENT NEED TO DO SO. WE ARE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO THE TEST FLIGHT, BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON ITOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, AND, YEAH, THAT SHOULD BE COMING UP IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS HERE. >> YOU DID A PADDLE BOARD TEST WITH THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT. >> UM-HMM. >> REALLY PUTTING THE DRAGON THROUGH ALL ABORT TESTS AND MISSIONS RIGHT NOW. ULTIMATELY SENDING HUMANS TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ON A DRAGON. >> SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT TODAY'S MISSION, IN FACT, THE COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM GOING FORWARD IN TERMS OF SPACEX'S APPROACH OF LANDING THE CAPSULES, WE ARE LANDING THEM IN THE ATLANTIC LIKE WE MENTIONED EARLY, WHEREAS THE CARGO KA CAPSULES HAVE ALL LD IN THE PACIFIC. WE ARE PUMPED TO BRING YOU FOOTAGE OF OUR RECOVERY TEAM AS WE PULL DRAGON OUT OF THE OCEAN. IT HAS BEEN A LOT OF FIRSTS TODAY, AND ALL WEEK. TO SAY THE ADRENALINE IS PUMP TODAY, IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. >> WE HAD A CROWD EARLIER THIS MORNING, GATHERED DOWN AT THE CONTROL, AND THERE IS MORE OF A CROWD NOW. IT IS 4:30 IN THE MORNING ON THE WEST COAST. THE CROWD IS STARTING TATHER HERE AT SPACEX HEADQUARTERS. >>> NORMALLY THOSE CARGO DRAGONS LANDING IN THE PACIFIC, AND THIS VEHICLE DESIGNED FOR CREW, ALSO IS CARRYING SOME CARGO. IT HAS BEEN PACKED WITH A LITTLE R 300 POUNDS FOR THE RETURN TRIP HOME. THAT IS BROKEN OUT ACROSS OF A COUPLE DIFFERENT AREAS. >>> ONE OF THE MOSH INTERESTING ONES, IT IS BRINGING BACK WHAT UTILIZATION, SOME SCIENCE SAMPLES. TWO BAGS, BASICALLY LIKE COOLERS, PACKED WITH THE COLD BRICK. THE ONES COMING BACK TODAY, USED IN SOME OF THE HUMAN RESEARCH PROJECTS, WE LIKE TO SAY THE ASTRONAUTS ARE EXPERIMENTS THEMSELVES. POKING AND PRODDING TO SEE HOW THE HUMAN BODY REACTS TO MICROGRAVITY, AND A LOT OF THE SAMPLES ARE COMING HOME ON DRAGON TODAY. ALSO BRINGING HOME A COUPLE OF RADIATION MONTHOR >>> IT WILL ALSO HAVE A FAN PUMP ELEVATOR ON IT. IT IS A -- ELEVATOR ON IT. WE HAVE SOME SPACEWALKS COMING UP IN MARCH. VERY BUSY TIME IN SPACE RIGHT NOW. RIGHT NOW, ALL FOCUSED ON WATCHING THIS DRAGON COME HOME. >> THE NEXT MILESTONE WE HAVE COMING UP IN ABOUT SEVEN MINUTES, IS THE TRUNK SEPARATION. WE WILL TAKE A BREAK FOR A FEW MINUTES, WHILE WE AWAIT THAT, TO STAY TUNED AND WE WILL SEE YOU IN A COUPLE. >> SO,HT NOW WE ARE WAITING TO HEAR FROM THE TRUNK SEPARATION AGAIN. WE ARE EXPECTING TO GET THE CALL ON THE INTERNAL ANY MOMENT NOW. THAT WILL BE THE NEXT MAJOR MILESTONE, AND THEN IT WILL BE ON TO DEORBIT BURN. >> EXACTLY. SO, WE SHOULD HAVE THE CALL ANY MINUTE NOW. AS WE WAIT FOR TANK SEPARATION. THIS IS THE LAST THING THE DRAGON HAS TO DO BEFORE IT REENTERS THE ORBIT ATMOSPHERE AND SPLASHES DOWN. >> THE TRUNK NOT COMING HOME, BUT THE DRAGON MOST IMPORTANT PART IS COMING HOME. IT HAS TO CLOSE THE NOSE CONE, AND WE WILL GET INTO THAT SOON. BASICALLY THAT NOSE CONE WILL PROTECT THE TOP PART OF THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT, AND THE GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION CONTROL CENTERS. THAT'S ONE OF THE LAST MILESTONES. >>> THAT NOSE CONE GETS JETTISON DURING THE LAUNCH PHASE. WITH CREW DRAGON KEEPING THE NOSE CONE ALL THE WAY THROUGH, IT HELPS IN THE REUSABILITY FOR FUTURE MISSIONS. >> NOW THAT TRUNK SECTION IS UNPRESSURIZED AND WE ARE ABLE TO USE IT TO TRANSPORTATION CARGO ON THE WAY UP TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. EVERYTHING THAT COMES BACK FR STATION IS PUT INTO THE PRESSURIZED SECTION. WE ARE ABLE TO SHED THE TRUNK AS IT IS NO LONGER NEEDED -- >> AND I THINK WE JUST HEARD TRUNK SEPARATION. >> HOPING TO BRING YOU VISUAL HERE -- NO, WE ARE TOO FAR. >> NEXT STOP WILL BE THE SPACECRAFT USING SOME FORWARD THRUSTERS TO PERFORM THE DEORBIT BURN. THIS IS GOING TO IT BE A REALLY MAJOR STUFF, BECAUSE ONCE THAT IS DONE, YOURE COMING HOME AND RETURN TO EARTH. THE BURN WILL LAST ABOUT 15 MINUTES ONCE IT STARTS. WE WILL AGAIN, CONTINUE TO STAND BY. THIS IS KIND THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM, IF YOU WILL, WHERE WE ARE WAITING FOR THINGS TO REALLY GET IO MOTION. DRAGON WILL PRETTY SOON DO THE DEORBIT BURN. FOLLOWING THAT, IT ONLY TAKES 45 MINUTES OR SO, UNTIL IT IS IN THE WATER AND INTO THE ATLANTIC. ONCE AGAIN, WE WILL CONTINUE TO STAND BY, AND BG YODATES AS THEY COME IN. >>> ONE MORE MILESTONE DOWN, JUST A FEW MORE TO GO, AND THEN DRAGON IS HOME. >> WE ARE STANDING BY FOR THE DEORBIT BURN TO START. WE ARE EXPECTING IT TO START IN ABOUT A MINUTE OR SO. >>> AFTER THAT, IT WILL TAKE A LITTLE OVER 15 MINUTES TO COMPLETE. >> YEAH, SO, WE HAVE ALREADY JETTISON THE TRUNK, AOU HEARD US TALK ABOUT A COUPLE MINUTES AGO. THAT'S THE LAST THING DRAGON IS ABLE TO DO BEFORE REENTERING THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. THAT WILL BE ABOUT A 15 MINUTE BURN, THEN WE WILL HAVE PARACHUTE DOO DEPLOYMENT AND SPLASHDOWN AFTER THAT. LIKE DAP SAID, THIS IS THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM. WE WILL HAVE A LOT OF ACTIVITY COMING UP, ONCE WE PASS THROUGH THE REENTRY BURN. >>> AT THIS POINT, WE SHOULD BE GETTING CONFIRMATION OF THE DEORBIT BURN IN A COUPLE SECONDS HERE. > ONCE THE DEORBIT BURN IS COMPLETE, IT IS JUST ABOUT -- I AM TRYING TO DO QUICK MATH IN MY HEAD -- JUST ABOUT 40 MINUTES OR SO UNTIL DRAGON IS TO BE DOWN IN THE WATER. IT IS A QUICK RIDE FROM BEING IN OUTER SPACE TO BE -- AND WE JUST HEARD IT. >> LIKE WE SAID, THIS WILL LAST ABOUT 15 MINUTES. SO, DEORBIT BURN HAS BEGUN, AND AT THIS POINT, DRAGON HAS BEGUN TO RETURN TO THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. WE ARE EXCITED FOR THIS TO HAPPEN, AND IT IS THE NEXT MILESTONE IN ITS JOURNEY HOME. >> THAT'S RIGHT. ULTIMATE DESTINATION DOWN IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. BOTH STANDING BY. WE WILL GO THROUGH THEOVERY FORCES ON SITE. THERE IS ONE RECOVERY BOAT, AND THAT WILL HAVE ALL THE SPACEX RECOVERY TEAMS RESPONSIBLE FOR GOING OUT AND PICKING THE CAPSULE OUT OF THE WATER. THIS IS A CAMERA VIEW FROM ONE OF THE OTHER BOATS IN THE AREA, THE GO NAVIGATE FOR, WHO HAS A NASA TEAM ON BOARD, AS WELL. >>> ONCE WE HAVE EVERYONE ON BOARD, IT WILL TIGHTER QUARTERS. YOU HAVE THE SPACEX PEOPLE GO RECOVER THE CAPSULE, AND BRING BACK THE FLIGHT DOCKS AND NURSES, AND IF ANYONE HAS EVER SEEN A LANDING, ONCE THE CREW COMES HOME, AFTER ABOUT A SIX-MONTH PERIOD, DO A QUICK MEDICAL CHECK, AND MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS DOING OKAY, AND HELP ADAPT TO GRAVITY FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER SIX MONTHS OR LONGER. >>> WE HAVE TWO BOATS, AND GET ADDITIONAL VIEWS, HOPEFULLY, AS WE GET THE WATCH DRAGON DOWN. RIGHT NOW, WE ARE IN DEORBIT BURN, AND WE HAVE A COUPLE MINUTES UNTIL THAT IS COMPLETE, AND WE ARE ONE STEP CLOSER. >> WE WILL PAUSE FOR A FEW MINUTES, UNTIL THE DEORBIT BURNS COMPLETES, SO BEURE T SK AROUND AND WE WILL SEE YOU IN A FEW MINUTES. >> SO, RIGHT NOW WE ARE HALF-WAY THROUGH THE DEORBIT BURN, AND WE EXPECT IT TO LAST 15 MINUTES AND 20 SECONDS. WAS JUST REPORTING TO THE STATION FLIGHT DIRECTOR, THAT WE ARE ABOUT HALF-WAY THROUGH. WE ARE CONTINUE TO GET A COUPLE VIEWS FROM THE BOATS. THOSE ARE CAMERAS THAT WILL BE TRACKING DRAGON ONCE IT COMES DOWN UNDER THE PARACHUTES. AND THIS IS A VIEW FROM A WV57 AIRPLANE. AND, SO, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF ASSETS OUT THERE OFF THE FLORIDA COAST. AGAIN, THERE ARE TWO SHIPS, BOTH WITH TRACKING CAMERAS ON BOARD, AND NASA ALSO FLYING ITS WV57 AIRCRAFT. TYPICALLY USED FOR HIGH ALTITUDE AND WEATHER RESEARCH. IT HAS A CAMERA ON IT, AND HOPEFULLY GIVE US SOME VIEWS OF DRAGON COMING DOWN. >> THERE ARE YOUR SCREEN, YOU SEE A BEAUTIFUL SHOT OF GO SEARCHER. THERE ON THE FRONT PART OF THE SHIP, WHAT WOULD ESSENTIALLY BE THE CREWS' QUARTERS DURING THE WAIT. THEY COULD BE OUT TO SEA, DEPENDING HOW ROUGH THE WAVES ARE, TO A COUPLE OF WEEKS TO A COUPLE OF DAYS. >>> THEY ARE COMING INTO VIEW ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF CREW SCREEN. ON THE TOP, IS ACTUALLY THE HELLY PAD FOR HELICOPTERS TO LAND IF WE NEED TO TAKE THE ASTRONAUTS QUICKER, AND REALLY SOMETHING THAT I ABSOLUTELY LOVE ABOUT THIS CAPSULE, UNDERNEATH THAT HELLY PAD ARE MEDICAL QUARTERS. SO, WE ARE ABLE TO GET THE ASTRONAUTS CHECKED OUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER EGRESSING FROM THE CAPSULE, AND CHECK THEM OUT THERE, AND GIVE THEM A WARM WELCOME. NOT ON LAND YET, OBVIOUSLY. IT IS JUST AN INCREDIBLE VEHICLE THERE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO SUSTAIN SO MUCH ACTIVITY. WHILE WE ARE WAITING FOR THE ASTRONAUTS TO SPLASHDOWN, AND OBVIOUSLY ONCE THEY ARE ON BOARD. >> IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE, RIGHT NOW THE TEAMS ARE 200 OR SO, GIVE OR TAKE, NAUTICAL MILES OFF THE COAST. THAT WON'T BE THE CASE WHEN WE ARE BRINGING CREW MEMBERS BACK. THAT LANDING WILL BE MORE CLOSER IN. IT WILL BE 20 TO 24 NATURE CAL MILES. SO THAT GIVES THEM THE CAPABILITY OF GET INTO WITHIN A COUPLE OF HOURS, THAN THE DAY IT LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BRING DRAGON BACK AFTER THIS MISSION J THERE WE HAVE SOME VIEWS FROM DRAGON, AS IT IS REENTERING THE ATMOSPHERE. IT IS PRETTY DARK IN SPACE. >> WE ARE STILL IN THE MIDST OF THAT DEORBIT BURN. WE ARE EXPECTING IT TO TAKE FIVE MORE MINUTES. SO THAT'S PRETTY UNIQUE GETTING VIEWS FROM THE SPACECRAFT WHILE THAT DEORBIT BURN IS UNDERWAY. >>> AGAIN, THIS IS THE FINAL MANEUVER, OF THOSE THRUSTERS, TO BRING DRAGON OUT OF ORBIT AND SET IT UP, TO SPLASHDOWN OVER IN THE ATLANTIC. YOU ARE SEEING THE RECOVERY TEAMS ARE STANDING BY, WAITING ANDEADY TO RECEIVE. >>> AGAIN, THE DEORBIT BURN LASTING OR PLANNED TO LAST ABOUT 15 MINUTES AND 20 SECONDS. THIS IS JUST AN ULTIMATELY TO CARRY DRAGON OUT OF ITS CIRCULAR ORBIT. RIGHT NOW IT HAS BEEN IN A CIRCULAR ORBIT FOR THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS. THIS DEORBIT BURN IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT, BASICALLY TO INTERCEPT BACK DOWN WITH THE EARTH. BACK DOWN IN THE WATER, WHERE THE RECOVERY TEAMS ARE WAITING. >> NOW THAT WE HAVE A FULL VIEW OF THE RECOVERY VESSEL ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF CREW SCREEN, YOU SEE A PORTION OF THE SHIPS WE WERE NOT ABLE TO SEE BEFORE. THAT'S ACTUALLY THE PORTION OF THE SHIP, ONCE THE DRAGON CAPSULE IS CLOSE ENOUGH, IT WILL BE LIFTED UP OUT OF THE WATER BY THE VERTICAL PIECE YOU SEE THERE. IT WILL ACTUALLY ACT WAIT OUT OF THE WATER, AND LIFT THE DRAGON CAPSULE OUT OF THE OCEAN, AND BRING IT BACK ON TO THE BOAT AND SET DOWN ON TO ITS NEST. PRETTY COOL. THIS IS NEW. A NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE INSTALLED ON THIS SHIP SPECIFICALLY FOR OUR CREW DRAGON MISSION. SO, LIKE WE SAID BEFORE, THIS IS A DEMONSTRATION MISSION, AND WHILE OUR RECOVERY TEAAS BEEN PRACTICING FOR RECOVERY OPERATIONS, THIS IS OBVIOUSLY THE FIRST TIME THAT WE WILL BE PRACTICING WITH A VEHICLE COMING FROM SPACE. >>> SO, WE ARE ALL EXCITED BRINGING YOU LIVE COVERAGE AS THIS UNFOLDS OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. >> TO GIVE YOU A TIMELINE OF THAT RECOVERY PERIOD, IT IS EXPECTED TO TAKE A LITTLE UNDER AN HOUR OR SO, FOR THE TEAMS TO HAVE THE CAPSULE BACK UP ON THE BOAT, WHERE THERE IS A SITUATION THERE IS A CREW ON BOARD, GETTING THE CREW OUT OF THE WA, SO THEY CAN DO MEDICAL CHECKS, AND THINGS WE TYPICALLY DO AFTER CREW MEMBERS ARE RETURNING AFTER THESE LONG MISSIONS. >>> SO, WITH THE WAVES LOOKING PRETTY CALM THOUGH, LOOKING LIKE REALLY GOOD CONDITIONS OUT THERE, IN THE ATLANTIC. AGAIN, THERE ARE ARE A LITTLE OVER 200 NATURE CAL MILES OFF THE -- NAUTICAL MILES IN FLORIDA. THE SPACECRAFT WILL BE BROUGHT BACK IN, AND THEY WILL BEGIN PROCESNG, AND GET IT READY TO TURN IT AROUND. >> YEAH, WE HAVE BEEN MONITORING THE RECOVERY WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS, AND NOW THAT RECOVERY DAY HAS COME UPON US, YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE BEAUTIFUL SKIES. AND IN MY UNPROFESSIONAL NAUTICAL KNOWLEDGE, RELATIVELY CALM SEES, BY MY EYES. IT IS DIFFICULT TO PREDICT WHAT THE WEATHER IS GOING TO BE LIKE, VERY FAR IN ADVANCE, SO WE ARE HAPPY TO HAVE CLEAR IMAGERY FOR THE RECOVERY TEAM AS WE MAKE PROGRESS HERE. >> I FEEL WE LUCKED OUT WITH FLORIDA WEATHER, SO FAR, ON THIS MISSION. >>> WE ARE HERE, AND THERE IS ABOUT ONE MINUTE LEFT IN THIS DEORBIT BURN. JUST ABOUT DONE WITH THAT. AGAIN, THIS IS THE FINAL MANEUVER OF BRINGING DRAGON OUT OF SPACE. STILL GETTING A COUPLE VIEWS OF DRAGON SPACECRAFT. THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT. >>> RIGHT NOW, WE WILL STAND BY AND LISTEN TO HOW THE DEORBIT BURN WENT AND WE SHOULD BE WRAPPING UP MOMENTAY. >> SO, WE ARE AWAITING CONFIRMATION OF THE CONCLUSION OF THE DEORBIT BURN. IT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR THE LAST SEVERAL MINUTES. LIKE WE SAID BEFORE, DRAGON DEPARTED SPACE STATION EARLIER TODAY, PERFORMED A NUMBER OF DEPARTURE BURNS, AND HOPEFULLY SEEING THE FINAL BURN, THE REENTRY BURN. YOU CAN SEE OUR RECOVERY VESSEL WAITING THE SPLASHDOWN OF DRAGON. >>> ONCE WE EXIT -- ONCE WE EXIT THENTRY BURN, WE WILL HAVE PARACHUTE DEPLOYMENT. THERE WILL BE THE SMALLER CHUTES THAT SLOW THE VEHICLE DOWN, AND THEN ALLOWING IT TO COME TO A SLOWER VELOCITY AS IT APPROACHES TO THE SURFACE OF THE OCEAN. >> WE ARE BEING TOLD IT WAS A NOMINAL BURN. THE MISSION IS COMPLETE AND DRAGON IS ON ITS WAY HOME. >>> THE NEXT THING THAT WILL HAPPEN, THE NOSE CONE WILL BE CLOSED. THEN IT IS TIME FOR DRAGON TO GET THROUGH THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE, AND ULTIMATELY SPLASHDOWN. THAT'S WHERE THE VEHICLE WILL HEAT UP TREMENDOUSLY. AGAIN, YOU HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND, DRAGON TRAVELING THOUSANDS OF MILES PER HOUR NOW, AND WHEN IT HITS THE THICKER EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. THIS IS VIDEO OF THE NOSE CONE STARTING TO CLOSE ON THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT. >>> AGAIN, THAT NOSE CONE CLOSES TO PROTECT THE TOP PORTION OF THE VEHICLE FROM ALL OF THE REENTRY EVENTS. NOT ONLY THE REENTRY, BUT ALSO ONCE IT IS DOWN IN THE WATER. THAT PROTECTS THE GUIDANCED NAVIGATION CONTROL CENTERS ON TOP OF DRAGON. ALSO, THAT DOCKING RANGE THAT IT USES TO ATTACH TO THE SPACE STATION. >> AGAIN, WHAT YOU ARE SEEING RIGHT NOW, IS THE NOSE CONE CLOSING ON THE SPACECRAFT, AS WE AWAIT FORT TO RTERE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. >> ALL RIGHT, SO, THE NOSE CONE LOOKS LIKE IT IS JUST ABOUT CLOSED. WE WILL AWAIT FOR FINAL CONFIRMATION THAT EVERYTHING LOOKS GOOD WITH IT. PRETTY SOON, WE WILL LOOK AT THE ENTREE INTERFACE. THAT IS WHEN DRAGON HITS THE ATMOSPHERE WHERE IT WILL HEAT UP. >>> THE ATMOSPHERE WILL GET THICKER, AND HEAT T VEHICLE UP. THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE THE HEAT SHIELD ON THE SPACECRAFTS. AND THAT'S WHY THEY ARE IN THE CONCAL SHAPE. PHYSICS HAVEN'T CHANGED SINCE THE 160S. IT WAS THAT SHAPE FOR A REASON. THAT'S WHY IT IS SO COMMON TO SEE THIS CAPSULE DESIGN. WHEN YOU RE-ENTER THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE, IT MAKES SENSE. >> NOSE CONE HOOKS HAVE BEGUN SECURING THE NOSE CONE HOOKS INTO PLACE PRIOR TO REENTRY BURN. >> THERE IS AMENTAD TIME WHERE YOU LOSE SIGNAL WITH THE SPACECRAFT. THAT'S BECAUSE AS YOU ARE REENTERING THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE, PLASMA BUILDS UP ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE SPACECRAFT. SO YOU CAN'T SEND OR RECEIVE SIGNALS. IT IS VERY COMMON, WHEN PEOPLE ARE ON BOARD, YOU WILL LOSE VOICE COMMUNICATIONS AND DATA, COMING TO THE SPACECRAFT, TO THE MISSION CONTROL CENTER, JUST BEHIND US HERE IN HAWTHORNE. >>> WE ARE EXPECTING THAT TO HAPPEN ABOUT 5:33 A.M. PACIFIC. COMING UP FROM 20 MINUTES FROM NOW. >> EXACTLY. AFTER WE ARE ABLE TO GET THROUGH THE PHASE OF THE MISSION, FOLLOWING THAT WILL BE THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE PARACHUTES AND SPLASHDOWN. >>> SO TO RECAP, IN CASE YOU JUST JOINED US. WE HAVE -- DRAGON COMPLETED A SERIES OF FOURARTURE BURNS, IN A SLOWLY CHOREOGRAPHED MANEUVER. AND NOW WE HAVE JETTISONED THE TRUNK OF THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT. WE HAVE COMPLETED THE DEORBIT BURN, AND NOW WE ARE JUST STARTING TO COME BACK DOWN THROUGH THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE, AND THE FINAL LEG ON DRAGON'S WAY HOME. >> SO THE NOSE CONE IS CLOSED. WE WILL BE STANDING BY TO WAIT UNTIL WE GO THROUGH THE ENTRY INTERFACING, AND THAT WILL BE ABOUT 20 MINUTES FROM NOW. ONCE IT IS DOWN FROM THERE, TIME FOR THE PARACHUTES. WE WILL HOPEFULLY SEE THOSE PARACHUTES FROM THE PLANE, AND ONCE DOWN, WE SHOULD BE BE ABLE TO SEE THEM FROM THE BOATS THAT ARE THERE FOR RECOVERY. >>> US THROUGH THE PARACHUTES REALLY QUICK? >> YES, WE WILL HAVE THE SMALLER CHUTES THAT WILL SLOW THE DRAGON DOWN A LITTLE BIT, AND THEN THE ORANGEND WHITE COLOURING, IF YOU WATCHED OUR PREVIOUS SPLASHDOWN FOR OUR CARGO MISSION. THAT WILL SLOW THE VEHICLE DOWN, TO HAVE A SPLASHDOWN IN THE WATER. >>> ANOTHER FUN FACT ABOUT DRAGON, IN THE RETURN TO EARTH, THE SEATS INSIDE THE CAPSULE AT THIS POINT, HAVE TURNED INTO THE REENTRY POSITION. DEPENDING ON WHAT PHASE OF THE MISSION WE ARE IN, THE SEATS WILL ACTUALLY ACT WAIT OR ADJUST THE ANGLE TO MAKE SURE THE G FORCES THAT THE ASTRONAUTS WILL BE EXPERIENCING ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACES. >>> WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE WILL TAKE A QUICK BREAK, AND ACTIVE OPERATION -- SO, WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE WILL TAKE A QUICK BREAK, BE SURE TO STAY TUNED US, AS WE GO THROUGH THIS PERIOD OF ANTICIPATED BLACKOUT WITH THE DRAGON CAPSULE. WE WILL BE BACK IN JUST A FEW, AS WE COME BACK IN ANTICIPATION OF THE PARACHUTE DEPLOYMENT. STICK AROUND. >> IF YOU ARE JUST OUT JOINING US, WE HAVE HAD A SUCCESSFUL DEORBIT BURN. THAT WAS A LAAJOR MILESTONE. WE HAVE CONFIRMED THE NOSE CONE IS CLOSED, THE HOOKS ALL ENGAGED. AND NOW WE ARE WAITING FOR THE DRAGON ENTERING THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. >>> IT WAS REPORTE NO ISSUES AND DRAGON IS ON ITS WAY HOME. CONTINUING TO GET SOME PRETTY GREAT VIEWS OUT THERE IN THE SPLASHDOWN ZONE. WE WILL ALSO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR VIDEO POSSIBLY FROM THE AIRCRAFT WE HAVE IN THE AREA. NASA SEAS WV57 PLANE, AND COME DOWN UNDER THE PARACHUTE. THERE ARE SOME CLOUDS IN THE AREA, SO THE BOATS MAY NOT SEE IT RIGHT AWAY. ONCE IT IS UNDER THE CLOUD DECKS, THEY WILL HAVE SOME COMIDOWN. >> YOU CAN SEE OUR PRIMARY RECOVERY VESSEL -- OOPS, THERE IT WENT. THAT'S OUR RECOVERY SHIP FULLY EQUIPPED FOR MEDICAL QUARTERS, ONCE WE COULD HAVE CREW ON BOARD DRAGON. FOR OUR UPCOMING MISSIONS, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO COME OUT OF THE CAPSULE AND GET AN IMMEDIATE MEDICAL CHECK-UP. THERE IS A HELLY PAD OUT THERE, IN CASE WE WILL BE -- IN CASE WE NEED TO GET THEM BACK TO PORT. >>> SO, THAT YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN AT THE END OF YOUR THE BOTH, THAT WILL TAKE DRAGON OUT OF THE WATER, LIFT IT UP, AND PLACE IT INTO ITS NEST, WHICH IS ITS OFFICIAL TERM FOR IT. ON TO THE SHIP. AND THAT WILL BE CONSIDERED THE END -- WHEN WE GET TO THAT POINT, THAT WILL BE THE END OF OUR WEB CAST TODAY. >>> AT THIS POINT, WE ARE WAITING FOR THE PARACHUTES TO DEPLOY AND THE ENTER RECOVERY OPERATION. LIKE I MENTIONED BEFORE, THE RECOVERY TEAM HAS PRACTICED THIS. SO, A LOT OF FIRSTS BE SEEING TODAY, AND EXCITED TO SHARE THAT FOR YOU. >> IF YOU MISSED BEFORE, IT HAS ALMOST 50 YEARS TO THE DAY, SINCE WE LANDED A SPACECRAFT DESIGNED FOR HUMANS IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. THAT WAS APOLLO 9, BACK IN 1969. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO LAND IN THE PACIFIC, BUT ENDED UP SHOOTING FOR THE ATLANTIC. IT WILL BE EXCITING TO SEE THIS RECOVERY. SINCE WE STOPPED FLYINHE SPACE SHUTTLE, THE RUSSIAN SOYUZ SPACECRAFT. BUT NOT IN THE TOO DISTANT FUTURE, WE WILL HAVE CREW MEMBERS, THEY WILL BE ON THE DRAGON FOR THE DEMO TWO MISSION A LITTLE LATERHIS YEAR. EVERYTHING LOOKING REALLY GOOD, SO FAR. WE WILL CONTINUE TO STAND BY AND WAIT FOR THE ENTRY INTERFACE. WE ARE ABOUT 20 MINUTES AWAY TO ACTUALLY SEE DRAGON UNDER THE PARACHUTES. SO, NOT MUCH LONGER, GOOD THINGS . >> THERE IS A LOT OF ANTICIPATION, AND A CROWD GROWING BEHIND ME. OUR MISSION CONTROL CENTER IS JUST DOWN THERE. YOU COULD PROBABLY HEAR THE VOICES IN THE ROOM AROUND US, AND THE CROWD IS DEFINITELY TING TO GROW. WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE WILL TAKE A QUICK BREAK AS WE AWAIT FOR DRAGON TO RE-ENTER. STICK AROUND AND WE WILL BE BACK IN JUST A FEW. >> SO, WE ARE GETTING A BIT OF A TREAT HERE, YOU HAVE A LIVE VIEW INSIDE THE CAPSULE. IT IS GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER, COMING TOWARDS THE EARTH AS ATMOSPHERE. BUT FIRST, WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST, SOMEBODY WHO WILL BE ON BOARD, NASA ASTRONAUT, BOB. THANK YOU FOR TAKING A COUPLE OF MINUTES. I KNOW YOU ARE FOLLOWING ALONG WITH THE TEAM, HOW ARE YOU FEELING ABOUT THE MISSION SO FAR? >> I THINK I SAID THIS BEFORE, SUPER EXCITED. OF COURSE, THIS ONE IS A PRE-OCCURS CERTIFICATE FOR OUR MISSION. WHEN THIS IS DONE SUCCESSFULLY, WE WILL BE ONE STEP CLOSER. >> THAT'S AWESOME. WHAT KIND OF PREPARATIONS DO YOU HAVE LEFT TO DO? >> WE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TRAINING WE NEED TO GO THROUGH. SO, WE WILL WALK THROUGH ALL THE VARIOUS STAGES OF FLIGHT. PRE-LAUNCH, WE WILL DO THAT HERE, IN HAWTHORNE AND DO SOME KENNEDY LAUNCH PAD. AND LEARN ABOUT THE EMERGENCY ESCAPE, IF WE SHOULD NEED THAT, BEFORE LAUNCHING INTO SPACE. >>> AND THEN WE WILL HEAD BACK OUT HERE AGAIN FOR A COUPLE OTHER EVEN >> SO, WE ARE GETTING VIEWS INSIDE THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT. THE CAMERA IS OKAY, BUT IT CAN'T BE DOING IT JUSTICE. WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE COMING BACK IN THE SPACECRAFT AND EVERYTHING IS HEATING UP. >> A COUPLE OF PIECES COMING BACK TO THE ATMOSPHERE. FIRST, IT IS EMOTIONAL. IT IS SPECIAL TO GO THROUGH THAT EXPERIENCE. IT IS A PHYSICAL THING, AS WELL, AS YOU ACTUALLY SEE THE LIGHT FROM THE ATMOSPHERE AS IT HEATS UP THE EXTERNAL PORTIONS OF THE SPACECRAFT. YOU SEE SOME ORANGE LIGHTS FLICKERING, THE PLASMA GOING PAST THE WINDOWS. IT WILL BE NEAR OUR FEET. IT IS DEFINITELY WE WILL BE ABLE TO SEE AND KNOW THE OUTSIDE SOMETHING PRETTY SEVERE, AND HOPEFULLY -- >> THAT'S INCREDIBLE, I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE WHAT THAT EXPERIENCE IS LIKE. >> IT IS PRETTY REMARKABLE. THERE IS THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTION, YOU ARE TAKING ALL THAT ENERGY TO PUT INTO THE VEHICLE, SO THAT YOU CAN GET BACK TO THE GROUND SAFELY. >> IT HAS BEEN A WHILE SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN IN SPACE, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO? WHEN IS YOUR BUCKET LIST ONCE YOU GET BACK THERE? >>M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING IT COMPLETELY COMPLETE. I WAS PRETTY CLOSE, WE PUT -- ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. SO, I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK THERE, AND ACTUALLY EXPERIENCING SUNRISES AND SUN SETS AGAIN. THEY ARE REMARKABLE FROM ORBIT. NOT QUITE THE SAME THEY ARE FROM THE GROUND AND YOU CAN'T GET THAT ANY PLACE ELSE. >> LAST QUESTION FOR YOU, I AM SURE YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING ALONG ON SOCIAL MEDIA. YOU HAVE SEEN -- HE IS NOT COMING BACK UNTIL YOU BRING HIM BACK. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO TEACH LITTLE EARTHY. >> I DIDN'T REALIZE I WILL EARTHY WAS STAYING ON BOARD. ONE OF YOUR PEOPLE FROM SPACEX LET US KNOW. HEY, WE WILL NEED EARTHY BACK, SO WE WILL BRING HIM BACK. I THINK OUR PLAN IS HAVE HIM TEACH US. HE WILL WELCOME U I THINK THEY TRAINED HIM WELL, AND HOPEFULLY HE CAN WALK US THROUGH THE EMERGENCY BRIEF, AND HE IS A FULL-FLEDGED CREW MEMBER. >> HE SHOULD HAVE IT ALL. >> AND TRANSFER IT TO US. THAT'S PART OF BEING A CREW MEMBER AND TAKES ON RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. >> WE LOOK FORWARD TO HIM COMING BACK, AS WELL AS YOU AND DOUG IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS. IT IT WILL BE VERY EXCITING. >> VERY MUCH LOOKING FORWARD TO IT, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. >> WILL GET BACK TO THE REENTRY INTERFACE AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. >> SO, WITH THAT, WE ARE AWAITING THE DEPLOYMENT, OR EXCUSE ME, THE FINAL PHASE OF THE REENTRY OF THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT, AS IT IT IS COMING THROUGH THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE, I AM STILL REELING FROM HIS COMMENTS WHEN IT L TO COME BARRELING THROUGH THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. SOMETHING YOU SEE IN MOVIES, BUT TO HEAR IT FROM HIM IS PRETTY COOL. >>> WE BROUGHT YOU A LIVE VIEW OF THAT A COUPLE MINUTES AGO. IT WAS COOL WE WERE ABLE TO GET THAT SHOT. PLASMA WILL BE BUILDING UP ON THE EXTERIOR OF THE VEHICLE, SO THERE IS A BLACKOUT PERIOD THAT WE WERE EXPECTING: THAT'S WHERE WE ARE AT NOW. >>> WHILE WE CAN'T BRING -- YOU CAN SEE A VIEW OF OUR RECOVERY SHIP. WE CAN NOW SEE THAT THE LIFT ARMS HAVE ACT WAITED OUT INTO THE RECOVERY POSITION, IN ANTICIPATION OF DRAGON BEING PULLED IN TO POSITION CLOSER TO THE END OF THE SHIP, AND BEING LIFTED UP TO THE RECOVERY NETS. >> YOU HAVE TO IMAGINE THE TEAMS OUT THERE ON THE OCEAN, ARE READY FOR THIS TO COME HOME. 200 GIVE OR TAKE NAUTICAL MILES AT SEA. THEY HAVE LEFT YESTERDAY. THEY ARE READY AND WAITING. A BUNCH OF SPACE TECHNICIANS WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE GOING OUT ON FAST BOATS TO DEPLOY FROM THE SHIP,NG THE CAPSULE STABLE, AND HOISTED ON THE SHIP. AND ALSO, PARACHUTES GET JETTISON FROM THE CAPSULE AT THE MOMENT OF TOUCH DOWN. WE WILL BE READY TO WATCH ALL THAT UNFOLD PRETTY SOON. WE SHOULD BE SEEING THOSE PARACHUTES IN ABOUT 10 OR 11 MINUTES NOW, RIGHT AFTER DRAGON PLUNGES TO THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. >>> THINGS WILL REALLY PICK UP ONCE WE GET TO SEE THE DRAGON OVER THE ATLAN THERE. >> ABSOLUTELY. WE HAVE ABOUT TEN MINUTES, WHICH ARE THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE PARACHUTES. WE WILL TAKE A QUICK BREAK AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT DEPLOYMENT. >> SO, THIS IS A VIEW OF THE WV57 AIRPLANE. YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE DRAGON STREAKING THROUGH THE SKY, AIMING FOR A SPLASHDOWN IN JUST A LITTLE WHILE FROM NOW. >> IT IS PRETTY EXCITING THAT WE GET THE SHOT RIGHT NOW, AS IT IS OUR FIRST VIEW FROM PLANET EARTH OF THE DRAGON CAPSULE SINCE HE LIFTED OFF FROM CAPE CANAVERAL JUST SEVERAL DAYS AGO. >> I WILL SAY THIS, THIS IS A PRETTY RARE TREAT TO BE ABLE TO SEE THIS HERE. AGAIN, THIS VIDEO IS COMING FROM A NASA AIRPLANE THAT TAR FLYING AROUND T RECOVERY ZONE, WV57, COMMONLY USED FOR OTHER SCIENCE MISSIONS, AND WE WERE ABLE TO PUT A TRACKING CAMERA ON IT, AND TRY TO GET THIS REENTRY THROUGH THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE TODAY. HEAR THAT SHOULD HAVE SIGNAL BACK WITH THE DRAGON SPACECRAFT. RIGHT NOW IT IS ABOUT 64 KILOMETERS IN ALTITUDE. >> FOR ORIENTATION PURPOSES, IF YOU HAVE SEEN OUR LAUNCHES PREVIOUSLY, YOU MIGHT BE FAMILIAR WITH THE ANGLING, BUT A REMINDER THIS IS REENTRY, THE CAMERA IS BELOW THE SPACECRAFT. IT LOOKS FROM THE ORIENTATION FROM THE IMAGINARY THERE, DRAGON IS GOING UP, BUT IN FACT IT IS STILL COMINGACK DOWN TOWARDS EARTH. >> AGAIN, KEEPING YOU ON THE TIMELINE, SO WE ACTUALLY ACQUIRED A SIGNAL ABOUT A MINUTE AHEAD WHEN AS EXPECTED. WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR THOSE INITIAL CHUTE DEPLOYMENTS. AFTER DRAGON GETS A LITTLE LOWER DOWN. >>> YOU WILL SEE THE CHUTES INITIALLY, FOLLD BY THE FOUR LARGER PARACHUTES, FOR A MUCH SOFTER SPLASHDOWN IN THE OCEAN. >> WE SHOULD BE GETTING THAT DROVE CHUTE DEPLOYMENT IN ABOUT TWO MINUTES NOW. >> JUST HEARD WE ARE DOWN BELOW 30 KILOMETERS. >>> AS YOU ARE JUST NOW TUNING IN, THIS IS DRAGON COMING HOME. IT IS FROM A CAMERA ON BOARD A CHASE PLANE THERE AT THE LANDING ZONE OVER THE ATLANTIC, ABOUT 200 OR SO NAUTICAL MILES OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA. >>> WE ARE UNDER 30 KILOMETERS, CONTINUING TO DESCEND. THE NEXT MILESTONE WE WL BE LOOKING FOR IS PARACHUTE DEPLOYMENT. [BACKGROUND ♪ MUSIC] ♪♪ MUSIC PLAYING ♪♪ ♪♪ MUSIC PLAYING ♪♪♪ ♪♪ MUSIC PLAYING ♪♪ >> AND SO O WE WILL TAKE A QUICK BREAK FROM THE OPERATIONS, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE JOHN REID, HE IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE CREW MANAGEMENT. CONGRATULATIONS FOR SPLASHDOWN AND DEMOE. WHAT HAS IT BEEN LIKE TO WATCH THIS MISSION, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO? HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO CATCH YOUR BREATH? >> NO. TO BE HONEST, I AM KIND OF SHAKING, AND SUPER EXCITED. IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY TO GET TO THIS MOMENT. THE TEAM HAS DONE AN AMAZING JOB, BOTH SPACEX AND NASA TEAMS JOINTLY. FUNDAMENTALLY, THIS IS A GREAT DAY FOR THE NATION, FOR SPACEX, FOR NASA, AND REALLY FOR THE WORLD. FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS THAT WEE HAVE A SPACECRAFT DESIGNED FOR HUMANS TO FLY, AND NOT ONLY CAN THEY FLY, AND DO EVERYTHING THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO, BUT BROUGHT IT HOME SAFE AND SOUND. WELL THE WHOLE MISSION HASI CANW GONE. I THINK PRETTY MUCH ON EVERY POINT, PARTICULARLY THIS LAST PIECE WE ARE EXCITED TO SEE. PARAE, DEPLOY, SPAR DOWN HAPPENED PERFECTLY, RIGHT ON TIME, THE WAY WE EXPECTED IT TO. >> RIGHT DOWN TO THE SECOND. >> IT WAS AMAZING. SO, YOU KNOW, AS A TEAM, SPACEX, WE ARE HERE, AND WE ARE HONORED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TOE DONE THIS MISSION, AND WORKED WITH NASA TO WORK THROUGH THIS. >>> DEMO ONE IS FUNDAMENTALLY IS A FIRST MAJOR MILESTONE. I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYBODY, LIKE THIS IS A WHOLE SYSTEM. THERE ARE TWO DRAGS, BUT THERE ARE THE FALCONS, AND GROUND MANY ISES, THE OPERATIONS, OUR ENTIRE FACTORY AND PRODUCTION. EVERYTHING WE DO, IS ABLE TO FLY ASTRONAUTS SAFELY. THIS IS A HUGE STEP. >>> TO LOOK BACK OVER WHAT HAPPENED IN THEAST TWO DAYS, SEEMS AMAZING TO ME, TO GET IT TO THIS DAY. >>> WE HAD LAUNCH, CREW DRAGON DEPLOYED. BEAUTIFUL CREW FLIGHT, AND WHEN YOU ARE ON THE GROUND, IT HOW FLUIDS WORK IN MICROGRAVITY. SO THE PROCESS, AND WHAT IS AMAZING IN THAT, IT WORKED WELL, JUST PERFECTLY LIKE WE EXPECTED. WE GOT TO THE STATION, AND WE DOCKED. THAT'S THE FIRST TIME IN -- I THINK IN HISTOA COMMERCAL VEHICLE AND AMERICAN VEHICLE, HAD DOCKED AUTONOMOUSLY, SO THAT'S SUPER COOL. LOADLOADED TESTS WE DID. [INDISCERNIBLE] >> WE GOT TO MEET THE LITTLE EARTH GUY. [LAUGHTER] >> YEAH. >> SO, THAT WILL BE FOR BOB AND DOUG TO RETRIEVE. >>> UNDOCKING, OF COURSE, MORE FREE FLIGHT. JETTISON TRUNK, CLOSING OF THE NOSE CONE. AND AGAIN, LIKE I SAID, BEAUTIFUL PARACHUTE DEPLOYMENT. ALL OF THESE TESTS WE HAVE BEEN DOING ON PARACHUTES, AND UNDERSTANDING THE AIR DYNAMICS OF COMING HOME, EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL. >>> THE IMPORTANT THING NOW, WE TAKE ALL OF THE DATA THAT WE HAVE LEARNED -- >> WE LOVE DATA. >> WE LOVE DATA, ULTIMATELY WE ARE EEERS. TAKELL THAT GREAT DATA AND APPLY THAT TO THE NEXT STEP. >>> SO, WHAT IS COMING UP NEXT, AND STILL SHAKING AS I AM ABOUT THE RETURN, THERE IS A LOT MORE TO DO. OUR ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO STAFF SPA STATIONS. RISE UP TO SPACE, GIVE THEM A SAFE PLACE TO IT BE AND SAFE PLACE TO COME HOME TO. HOW DO WE GET THERE? WE FINISHED DEMO ONE, WE TAKE THE DATA, APPLY IT AND LEARN FROM IT. >>> WE GO BACK TO OUR WORK TESTS, SIMILAR TO THE ONE WE DID A FEW YEARS AGO. >>> AND IT IS THE SAME DRAGON WE FLEW, AND LAUNCH IT. AGAIN, DO THE SAME THING, BRING IT HOME SAFELY, AND PLANT IT IN THE OCEAN. FROM THERE, AFTER WE GET THAT DONE, WE GO TO DEMO TWO, AND THAT'S WOW, THAT'S THE BIG PRIZE, RIGHT. AND IT WILL BE BOB A DOUG, OR ASTRONAUTS, PARTNERS AND FRIENDS, SENDING THEM ON DRAGON, TAKING THEM UP, AND BRING THEM HOME SAFELY. >>> AND THEN WE WILL GO TO ROTATION AND START THE SIX-MONTH ROTATION, WHICH WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT. >> IT IS IMPORTANT TO TAKE A STEP BACK, AND LOOK AT ALL THE WORK THAT IT HAS TAKEN TO GET HERE. ALL THE SUPPORT WE HAVE HAD FROM FRIENDS AND FAMILY. REALLY, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, ON BEHALF OFLL OF THE 6,000 HERE AT SPACEX, WE REALLY WANT TO THANK NASA, SPACE STATION, INTERNATIONAL PARTNER, AND THANK THE AMERICAN PUBLIC FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND PARTNERSHIP AS WE GO THROUGH THIS. >>> WE ARE REALLY PROUD TO BE PART OF THIS ENDEAVOR. >>ANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US. IT IS EARLY FRIDAY MORNING HERE, IN HAWTHORNE. FOR THOSE OF US WHO WORK AT SPACEX, WE STILL HAVE A FULL DAY OF WORK GOING. EVEN THOUGH TODAY WAS DEMO ONE DAY. YOU, LIKE ME, WILL CONTINUE WORK ON DEMO TWO. >> WE WILL START TALKING ABOUT THE NEXT STEP ON DEMO TWO. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOUR TEAM, AS WELL, ON THE SUCCESS OF LAST WEEK. REALLY IT HASEEN AWESOME FOR US TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THE HARD WORK WITH SPACEX EMPLOYEES. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. WE WILL TAKE A QUICK BREAK, AS WE BRING YOU MORE COVERAGE OF THE RECOVERY OPERATIONS, WHICH YOU CAN SEE IS ONGOING ON YOUR SCREEN ON THE LEFT. >>> SO, STICK AROUND, AND WE WILL BE BACK IN JUST A COUPLE. ♪♪ MUSIC PLAYING ♪♪ ♪♪ MUSIC PLAYING ♪♪ >> RIGHT NOW WE ARE AWAITING TO GET THE VIDEO BACK FROM THE TEAMS OUT THERE IN THE ATLANTIC. >>> WE HAVE ANOTHER GUEST FOR TODAY'S BROADCAST, AD MORTAR JIM BRIDENSTINE. HE IS STANDING BY OVER AT NASA HEADQUARERS IN WASHINGTON, DC. YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE MISSION AND WHAT THIS MEANS FOR NASA AND WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN THE FUTURE. >> ABSOLUTELY, THIS IS AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY. I SAID IN A PRESS CONFERENCE AT 4:00 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, THIS IS A DAWN OF A NEW ERA IN AMERICAN SPACE FLIGHT AND SPACE FLIGHT FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD, BECAUSE OF ALL OUR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS ON OR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. >>> THIS ACHIEVEMENT SPANS MANY ADMINISTRATIONS, AND MANY NASA ADMINISTRATORS. I WANT TO START BY THANKING MIKE GRIFFIN WHO WAS THE ADMINISTRATOR WHO GOT THIS PROGRAM GOING, DURING THE GEORGE W. BUSH, AND CHARLIE WAS ADMINISTRATOR FOR EIGHT YEARS, UNDER OBAMA. AND MR. LIGHTFOOT PRECEDED ME, AND HERE WE ARE TODAY WITH THE AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT. AND CURRENT PRESIDENT, PRESIDENT TRUMP, HIS BUDGETS HAS BEEN AS STRONG AS IT HAS BEEN IN MY LIFETIME. THIS SPANS MANY GENERATIONS OF NASA ADMINISTRATORS. IN FACT, OVER A DECADE OF WORK BY THE TEAM. >>> I WANT TO CONGRATULATE FIRST OF ALL THE NASA CREW PROGRAM, ALL OF THE AMAZING ENGINEERS WHO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. I WANT TO THANK SPACEX AND THEIR TEAM, AND THE DIVISION OFY LOAN MUSK D WHAT HE HAS DONE TO RELATIVE REJUVENATE THIS INSPIRATIONAL MOMENT FOR THIS NEW ERA IN AMERICAN HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT. >>> THIS IS REALLY AN AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT FOR ALL OF AMERICA. BUT IT IS NOT JUST FOR ALL THE AMERICA RIGHT . IT GOES BACK IN TIME. THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT DESERVE CREDIT. AND REALLY WHAT IS UNIQUE NOW, IS THAT NASA CAN BE A CUSTOMER. I KNOW THERE IS A LONG WAY TO GO. WE LAUNCHED AN UNCREWED SPACECRAFT HERE. OF COURSE WE HAVE DEMO TWO, WE WILL BE A CREWED SPACECRAFT BETWEEN NOW AND THEN. >>> WE HAVE A PADDLE BOARD WE NEED TO TEST, AS WELL. THESE ARE ALL CAPABILITIES THAT ARE LEADING TO A DAY, WHERE WE ARE LAUNCHING AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS ON AMERICAN ROCKETS FROM AMERICAN SOIL. >>> I HAVE HEARD, WHEN I WAS A MEMBER OF CRONK GUESS I HAVE HEARD OVER AND OVER AGAIN, HOW DO WE KEEP CONSTANCE SI OF PURPOSE, BECAUSE WE CHANGE ADMINISTONS TO THE NEXT. HOW DO WE KEEP CONSTANCE SEE. THIS IS A PERFECT -- WHEN WE TALK IT TAKES MANY DECADES TO ACHIEVE THIS KIND OF CAPABILITY. THE CONSTANCY OF PURPOSE FOR ALL THESE YEARS. NOW NASA CAN BE A CUSTOMER, WE CAN BE MANY CUSTOMERS OF HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT, AND WHAT WE BELIEVE WILL BE A COMMERCIAL SPACE FLIGHT, AND HAVE CUSTOMERS FOR COST AND INNOVATION. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE SEEING NOW, ROCKETS ARE BEING REUSED, AND DRIVE DOWN COSTS AND ACCESS TO SPACE, JUST AN AMAZING -- THERE WILL COME A DAY WHERE WE ARE REUSING ROCKETS. WE ARE NOT THERE YET, WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO. BUT, THIS IS AN AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT, IN THE PAST,OR REALLY A SUSTAINABLE RETURN TO THE MOON. WHICH IS MY CHARGE THE PRESIDENT HAS GIVEN ME. SO, WE ARE DRIVING DOWN COSTS AND COMMERCIAL RISING LOWER ORBIT, EVENTUALLY WITH SPACE STATIOITH HUMAN ACTIVITIES, WHERE NASA CAN BE A CUSTOMER, AND USE TAKE PRAIRIE SOURCES THAT ARE BESTOW UPON US. WE CAN USE THOSE RESOURCES TO GO FURTHER, AND GO BACK TO THE MOON, SUSTAINBLY, WHERE WE CAN STAY AT THE MOON, AND ULTIMATELY GO ON TO MARS. THIS IS AMAZING ACHIEVE. MENT IN THE HISTORY OF UNITED STATESF ERIC IN. IT JUST LOOKS TO WHAT WE ACHIEVE. >> THANK YOU, ADMINISTRATOR JIM BRIDENSTINE, JUST JOINING US FROMA HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, DC. >>> WE ARE STILL GETTING TO GET INFORMATION, BUT BEFORE GET THE FEEDBACK, WHERE WE HAVE A FEW MORE FOLKS STANDING BY, INCLUDING STEVE, WHO IS A DEPUTY PROGRAM MANAGER FOR NASA'S CREW PROGRAM. AND WE HAVE MIKE HOPKINS, AND ONE OF THE ASTRONAUTS ALREADY ASSIGNED TO A FUTURE DRAGON MISSION. >>> SO, GUYS I WILL SEND IT OVER TO YOU REAL QUICK. OFFER YOUR THOUGHTS HOW THIS MISSION UNFOLDED AND WHAT IS AHEAD IN THE FUTURE? >> THANK YOU, DNA. HEY, IT IS GREAT TO BE HER REPRESENTING THE COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM. WHAT AN OUTSTANDING DAY TO BE PART OF OUR PROGRAM. YOU KNOW, WE'VE LEFT OUR CONTRACTS IN 2014, AND SIT HERE TODAY AND TALK ABOUT DEMO ONE, AND HOW GREAT THE FLIGHT WENT AND WHAT WE WILL LEARN FROM IT IS AMAZING. >>> I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE SPACEX TEAM. OUR WHOLE NASA TEAM THAT WORKED THE MISSION. IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE ENORMITY WHAT HAPPENEDN THIS FLIGHT AND ALL THE PREP THAT WENT INTO IT, GETTING THE FLIGHT CONTROL ROOM SET UP, GETTING THE VEHICLES BUILT. GETTING THE FALCON 9 READY. ALL THE ANALYSIS AND MISSION SUPPORT THAT WENT INTO IT. THE SAMES LEADING UP TO THIS YEAR, OR SO, DOING A TREMENDOUS JOB. >>> ONE OF THE THINGS WE LEARNED IS THE GREAT RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE BETWEEN THE PROGRAM AND SPACEX. I WOULD SAY OUR TEAMS WORK SEAMLESSLY WORK BACK AND FORTH WITH SPACEX, HOW WE MANAGED THE FLIGHT THROUGH THE DRAGON MANAGEMENT TEAM. AND WORKING WITH KENNY TODD AND THE SPACE STATION PROGRAM. SPACE STATION PROGRAM DID A PHENOMENAL JOB SUPPORTING OUR PROGRAM, WHILE DOCKED A STATION ON THE WAY TO STATION, AND THE INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP, AS WELL. A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS MISSION. >>> THE LAST 24 HOURS HAVE BEEN EXCITING FOR US, WE CLOSED HATCHES YESTERDAY ABOUT NOON. DID A FULL SMALL SEPARATES TO GET AWAY FROM STATION. IF YOU WATCHED THAT ON TV, THAT WAS FLAWLESS. >>> DEORBIT BURN ABOUT 6:52 CENTRAL TIME, AND IT LANDED A FEW MINUTES AGO, 6:45. THE VEHICLE IS DOING WELL, RECOVERY CREWS ARE OUT. THEY ARE ON THE SCREEN. THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN AROUND THE SPACECRAFT, AND MADE IT SECURE FOR PERSONNEL. IT WAS VERY CALM DAY, AND ONE OF THE CHUTES LANDED ON THE DRAGON CAPSULE. THAT IS GOING REALLY WELL. IT MIGHT TAKE 30 MINUTES FOR AN HOUR TO GET IT BACK ON THE SHIP. >>> BUT, AS YOU LOOK AT THE DRESS REHEARSAL, HOW TO LOAD THE VEHICLE AND THINKING FORWARD, HOW TO PUT THE CREWS ON THE VEHICLE. WE PRACTICE THE EXACT PROFILE THAT MIKE HOPKINS WILL FLY VERY SOON. >>> WE HAD THE CREW EXAMINE ESCAPE IN DRAGON ENABLED FOR THIS FLIGHT, AND WE WILL LOOK AT THAT DATA, HOW IT PERFORMED. THE POWERANCE. E VEHICLE DID BETTER THAN WE SCHEDULED, AND THEN THE ENDAY VIEW DID PHENOMENAL. THE LINK TO SPACE STATION WORKED. COMMAND WATCHING THE VEHICLE CAME IN. AND SEEING HOW THE DOCKING DID, WAS PHENOMENAL. >>> THE CREW ONE AND OTHER MISSIONS. THEN WE DID A ROBERTIC SURVEY OF THE VEHICLE TO LOOK AT THE ERMAL PROTECTION Z. AND OTHER SYSTEMS. THIS MISSION WAS AS EVEN SIX-DAYS LONG, IT WAS A SPRINT FROM START TO FINISH. I THINK WHERE WE HAVE BEEN IN THE SPENT, IT WAS A PHENOMENAL JOB BY THE TEAM. >>> TODAY, THE U BEINGING, WATCHING HOW THOSE PERFORMED, HOW THE NOSE CONE PERFORMED. >>> HOW THE DEORBIT WAS EXECUTED, AND THE ENTRY WAS PHENOMENAL. >>> WE DID HAILEY ONARD, A TEST DUMMY, AND THAT WILL GIVE US A LOT OF IMPORTANT DATA, AND THEN THE ENTRY PHASE UNDER THE PARACHUTES AND LANDING. SO, WE WILL COLLECT THAT DATA AND LOOK AT THAT. >>> OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, WE WILL BE D OING POST LIVE INTERVIEWS, AND NEXT JUST -- JUST NEXT WEEK WE WILL START REVIEWING THAT, AND SUBSEQUENTLY THERE WILL BE REVIEWS WITH SPACEX, AND THIS MISSION SETS UP WELL FOR THE REST OF THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE IN THE WATER WILL BE THE INBOARD FLIGHT VEHICLE. SO IT WILL COME BACK TO KFC AND START GETTING REBUSHED PI GENOME FOR THE BOARD TEST, WHICH SHOULD BE IN THE SUMMERTIME FRAME. >>> AND HAWTHORNE GETTING BUILT, THAT'S IN PROGRESS AND GOING WELL. THAT WORK IS CONTINUED OWL THROUGH FIGHT. SO THAT WILL BE SPACE D, THOW TWO. I DON'T THINK WE SAW REALLY ANYTHING IN THE MISSION SO FAR. WE HAVE TO DO THE DATA REVIEWS, THAT WOULD PRECLUDE US, HAVING THE CREWED MISSION AFTER THIS FE TEST FLIGHT FOR BOEING. SO OUR MISSION WILL TRANSITION AFTER THIS INTERVIEWS, BUT FOR THE ENTRY TEST FOR BOWING. THAT WILL BE COME UP IN THE APRIL TIMEFRAME. >>> SPACECRAFT THREE IS DOMING THROUGH IN PROCESSING FACILITY IS FLORIDA. THEY ARE IN CRITICAL TESTING, TO VERIFY THAT SPACECRAFT CAN WORK SUCCESSFULLY IN SPACE. >>> AND THEN WE WILL HAVE IT FOR BOWING. >>> IF YOU LOOK AT ALL THE APPLICATIONS AND CREWS, IT IS A SUPER BUS EYE TIME. WE DID PARACHUTE TESTS, IT IS A VERY EXCITING TIME. SO, CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SPACEX TEAM AND ALL THE NASA TEAM THAT WORKEDO HARD, AND WORKED SO MANY YEARS TO SET US UP WITH THIS FLYER. IT IS EXCITING TIME TO BE IN MISSION CREW. >> BEHALF OF THE OPERATION OFFICE, AND CREW, I WOULD LIKE TOO EXTEND OUR GREATINGS, SPACEX TEAM, COMMERCIAL CREW TEAM, AND ALL OF NASA, AND TO EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THIS MAJOR MILESTONE ON RETURNING A HUMAN LAUNCH AND LANDING CAPABILITY, I THINK THAT IS VERY EXCITING. AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE VIDEO OF THE VEHICLE, WORK IS STILL ON FOCUS. THE RECOVER PROCESS IS STILL ON FOCUS. I AM ANXIOUS TO HEAR HOW THIS IS GOING, AFTER THEY PULL HER OUT OF THE CAPTAIN SAUL, AND PUT HER ON THE RECOVERY VEHICLE. >>> I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT WITH THIS DM-1 MISSION, WAS THE FIRST TIME WE HAVE SEEN THE TEST. NOW WE HAVE BROUGHT TOGETHER THE HARDWARE AND PROCESS AND PROCEDURES, UNFOUGHTEN TOEE HOW THEY ALL WORK TOGETHER. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AS WE MOVER TOWARDS PUTTING PEOPLE ON THE VEHICLE. AS STEVE SAID, WE ARE INTERESTED IN SEEING THE AT THAT TIME AT A. I SUSPECT THERE ARE LESSONS LEARNING AND CHANGES, PUT THAT IS AIL PART OF THE TESTING PROCESS. >>> SO, FOR ALL THE CREW, BOB AND DOUG AND CREW ONE, MYSELF, I KNOW VICTOR GLOVER, WE ARE ALL FOCUS TO BE FOLLOWING CLOSELY THE ON FLIGHT, ON FORWARD TEST, TO GET READY FOR THE DEMO TWO MISSION. I FOUND A VERIFICATION TESTS WE WILL ALLNESS INVOLVED AS TEST SUBJECTS. >>>PECIFICALLY FOR BOB AND DOUG WILL FOCUS MORE ON THAT TRAINING FOR THE DM2 MISSION. THEY HAVE A LOT LESS RUNWAY IN FRONT OF THEM. SO, IT WILL START MOVING A LOT QUICKER. FOR THE CREW ONE, THE TEAM VICTOR AND I, AND EVEN FOR CHALLENGE LIS THE PACK-UP, WE HAVE A LOT OF TRAINING, NOT ONLY FOR DRAGON B ARE, BUT FOR ISS PROGRAM WHILE WE ARE THERE. THAT MEANS WE CAN DO ALL OF THE TRAINING FOR BEING ABLE TO TO THE SPACEWALKS AND ABLE TO MAINTAIN THE ROBERTIC ON AND DID GO THE SCIENCE FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS. >>> FINALLY, I WO LIKE TO EMPHASIZE, THIS AMAZING WEEK THAT WE HAD IS ONE SMALL STEP IN THIS VERY METHODICAL BUILD-UP APPROACH, THAT AT PROGRAM HAS LAID OUT, THEPLAYED OUT, FOR PEOPLE TO PUT ON THESE VEHICLES. AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE EXPIRE TEAM APPEAR OVER TO DENNY. >> THANK YOU, HOPPER, JUST BEFORE ANY CONVERSATION YOU WILL HAVE TODAY, WILL START WITH CONGRATULATIONS. I WILL START WITH ME. JUST A PHENOMENAL EVERY THE, IT IS NOT EASY WHAT THIS PROGRAM HAS TO DO IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. TO FINALLY SEE THE PRODUCT OF THAT, HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE THIS WEEK. ALL OUR FRIENDS, AND THE TEAM OUT THERE, WE H BEEN WORKING WITH THEM FOR A BEST PAR THE PART OF A DECADE. WE KNOW THAT TEAM. THEY ARE AS EVEN BIT EXCITED ABOUT HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT AS WE ARE. THEY SHOWS WHENEVER THEY LAUNCH A VEHICLE, IT SHOWS WHEN THEY BRING A VEHICLE HOME, AND THERE IS A LOT OF EXCITEMENT AROUND THAT. ININVIGORATEING. . >>> BENATIA PASS ON CONGRATULATIONS. >>> BUT, ONE OF THE THINGS IN A STATION PROGRAM, IS TO CHECK OUT THTERFACE THAT WE STALL A FEW YEARS AGO, TO ENSURE OUR LATCHES WORKED PROPERLY, INTERFACE WITH THE DRAGON, THAT WE WERE ABLE TO FLOW PORTLY THE INTERFACE. >>> SO, WE FEEL WE ARE IN A POSITION TO GO THROUGH, AND DON'T HAVE THINKING, AT LEAST AT THE FRONT END OF THE PM2. >>> THIS YEAR WE WILL INSTALL ANOTHER ADAPT TORE, WHICH WILL GIVE TWO PORTS TO COMMERCIAL CRY VEHICLES. WE ARE EXCITED TO GET ON WITH THAT ACTIVITY LATER THIS YEAR. >>> AS FAR AS. >>> THE TEAM, I TALKED TO OUR TEAM EARLIER THIS WEEK, PROBABLY IN A WEEK FOR NOW, WE WILL FORGET WE HAD A DRY DRAGON ON BOARD BECAUSE WHATLIZE IN FRONT OF US. THAT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE A NEW CREW COMING UP. BILLION SEE 58 SOYUZ FROM BAIKONUR. THE TEAM IS ALREADY STARTING TO THERE AND READY TO GO. >>> WE ARE EXCITING TO GET THE CREW UP TO THE SIZE OF SIX FEN. >>> IT GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO W ON SCIENCE AND W ON THE BACK LOOK. >>> >>> ONE OF THE THINGS WE WOULD BE ATTACKING, A SET OF EVAS. WE WILL DID THREE OF THEM IN ABOUT 16 DAYS. RIGHT AFTER HATCH OPEN RESIDENTIALS ILLNESS HD AT WORK TO TRY TO PUT THE FINAL WORK. >>> THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER SPACE D VEHICLE AND NORTH HALF GROUND SIG THOUSAND IS COMING UP I AM VERY EXCITED WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK, AND NEGLIGENCE WEEK WE WILL TALK CHEMICAL SOME STUFF COMING FORE. AS LEAST FOR A DAY. >>> A AND THIS WEEKEND, WINNIPEG TO CELEBRATE THIS FROM COMMERCIAL CREW POLICEMAN ARE PROGRAM. >>> AND SPACE DNESS AND GO ALONG WITH THEM. IT WAS QUITE A FEW DAYS HERE, DNA. WITH THAT, WE WILL HAND IT BACK TO THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU,ENNY, MIKE STEVE OVER THERE IN HOUSTON. THANK YOU FOR THOSE WORDS. NOW WE WILL GET BACK TO THE ACTION. BETTER GETTING VIEWS OF THE RECOVERY SPACECRAFT. THE TEAMS ARE IN PLACE, AND MAKE ITSAY ON TO RECOVERY. >> EXACTLY, NOW THAT INTERESTING GOD BLESS SPLASHED DO YOU KNOW, THE RECOVERY TEAM WILL GO THROUGH A NUMBER OF STUFF. >>> NOW, IN CASE URGING US, WE WILL GO QUICK, A LITTLE SHOT OF DRAGON RECOVERY WITH THE DRAGON TEAM WING ON THE RECOVERY OPERATIONS. >>> IN CASE YOU ARE JUST JOINING US, THE MISSION HAN SUC SUCCESSSUCCESSFUL 45:00 A.M. >> I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW LATE IT IS IN THE MORNING, TIME FLIES. APPROXIMATELY SIX BEFORE FLASH DOWN, DRAGON UNPLAQUED, COMPLETED A SERIES OF FINAL BURN AND AND PLACED ITSELF ON A TRAJECTORY TOWARDS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. >> THIS IS A RY FROM A HE WILL ARE LITTLE PIT EARLIER THIS MORNING. AT THIS POINT, DRAGON WAS ARE WERE UNDER THE PARACHUTES, AND RESPONSIBLE FOR PULLING OUTSIDE THE FOURTH MAIN PARACHUTES, WE FROM BINGY, THAT THEY WENT EXACTLY ON THE TIMELINE, TOO. >>> PUT THAT ALL CAME AFTER DRAGON SUCCESSFULLY RE-ENTERED THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE, AND MOST PARACHUTES, AND NOW BETTER ON PART OF INTERESTING DENY'S JOURNEY, AS IT WILL SOON LIFTED OUT OF THE WATER AND ON TO THE RECOVERY POET. >> THIS IS A REENTRY AND FLASH ENTRY BENATIA DESCRIBED A FEW MINUTES AGO. >>> >>> RAILWAY SHOOT AS THE PARACHUTES ARE SLOWING THE VEHICLE DO YOU KNOW. >>> >> THAT'S WHY 35:45 A.M. PARK, AND 845 POWERPLAY. YOU HAVE P 800 MILES TRILLION AIR NAUTICAL IN ALREADY KNEE WE TAKEN ARE DON'T HAVE HUMAN ON BOARD. >>> SHE HAS LOS ANGELES THE SENSORS PLACED AROUND THE BOYS, I IF HE IS YOU WOULD SAY BEING SO THIS WILL GIVE US COOL DATA, AND DURING LAUNCH AND CLOSED-CAPTIONING AND REENTRY. >>> HOWEVER AS IT IS ALL SET SO FAR IN OUR MEMO BUN MIX, THEY WILL BE RECOVERY AS IF IT WAS A CREWED MISSION. >>> >>> YOU SAW EARLIER THE RECOVERY DAWN POINT.UICKLY TO AT A SPLAS >>> YOU CAN SIGH IN YAW SCREEN RIGHT NOW. >>> IT IS A PICTURES PERFECT DAY. >>> >>> WE WILL ABLE TO GET LIFTED OUT OF THE OCEAN. THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL. >>> SO ERIE OTTERS CRY, AND THANK YOU, CHECK, SAVED ARE SAVED ITSELF ENTERING. TEAM MATES ARE SAFEVA TO APRETTY MUCH THE INTERESTING FAN SPACE DRAFT. >> UPON THE IMMEDIATELY DETEXT OF INTERESTING UPONS IT REMOVED ALL THE PARACHUTES, AND THAT PREVENTS THE THE SPACE -- FOLLOWING THAT SUCCESS, THAT'S SUCCESSFUL PARACHUTE CUT ABAY, DRAGON AUTOMATIC SPACE AND PERFORM ARM DOM OF INITIAL -- THE ASTRONAUTS IF THEY ARE ON BURDEN, THEY WOULDAY IN THEIR SUITS, BUT THE DRAG UPON SPACECRAFT HAS AIR CONDITIONING, AND HELPS KEEP THE ASTRONAUTS IN CHECK. AND THE COMMUNICATION ALWAYS REMAINED POWERED. THEY STILL HAVE THAT TWO HOUR COMMUNICATION READY TO PULL THEM THEM ON THE BOAT. >> IF I WERE NASA, AND FINDING A PET. >>> KIND GOING THROUGH A CAR WASH, YOU ARE SAFEVA, B CAN'T OPEN THE DOOR AS YET. >> IT LACK A LITTLE OVER TEN MINUTES FOR THE CREE TO COMPLETE SAFETY CHECKS. AND COMPLETED THEIR PREPARATIONS AND WE CAN SEE THEY ARE MACING PROGRESS TO LIFT INTERESTING GOD BLESS UP ON INTO THE RYE ERROR ARE COVER VESSEL. >>> MEMBER OF THE RECOVERY TEAM, BUT THAT WAS IN ORDER TOACH THE SPRINGS AND CONNECTING THE LINES. >>> I WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE ABLE TO TO IT, PUT IT IS RAIL COLURE PRACTICING TEAM IN ACTION HERE, AND ABOUT SME BEAUTIFUL SHOTS OF THE ATLANTA I CAN HOSE. >> THIS IS FROM THE GO NAVIGATOR, AND COMBINED NASA TEAMS, WITH MANNERS AND FLIGHT DOCKS, AND OTHER PNNEL THAT WILL BE INVOLVED, WHEN WE HAVE CRY ON BOARD THE SPACE DRAFT. THEY ARE ON THE. >> ARE GO NAVIGATOR. -- NAVIGATOR. >> LIKE WE MENTIONED BEFORE, THE SHIP HE SEEN THERE, IS FULLY EQUIPPED FOR MEDICAL CHECK OUTS, IF WE DID HAVE EGRESSED FROM THE MEDICAL AND GIVEN AN EXAMPLES EXAMINATION THAT EVERYBODY IS TOO. THERE IS A HELLY PAD, WHENEVER WE SPLASHDOWN. SO THE SHIP IS CAPABLE OF THE RECOVERY CREW FOR A DO YOU MEAN OF WEEKS, NECESSARILY. >>> OBVIOUSLY, TO IT BE ON A SHIP IN MY OPINION. BY, FULLY EQUIPPED AND I HAVE BEEN THAT SHIP MYSELF, IT IS INDREADBLE ARE CREDIBLE IT ME AS SOMEONE WHOA KEEPS MY EYE SCORES TOWARDS THE SKY. IT IS JUST INCREDIBLE REICH THERE IN OUR SLEEP REALLY. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FILE MISSION IS REQUIRED, IT IS GOING UP AND THEN BACK DID YOU KNOW. >>> >> THIS IS ONE OF TWO NAVIGATORS, WHO TRAVELED DOWN TO THE SPLASHDOWN ZONE. ONE OF THE PERSON IS SHANE KIMBRO, AND PRETTY MUCH RESPONSIBLE FOR SEEING ALL THE CREW'S NEEDS, AND ALL THEIR FOREIGN TEAM BEFORE HE LAUNCH. HE SAID THEY DINED OF LONG TO HIGHMORE AND WHILE THEY ARE GETTING READY. SHANE, THANKS FOR CALLING IN SO QUICK. >>> >> HI, DNA FREIGHT TALKING TO THANK YOU. EVERYTHING IS GOING BEAUTIFULLY BELL. THE MAIN PARACHUTES AND THEN OF COURSE THE SPLASHDOWN. >>> IT IS GETTING PRETTY CLOSE TO GET IT ON DECK. >> AND SO, SHANE, WHAT WAS THE SHIP OUT THERE LIKE, HAN ALAINING SOB AN IF I WILL LITTLE FURTHER AWAY THAN OUR CREW WOULD BE -- >> EVERYTHING IS GREAT. IT WAS ABOUT 30 HOURS TO GET IN THE SPLASH DID YOU KNOW ZONE A BUT WE WEEK UP TODAY AND NOW IT IS BEEN REGARD INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAGON NUMBER ONE. >> WHAT WAS IT LIKE WATCHING DRAGOON CRAFT DROP TOWN FROM THE BOATS. >>> EVER ABOUT ARE HAD ABOUT 30 NUNSNTEREST -- AND THIS WERE ALL INDICATED. FROM MY PERSIANIVE IT LOOKED ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. WE HAVE A VERY GOOD DAY AND CALM SEAS AND COULDN'T ASK FOR BETTER WEATHER. >> SHANE, OBVIOUSLY YOU DIDN'T COME DOWN THIS CAPSULE TODAY. BUT YOU HAVE COME DOWN ONE ON LAND. HOW DOES THAT COMPARE WHEN YOU TOUCHED OVER OVER IN KAZAKHSTAN? >> GOOD QUESTION, AS WE HAVE BEEN 30 TO 40 MINUTES AT SPLASH TIME. PUT THERE IS CREW IN THERE, BUT THE DRU WILL PROBABLY NOT FEELING BETTER THIS WEAK, AS SOON AS WE CAN GET THAT CAN BACK ON LAND AND THAT WILL HELP THEIR RECOVERY PROCESS. >> ALL RIGHT, SO, WE ARE CONTINUING TO GET THESE VIEWS, WHAT IS AHEAD FOR I AND THELESS OF THE TEAMS, I SAID A 30 HOUR PRAM PACK INTO HARSH ART ARE VARIETY. >>> I THINK WE WILL BE OUT HERE AN HOUR OR MAYBE TWO HOURS. ONCE THINK GIVE US THE IF, WE WILL START HEADING BACK TO COURT. WHERE SUPPOS TO AE LATE SATURDAY NIGHT IN PORT DA AND A HALF RAIL. >> ALL RIGHT. >>> SHANE, WE WILL LET YOU GET BECOME IT WATCHING WATCHING ALL THE HEARINGS. I IT REALLY ACTUAL YOU IN FROM ALLOT AND GAVE US A GREAT SLASH DAWN. >> THANK YOU, GUYS, AND ENJIRI VESLEY THE REST OF THE PICTURES HERE. TAKE CARE. >> ALREADY, THAT WASRONAUT SHAME DIM PRAY, HE IS WATCHING WHERE THE GALE SUSPECTING, AND BILLION BILLION SEA IT GO UP IT THE DRAGON NET. >> ONCE THE CAPSULE LIFTED IT OUT OF WATER. THAT IS THE POSITION WHICH WHICH THEY WOULDNESS EGRESSING FROM SUCCESSFUL. >>> LOOKS LIKE WE ARE GETTING CLOSE ARE UNCLE'SER TO THE CAPSULE. >> IT SHOULD BE BE IN RANGE SOON. AS WE TALKED ABOUT, IT IS ABOUT AN HOUR OR A LITTLE BEST, BOTH SPLASHDOWN FOR THE CAPSULE BEING ON THE BOAT. YOU HEARD CRUDE OUT THAT HAVE IN A MORE STABLE ENVIRONMENT. AND THEN YOU CAN TAKE THE PATTED UNNOTED HURTING SOMETHING IN COURT. THEY WERE AROUND 200 THAT YOU WILL TALL MILES OUT TO SEA. ONCE WE HAVE CREW ON BOARD, THAT WILL NOT BE THE CASE. ABOUT 24 OR 25 THAT YOU WILL KNOT TALL MILES. >>> THERE IS A MEDICAL HI PAD UNTHE FORWARD RESIDENTIALS SO IF ANY REASON THEY WANTED TO GET THE CREW BACK QUICKER, THEY COUL LUNCH THEM OUT AND BRING THEM BACK TO DRY LAND THERE. >>> CERTAIN ARE SOUNDS LIKE CREWS STARTLING TO PICK UP HERE. >>> BENATIA SHOUL THERE THERE. IS A ♪♪ MUSIC PLAYING ♪♪ ♪♪ MUSIC PLAYING ♪♪ >> YOU ARE CONTINUING TO WATCH DRAGON. AT THIS POINT, THE TEAM HAS HIGHERED AS THEY ARE GETTING READY TO BRING THAT DRAGON SPACECRAFT UP, AND SPACEX DECIDED TO CALL THE NET, AND IT WILL REMAIN IN THE NET, UNTIL BACK TO THE COAST, AND IT WILL R, FLORIDA. FOR THIS MISSION IT WILL TAKE THAT LONG BECAUSE THEY ARE ABOUT 200 NAUTICAL MILES OUT OF SEA. THAT'S JUST SPACEX CAN GET THE RETURNING ASTRONAUTS BACK TO DRY LAND. AFTER YOU HAVE BEEN TO MICROGRAVITY AFTER SIX MONTHS, YOU WOULD PROBABLY APPRECIATE THAT. >>> THE CAPSULE WILL BE LIFTED, AND CENTER AND ORIENTATE THE VEHICLES. THE INTERESTING DONE WILL EVENTUALLY GET PUT IN THE SHIP, SO THEY WILL OPEN UP THE HATCH. WE ARE ALMOST AT THE POINT WHERE THE RECOVERY TEAM WILL BE ASSISTING THE CREW TO GET OUT OF DRAGON. WE ARE ALMOST THERE. >>> IN AIR SPACE TERMS, WE -- SPACEX ROOFER TEAM WILL BE HELPING OUT THE CREW OF DRAGON WITHIN ONE HOUR OF LANDING. >> YOU CAN SIGH ON YOURCREEN, DRAGON IS GETTING CLOSE ARE AND CLOSE ARE TO THE BACK INDEPENDENT OF THE RECOVERY SHIP -- TWO OF THE RECOVERY SHIPS. A HUNDRED OR TWO MOMENTS AGO, WE SAW THE CREW RESPONSIBLE TO THE ATTACHMENT OF THE RIGGING. RIGHT NOW WE ARE JUST AGOING FOR -- WAITING FOR DRAGON TO LIFT UP, OUT OF THE WATER AND INTO THE NET. >> AND THERE IT GOES. >> SO, THEY ARE FACING US IS WHAT WHICH SAW THE SIDE PATCH, THAT'S IF WE HAD ASTRONAUTS ON BOARD TODAY, WHERE THEY WOULD BE EXITING. THE TOP HATCH IS WHAT WE IT'S TO CONNECT TO ISS AND CURRENTLY HIDDEN UNDER THE NOSE CONE. >>> THE ASTRONAUTS WOULD BE COMING OUT OF THE SIDE HATCH, AND WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SHOT THERE. THE HYDRAULIC LIFT IS COMING BACK TOWARDS US, AND IS PREPARATION TO LOWER THE DRAGON CAPSULE. >>> LIKE, WE SAID, WE ARE TREATING THIS MISSION AS IF THERE WERE ACTUAL ASTRONAUTS ON BOARD. AND BEFORE, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO OPEN THE HATCH, WE WOULD HAVE TO MAKE SURE THE CABIN PRESSURE IS EQUALIZED WITH THE OUTSIDE ENVIRONMENT. SO, ONCE DRAGON IS SEATED -- HOUSTON 2 IS BEHIND ME. OUR CHEERING WITH THE PLACEMENT OF DRAGON INTO THE NEST THERE, AS YOU CAN SEE. YOU MIGHT ALSO NOTICE THE THERMAL PROTECTIVE SYSTEM, IF YOU ARE WATCHING DURING LAUNCH WAS PRETTY WHITE. THERE WAS PLASMA OF COURSE AS HE RE-ENTERED THROUGHARTH'S ATMOSPHERE, SO WE HAVE A LOVELY TOASTED MARSHMALLOW SITTING IN THE NEST OF OUR RECOVERY SHIP. I THINK IT IS A COOL VIEW, THEY ARE PRIG THE DRAGON DOW AND WE ARE RECOVERING OUR ROCKETS. >> WE HAD FANTASTIC WORK WITH THE WEATHER TODAY. THE FEW STATES WERE RELATIVELY CALM. ONLY A COUPLE OF CLOUDS DOTTING THE SKY. >>> EVEN BEFORE ITS PARACHUTES, WE SAW JUST AFTER THAT ENTRY INTERFACE AND WE ARE GETTING COOL VIEWS FROM THE WV37 AIRPLANE. WINNIPEG DRAGON BACK ON THE BOAT, THAT'S ABOUT IT FOR US. WE ARE AT THE ABOUT THE EN OF THIS MISSION. >>> THERE ARE MEDICAL EXAM ROOMS ON BOARD, BUT NO CREW ON BOARD. THEY WILL GETTING BACK ALLHE DATA BACK, FROM THE TEST DEVICE, AND GET ALL THE G FORCES AND EVERYTHING THE CREW WILL EXPERIENCE, RIPE JUST EXPERIENCED. >>> THIS MISSION STARTED ABOUT SIX DAYS AGO ON MARCH 7th. WE HAD A DOCKING AT THEITIS, AND DID ALL DEMONSTRATIONS AS EXPECTED. IT WAS DOCKED FOR THE LAST FIVE DAYS, AND TESTED POWER STATIONS AND UNLOADED ABOUT 400 POUNDS OF CARGO AND LOADED #HUNDRED OF OF CARGO BACK ON. >>> AND A SPLASHDOWN IN THE ATLANTIC, 5:45 FOR US ON THE PACIFIC COAST. IT WAS REALLY A FANTASTIC MISSION. IT HAS BEEN A HUGE HONOR FOR ME TO BE OUT HERE AND SHARE IT AT HAWTHORNE. THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL TESTATES TEST FLIGHT OF THE COMMERCIAL SPACE PROGRAM THROUGH TO THE INTERNATL SPACE STATION. >> AS DNA SAYS IT HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE HONOR, AND ALL THE TEAMS ARE EXCITED WITH SUCCESS, WHICH PAVES THE FLIGHT FOR OUR FIRST FLIGHT SPACE FLIGHT HERE. >>> UNTIL NEXT TIME, SEE YOU THEN. [♪♪♪]
