SpaceX DM-1 Undocking & Splashdown

that's right, yes the trunk doesn't go back home, but the rest of the Dragon pod, the most important part, will be going back home, the other things the dragons will do before, that last re-entry is closing that nose. cone and we'll talk about that a bit soon but basically that nose cone will protect the top of the Dragon spacecraft, the docking adapter and also the guidance of the navigation and control sensors, that's one of the last major milestones. that's another type of cargo dragon diversion that is jettisoned during launch during the launch phase, but by keeping the crew it helped the usability of the crew dragon for future missions now that the trunk section is not pressurized and we can use it to transport cargo on the way to the International Space Station, but anything that comes back from the station is put in the pressurized section so we can dump it out of the trunk since it's not needed anymore and we can get rid of that extra weight and I think we're done hearing the trunk separation so hopefully we'll be able to show you here shortly not really we're too far from the station right now so yeah next up will be the spacecraft using some forward thrusters to do the trunk burn deorbit this is going to be a really important step because once the deorbit burn happens you will come home and you will like it hit you in you will leave orbit you will return to earth that will put the dragon on a trajectory for it to come back the burn will last about 15 minutes once it starts so we are going to keep hoping this is like the calm before the storm for Please where we're just waiting for things to really get moving the dragons are going to pretty soon make the deorbit burn and then after that it only takes about 45 minutes or so until you're in the water in the Atlantic and is ready for the teams to collect once more.

I will bring you these updates as they arrive. e in just one more milestone down just a few more to go and then dragons home you are ok hi everyone i hope i should be back we are live we are back oh my god the technical difficulties issues so we'll see I'll see if this comes back live. I should go back. and my streaming ie my streaming software hasn't happened for a long time but suddenly it happened in the middle of that, when that happens it will still go live but I can't everything freezes I can.

I didn't play anything so my mic was muted. Couldn't turn it back on. It was frozen in place and all I could do was click ok on the error and then everything fails and I got a reset everything oh which is fine for YouTube and Facebook for the people I'm watching on periscope the stream just ended and then you have to go find the stream again but anywhere but SpaceX has happened they were doing some stuff so I'll get back to that and we'll see if we can. catch up and see if we can figure out what's going on here oh wait we're back to the music here so let me rewind here a little bit we can check the things we missed because I missed too we should get confirmation of the deorbit burn in a couple of seconds here that's right so we got once the deorbit burn is complete it's just trying to do some quick math in my head while looking at everything but it's only about 40 more minutes or less until the dragon is scheduled to go back in the water so it's a pretty quick trip from being in outer space to back in the ocean and we just heard a confirmation of the burn in orbit so like we said this allows an hour 15 minutes so your burn has started at this point d ragon has started to re-enter Earth's atmosphere it's going to get a little toasty but we're excited for this to happen as it's the next Next step the next milestone on your journey home that's right and now that the entry interface is still like my destination for us is the atlantic ocean and there are ships waiting we will go through all the recovery forces and everything on site but there is a main recovery ship that is going to search and will have

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recovery crews that are responsible for going out and pulling the pod out of the water which is a go seeker view which was actually a camera view of one of the other ships which is in the navigator area of ​​go which also has the combined NASA team on board so once we get the crew on board they'll all be on one ship so it'll be a little bit tighter space but obviously you'll have the SpaceX folks to go and retrieve the capsule and then the NASA folks will usually bring the flight in as well.

Doctors and Nurses Anyone who has seen a Soyuz landing and a Soyuz in Kazakhstan knows that once the crew returns home after a period of about six months, it is important that we give them a quick medical check, just take vital signs. and be sure. they're doing well and helping to manage it as they readjust it as gravity for the first time and you know up to six months or so so they'll all be on one boat but for today we have two boats so we'll get a few extra ones. hopefully the views from those different cameras as we watch the dragon descend but for now we're at the dealer burn so we've got a couple more minutes until it's complete and then we're one step closer to the dragon come back yeah while the dragon is re-entering earth's atmosphere we'll be pausing for a few minutes until the orbit burn is complete so make sure you stick around and we'll see you in a few minutes okay like this that's what we missed we're going to live again now so now we are now we are You went back to a concert where you really don't look much different looking in the control room so we're waiting here in the pod to finish the deorbit recording so the deorbit recording is about 15 minutes and there are some live views of the recovery ships in the Atlantic Ocean so you have go navigator which is the ship the camera is on and l then go searcher is the ship actually doing the recovery so that's the other ship we're actually looking over there looks like a great view we've got a little cloud but not too much so hopefully we'll get some great pictures of the capsule actually landing, it would be great to get some live footage of the capsule landing that would be awesome if that's not scheduled to happen until 8:45, so we still have about 45 minutes until the capsule lands.

The inbound interface was supposed to be scheduled for 8:30 3:00 a.m. like a little inflatable raft here california eagle soaring usa so california won't see return right yeah that's right yeah it's not gonna be anywhere near california this is off the coast from Florida and it's coming from a southeast direction so yeah unfortunately California you're going to come across I guess we're going to see which way it's this way on the street then it's going to cross this way across the United States there, so Chris lemak says I thought they said 15 minutes from burn to landing I think the 15 minutes is the duration of the deorbit burn so it's a 15 minute long deorbit burn to really get it out of the orbit so the deorbit burn is going to last until like ten past eight then it will actually travel and work its way up into the atmosphere then you have an entry interface going through the atmosphere and slowing down you have the parachutes that sa len and then the actual landing so I think I'm still skinny k We're still on track for the 8:45 landing so still about 45 minutes to the actual

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everyone has a theory that there will be a turn in the plot, maybe Ripley will jump out of the pod at the end. what a surprise, I don't think so, but wouldn't that be something uh-huh and then we expected it to last about 15 minutes and 20 seconds? that we were halfway there we continued to get a couple of views from the boats and again those are cameras that will follow the dragon once it falls under those parachutes and we also start to see that it looks like this is a view from an airplane WB 57 some alpha still tracking there and here is your happily wanted footage of the business off the coast of Florida again there are two ships or two ships both with onboard tracking cameras and NASA also flying their WB 57 aircr The stern usually it's used for high altitude weather research and other science missions but it has a camera attached to it and hopefully it should give us some views of the dragon dropping under those parachutes so on your screen you see a beautiful go searcher shot which is our main recovery ship there at the front of the ship you can see what would essentially be accommodation for the crew during the hold they could be offshore d Depending on how rough the waves are for a couple of weeks or just a couple of days depending on the fire or

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point so they come into view on the right hand side of the screen at the top is actually the helipad for the helicopters to land if we need to get the astronauts to shore quicker than just having them ride the ship and really something that I love about this ship is that underneath the heliport are actually medical accommodations so we can have astronauts are checked immediately after exiting the cabin. psule and we can see them there and give them a warm welcome that they're not on the ground yet obviously, but it's such an amazing vehicle there that we can keep so much going once we're waiting. the astronauts a splash and then obviously once they're on board it's also important to note that right now the teams are around 200 or so nautical miles off the coast that won't be the case when we bring from I get back to the crew members that the landing zone is much closer, I think it's normally somewhere between 20-24 nautical miles from port, which gives them the ability to re-enter in just a couple of hours in place of more than one day it seems that it is I am going to lead the teams to bring Dragon back after this mission is really cool.

We get some views of Dragon as it re-enters the atmosphere. It's pretty dark in space. Yes, we are still in the middle. Do we know what we look at? burn we're expecting that to take about five more minutes so that's pretty unique to use from the spaceship while the deorbit burn is still going on again this is just the final maneuver the final shot of those Draco thrusters just to take the dragon out of orbit and set it on a trajectory to eventually splash down there in the Atlantic where, as you were seeing, the recovery teams are waiting and ready and waiting to get the go-ahead, so apparently this is a view aboard the dragon and I don't know and again I don't even know what. we're looking at a lasting plan here to last about 15 minutes and 20 seconds and this is just to finally get the dragon out of its circular orbit so now it's been in a circular orbit just below the orbit of the space stations and they call it a grand olympian in orbit for the last few hours in this deorbit burn, is going to radically change the orbit of the plant, basically setting it up to intersect with land down there in the water where the recovery teams are. waiting now that we have a full view of the recovery ship on the right hand side of your screen we can see a part of the ship that we couldn't see before and that is actually the part of the ship where the Dragon pod once was close enough, that vertical piece you see there will lift you out of the water, it will actually activate above the water and lift the Dragon capsule out of the ocean and then bring it back to the boat and set it up. down in their nest so cool this is some new new technology we have installed on this ship specifically for our crew dragon missions so it's like we said before this is a demo mission and while a recovery team has been practicing for recovery operations this is obviously the first time they'll be practicing with a vehicle coming from space so we're very excited to bring you live coverage as this all unfolds over the next hour and yes for give you a timeline of that.

After the recovery period, it's expected to take a little less than an hour for the team to get the castle back on the ship, which in a situation where there's crew on board, it's about that hour to get the crew out of the water and into the boat so they can do all their initial medical checks and everything else we normally do after the crew members return from these long duration missions and may weigh more as we see the crew exit the capsule how amazing will that be with the waves looking beautiful calm though it looks like conditions are really good in the Atlantic again , there are a little more than 200nautical miles off the Florida coast and ultimately return to Port Canaveral, where the spacecraft will be brought in and SpaceX delivered. the crews are where they will start processing and then get ready to flip that asset on board yes we have been monitoring weather conditions for recovery for the last few days and now that recovery day has arrived we can see that we have beautiful skies and a relative will in my unprofessional nautical knowledge, relatively calm seas in my eyes, but you know it's really hard to be able to predict what the weather is going to be like at sea well in advance, so we are all very happy to be able to have clear images of the recovery team as we move forward here.

I feel like we've been lucky with the Florida weather so far on this mission okay we're here and there's about 1 minute left in this deorbit burn so we're pretty much done with that and this is just the final maneuver on the footage we again drag and drop space and the video should be in orbit when you're doing a couple of views from aboard the Dragon spacecraft that's what you're looking at on the right so once the burn is done orbit we have about 35 minutes from end burn to splashdown so we have some time though but they're going up this is what we're looking at here I guess orbit T burns it's a bit abstract, but this is a view from the crew dragon, the deorbit burns, now we're just going to stand. stop by and hear how the deorbit burn was going it should be ending momentarily and a couple of people on youtube commented that guys like Dan said we're waiting for confirmation of the completion of the deorbit burn that's been going on for the last few minutes and like us he said before the dragon left the space station today he did a series of exit burns and now we hope we're just coming out of the final burner which is the reentry burn and there on the left side of your screen you can see our recovery vessel waiting for the dragon splashdown once we get out of this once we get out of the reentry burn we will have parachute deployment the first of these will be the drug parachutes the smaller parachutes that slow the vehicle followed by the p main the deployment of the arachute and that will slow it down even more, allowing it to reach a speed slower as it approaches the ocean surface and we are told it was a nominal burn, so the deorbit burn is complete.

The dragon is on its way home. Another good milestone that will help you is that the dragon's nose cone will close. We hear that the process is now in place and then it's time for Dragon to actually go through Earth's atmosphere and ultimately splash down, so that's where the vehicle will go. get tremendously hot because again you have to keep in mind the dragon is traveling thousands of miles an hour right now and when it hits the thickest part of Earth's atmosphere it will get tremendously hot from friction and this is actually a video of the beginning of the nose to zip up on the Dragon spacecraft we're going to zip up the nose you have to get that and again that nose just bounces off to protect the top of the vehicle fr From all re-entry events, not just re-entry through the atmosphere of on Earth, but also once it's in the water and that protects the guidance, navigation and control sensors on top of Dragon and also the docking ring it uses to connect. to the space station so again what you're seeing now is the nose cone closing on the Dragon spacecraft as we wait for it to re-enter Earth's atmosphere yeah that gives us a bit of perspective on what what we are really seeing. before so that that black abstract image we were looking at was apparently out of the docking port on top of the pod and it looks like we're looking up at the top of the pod as the pod was orbit was starting a burn in the opposite direction so the rubber on the nose seems to be almost closed we'll wait for a final confirmation that everything looks good but pretty soon we'll be looking towards the actual input interface so that's where the dragon is again it starts to hit enough atmosphere that it will start to heat up because right now it's still high enough even after the deorbit burn you still don't feel those effects the atmosphere will get thicker as you start to descend and that will heat up the vehicle , that's why you always have this heat shield on the bottom of these spaceships and that's why a lot of Morin is shaped like this conical since a lot of engineers I've talked to like to say that physics hasn't changed since the 1960s when we made the spacecraft back then it was that shape for a reason and that's why it's so common to see this design of capsule just by how you re-enter Earth's atmosphere makes a lot of sense so we just heard confirmation that the nose cone engages they have started the process of securing the nose cone in place before it the reentry bird is correct and there is actually an anticipated time where you lose signal with the spacecraft and that's only because when you re-enter Earth's atmosphere and you go through that intense heat the plasma is It accumulates on the outside of the spacecraft and you can't send or receive signals from there, so it's very common for you to lose your voice when people are on board. communication between them and the ground and you'll lose any telemetry or data streams you have coming from the spacecraft to rooms like the Mission Control Center right behind us here in Hawthorne, so that's coming, we're waiting for it. it will happen around five, what time is 5:30, 3:00 a.m.? deploying the parachutes and then splashdown, so just a quick recap in case you've joined us recently, we departed from the International Space Station, the dragon completed a series of burns for departure in a slowly choreographed maneuver and n Now that we have jettisoned the trunk of the Dragon spaceship, we have completed the deorbit burn and are now beginning to head back through Earth's atmosphere and the final leg on the way home to the dragon so that the nasal cones are closed and we.

We'll be ready to wait until we get through that input interface and that'll be about 20 minutes from now and then once it's down it's time for parachutes and we talked about parachutes a while ago and we should look forward to seeing those parachutes maybe from the plane but once you're below the cloud shelf we should be able to see them from the boats that will be waiting and in the recovery zone and it comes in two different stages he can guide us through the parachutes very fast yeah so with the parachutes we will have the drag parachutes those are the smaller parachutes that will come out and slow the vehicle down a bit and then we will have the main test parachute which are clearly visible because of the orange and white color on them very iconic if you've seen Dragon's previous splashdowns for cargo resupply missions so we'll have that and then that's what slows down the vehicle we know enough to have a safe splashdown in the water so at this point another fun Dragon fact on return to land these seats inside the pod at this point have been actuated or turned into the sitting position reentry so depending on what phase of the mission we're in the seats will actually actuate or adjust the angle to make sure that the g force that the astronauts will experience is in the right places so with that being said we'll take a Short break from active operations here at SpaceX, so with that being said, we'll be taking a quick Break, be sure to stay connected with us as we navigate this anticipated blackout period with the Dragon capsule.

We'll be back in a few minutes, as we're back in anticipation of that parachute deployment. So, there we are, we have the deorbital burn, it's completed, the nose cone has been retracted to the normal position and the hooks were securing it in place, so now we're waiting for the reentry interface, which is inside about 15 minutes is when the re-entry interface starts and these are the critical parts this is the part that Elon had said they were concerned about but they were a little concerned i mean they have run simulations they are well prepared for this but it was a slight concern for the next mission just because you know this needs to be the first real world test of this, so there's always going to be some nerves and you have to wonder like all these simulations. that we do and these tests that we do over the course of months and months and months are actually going to happen that way in real life and we'll find out here shortly, but I have confidence in them, I mean it. so far this m The mission has been going great so we'll watch you touch my wooden desk and see how it goes but we should see splashdown in less than 30 minutes we're now about 28 minutes from splashdown. here or at least a scheduled splashdown so they'll make a splash they'll parachute in there's no booster landing they won't try to catch it it's much safer and it was much easier for NASA to certify the capsule is crew ready just using parachute and dive on the Oh, any of those other things, booster landing trying to catch it or something like that, they all add an element of complexity that would make it much harder for the crew to certify, so just parachuting and diving into the water that was the way to go and from a restoration standpoint NASA for their crew will use all new pods every time so NASA didn't really care how you got them back because as long as you got them back safely that was their main concern because they were going to use a new capsule next time, but SpaceX knows they're going to be worried about restoring and recovering it and things so so This particular pod is scheduled for inflight abort test in I think it's still scheduled for May so this pod will be reused for refurbishment and reused for inflight abort test and then there will be a new pod for the demo two the first manned mission and then the host said Kate said they can actually show it you can actually see up here it's the cargo dragon they can show it at SpaceX headquarters that would be great their milestone we've also confirmed nose cone closed all hooks engaged and now we're just waiting for Dragon to start traversing Earth's atmosphere that deorbit burn lasted a little over 15 minutes and reported successful without issues and Dragon is now on the way continue to get some pretty gre in the views from the boats in the splash zone and we will also be keeping an eye out for some video possibly d e a plane we have in the area one of the NASA WB 57 research planes will be trying to get some views of The dragon and the parachute deploy and actually coming down below the parachutes there are some clouds in the area , so ships may not see it right away, but once it's below those cloud shelves, they'll have some pretty good views of it coming down. your screen again you can see our main recovery ship which is what they went to but that is our recovery ship which is fully equipped with medical rooms for check ups once we have crew on board the dragon and for our next mission they'll be able to come out of the pod and get a full medical immediately afterwards, there's also a helipad there where a helicopter can land in case we need to get them back to court sooner than the boat can Co e and there on your screen you can see i mentioned earlier that the lift that will lift the dragon out of the water has triggered it to its recovery position so you can see on the right hand side of your screen at the end of the lift and that is what will actually lift the dragon out of the water lift it up and then place him in his nest which was the official term for him on the ship and then that would count as a training method in the end at least whenever we get to that point would be the end of our webcast today but at this point we're still waiting for the parachutes to deploy and then the whole recovery operation which as I mentioned before the recovery team has practiced this but obviously not with a ship that has come down from the international space station yet a lot of news that we're going to see today and we're really excited to be able to share that with you yeah and if you missed the beginning funny historical said we have w What we had for today is that they have It's been almost fifty years since we landed a spacecraft designed for humans in the Oceannow though we have another guest for today's broadcast.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine standing by at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. so i'll send it to you mr. Brydon Stein thinks about defining what this means for NASA and what we have to look forward to in the future. Absolutely, this is an amazing achievement in American history. In fact, I said at a press conference at 4:00 in the morning after it was released. This was the beginning of a new era in American human spaceflight and really spaceflight for the whole world thanks to all of our international partners in international space, but this achievement spans many administrations, spans many NASA administrators.

I want to start by thanking Mike Griffin, who was the NASA administrator who really got this program during the George W Bush administration and of course Charlie Bolden was the administrator for eight years under President Barack Obama, he kept this program strong and then of course Robert Lightfoot immediately preceded me and here we are today with this incredible achievement and the current President Trump his budgets for NASA have b been as strong as they have been in my adult life so this is truly an achievement American who spans many generations of NASA administrators and actually knows over a decade of NASA team work, so I want to first congratulate the NASA Commercial Crew Program - all the amazing engineers who They have been involved from the beginning.

I want to thank, of course, the incredible achievement of SpaceX and their entire team and the vision of Elon Musk and what he's done to help rejuvenate this. very inspiring moment for this new era in American manned spaceflight so this is really an exciting and amazing achievement for the whole of America but it's not just for the whole of America right now go back in time there are so many people that deserve credit and and and really what's unique now is that NASA can be a customer and I know there's a long way to go we launched an uncrewed spacecraft here of course we have a demo of which will be a manned spacecraft between now and then we have a capsule abort that we also need to test and these are all these are all the capabilities of that flight board clapping leading up to a day where we're launching American astronauts in American Rockets from American soil that I've heard when i was a member of congress i heard over and over again how we maintain constancy of purpose because we seem to falter in a administration to the next and we shift visions and budgets how do we maintain constancy well this is a perfect example of a program when we talk about these things that NASA does in many cases it takes decades to achieve this kind of capability and constancy of purpose here over all these years is important but now NASA can be a customer we can be a customer of many customers for human spaceflight in what we believe will be a very strong commercial market for space operations and we will have numerous vendors competing on cost and innovation and, of course, that's how we can do what we've seen now, where the rockets are being reused. that we can reuse rockets and reduce costs and increase access to space, an incredible capability for our country and an incredible capability for the world, just like we reuse airplanes, there will come a day when we are reusing rockets and spaceflight will become more routines, we're not there yet, we've got a long way to go, but this is an amazing, amazing achievement on this road to a really sustainable return to the moon, frankly, which is my The charge that the president to get us back to the moon, so we're cutting the costs of low earth orbit. a client for human activities and low earth orbit and then we can use the taxpayer resources that are given to us we can use those resources to do exploration to go further to get back to the moon sustainably where we can stay on the moon and ultimately For example, going to Mars and this is a small part and that really great vision, but this is not a small part, this is an amazing achievement in the history of the United States of America and it really exemplifies what we can achieve When we maintain that consistency by the way ok and thank you admin jim bryden signing off again joining us from NASA headquarters in Washington DC we are still waiting to get some input from all the recovery teams they are still in that recovery process again . we were expecting it to be anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour until they get the Dragon capsule back on the ship, so before we get that feedback, we'll head over to the JSC real quick, to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where we've got a few more people waiting, including Steve Stich, who is the deputy program manager for NASA's Commercial Crew, we also have Mike Hopkins, a NASA astronaut and one of those astronauts already assigned to a future dragon mission and then Mr.

Kenny Todd, he's the Director of Operations Integration for the International Space Station, so guys, I'm going to send you over real quick to give us your thoughts on how this mission pans out and what's coming up in the future, okay? Thank you Dan, it's great to be here representing the Commercial Crew program, what an amazing day to be a part of our program. it was and what we're going to learn from it is just amazing it seems like two perpetually the SpaceX team did a phenomenal job preparing the vehicles and executing the flight our entire NASA team that worked on the mission and if you just think about the enormity of what happened on this flight and all the preparation that went into restoring the pad in 39a configuring the flight control room building the vehicles preparing the Falcon 9 all the analysis all the mission support that included the sims and the practice before this flight for the last year, so it's been a tremendous job.

I would say that one of the things that we learned during this flight is the great relationship that we had between the program and d SpaceX. I would say that our teams work seamlessly with SpaceX, not only in the lead up to the flight, but also in the way that we manage the flight through the Dragon mission management team and then also working with Kenny Todd and the Space station program. The station program did a phenomenal job supporting our program as we docked the station on the way to the station and also the international association, so it was a great opportunity for this mission.

The last 24 hours have been exciting for us. hatches yesterday around noon went into disengagement today around 131am. m. they did some small separations to get away from the station if you see that on nasa tv that was flawless 6:52 am. m. central time and then landed just a few minutes ago at 7:45 the vehicle is running fine recovery teams are in place they have already been around the spacecraft and made sure it was safe for personnel there may have been Seeing that one of the parachutes just passed, it was a very calm day with very low seas and low winds, one of the parachutes landed in the Dragon capsule, they already took it out, so that's very good, it probably takes between 32 minutes and maybe an hour to get it back on the ship, but then when you look at this mission overall, it was a great dress rehearsal for demo 2.

We learned a lot in the lead up to launch about how to load the vehicle and think about how we will put the crews in the vehicle you know the asset profile for this flight we practice the exact profile mike hopkins and others will be flying very soon doug hurley and bob behnken we abort this crew exhaust system and Dragon actually enabled for this flight and we were able to see how it worked and we'll get the data back and look at those triggers and how it performed. In orbit, we got a lot of great data. in the v vehicle in terms of thermal performance power performance the vehicle really did better than we expected and then the meet was good the things we got to we got those sensors the link to the space station works command lake seeing the vehicle go in and then have real precision dock and see how the docking system works, it was phenomenal and then during the attached phase of course we had cargo operations that will do the same thing in both the demo and the crew mission and others, and then we did a robotic study of the vehicle to look at the thermal protection system and other systems and that went very well, I'll say one thing, this mission, you know, it only lasted six days, it was a race from start to finish and thinking about, you know where I've been in ops in that sprint, I think Kenny would probably tell them the same thing, that was a phenomenal job by the team and of course today they know the d isdocking seeing how those systems work erformed it came out flawless its a very tight sequence between

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and deorbit burn how the warhead performed how the deorbit burn was executed on entry was phenomenal we had Riley aboard a test dummy and that's going to give us a lot of important data on the accelerations during the climb phase and then the entry phase under the parachutes and then the landing, so we'll collect that data and see that in the next few weeks we'll do post-flight reviews, in fact right next week we'll have one for the launch vehicle on the ground segment at KSC we'll start reviewing that and then we'll do reviews with SpaceX on the orbital guidance mission this flight really sets us up well for this real moment. same vehicle that is in the large amount of technical information that comes from the in-flight vehicle on board, so one of the first things that will happen is if we go back to KSC and go to the processing area and start getting refurbished for testing of in-flight abort that should be in the summer front time frame in the June time frame and then demonstrate two vehicles at Hawthorne that are being built for the first manned mission that is in progress and going well that work has continued throughout the flight, so it's going to be a busy year for us for SpaceX within the onboard flight and June time frame and then demo for later in the year with the first crewed mission.

I don't think we've really seen anything on the mission so far and we have to do the data reviews that you know would prevent us from having the mission manned by the end of this year that's very good news nothing really after that major no , it's a busy time in our program I'd like to continue if you look at the April time frame we were preparing for the Boeing in-orbit test flight which is happening very soon so our program will be transitioning after this mission and data reviews and to prepare not only for in-flight abort and demonstration2, but also for orbit. flight test the flight test entered for boeing and appearing in the april 3 spacecraft time frame which is the boeing vehicle is assembling at commercial crew processing facility in florida and there in the middle of a group of very critical testing right now at a null second to verify that the spacecraft can successfully function in space and then later this year we'll also have the manned flight test for Boeing so if you just look at all the activities and the commercial crew, it's a super busy time.

In addition to this flight that we did in the last few weeks, we did parachute tests for SpaceX and Boeing, so if you look at all the activities to prepare to fly with our crews, it's a Very exciting time, so again congratulations to our SpaceX team and all the people at NASA across the country who worked so hard for many years on this flight. which really sets us up for the rest of the year and it's a very exciting time to be in the Commercial Crew now i'm going to give the floor to hopper ok thanks tim so on behalf of the astronaut office and the crew i also I would like to expand a little bit more because then you have some things that I wanted to say about what I had to say. truly to all of NASA and everyone who was involved in this important milestone in the return of human launch and landing capabilities to American soil.

I think that's very exciting, but as you can see in the video of the vehicle, the work is still ongoing. the recovery procedures process is still ongoing and I am personally very eager to hear how I think Ripley feels after she was taken out of the pod and back into the recovery vehicle in terms of some of the main takeaways from a perspective team I think one of the things that we're really excited about on this dm1 mission is that for the first time we got to see an Indian test and now we've brought together the people, the hardware and the whole process andprocedures and I was able to see how they all work together and that's very important in this as we move forward to put people on board the vehicle and as Steve also said of course we're very interested in seeing the data that I suspect there will be some lessons learned some improvements some changes we'll have to make from this that's all part of the testing process in terms of what's to come for the team for the whole team including the DM 2 team Bob and Doug and and and team one, Victor Glover and myself, and then the backup team Kjell Lindgren, we're all going to be following the in-flight abort test very closely, as well as the procedures, the training to be ready for that DM 2 mission, we also have a lot of verification tests a final verification test that everyone will participate in, as well as the test subjects, specifically for Bob and Doug is DM 2, of course they will start to focus even more on that training for l to DM mission 2.

I have a problem After this mission they have a lot less runway in front of them so it will start moving I think a lot faster for crew 1 crew me and team victor and even for chelle as backup than have. a lot of training not just for a dragon but also for the ISS our mission is not just to get there and back safely but to actually do some work for the ISS program while we're there and that means we've got to to do all the training to be able to do the spacewalks and to be able to operate the robotic arm and maintain the station and do that critical science that's been going on for over 18 years now pretty amazing so that's what we're in for.

I guess finally I'd like to emphasize that this mission, this amazing week that we've had, is really just one small step in this very methodical approach to development that we've been doing and that the program has established. that the company has put in place so that we can put people on these vehicles, get them on board and back to the station and again congratulations to the whole team and Kinning thank you hopparoo and just about any conversation you're going to have with someone today around here, you'll start with a congratulations, so I'll certainly offer mine to Steve Stitch Cathy Leaders - The Commercial Crew program is just a phenomenal effort.

It's not easy to do what this show had to do for the last few years and finally seeing the product of that has been amazing for the last week and our friends at SpaceX Minji already read Matthews the team out there we've been working with them for the better part of a decade doing commercial cargo services and that's what we know, that team there is very excited about humans. spaceflight as we are and their passion shows every time they launch a vehicle it shows every time they bring a vehicle home there's a lot of excitement around that and it's i It's quite uplifting for a lot of us to see that kind of passion it's something very important i'm going to turn kenny down here for a minute i'm going to kinda keep it in the background a little bit but i don't know what they're going to do after this so i want to make sure i get a chance for just a minute before they come back to change to whatever.

Hopefully they're going back to recovery operations here shortly I blend in with the background but a couple of the big pieces I took at least from the first guy that spoke there are two important things you know one saw that I didn't there was nothing. what happened during the mission that would prevent them from continuing with manned missions, which is a great indication that you know things are on the right track and that the Commercial Crew program can continue as scheduled and play combine that with the fact that they too said the Dragon team performed better than they expected that's a big deal I mean I let you know think about that for a minute but the Dragon team performed better than you expected so and You know that means they have their schedules and they expected some issues to come out of this test and they could still continue but it worked better than expected which gives me a lot of hope that they can actually pull it off.

July schedule for manned missions considering that a lot of people were really skeptical that a lot of people thought that we would have this DM 1 mission, there would be some problems that would arise, it makes flying boring. but they would have to figure out a few things and that the raw flights for dm2 might not take place until the fall with this mission looking like it went off without a hitch and NASA says it went better than they expected and says no issues that prevented them from continuing they know at least there were no major issues of any kind they know that that gives them a lot of good feelings that we might have a manned mission in July like sch maybe August maybe it will speed up a bit but I'd like to think that it's going to be a lot closer to that July time frame, so you know some people are talking like the November October time frame could actually make it to July, maybe August if there's a couple of little slips and lags, but that's really good news for SpaceX, good news for the Commercial Crew program, good news for American astronauts in general, to finally get a ride from US soil here and then we also have the Boeing program for I mean it's still scheduled to take flights and do crewed missions this year so I still have to wait and see how the cst-100 Starliner performs because then we'll let you know that then We will have two vehicles. available for astronauts to travel with, so that's good, now they're back.

I'll switch back and see what the SpaceX hosts have to say here, thanks for those words and now let's get back to action. back views all r Well that's our recovery ship here the teams are in place and now we're just waiting for it to come out of the recovery ship exactly so now that the dragon has descended to plant itself in the ocean the team of recovery will go. through a series of steps as we have recovered the Dragon spaceship and lift it up to the recovery ship now in case you join us we will do it very quickly you can see on your screen a live shot of the dragon recovery, the capsule moving in the sea there with the dragon team working on those recovery operations the mission has gone very well so far the dragons have successfully splashed down in the atlantic ocean just a few minutes ago 5:45 am. m.

Pacific 5:45 AM m. so oh my gosh I can't believe how late in the morning it's already time flies and at about 240 nautical miles from Cape Canaveral about six hours before splashdown dragging the undocked autonomous International Space Station completed a series of starts He got rid of his trunk section and did his final burn the telefonica deorbit burn the dragon was under the two drop chutes and those were responsible for all that initial deceleration and they also form a tree here and those four main chutes were successfully deployed we heard from Benji and also the teams during the action but all of that happened after the dragons successfully re-entered Earth's atmosphere and those parachutes were deployed and now even though we're at the final part of the journey of the dragons, since very soon it will be taken out of the water. and it was placed in the recovery boat so again this is a repeat of the re-entry and splash we saw live several minutes ago a beautiful shot of those beautiful filled parachutes as they slow the Dragon capsule towards the Atlantic Ocean yes that's it it's been 45 minutes since it happened Wow looks like yes that's the splash zone at 5:45 am. m.

Pacific 8:45 AM So a little later in the morning there on the East Coast when the dragons splash down again, you've got about 200 nautical miles outside of Port Canaveral. If you've been following our mission this week, you already know we don't have any real humans on board, just briefly our anthropomorphic. test device, has many sensors placed around the body. during the turn on the right side and re-entry, however, as with all steps so far in our demo mission one, our teams will cover the full steps in the recovery process as if it were an actual manned mission to prepare for our First time with Nesterov and with NASA astronauts on board.

You saw earlier that the recovery speedboats went very quickly to the splashdown point. The recovery vessel's main seeker quickly followed, which you can see on your screen. right now it's pretty good so we'll be watching as it goes in to give it a try a ship approaches my Dragon capsule and we can see it rise out of the ocean which is a beautiful shot there so our recovery team has been doing already the security person did the safety checks they do after splashdown of the vehicle Safet himself only as soon as he detected she was in the water and the team made sure it was safe for her to get close to the Dragon spacecraft and then, upon immediate detection of the dragon autolanding we release all those main parachutes and that just prevents the wind from catching them and potentially pulling or dragging the spacecraft through the water and those parachutes are also retrieved to another one of the fast approach ships assigned the task that immediately after splashdown, after that success, the successful parachute cut dragon saves automatic mind any of the pyrotechnic elements still present. t in the vehicle and also could automatically do a couple of extra miles in the minor system set up the astronauts if they were in four would remain seated so Ripley obviously hasn't gotten up at this point in the boat but fell still the astronauts with the seatbelt sign is still on, please remain seated and stay in your suits at this point, but the Dragon spacecraft has air conditioning on board which helps maintain temperatures and check the interior of the spacecraft and communication system on board it also stays on so the crew still have their two way communication as they are just sitting in the pod waiting for the teams to move in and get them on the boat.

If I were an astronaut inside the capsule right now, I imagine this point would be like when you're going through a car wash you know you're safe you can talk you can do it very comfortably in your closed environment but you can't open the door yet there is a lot of water yes now I reckon it took recovery a little over 10 minutes to complete their security checks and they completed their prep activities and at this point as we can see they are making progress in being able to lift the dragon and get it to the recovery ship recovery. part of the preparation for this lift we saw earlier that a member of your company what a member of the recovery team found on top of the pod was to attach the lifting rings on the dragoons and connect the lifting line so that lots of physical requirements for that particular role I probably wouldn't be able to do it Most likely I'd fall for it right away, but it's great to be able to see our recovery team who have been practicing live and in action with these beautiful shots of the Ocean Atlantic and it sounds like an answer to our earlier question it looks like they are going to drop the astronauts on board put them on the ship in a dragon nest and then head out that's what it looks like they were playing there and for now let's keep getting these great views from the boats.

This view is actually from one of the other ships that traveled to the recovery zone. This is from the go navigator and the combined teams from NASA with a number of flight dock managers, other personnel who will be involved in game day operations when we have crew on board the spacecraft, are on the move navigator well it seems it was mentioned before this will be on board the sugar tri is fully equipped for medical checkups if today we had astronauts on board the dragon as soon as they ate Gress from the side hatch they would be taken to the medical quarters and given an exam doctor just to make sure all is well and everyone is healthy, there is a helicopter pad on top of it, also due to unpredictable sea conditions every time we splash down it can take a couple of days for the crew to get out and back. from the splashdown point so the ship is also capable of housing the recovery crew for a couple of weeks realistically if absolutely necessary obviously plenty of time to be with them on a ship in my opinion but it is fully equipped and i have been on that boat myself and it is just amazing to me as someone who keeps their eyes on the sky and not necessarily i know the seasickness it is just amazing to me that we can have a boat like this in our it really floats when you think about the full encapsulation of what a mission requires, it's not just about going up,but getting back down and returning to earth safely and a special is a great example of how we were able to do that that's a Gregorius on a good point here that the capsule stays on board the capsule at first because these are Astrid, this is very different from the days of Apollo, where astronauts also for a couple of days and come back, these astronauts are not so much country, that's a lot for you.

Now the first two missions, but this is designed so that the astronauts that go aboard the space station stay there for about six months and act in assistance with the gravity channels again that they've traveled, it makes sense that they would be able to stay in this area. attacked. stand up one of the NASA personnel aboard that craft is Shane Kimbrough and he's actually the leader of all of the various recovery teams at NASA and pretty much responsible for overseeing all of the crews needs and dragging their recovery through all his quarantine for the launch he likes they say i think he told us they belonged to him once there once they're quarantined and getting ready so he's actually joining us now via satellite phone from that ship shane thanks for calling real quick how is everything out there when they grabbed the hi Dan great to talk to us from the navigator go everything is going great it was just beautiful to see him get into the drugs and then the main parachutes and t So obviously the splashdown you guys probably they're watching on video now that the seeker is getting pretty close to getting the tip and getting him on deck and Shane how was the journey?

I know we're in a bit of a landing zone. a bit further than when we have crew on board how everything looks so far everything has been going well the crews took great care of us it was about a 30 hour journey to get here come to the splash zone but we woke up this morning knowing that only It's a couple of hours until all the action happens so that was really cool and now it's great to be involved in bringing the demo back once it's amazing to hear that it was something for us to be able to see it from Mission Control.

What was it like to see Dragon splash down with your own eyes? Shane absolutely amazing everyone there's a lot of excitement on the boats you know the 30 minutes or so before entry and then once you know a person saw that dr. oves open everyone is showing employment and everyone excited today is really great and from our perspective it looks absolutely perfect the weather and so Shane obviously didn't go down this pod today but you went down to a castle but on land how did he been this experience of being in the ocean, how does that really compare and when you land in Kazakhstan, yeah okay? question we're sitting here talking it's been 45 50 minutes and splashdown and I think you know there's a team there and that's a long time if you wait long enough for pickup so we'll adjust that timeline just know a little bit and the crews probably won't be feeling very well at this point and the sooner we can get them up and on deck and then finally back on shore will help get their recovery process going well so we'll continue get these views what's in store for you and to the rest of the crews I know you said it will be about a thirty minute to thirty hour boat ride back to port, yes it will probably be the same on the way back.

I think we'll be here another few hours, maybe two hours to locate everything and the SpaceX team searching once they've done it. give us a chance, then we'll start getting back before he's supposed to arrive Saturday night back to Port Canaveral, okay Shane, we'll let you go back to look at all the ops. I know you have a job to do besides talking to us, but I really appreciate you calling us from Atlantic. It was a great splash and we'll see you when you get back to Houston. Sounds great. Thanks guys, enjoy the rest of the scenes here. like you get them from a good navigator be careful and again that was nasa astronaut shane kimber oh he's with the nasa crews who are on a boat watching the ghost hunter get a little bit closer it seems like soon enough we're going to start reeling that dragon in and we're going to see it go up to the Dragon's Nest yes so we should be closing in it looks like the seeker is closing in all the Kimbrough from NASA is on board go to sail you see that's what we've been referring to as the nest is designed specifically for the crew dragon layout and that's exactly where once the lift arms have lifted the pod out of the water and will place it back again in that place and then that's basically where if there were astronauts on board. it is the position where they would be leaving the capsule at dawn it seems that we are getting closer and closer to the capsule it should be raining very well now as we have discussed it is expected to be about an hour or a little bit less after splashdown for get the pod back on the ship and as you heard Shane talk about he really just wants to try and get the crew out of there and into a more stable environment as quickly as possible and then he can actually start taking the ship s start to head back to port and if you missed some of the earlier data on the show, they're a little over 200 nautical miles out to sea right now, so we hear it's going to take them about 30 hours to get back once. we have crew on board that will not be the case they will be much closer to land within about 20 or 24 nautical miles and that gives you protein in your short jacket for sure in just a couple of hours I would stay Noting earlier that there is a helipad on that ship, so if for some reason they needed to get the crew back much faster, they could airlift them and then fly them back to the mainland. up here and

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headquarters if you started that what has happened all great so far we should go back to rhyming and give the goat just a little noise make him spank someone again on youtube channel it's not me it's not me phone that SpaceX broadcast is just outside your cafeteria just upstairs oh hi let's get rid of the music there so SpaceX broadcast is just above your cafeteria and also your production floor is right next door from the cafeteria, so there are a lot of sounds.

Basically people who work and eat at SpaceX so I can't turn off that background noise that's how it sounds without that background noise so yeah that's not from me. I wish I could turn it off but yeah it looks like they're getting close now they're getting pretty close and so in the rear section there the big upright will actually kick in you can see the hydraulic lift arms there on the side of the structure, but this is actually going to come out on top of the crew capsule, the Crew Dragon will pick it up and place it in the Dragon's Nest, there's this little circular structure and it looks like they're going to pull that out of there.

The water here anytime it's supposed to be about an hour 30 minutes to an hour after splashdown they put that out there we're a minute away from being an hour away so NASA astronaut the astronaut Kim Burrell, that's a shame Kimbrough said they want to try to speed up that timeline because a couple people commented it's not that young and Michael's Omega on the periscope channel said the crew would get so dizzy it might as well they know they spent all this time in space just floating around and all of a sudden they're lounging in their seats still in the moving ocean so yeah maybe they could get a little seasick in there I'm sure but yeah they will lift you up. have them come on and then take a 30 hour boat ride back they would, they would come out of the pod once they get it on board it sounds like and then they do a medical check to make sure they are healthy and safe and remember remember that You know this is something ing Gregorius pointed out a minute ago that I completely forgot about but this is planned for astronauts who are coming back from the space station after a six month stay there so you know they might be you know they're going to have muscle deterioration knowing that it may take a bit of time to get used to Earth's gravity again, especially after a six-month stay on the space station so they aren't in a big rush to necessarily get you out of the capsule while you're in the water , I mean, they want to get them out quickly so they're not just sitting around, well, just throw it, throw a line there is what I just saw uh-huh, so they're not in a gra n Hurry to get them out while in the water, but they want to try to get them out quickly by getting them on the boat as quickly as possible and then and then getting them out to make it look like they're really, really close.

I think that crew member just dropped a line about I kind of s Oh, out of the corner of his eye while he was talking, so it looks like he's going to. They have a couple of strings there. I'm not sure what you know. Throw another one here. Maybe we're getting a little bit of pixelation coming straight from spacex feet oh you can see the vertical structure now being activated over the top of the crew Dragon capsule and then this is go find the ship support should attach just that right to the pod take it out of the water put it on top of the dragon in the dragon nest there and anyway what I was going to say is take out the crew when they have crew on board they will take out to the crew, they will be checked medically and then. a thirty hour trip like they said back to land they have the helipad they're on Casey you know someone has some kind of medical emergency and they need to get back to land much quicker than that so let's see oh and someone earlier in the comments. asked about you know what? hey if there's bad weather or bad sea they would just wait in orbit they wouldn't even deorbit because from deorbit to splashdown it's only about 45 minutes so if there's bad weather or bad sea they just won't run the Deorbit Burn and they can probably predict that well in advance, I mean a couple of hours in advance, so they might not even undock from the station if there's bad weather, they'd just wait on the Space Station and delay the undock because you know a couple hours or a couple of days or whatever it takes but yeah they won't come back they won't even go out of orbit if there's bad weather or rough seas they would wait until it's safe because a lot of operations have to go. here and it will definitely make it easier to do if the weather is good and the seas calm you can see fast approach boats have to do a lot of work and I attached the hoist ring to the pod so the boat can actually be lifted hoist it out or in the water and then you know you have these crew members standing at the back of the deck who are waiting to receive the crew dragon so there's a lot going on and if it was terrible weather or bad sea conditions, you could you could see where it could be a bad day for those guys so yeah we should be a few minutes apart.

It's hard to tell what's going on here, but let's see, yes and peri Gomez talking about the return of Soyuz. how do they sit on the lawn chairs when after they come out which is yeah that's true too bring that Dragon spaceship to the chassis on the deck translation system SpaceX decided to call the nest Dragons will stay in that nest during their journey back to shore where they will arrive at Port Canaveral Florida and we expect it to take about 30 hours or so for this mission, it will take that long for them to come back because they are a little over 200 nautical miles offshore, but for manned missions like we've told the net The drop zone will only be a couple of hours away from port and that's just so SpaceX can quickly get returning astronauts back to the mainland where things are a bit stable and after they've been in microgravity for about six months, your feet will.

You will probably appreciate that the pod will very soon be lifted and placed in that nest and then they will center and orient the vehicle and then the dragon will eventually be moved and moved to the hangar aboard the ship so the teams can open the hatch and for missions with astronauts on board, we're almost at the point where the recovery teams will help the crew out of Dragon, so we're almost there shortly after they returned to the ship through a tight space. In terms, we call the egress of the crew of the spacecraft and, in typical circumstances, the SpaceX recovery team will help the Dragon crew inside, you can see on your screen that Dragon is getting closer and closer to the rear of the ship recovery to be the recovery ship just a minute or two ago we saw the crew member responsible for attaching all the proper rigging to the ship jump out of the pod and head back to the water and right now we're just waiting for the dragon to rise up and out of the water and into the nest right now what's written is what we call the side hatch andthe energy that was inserted into the capsule during launch. it was going 17,500 miles an hour while it was docked at the station so fast and now it has to come back and basically hit the water at around 15 miles an hour so a lot of speed to bleed out there let's see I saw a little someone ask a question : Does Ilan finance this?

Is Ilan funding this or NASA? This is because this is part of the Commercial Crew program. This is a collaboration between NASA and SpaceX, but you know that NASA is NASA. it's really the customer that they're paying for the Commercial Crew program so they're paying for a lot of the development that goes into the crew pod system and even some of the development of the Falcon 9 but the Falcon 9 was already an established p . platform here they had to upgrade the Falcon 9 and certify it for commercial crew flights but yeah LA there's definitely a lot of funding from NASA to launch the crew aboard the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon crew but really it's SpaceX that's doing the operations, so the whole premise behind the Commercial Crew program was to try to simplify simplify the development process speed up the development process and reduce the cost if NASA is doing the development and NASA is doing all the construction and all kinds of things like what do we see that with the sls that you have you end up unfortunately, we have seen many delays with sls and we see that the costs increase and that is good, you know that NASA has as a government agency that has to follow many of A lot of rules as far as bidding who will do the development, who will do the outsourcing, they have to be coordinated among many different subcontractors because you know you could get one person to develop the engine and one rson person to develop the thrusters here are our hovering parachutes going out here now that we saw earlier here.

I'm going to pause what I was saying here for a second. We'll get back to the commercial crew philosophy in a second, but there's a floating brake. slides that are out now the pod is coming out through the atmosphere it's going down and then we should see we'll see the net come out in a minute those drugs won't be out for long and they're there we go there's some color pictures now from the ships below, I think this is a recording of the support ships that were capturing them and then you'll see the power grid appear here any second, those are taken out through the drop ducts, their pod goes in a little bit. sideways only because the parachute attachment point is on the side of the pod, remember the docking port is on the top of the pods, there we go, the mains is drawn and deployed and then they fully inflate and th It was just an amazing sight.

I love watching them pull out those main chutes. It was absolutely fantastic. There they go so yeah it's going to be splashing here in just a second and then we'll fast forward to getting it hoisted up and onto the craft but yeah what I'm saying with the Commercial Crew program you know you have that NASA has so much that it's much more complicated to develop internally with NASA to get all those subcontractors on the same page and they bid prices and know all that kind of stuff that ends up causing a lot of delays and oftentimes you get cost overruns, so the premise of buying Commercial Crew was that they could contract out how the whole process of delivering the crew to low earth orbit and then basically pay a private company to do it we're traditionally in the private sector it's been a lot, it's a lot easier and faster get things done because SpaceX is the one coordinating before who's developing what's in the system I means they have to deliver a certain system to NASA that can do something or that you know it meets certain criteria, but as far as who they want to pay or what subcontractors they want to use or if they're going to do it all in-house, I mean they can control that process much more easily and speed up development much faster.

NASA could do it in-house, so the Commercial Crew will let these private companies do it in low-Earth orbit, you know. the missions up and down to the International Space Station and back, whereas NASA focuses on those long duration missions that can get people to the moon and to Mars and then they can really focus on those things and leave companies privates to do some of what becomes our routine spaceflight but I hate to use the word routine I just don't know what other word to use because spaceflight in general isn't routine just because anything can happen on a spaceflight, so once the moment and you start to think that things are routine, especially if you're involved in the engineering teams or the mission control teams or something like that, the moment you start to think that the things are routine, that's when something happens, which is why I hate to use that term, but anyway. this was my rant on Commercial Crew that someone had mentioned a long time ago in the comments someone mentioned why he did it Jim Bridenstine the NASA admin spoke shortly after the splashdown SpaceX well SpaceX isn't really interested in that at the time where we're going, there's a big splashdown event and everything went almost perfectly and then you see a Parrish that you're right in the middle of lands right in the crew capsule.

I work to get that out of the crew capsule there, but there goes the beam right into the crew capsule and then, although I'm still amazed at the engineering and the physics and the math and the calculations that had to go on board, that's it I mean it's just put it in orbit dock it and go back in I mean all of that is crazy physics and math and everything else but also the physics and math just so the recovery team is in the landing site at touchdown is crazy and pretty amazing to me so anyway i dont remember i said something a minute ago but i forgot what i was talking about but anyway there was our splashdown events and then let's see if we can fast forward a little see if we can get to see at some point i want to see if we can see the crew the crew members leaving now we can't see there okay then okay okay fast forward here up to this point this is where they were actually following the dragon pod after splashdown so go look that's that support ship they basically back you up to the crew pod there was about an hour difference between splashdown and the lift here and so go seeker go seeker supports this connects they have to connect some support rigging there to the crew capsule then they connected here that arm that is at the back that is lifting it right now acts forward and backwards so right now it's activated backwards it's a hydraulic lift there so right now it's winching using the rope there and the rig and it's out of the water there and now you'll see the arm is actually the hydraulic arm from back to front and then it will be a normal position because it is straight up, vertical, but in reality it will go from vertical and act forward to col They place the Dragon pod in that little circular ring at the bottom that they call the Dragon nest and that's where the Dragon pod sits and straps itself in for the journey back home and here it comes they have to make sure the hatch side there is pointing directly to the right ion so they can get the crew out so the crew can get out to the ship and not out into the ocean there you can see a little bit of ocean water that pooled in the parachute bay there that's the bay for the main blades the main parachutes come out of that bay at the bottom there and then there's a channel that goes up and around the door to the attachment point for the parachutes but then it's placed in the dragon nest and voila, so there's a little repeat of what we saw before let me know let me know what you think because I thought it was pretty awesome. the trip around the moon did anyone pay a few to go around the moon yeah so you crazy fool he's talking about it's you sokka misawa he's going to take he paid a lot of money to take the ship stellar bfr around the moon henceforth a SpaceX PFR but that is not related to NASA, that is, it is purely all SpaceX, it is a private SpaceX flight that they have commissioned for bfr to go around the moon that is not scheduled until I think 2023 is the target date for that, so we have plenty of time before you. sat on my zawa goes out and goes around the moon let's see someone else do you think do you think they really went to the moon yes i think they really went to the moon i think if we didn't go to the moon the russians would have been the first to call us and say hi mm-hmm I don't think I don't think so because they themselves were very interested in being the first there and would have been the first to call yell bad if we didn't actually go to the moon along with a whole host of others reasons i think we actually went to the moon but that's my first reason yeah i'm the reason we went to the moon let's see what they see if they should do it again i would love to see us go back to the moon . ink like Elon said the other day at the press conference that we should have a permanent base on the moon you know we should be doing a lot of science on the moon it's hard for Jim girlfriends Stein talked about this but you have to have this sense of purpose to the space program and you really know the space program at least NASA's space program has to be publicly funded and you have to keep the public interested for NASA to receive those funds and continue funding it's hard to convey that sense of purpose and explain to the public why we send humans to the moon.

I mean, you know during the Apollo era it was a lot, it was very easy to do, it was very new, it was like wow, look what we can do, we're going to beat the Russians to get there all that kind of stuff and then, a once we did it they said okay you know the general public was like okay we did it now what and now we're going to spend our money on something else so that's kind of how hard it is to just convey how important it is the science to be able to do on the moon and you know to get us to Mars and all that kind of stuff so yeah to keep people interested what keeps the money flowing that has always been the hard part and SpaceX has done a really good job of renewing that sense of purpose with its reuse and landing its early stages, you know, making it exciting again, which has been fantastic, it's going to be exciting again as well. for Boeing too, the cst-100 Starliner I mean don't write them off too I mean it will be that will be exciting too it won't be a flight on an Atlas rocket so it won't be a reusable first stage booster but it's still an EE USA Built Capsule.

New capsule. He's sending astronauts into orbit and coming back and recovering and all that kind of stuff to keep that very exciting as well. The radio and television story says stop feeding the troll. be compared to the real deal very very similar I mean the Dragon pod really is what it really looks like with the touch screens and everything else I mean that's the real deal let's see if I can do this without my la stream crashed last time i tried to change this my stream crashed hopefully not there this time looks like i'm still live so this is kinda this is sunita williams or sonny williams inside the dragon pod which actually uses the touch screen this is this is this this is this is what the dragon capsule really looks like it actually has touch screens all the astronauts who train on it have said it's like flying an ipad not sure if i like it and that terminology but that's what they've said but yeah uh all these touch screens it's the gloves on the spacesuit they're all touch screen enabled and then there are hard buttons on this little panel right here this p anel has a cover but there are buttons there like actual physical buttons you can press that are also behind this cover here and that panel extends further behind the camera that we can't see but yeah the whole touch screen thing is the real deal on the crew dragon capsule let's see what else i saw your comments daddy got fit on periscope says salt water degrades the integrity of the capsule or your crew dragon is not intended to be reused, so I mean that was an initial concern about the drop of the crew dragons.

Whether you know if they're going to reuse it, if salt water is going to degrade it and things like that, they're going to restore those crew pods and potentially use them for private flights or li. ke this capsule will be reused for the in-flight abort test to be done in May, they will not reuse the capsules for NASA crew, so NASA will always fly in new capsules, nothey want it, they don't want anything to do with the reuse capsules so NASA always flies NASA astronauts in new capsules but there's nothing stopping SpaceX from reusing those capsules for private citizens who commissioned flights on their own who can They don't have plans for that yet but they know they don't have anything scheduled for that yet, but Elon said during the press conference that once they get going with Commercial Crew and feel good about it, they'll probably start looking at flights of private citizens. that that's potentially on the horizon I say no plans because it's kind of in the back of his mind like yeah and we might do it someday there are no immediate plans I should say it's kind of what's happening for that right now but yeah , that's the real problem with touch screens and everything else and you can see this was an early photo and then the real one so this was a real crew capsule launch photo with Ripley on board with kirby space the little land there and then you can see all the control screens and stuff in the top corner and i think the way it works is that the seats actually move inside a pod so the seats would move up so you can get to the control screens the seats also move and reposition for re-entry to get into a comfortable position for re-entry so a lot of seat movement happens cough inside the crew the crew dragon oh and n Perry see yeah there you go and Perico also said I forgot they said they could reuse the dragon crew YZ pods for cargo resupply missions a the International Space Station so they could use them as the baseload resupply missions don't put astronauts on board and just get the cargo to the International Space Station we still have the cargo the cargo dragons available but as long as you have all this , you know all these different capsules available. make use of them instead of just letting them sit there and go to waste, so yeah, a good point n Perry go.

I forgot what caused the blackout period on reentry, so the blackout period is caused by the buildup of plasma that is outside the capsule, so as it goes through the atmosphere, a lot of that atmosphere starts to build up. on the front side of the pod where the heat shield is the heat superheats and then flows around the outside of the pod and that causes plasma buildup which just flows around the outside of the pod and that plasma buildup prevents the radio signals or communication signals to be sent back to ground stations in some cases, the I can send radio signals back, up, to Iridium satellites or the space station or things like that, but usually I can't send radio signals to the side or to Earth during that period, so the blackout signal is basically caused by all the atmosphere surrounding the capsule during that reentry at high speed while at the peak of its heating and pressure or i guess they should know about that plasma buildup in there so that's what caused the blackout the reentry blackout period so yeah fat daddy getting fit says who loves the smell of new capsule yes NASA will always fly in new capsules at least for the foreseeable future who knows maybe in a few years they will say go with the reused ones save some money Jim Zak , Jim Jackson says it was Isn't it more profitable to use the shuttle?

The space shuttle was actually very very expensive to fly, something like a billion dollars per flight for the space shuttle. The space shuttle was really very expensive to fly it wasn't meant to be really very expensive it was supposed to read you know I mean it was reusable but it was supposed to save cost but when they started launching they landed the thrusters of solid rockets revamping the Boosters revamping the shuttle you know they always had tiles that needed to be fixed and all sorts of things that needed to be refitted on the shuttles and it turned out that the beast of the shuttle became a very, very expensive vehicle to fly and so on the crew dragon and the Boeing Starliner there is supposed to be.

I forget what the numbers are exactly, but drastically less expensive per flight than the space shuttle the space shuttle was. It was a big step forward in reusability and to put the concept in our minds that maybe we're not going to take all this stuff that we're sending out and just rip it into a million pieces every time maybe we can salvage some of it and try use them again nertz has a dragon more room for crude than using soy yes soyuz capsule can only carry three astronauts dragon capsule can carry up to seven initial flights will only seat four so may change the seating configuration in the Dragon capsule, so on this flight. here they had four seats on board and then there was cargo underneath where the other three seats would go but only four seats on board this time the first dm2 mission coming in July will have two astronauts on board for testing purposes then the first one will operational mission for the crew dragon will have four astronauts on board, two NASA astronauts and two international astronauts that have yet to be named, so I will have a total of four astronauts on board the first operational mission for the crew dragon SpaceX crew, that's still a bit off, so when will the Arab sat 6a launch on the Falcon Heavy?

So it was originally going to be, it was supposed to be this March, but last I heard it was pushed back to April 2 here, so we may have some time we may have some time before we get back to see Falcon Heavy, but yeah, we're all eagerly waiting for Falcon Heavy. Falcon Heavy is the next flight to take place at Pad 39a in Cape Canaveral, Florida, they've got it there. There is a crane there. They have some rig preparations to do to switch it from Falcon 9mm heavy and those rig operations are underway. They started right after this release which happened on Saturday.

This happened early Saturday morning and then the platform preparations for the Falcon Heavy flight. started pretty much immediately on 39a and those are the next flights still a couple of weeks away, although for Falcon Heavy there will be the next flight on 39a but that's still many weeks away unfortunately I'm looking forward to Falcon. Has it been that long since the last Falcon Heavy? So over a year this heavy Falcon. I can't wait for us to see. insert into lunar orbit and then assume it's like a translunar injection tli is that yeah so yeah this crew Dragon capsule is thought of as a low earth orbit capsule here so it has its own propulsion capabilities but it's not enough it's not enough on its own to go to the moon and back oh in theory what they were originally going to try to do was put the crew dragon on top of a heavy falcon and send it to the moon they have canceled those plans. and they're not going to be using Falcon Heavy from the lunar missions, instead they're going to focus on the bfr starship to go to the moon or to mars, but originally they wanted to put this crew dragon on top of the Falcon Heavy and use that to get it to the moon and come back so they can actually use the upper stage for translunar injection for the extra propulsion there and then they were going to go around the moon and come back. basically free return trajectory and then come back and do the same deorbit basically we saw today a little more speed they would have to bleed out but same kind of idea yeah and i think someone says they see sharks in the water i dont think so but oh maybe I don't know who k Now that I didn't, I did see something in the pixelation here, but yeah, I don't think we haven't seen any sharks. most are linked Gregorius mentioned that StarLink is coming up as well that's the ISP SpaceX satellite constellation that's actually scheduled to launch more operational satellites this year or the Starling constellation so that's also coming up this year . of things to come this is an exciting year for spaceflight at least not on the manifest there are not that many SpaceX flights scheduled for this year but the ones that are scheduled are really exciting and the manifests could still change throughout of the year.

I mean, last year is hard to top last year, last year was a great year with twenty SpaceX flights, it was a great year last year, so this year there are not as many flights on the manifest as there are now, but many. of the exciting ones we have scheduled for Falcon Heavy flights we have StarLink flights scheduled we have inflight abortions scheduled we have crew missions scheduled so a whole range of thrills in the world of spaceflight here today yes for spacex plus you also got the Boeing missions going up to Boeing try the Boeing the manned missions for that too so there's still a lot going on this year okay well I think we've done a lot of it this morning and I think I'm going to wrap it up The stuff up here now we've been live for about three hours it was a fun time we had a little glitch early on in the first half hour and I hate it when that happens but it's what we follow. and do the best we can with the tools we have available to us oh junior says in my opinion landing on the ground will probably be more pleasant for the astronauts yes it could potentially have been a little bit smoother landing on the ground but there is much much more hassle with landing on land and NASA was not interested in going down that route or at least NASA wanted more verification or more proof or more hard proof involved that that would be a safe method and it was much easier and less expensive for SpaceX to go the parachute route so they get certified for the manned mission, that's why they didn't go for the booster landings, but I did say at the beginning of the show that it would be interesting to find out if anything happened to the parachutes. some sort of backup software also runs the super Draco engines to make a booster landing in case something bad happens.

I think not just because there are so many parachute parishes on board that many layoffs originally had three parachutes. on board but they added a room for redundancy even more redundancy so i think no they don't even have that in place but someone mentioned that earlier this week so and peary ghostess thanks for hitting the mark with my name, so I'm glad I got it. I usually don't get that, but klephts we got it on the first try. Let's see when it was something else before we're done. It's possible that the dragon will ever land in Leno, yes, so that was what we were talking about.

I think they pretty much stopped development on that once they realized it was going to be so hard to get NASA certified that they pretty much stopped development on that and they're just going to focus on landing on water, that's what they're going to do. to do do for NASA missions and it doesn't really make sense for them to allocate resources and recovery and test teams on a land landing when they have to land on water for NASA missions anyway so probably even if they do private citizen flights they'll probably stick with water landings there it's so tripped up and the fool wants to know if they're using a different type of heat shield than the usual heat shield.

I don't believe it. I think it's just that it looks like an ablative heat shield, but I don't necessarily know. the exact details on the heat shield specifically if anyone knows feel free to let us know here in the comments but I think it's just some sort of typical ablative heat shield. I could be wrong on that but I'm pretty sure that's what's in place for the heat shield um let's see just Shh I think I have I think I have two all hopefully I didn't miss no comment exchange good fat dad getting fit says the dragon capsule is a minivan for low earth orbit.

You basically include a lot of people in it and hopefully it will be reliable to get your astronauts into orbit, get them back like taking a family on a family vacation in the minivan. i think we had a good morning here r eps also concludes for SpaceX DM a mission now completed launch successful docking successful

undocking

successful undocking successful reentry successful splashdown successful recovery successful yes everything was good looks pretty flawless which is a fantastic green light for the Commercial Crew program the big What you're going to have to consider now are the two big things you'll need to consider that we don't know yet: how the vehicle performed during re-entry where there was some type of problem during re-entry caused by the type ofbonnet on super draco engines because they are not symmetrical and irregularly shaped, could you be worried that it might cause some irregularities during the re-entry phase?

I don't know, it doesn't seem like anything major happened, but is there something minor that caused severe vibrations or worse, do you know some of their sounds? deafening ng to the astronauts who know we don't know that yet so they'll have to look at the re-entry and see what happened there from the looks it looked like all was well to go on and then the other thing. what they will also need to assess is how Ripley performed what type of g-force acceleration vibration sounds Ripley experienced during the ascent phase as well during the re-entry and splashdown phases.

I also have to test all that Ripley thing and see how everything works out so that's still to be determined but hey I'm sure SpaceX will let us know in the next few days here so yeah greetings from the Netherlands oh Hi Netherlands, thank you Tory for making this for everyone and looking forward to Alex participating. for example full says you like the video yeah definitely drop a like on the video maybe subscribe to the channel drop some hearts on the periscope or follow us there if you are watching there too because we had some fun and got m More upcoming news we have more spaceflights and our flights coming up our weather balloon flights probably about a month from now we'll be seeing our weather balloon flights coming faster than I like because I don't forget I'm not sure yes we are prepared for it, but our weather balloon flights are going to be very soon, so we will have some of our computers and cameras going up to the edge of space and back, and then you can see us do our recovery, which is not so high tech like what SpaceX and s are doing but still has a lot of fun stories and you can see me running around the woods trying to get a Styrofoam box out of a tree that just fell. the edge of space and back, oh those are the worst, hope we don't have too many tree landings this year. so that's it subscribe and like and stick around and you can see some of that coming from us later this time yeah later this year probably a month or so from now so yeah that's it what we're looking at it's been our morning that's the end of the DM 1 mission for SpaceX seems to be almost flawless from what I can tell hopefully that's what they'll report here in the next few days so that's it my name is Tory, this is overlooking the horizon. ball, yeah, let's throw one of those beach balls.

I don't think I have one anywhere near me right now, but one of those beach balls that we'll try to launch into a weather balloon later this year. you'll see how that works and we're going to have a contest and you might win the beach ball that goes into space or the edge of space at least so stick around stick around for that subscribe and you'll see that happen later this year you can see our beach ball that we sent to the edge of space and back and we have some other things planned too we said so we are going to send all kinds of space things into space we have some students some student projects coming up we have some seeds coming up they are coming up we have some students when i say soon as the student experiences a couple of other things we have in the jobs that may happen this year might not be until next year but we'll see but anyway so yeah a lot things are happening in our world here too for some weather balloon flights so there you go everyone I'm going to end here for today my name is Tori it's to is overlook the horizon thanks for joining us this morning see you at the next spacex broadcast probably the next one we do will be the next spacex mission but follow us on the twitter machine for what comes next because what whatever we have next for any of our live streams will show up on the twitter machine i just want to say on the twitter machine it makes me makes me sound like i'm out of touch but i feel like i know how to use it i know how it works well you take the lyrics and you push the stent you push the tweeter button and it comes out it comes to you it comes to you all in your tweeter machines okay that's it we had some fun now it's getting late and we're getting caught up we're goofing off very well thank you all have a good rest of the day happy friday to you and see you on the next stream very well take care everyone bye see you