SpaceX sends manned rocket to International Space Station

Alright. Well, we're about 10 seconds away from takeoff. Let's go five, four, three, two, one. It is total power. And take off and go. Copy of accident. What happened? Together, we expand what is possible in low Earth orbit. Ad Astra and Godspeed X for me. Plus 30 seconds in this history T plus 36 seconds. 36 seconds into the flight. Much of the Falcon 9 with

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telemetry is similar to normal electrical telemetry. We're in the throttle bucket as the first stages depower the Merli in preparation for Max Q Falcon nine is supersonic faster than the speed of sound, as we're getting great views from the first stage chamber.

Looking back at the Kennedy Space Center complex, 39 a stage one accelerates up next Q Out of the accelerator hub stage one bravo, copy a bravo. We are at full power and I make a bravo call. That's another one of those apar as we go up and faster. Dragon's logic, should a contingency occur, the change from stage to show is in place. The cooling announcement says we are cooling the second stage engine turbo pump in preparation for ignition. Coming in another minute. Again cool is looking back and you can see the contrail as we come out of 39 and the shadow of the contrail against the cloud cover around Florida and we're coming up three big sequences and a live view.

The crew inside the dragon are preparing, we are going to cut the main engine in three events, stage one 30 and then we are going to start the second stage engine, we have heard the throttle down in preparation for the separate stage because The separation from the upper stage confirmed the copy to the initial alpha stage and later. What is set up? Alright. Separation of scenarios. We have turned on the second stage engine. The first stage is to the rear of the boos and your way back towards Cape Canaveral is on the left side. Those are the engines of the first stage.

As we return to the launch site or landing site, the second stage engine nozzle is visible on the right side as we boost Axiom two into low Earth orbit on the way to the International Space Station. Waiting for the booster recoil to be said to be in stage one, this recoil went out just in time. The first stage completed the first of three strawberries, returning to the landing site. The second stage continues with power and the trajectory acquisition signal to head northeast of the Bermuda ground

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s, nominal base trajectory. Bermuda is listening to the v on nominal trajectory and the crew is listening. the call outside a nominal trajectory So at 4 minutes into the flight everything is still going well the first day returning and there is the crew in the dry taking the right to orbit to the

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, of course, Miles, going up, we are waiting The next suit shouts from the guidance officer the nominal trajectory of the Dragon spacecraft.

I love hearing those words. A nominal trajectory for a nominal trajectory and maybe even a little e in the crew's voice. Commander Peggy Whitson calls again and listens to that call from January 7th, nominal trajectory on the left side of the screen, you can see the first stage. It is now beginning to orient itself so that the engines are pointed toward the ground as we descend toward Landing Zone One at Cape Canaveral. The four titanium grille fins have been deployed. They will help guide us. If they don't. They will possibly guide the first stage once we enter the atmosphere after the entry fire, which will arrive here in a couple more minutes.

On the right side, the dry with the Dragon capsule on top heading towards the east coast of the US. We just heard the call from That is the New Hampshire tracking station has captured the physical trajectory of the dragon nomi So that we continue to make those comm that we want to hear all the nominees for secretaries and the team echoing them. Collins, with the team, we've been able to bring in some live video footage from inside as they head into space and there's another view of stage one of the team at the start of Rayburn.

And there we heard that the start of the burn of that stage one booster, which you can see there on the left side of your screen, the closing of the stage one input bunk and the conclusion of that input burn has now begun. , that burn helps slow the deceleration as you re-enter. Earth's atmosphere. On the first day, the first stage experiences high drag that removes approximately 70% of the speed when we see six nominal trajectories. I love hearing that shout out everything, from the trajectory, the beautiful view of planet Earth coming towards us from the second station.

Views on the right side, on the left side our first view of the Space Coasts, once again this booster is attempting to land on LC. . One stage, one transonic. A propellant now travels at a speed close to that of sound with the naked eye. Coming towards you from one of our tracking cameras, we can see the grille flaps actuated to help direct the booster downward for the stage two landing. Efforts have been on hold to deploy a landing leg, there take a landing for ta. You can see that the first stage has landed back on LC one.

This is the first time we've done a Land La on a real upcoming mission. Next will be the second engine off or Syco. And that's where, after the engine shuts down, the second stage will lodge for a few minutes until Dragon is told to separate the second stage into the terminal guide. To expect the second one to occur in about 20 seconds. Copy of Shannon. Shannon commander Peggy Whitson goes on to indicate that the abort modes activate in time and shut down that second engine, and also confirms that the launch escape system is now disarmed at the nominal six-Dragon orbit insertion.

Alright, and there's that call, we can confirm a good orbital insertion, copy, nominal insertion, dragon space. Alright. Welcome back. You've been seeing this. A very successful launch there at the Kennedy Space Center. And I want to come to you, Captain Kelly, to talk about this, because, I mean, I have to apologize because I think we underestimated what we're about to do. look. And that's all my fault. That's not anyone else's fault. But I mean, what we witnessed in the last 10 minutes was just extraordinary: Captain Kelly, we saw a ground landing of that bo stage, a

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And then what we're seeing, I guess, is happening. Right now it's also wonderful to see. And this is really space travel in many ways, a space travel that we are seeing on the right side of the screen right now. Your opinion, if you can help us unravel this, because I'm sure I already know the terminology of all this. But you could tell I'm a geek. It's fun to watch, yes. You know, Jim, when I used to fly the space shuttle that I had the privilege of flying twice, it was always very dramatic to get it into space safely because it was a very complicated aerospace vehicle.

There are so many things that could go wrong. But with Space X, you know, they make it look easy. I mean, this was like a dream, kind of a no-brainer for lau. And for the people in space and seeing one of my old colleagues there and three people I'd never met before, but three every time you're flying. new people at spac are great. And seeing them arrive safe and sound makes me feel very happy today.