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oh, my congratulations to the Hawthorne people, that's very good, very sharp, it was a little more sloppy and why, as we saw them, but all the other assets, as well as our closing and

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ing, we are all equally perfect , great to listen to, thank you. It kind of gives you an indication of how the design process works. You know, Bob and Doug have had a lot of opportunities to test this, simulate it, and give feedback. It was great to hear that your Simek's experience was very similar. to what they actually saw in orbit only you, I think he said 170 meters from the station right now, yeah, we're only one hundred and seventy-six and I imagine as the designer of the spacecraft, that's exactly what you want listen, it's the way I've heard that on the ground it's exactly how it performed once you're there in reality, so the second manual piloting test in the books Bob and Doug putting Dragon to the test, now it's the Time to put everything into motion. where we would reach our end point, we are ready to

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the dragon to the large circuit of the international space station, the terrain will resume shortly, we plan to stop briefly at Waypoint to remember that it is not necessary to lower the crew's visors. until the terrain is preparing to command final approach, thanks dragon, Kathy we will keep speed at 3.2 for a pause and then we will get our scopes and the station to Houston on the big loop, as you may have heard, the effort was resuming its approach to the waypoint. - Chris, you can monitor now / step 2, that's step 2 in a decimal a zero for the dragon crew approach and recover the monitor will be set to work pretty good view of the International Space Station from Dragon this would actually be overlaid or rather your controls would be overlaid on the screens at the top of this view and we get to see some very interesting views from behind, in fact there are others of you right there, you can see the station on your screens with the visors up Doug in left seat Bob in right seat, yes At this time, Dragon will resume the approach as we hear them inform the crew that they will have one last wait when they are just 20 meters away, which will be at waypoint 2.

We hope it will be a short wait while all teams tag in and make one last move to

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and get a great view of the space station. The docking port is right in the center of our screen. You can see another spacecraft currently docked to the space station, the Japanese HTV spacecraft. currently docked in the port facing land, one of those common docking mechanisms also on note 2, so Dragon will be the second vehicle to dock with the harmony module once it makes its final approach and is moving now same again just to give you a To get an idea of ​​how fast they're moving, right now they're going about three tenths of a meter per second, so if you're having any trouble with that online docking simulator, remember to turn the speed down a little bit. speed and your chances will improve.

It goes up exponentially. We just passed one hundred and forty meters away. We will receive our

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video. We will return to the space station momentarily. As soon as we do, we'll take them back there, but for now Bob and Doug continue to fly there. just one hundred and thirty-five meters away purchased in step two steps three and four complete cruise on the International Space Station is ready for docking we copy a review of three and four International Space Station complete list thank you expedition 63 commander Chris Cassidy given the report that the station is ready to dock, yes you can see the trajectory of the spacecraft, there are small corrections that are happening, so if as we get closer and closer to the station, we try to stay inside of those two runners shown leaving. from the docking port that was going towards that little point, I think it was the 20 meter holding point, so that's where we expect the spacecraft to be right in front of the international docking adapter, there will be a go/no go pole .

The ground teams have worked hard probably over the last few years to create a set of what we call flight rules, so those are elements of technical limitations that we look for if any of those criteria are violated and we have a rule that What we have The default gives us guidance to say whether we can get closer or not. So far our vehicle has been in very good condition, but the ground technical teams will do their due diligence to make sure that it is still safe to approach at this time, that approach continues and continues to move forward.

At about three tenths of a meter per second, the dragons are approaching just 100 meters from the space station, so the top over there is the nose cone of the spacecraft or we have a cool view on the left side of screen like The International Space Station on the right side of your screen is a dragon. We are within 100 meters and continue to close again. We will have a short wait at 20 meters. The teams will only do a final check and then take the step. Expecting it to be fairly short, we should reach that point in only about four minutes moving at our current pace.

I think you can see a meatball and an American flag on the spaceship, the NASA logo of course is known as a meatball. I think there was a

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ly discussion about the meatball versus the worm during the climb and those are, you can see those logos there, they're all that structure on the fairing structure, it's actually how super cool our husband is, of course, everyone Those are. disabled now only used for the launch exhaust during the climb part the nose cone right at the top of the vehicle and you can see a sort of roof surface those four circular those four circular slots just below the nose cone nose inside that red ring is the forward bulkhead Draco, that's what we were using while we were doing all those burns, the five burns to get to this point right now we don't have them, we don't have a reason to use them, we'll just make small corrections altitude with the In the service section of Draco, you can see the service section quite clearly here, there is a black part and a white part separated by a fin, the black part is solar panels, solar cells that will charge the batteries of the dragons and the bottom is white.

One part is actually a thermal radiator that is used to keep the spacecraft nice and cool, of course the avionics and the cabin, making sure Bob and Doug are comfortable inside. It's like we're casting a shadow. We are only 60 meters away and continue to get closer. It's only about 40 meters to that point and we should get there in just over two minutes, meanwhile the teams in Hawthorne and Houston are doing an internal process to dock, but all teams will be surveyed once everyone is there. Come on, we can give Dragon the final go-ahead for the vehicle to fly autonomously and dock with the International Space Station.

You should reach the waypoint to arrive in approximately 1 minute and 45 seconds, at this point it will be 20 meters from that docking port, the number 2 international docking adapter connected to the number two pressurized docking adapter at the forward end of the module of harmony, right there, to the right, around the center, you can see the front

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, it has a window. you can see a couple of handles and there are some features that look like brass. Those are the petals we were talking about earlier as part of the soft capture system. It's very, very strange to see that we are as close as we are. getting shadows from the station in dragon Wow and we're getting these views of boarded dragons from two cameras that are right next to that docking adapter and the movements a little jarring at times, these cameras are being commanded by a person at the console Cronus at Mission Control Houston and they send some very basic function commands to the camera which then runs automatically, so they continue to follow Dragon, so we thank them for their diligence in providing us with these views of this historic moment.

Since we are less than 30 meters away from the docking, just above the NASA meatball logo, you can see: excuse me, three of the Draco thrusters from the service section, that's 12, and also the four of those groups distributed around the vehicle used for much of the attitude control in any small translational maneuver, as we just saw Bob and Doug execute with their second manual flight test, and, in fact, oriented in such a way that if you lost some of those thrusters, it would still have redundancy and control and those axles, that's part of it. The reason they're at angles is they're okay so we should get to waypoint two right now so it looks like we've got that big loop the terrain is for approach two we'll enable the will resume shortly as reminder, make sure your visors are closed before the dragons leave the Waypoint and once the dragon is inside the crew, remove the retreat point and Branka is not allowed and just so you know we will have the sunset in just under eight point five minutes.

I can wrap this all up in the big loop, let's go to production, so Doug is on the spaceship confirming his intention to dock. I'm going to lower his visors. I have some instructions there about the crew non-intervention point that we had talked about before. That's one point. where we don't want the crew to give any commands to the vehicle, it is about two meters away from the docking adapter. I think the number is about 1.7 meters. Station Houston on the big loop Houston and the station are now going to dock Chris, he can. monitor the first steps three and four three and four and a decimal 1 zero for the dragon crew approach and retreat monitor I will be steps three or four the next dragon in the big loop our visors are down copy the visors below with the crew confirming that their visors are down we Should see final approach, resume incoming copy, you copy and we're going to race that sunset, approach has resumed.

The dragon is approaching, we are within 20 meters and yes, the crew checkpoint should appear in about three minutes or so just before. we get the final docking, it occurs about 20 seconds before or about two meters away from the station still and that's just that the crew does not issue any abort command at that time, it would be too late and therefore Dragon itself would execute automatically any cancellation. so we're closing in at less than 1/10 of a meter per second at this point, you can see that the Draco surface section is just making all these little minor attitude corrections, really the autonomous docking system at work making sure that the The vestibule on the South capture system is aligned with the ID a of the international docking adapter.

You can see much more clearly there the hinge mechanism for the nose comb. Those four black circles are the forward bulkhead. Draco should not be used at this time and of course. the petals of the soft capture system Wow dragon in the big loop or inside and meters we cannot find the darkest docking target of the beginning the contours sweep agreeing ten meters just we are less than ten meters away again we are getting closer a At that speed of less than a tenth of a meter per second, we should be approximately 1 minute and 45 seconds from docking.

There's a centerline camera right in that middle so you can see where the Ford is born and right in the middle. there's a window and there's a centerline camera that's aligned with the center of the vehicle and the center of the docking mechanism, so that's what the autonomous docking system uses to align with that kind of cross target on the docking . port again the Ford docking port in PMA 2 or the pressurized docking adapter we are only five meters away again we are running that sunset dragon continues to approach four meters to go to the shadows of the space station in the vehicle yes, in fact you can see the central camera clearly they are like with the contrast of the Sun at this moment three meters missing two meters we are inside the point of hands outside the point the team delivers the point one meter to go soft capture soft capture complete soft capture confirmed wait for retraction and docking and we just heard the soft capture, we have docking at 7:16 a.m.

Pacific time with the station and the dragon flying 262 statute miles just over the border between northern China and Mongolia. You saw some movement there. dragon, that was that relative movement that the soft capture system is damping once the movement is clear then the soft capture system will retract and the dragon will look for a strong capture again if just now tune thatsoft catch docking at 716 a.m. Pacific At 10:16 a.m. m. On the east coast, the Dragon and the International Space Station were flying 262 statute miles just over the border between northern China and Mongolia, which is out of capture, now it is going to retract, it is one more step on the path to docking complete, yes, and the next.

The step here is once the soft capture ring is retracted, there are 12 latches that we refer to as hard capture latches, those are the ones that will actually create that pressure-tight seal between the Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station , so a self-capture is completed and I think we'll get that call from our core here, Anna, then we'll get confirmation of the capture complete, and of course the crew on board has this information on their screens, so they also You will see indications of our capture. complete and once those two steps are done, then that's docking complete, that's right where we hope to hear a few words from everyone, quite a monumental moment.

I mean, for Doug Hurley, he will return to where he last docked almost nine years ago in the last The space shuttle mission now commands the first commercial spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station, that must be great for them, they have mentioned quite a few.moments when they are best friends, our favorite dads and the spaces we have been calling them, this has to be great for them, it has to be great for their families too. Seeing this, it looks like we have another quick handover. We will receive that video shortly. We are already 75% complete with that retraction.

Once the pullback is complete, we will keep an eye on the 12 indicators ready to hook. Once they're done, those 12 hooks will start to hook and stuff. We will safely connect the dragon to the International Space Station so that at this time the vehicle confirms that the soft capture system is deployed correctly and is fully retracted and then once the soft capture system is fully retracted, it will set the vehicle to place it. the hard capture pins there are 12 of them around the docking ring and that's what creates that airtight seal between the Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station the cat, the volume between which we refer to as the vestibule is currently not pressurized Of course, it was only exposed to the vacuum of space until literally a few minutes ago, about four minutes ago, so just waiting for the vehicle to do the full docking sequence is holding up for the reconfiguration of the mcs, so we see that The ready-to-dock indicators light up green, so we should be about to enter those twelve people who start participating to get that safe pairing between the dragon and the international docking adapter on the space station.

Wow, right now those two vehicles are flying together, they're linked, it's been just under 19 hours since we took off. It's actually about 18 hours, 58 minutes and 42 seconds, so we promised a roughly 19 hour trip to the station and made it just a few minutes before they could dock a few minutes ahead of schedule. We were following them to continue drinking. In about another 10 minutes I was able to go through all of his burns about 16 minutes ahead of schedule and get us to where we are now if you missed it a few moments ago, the initial docking at 7:16am. m.

Pacific 1016. a.m. on the east coast of the United States and it was 262 statute miles flying together over the northern border of China and Mongolia, so it's really exciting that we're just waiting for this full docking to be confirmed or waiting to hear some words, obviously, from the crew on board and all the excited teams down here, we are just waiting for this moment and then it will be time to start integrating the dragon into the station; there will be an umbilical that will dock and allow the dragon to flow data and power to the station. station systems and then it will pass to the crew, okay, and they did a quick process to get the motion control system on board the station now back under those control moment gyroscopes, so hand it over from the Russian thrusters and Dragon is now cleared to drive.

Those hooks we have to make that attitude control change before driving those hooks as the Russian thrusters are a little more dynamic in their attitude control and if you had a thruster on while you started driving those hooks that couldn't go wrong. a line, moving to the smoother control of the gyros on the American side that now controls the attitude aboard the station and those hooks and those twelve hooks on Dragon about to start driving right now the dragon and it's connected flying in front of the east coast of China, just below Japan, linked together, we recently went into orbital night, so we are currently on the dark side of the world.

In fact, we were lucky enough to see the soft capture occur just as we were crossing the Terminator Line and if you're wondering what you're looking at, this is one of the cameras on the outermost part of the Japanese experimental module looking towards the front of the node 2 where Dragon is currently docked. We're in a nighttime orbital that's why everything is so dark, but you're looking at the dragon, it's horizontal to the ground, so the

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part is right where the green light is. You can see the nose still illuminated above and it's currently attached to an international docking adapter on the International Space Station and inside that capsule are Bob Bank and Doug.

The first astronauts were forced to fly in a private vehicle. Willy developed a vehicle to the International Space Station. The test pilots got it in for some fun testing today, I've got some. more steps before they could get on board and enter the International Space Station, that's what we heard during the big loop of that transition that allows us to then proceed with the difficult capture and we're looking at the first set of hooks, so that the first six of the twelve are now closed, six more are missing and there are twelve of them along the ring and that helps us ensure that we have a tight, vacuum seal around them at this time, so we want to make sure that where we all keep. that valuable life support in the vehicle now the ISS combined this dragon vehicle meanwhile inside the castle Bob and Doug are also waiting to complete this difficult capture and once we have that full docking call they can begin to go through a series of procedures to prepare them to move to the international space station, they'll get the go-ahead to take off their suits and then have some dragon-side activities to prepare for the hatch

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Chris Cassidy We will mainly be working on the side of the station to pressurize the vestibule, so as Schiff has talked about, the space between the Dragon capsule and the space station was exposed to vacuum and even after this airtight seal has occurred , we will still be in the vacuum inside, so In fact, they will open a valve to supply air from the side of the station to that space between the dragon and the station hatches and raise it to the same ambient pressure that we will have inside the dragon and in the station itself. We'll wait for it to thermally equilibrate to make sure we don't have any temperature changes since we're taking it out of vacuum, so probably from a very cold temperature to about the 72 degrees that they have in their cabin temperature aboard the station and then we'll open the hatches, the basic hard caps are on full standby to complete the docking, yes, and the hard captors complete, so that's the confirmation of those 12 latches to create that airtight seal, now that's complete, the umbilicals The side of the station will connect with the Dragon umbilical vehicle and it will provide power and communications through the space station directly to Dragon virtually all the way up.

Dragon has been using a combination of batteries and its solar cells pointed at the Sun to make sure it has enough electrical power for the trip up and we are waiting now for that umbilical to dock and that will happen again when the carriers simply begin the transfer of power and data between Dragon and the space station, they have been transmitting data via RF radio frequency along the way. uphill and during the final approach this will give a difficult companion, basically a wired LAN connection between the Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station and then it will also be able to draw power from the station's systems using those large solar panels that are used to generate All electricity for the station's onboard systems and the soft capture system has been saved.

We see the umbilical begin to unfold about 40% of the way. So far it's going pretty fast, it should just take a couple more seconds until we're fully connected and then we should get that full docking call from the core here at Mission Control SpaceX in Hawthorne waiting by the dragon The SpaceX docking sequence is complete next copy of the dragon docking to the full society it has been a true honor to be just a small part of the 90 years since the United States spacecraft last docked with the International Space Station, we have to congratulate the men and women of SpaceX at Hawthorne McGregor and Kennedy Space Center for their incredible efforts over the past few years to make this possible.

I'm not exaggerating, I also want to thank Kathy, the leaders and her team from the NASA commercial crew program, excellent work, everyone laughs. I would like to thank the men and women of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, this is an incredible time to be in. at NASA bringing vehicles to fly continuing the mission in low Earth orbit and then to the Moon and Mars thank you again and congratulations dragon arriving, the crew of expedition 63 is honored to welcome dragon into the commercial crew program - welcome aboard the International Space Station Bob and Doug glad to have you as a part, well done guys ooh oh happy thank you Chris, thank you for your efforts, I'm Houston Bob and Doug, welcome to the International Space Station after your spectacular encounter and docking of the first Crew Dragon vehicle for the first time.

Since the space shuttle retired, you have completed a historic journey to the ISS and opened a new chapter in human space exploration on behalf of the flight control teams here in Houston and Hawthorne, California, and for our colleagues at SpaceX, Bravo on a magnificent moment in the history of spaceflight and the beginning of a new journey that has changed the face of space travel in this new era of space transportation Bob and Doug, good luck and we look forward to working with you on board from Dragon SpaceX, thank you Bob and Doug, here at SpaceX we are honored to have been a part of securing this new era of human spaceflight on behalf of the partnership between SpaceX and NASA.

Congratulations on a phenomenal achievement and welcome to the International Space Station. Thanks Anna, we appreciate all the good work. and everyone thinking about us, but it really was a magnificent effort by the entire team, the SpaceX team, the NASA team and a team from all over the United States that was able to achieve this and bring human spaceflight back to our country . I shouldn't thank you for everything, happy to be. on board and Dragon SpaceX with that ground connection will enable a quiet electrical connection shortly, you will go to the doctor with suits according to the procedure for decimal 0 1 2 we will configure your video to be external shortly and we have a request for approximately the suit .

Taking off when ready to copy during the weekly approach suit check, we noted that Bob's suit has a lower psi D than his previous vehicle and the O&C checks we still had plenty of room to help him in a slump, but to rule out possible Hardware issues when Bob is taking off after opening his structural zipper. Check all three bladder zipper heads to see if any are partially closed. It is possible that if the head is removed slightly, the white tooth will be partially visible or a small gap may be visible. between the end of the rack head and the end of the joint, report observations.

Cathy Bobble thinks: Look closely at his zipper when you do it and he'll get off of it first, so we'll let you know as soon as we see anything there, if we do. something cool, thank you very much Wow, now that Dragon has completed its docking sequence, there are a series of checks that were an absolutely historic moment and despite that, the ground crews went back to work talking about the suit's performance director , they have to turn the cameras. first forget about your suits completely, so the spaceship is now docked, you have several tasks that you will needbe able to do while we wait for those tasks to be done, in fact, we're going to take a short break. but in case you missed it, the Dragon spacecraft is now docking with the International Space Station at 7:16 a.m. m. local time Bob and Doug are at the space station, yes they are there, it was a little under 19 hour trip from their docking, pretty good as we expected, they got there a little early today which is well since they were able to get over all those burns, but I mean it's dark, it's going to be a little bit longer. to do that vestibule pressurization and then they're going to have to do some leak checks and on Dragon to ground because I have both structural zippers on my gloves down and I see visible white teeth on both sides that look like a cold white.

I will give you an update once I get to the copy of the white teeth on both sides and we will wait for their next status, so the crew right now are checking some of their gloves that they are about to take off from their suits, that will be the first step for the crew aboard the dragon for the crew aboard the station Chris Cassidy will start to pressurize that vestibule and then they will do leak checks to take atmosphere from the station by putting it in that vestibule and then once we have done all leak checks, things will be thermally stabilized, it will be time to open the hatch and we will get to see Bob and Doug enter the space station for the first time since aboard the Dragon spacecraft and again during Doug Hurley, this is the exact port he was in almost nine years ago when he was on the last space shuttle mission and is now in command of the first commercial vehicle to dock with the International Space Station.

I think that will be enough for us at Hawthorne. We'll hand you over to the very capable hands of Gary Jordan to take you through the rest of the hatch opening. We'll be

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ing from here and following, we can't wait to see these crew members aboard the International Space Station. Thank you. to everyone who tuned in, we hope you enjoyed the launch, we hope you enjoyed the uphill journey, we really hope you've been with us every moment from the suit until now, so you've been up for over 24 hours, but It has been an amazing experience. so we can

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these guys climb aboard the International Space Station to watch them crawl through the steps to be launched into orbit on Falcon 9, something we've been waiting for years to see come true.

I'm still struggling to do this. with you today if absolutelyDan, you know they might have comments Danna, okay, I can't step on the crew, mind you, but you know, there's some really great words from all the flight control teams about how this was a joint partnership between NASA and SpaceX, I think all of them. is over the moon here at SpaceX because this is what Bob and Doug have to be excited about and now we're back to work getting the lobby ready and then getting you guys aboard the station so again thanks for following along please continue.

Watch as Gary takes on the opening part of the hatch and follow our social media channels for more updates on what's happening with the open rim. Thanks Shiva, thanks Dan, what an incredible flight for a coil. Doug blasted off yesterday and is now in space attached to the International Space Station. Some kind words after docking at 9:16 a.m. m. central time and a tough companion just 11 minutes later, we're not done here yet, we'll walk you through the pressurization sequence and finally opening the International Space hatch. Excellent station, good context, we still have a lot of work to do here, we are going to pressurize the lobby and eventually we will get the

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dragon with a bob update, it looks like a white tooth on the leg zipper and we will also see it up close.

If we can see anything else that may have resulted in that lower leak check pressure copy, I really appreciate the report, thanks to the team behind me, we will set up the dragon and the international space station to welcome Bob and Doug to board, first, of course, to international space. station attitude control moment control gyroscopes that really keep the dragon in place during the difficult capture sequence we will start to enable those thrusters and pressurize the best fuel. It will take about an hour until we can open the hatch, the teams here at Mission Control Houston orbit two, led by flight director Zeb Scoville, will take us through that process aboard the International Space Station, Commander Chris Cassidy, standing on node two, right in front is the pressurized docking adapter that recently opened the hatch to introduce some. of the station air and mix it in, get a good mix in there avoiding some pockets of CO2 hatching, looks a little past Chris Cassidy, it's normally closed, was able to open it a little earlier today, mix in some of that air from the cabin and I get rid of it. of those CO2 pockets make sure everything is clean and ready for Bob and Doug.

He closed it shortly after just to make sure that there wasn't any grease or foreign objects floating in there that would inhibit any process of opening the hatch today one of the processes one of the The next milestones for Chris Cassidy will be opening that hatch. He has some cameras that you see placed inside that node. We'll have some good views of the hatch opening and welcoming Bob and Doug here in about an hour. A great moment in history today. May 31, 2020, just on the other side of that hatch, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley successfully arrived at the International Space Station, so a couple of milestones to overcome before we can open that hatch will take some time, first pressurizing the lobby in between the station and the dragon we will pressurize it, it will take some time for that pressure to stabilize, of course that is the temperature inside that lobby, it causes a bit of oscillation, so we will just wait for it to pressurize , but to stabilize before we open that hatch here at Mission Control Houston EBSCO ville flight directors welcoming NASA Johnson Space Center Director Mark Guyer all have a few other VIPs here in the room to welcome Bob and Doug once they go through that hatch now again this The process of repressurizing and opening the hatch will take some time.

Now we are going to have some intermittent losses with communication from the international space station. You are now viewing the flight control room of the International Space Station led by flight director Zeb Scoville. Upon delivery of some of those audio and visual communications, we will recover them shortly, we may lose them intermittently during the repressurization process, but the teams here will monitor all the procedures again, pressurize that lobby and eventually get to that hatch that opens from right to left. They're sitting, you see the EBSCO Valley flight directors, he was the one leading the teams for Bob and Doug's launch at the Cape, he was leading the team here at Mission Control Houston, you just saw Johnson Space Center director Mark Geyer, move away. next to him sitting next to Zeb Scoville Joshua Kucik he is one of the members of the newest generation of astronauts the class of 2017 Canadian Space Agency astronaut went through candidate training and recently officially became an astronaut again some milestones to overcome that hatch opened first, the attitude control of the International Space Station was successfully changed from the moment of control, only control of gyroscopes enabling some of the thrusters on the International Space Station.

We also just received the news that the dragon is successfully receiving power and there you have it, the dragon is successfully. receiving energy from the International Space Station and copies of dragons by dragging the ground that energy has been established just let us know when we have to make a strict contract thanks to those of you who just joined us, you are getting a live look at NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy, commander of the International Space Station, performs some of the preparation work to open the hatch and prepare to welcome Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the International Space Station which they successfully launched yesterday at 2: 22 p.m.

Central time 322 p.m. East and successfully docked with a contact and recently captured at 9:16 a.m. central time 1016 This now some of the milestones to open that hatch and the first attitude control for part of the docking sequence for the initial The contact and capture attitude control was on the Russian thrusters that moved to controlling the gyros for the moment for a hard dunk, making sure everything was lined up and we had them ready to engage the green indicators before activating those hooks. Attitude control has since been changed to enable some thrusters. At the International Space Station we got confirmation that good energy was being delivered from the ISS to the Internet to the dragon.

Next up will be to test some hardline communication between the dragon and the International Space Station. The dragon and the season. The dragon's incision is Houston calling the great circuit. We're set up and getting ready to transition from column system to hardline, at which point we're going to do a couple of column checks, we just want to make sure everyone's okay with that and aware, so Dragon first maybe let me know if you listen to this. and if you follow that plan Houston, I was never in the big loop, we had you loud and clear, Houston station police using clickers, okay, work hard at the station, we have you out and clear on RF right now, we are going live now, so we are transitioning the communications system to hardline and will call you back for voice checks in a moment.

This is Mission Control Houston. The voice he just heard was Capcom Joshua. Trick from the director of operations from here at Mission Control Houston. We are laying the large circuit that integrates communications with Dragon and the international space station. taking us through those procedures until we reach the hatch opening. There is now an umbilical connection to a dragon that connects the dragon to the International Space Station. We got good confirmation that energy is flowing from the International Space Station to the Dragon. Next, we will proceed with some. of communications verifies the large loop established in the common c2v2 communications for the visiting vehicle during some of the last legs of the encounter and the docking of Dragon to the International Space Station will change that to hardline communications, proving that we will soon be here Voy to get good views of the station today.

You see Chris Castor, you're working inside. No, just on the other side is the hatch that separates the International Space Station and the pressurized docking. A faucet adapter. One more hatch to go after that hatch. opens to the dragon hatch with Bob Bankin and Doug Hurley on the other side, surrounding Chris Cassidy. From this view, you can see a series of cameras. We'll get some great views from Node 2, there on the left, a couple of heights up. definition cameras on the right, a 360 VR camera that is part of an initiative to engage viewers and provide views that have never been seen before from the International Space Station.

We will be able to see some of those 360 ​​degree views later, after they are set up and stitched into the ground that is now being recorded during this historic moment today May 31, 2020 affirmative, we are on the same page those steps in the run note are all that is needed worked, you are watching Chris Cassidy live aboard the International Space Station right in front of him is that 360 degree camera, he has a camera situated everywhere, there are no two pointing directly towards that hatch, on the other side will be Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley welcoming after the pressurization of the lobby and the hatch will begin to open afterwards. that here we have the m10 opened Chris another communication handover from the tracking and data relay satellites that provide video and audio communication from the international space station now integrated with the power of the dragon dragon still looking towards some of those communication checks of hard line again, we will lose communication intermittently as the international space station flies 269 Earth miles recovering some of that video from the International Space Station Chris Cassidy gave him the opportunity to open that node to advance the hatch again, he opened it a little earlier today to allow some of the station air to mix into the pressurized coupling adapter there it is again there are somemore hatches to open until we can welcome Bob and Doug aboard the International Space Station.

You are looking through the hatch at the pressurized docking adapter. There's another hatch down there. through the pressurized docking adapter that opens to the international docking adapter there was zero zero in DP DT and then there are no two ford hatches open and because we copied the note to the open forward arch now we agree that go to the next yellow activity that is your 1515 activity is step two in two decimal places 1:02 crew dragon eyes this arrival through the hatch opening you're basically going to bike to a step equalization valve and dragon SpaceX on dragon de ground if you you want reference procedure for decimal for zero zeros to monitor astral pressurization and copies for small picnics dragging and dragging the grass by 4.01: we have completed up to section five and have started a stopwatch for one hour.

The lobby is completed to section five and your suits are drying and you have started a timer for one hour. hour with that we have your permission to return on board we give you a return on board we copy you we are going to return on board and with that you are going to perform sections one to three of four decimal places four hundred we recommend postponing step 2.1 for flushing the system waste until you are closest to the hatch opening in section 3 while taking your inventory, collect all the trash from your food and water bottles and consolidate it into the two trash bags inside your common bags at location 18 that will transfer. plastic bags containing this trash to the ISS for disposal during a scheduled activity after entry to the ISS and note that you can postpone this inventory until after your meal is scheduled for right now, okay, Anna , if you could give us five minutes earlier.

Come back on board we have some clothing setups to complete, understand we have to go to sections 1, 2 and 3 of 4 point 400 and we will consolidate our trash into the bags provided in location 18 and postpone the waste setup in section 2. a 4 point 400 until you approach the hatch that opens copy stationary one 5:07 before you get on board keep it straight if we don't perform interest ready thank you Anna, this is Mission Control Houston, are you listening to the crews on board of the International Space Station and Dragon prepare to open the hatch, you are saying that Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space Station already opened the hatch to the pressurized docking adapter just below that hatch, as you see in the center of the screen, here On the other side of the hatch is the The hatch reaches the international docking adapter on the other side of the recently docked crew.

Pressurization of the Dragon lobby is underway. This will equalize the pressure between the Dragon and the International Space Station. Once you reach pressurization, it will take some time to equalize that pressure. Due to the temperature difference in the lobby, just take some time to stabilize your Houston by calling him on landline now for a voice verification How do you read the effort? Houston calls sparingly to buy a landline now for a voice Jackie Rita is a hot humidity leader counting one two one one two two one two three one two four one two five patience with the volatile and the station used to not do it Anatoly we hear you loud and of course we're going to trade a couple of minor things here and try to drag again We're still trying to calm down with the fallen dragons for a leader counting 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 1 2 4 1 2 5 and the Houston station in Will everyone stay still for a few minutes?

Let's try to lift the dragon for another me instantly and try to make it Houston: by dragging a ground one, we are trying to get to you by a hard line, but I'm not sure if you are doing it, if you are receiving it or not, let us know at your convenience and Houston from the effort, we're hearing quite a bit of movement on the other loop that appears to be connected, it's unintelligible, but we have it loud and clear on the dragon ground and Houston's effort on the dragon on the ground, thanks for your great help.

One look and we'll have you loud and clear. I'm driving on the ground too, so we're going to keep working on it and we'll try to call you back in the next few minutes by hard line, never copy, thank you, this is Mission Control Houston, working on the steps to pressurize the lobby. We made a confirmation that lobby pressurization was underway. We have power flowing from the International Space Station to Dragon after it docked for contact and capture at 9:16 a.m. Central Time, 10:16 a.m. m. ET, just before this morning. Some other milestones to reach we need good audio communication through the umbilical. where the dragon is currently docked on the other side of that hatch providing power now just making sure those hardline communications are intact working on that as we count down to the milestones of that hatch opening basics dragging and dragging the ground, ahead , yes, in section 1 of 4 points 400 the charging status of the tablet our 66 for Doug and 32 for mine copies 6 6 for Doug 3-2 for Bob and we have your permission to re-upload to this video now continue and come on board, we may have to Remove it at some point as you can imagine, but coming on board sounds great.

Station Houston in three four Chris, that suits you, but just an update on the status of communications, so go ahead and tell him we've fixed some minor issues trying to establish a hard line. established, so we're not working here and we're going to be really testing the context as soon as we think we're going to be aware of that and then as far as things go, we're just going to have a notice that was going to happen to do the teardown of steps three and four on approach monitoring, but I just saw it turn gray, so you already did it, just a second, which one is maybe my fingers are wrong, Chrissy, yeah, no, it's subtle, so it's in the execution note. for Dragon focus monitoring as we were monitoring Dragon earlier in the day and down into the run note or teardown steps.

I'm here in the dome right now. I'll deal with it, it's not great, but we will be in a moment. It's good and I also heard that we have done in the field steps one to four, so it's just five and six, they look free and they don't tear down the copy of the procedure that I took three, steps five and six are copy of the complete material , Chris, thanks for that and I'm about to hit the button and retry the hardline checks with the dragon, um, okay, cubicle effort, it's Houston calling with a hardline voice, Jack, how It reads and waiting station?, effort, this is a call for effort by a hardline voice. look how it reads Houston effort completely illegible it's jumping pretty bad and effort it's Houston on the stranded dragon we hear you all I understand loud and clear that we are still broken we are working and thanks to the patience we have Josh, that is exactly the case Thank you for take the same wish, how was my conscience? 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 1 2 4 1 2 5 and station in two for Anatole Anatole we are hearing you loud and clear in Houston it seems we still have a problem with com2 dragons, or just leave it on hold.

I'll let you know which one is ready to try again. Thank you for your patience. Okay, no, sir. Vong, hey, arrange the dragon on the dragon on the floor to label the timeline, go ahead, yes Anna, we are managing the collection of used water bottles and other items, as well as our food, and we are just looking to understand a little better how close we are to a hatch opening or other timeline milestone, we're running to the end of the tablet here with a 5 meal that started, I don't know, about 25 minutes ago, so I just want to understand how much we have time. stood in front of us at Dragon SpaceX we estimate we're about an hour away from opening the dragon hatch copy Anna thank you for those words just helping us get things done and it looks like you guys are on board welcome aboard I guess the station integrated space now, uh, actually, thank you very much, we're excited to be here.

Houston effort by calling the airline for a voice verification. How do you read us now? You don't even see the exercise station. I'm not sure of the location of that last call, but it's still pretty a little skipped and illegible an effort is Houston loud and clear dragging the ground we hear your response we're in the same situation we're listening to you you're not listening to us we have an element more troubleshooting we're going to get down to business now, so we'll give it a try and then maybe call it a day. We'll let you know. effort copies thanks Houston effort effort Houston calling for a hard line for a final voice Jeff, do you have us now?

It's not the dragon in the big loop, that was an improvement, but it's still completely unreadable. Strive for Houston on the dragon to land one. We still listened to you five by five, you understood that it improved slightly and you were able to read me. it's useless, yes it was a slight improvement but it's still unintelligible, almost every word, maybe there was a word you could have figured out, but that was it, okay, thanks for the feedback the first time obviously, and we think We're having some interference issues, but we'll continue to take a look, copy.

Thank you, this is Mission Control Houston. If you are tuning in to our coverage, you will be able to watch live from the flight control room of the International Space Station listening to many communications from the international space station, both from the side of the space station above space and towards the ground, the astronaut of the NASA Chris Cassidy, the commander of the International Space Station preparing for the hatch opening, can see a series of cameras scattered ready to capture the best views of Bob and Doug coming. Through that hatch we soon got confirmation that we had good pressurization of the vestibule.

It will take about 10 minutes to run a series of leak checks again. The pressure needs to stabilize the thermal conditions. Make it oscillate a little. hoping that that stabilizes before the leak checks are finished which, in the next 10 minutes, we will have communications established on the hardline connection between the International Space Station and Dragon. It can be seen from inside Dragon now that the tour crew has taken off. their suits are simply packing a few things before they finally open the hatch after the pressurization is equalized between the space station and the Dragon's effort. Houston calls a voice jackal that usually pre-transitions back to RF, so it returns to the ears of our cabin that it has been dragging. them Houston wearing a big loop was that for us, yeah, informational effort Houston, we transitioned back to RF because we still had the interference on the hardline, so now we're back on RF and we just want to make sure we add you, you we have out loud.

And of course with Nora, loud and clear too, we'll leave it here for now, thank you. Here's a live look from inside the crew's dragon. You're watching Bob Behnken and Hurley preparing the inside of the dragon they've taken off or taken over. Take off your suits, the pressurization between the space station and Dragon is complete, you just need to perform some leak checks, make sure the pressure is stable before opening the hatch, the team is working together on the ground, the control room of International Space Station flight and flight control room. at Hawthorne to set up that big loop communication so everyone can hear each other through this process.

I discovered a workaround using an RF connection. This is Mission Control Houston. If you're just joining us, you're seeing inside the crew dragon that was Bob. stool sitting on the right side of the pilot's or Joint Operations mission commander's seat for demonstration two, he and Doug Hurley, the spacecraft commander, are preparing the interior, putting away some trash, they just took off their suits and right now they are waiting for the pressure to come. even between the International Space Station and Bob and Doug only two hatches that really separate them from the interior of the orbital complex aboard the International Space Station Commander Chris Cassidy has been outfitting node two, it is the first node once you cross some of the hatches there.

You can see some of the cameras placed around to capture the crew arriving at the International Space Station. Much of that work was completed at this point. Really at this point you are hoping for good leak checks between the station and Dragon, patience, little room to bounce. Chris and the ISIS experience there are three hey Chris they weren't having a good connectionbetween the SSC 25 in the chamber we are approaching a delivery a reset of the C 25 three five basics dragon vs dragon ground for inventory I'm here and ready to copy okay Anna we'll start with a location nine from bag 203 , we removed three bottles of water, copied three bottles removed from the bag to 0-3, good reading from the location we removed from each bag 207.

Ah, so, six bottles of water in total and the basics of Dragons. You were pretty gutted on that call, but I think I copied it three bottles of each egg at 0-7 and 0-8, that's right, that's a good read, Hanna for location 11, one bag dinner three, one seven , a bag breakfast three one five and a bag lunch three one six there are several dinners copy1 of the 31st of their own breakfast of three one five a lunch of an interested set, but they are all as they were taken, it has been sent, that it's a good read and location twelve a dinner from back three two one a breakfast from the bag three one nine and a lunch from the back three two zero I copy a dinner from three two one a breakfast from a319 a lunch from three one zero Am I in the truth?

Conclude that all of this includes your consumption of the lunch you just completed, that's right Anna, we finished eating and the lunch we just completed is a good complete list of what I've read to you so far, the only thing we have left. It's flushing the waste system here and we'll do it with a bottle of water and report back when we do it a little later, copy that sounds like a perfect plan, thank you very much, okay with that, that's the extent of our inventory, everything else. it's according to the packing plant, copy everything else from it, the packing plan, this is Mission Control Houston, you've seen International Space Station commander Chris Cassidy do a lot of the setup, but he has two crew members on board, both Russian cosmonauts next to him, right?

Now there's a rookie von Wagner space pilot who was on the same Soyuz spacecraft that Chris Cassidy launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome a little over a month ago. Also on board is Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin. This is Houston Mission Control, we're approaching. Nearly two hours since the Dragon crew made contact and were captured by the International Space Station's Forward international docking adapter, which occurred at 9:16 a.m. m. central time, 10:16 a.m. m. ET, I'm still working on some of those milestones that even out the pressure between Dragon and International. The Space Station checks some of the communications and of course Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are seen inside continuing to prepare the interior of their ship before entering the SpaceX orbital complex dragon upon dragon, the Earth mind removing the cameras for just a few . minutes here, it'll enter that one time and it'll tell you this is Mission Control Houston, heard the call from Bob Behnken, Joint Operations mission commander for the demo2 mission, removing some of those video feeds, we're still waiting on some of those milestones. to get through before opening the hatch, the dragon crew continues to prepare before opening the hatch Chris Cassidy on the other side just prepares some of the camera views making sure everything is ready, they are ready even a little early, We have confirmation that there is a good data connection between Dragon and the International Space Station.

Some of those checks are being done within two hours of docking at 9:16 a.m. m. central time, 1016 mm a. m. This, we see a good connection between the SSD and the camera. and we are just doing the calibration now we will start recording shortly thanks dragon SpaceX we have gone outside with the cameras dragon Kaffee stinks this is Mission Control Houston again you are seeing the inside of the International Space Station which is a NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Commander of Expedition 63, continue setting up some of those cameras to open the hatch. Many milestones have already been passed after docking at 9:16 a.m.

Central time, almost two hours ago, at this point, at the time of docking, the International Space Station was in Russia. The thrusters at the moment after contact and capture were moved to control the gyroscopes' stabilization moment and the attitude control now returned to their standard configuration of thrusters and control of the gyros of the moment after a dragon of umbilical connection with the International Space Station, we obtained confirmation of good power. streaming from the International Space Station to dragon dragon now depending on station power, we got confirmation of good data transmission and of course the teams here on the ground, both here in Houston and Hawthorne, fixed some communication issues to make sure it's ready. to go before the hatch opens, the pressurization between the International Space Station and Dragon was raised to the same 14.7 pressure, the same as we would find here on Earth, leak checks are next to confirm that the pressure state It is stabilized between the two vehicles. on the other side of Chris Cassidy, that's the pressurized docking adapter hatch, there are two more hatches once you go down that hatch, one is to the international docking adapter and the other is the Dragon hatch itself.

They sex the dragon with a couple of questions I'm here and ready to copy Hi Anna, we show about an hour and 11 minutes since we started drying the suits just so you know that and then the other thing is we can put 4 decimal 400 section 2 and work if you think you have some time before we open the hatch. We copy him. Stop drying your suits and turn off the suit fan at this time. Well, turn off the ESU fan on Dragon SpaceX, we're about half an hour before the hatch opens, so you're going to do it that way to clear the system if that's okay with you right now, okay? we can give it a few minutes if it's going to be 30 minutes until the hatch opens we might want to use it just one more time so yes we can wait another 10 minutes or so but please let us know if anything changes otherwise we will will. so it's totally reasonable it sounds like a good plan.

Thank you and dragon Houston on dragon to ground we are still working calmly she is going to put an end to the big loop now she will keep you dragged on the ground we will call you when we have difficulties line back in a second Chris dragon copy Houston thanks ahead Chris service talking to dragon. I'm just looking ahead at that on the nth PA and I know it says videos through note note 2 and space to ground - up and down, it would only take me about a minute to switch back to the encoder and go calm down from the normal way we do piao events, if that's something that's preferred, it really is super fast and I can do it that way and that setup is real. quick if you need it later copy Chris yeah copy thanks for that we'll offer it let's not let you know if we want to go that route.

I mean, obviously, it's not urgent or important, I'm just starting the station here in three. To Chris Khan Khattak, go ahead, we just wanted to clarify your last comments: we show it in the standard configuration where you will go down on the camcorder's HD microphone and we will go up spaced, and that is what we intend, maybe we may have I overlooked your intent in your previous comments as it would be out of my mind. I had like we do at all other pa-o events, we talk, we hold the handheld microphone that goes through the clip on my transmitter to the clip through the camera and then the audio goes down through the encoder, that's how we normally do, we peel events so we can go back to that setting if you need super quick or if you want to do it this way, where we're talking about the space you're going to go to, that's fine too.

I don't mind just throwing it out because it's a different narrative than we normally do with the PA elements and just to be clear when The setup now is that the Note2 camera is not connected to the encoder, as you probably already know, so everything What I would do is plug the cable back into the encoder and switch back to nominal camcorder number 2 and curse that's it. sure the camera must be connected to the encoder so what you are saying is what we need, we don't know where it was swapped but the camera must definitely be connected to the encoder and the audio goes down through that encoder is fine so Yes, we will use it in the.

I guess what I was thinking is to go back to a batteryless one and not rely on the battery and go back to the nominal cable that includes power. I just got a A little bit suspicious of luck, trusting these batteries, man, we have photo TV online, so we are talking to them on the phone right now, so my station was used with three four microphones Chris and the camera free floating, both connected to the encoder, that clears it up for you. I want the free flow camera and will use the handheld microphone through the ATU.

Help, no problem. I think I'm just not communicating, no pun intended, but I think we have a good setup now and we won't. I won't switch to nominal not to camera now my Chris, they should do it until Christmas. If you're still there, we think we still have it backwards. I see you, look, yeah, I see it on the video now. so we still have kale on the line, sorry for the confusion, but I think this is clear this morning, we moved the cameras, we changed the cameras that were connected to the encoder, what we want now we are getting video from the free popular camera to through the encoder so okay we're looking at it right now what we need to just stream here is your lapel microphone that has to go through that new free float camera and for your microphone to work it connects to the camera free flow and then lower the audio. via the encoder, so it makes sense, that's how sin is set up right now, everything perfect.

The only benefit that I guess I didn't make clear initially is that if I go back to the normal cable on the normal camera, we are not dependent. with battery power in the camera. I'm just worried that during this whole event my battery is going to die as well. I go back to the

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dragon dog by dragging the ground to complete with four point zero one two to this repository chamber all the way in the dragon, which I didn't think we could do with the other cable, so what was my thought after that we did all the entry stuff and shifted gears to the appeal ceremony where we are standing?

Right in front of the hatch we could have some real power for the camera, but it's really not a big deal. What I'm going to do is have a couple of batteries on standby and I'm going to make sure there's a fresh battery right before I start the aioli, okay Chris it took a long time but I'm 100% with you and I'm copying 100% of battery regarding the word we're getting here: we'd like to run it in the configuration it's in right now. Now we copy the best configuration. It's a great idea to have some spares nearby, but we think it will last throughout the event, okay, and place three for Chris, with that out of the way, you can try it when you can with your 1615. activity 16:15 that's your step three and four in decimal 102 dragon crew arrival at ISS okay 16:15 activity at work effort Houston calling the hardline for a voice test effort Houston calling the landline for a voice test It wasn't clear, how was it? hey effort houston we got you loud and clear on the hardliners good news all congratulations looks like we've sorted it out at least a little a primary deal we think we might have found c2v2 interference in the hard line, but Let's get to a case, keep it here for now and continue on the timeline, never copies.

He used to numb three hits. Can you back me up on that big PDT? Well, we were reviewing the Houston station with Chris dp/dt, it's good. We'll continue, this is Mission Control Houston, you're looking inside the International Space Station. What you heard before was just some of the audio and video checks, just to make sure everything is in sync so we can provide the best views. and the best possible audio for when Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley go through that hatch. We are working towards opening the hatch. Now you can see Chris Cassidy in the pressurized docking adapter.

That hatch will open to the international docking adapter on the other side. The Cassidy dragon hatch is working on those procedures after the pressure equalization was completed and now waiting around 10 to 15 minutes maybe so we finally open that hatch so we'll keep an eye out and keep those views coming from the inside of the International Space Station. to welcome Bob and Doug aboard, this is Mission Control Houston, you're watching the live view of the interior of the International Space Station flight control room, one team here, orbit two, team led by director of Scoville flight, is working on the intricateprocess to make sure everything is ready I look forward to opening the hatch and welcoming Bob Bacon and Doug Hurley aboard the International Space Station it has been a journey so far to get to this point more than two hours ago I made contact and capture with the Station International Space Station was the Dragon vehicle the Dragon vehicle crew with Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board 9:16 a.m. central 10:16 a.m.

ET - 104 105 here and then it came back in because at Dragon SpaceX you're pretty broken on the previous call stations because I also totally love them. I believe you are being summoned by the Russian crew and Dragon SpaceX. They told me to continue. Can you repeat your last yes? I just wanted to double check with you to make sure you copied our last one and that we were still right on the estimated timer you gave us for 30 minutes. Looks like we have about 10 minutes left. We would like to continue in section 2 for 4 points 400 seconds. This is Houston Mission Control.

Chris Cassidy opens hatch for international docking adapter 11:37 a.m. Central time final station dragon flying together 267 statute miles over the South Pacific this is a view from the camera at the front end of the dragon until the dragon and ape hatch opens which just opened again 1137 a.m. In the center, the hatch to the international docking adapter was open. You see Chris Cassidy, they're rearing their heads. That's the camera on the front end of the dragon. Now there is only one hatch separating Bob Behnken. Chris Cassidy's Doug Hurley, who you're seeing here. Those dragon sights expect the time to open that hatch to be 20 minutes from now, they will inform you of that time and expect to hold a welcoming ceremony at 12:15 AM.

Central Time, 1:15 p.m. m. Eastern to welcome Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the International Space Station as part of the Expedition 63 crew, hear a few words from them, and have some VIPs here at Mission Control Houston to provide words to the teams they oversaw the entire mission. and the crew aboard the International Space Station suffocating without condensation thank you dragon spacex in dug into the ground contact like in the ground how we are a little choppy how I you are loud and clear we will put section 2 of 4 decimal 400 can work we copy everyone thank you and please give Anatoly a stop in the loop, okay we will call Anatoly to the big loop and I would also like to report two bottles of water consumed at location nine bag 2:04 location nine bag 2:04 and confirm that it was for the waste system rinse one for the waste system Chris Cassidy removing that removing that objective of the docking interface of a passage hatch in the large loop for Anatole of the effort they are going to verify with the same voice how we will count 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 3 1 2 4 1 2 5 that's just effort has you loud and clear now copy copy system and they have everything possible to hear your voice somehow they will hit me adding clear, okay Susan, turn off your system and a all players for using that full click on character thank you this is Mission Control Houston those communications checks inside the international space station between the dragon crew chris cassidy and on the other side of the international space station the segment russian, russian cosmonaut anatoly ivanishin, completing those In the voice checks, you can see that Cassidy continues to equip the hatch, he is clearing the space and providing some filler and removing the passthrough hatch docking target, so I copy that the waste system discharges at work and two more bags were consumed from location nine bag 204. and that includes the water used for waste system discharges, all correct, from bag 204, one of which Bob is in the process of consuming and the other will be for waste discharge, that is correct, perfect, thank you for clarifying and secondly, we have your permission. to get back on board with the negative video we are going to need about two minutes, we are just finishing operations here right now, copy two more minutes, we will wait for your confirmation, thank you, we are still receiving views from the infrared camera that is located right in the center of the dragon hatch looking at International Space Station commander Chris Cassidy equipping that hatch getting ready for Bob and Doug to arrive, you're listening to ground crawl communications that were Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on the other side of that hatch inside the El Dragon crew vehicle was finishing its operations inside so the hatch would open in about 10 to 15 minutes again.

It has been a process to get to this point. About two and a half hours ago, Bob Behnken and Doug were docking with the International Space Station. Hurley aboard the first U.S. commercial vehicle to dock at the International Space Station with a crew on board again. We waited 10 to 15 minutes to open that hatch, one more hatch separating Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley from the interior of the International Space Station. Still watching Cassidy do some of the prep work for that hatch, we'll get some great views that Cassidy set up over the last few hours to capture this historic moment today.

Be sure to stay tuned for the 12:15 p.m. Central time 1:15 p.m. This, we will begin a welcome ceremony, officially welcoming Bob Megan and Doug Hurley aboard the International Space Station to join the expedition. Crew 63, the basics, dragon, how to drag the ground, go ahead, Anna, you can come to work, copy, sure, go ahead. board and thank you for your patience with the arrival, we are in an orientation that is creating a block to receive your common goal, yes, we think no problem, that's part of the deal. Chris Cassidy waves, waiting anxiously, waiting for Bob and Doug to come. on board, right behind them, you see anatoly ivanishin and yvonne vogner, the Russian cosmonauts of expedition 63 who are waiting will be able to board the dragon here in a second some views from the dragon crew we are in a brief handover of those communications from the international space station video and audio should recover momentarily Anatoly Ivanishin and the close-up there Chris Cassie continues the preparation work to open the hatch there again the pressurized docking adapter hatch that you see there in the close-up is open the hatch to the international docking that there is only one more open and that is the Dragon hatch, the dragon crew vehicle, the space-ground sensation to the station is ready for the dragon hatch.

Equalization Station Houston copy the call of the dragon ready when you are when you can Houston dragon move on and dragon houston is just looking to confirm that you are ready for equalization, we are ready as long as SpaceX is ready, well, station and effort.wait for the EQ, we're getting it up and running, expected EQ time, four minutes. Beijing, copies, never counties, this is Mission Control Houston, we continue to match the pressure of that last hatch, behind that hatch are Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Dragon crew. spacecraft we are moments away from opening the hatch and welcoming you aboard the International Space Station.

This is Houston Mission Control. If you're just tuning in, we're waiting for confirmation of the opening of the hatch between the International Space Station and the Dragon crew. - to the crew dragon seeing Doug Hurley through the glass on the other side and there's Bob Behnken still equalizing that pressure between the crew dragon and the International Space Station just moments away from the SpaceX dragon in the big loop, you go to open the hatch according to the sticker followed by the remaining actions in your procedure four decimal four zero zero I can copy this to open a hatch and the remaining steps and for decimal four zero zero and with that the hatch opens at 12:02 p.m.

Central Time 102 p.m. m. Easterners Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley opened the hatch to the International Space Station after its launch from US soil on a US plane. vehicle for the first time in nine years, the first time in history for a commercially built spacecraft, if you're just tuning in, the hatches are open between Dragon and the International Space Station. International Space Station Commander Chris Cassidy now speaks with Doug Hurley and Bob Bank and the crew aboard the Dragon spacecraft that opens at 12:02 p.m. central 102 p.m. This fix the dragon in the sucker the hatches open to five decimals five four decimals four zero zero how to tell my coffee hatch is open that's great to hear Thank you and SpaceX Dragon to five decimals nine we're going out to four decimals four zero zero and transition to two decimal one zero two dragon crew is arriving through the hatch opening.

I copy with that. I understand that you are complete to four decimals four zero zero and I will follow you as you transition to the ISS procedure. This is Mission Control. Houston, Demo 2 crew is performing some closing duties, hatches are not open until 12:02 p.m. Central time, we are just minutes away from the Dragon crew aboard Demo 2: To enter the International Space Station, it will be the first time Americans will enter the International Space Station on a rocket launched from US soil built by a American company. The first time the Americans enter from a commercially built spaceship, use it in the space you're in for Chris, when you can.

We're just looking for a quick voice check on the microphone. The Station's Fish Friend: Come on, Chris, we're open. We could voice check the microphone just before starting the PA or of n okay, copy that did not appear in the large loop and six points, step six point one of two decimal places 1 0 2 pi The installation of the MV conduit is complete, go to IM, get over an activation, copies are missing go for the iron be found activation that's up and running, if you're just tuning in, you'll get a live viewing station from Houston about two things, Chris, we're listening to you over the PA or for side of things, that was a good voice check we could ask. you for one more and then for the dragon crew, you also have a chance for six decimal three that opens the location to three and checks for debris, copies of the dragon six three and it works if you're just tuning in, you're watching live at the left of the screen as a look inside the Dragon crew in the demo - mission on the right the International Space Station Bob Bacon we are ready for six point four and the section for the main station instructions Lyle we copy the dragon crew, you go to 6.4 it works, this is Mission Control Houston, you are seeing live inside the International Space Station losing video communication from the international space station, it will only be momentary, we will have those views again to see Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley get in.

The International Space Station, when they do, would be the first time humans will enter through this hatch for the first time in nine years. Dragon, so we had to upload the procedure from my iPod and hand it to him, so that's just a A little bit more we copy the Houston Christmas station for Chris when it's convenient Piero requests additional voice verification through the microphone. I think Chris we are not here in an MCC. We are currently receiving it over the public address system. Oh, it's endless. This video is working to come. we set up I'll call you if we're ready for another check You've been to the SpaceX effort at six decimals five Lyle cartridges filled and stopped in front of the Cuddy Houston station at two four Chris we wanted you to confirm that the microphone is on channel one it has to be on channel one.

One idea here is that it could have been moved there as well, of course we see an attempt and we're not here yet at NMCC they are working on it and Chris, we don't see anything at MCC. Proving the word here is that as long as it's on channel one, any issues beyond that point are on our end, so we're looking into it. We'll be back at your Houston station, ready for another voice check. the mic station used to have you loud and clear through the mic thanks Dragon SpaceX on the big loop in seven decimal places a space valve I daddy that ABV Bravo internal seems to be open as well as PP r VI so the valve closes a lot if you get that call yeah we're fine with that call and we appreciate the status thank you this is Mission Control Houston if you're tuning the hatches se They opened at 12:02 p.m.

Central time, we are just minutes away from Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley re-entering the International Space Station. This is Mission ControlHouston. Just moments after Bob and Doug enter the International Space Station shortly after they entered, we will hold a welcome ceremony. There will be VIPs here. at Mission Control Houston a thicker one visually we now have eight guests of the three for SpaceX and Houston Dragon the arrival configuration is complete SpaceX copies all valves appear closed visually now and the arrival configuration is complete excellent to listen to Justin copies and with that effort welcome to the International Space Station, please come aboard, never make copies, we will gladly be there in a second.

We have Bob Behnken from SpaceX's demo 2 mission entering the International Space Station, followed by that early one and the Euston station that we see, yeah, and it's a great photo, so thanks for that that's one less, we'll call it when we're ready for the event, the next few seconds we have a lot of very happy and grateful people heading to the MCC right now, the demo2 crew is now boarding the International Space Station which they entered at 12:22 p.m. Central time, this station at the time was 262 statute miles, was threatened and the entire crew gathered in front of the cameras at the node towards the forward end of the International Space Station, just behind them as the hatch to the Dragon crew in this demonstration mission.

We are waiting for a welcoming ceremony. There will be VIPs here at Mission Control Houston ready to greet the crew and the station. We're almost ready to start. Lucky that the station was Houston in space-earth to confirm that you were ready for the ceremony. event using this station we are ready for the event warning and sir administrator Brighton Stein welcome to MCC please call the station for a voice verification station this is the NASA administrator can you hear me we hear you loud and clear sir welcome to the station space thanks Chris, good to see you and welcome Bob and Doug.

I will tell you that the whole world saw this mission and we are very proud of everything you have done for our country and in fact to inspire the world, we appreciate it sir, it is obvious. It has been an honor for us to be just a small part of this. We have to give credit to SpaceX for the commercial crew program and of course NASA. It's great to have the United States back in the manned launch business and we're excited to be on board. This gorgeous guy had some VIPs with us here and I'm sure you guys have some questions you'd like to ask him, but I have one of my own before I turn him around and I just wanted to know if you guys were able to sleep.

On the way there, the last time I would say I had 19 hours, did you get any sleep? Yes, I think a lot of us at Hawthorne are asking the same question, sir, but we probably had a good shot at about seven hours. to sleep and I managed to sleep and I did too so the first night is always a challenge but the dragon was a slippery vehicle and we had good airflow so we had a great great night and we were excited to be back again in low Earth orbit, surprisingly well, one of the people who is here with us today is Senator Ted Cruz and of course he is a great supporter of the United States space program and has been someone who has helped us a lot in our transition from one administration to the next and the reason missions like this can be successful is because of continuity of purpose and Senator Ted Cruz was a leader on a bill called the NASA Broadcast Authorization Act and that's why We have had many political discussions. support and we are very grateful for his leadership, Senator Cruz, would you like to say a few words?

Well, congratulations gentlemen, the eyes of the world are on you and everyone is proud of you, the entire United States is watching you and today and yesterday represent a great Great Days we are looking at a decade since we had American astronauts launched on a ship American from American soil and I can tell you that yesterday I sat with my wife and children in our living room watching television and I suspected that we did what almost everyone watching did, including you two, we simply held our breath as it took off and We're glad to see it's landed safely, we're glad to see it docked, so let me ask you the dragon is an amazing vehicle, how to handle it.

It flew just like it was supposed to. We had a couple of opportunities to take it out for a spin, so to speak, once after we entered orbit last night and again today, about 20 minutes before we docked, and hats off to the folks at Hawthorne and SpaceX for how well that flew, it's exactly like the simulator and we couldn't be happier with the performance of the vehicle while we're aboard the space station, of course, with the new spacecraft we hope to get it through. our paces and therefore the boat's good effort will be under a lot of review over the next few weeks here and hopefully we will be able to declare her operational and Doug and I will be able to take some of the load off Chris. and his crewmates Ivan and totally so that we can keep the space station operating at its maximum possibilities F, so we hope to contribute in any way we can and, as I said, try to keep the space station as productive as possible as a country that We are in the middle of a difficult week, we are seeing protests, we are seeing a lot of anger, we are seeing violence and I have to say that this launch and all of you coupling is a powerful inspiration of what we can do when we gather together the power of unity, the power of ingenuity, and so I guess the last question I would ask you is, given that you have the opportunity to address and particularly to all the young people of America, what would you say to them in terms of what we can? do when we can get together, you know, that's a big question nine years ago, exactly nine years ago, we docked with Atlantis sts-135, the last flight of the space shuttle program, a thirty-year program, and people at SpaceX, people of NASA, the commercial crew.

The program put its heads together and worked diligently year after year, making sacrifices, working hard and then nine years later American launch capability was restored and this is just one of the efforts that we can show for centuries in this dark time that we have had over time. last few months to inspire especially the young people of the United States, so to reach these lofty goals and work hard and see what you can achieve, we have another very special guest here who represents the Johnson Space Center and of course it is my good friend of the House of Representatives dr.

Brian Bobbin and I want to make it clear that he was also a big part of the NASA Transition Authorization Act that gave us the continuity of purpose for this to happen today, so gentlemen, here is Dr. Brian bobbin from the state of Texas, thank you great for being with you. I was at the law office yesterday. I just want to say a huge congratulations and you know there was a storm that broke out about 30 or 45 minutes before takeoff and it was in doubt for a minute, but it was a huge accomplishment. I just want to thank you because you really appreciate what you are doing for the United States and the team that was already there, Chris and his two teammates.

Russians, I want to give you a big thank you too. I have a son who is a Navy SEAL and I want to thank you for his service there too, Chris, and I would also like to see what you know about. I said the Dragon ship handled very well. I want to see how it compares to the space shuttle. If any of you could address that I would greatly appreciate it, thank you sir, it has certainly been a long effort for us. and our namesake spacecraft, we are proud to have aboard the international space station after everything that teams from across the country and across the United States have done to get us here today compared to the space shuttle, both Doug and Me I took a few minutes while we were doing the approach and docking, in our free time we talked a little about it.

We were a little surprised at how well things went off the platform. The space shuttle is a pretty rough ride entering orbit. solid rocket boosters and our expectation was that as we continued with flight on the second stage, things would basically become much smoother than the space shuttle, but The Dragon was huffing and puffing all the way to orbit and definitely we were driving or riding a dragon to the top, so it wasn't exactly the same smooth ride as the space shuttle was up. Tamiko a little less, damn, but a little. A little livelier is probably the best way I would describe it.

Anything else, Doug, I'm sorry, I have to apologize for using the term Miko. It's a bit confusing between the space shuttle and the dragon vehicle, so Miko represents a cut of the main engine. because that happened at different times in flight for the two vehicles for the space shuttle that was when you were fully in orbit for Dragon that was just a little bit after two minutes and then we had the single engine cutoff for the second stage when it reached orbit , so the time under the single engine under the dragon with one engine was more of an experience than the shuttle for those six and a half minutes or so that we were under that second stage engine.

I would just like to say on Deb, did you have anything you wanted to add there? I met your mother and father yesterday, they are great people, they are very, very proud of their son and that's great, I hope you enjoyed the launch. I know it can be probably quite stressful for parents to experience a launch, this was the third one, so I'm glad everything went well and I hope it was a good show. We have it through Slee, we have heard or seen some video yet, but we are eager to see it. Watching the repeat launch at some point, I can assure you it was a great show, it was one of the pleasures of my life.

I won't have to say it, other people who were sitting there looking around the country and even the law and I can tell you that Senator Cruz said that we have been through some really difficult times in the last few days and to have that successful launch, you know the partnership public -private between NASA and SpaceX and you guys being so well trained and having it go smoothly was a tremendous blessing for our country and I can't tell you how many emails and communications I have received from people who were so disturbed by what was happening in all over the country great news and wonderful take off and everything went smoothly so I just want to say God bless you both thank you so much bless the rest of you too we thank our Russian partners and thank you Chris.

All in our prayers and we hope to see you, successfully complete your mission and return safely to earth. God bless you. Thank you very much, yes, and just so you know that the program was spectacular, the ratings on NASA TV everyone. otherwise, not just some of them, all of them, and that includes everyone knowing that everyone saw this, it was trending number one on Twitter, it was the number one topic talked about on social media in general, it was an incredible moment and represents a transition in the way we conduct spaceflight from the United States of America.

NASA won't buy or operate rockets and capsules like we used to. We will partner with commercial industry to access Earth orbit and those partnerships will continue. to allow our suppliers to get customers other than NASA and reduce our costs and we are going to have numerous suppliers that will compete on cost, innovation and safety and we are going to have more access to low Earth orbit than ever before. before and this business model now that has been tested in the commercial resupply of the International Space Station now Commercial crew to the International Space Station this model is going to be applied and I know that Senator Cruz holds this very dear when we go to the Moon and Of course, when we go to the Moon, it will be thanks to the great people here at the Johnson Space Center and at so many other centers in the United States of America, but when we go to the Moon, we will land. on the surface of the Moon with commercial landers and, of course, we are very proud of the commercial lunar payload services program that is managed right here from the Johnson Space Center so that we can deliver small payloads to the surface of the Moon Moon and all of this leads us to an incredible day where we will have humans living and working for long periods of time on the surface of the Moon, but doing so with a purpose and that purpose, of course, is to go to Mars, humanity goes to explore more. and be able to go further than ever thanks to public-private partnerships.

We all know that if the government is creating the demand and the government is creating the supply, we will always be limited, but when we have partners who are interested in exploring commercially. and doing the things that are necessary, you know, to getcapital investment, then we will all end up better off, so I just want to say that everyone saw this, this is a new era in human spaceflight and we are very grateful for the service. not just from our two astronauts who embarked on this mission, but from the over a hundred thousand people who are involved in this mission, from the suppliers to the prime contractors, the NASA team, the SpaceX team, what a wonderful day for our country and, in fact, for nothing in the world, I'm going to turn it over for a second to my deputy Jim Moore Hart, who has been a great deputy at NASA, gentlemen, congratulations, you know Jim mentioned going to the moon and yesterday and today they inspired the Artemus generation, which is our next generation and that is what it is about, it is really advancing the children that we have in our grandchildren so that they are the ones who go to deep space, this is the beginning of a new era and we simply thank you. for being at the beginning, thank you very much, it was an absolute pleasure, but it's just a huge team effort across the board, from SpaceX to NASA, that made all of this happen.

We were the lucky ones who got to fly the rocket yesterday. a question for Chris Cassidy, you know our team here decided to be about three days late, you started working overtime. I guess now to catch them up on all the activities they missed, any plans for him, well, the day that what they missed was good for them to skip, it was Saturday house cleaning and I, but I I took care of it for them, we'll catch up next weekend, but in all seriousness, we have some things to take care of tonight. making sure we're all safe and we know the plan in case something bad happens and then we're looking forward to some operational things later in the month, maybe we'll go out and do some spacewalks and our efforts over the next few weeks will be on that effort , so we are very excited to have two more crewmates for the Expedition 63 team.

The Johnson Space Center is led by Mark Guyer and I'm going to turn it around to mark some comments, thank you. Jim and it's great to see you all there. Good to see you Bob and Doug. I know that a few days ago you seemed a little taller than I remember you, but I also want to say how much I want to thank Anatole and Iman. and of course Chris, for what you have been doing since you arrived and I know there has been a lot to do and you have been very busy and I appreciate that, so I also like this picture of our international association, we have had a Tremendous partnership with Ross Cosmos and we will continue to do that, but I do, it's nice to see the crew arrive from this side of the space station, so it was great after 9 years.

I had a question for Chris, what could you do? To ensure Bob and Doug stay longer, do you have a strategy? Well, we'll slow down the pace at which I'm eating and maybe we can stretch our consumables a little, but that's a big question we'll have. come up with some collusion plan here in the next few days, okay, thank you, thank you guys, I hope to be able to greet the three of you eventually back to Ellington after your work is complete. Thank you, and of course, Mark Guyer has an amazing assistant, Vanessa Wash. If you want to come and say a few words, thank you.

Hello guys, you look very good. I just want to say on behalf of everyone here that we want to thank you. It was an incredible launch and we loved watching them dock. It looks great, just thank you for everything you're doing and we can't wait for you to come back, but not too soon. Station wants you to work hard, so we're looking forward to all of that, but thank you and God bless you. Thanks Vanessa, we appreciate that Steve Jersey, who is the agency's associate administrator for people who don't know what that is, of course, is the agency's director of operations, but he also did the flight readiness review for this mission. .

It's a really amazing job and I can't say enough about his leadership of the Steve agency, as you would like to say if you asked a few questions. Hey guys, it's great to see you all on stage. I won't tell you how my adrenaline stopped when you opened the hatch. I've been nervous since yesterday and the weather cleared up. I can't tell you how wonderful it has been to see you at the station. It has been a team effort. I felt like the last two years I've been part of the team working on problems, you know, and I had an amazing year and a half, we got the demo1 and then the flight abort test and working on the problems. like the parachutes and the defunct system and I couldn't be more proud of the team for forgetting to this point that it's amazing and obviously we've been a part of that.

Really efficient, you all appeared in Washington DC in our reviews and because The last thing we do is make those roses look at you all because you are the ones taking risks and making sure you are okay with where we are and not where we are going , so I really appreciate your active participation Matt and I couldn't be more proud of the team and congratulations, truly amazing guys, thank you sir, we are proud to be part of the team that brought a space flight back to the coast of Florida. I appreciated the comment above. It was nice to see a vehicle reach the front of the space station, but I'll tell you the only way Doug and I know how to do it, so we thank the team for letting it happen our way.

We appreciate it. so good Bob and Doug, here where I guess they're giving me the closing signal Doug Doug, did you have anything to say before we wrap up here? No sir, we're just happy to be here and Chris is going to put us on. to work and hopefully we'll fit in and not mess up too many things. I have no doubt that you guys will do an incredible job. I just want you to know that the president came to the launch and the vice president came to the launch about halfway through. The cabinet was at the launch, we had members of Congress and members of the Senate from both sides of the aisle and this was an incredible moment of unity for the nation, it was an incredible moment for the whole world to look up in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. corona virus and some other challenges, we were able to have this very special moment where we were all able to look at the future and say things will be brighter tomorrow than today and you, the NASA team and the SpaceX team gave us that opportunity. and for that we are very grateful.

I would also be remiss as NASA Administrator if I didn't tout what's coming next, and of course, this is the beginning. We are now launching into low Earth orbit again, but we will do so soon. we will go to the moon we will go to the moon sustainably with business partners and international partners we will use the resources of the moon to learn how to live and work for long periods of time, ultimately we will take all that knowledge and we will go to Mars and Of course, this time when we go to the Moon, we will go with a very diverse and highly qualified astronaut corps that includes women, which is why we called the program Artemis, named after Apollo's twin sister. and she in Greek mythology was the goddess of the moon, this is the beginning, there is much more to come and I am glad that our representatives from the Johnson Space Center are here because we are going to ask them to fund this project and what a wonderful day have given us, so thank you, thank you, thank you not only for me and the people here, but also for the United States of America and people around the world.

I'm more popular on Twitter than I've ever been and it's thanks to you, thanks for using the Internet. Thank you very much because we also maintain your position for a few minutes. Of course, there are a number of photos that we would like to take and then a quick note to those of you here in the room, to Senator Cruz, congressman managed by the coil or the director of Bryden Stein, Guyer, and all of our distinguished Visitors, thank you for your participation in today's historic event and thank you for the leadership that has allowed this to be the season.

Houston ACR thank you for concluding our event as we count down to 20 continuous years of humans living and working on the International Space Station.