Watch SpaceX / NASA Bring Bob and Doug Home from DM-2!!! Crew Dragon re-entry and splashdown!

perfection so it has nothing to do with saving propellant or slowing it down, that's just the path that's on and nothing is going to change that until you introduce energy so you can or in this case remove energy from the body of the spacecraft because right now it's going so fast that it took the entire Falcon 9 rocket to do it. That fast, to get it back down from that speed you have to take energy out of it. Don't you know that you can't just make the energy go away and say I'm going to stop now? So to be able to do that, that's one of the good things about using the atmosphere on Earth, the atmosphere is positive. and a negative point when you come back it is very difficult because you know it is very exhausting, it is very difficult to overcome it, it has temperatures and pressures in extreme environments that are really difficult to design, but at the same time it can actually remove the energy from this, the vehicle it eliminates velocity, so it exchanges kinetic energy, the speed of the spaceship, and it literally exchanges it for heat, like brake pads on a car, right when you have brake pads, literally all it does is hold the brake pad.

Brake. is creating localized friction that friction is converted to heat and is actually dissipated through heat the energy is disappearing disappearing or converting into heat kinetic energy into thermal energy this is almost exactly the same thing, it's a giant brake pad and the Energy is being transferred from kinetic energy by compressing the air, the air is slowing you down, but because it is being compressed, the way the energy is removed from the equation is through heat and the heat shield will literally come off. a little and it will take away some of the heat. By absorbing heat, it's called an ablative heat shield, so it will intentionally crumble a little bit letting things go, the heat goes with it, that's how it slowly converts its kinetics 10 times faster than the energy of a bullet and let the atmosphere take that velocity away and trade it for heat and that's the kind of thing to me that's like whoever figured this whole thing out, I mean, it's absolutely wild, um, yeah, so let's see here, so I'm trying to find questions.

Here, again, I really appreciate you for all your advice and everything, but I want to stick to the questions right now, since this is definitely one of those things that has a lot of questions, so this comes from the cigar that says when the capsule. flip from the nose to the heat shield, it is usually safe to do so because the capsule body will not be damaged. Love and prayers from India so when the capsule flips from the nose to the shield it is normally safe to do so when to do the deorbit burn so I think the question is when will they do the deal when they are facing the nose first to the right and have the nose cone open to the right and they're going to do that 11 and a half minute burn 11 minutes and I think 20 seconds of burn is what is currently calculated and that changes depending on your exact orbital parameters until the millisecond, basically, so they can nail their target, so that when they do it they're still in space and then once they do it.

They're done, they're still in space, it's not like they're done with their door, but we almost thought, oh, we're falling and we're in the atmosphere, you know, it's like they end up slowing down enough that they eventually come into contact with the atmosphere almost on the opposite side of the planet and since you're orbiting every 90 minutes, it takes about 20 to 30 minutes to really start experiencing the atmosphere, or any kind of significant atmospheric pressure, and don't forget about the atmosphere. it doesn't just go out like on the line of space so we define space as a hundred kilometers 62 miles altitude it's not like there's atmosphere and then when you get to that suddenly there's no more atmosphere and now you're in the space, the atmosphere just shrinks, so there's a huge, different altitude, you know, even the air pressure that we can experience as humans between different cities, like if you've ever been to Denver, Colorado, it's a mile high. , you know, 1.6 kilometers altitude, basically or Adesa. baba is like, I think, two miles altitude or something, it's like three or four thousand meters altitude, it's a very high city, um, there are many others, you know, so Mount Everest, obviously, people have to use oxygen, that is because the atmosphere narrows.

It's not that the atmosphere just ends, it's not that, oh, we're at this altitude, there's no more atmosphere and even where they are now, even where the international space station is, there's still a little bit of atmosphere, it just diminishes, eventually you get to the point where it's like there are practically no molecules, air molecules at all, but in low Earth orbit there certainly is some air, some air molecules, so once they spin, they still have a lot of time left, they have left several minutes before they even remotely begin to experience anything. type any substantial atmospheric pressure, okay, so I'm still listening here to make sure there's none of that air running around.

You'll get some of that once you're lower down during your descent and then you'll be able to listen as well. when the draco thrusters activate and one of the really interesting things they've done to train the

crew

is that Spacex had several microphones placed throughout the cabin during that in-flight demonstration last year and they were able to record what the interior sounded like through all the major uh all the major burn the launch the descent landing everything and in the trainer upstairs here in Hawthorne at the Spacex headquarters they have speakers installed where while they do simulations or practice runs of the different phases of the mission I can hear what it should sound like inside the

dragon

as they go through it, so I know that's something that Bob pointed out is that one of the things they're looking for is if this sounds like I'm expecting it too.

It seems to be a light. I'm supposed to see all these different things that to them it's like a reflection when they've trained him so much, that's amazing, okay let's answer another question from you guys, I'm kind of like that. I'm going to try to listen here, um, so when we get to the next part, I just want to make sure that we're not missing any milestones here, um and I'm sorry, we're trying to make it so that our timeline works. it will light up and show you what the next sequence of events actually is, uh, but yeah, we're having issues with how our file system is going down, so yeah, we're less than 10 minutes away from this sequence starting, We are only nine minutes away.

In fact, there are a few minutes left and first we will see that maneuver in which we will adopt the appropriate attitude or point the

dragon

in the correct direction to separate the claws and the trunk. Basically, we're going to do a 90 degree yaw maneuver and turn the dragon to the side. to make sure that the trunk exits and moves away, not exits in front of or behind the capsule, essentially re-entering the atmosphere with the capsule, we're going to avoid that and then the dragon will position itself for the deorbit burn that it's going to target. those forward bulkhead thrusters in the direction it's currently traveling, this is called a retrograde maneuver and this is done specifically to slow the capsule, but more than anything, we're changing the perigee or the lowest point of the capsule. it orbits again essentially placing it at a point of intersection with that point in the gulf where we return

home

.

Now notice you said what's interesting, so retrograde burn, what's strange about this, retrograde burn is actually versus prograde, that's because the propellants that they use, right, it's all arbitrary, like if it didn't necessarily matter. You could use a thruster sticking out of the side of your spaceship if you needed it for some reason, no matter which direction you're facing. in space there is no atmospheric pressure to know, make a difference in that, so they actually use the four upper thrusters that are under the nose cone. They are draco thrusters. They use those four that are facing the top, so they're facing down.

They basically point their nose in the direction of travel and do what feels like they're literally hitting the brakes very lightly because the thrust weight ratio is like 0.05 uh to 1. The thrust weight ratio is what I think we calculate. for the draco thrusters that I have, so even when everyone is firing, they barely do, it's not like they're going to say, come on, we hit the brakes and we barely feel the slightest pressure, like you know. there's no pressure on the restrictions and they'll slowly slow down, but they'll do it facing forward and then they'll turn around so it's a retrograde burn, but they'll do it facing pro grade, which um, which is uh.

For your part, I mean, I can't, maybe it's actually not that good, let me think about that, no, I think it's actually pretty normal, I'm trying to think about how Apollo did that, um, but yeah, so anyway, very interesting stuff again. are the kind of things that I think are fun to think about and yeah, let's see here, why do they put the deorbit thrusters under the lid? That's a great question, razzabot, so again I ask you about the top four thrusters. literally under the nose cone of the dragon capsule and you know, I don't have the best answer for that.

I'm trying to think about it from an engineering point of view, if they knew that, they were going to get the highest efficiency again by not having cosine losses, meaning if you have thrusters pointing in a straight line, basically 100 of their energy would be shoot that way, everything will go in the opposite direction if you angle them. at any angle, you're experiencing what's called cosine losses, where you're starting to put it, you know, yeah, you're still moving it in the direction that you're attending to, but you're also pushing towards the spacecraft, you're losing something. of that energy to basically compress the spacecraft a little bit, so if you wanted them to be looking up, you can't really do it along the body lines of the vehicle because don't forget those walls are conical.

They're at an angle of, I don't know, 15 degrees or whatever, so if you want those thrusters to point up, you can't just stick them on the outside edge of the thing, it just physically wouldn't fit. It would be weird, you have to follow those body lines, so to make them point up, you can hide them under the nose cone and that, and okay, dragon

spacex

to deorbit, let's just move on, okay,

doug

, we're on five minutes. Outside of the start of the orbit sequence, also, I just wanted to let you know that we are expecting a bit of a lull during the grapple and trunk placement due to the orientation of the vehicle.

Well, we see that there are 4 45 left until the uh slu and then Randy arrives during the clock. Good read, Doug. So what they're saying is that they're basically in the middle of orienting the spaceship so they can get rid of the trunk so that the dragon capsule has the dragon capsule and also has the dragon trunk attached to the bottom and that be supported by this. They call it a claw and it goes around the heat shield and it connects to the side of the spacecraft and that's so they can have all the heat exchangers, so the heat pumps, the heat radiators are in the trunk and on the opposite side there are solar panels, those solar panels obviously provide electrical power to the vehicles, so they deorbit them before, um, before they deorbit them because the dragon trunk is being intentionally burned on re

entry

, they actually want to put it as space junk there. literally, like an international space station, they put some stuff they want to throw into this trunk and they let it go out of orbit and let it burn, but they actually release the trunk before the deorbit burns up, but it takes a while, you know. , so Make it so there's no chance of there being any kind of collision, but I'm going to hear this real quick.

Bob and Doug were on their final orbit around the Earth. I don't remember what the number you quoted earlier was. Dan, but they've made thousands of orbits around the Earth over the two months they've been on the station, so it's really exciting that the line we see on that trajectory map is no longer all the way around, they're heading back

home

. We're not looking at two lines showing what its next orbit will be. They are in their final orbit of planet Earth and this is their 1,024th orbit around our planet since they launched in May earlier this year.

We're counting down, we're less than three minutes away from that first maneuver and that's going to be a lot, as you heard Doug on the radio, and that's essentially, we're going to change attitude, we're going to use those draco thrusters to essentially turn dragging about 90 degrees to the side so we can get rid of that log and that will be done in the two stages, we will do the claw separation and then the trunk separation two minutes 32 seconds and counting this is where things reallythey improve. is where we really commit to coming home and this is where we are in the final stages of bob and

doug

's journey into outer space and very soon we will see them in the gulf of mexico yeah well they are getting comfortable and continuing to monitor the data and the telemetry on the dragon vehicle is actually doing a couple of things on its own to prepare for this deorbit sequence again, that's doing these things autonomously, it's isolating the radiator thermal control system loops, this is The system that will help keep Bob and Doug cool as they re-enter the atmosphere, as we said before, the external temperature will reach 3500 degrees Fahrenheit and that thermal control system is what helps keep them cool during that time.

Also , Dragon is initiating the separation of the claw mechanism that will terminate the data that connects the power and the fluid and the fluid connections between the capsule and the trunk, so now the vehicle is preparing to execute that and we are anticipating the execution of claw separation in three minutes and 35 seconds so you know we've been here for 10 hours. I think at this point the entire webcast has been going on for almost a little less than 24 hours so you know we're in the final moments here. as the dragon begins it's his journey home uh to

bring

Bob and Doug back to earth this is the moment the dragon is in position to begin returning home the recovery team is already at the station they've been around some time off the coast of pensacola we're less than a minute away from starting all these carefully choreographed sequences to essentially split the dragon in half, get rid of that log so we have the capsule, i'll point the heat shield towards the earth after that deorbit burn and then take them home, we're just 30 seconds away from maneuvering the dragon to get ready to get rid of that claw first and then after the trunk separation, there will be about a 35 second difference or a 35 second jump from separating the grapple until the trunk separates and We will keep our eyes on the ground for you and make sure we get exact locations of when these separation events occur.

We're looking for the claw on the trunk to separate cleanly and then it'll be less than Five minutes until we do the deorbit burn, yeah, and after that, the Dragon Spacex deorbit sequence will start just fine, here we go, good news, they were never copied well, so the draco thrusters on the dragon start firing, yeah, now they're heading towards the trunk. The discard attitude should be about two minutes away from claw separation, it is beginning, everyone, for those of you who are just tuning in, you are right on time at this point in the mission, we are now beginning to execute the final steps of the return of the dragon's effort to the earth.

Right now we are performing the claw separation movement, which basically means that the dragon is maneuvering into its proper position to separate the trunk of the dragon and that will be initiated by the claw separation first. The claw is the mechanism that joins the trunk. and the vehicle, excuse me, and the capsule together, the claw is what delivers power, telemetry and fluids, and we need to expose the heat shield right now, the trunk is blocking it, so we'll ditch it and then they'll allow us to maneuver into the attitude suitable to perform the deorbit burn that the dragon has performed a series of burns so far overnight uh and early this morning and this will be the final burn that the vehicle has to perform for this mission.

We have just heard confirmation dragons in the trunk separation attitude, we are now waiting for the claws to separate again, this is vital because fortunately they have not committed to deorbiting yet, but they could fix the problems if something had happened, but the dragon I just heard confirmation that the trunk needs to be removed. to affirm the clause, okay, so that's the claw, but the trunk comes apart about 30 seconds later with the claw separated, now we are waiting for the trunk separation in less than 30 seconds, 10 seconds until the trunk separation and we are done After hearing the confirmation of trunk separation, the trunk separation will arrive at 10:52 a.m.

Pacific with a dragon flying over the Indian Ocean just west of Australia

spacex

dragon we show a nominal trunk discard oh yeah we feel good so the

crew

just got the nominal trunk separation call that's exactly what we were looking for next would be for that deorbit to burn up again, this is the longest firing of its trip home, this is the longest firing of those thrusters the last time we used those forward bulkhead thrusters exactly, uh, those forward bulkhead thrusters like Dan just of saying that's what we're using to do the deorbit burn once we do it, then we can make the Dior burn last 11 and a half minutes once it's complete, we don't need to use Those thrusters no longer exist, so We will close and block the nose cone in preparation for re-

entry

, so we are just under three and a half minutes from the start of deorbitation.

Our sequence of events has begun. We can separate. that claw at 10 51 a. m. Pacific, it is 1751 GMT or universal time and at 10 52 just a minute later, the trunk separated while the dragon was flying just west of Australia, so the trucks separated by claws separated next in orbit, burning , yes, right now, uh dragon. It is running purely on battery now that the trunk is detached and right now the telemetry is looking very good for the vehicle, the nitrox system is primed to cool the cockpit and suit and the heat shield is exposed and ready for atmospheric re-entry as I said before.

Nitrox system, which is essentially the air we breathe every day here on Earth. Nitrogen and oxygen combination mixture. It's the same thing they put in your scuba tank. If you are a diver, the Nitrox system is used to cool the cabin and suit. To keep the crew comfortable during the re-entry phase, they will actually have cold air flowing through their suits and through the cabin itself, so it's a two-pronged approach to maintaining a comfortable temperature inside the capsule, as we said a continuation. The event ahead of us will be the deorbit burn, which we expect to begin in one minute and 40 seconds.

Well, again this Dior ignition is extremely low power, that's why it lasts 11. They're only slowing down roughly. three percent like that to get to orbit it took the entire falcon 9 rocket in two stages, uh, hundreds and hundreds, uh, just an incredible amount of fuel, an incredible amount of energy to get home to the ground tracking map , there, dragon, to get home. what you need is literally like a little bit of thrust, a little bit of delta v, enough change to lower your orbit to the atmosphere now again, it's not something immediate, it's not like you leave and since we're in the atmosphere now, it's more like you. slowly lower your atmosphere and that changes where you go on the opposite side of the planet, basically that's how orbits work, which you speed up, versus the area of ​​your orbit, they are the opposites of the planet that will raise your orbit, if you slow down , it will lower your orbit on the opposite side of the planet, which is why they're doing this deorbit burn basically just south of Australia, because what that will do is lower the orbit to dive into the atmosphere. you know somewhere starting around the equator or something and then you know when they come back in it's going to slowly get slower, it's going to start getting slower and slower, which is going to reduce its orbit, which is going to get slower and slower, which will reduce their orbit, which will lower their altitude, which will reduce their orbit, which will reduce their speed, which is lower there, it just continues until finally it loses all its speed and they can blow up the buds, so that's basically what what they are doing, so they aim for this. really precise target right in Pensacola, Florida, they have 11 and a half minutes basically to fine-tune their orbit, fine-tune their deorbitation and determine with absolute precision where they are going to re-enter and then even while they are re-entering, they can rotate and move the capsule of the dragon because the heat shield actually has a lift vector, so they intentionally shift the center of mass slightly from the center of the heat shield and that creates it so that as it rotates around them. you can create a little bit of lift, a little bit of resistance and yes, I'm ready and I'm sure it's safe to say that Bob and Doug are ready.

They have conducted several interviews over the past few weeks while they were there. at the station and the excitement and enthusiasm for the mission is palpable. The opportunity to be able to take these two incredible humans to the International Space Station and back is a huge honor and we are so excited to have our space parents. home safely and back to their families as quickly as possible. This deorbit burn we are currently in will last 11 minutes and 22 seconds. I love that precision, it's already a little over a minute 10 counting, so we have about 10 minutes left. I heard a call, the propulsion system works nominally, that's the word we always want to hear.

We always like to listen. There is just under 10 minutes left in this burn and everything within the last 10 minutes again seemed like we had had a slow progression of events all morning. and then boom, in the last 10 minutes a couple of things happened, the dragon maneuvered into the proper position to ditch its trunk and did so nominally successfully and then it started the deorbit burn just a couple of minutes ago, like I mentioned before . This deorbit burn is the last time those four forward draco thrusters will fire forward, sort of meaning on the top of the capsule.

The dragon effort has not yet entered Earth's atmosphere, but this deorbit burn is what will align the vehicle and put it on its final trajectory. to the landing site in the Gulf of Mexico at this time, although we cannot see it at this time. Bob and Doug are using their screens to control the duration of the burn. Please excuse the Draco booster firing and trajectory details such as the capsule entry angle. perigee and how much distance is left until the deorbit ends, so the dragon is flying alone, so all they really have to do is stay strapped in their seats and stay on top of things.

I must inform you that our timeline is not going. highlight and activate is just static so this is just so you know the sequence of events, unfortunately we can't sync this and operate it the way we normally do, it doesn't work, that's why we delay what we're trying to fix it beforehand, but they're static, so that gives you a good idea of ​​what's coming next, so unfortunately we can't show you what happened, um, yeah, and we should also know that people are

watch

ing and pointing out that, of course, it's Elon. musk right front and center next to the president uh gwen shotwell and gwen is basically elon's counterpart who really makes sure this whole system is working uh she's amazing uh elon and his team are obviously doing some really cool things this is a big day for elon because obviously I think a lot of us are focused on this right now dm2 but at the same time we hope to potentially see spacecraft number five, the prototype spacecraft vehicle, make its first jump today as well, so it's a great day for spacex um, a double, uh, it could be like a double header, just an absolute hit out of the park, um, you know, this would be the first time that a commercial program from a commercial partner has brought humans back from space, obviously They were the first to

bring

that shot.

We get them up into space and you know they're going to be the first to take them down too, so assuming this is all just an absolute home run, we can tune in literally probably an hour or two later, probably you know about an hour later. After

splashdown

, we'll keep our eyes on Bocachica and see if they're making serial stat number five, uh, the actual jump today on their beam engine on their full flow stage combustion cycle raptor engine, which there is the possibility, I'm not sure. Elon might be wearing his shirt right now, it almost looks like it, uh oh, should we make some bets on which shirt is okay, let's listen to the attitude here, essentially a heat shield pointing down and towards the speed line and that shield thermal that protects?

They because of the heat of reentry the temperatures went up to about 3,500 degrees on the dragon spacecraft, but everything looks good, we're about five minutes away from this deorbit burn again, it started right at 10:56 a.m. Pacific Time , uh 1756 56 gmt uh, the dragon was flying about 260 statute miles, just off the southwest coast ofAustralia, it looks like our timeline is working, so this now shows you exactly what's going on, so, yeah, now we can take you and tell you exactly where you are, so again. What they are currently doing in the middle of their deorbitation somewhere south of the coast of Australia and that will affect where they are on the opposite side of the orbit.

He'll say we're probably about to see it right now during this burn. We just heard a call that we are halfway through the burn and everything is looking great. Everything is nominally running during this burn right now. Bob and Doug are monitoring the deorbiting tool which, as I said before, captures things like perigee, reentry interface. how long or excuse me how many miles how much distance is left before the combustion ends they are also monitoring the duration of the combustion and the firing of those draco thrusters located there on the forward bulkhead of the capsule there on your screen.

I can actually see what Bob and Doug are looking at right now, that's that tool on their screen, so to the left and right of the center screen, that's the deorbit monitoring tool, man, I love it see those screens, so, um. we should say you know there are those four thrusters and the good thing is there's some redundancy there so those four thrusters do this deorbit burn and the way the thrusters work is you can't accelerate them so actually They work like just In a sense, it constantly alternates and that's how you control how much power it's producing, so they could have one thruster go out and alternate between others and they can even use some of the lower thrusters that there actually are. four more which are those that are at an angle, uh, that can also help in this maneuver, so let's say and everything is smart.

The whole system is smart, so let's say a thruster would shut down, they can actually start instantly, basically , to turn on the other thrusters because it's basically like that, like a drone or a quadcopter that knows its own orientation, all that and it's just constantly trying to fix it and uses whatever system it needs to to keep doing what it's trying to do, so the caps of the dragon will be the same way if a thruster, one of those four goes out for some reason, then the others more or less As can compensate for that and continue the burning exactly as planned, which is quite ingenious.

Our new display is a shot of our mission control center here at Spacex headquarters in Hawthorne, California, where dragon operators and mission leaders are monitoring the dragon's progress. Continue to look at the propulsion data and all the CNG data, making sure everything looks healthy and nominal, so if I can squeeze a few things in, let's see this is from a dropped game. I can't wait to see the door overlay. Two minutes and 30 seconds left, I have my coffee in my hand waiting to suggest that everyone order my cup of coffee. I think we have astronaut coffee mugs every day in the store or at least we had them at shop.everydayastronaut.com or the dailyastronaut.com store.

We definitely used to have cups, maybe we're out, but we're ready to close the nose cone that protects the docking ring guidance control and navigation sensors and also these four forward bulkhead thrusters that are currently performing deorbit burn during the actual reentry process, so we are. just under two minutes from the conclusion of deorbit, burn again the dragon is committed to its landing point, there is no turning back, yes, we already have the recovery team ready and waiting, they have been there for quite some time and we've got about 90 seconds left in the hot weather, looking great at the landing site off Pensacola, winds about two and a half miles an hour, uh c, described as glass down the core here on Hawthorne radio and up the crew ended up having fantastic weather.

For this first crude

splashdown

of the Dragon, we are one minute away from the end of deorbit burn again. This burn is placing the Dragon on its final trajectory toward the landing site off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, which is in the Gulf of Mexico, and our recovery vessel. Go navigator and the recovery team is ready and waiting to see Bob and Doug come back through the atmosphere, so man excited, like we said, this deorbit burn, uh, during these two orbits, they're not actually reentering the atmosphere yet, that won't happen. This won't happen for about another half hour or so, this is essentially lining up the dragon on the correct course towards that Splashtown site, still at an altitude of about 254 statute miles above planet Earth, we are approaching 10 seconds from the end of the burning so We will be attentive and wait for the call to the crew about burnt performance dragon spacex deorbit burnt full performance nominal nose cone closure sweetly started since everything is normal can we get a normal in the chat so now the nose is going to break the orbit? complete burn we hear the nominal burn call bob and doug are on their way home this burn commits them to re-entering the earth's atmosphere oh all we have left now is to wait that was really one of the last important moments uh before they start to re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, next we will have the closure of the nose cone, which should happen in just a couple of minutes, since we had a gap of about three minutes between the end of deorbitation and that moment, yes, the nose.

The cone is actually currently in the process of closing, so it doesn't just slam shut, it slowly closes and locks, so right now the nose cone is in the process of moving and returning to the closed position and we will listen to the call whenever. it has been completely closed and as long as the nose cone is not available, if it remains open during re-entry it would be very bad, I think it would probably interfere with parachutes and things like that, so I wonder if they have an emergency situation to be able to to throw away the nose in case they really had a but you know?

That said, throw away the nose cone and maybe they actually have a mechanical way to separate a nose cone in case it doesn't close properly for some reason. Wonderful, we could order a series so that the first series closes and then the second follows and that. It will take me about a minute to complete. I'm going to ask Elon if there is a way to do it manually. Is there a way to do it manually? What did I say? Discard the nose cone in case there is an abnormality. I never know how to spell anomaly. anomaly in the closing process, well, while we wait for the closing of the nose cone to finish, we will have a little time again, we will have about 20 minutes or a little over 21 from now until we actually start to re- Upon entering Earth's atmosphere, we expect that entry interface in about 21 minutes and then at about that time we'll also be looking for that blackout that we've been talking about.

We've had a bit of what we call radicom at the moment. period, so you'll hear some sporadic interruptions in the audio feed just because of how the dragon was oriented for the log launch and for the orbit burn, but that blackout period is due to the plasma building up around the capsule. interferes with those antennas either sending or receiving data, so I heard the call that the first set of hooks for the nose cone closure are in motion, so this will be completed in two sets. The first set is now on the move, so really good news. to hear everything looks good so far, as I mentioned before in the background the dragon has inhibited the forward bulkhead draco thrusters that we just used to complete the deorbit burn, this is to ensure it is safe to close the nose cone for re-entry too.

The vehicle has initiated the nitrox purge. Nitrox is simply a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen, it is what we breathe and the nitrox that is purged into the system is cooled, allowing cold air to circulate throughout the cabin but also inside Bob and Doug. The suits will help keep you cool and comfortable during re-entry, which will occur in about 20 minutes, yes, for those of you wondering about the cameras that are recording there, probably for a documentary of some kind or something. That's not it, those aren't broadcast cameras, they're probably there for posterity here for some kind of production later on.

I wanted to point out that I think on the back, on the blue mask on the left, let's see, it might be a little off. marco, i think it's benji reed, director, uh, dragon capsule, dragon engineer, we are securing the nose cone, currently in progress with the first set of hooks, the first of two sets and we just received confirmation that the first set of hooks is closed, so now the second one. hitting the second set will also start to close man this is pretty crazy I mean the last time the US did this was in 1981 for sts-1 with the space shuttle we don't really want to talk about what that was like because actually It was a very close call a very close call um that was uh john young and uh and bob uh no bob banking crippen young and crippen was on sts-1 1981 and uh what was April 12th because it's yuri night, TRUE? or yeah, April 12 uh, 1981 and they accidentally didn't realize this, but the main thing was that there was a big main tail fin on the space shuttle that ended up basically shaking a little bit and didn't have full control during reentry and fortunately , it was a nice conservative and safe reentry profile, um, but they actually saw it in a later review and they say, oh, this could have been catastrophic and obviously the good thing is you know the space shuttle required all these big turns. um. the upper atmosphere, these big spins really lock in your landing site and it really wasn't as passively stable as something as simple as a dr like a dragon capsule or like a capsule in general, the shape of the capsule is the shape of a gummy bear. . incredibly passively stable, so at this point let's say the spaceship you know lost all control of its thrusters, you know, and as long as it's facing the right direction to begin with, even if it's not faith, you could almost go from nose into the atmosphere and it's going to want to spin into its heat shield, that's how stable it is, so it's an incredibly stable design and you know, inherently stable.

This is the first time since 1981 that we have witnessed a new spacecraft in the United States go through this reentry process, so it is definitely a momentous occasion, a very momentous occasion, so yes, the docking is complete. correctly and we just heard a call that the Spacex nose cone is safe for entry. We see you on board, very good, great confirmation there back and forth from mission control here to Bob and Doug. in the dragon effort Bob and Doug can also confirm on their screens that the nose cone has closed normally and is safe for entry, so the nose cone of the nose clone closed and completed many tongue twisters with this right now, uh, it comes with the dragon. still flying over the South Pacific, it is on its way home, we will gradually start to see its altitude drop at this time, already only 207 miles above the earth's surface, it was about 260 miles when it was still on the other side of the ocean pacific off the southwest coast of australia whenever but but what Dan is telling you right now how it's going down slowly I don't remember it's not just falling straight down when you're in orbit you're spinning really fast you're flying 10 times faster than a bullet and you know you're going 17 or 17 thousand miles an hour, it's about 17,500 miles an hour, you're absolutely screaming, so all they do is slow down a little bit. bit, which makes the orbit a little elliptical, plunging part of the orbit into the atmosphere and letting the atmosphere in on the rest of the stuff, so it's slowly lowering its altitude slightly right now as it rotates while it's in orbit and then it will begin. to really bite into the atmosphere uh probably off the coast of South America and that's when it's going to really start to slow down going into the second half of the inning the dragon is now starting to inject nitrox into the cockpit and continues to finish off in bob. and Doug's suits as well, again, this is cold air essentially flowing through the cabin and the suits, this is what will allow them and the cabin to remain comfortable during re-entry while those external temperatures reach 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit, so I wanted to remind you.

Guys, something exciting we recently received just a week or two ago, before this mission ended, NASA totally changed theiropinion on the reuse of Spacex's dragon capsule. Originally this whole process was talked about for so long that they would never reuse the dragon capsule. with the crew they just thought they would eventually repurpose it for cargo as you know with the crew this is now the dragon 2 spaceship so they have a crew variant and a cargo van the main difference is that the cargo doesn't need abort engines and life support and things like that, so it's just a simplified version and the idea was that they would remove the crew ones and use them as cargo, but now we are already seeing, and not only, that they always were . saying that they wanted to use new boosters, new Falcon 9 first stage boosters, although you know NASA is used to using reflowed boosters or used boosters on many of their other missions, all of their crs missions and all that.

A week or two ago, NASA also said, "You know what we are," we're actually going to go ahead and reuse this capsule. We are so confident that it will return in good condition to be safely restored. and we're going to start reusing propellants as well, so coming up in September, late August or early September, I think it will be the crew one that will be the first operational flight with a crew of four and then about six months later, In early 2021, they are going to reuse this exact same drag dragon capsule. The dragon capsule will reuse it and fly it again with four more astronauts on board, so they already decided that you know. it seems like everything is safe and good even though it falls and all that, they are so confident that spacex has already repurposed the spaceship, their entire dragon one program, almost half of the dragons that ever flew to the international space station , there have been 20 uh missions with the dragon one capsule, almost half of them were reused, I think nine of the 11 were capsized capsules, so obviously they have the data, they have the knowledge on how to reuse a spacecraft that was has crashed and beyond that dragon dragon 2. it has huge improvements in renewability and waterproofing and all that so including the heat shield we had a good question on discord someone asked if the heat shield is replaced in Every flight, like the space shuttle, is actually supposed to be reusable. up to 10 times and I think they can literally measure just the thickness, how much has been removed and then from there they can still make the decision whether or not to reuse that heat shield, but there is a restoration process that they say from conservative way.

He said it was just me, I think Benji Reed said it was like in a month or two that they could turn the spaceship around in two months and so they're pretty sure that even though this will be the first time they're going to totally renovate it. for humanflight, they're pretty confident that they'll be able to restore it and have it still in working order within six months, which is amazing, we're less than 11 and a half minutes away from where we expect to get to the entry interface, so that's where Dragon will really start to feel. the effects of being in a denser atmosphere and then we're still tracking that the blackout will occur at about the same time, we're less than 27 minutes away from splashdown, so we're less than 27 minutes away from bob and doug being on the planet Earth for the first time since May 30th to put everything into perspective, you know, the dragon capsule departed the international space station several hours ago, but based on what Dan just said, it's essentially halfway to home based solely on altitude, so the international space station is about 250 miles above Earth. surface, I think right now it's between 250 and 300, I think right now it's about 263 miles above the surface of the earth, so based on the telemetry that the dan just read, it's from the point of view altitude, the dragon is halfway home and yet the second half is going to be covered in the next 27 minutes while we wait for landing and recovery compared to the several hours we've been covering since yesterday, yeah , we will continue to see its speed drop as it leaves orbit, it is starting to hit the atmosphere, it is starting to slow due to the effects of that friction that generates the heat in the heat shield and builds up the plasma eventually around the spacecraft , its speed will continue to drop, it is already below 17,000 miles per hour and will essentially drop to a terminal velocity of about 350 miles per hour just as those drogue shots are deployed and will come out when the dragon spacecraft's sensors, both The GPS and pressure sensors tell the spacecraft that it is at the correct altitude and will then automatically deploy strobe lights coming out of the top. section of the spacecraft that uses two mortars or pyrotechnics to essentially deploy those that do the initial deceleration and stabilization of the dragon capsule, after that the main parachutes will come out and decelerate it further to about 119 miles per hour and then will continue to slow down. and by the time the capsule falls into the Gulf of Mexico, it's only going 15 or 16 miles per hour, so the speed reduction is significant in just a couple of minutes, of course, it's a pretty comfortable speed . the way astronauts have described it before with other types of missions also landing doing ground landings at about the same rate they said, it feels like you're in a minor accident, yes you're definitely running into something that I'm sorry, but they work a lot with seats and restraints with these crew members just to make sure that while it may be a bump in the fender, you have more than a seat belt essentially holding you in, so they're very insurance. in their suits and in their seats and they will stay there even after the dragon lands, we will still have communication with the dragon once they are in the water, it will stay on, probably most importantly their air conditioning will continue to work. work while they are in the capsule in the now Gulf of Mexico and much warmer temperatures than they have seen in the last few months and we will still be able to talk to them from here in Hawthorne and the recovery teams will also be I can, yes, I had, I'm seeing some questions about the cameras so yeah this is from Chris I agree it's a little sad that we aren't seeing the exterior cameras from these events or Anyone know they have cameras they can point them into the trunk and probably see the Trunk separation and stuff like that, so I'm a little sad, but I think they're more concerned about having all the systems pointing to telemetry. right now on the data um and unfortunately they're leaving us with this and eventually I think hopefully we'll see some shots from inside the spacecraft from time to time especially once they're under parachutes and then of course They have videos below. there come on navigator there's a whole camera crew ready to film the landing so yeah we'll see better footage than just mission control here and Hawthorne this is Spacex mission control um so They are, they are, they are.

Now you're in control of this, it's not even though it's a NASA mission and NASA, uh, you know, it's part of the international space station and part of the commercial crew program, um, they basically hired Spacex and They said, "Here you are." make it happen make it happen spacex now you're in control you know they're just the uber to the international space station they only get paid one amount and there's a close collaboration but at this point you know they're all hands on deck right here in hawthorne california spacex for a quick entry summary, okay doug, we don't have any updates on the weather because the combustion was great and your vehicle still looks great for the entry, no health issues at this time, one of those quindar shades, okay, copy of the dragon, thanks also for the recovery.

The equipment is underway and the weather remains excellent, the winds are about two knots and the waves are about a foot from the boat. They are reporting very calm, what a cubicle, happy, good weather in the landing area. Thanks, that's fine, and the last piece is what we expect. some additional ready communications during entry preparation 2 due to the attitude of the vehicle so if you can send us your entry verification report a little before entry preparation we would also appreciate it welcome ok thanks doug so there we had a brief briefing between mission control and roll and crew effort, just confirming with them that the deorbit was excellent and that there is no need to update the time on their platforms.

We can upload new trajectory calculations, including active times depending on you. Know how the burn is going and at this time there is no need to update them, it is important that they remain accurate because Bob and Doug their main mission at this time is to continue to monitor the status of the vehicle, the telemetry and the data that is presented. to them by touching the touch screen in front of them and therefore during the more dynamic events, they certainly want to be aware of when things like the parachute deployment will occur and when they will fall as expected, to make sure that the line of timing of events that the sequence is accurate is certainly important so that you are aware and updated of upcoming events, just another quick position check dragon that is still over the central Pacific up to about 108 miles altitude and we hope that the input interface appears in the The next four minutes or so again at that point the dragon should be at an altitude of around 62 statute miles or about 100 kilometers and that's when you really start to feel the effects of the atmosphere, you start to experience lift and drag and other atmospheric effects. has been free while flying in the near vacuum of low earth orbit so continuing to drop in altitude and continuing to look for an on time landing should be within 19 minutes so this is a good question and sorry guys I'll catch you . ask when you can, it's going to be very difficult today.

How can they spend so much time orbiting the capsule in the future? Could they undock and land faster? So I posted a video this morning. Many of you probably haven't been online. enough to realize, but I made a video on the considerations and the criteria, the orbital mechanics around re-entry and deorbitation, but the big scoop, basically, the big takeaway is that they're orbiting, nothing's going to change, like If you couldn't turn. Wait, Spacex copy entry preparation complete, thank you awesome, it's actually very difficult to change your orbit, so you basically have to align it when you're aligned with where you want to land because the Earth also rotates below that orbit. so there's just considerations about the landing sites and not only that, but also the phase, where the spacecraft is when the orbital path is aligned with where you're trying to land, so it has to be like this, it's all of these considerations, there are basically three different movements. parts it's like playing 4d chess or something like that and uh it's it's time for you the speed your relative speed the orbit where the orbital plane is where you're going to land landing criteria all the waves and everything so I have a video that tells you everything about how you get back in and land after we're done here

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I promise a lot of your guys' questions are probably answered in that video, including you, do you know why they don't use the uber? dracos um why don't they probably like all the questions you have? I promise you I pretty much have answers so um watch that video afterwards and it should answer everything we're seeing here today because we're only 15 minutes away, the weather is good, we saw blue skies and a couple of fluffy white clouds in the Gulf of Mexico as we got views from our recovery boat, go to navigator, but I'm glad to hear that conditions are holding up and the winds look very good too.

Well, about two and two and a half miles per hour, so almost nothing really couldn't ask for better conditions for a day of landing. In a way, we threaded the needle once again, almost like we did at launch, with today's weather. The upper limits for the wind we are around 10 miles per hour, so we are below that threshold for a splashdown today, the dragon is approaching 82 miles altitude and continuing to descend, we wait for the entry interface to begin. Very soon, when the vehicle will really start to warm up, it will continue to use its draco thrusters to maintain its attitude as it moves through the Earth's atmosphere and we will have that quiet blackout in just a couple of minutes.

Well, I should mention that the dragon form is substantially taller, it is a taller vehicle.tall with less steep walls or I guess steeper walls, they are actually almost more vertical compared to Boeing Starliner and the Orion capsule which have almost 45 degree walls. So those are actually more stable. The free entry dragon may be a little heavy and they may need to do a little more active checking to make sure it's right in the sweet spot and perfectly stable, but again, these are designed. to be passively stable as well or at least more inherently passively stable based on its form, man, is it anyone else?

Do you feel my heart beating? It's like that. We're getting to the real stuff here, oh man, so he said we're anticipating a brief blackout period where we won't be able to communicate with the capsule, that's, we expect it to start in exactly three minutes, that will last six minutes total and during that time we will not be able to control the vehicle or receive telemetry, said dragon is designed to be completely autonomous, so it drives itself anyway, so Bob and Doug will remain restrained in their seats and, as I said, the early loss of signal or whatever you will hear them called. so it's only six minutes long and again I saw a good question from a big problem and again I'm sorry we're out of order here you guys have been amazing to me here uh like I said I really want to listen to this but why are the beeping sounds happening when they talk and notice in the paul?

Those are called quindar tones and the highest and lowest tones so you can know the start and end of a transmission based on the hold or it's ground. a beep at the beginning and the end, let's listen, see you on the other side at one, eight, four, two, okay, so it's the beginning and the end, because the tone goes, I can't, I can't go on, it's approximately half a step. uh, high and then low, so start the transmission here, beep, end of the transition here, boop and uh, that's so there's some kind of digital record or some kind of tape on the tape and the playback you can tell who was starting and stopping what communication is.

It's just a way to have an audio recording and even as a notification, almost like here, we have an incoming transmission based on that little quindar tone, so we'll go through the input interface where we'll find aerodynamic forces really starting to build up. The outside temperature will reach approximately 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit, however, the interior of the cabin is environmentally cooled, so Bob and Doug should remain comfortable during the descent, there will be cool air flowing not only through the cabin itself, but also through your suits, the suits have sensors that can detect the temperature inside that suit and once that sensor reads that it has reached the maximum temperature threshold, it will wash the suit with some fresh air and and really circulate and cool it down, I'm going to listen here, but I think the crew is only experiencing about three to four g's of deceleration here, so it's at the peak, that's one of those numbers that I want confirmation, so I'm going to listen here and see if we can pick that up in that communication about 42 minutes past the time, so for the next six minutes they're already at less than 60 miles altitude and this is when the capsule is actually heating up during that re-entry reaches temperatures. of about 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit, since again you're essentially hitting the atmosphere at over 17,000 miles per hour in the friction that builds up that plasma around the spacecraft, that's what's going to keep us from talking to Bob and Doug or getting spacecraft data for the next six minutes, the flight computers are in Although control will continue to maintain its appropriate trajectory and attitude, it will have attitude determination devices aboard the capsule that will not rely on communications with satellites and will continue to crawl by the correct path for this splashdown off the coast of Pensacola, so we're on it.

Lockdown period, we're going to keep waiting until we get them on the other side, man, okay, so, this is, I saw this real quick, I just want to answer this person's question. You're too late, you probably can't. have you been able to see it anyway you know you have to have the right conditions to be able to see uh spaceship basically it has to be dark where you are and the light has to shine on them you have to have you have to be in the shadow it has to be reflected and not I know if you could have done it, but if you had, it would have been about 20 minutes ago when I was on the other side of the planet, so hopefully we should get some views from a couple of our assets on the landing zone, including our plane. high-altitude research aircraft wb 57, which will rely on the dragon's telemetry to fix it in the sky and give us an infrared view of the capsule during the final stages. of reentry we will be looking for the drogue to deploy approximately 44 minutes after the time those will be two drogue shots that will come out when the vehicle is still moving at approximately 350 miles per hour. be at an altitude of about 18,000 feet, they will come out and do some initial deceleration and stabilization of the spacecraft and then less than a minute later they will separate and the four main parachutes will deploy, you will see them come out and they initially look like something closed and then they do what's known as reef opening in two different stages just to minimize the immediate loads on the parachutes themselves, uh, and again I see a lot of questions about, do you know why?

We are not seeing video from the spacecraft at this time, telemetry or data transmission between the spacecraft and Earth is currently physically impossible. We would not be able to get live views from inside or outside the spacecraft at this time due to the atmosphere. Again we're thinking of this spacecraft as something that goes 10 times faster than a bullet, hits the atmosphere and when it does, the air can't even move out of the way fast enough, so it compresses the air in front of it in its Shock. bow like when you see a boat and it has a bow and like the wake it leaves.

Think about the same thing with the spaceship and you know how sometimes the ships, you know, the waves get a little high. Because it hits the water, it creates that pressure. We're thinking that the same thing here with the arc of the heat shield is compressing that air and when it does that, it compresses it as much as air is compressed, it gets hot and if you do it enough, you can heat it up to plasma and that's exactly what is happening, so you can't send communications or data radio signals through that hot plasma. It's physically impossible, but there are internal recordings that will hopefully be posted here soon.

We expected this blackout period to last a total of six minutes and we are about halfway there now at the time the dragon is re-entering the Earth's atmosphere and due to the plasma building up on the outside of the vehicle, we are unable to communicate or send commands but the dragon is completely autonomous it's steering itself uh and right now bob and doug are flying home yeah the spaceship has never been controlled from the ground you know there would be too much of a delay um can you send cargo something so the spaceship will do it sometimes like we have to know, we do it out of curiosity, we'll send it a set of commands or a place to go or whatever.

It takes 20 minutes to reach Mars even at speed. of light and then executes those commands and has to do it himself or have some type of autonomy. The dragon capture was completely autonomous in that sense where there is no input from the ground to fly home or do anything like that, it has a program. sequence that can be updated if necessary, but we'll hear them asking for communication checks constantly, like in the Apollo movies and stuff, so I want to hear that, so we're still within that early lockdown window. It seems that perhaps we are getting some sporadic data that is starting to come into focus.

That's why you heard that communications are verified with dragon spacex com spaceship verification copy. We also have you 5x5, Doug looks good and you can expect an automated shooting display. So we have very good news, we have come out of the blackout period and have reestablished connection with Dragon Enforcement with NASA astronauts Bob Bankin and Doug Hurley on board. I got goosebumps guys we were able to get these back. that communication a little earlier than expected and now we're just waiting, we should be about two and a half minutes away from the initial deployment of the drogue shot, yes two minutes and 26 seconds Agps has converged, you may have heard before that Bob and Doug they are currently experiencing 3.5 g's not too bad, that's what they took out during the climb phase, like a smooth roller coaster, the vehicle is now over the Gulf of Mexico, it is approaching the landing zone off the coast of Florida, near Pensacola, and there we have our first shot there, this is the first view from the WB-57 plane, it's coming in and out a little bit, it's going to be an infrared camera that will show us dragging and re-entering, it's basically coming in, already You know, it's like a meteorite, you know it's coming and you're seeing the tail of its still plasma and the hot air in its wake.

GPS units it actually uses in the parachute deployment process as it helps, along with the pressure sensors, to give a solid altitude to the flight computers turned on when they are supposed to deploy. Hopefully we have a decent temperature waiting for the parachute deployment. We should be less than five minutes from landing, passing 15 kilometers. Prepare for the drug window. Oh, there's a video, Kathy, we're brave. approximately 14 kilometers altitude 8.4 miles continuing to descend there on your screen we have a shot of the capsule as it prepares to deploy those initial parachutes the drug parachutes again these parachutes help to further reduce the speed of the vehicle and help stabilize it in preparation for the main Shoot deployment right now, the capsule is going about 400 miles per hour, 600 kilometers, rapidly accelerating to 650 kilometers per hour for those of you who are metrically inclined and waiting for the drogue deployment, so now Don't visualize two drugs, oh yeah, there on your screen.

We have visual confirmation of those two drug deployments, so two of the two groups are now going to slow down and stabilize the dragon spacecraft which should separate in just a few moments and then we will see four parachutes. The main parachutes deployed the dragon under packs, so you'll see four small tubes, you'll see four small pilot shots and then the four main shots will open so the expected rate of descent is the expected speed under the nominal parachutes, we're at around 150 miles. one hour and it is already falling normally, you can see that the packs are now separating yes, four millimeters, confirmation of the deployment of the four main parachutes and this is fine, they are filling visually in four shots, we are visual, four main parachutes deployed, yeah oh that looks good, that's good guys, I think now it's time for us to do a pointed end up, flamed and down, confirmation, it looks like now the buds are under the buds, it looks like the pointed end of the spaceship is actually up and what was just a second ago a burning end is down this is exactly what we want to see the pointy end is up the burning end is down it's happening folks we're coming down for a landing nice and smooth they will drop somewhere between six and seven and a half meters per second nice and easy no big deal they got this main shot at a decent nominal rate going through 700 meters oh yeah so at this point the dragon has saved all propulsion systems at 600 meters 600 meters and we are 600 meters over the Gulf of Mexico.

At approximately one minute 30 from landing the mission control team here at Hawthorne has reported the precise landing coordinates to the recovery team who are waiting ready to go find our space daddies, go find those space daddies, go to look for those space daddies, it's time, as soon as I will see the horizon cross about 300 meters oh, that shot one minute until splashdown, so again it will land between six and seven and a half meters per second. It seems like all the shots are at 200 meters here. Prepare for splashdown. Copy. Prepare for splashdown. It comes so we hear Bob and Doug report that they are preparing for a splashdown.

We set up the Gulf of Mexico here in the shot momentarily, as we are now about 20 meters from the ocean. It's a small, yeah, yeah, splashdown, as you can see. On your screen we have visual confirmation of the copies of the spacex landing and we agree that Dragon Effort has returned home. NASA astronauts Bob and Doug. Half of the SpaceX and NASA teams. Welcome back to planet Earth and thank you for flying with Spacex. Thanks for flying withSpacex. Oh, that's the first of many. Guys, we're going to be seeing this a lot, don't forget we already have another one of these happening in about two months.

The dragon crew and effort congratulate everyone and now we lose communication and we are in the four decimal eight zero section. zero, thanks for those words, Doug, and we copy you that you are at four decimal places 800. The great news is that our space daddies are back on Earth after a 19-hour return trip from space. The dragon's effort has landed in the gulf. from mexico just off the coast of pensacola florida and on your screen you can see our two fast boats and in fact they are running quickly to greet the dragon effort while it is there the first one there we can see a view inside the capsule bob and doug looks good, although communication was a little choppy, we heard the effort at three decimal places, we showed up in stable one and copies of spacex for vehicle evaluation, step three decimal, one stable, good news, stable, They are essentially standing upright in the water barn.

Two there is also another potential where it could be on its side or even upside down, but Dragon has a water ballast system to keep it upright, where it can essentially pump seawater into the bladders in the service section of the capsule, but They are already upright. I see the fast boats approaching, they landed they arrived right on time at 11 48 am. Pacific 1848 UTC Bob and Doug now in the water and recovery operations have already begun. We already see the rapid, so let me say yes. I'll give you a little tour here so there are two quick boats, the first one will go out and make sure that none of the hypergolic propellants that the thrusters use use monomethylhydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide or mm mm hnto and uh, that's actually extremely toxic, It's a terribly toxic gas and they've been shot through basically the entire re-entry process that they had, but they were still active so there could be some residual gas and just to make sure there aren't any leaks or issues like that, In fact, They go up to the spaceship and they do it with masks on and everything, the first ship will go up and check for hydrazine leaks and make sure there are no leaks, nothing harmful that could harm the recovery team and then they will also check the integrity of The spacecraft makes sure everything looks good after re-entry, the second speedboat going out will try to return the parachutes and they will grab all the sprouts so they don't hinder recovery operations with the boat that will come. and collect it so back in the days with Apollo they basically went out and placed, you know, all the older capsules in the United States that they got and they were placed like a little boat and then they were recovered, oh, this is the reproduction, this will be great , but basically you know that they were laid out and then they were picked up by a helicopter, that helicopter then took them to the deck of an aircraft carrier, right, but this is different, this is, oh, that's looking down, that's cool, those They are the four parachutes. in the water um, but now they only have one boat, they have a recovery team, it's a Spacex recovery team, they almost call them the Spacex navy and they come out with this, there will be a ship that has a uh, it has everything, basically, it's pretty. small boat but it's called the one that's doing this is uh go boater on the Atlantic coast there's an identical one called go search because there were seven options for landing sites, they have seven pre-planned landing sites and there are four in the gulf three in the Atlantic coast and these ships are going to come up to them so first they're going to secure everything and then the actual recovery ship is going to come out and turn around and take it out from behind with this lift. and then they hoist it onto the deck of the ship and then once it's on the deck of the ship they open the hatch and let the crew out and they immediately take the crew away, the crew is going to be weak, they've been in already you know, they were in orbit for about two months experiencing micro micro gs, so their body is not adapted to the earth, it is not adapted to gravity, so they will have to be helped out of the capsule and immediately enter a medical control center on the deck of the vehicle right there like they just walk, they just help them go like, you know, five or ten meters or something, just a nice little walk over there, uh, they check them and then they have the option.

I think Pensacola is one of the closest. to shore options, so they'll probably just stay on the deck of the ship, no big deal, but if some of them are 300 kilometers away or, you know, 200 miles offshore and if they're that far away, They will just hit them. Get on the helicopter there's a helipad on that ship and take them home so they can quickly get home to their families so let's see here I'm going to listen quickly she'll join us on the satellite phone Brandi if you can listen . I mean what it's like right there in the water.

What was it like watching them dive for the goal of the test? So hold on to the council while we get it up and running hopefully. I'm not sure what we are. I heard that, but this is coming from that player. Now they are called earth dads. So I'm going to answer this question from Ben Quigley because I know again. I just made a video about this. It's a shame they splash instead of, actually. Ben accidentally said uh repulsive landing instead of propulsive landing but overall good show spacex so again I posted a video this morning about this whole process so when you log off here check it out I'll tell you all about the mechanics orbital all hardware all timelines all criteria everything i take care of you up and down i promise you'll have almost no questions but the super draco thrusters are there primarily as an abort system and originally spacex planned it when they launched the dragon 2 in what was 2014 or 2016.

I don't remember, but when they launched the dragon 2 capsule they had this video, I think it's in 2014, this video came out and they showed that the plan was to return home and land propulsively using the engines because assuming that you don't use the abort engines to abort, you know if the climb is fine in the normal sense, then you know by the way that the word is actually nominal, but at one point one of the spacex commenters accidentally said normal because it's a normal thing , so now it's entrenched in the culture basically in spaceflight culture, so assuming everything is normal and they don't end up aborting or anything or needing to use those dragon throats, they have all that propulsion, all that thruster on. on board so we could continue to use it for something else and the idea was that we would use those boosters to land, they could land right there at the Kennedy Space Center landing, nice and smooth like a helicopter and literally just retrieve them and take them home.

I know it's not a big deal, super easy, cheap and fast recovery efforts, but there were a few reasons why NASA wasn't a big fan of it. NASA didn't like that you had to have landing legs that stuck out through the heat shields. they just weren't necessarily sure who was the safest option to rely on rocket engines, even though there were pairs of redundant engines at all corners, they just weren't very excited about it and originally, Elon thought it was cool because they could use that, you know, that architecture to be able to land propulsively on the moon or land propulsively on Mars, which, of course, when you have something that big and heavy, you have to have a propulsive landing to be able to land with parachutes, it's not enough on the moon. because there is no atmosphere, mars has a very thin atmosphere, so when you start to overcome certain masses it just doesn't make any sense to use a parachute, parachutes climb poorly for heavy objects, uh, for heavy objects, especially on mars, so they have to use the proposed landing and The original idea is, hey, we'll use the same capsule to leave the moon, go to Mars, you can land propulsively, no big deal, but they quickly discovered that it wasn't the right architecture and They're still using, um, you.

I know that adding all this extra mass of a heat shield all these extra things and it's just not the right architecture to do a propulsive landing on other worlds and then you add all this stuff like if NASA didn't really want it, it would have been a It's a Pain in the butt to certify it. You know, maybe it could have happened. You had the heat shield holes and it's not even good on other worlds. It was basically just a party trick at the time and when it comes to the safety of human life, it's not.

Is it worth it, you know, to risk something like that, so the next question people say is: Couldn't they use it as a backup? I've had a lot of people almost like how dare they not have him as a backup? What if the shots miss you? You're telling me that they wouldn't give everything they have just to fire up those engines and land propulsively. What are the chances that the parachutes that are now 100% reliable and have been tested to the 18th degree right now have to put together a rocket system that it has the potential to do a lot of damage if you know your highly pressurized super draco engines the entire fuel system ramps up to a different operating pressure all of these things happen to put together the super draco abort engines and it's not like you can just turn them on , they have to be active, you know, they have to be doing differential thrust to make sure that they maintain orientation, they have to have a refined ground radar, you know, to make sure that they land smoothly, like y'all.

Of the hardware is there, they could do it, but chances are that by enabling all those steps, all that hardware, including the potential to power these motors, you're actually adding a lot more risk than just making sure your parachutes are working fine, for example, are you adding risk or subtracting risk and putting together an abort system while under parachute power or potentially under parachute power or making the spacecraft think it's not under parachutes and you're just asking for trouble? Plain and simple, if it was smart, they would do it and they obviously came to the conclusion that all it's doing is adding more potential failures, more potential places to have problems, so it's not an option, although it was cool, we'll do it. .

I see a lot of cool booster landings and crazy cool things with the starship, which again, hopefully, later today we'll see, potentially, the starship jump, so obviously ship number five in bokuchika, which will absolutely be crazy plain and simple, um, yeah, just. Just, just, crazy, that was a big one. I'll listen to what they say. The ocean could be a little tricky. So, this person has gone through many hours and hours of training and certification in order to perform. this very important task there on the right side of the screen we see the second fast boat approaching, of course both boats needed to wait for their tail from the water recovery leader to approach the dragon after splashdown again, that was just to make sure there were no toxic fumes in the air and now that everything is clear, we see them starting to work in and around the dragon capsule, so although the camera is a little shaky, the water looks super super soft almost. like glass, which is certainly ideal for a water recovery like today, yes, I have to remember that this is a view from the main recovery ship that was still a few miles from splashdown.

Spacex we have hypergal sweeps and artillery checks without firing, the nominal rigor is on board the vehicle approximately two five minutes until the capsule rises 25 minutes until they already have the rig connected to be able to receive good news, so they are about 25 minutes of lifting the spacecraft out of the water, so the steam tests were incredible. positive or rather negative, which is a positive thing, so the team was able to get closer and now the crew member who is installing the rigging is on top of the capsule, it is difficult to see him there because the slower ship than The main recovery boat is a little further away, but as we heard, it's only two and a half minutes to get them out of the water.

Sorry, sorry, 25 minutes, not 2.5. I misheard that yes, they are fast, but not that fast. So I see a good question here. This is technological controls. I imagine Elon would want to be on the jump. Any idea how long it would take him to get there? In fact, we had this discussion a moment ago and in discord, I should. Mention if you want to learn more about space or have a community to talk about space flight topics. We have an amazing Discord channel. It's exclusive to Patreon, so if you want to join our page, our Discord channel, go to patreon.com.

Everydayastronaut, it's just a really warm and welcoming community where we're all learning together constantly learning aboutspace flights and it's just amazing I love everyone there we're talking about how long would it take elon to get from headquarters to hawthorne or from hawthorne basically to boca chica and to hawthorne airport I can't actually uh someone told me forgot who it was I'm sorry uh who was it that just dropped those knowledge bombs um that was so amazing but you can't really oh dr raptor was who it was um it was It was so amazing that Dr. Raptor was telling us that actually no You can take off Elon's Gulf Stream plane from Hawthorne Airport, which I didn't know, I think they apparently shortened the runway, but then he can't take off from Hawthorne. you can go to another airport a little bit further away, probably about 10 or 15 minutes, and then you could land at the Brownsville airport, which is about 15 or 20 minutes from Spacex uh Boca Chica, so really the flight time alone it should be two or two or three hours, so I mean, at best, I think if I really tried it now I'd probably be in Boca Chica in about three or four hours.

I don't know what he's going to do. I would really assume that he really wants to. to be you know at the actual time, in the jump of that serial number two, for those who don't know what I'm talking about, spacex is working on this prototype vehicle called a starship, well the whole vehicle will be called a spaceship , but they are currently in a prototype phase, so they are in their serial version number five and hope to fly today. This thing is huge, it's thirty feet wide, about 30 feet tall, so 30 feet wide, almost 100 feet tall, and it's huge it's running on the most advanced rocket engine in the world it's currently in its test stand is going to take off from the flight deck just 150 meters away so about 500 feet uh it's going to move it's going to land nearby it's just It's probably going to be about a 45 second flight, but it uses some of the most advanced things in the world and it's been crazy to watch them try to work on that vehicle because they've had a lot of teething problems, so let's see.

They get to this point, uh, this would be a fully reusable rocket that can take more mass into space than this than the Saturn V, but without losing anything, you can take it all back, reload it and do it again, it's really exciting. The future of Spacex is a really exciting feature for spaceflight fans, um, and this is the first small step in their grand scheme of spacecraft program and today we'll see new little landing legs deployed. I'm very excited about that. So we'll see, we'll see that they're not actually lying on their backs in the ocean, they're sitting up a little bit, which would allow them to have a better view of the equipment at work.

I saw some questions about how the guy getting into the capsule is doing. It's not hot so it probably gets quite hot but again most of the heat is in the heat shield dissipating so the heat you know is all the plasma in the gas is 3500 degrees Celsius or so half as hot as the sun um or it's 1800 and the sun is 3 500 I think it's 1800 degrees or so um even though the plasma is so hot, only a small percentage reaches the heat shield and the percentage that reaches the heat should be bad for the most part. away, luckily the walls of the vehicle are inside the slipstream, so it's like they don't actually experience much heat, I mean, they'll get some heat and warm up, but then they had about six minutes of cooling down once they It splashes a lot, you know, a lot of that heat would transfer to the water as well, so it's relatively cool to the touch, it might still be hot, you know, but it's not like it's scorching so, yeah, someone.

I can approach it without problems throughout the recovery process, essentially until it's time to take them out and in that sense we also had a um again. I'm so sorry if I missed some guys in the super chats I had to tune into. That is water? get very hot again after the heat shields splashdown, depending on how hot I am, I guess, by the time they actually land, I don't even think the water boils anymore, like it has cooled down substantially for that. period, what is that other ship you seem to have? It's just a fisherman out there like, hey, what are you guys doing? and we heard that the rigging is practically complete, so just as they reach the capsule, the main recovery ship will be able to start removing it from the water, so now that the recovery ship's navigator is approaching Dragon Dragon's position There off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, we can see the capsule in a little more detail.

Certainly not so. It's no longer a bright shade of white, as we said, those external temperatures reached up to 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit, so the thermal protection systems allow the dragon to return while keeping the internal temperature fairly temperate and you see a few more ships than expected um The team is currently working with some private vessels in the area making sure they get out of there. No way, guys, are you kidding me? This is this is a mission, this is a space flight, are you kidding me? And now we see one of those Spacex fast ships moving.

What I was joking about earlier when I said she looked like a fisherman, just trash, no, coming to find out she was just a fisherman, land to land, no. In this way, we are informed that the recovery team is communicating by radio with the boats in the water near Crew Dragon to evacuate the area so that Bob and Doug can be extracted safely, also for the safety of the people in the area. Also, not just Bob and Doug, yes, this is obviously a dynamic operation. One of the first things we do is make sure there are no essentially poisonous vapors around the capsule, so something like this can really jeopardize the whole thing, endanger the crew. members and put themselves in danger, so the spacex team is moving in to try to get them away so they can safely recover the dragon capsule and get bob and doug back on deck and safely inside their medical quarters to that we can see them, they are getting much closer.

Wait about 10 minutes or so until they are in position. All the rigging has been placed in the dragon capsule and once you arrive you will be able to use that hydraulic lift to lift the dragon out of the water. I'm sorry. I'm kind of speechless, I just didn't think people in their right mind would say, "Oh, I just landed on the coast of where I live, I'll just drive my boat there, look like it interferes with recovery operations, that's a craziness". Yo, oh, 2020, what else are you going to bring us? I can guarantee you that it is a private ship between us and the spaceship right now.

Zuma just went up a little bit now that it's our landing zone. Oh, there we have a chance. Our wb-57 aircraft looks like the area has cleared significantly so that's good to see and we also heard that all the parachutes have buoys so that's also good news as the recovery process continues for the two dragon demonstration of spacex. for the buddy setup, go ahead Mike, hey Doug, we are about to reconfigure the forwarding link, we may lose it for about a minute and that should happen shortly. Call us when you think we have it back, we will.

Man, as the main ship gets closer, it will back up and place its hydraulic lift right next to the dragon capsule that is still in the water. Bob and Doug still inside, waiting for that recovery, we should begin lifting operations in the next 10 to 15 minutes and then it will be a pretty quick lift out of the water using that hydraulic lift to the dragon's nest on the deck of the boat or the ship and then they will move it under the helipad essentially towards the crew. recovery area where they will have a platform to the hatch, they will be able to open the hatch.

The Spacex doctor will be the first through the door and will be able to do a quick check in with Bob and Doug about their condition and then he and the other doctors, flight surgeons and trained technicians will begin helping them out of the capsule. Yes, earlier, just after landing, we heard Bob and Doug report that they were feeling fine after re-entry, so they relayed that to the flight surgeon. And it's good news to hear it again. This is a view coming from the wb 57 plane as it circles the area and we can see a dragon waiting to be pulled out of the water again.

We anticipate the climb to begin in just under 15 minutes. We're getting close to 14 minutes here, uh, and then in 21 minutes, we'll have an open hatch. You can see the main recovery vessel at the top, that's the helipad with the big Spacex on top. It is now moving back towards the capsule, certainly not to be confused. With one of our landing drones there is a live view of the dragon dragon floating in the water in the background along with many spectators certainly from a safer distance at this point. This is a live shot coming from go navigator, our main recovery ship here.

Then his dragon crew is also accompanied by the fast boats that are helping to bring him closer and there you can see a couple of the recovery team on the deck and also right behind them we have our first good view of the nest. Yes. This is essentially the nest on the bottom, the dragon will be hoisted using the hydraulic lift out of the water and into that nest, that nest will then be dragged into the camera from this view towards those individuals that I'll go ahead and point out on that. filmed back there, all those other ships can be seen on the horizon, they're not supposed to be there, there's only about five in the fleet if I remember correctly, loud and clear, and from the video it looks like the ship is about one. uh length about five to ten meters back to your copy thanks for the update okay so good news we are getting ready to see the dragon being pulled out of the water and taken to the recovery nest as I was saying that nest. you will be dragged into the chamber towards the upper deck that we saw there and that is where the medical stretchers will be waiting to help you enter the medical bays for evaluation after capsule departure.

It's been 25 minutes since they landed. I don't feel like it was definitely the fastest 25 minutes of the day, the schedule we were anticipating was for lift operations to start in about 30 minutes, so we're pretty well on schedule, but that's been a pretty common occurrence so far. today you can see them with one of the fast boats positioning it to start moving with the additional rigging to attach it to the dragon capsule where they are going to use this A-frame to lift it out of the water and you can see the dragon's nest in the background, it's that circular object with the a1 right on top of it, although I'm baffled and you know, I'm audibly surprised that people are doing this, it may not be very obvious, there may not have been something very obvious like: Hey guys, stay away to this spacecraft after a splashdown, so let's be nice, let's not put down the people who are out there, they're probably excited that they might get a little slap on the wrist and a fine and I'm going to be hugely encouraging to anyone who's listening. to do that, but since this is the first time, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't very obvious locally that that's not okay, so I'm not excusing similar actions, but at the same time you know you have a bit of decency and you think you know maybe these people just had no idea that it's not okay to do that you just don't know, I'm not sure what to do, oh yeah, what's wrong?

I'm just surprised, but here you can see the hoist starting to lift the dragon capsule out of the water. Dry, this thing weighs about three metric tons, so a little bit more, I think it's like 6,600 pounds, that's totally it. dry, it still has a little more support on board, a little more cargo on board, so it probably weighs a little bit more, like three and a half or four metric tons, so it's definitely heavy and that hoist has to be pretty. As beefy as they come to get that thing out of there quite a bit, so make sure only personnel involved in active recovery operations are present on deck.

You may have heard us mention before that there are about 40 people on board today, but we certainly don't want anyone to be in danger or fall overboard, that guy jumped intentionally talking about falling overboard, we're ready, thanks, okay, so they told the crew in about 30 seconds, in the next 30 seconds they have to fix the lines, so they are We are going to start lifting the capsule out of the water and at this point the communication that we are receiving with the dragon is actually heading across the boat at this point, so we can see that the dragon lifting is off the path it should have been. no effect, uh, from Aaron asking what the possibilities arethat they cannot reuse it now that there are unauthorized civilians.

It has nothing to do with the fact that the main reason you don't want people around is that there is still hydrazine on board the spacecraft there are pressurized ships this just came back from space it is a little dangerous it is mainly for public safety this is not should have no effect on the reuse of the spacecraft all operations seem to be going completely normal now but it's more for your safety and just to not get in the way of the recovery of humans who just returned from space that's like the professional that's the number one is we're taking Bob and Doug home here this is number one and if you get in the way you know, if there's a recovery ball trying to get through or something like that and you almost say, oh, and my engine stopped, you know that you could potentially just get in the way of work, I mean this would be for Anything, forget about space flight, like you're watching people who work in utilities working on a pole and obviously they all drive their cars up the truck and they say, oh, let me see what you're doing, Hong Kong.

I know that's not right, it's rude, it's rude to interfere with someone's work and this is the same thing, so just have a little decency and sensitivity to the idea that you know these people are working and also for your own safety, how not to do it. just do that just don't do that um i should point out look how small people look it's easy to forget how big this vehicle actually is it's a big big vehicle and you're also looking at the big hole they're putting their money in hand. Right there is where the shoots come from, it's like the trunk that the ax opens, the parachutes are pulled from there and they go up in a line that surrounds the outside at that point it is not The spacecraft technicians will work to open the hatch, as we said before, it's a manual process with a couple of different accessories that you have to activate before the hatch can open, they will open it and then Neil Menon from Spacex will be the first. one through the hatch to check on Bob and Doug, get their initial health assessment, see if they're ready to move and then we'll start helping them get out of the pod and into that medical facility on the ship, don't tell them everything .

These people are going to try to display it at home as a caravan like we did, so at this point the recovery team is securing the capsule one last time in preparation for moving the recovery nest closer to the interior of the ship. We'll actually be on a little covered deck there, we saw that camera view earlier looking directly out of the center of the boat, so once the dragon is secured in the nest the nest will move, then forward and closer of the recovery, uh, excuse me, closer to the position where we can open the hatch, so as long as the dragon is safely on board, uh, we can't do that yet, yes, they are working to separate something. of those lines that were used to hoist it using the A-frame and we heard that they should finish that in a moment and then we will start the translation.

Yes, this is from Sephirakes. These are just mailmates ordered by Bob and Doug. The space fly makes you very hungry, why did they tell them to leave? I just ordered some Panda Express right now. We can see the recovery team releasing those safety lines that were used during the lifting of the capsule from the water to the nest, so they are releasing those safety lines from the sides making sure it's secure from the bottom and there we see to the dragon moving forward, look at that smooth like a tesla, I'd say it's elegant, I didn't realize it was sliding forward so fast, really interesting. again, Texas patriot, I get the feeling, I get the feeling, I get that people are probably excited and want to see this, but you still gotta have some decency, you know, oh, it's almost like an air of self-importance like I need to be there it's like no this is essential personnel and security here we go, on the side are those oval windows dragon spacex wait for the side hatch opening and happy exit we are ready okay team got the call let's go to open the hatch I hope they got all the surface samples down and do an Eva report, get all those science points, there we go and if you look closely immediately above the hatch, you can see the area where you can see them working, there That's where those parachutes are. deployed from the two circles on either side where the mortars were the main parachutes now hidden by the platform below the side hatch here we go here comes the story then the crew is in the process of removing the side hatch we can see which go navigator is in transit, returns to Naval Air Station Pensacola, however, Bob and Doug will be transported from the recovery ship by helicopter.

Yes, there are a lot of people asking about the hurricane that made landfall on the Gulf Coast. This is actually the one I believe. They have the westernmost landing site, so it is as far away from the hurricane as possible. The landing conditions were fantastic. Very few waves. Look how calm the water is outside Pensacola, Florida. This is, yes, very far from the hurricane. The winning states were great. The sea states are great and once this is done the flight surgeon will pop his head in to do an initial check and see how Bob and Doug and Dragon Spacex are doing.

We have a slight delay due to some possible ndo hits near the side. Hatch Happy Mike, we're waiting and they're still doing those sniffs, so they're checking for fumes or something, so the ones that aren't nitrogen dioxide can be detected in the air from fuel burning, so we'll continue to inspect around the capsule to make sure it's safe again for the crew, safe for the recovery experts. Before they open this hatch, would you like to point out the photographer on the left? Bill English, NASA photographer, good to see you on deck at 11:48am. m. from the Pacific, so they are again pausing operations for a moment.

By doing additional air sampling around the propeller system, we still have telemetry fed from the vehicle, so the flight controllers here at Hawthorne can monitor the propeller tanks' propellant tank pressures and don't see any problems. with them right now. Can you imagine if someone converts this? something and all the people try to navigate there right away and someone ends up crashing into it and damaging the spaceship ah man yeah so I don't know why apparently from Michael Baylor of NASA space flight who is? definitely one of everyone in NASA spaceflight working for massive space fires is just awesome I mean smart they know what they're doing if you need a reliable source for your spaceflight news.

I couldn't recommend NASA spaceflight enough. They are definitely some of the absolute leaders in the industry, but Michael Baylor of NASA Space Flight says it seems like the problem might be that while a danger zone can be established in international waters, they don't have the authority to enforce it, but hopefully we'll discover more. Post-landing briefing, man, we'll see. I mean, maybe that's something that will change. I hope maybe they get someone who can enforce it or something. It seems ridiculous. I know it's a private spaceship, but at the same time it's doing it. I don't know, it just doesn't seem smart, you know, if they can't enforce that exclusion zone, let's see, I'm trying to hear what the real problem is with the hatch opening and they're just double checking that there are no, there are no leaks. nowhere, checking that everything is ok and the Dragon Spacex update we are still investigating, looks like we will set up a purge of the service section.

We are working on an ETA for you, so they may have to do a purge. gas purge in case If you're just joining us, NASA astronauts Bob Bankin and Doug Hurley have returned safely from the international space station. They made a spot landing in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, at 11:48 a.m. from Pacific. 18 48 a.m. Universal Time and were pulled out of the water and hoisted onto the recovery ship. Go navigator and at this moment the team is finishing. They did an initial check and found that there might be some lingering vapors that we certainly don't know about.

I want to be around when Bob and Doug exit the capsule, so the team is working to purge the service section in preparation for the crew's departure. Just a little comment on the hatches we've been talking about, while the Dragon's top hatch. it's used to connect to the international space station uh that's the one located under the nose cone that's currently hidden at the top of the capsule before this is the side hatch that's the one that's used for entry and the exit both on the launch pad, in addition to coming here on the recovery ship when it is international or excuse me, when the capsule is docked to the international space station, they will use the forward hatch to exit and enter the capsule, so I should note that there they were supposed to get the crew out of the water and everything in an hour and they had the ship on the ship in about 30 minutes, I mean they were quick to recover this ship, the spaceship is really impressive and already you know, it's mostly just a matter of they had a guideline of, you know, how long it should take and both Boeing, which is also a commercial partner of the crew, and Spacex are supposed to have the crew out, uh , recovered in an hour and it is more of a matter of time.

You know a generic guideline, but, yeah, I'm still hearing here in stable conditions now that they're on the boat, not in the water, but again, our team continues to move forward, they're reporting that they're seeing that all the vapor levels that initially detected have been dropping in that service section according to Dragon Spacex, we show that the levels are decreasing but they continue to purge, uh and also just so you know, we are not seeing any indication of a leak or anything. So, these are pretty small levels, but we still need to do the purge right now, okay, Cappy, yeah, you're reading our mind, Mike, we were just wondering if you saw any signs of a leak or any depressurization somewhere, but It sounds like it's just uh part of the deal, cool, yeah, that's a good read, Doug, so I'm just reassuring you that right now, they're sensors that are picking up a little bit of nitrogen, um or something. type of gas, I didn't read what it is, but it's a very tracking mode, it's obviously not enough to affect the people around it, but they're just making sure everything is stable before they even open the hatch.

There's going to be a pressure differential just to make sure everything's okay and Bob and Doug were curious, like we're just making sure this isn't like a hydrazine leak or something dangerous, you know, or something that would be explosive because, of course Of course, there are still thrusters. There's still monomethylhydrazine and dinitrogen tetroxide on board the spacecraft and those, you know, they're still very pressurized, um, but they really wanted to make sure that you know that there's something to remind them that we're not. Seeing a leak in that sense, you know basically how urgent this is and it seems like it's not very urgent, but they're just waiting until everything is completely in this standard state, you know how, inside the capsule, oh.

Dan was like um, yeah, they're basically waiting until the levels are at the level where you know where they're supposed to be, basically, oh man, let's see, um, oh, we're getting buffered from this, okay, We came back, we had a small double buffer. There I apologize for that, so hopefully only about 44 minutes after landing. I'm actually still ahead of the timeline, as we weren't expecting to open the hatch until just before the 60 minute mark, at which point we'd be taking Bob and Doug out, so this. spacex service section another update, the service section purge should begin in just under five minutes.

Right now we are showing about double the exposure limits for our staff and we hope that once we start the purge, it will get down there for us. We're doing well, thanks Mike, so they're about double, basically double, and I'm going to have to correct the amount of resources so that that's dinitrogen tetraoxide and that's one of the hypergolic fuels used inside the dragon to power those draco thrusters. . Yes, I should mention the way hypergolic thrusters work and the reason why they are used even though they are really unpleasant things, to try to work with the beauty of hypergolic thrusters and theany hyper.

The golf fumes went down to zero because again we're really focused on not only keeping the astronauts safe but also all the recovery engineers and medical professionals, so yeah, I just wanted to continue my thoughts, sorry, I got it, I was listening. There it is, actually, and I got an update. It looks like today's jump test, Star Trippers spaceship or spaceship is probably canceled for today. It looks like the next attempt wouldn't be until tomorrow, which means we'll probably have to do it. Wait until tomorrow to make the jump and okay, I think this is a lot of action for Spacex for one day, um and again, they're being very cautious making sure they're completely on the thresholds to catch them safely. get out of there and get all the gases safely dissipated and get out of there as well, so we're in an hour and two minutes, so we're right where they should have gotten out, it seems like if they hadn't.

At that detection, they probably would have been fine, you know, t-plus or splashdown, more like 35 minutes, yeah, waiting for motion sickness, um, that's nice, it's good to know that they're doing well still inside the dragon capsule, oh, man, thank you very much. to to gita this is really generous, it's funny our system here, our comment system doesn't show you, but it's one of those animated couples that write a firework, but it just explains it to us, which is equally cool, so many thank you. to gita and I also just saw a very generous one from alex mann alex thorne so thank you gita and alex horn this is too generous tim just before the big moment thank you very much for all your work I love the channel keep it up greetings from the fans of space space fans and friends in the Netherlands, I tell you I can't wait, so first of all, thank you sincerely, thank you very much, but I can't wait to be able to travel again.

I want to go back to Europe, you know, one day. I want to do a speaking tour like I said, where we can learn more about some of the five or ten most important cities in Europe and you can go out and listen to speeches about space flight or just talk and do it. Q&A or something, I don't know, but I would love to do that and it just sucks, this year it's not going to happen at all since I literally can't even physically travel to Europe and I want to do it all over the world.

America too, but it's just not a good time for something like that, so it's fun to come here together, so I can't wait to visit my friends and fans in the Netherlands. It will be amazing. Morgan has a this. Good question Morgan wants to know why they don't land in the big lakes to avoid the salt water problems, so I don't know if salt water is particularly much more corrosive, but the big lakes are also significantly smaller. The goal is to land in um and near a lot of pretty large metropolitan areas, I just don't think it's um and they want to keep their ships and all the crew and everything close to the space coast close. all their operations so they don't have to, you know, I guess if salt water was a big problem, they could look into something like that, but I guess it's more just water and not necessarily the fact that it's salt. water um and they do some things to try to mitigate that so um let's see here um thank you so much again to ian here man this is crazy about the exit process to get Bob and Doug out of the pod once they're in the medical Center.

In the area, they will look to begin bringing in the helicopter, as both the bomb and the dog will be flown back to Pensacola by helicopter and taken to the coast in just a matter of minutes, where a NASA plane will be waiting later. load them up and take them home to Ellington Airfield at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, this is basically what they are doing here, from me, why not just flush it with actively pressurized air like fans, clearing the smoke from the building? that what they're doing is pretty much what they're doing: they're actively purging nitrogen through the lines enough to be able to clean out any of those cavities that might have a little bit of residual amounts of fuel in them.

We're talking about parts per million, parts per billion amounts of this fuel, so by definition it's literally trace amounts, like we're not talking about bags of it, so since it's also trace amounts, it might as well be more difficult to eliminate them. because you know I could hang out there so in light of one of the social media questions we were asked earlier, someone asked if bob and doug had netflix available on their display screens in the pod and they've actually been , they've been pretty busy throughout this mission, you know, monitoring telemetry and data and checking the weather, and I would say now is the time where they would certainly want to see something because you know at this point the only thing they What they have left to do is get out of the capsule has to be a feeling of success, although for those two I mean taking the first flight in a new spacecraft that we met as test pilots, this is something that was their bread and butter. day when they were in the army. and definitely something that they left in the opportunity once they became astronauts and really a pretty perfect flight for Dragon will obviously have all the post-flight review in the coming weeks as we continue to evaluate all the data that we receive. throughout the mission and any data still recorded locally on the dragon itself and we will spend the next few weeks reviewing and evaluating the mission and working on the certification process and we are already targeting the first operational flight currently planned for no earlier than the end of September yeah end of september for some reason i was thinking it's more early september um this is a good question here from ok um sorry i was just listening they're going to start either starting or stopping the purge um but not anymore External power is provided to the dragon caps.

I don't think at least on the boat because it has internal batteries to last a good amount of time. Probably even days would be how long the spacecraft can survive, you know, because it would have to be able to survive long enough so that, if you know that the recovery ships go down too far from the target, the recovery ships can get to them, for example. what important battery packs have on the space station. On Saturday they had an eight-hour rest period of sleep. in the pod on the way home they have been awake since a little earlier this morning, that weight came in around 4am. m. from the Pacific, so just over eight hours and a dragon, the purge is now completing one more drager check and then I should continue with opening the hatch, well, good news, thank you, indeed, it is good news, so confirm that the purge is complete and they're just going to do one more test to make sure that all the worrying vapors are gone and that's it.

It is safe to open that side hatch and retrieve Bob and Doug once again, once that side hatch is open our flight surgeon will be the first to say hello and receive a quick medical check, although according to reports they have been within favor that the crew has been. giving us along the way they seem to be doing very well, they feel good and they feel quite comfortable there within a dragon team. Things are looking good. It seems like everyone is hoping to hear from that reading here about whether that's the case or not. it worked, it seems like there are enough people now that they must be pretty sure they brought everyone back and, uh, dragon spacex, we show 0.4 parts per million at 18 parts per billion mmh, that's below the limits , we are proceeding with opening the hatch, let's get them out.

Well, good news, thanks Mike, okay, so there's the green light we've been waiting for. In fact, the green light we've been waiting for for months at this point. This is our first chance to say hello to Bob and Doug. our favorite space dads, as they are now about to leave or leave the dragon crew endeavor again, this is the culmination of what has been a 19 hour journey home that began yesterday when they departed the international space station , thank you, thank you, so this hatch will open manually and once it does, flight surgeon anil menon will say hello and make sure that you are still okay and then proceed to help you out of the capsule.

Hi Chad, I hope there we go and see that the hatch is now. The open hatch opens at 12:59 p.m. Pacific Match is open, yeah, right now they're going to put some equipment in there that basically softens the edges and makes sure it's kind of comfortable to get out of the dragon capsule. There's a piece of structure there to ensure that the hatch stays open and that any sharp edges around that side hatch are protected, so remember again that they're going to escort you like they're helping you because you're weak, you've been in space for two months. on the international space station where they are experiencing micro gs, their bodies are not used to a full gum so they are weak and need help and again, this was different from the space shuttle most of the time, the space shuttle, eh, the crews were never on board for more than two weeks due to the limitations of the fuel cells, so they could easily jog.

It looks like Bill Engel has the photo of him and now they're helping out just to make sure everything is okay. Can. Don't wait to see him come out of there. I'm curious what this is going to look like in reality, because they're in a sitting position, they have to move forward, so right now they're facing the hatch in a seat like this, just a little bit. kind of reclined every time people go down there and they have to pick them up and rotate them or I wonder, I'm sure they practice that choreography. The Spacex recovery team is now helping NASA astronauts Bob Benkin and Doug Hurley exit the spacecraft.

I'm sorry. We opened the hatch just two minutes ago, we paused because they were detecting some traces of some of the hypergolf fuels, so we ran a series of purges and then once they got back down to acceptable limits, then we can begin the exit . There we see a stretcher on deck. This is normal. This is part of the standard recovery procedure and is simply to ensure that Bob and Doug remain safe. Like we said, readjusting to gravity can be a little challenging, uh, dizziness. This can happen often, especially when you are on a ship, so this stretcher will only be used for a standard procedure to ensure astronauts get to the medical tent as easily and comfortably as possible.

This has to be the smallest recovery ship. I bet astronauts besides the crew of Soyuz 23 have gone up at some point, but all the other missions for the United States that landed between 19, which was 1960 or in 1961 and 1975, they were all literally like aircraft carriers, they are safe and free from any injuries now that they're home, so that's different, you know, yeah, this is um, this is a good question here, the next big mission, if you ever need to know what's coming up, we have in our website dailyastronaut.com. I can click through the pre-launch previews and get a feel for some of the missions, but I'd say the next big exciting thing will be another raw mission here at the end of September in another dragon capsule and Falcon 9, but other than that I think what I'm hoping for would be the development of a starship in Boca Chica, Texas, which again we're seeing, hopefully, a jump tomorrow and then maybe some higher altitude flights shortly after, if this goes well.

I hope we're looking to still be on target to see a 20 kilometer jump this year that will have this crazy belly flop maneuver, this is unmanned of course it's totally development but it's on such a large scale that He does such wild things that it's actually a lot of fun to watch him stick around. on my channel, if you have questions about that stuff, I explain everything to you, you know, like I'm constantly showing you all the things, like I said this morning. I made a video that I posted this morning about why, how exactly. these things happen, the mechanics, the systems, I like to break things down like that and I've done things like why are they going to do that belly drop maneuver for the starship.

I've made videos on why they use stainless steel. For Starship instead of carbon fiber, I basically cover as much of this as I can for you guys to help you understand the effort of the chip. I'm sure Doug will have some good words for you too, but thank you for going above and beyond. difficult parts and the most important parts of human spaceflight, getting us into orbit and bringing us home safely, thank you again for the good effort of the ship that was Bob Bank's commander, Bob Bank, thank you Bob for those incredible words, has been absolutely ahonor and a pleasure to work with you on behalf of the entire Spacex team.

It's been incredible. We'll hear from Doug Hurley and also some opening words from NASA astronaut Bob Bankin. He's in the pilot's seat, so you may have heard him refer to himself as plt. I'm still waiting for the crew members to begin exiting the Crew Dragon spacecraft and will once again receive help just a couple of feet from the medical quarters aboard the ship, where they can remove the suits they have been wearing all along. the final dynamic phases of the separation, deorbit, burn, reentry, events merited just over an hour ago at 11:48 p.m. PST go for spacex here we have our first look at michael I would just like to reiterate what bob said and add my thanks to everyone who over the past few years worked at Hawthorne McGregor or the Kennedy Space Center.

Anyone touched by the effort should take a moment to simply appreciate this day, especially given all the things that have happened this year. We certainly can't thank you enough. Our families can't thank you enough. We're just proud to be a small part of this whole effort to get company people in and out of the space. station can celebrate among themselves stop and we will talk to you soon, hopefully in person. Thank you very much Doug, you're welcome and thank you very much for those kind words and we all wish you a safe journey home and a happy reunion. with his family soon and we hope to see him in person too.

Some very nice words from Bob Banks on your screen. We saw NASA astronaut Doug Hurley exiting or exiting the capsule. It might have been difficult to see it on his screen. but we get a thumbs up that things are going well if this is very quick thanks to the last person we had on screen, craig jones, thanks for watching with your family or watching with your child. That means a lot for me. Job. It's really difficult to make sure the content is always family-focused and digestible for everyone, no matter what level of knowledge they have. We want to assume that you know that not everyone is an expert because these things can be really intimidating, but they are extremely exciting. we learn together and it's fun for us to be able to get together and celebrate this together no matter where you are in the world, I don't care if you live in some other country, you know some other country, this is not a big day just for America, this is a great day for all of humanity when we are increasing our access to space and working towards an exciting future where spaceflight is cheaper and more available, more and more routine, that's what it's all about and I think it's a future.

It's worth being excited about, I think it's a future worth celebrating and uniting with again and again. I have said it many times and it continues to be reinforced that 2020 has been a year of division that people are continually in. arguing together about the silliest things and it's like this is our time to come together and just celebrate human achievement and celebrate human exploration. That's what spaceflight is to me, that's why I'm so excited about spaceflight because it brings us together. it unites us and there can even be friendly competition or even hostile competition, it still brings out the best in humanity, no matter what it is, because we are pushing the limits of knowledge, we are pushing the limits of science and exploration, um , and engineering, I mean.

This is what it's all about Spacex has done some amazing things to be able to do this here today it may seem like we're doing things we were doing back in the 1960s but the way they're doing it these days is completely different plus the cost has already been reduced by almost an order of magnitude compared to older vehicles, a highly capable vehicle and, again, this is just one of two vehicles that NASA has contracted to take the crew to the international space station, with luck. We'll see Boeing take off its Starliner again this year for another uncrewed test flight and then the Starliners should take off again, hopefully, this year.

They said the first person is fine, so they are preparing and us? We should see spacecraft commander Doug Hurley coming out of the capsule and it looks like we've got him out, we've got him sitting down, there he is, come on, another thumbs up, I can't wait to see those photos we got. Some applause here and, as you can see at mission control, a standing ovation for a job well done. Yes, our crew members Bob and Doug are now safe and sound on Earth and will be checked on by NASA's medical team. They will go directly to the medical facilities aboard the ship which will be their first stop on planet Earth and then board a helicopter and then return to the mainland once they are complete.

The team is going to prepare the dragon and start taking it back to shore, but it has been an incredible mission. This all started just two months ago, on May 30, from Launch Pad 39a at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. we had a successful liftoff we had to dodge some weather conditions it was a cliffhanger clear up the last possible moment they had a perfect trip to orbit a 19 hour trip to the international space station where they just spent 62 days on board 64 days in total in space were Expedition 30 63 crew members doing science experiments spacewalks repair everything aboard the orbital laboratory Their journey home began yesterday when they closed the dragon's hatch and undocked it hours later at 4:35 p.m. m. of the Pacific after four successful sorties and a phased burn to align their orbit bob and doug rested before waking up for a re-entry early this morning, we successfully jettisoned the dragon's trunk and performed our final maneuver in orbit, the deorbit burned to 10:56 a.m. from the Pacific to send the dragon on the way home, the spaceship.

It successfully re-entered Earth's atmosphere and slowed its descent with the successful deployment of two drop and four main parachutes, with final splashdown occurring off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, at 11:48 a.m. m. of the Pacific, just in time. After that successful splashdown, we quickly saw Spacex recovery experts. enter and prepare the dragon effort for its climb to the recovery ship and just under an hour after landing we saw bob benkin and doug hurley exit the dragon with thumbs up and enter the recovery ship's medical facilities healthy and safe, yes, I just found out that the helicopter should land soon, so that will be the next step in your journey.

They will take a short flight back to the coast, where they will transfer to a waiting NASA plane for another short return flight. to Houston, they will be reunited with their families and that will put an end to this historic flight. It has truly been an honor and privilege to share this journey with all of you as we open this new era in human space. flight, but I mean, just as we close the book on this mission, we are already counting the days until the next flight of the raw dragon, yes, absolutely, Spacex and NASA will now begin the process of reviewing data and telemetry of this successful mission demonstration to prepare us. for crew one, which is currently scheduled to launch no earlier than the end of september, crew one will be space, that's amazing, we've talked about all of that, i should mention before you all leave here that today, uh this t-shirt, the F1 engine t-shirt is 10.

If you want to get your own F1 engine t-shirt using the coupon code on release day, all lowercase, word launcher. I don't know, we were trying to debate in discord here if Elon was using, I don't think he was using. your full flow stage combustion cycle t-shirt uh but it's also available we also have a new full flow stage combustion cycle hoodie also these are new they're amazing literally they're just in stock, they have really cool badges on the side. that show like the chamber pressure, efficiency and thrust of the raptor engine uh, the diagram on the back custom, these are all hand stitched here, handprints in the United States, premium custom stuff that doesn't we print on demand uh so they are fulfilled in everything here in the united states uh if you want to help support what I do uh this is probably the most fun and easiest way is to go to shop.everydayastronaut.com again that's shop.everydayastronaut we even have face masks, not masks if you have a hole in your face and you need to cover it for some reason we have you covered um and new keychains new t-shirts from the future Martian 2.0 yeah, if you want to help me do what I do, I buy. every day um or if you want To help support what I do and I like the content that I create and I want to help me do more, as you've seen last week, I think we produced two full videos and we liked seven live streams or something ridiculous. all thanks to patreon and if you want to help me continue doing it now I have an editor who has helped me a lot behind the scenes and has been really amazing so now the studio is all set up really firing on all cylinders. guys want to help me do what I do, please consider becoming a Patreon supporter by visiting patreon.com every dayastronaut, what an amazing day, although I mean, you guys just have to be excited, right?

I mean, wasn't it? I don't know, I was speechless, there were several times where, for better and for worse, we definitely had some fun things to talk about there, but what a memorable mission and it's so much fun to see that this mission was absolutely perfect and a once Bob and the dog. they're back home safe, I know they're excited to see their families, there's a really nice tweet before um, let me see if I can post it here, give me a second, I'm just going to go check my retweets and I'll be able to find it more easy that way.

It almost made me cry just because it's so cute because they both have kids and their wives are or have been astronauts. Listen to this. I'm going to pull this out here for you. Guys this was earlier today let's look here for a second and um notice this was earlier today if you go here this is just adorable good morning dragon effort. I'm happy they went to space, but I'm even happier. you're coming home guys and it's time daddy, we love you, we can't wait to see you, wake up, wake up, rise and shine, dad, me, luke, leo and mom, we can't wait to see you, daddy, I love you, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up. wake up, wake up, they wake up, don't worry, you can sleep in tomorrow, hurry home so we can go get my dog, we love you, dad, isn't that the nicest thing you've ever heard, that's really It made my day and that also bores me.

They have been very obvious about their families being involved again, both of their wives have been and are astronauts. Bob's wife is flying on Crew 2, which is currently scheduled for early 2021 in that same vehicle. I mean, these are space families. and through each of them they have a son and bob and doug are literally like the best friends they were at each other's weddings, i mean, there's nothing more of a feel good story than that and again, like i keep saying , 2020 is the year that you know there's been so much negativity and this is something to rejoice in, be excited about, look forward to and just come together, you know, that's what I'm all about, I'm all about unity and looking forward and trying about doing good things together and not trying to split hairs and be negative, so I'm really sorry I miss a lot of your guys' super chats, but I just want to thank you so much for all your love and support. uh even here for me, uh, that really helps a lot and for me, the internet can be a really toxic place and sometimes I can get lost just in the negativity and the mean comments and stuff like that, I think a lot. we can and it seems like we are all extraordinary right now because everyone is in this weird half panic mode but everything is fine but what do we do and the uncertainty and um and it means a lot that we have a place here for all of you to come to. and hang out uh there's a lot to look forward to there's a lot of fun content coming out um we're working right away tomorrow I'm going to dive in well tomorrow maybe we'll have to cover the jump now prototype starship number five from the label Hop on over to Boca Chica Texas we have a lot things happening and there's a lot to wait so at least it's endless and that can be good and that can be bad so I just thank you guys for choosing to watch. this with me to come and be a part of our community um and you know and just get together and celebrate this means a lot to me it means a lot to my community again my discord channel um you guys are amazing I really appreciate everyone who is on discord, you have seen last week, you've seen, uh, Andrew and I are just going well, I spent two weeks because we really started working on that curiosity versus perseverance pitch about two orthree weeks and we just got I've been going crazy ever since, it's been like firing on all cylinders, so if you want to join our awesome Discord channel or have more of a community to hang out with, get some of that stuff behind scene of how we are doing. videos what we'll be working on next, go to patreon.com every day astronaut love you guys, it's been a wild two months.

I tell you I can't believe that was two months ago, I was in Florida in between. from a pandemic masked like crazy I washed my hands constantly uh practicing ex

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was really good for practicing social distancing and man I should try to figure out that shot was still one of the most incredible things I've ever seen in my life, what? You know? I've seen so many launches in person, I think I've probably seen about 15 or 20 launches, I don't even know anymore, and to know that there are two others with their human lives on board, frankly, I would really like that.

I always wanted it to be um, I always wanted it to see a Soyuz. I assumed I'd see a Soyuz before I saw this and I'd love to see a Soyuz still, but there's something that's an emotional connection when you see humans coming out of this. It's going to be a weird picture from picture to picture to picture maybe I will, how can I put my little face here? You know there's something when you're standing there and you see we're going to light up, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dawn of a new age, y'all, yeah, yeah, dawn of a new age, come on doug, that was fun, I love that percussive sound, that to me, worth celebrating, worth cheering for, okay It's worth getting excited and that's what it's all about, you know?

That's what space flight represents to me, it just brings out the best in humanity, it brings out the best in hard work, education, it brings out the best in dedication, in every detail, it's the commitment to a long-term goal and really achieve it. down and uh yeah, this is just the beginning guys, like I said, there's something that was very sad for me because because of the pandemic, the global health crisis there were no crowds of people, normally the press room is full to the brim . I was one of the lucky 75 members of the press who had access to that, and you know, one of somehow, I still don't know how this happened, but one of only two people who got interviews with Elon Musk and Jim Breinstein that day It was me. and cbs and that still surprises me and the fact that that is the limitation that there was in that event, one of the most important events, at least in my career, that covers space flights, one of the most interesting things that I have seen that They cover space flights, had to be limited to 75 people was also heartbreaking, but at the same time it was great that we could still come together.

You know, we could all get together to hang out and, yeah, it was awesome, so I'm looking forward to more. I need more of this um oh yeah the red haired guy in our discord says I still want to see the car dash cam footage. I save it. I save it. I have it somewhere. I should probably put it out somewhere, so, oh man, what an amazing, amazing day, although, um, I'm probably going to start getting out of here, guys, oh man, wait, did I get lost? God, what are you waiting, waiting, waiting, I'm sorry, I've been waiting, that can't be true, someone donated too much.

I think I can click directly to YouTube here, OMG I'm sorry I completely missed this, thank you, I really, really appreciate that that's absolutely unnecessary right now, but I promise we're just working on removing some content. for yourselves and trying to stay positive and have fun and learn together, you know, that's what this is all about, so you better work your way out of here guys, because there's still a lot going on. There's a lot going on and we need to be working on the back end here. I also completely closed my thing accidentally, how did that happen?

But just thank you all again for hanging out. I really hope you enjoyed this and this gave you something to look forward to and then we could meet again the next time there's a launch and splashdown um yeah um super super awesome I really love and appreciate you all so let me know what the questions that you have like I said we. Definitely, we will surely have a lot of content to publish. We're definitely working on the second part, finally, of sls versus starship, which is kind of what it became because we really talked about the financing scheme and the fixed financing structure. pricing and SLS contracting and how you're doing it, the best way to compare it is not to compare it to private industry but to compare it to the Apollo program, so we're really comparing the costs and benefits of the Apollo program versus the artemis program, but the well it's that the artemis program will say what you want about sls and it's a really rocky start and it's currently working pretty well again but it has human landing systems and a lot of commercial partners involved in the artemis program so does it have weight and does it take us How does it compare to Apollo and what are the actual mission architectures like?

As they are? because they are very different mission architectures. Yes, they both go to the Moon, but they couldn't. I don't really do it in more opposite ways, so I'm already on page 12 of that script. Hopefully we'll be filming that here very soon, so, yeah, I have to say I don't think there's going to be a series. Jump number five today from what I'm hearing, it's not like that anymore, it's not happening anymore, at least today, but again, thank you all, I'm so sorry, I miss a lot of you, things, it was just too much, too much.

Moving on, I really appreciate you guys, so stick around again remember to watch the video I posted this morning if you really want to appreciate everything that happened today, the hardware involved, the timelines, the criteria, the mechanics, the orbital mechanics, everything that. I've got you covered, it's a deep recap of everything that happened today, so you know what to expect the next time this happens, which again, hopefully, will be very soon, very soon, so, yeah, okay, I love you guys. I will understand. Out of here, thank you all so much for tuning in and hanging out with us.

It's also been fantastic. Congratulations again to Bob and Doug. Welcome home. Huge congratulations to NASA for selecting such an incredible business partner. To do this safely and of course many congratulations. to my friends and teams at spacex, you guys are amazing, thank you for continuing to inspire us and make this look, frankly, like something easy. That's the biggest compliment I think you can get: knowing that you made this look easy and cool. They look fun, so thanks for doing that, thanks for giving us all a little spark of imagination, uh, yeah, okay guys, that'll do it for me.

I'm Tim Dodd, the everyday astronaut bringing space to Earth for everyday people, goodbye everyone, like that, like that. you too