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hi everybody josh byerly here inside

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mission control i'm joined by courtney

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mcmillan the nasa flight dirt who is in

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charge not only today but as we've been

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talking about during our entire

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broadcast she and her team started back

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almost three years ago back in 2010

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right that's right started doing sims in

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2011 so today's been incredibly smooth

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let's talk about how i mean it's kind of

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shockingly smooth these you know these

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are test flights of course you kind of

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expect things to pop up but it's been

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pretty remarkable today went really

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really smoothly it looks like we had

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most of our challenges in the previous

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week we did have we ran into some

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challenges on our first rendezvous

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attempt a week ago uh and so most of the

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past week has been trying to work uh not

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just the challenges we saw that day but

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also the challenge the next day

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with the with the processor issues that

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we were seeing on on cygnus those all

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got resolved and so today we showed we

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did a gps demonstration early on in the

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day just a test to make sure that the

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patch that we loaded to fix the problem

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that we found on rendezvous day was

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going to work and it worked great

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that test they passed with flying colors

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and so came into the beginning of the

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rendezvous shift knowing that that was

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going to work

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and it did and then the rest of the

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objectives for the day went very very

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smoothly let's talk we're looking at the

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objectives now that these ten were

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checked off pretty fast today when

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numbers three through ten were all done

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pretty rapidly because like we talked

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about before you know the actual

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birthing in the installation is not part

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of the objectives i mean it's obviously

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a great to have and we're going to get

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there but but the actual full objectives

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for cots were done well so there's a

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difference between the mission

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objectives and those demonstration

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objectives the demonstration objectives

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are to prove safety in the rendezvous

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process

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however the the birthing the the actual

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capture and the birthing are in fact

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objectives in the space act agreement

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and for the mission so uh they're not

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demonstration objectives in that they're

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not providing a separate data package

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for those um and they don't have

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separate criteria either you either you

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captured or you didn't right either you

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birth or you don't

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but for all the rendezvous objectives

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the goal really is to prove the safety

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of the vehicle function

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and making sure that they're going to do

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do the right thing when they're

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approaching the station so they they did

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perfectly on all those objectives it

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went really really smoothly

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we had rehearsed that multiple times in

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joint simulations over the course

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especially in the last year year and a

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half

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and

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they have gotten very good at getting

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that data gathered and getting it

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packaged up pretty quickly so we can

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look at it in a timely manner and they

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absolutely nailed it today they did a

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great job

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talk about the relationship between you

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guys and your team here and the orbital

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team that's up there in dulles i mean

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you've become almost like family over

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the last you know year and a half two

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years you've practiced these simulations

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talk a bit about the dynamics uh you

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know leading up to today and also today

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as well

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the the teams work together really well

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so and don't forget we also have uh a

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team out at sipsy in scuba japan um that

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are also supporting this they're

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operating the radios and the and the gps

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on board iss that cygnus uses in the

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rendezvous process so the three teams

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together have have really

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become one in many ways um and

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i think it's uh you know today a large

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part of why we did so well getting

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through all the objectives and getting

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through a very complicated timeline is

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the fact that we had uh been able to

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work together as long as we have yeah

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yeah there's a there's an orbital team

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there there was quite a bit of

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celebration once uh seeing this guy

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captured

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earlier today quite a bit of applause of

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course you've got charlie bolden our

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administrator there bill gerstenmaier

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who's our head of uh human exploration

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operations up there as well allen

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lindemoy is there we're going to be

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hearing from him and frank culverson

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later on but um you know it's just i

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mean it's just a great day for both

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these teams both here in houston and you

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and orbital as well well it's really

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exciting to see orbital join the human

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space flight program at nasa with this

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with this vehicle and we're very excited

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to have them on station and a part of

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our team yeah recording we'll let you go

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home get some wrestling it's been kind

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of a busy morning busy actually lasts

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several weeks for you and your team and

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it's uh you know it's just a success all

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the way around so far it's been great um

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again the the teams have done an amazing

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amount of work over the last especially

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over the last week since uh since our

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first rendezvous attempt

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and the five days prior to that after

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after cygnus launch it's just been

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fantastic to see how professionally and

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uh smoothly and steadily everybody has

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been willing to work to get through the

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challenges that we faced and and we made

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it well thanks a lot courtney we'll

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stick around and watch installation take

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place here shortly so uh thanks again