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good morning and welcome to mission

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control houston we have with us here

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today on console kenny todd who is the

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space station mission operations

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integration manager um and he's going to

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tell us a little bit more about the

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rendezvous that didn't happen last night

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and is now scheduled for tomorrow thanks

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so much for joining us kenny my pleasure

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all right so i guess can we start by

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talking about last night what happened

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to delay the rendezvous

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sure um the uh

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the soyuz wanted when it

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after it reaches ascend it goes through

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a series of burns that it takes to

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actually

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get to the station the first two burns

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were performed nominally

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at the at the point it was supposed to

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be doing what we call db3 the third burn

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the

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vehicle did not execute that burn

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based on what we're hearing from our

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russian colleagues it looks like that

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burn did not execute because they

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weren't able uh through their normal

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systems checks to to confirm the the

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attitude of the vehicle was was at its

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proper uh condition and so

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not being able to confirm that then the

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basically the burn did not automatically

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execute okay but i think we've since

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then

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executed a couple of different burns

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that give us some confidence that

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everything's working okay at least

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yeah once uh once it was determined that

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we weren't going to going to be able to

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meet the the four orbit plan we

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downloaded to to what we call the 34

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orbit rendezvous at that point that that

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kicks off a a series of of uh additional

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burns that have to be done

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to start targeting station for for uh

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rendezvous

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and within 34 orbits and and the first

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couple of burns for for that particular

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plant have been done they've been done

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successfully and and

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got good confirmation okay so we don't

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expect a problem with getting the crew

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to the station they should be there

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tomorrow evening i think at this point

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the crew is in good shape the vehicle

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appears to be in good shape computers

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are in good shape the propulsion system

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is working based on these burns and so

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at this point everything everything

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looks real good okay well um can you

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tell us a little bit about how you know

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i guess this is not that um unusual for

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us we've certainly done many of these

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two-day rendezvous before it's actually

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the the uh one day rendezvous that's a

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little

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uh you know up to last year you know

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prior to that for the 14 years we flew

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soyuz uh to and from station uh the

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it was all done as part of a 34 orbit

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case so we're comfortable with this we

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know how to do it um for every

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readiness review that we get ready to

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when we get ready to launch a soyuz we

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we actually do

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do the certification and the readiness

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to support this 34 orbit case and so

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we didn't have to go build new products

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we didn't have to go and do a lot of new

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analysis we were ready to support this

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that's basically the standard operating

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procedure to always have a backup plan

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right exactly

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all right well is there anything special

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that the crew will be doing on orbit um

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to get ready for this rendezvous as

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opposed to what they would have done

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yesterday

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no we went through a series of

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replanting activities mostly the crew

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was supposed to have today off

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as a result of being up late last night

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and welcoming a new crew and and and

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everything that comes with getting a new

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crew on board

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given that that that's going to slide

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now

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and give them an extra day

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we did replan the day today

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we had a pretty major software

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transition that we were going to kick

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off tonight or last night after after

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the docking and so we've we've elected

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to move that downstream a little further

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to again allow the stocking to take

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place but but the crew will be working

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today okay and i know there was also uh

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this the spacex launch scheduled coming

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up is that still going to happen on time

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or will this affect that as well

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this particular

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uh issue with the soyuz and and swapping

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from a four bit to a 34 but rendezvous

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will have no no impact on on the launch

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of spacex we're still

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at this point planning to launch or some

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support to their launch on sunday night

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houston time with the birthing on

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tuesday morning and so uh yeah this

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particular event has no impact on that

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okay well thanks so much i think that's

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probably what we were we're hoping to

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hear from you it's my pleasure thanks

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again this was kenny todd the

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space station mission operations

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integration manager and we're going to