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hi welcome inside the international

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space station flight control room we've

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been uh talking about some activity

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there aboard the space station and here

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on the ground and joining me today we

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have the space station operations

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integration manager kenny todd kenny

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thanks for coming out today it's my

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pleasure thank you so

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let's talk about

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what's been going on here we've got

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spacex on the ground on the falcon 9

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the dragon ready to go

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for launch we also have a failed

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computer backup computer

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on station and then we have a

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contingency spacewalk so let's first

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start with what transpired on friday

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sure

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the team here on the ground in mcc was

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doing a standard software load what we

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call a ppl as just a small software

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uplink that they were doing when they

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powered that backup box on to to put it

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in configuration to do that load the box

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itself did not respond in the in the way

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that it typically would uh go through

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its normal startup procedures instead it

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was clear the box was drawing a lot less

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power than it typically would and it

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never got in a state where we could go

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load the software okay and this is a

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backup

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have the the primary mdm which we call

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ext1 uh was up and controlling the

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systems the external systems as it

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typically does this particular box is

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there's nothing more than back than a

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backup that

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that we had powered down and we were

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just putting it in a better

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configuration okay good deal so there

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was no impact to the the crew or the

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station systems correct on that day when

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that took place so talk to me about um

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this weekend i understand there were a

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lot of discussions with the

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international space station mission

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management team and then um that

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discussion was on whether or not we will

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continue with the um

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the uh launch of spacex falcon 9 if you

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can talk to me about some of that sure

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anytime we have a failure on on space

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station our first

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thought is

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what would we do in the event we have an

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additional failure and which failure

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would be our worst failure in this

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particular case if we were to lose the

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the one mdm that that was already up and

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running and doing its job

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that ext1 mdm if he were to lose it

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how bad a day would we be in and and

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immediately we start looking at what the

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consequences would be what kind of

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things we could do to try to put the

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overall system in a better configuration

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to tolerate that failure should it

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happen and so those kinds of things we

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we started doing immediately

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on board on on friday night and so

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um taking a little bit of that data and

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and folding that into okay now how good

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do we feel about pressing the head with

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some of the immediate near-term upcoming

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activities like spacex launching can we

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get at birth that that's really what we

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spend a lot of time this weekend talking

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about

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okay and then so the decision was a go

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for spacex so we have that taking place

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today the launch is scheduled to occur

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at 3 58

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central time today and we'll be having

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live coverage for you here on nasa

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television beginning at 2 45 pm central

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time um talk to me a little about the

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importance of spacex's station i know

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it's loaded with all kinds of supplies

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and experiments and stuff but can you

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talk to me about why it's so important

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for us to go ahead and get that up you

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bet sure there there's uh

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you know we have consumables just your

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basic uh

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needs that we have to meet to meet uh to

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meet our crew's needs but uh but in

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addition that we have a new spacesuit

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and uh as many of many folks know we've

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had some issues with spacesuits that

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we've been working through uh we're

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still learning a lot about about how

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space boots perform over the long long

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haul and so the opportunity to get a new

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space suit on board is is very important

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for us and so

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so we're looking forward to getting that

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new suit on board

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in addition to that we have some

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additional spare parts for our suits

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that are currently on board and so we'll

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be be looking to get those

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out and get them get them input into our

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new into our suits and so we'll we'll be

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in a much better configuration eva wise

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once we get those uh those suits

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upgraded on board

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but in addition to that we've got an

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incredible amount of research on this

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particular flight that uh that we're

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ready to put put in the crew's hands and

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and get deployed and so we're excited

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about this flight uh certainly from a

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research standpoint too good deal all

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right well thank you

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one other thing let's talk about that

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contingency spacewalk that we've been

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talking about scheduled to take place on

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april 22nd

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and uh so explain is this to repair the

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mdm correct yeah what we'll do is we'll

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uh it's it's a relatively

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straightforward eva it's not too far the

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the path to get to the the point in the

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estero trust where we would install this

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mdm is relatively easy to get to outside

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the airlock we

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spent quite a bit of time this morning

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as an ops community talking through some

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of the the basics of what we're going to

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do and it looks look straight forward a

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couple hours to go out and do it

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one of the things that that we do have

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to do is get the the mdm built up that

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we need to take outside as the

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replacement unit and so getting that mdm

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in a good configuration

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before we go out the door is going to

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take some amount of time and so so the

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team will be working through that this

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week and and

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and putting the final details on what

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we'll do once we get out the hatch but

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also getting the mdm in a good

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configuration to be able to to install

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and know that that when we bring it up

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that it's going to run successfully okay

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sounds good well there's your update

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again uh today's launch is scheduled to

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take place at 3 58 pm central time we'll

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bring you live coverage here beginning

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at 2 45 p.m that is the latest with

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kenny todd thank you again for coming