1 00:00:03,129 --> 00:00:05,580 WELCOME TO SPACE TO GROUND, I’M ISIDRO REYNA. 2 00:00:05,580 --> 00:00:07,820 THIS WEEK, LAUNCH UPDATES TO THE STATION AND MORE. 3 00:00:09,180 --> 00:00:12,780 A JAPANESE CARGO SPACECRAFT SCHEDULED FOR LAUNCH TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 4 00:00:12,780 --> 00:00:14,230 HAS BEEN POSTPONED. 5 00:00:14,230 --> 00:00:18,980 THE INITIAL LAUNCH OF THE JAXA H-II TRANSFER VEHICLE WAS SCRUBBED ON SEPT.10th 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,240 DUE TO A FIRE ON OR NEAR THE JAXA LAUNCH PAD. 7 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:25,159 SEE THE LATEST UPDATES ON THE LAUNCH STATUS AT NASA.GOV. 8 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:29,880 THE NEXT CREW TO LAUNCH TO THE STATION IS AT THE BAIKONUR COSMODROME IN KAZAKHSTAN FOR 9 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:31,669 FINAL MISSION TRAINING. 10 00:00:31,669 --> 00:00:36,650 EXPEDITION 61 CREWMEMBERS JESSICA MEIR OF NASA AND OLEG SKRIPOCHKA OF ROSCOSMOS 11 00:00:36,650 --> 00:00:38,360 WILL BLAST OFF ON SEPT. 25th 12 00:00:38,380 --> 00:00:43,980 ABOARD THE SOYUZ MS-15 SPACECRAFT WITH SPACEFLIGHT PARTICIPANT HAZZAA ALI ALMANSOORI. 13 00:00:44,620 --> 00:00:48,160 THE TRIO FROM THE U.S., RUSSIA AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. 14 00:00:48,170 --> 00:00:52,860 WILL TAKE A FOUR-ORBIT, NEAR SIX-HOUR RIDE IN SPACE BEFORE DOCKING TO THE STATION. 15 00:00:52,860 --> 00:00:57,940 ALMANSOORI WILL RETURN TO EARTH ON OCT. 3 ABOARD THE SOYUZ MS-12 SPACECRAFT WITH NASA 16 00:00:57,940 --> 00:01:01,850 ASTRONAUT NICK HAGUE AND SOYUZ COMMANDER ALEXEY OVCHININ OF ROSCOSMOS. 17 00:01:01,850 --> 00:01:05,480 MEIR AND SKRIPOCHKA WILL ORBIT EARTH UNTIL THE SPRING OF 2020. 18 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:10,710 AS NASA PREPARES TO SEND THE FIRST WOMAN AND NEXT MAN TO THE MOON, BRAD PITT IS PLAYING 19 00:01:10,710 --> 00:01:12,540 AN ASTRONAUT IN HIS LATEST FILM. 20 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:17,780 THE ACTOR CALLED UP TO THE STATION TO DISCUSS WHAT IT’S TRULY LIKE TO LIVE AND WORK IN 21 00:01:17,789 --> 00:01:22,950 SPACE WITH NASA ASTRONAUT NICK HAGUE WHO IS CURRENTLY WORKING ABOARD THE ORBITING LABORATORY. 22 00:01:22,950 --> 00:01:29,579 "I'VE READ ASTRONAUTS, SPEAK ABOUT LOOKING BACK ON THE EARTH, AND REALLY BEING AWARE 23 00:01:29,579 --> 00:01:32,829 HOW INSIGNIFICANT WE ARE IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS. 24 00:01:32,829 --> 00:01:35,969 DID YOU HAVE A SIMILAR EXPERIENCE OR SOMETHING DIFFERENT?" 25 00:01:35,969 --> 00:01:40,439 "YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONE OF THE SPECIAL THINGS ABOUT BEING UP HERE IS BEING ABLE TO FLOAT 26 00:01:40,439 --> 00:01:42,999 OVER TO THE WINDOW AND SEE THE EARTH BELOW. 27 00:01:42,999 --> 00:01:48,670 AND YOU CAN SEE, YOU CAN SEE HUMANITY BELOW YOU AND YOU CAN SEE IT GLIDE BY AS WE GO SCREAMING 28 00:01:48,670 --> 00:01:53,380 THROUGH THE SKY, AND THAT PERSPECTIVE REALLY CHALLENGES YOU, BECAUSE NOW YOU'RE LOOKING 29 00:01:53,380 --> 00:01:56,630 DOWN AT EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE EVER KNOWN. 30 00:01:56,630 --> 00:02:03,359 ALL OF HUMANITY, RIGHT THERE, AND YOU HAVE THIS DEEP APPRECIATION FOR HOW BIG THE UNIVERSE 31 00:02:03,359 --> 00:02:04,959 REALLY IS." 32 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:11,220 BOEING, NASA AND THE U.S. ARMY CONDUCTED EXERCISES FOR THE UPCOMING CST-100 STARLINER MISSIONS. 33 00:02:12,470 --> 00:02:16,520 THIS SERIES OF MISSION DRESS REHEARSALS AT THE WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE IN NEW MEXICO 34 00:02:16,530 --> 00:02:20,610 FOCUSED ON THE LANDING AND RECOVERY ASPECT OF BOEING’S STARLINER’S MISSION. 35 00:02:20,610 --> 00:02:25,030 THIS WAS ONE OF THREE FORMAL DRESS REHEARSALS THAT TOOK PLACE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS 36 00:02:25,030 --> 00:02:27,640 AS PART OF NASA’S COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM. 37 00:02:27,640 --> 00:02:31,660 UNLIKE ANY OTHER AMERICAN-MADE ORBITAL CREW CAPSULE, BOEING’S STARLINER IS DESIGNED 38 00:02:31,660 --> 00:02:36,060 TO LAND ON LAND, AND IS EXPECTED TO TOUCH DOWN AT ONE OF FIVE POTENTIAL LANDING ZONES 39 00:02:36,060 --> 00:02:40,310 IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, INCLUDING TWO AT WHITE SANDS. 40 00:02:40,310 --> 00:02:44,370 ASTRONAUTS MIKE FINCKE AND NICOLE MANN OF NASA AND CHRIS FERGUSON OF BOEING OBSERVED 41 00:02:44,370 --> 00:02:49,250 A FEW OF THE EXERCISES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT WILL BE HAPPENING OUTSIDE STARLINER BEFORE 42 00:02:49,250 --> 00:02:53,380 GROUND TEAMS CAN OPEN THE HATCH AND OFFICIALLY WELCOME THEM BACK TO EARTH.