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"Houston, Station on Space to Ground."

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Welcome to Space to Ground, I'm Dan Huot. What a way to end this decade in spaceflight.

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Boeing's CST-100 Starliner

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successfully returned after its first
voyage to outer space. The mission

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started with a smooth ride uphill atop
an Atlas V rocket, but experienced an

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issue shortly after separating. After
flight controllers righted the spacecraft

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and put it in orbit, it was determined
they wouldn't be able to successfully

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rendezvous and dock with the Space
Station. But resolute to still accomplish

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as much as possible on the demo flight,
teams executed a number of checkouts

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before guiding the capsule to a
picturesque nighttime landing in frigid

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White Sands, New Mexico.

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It was a thrilling end to a jam-packed year for the International Space Station.

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In addition to Boeing's first Starliner flight,

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SpaceX conducted their first
flight to and from the International

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Space Station earlier this year with
their new crew Dragon vehicle.

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Both flights continued to push us forward to
once again launching crews to the

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station from America with 2020 lining up
to be the year we make it happen.

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Throughout the year we saw three crews
fly to the station on the Russian Soyuz

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where they performed 11 spacewalks and
welcomed nine cargo vehicles from Northrop

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Grumman, SpaceX, Russia, and the Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency. And between

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it all they worked on hundreds of
experiments and technology

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demonstrations that benefit humans back
on earth and lay the groundwork for our

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mission to land the first woman and the
next man on the moon under NASA's

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Artemis program.
With all those accomplishments in the

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books, 2020 is poised to be a hallmark
year in station history.

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We'll hit the ground running in January with
spacewalks to finish battery upgrades

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and work on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer,
while back on earth SpaceX will launch

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Crew Dragon on its in-flight abort test,
one of the last major tests before

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putting humans onboard. NASA astronaut
Christina Koch will come home in

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February as the newest record holder for
longest continuous spaceflight by a

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female astronaut, an inspiring end to her
first mission. Then stay tuned for the

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first flights of astronauts with our
Commercial Crew providers Boeing and

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SpaceX, the first time we'll send the
crew to the station from the Florida

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coast since the Space Shuttle retired in
2011. And on November 2nd will mark 20

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unbroken years of humans living, working,
space walking, experimenting, and flying

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in humanity's home in low-earth orbit.

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And that will do it for us in 2019.