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hi i'm bob bankin i am the joint

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operations mission commander for nasa's

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so doug hurley and i are about to take

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nasa's spacex demo 2 mission to the

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international space station during that

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mission we'll uh perform some checkouts

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everything from a response to a fire on

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board to flying close to the

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international space station manually

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we'll make sure all those systems are

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working during the test flight so that

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the future missions

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will have them available even if they

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don't plan to utilize them we're hopeful

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that future crews on you know dragon

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vehicles headed to you know nasa space

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station aren't cursing our names because

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we accepted some feature that was

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complicated and hard to train and in the

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you know in the air force environment

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flight test environment there's always a

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balance of managing risk as you go

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forward to execute a test point and

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figuring out a way to you know collect

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the data

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and do that in the in the calm cool

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collected kind of test environment with

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experienced folks before you know a

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pilot ends up someplace a little bit

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more complicated with a lot less

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resources my role

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for a space mission is very much the

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you know my career at nasa has kind of

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spanned a couple of decades at this

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point i arrived with the class of 2000 i

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went through the training program

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primarily focused on the space shuttle

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and the international space station

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learning those systems through the

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assembly process which was

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a little bit like where we were with a

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dragon in the early days because space

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station kept changing and you had to

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stay up with it after that i was

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eventually assigned to a series of uh

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kind of training activities both as a

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long duration crew member and then flip

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flopped over and and flew a couple of

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shuttle missions both on endeavor after

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that i came back and

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kind of worked up the leadership chain

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through station operations deputy chief

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and then chief of the astronaut office

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one of my goals was to try to get as

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many astronauts

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off to kazakhstan so they would

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appreciate the day when we got to launch

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probably two things that jump out to me

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as a as kind of big wins one is

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associated with having a high enough

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fidelity from a training perspective

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both doug and i can sit in a capsule we

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can put on suits and we can go through a

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situation or a scenario where the suits

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are going to inflate to try to protect

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us from the whatever situation is

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developing on board the vehicle and i

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think one of our biggest accomplishments

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was a tool to be able to plan our own

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way out of orbit uh back to earth and we

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had to come up with a way that didn't

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break the um software allocation that

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was out there and we just had the big

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picture of okay how does the crew just

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get home if they end up in this

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situation how does the crew get home if

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they end up in this situation when they

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were able to flip that switch and not

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count how many failures it took to get

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there but except that let's figure out

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the easiest way to provide that

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capability and they got on board with it

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that was the aha moment you don't

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necessarily have to save the mission

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with the crew but you need to save the

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crew with the crew is kind of the the

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it's really kind of designed that launch

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day is kind of relaxed so we'll get up

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have a little bit of exercise probably

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or breakfast and then some exercise be

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able to do some last minute

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you know phone calls we'll probably have

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lunch review

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a weather briefing of some sort to

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understand what our our weather's going

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to look like we'll hear anything

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associated with the vehicle kind of

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technical detail-wise we'll get a little

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bit of an early read on that before the

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formal process of getting the suit on

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and then heading out to the launch pad

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for me you know having

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launched a couple times on vehicles you

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know the the second time was definitely

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different than the first time in terms

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of uh relaxation associated with the

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mission you're doing that for the first

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time you can feel a little bit guilty of

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hey should i study one more thing or is

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there one more piece of information i

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should get

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so that's definitely different between

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where i was on my first flight and where

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on a deeply personal level i'm really

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excited that my son is going to get a

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chance to see me launch into space being

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an astronaut has been a little bit of an

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abstraction thing for him because he's

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seen me do it in the in old videos but

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he hasn't seen me do it for real i think

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it's important for the u.s to continue

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to have

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these exciting things out there from a

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technical engineering science challenge

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perspective because it motivated me to

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go into this sort of a career and i know

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that it motivates other children in and

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so i'm excited to bring it back to the

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florida coast or be a part of bringing

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it back you know i'm just one piece of a

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you know multi-thousand member team

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that's going to hopefully pull this off

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in short order it's inspiring to me and

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