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hi my name is doug hurley and i'm the

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spacecraft commander for the demo 2

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mission to the international space

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this mission is the crude test flight

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for the spacex crew dragon so every

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portion of the flight this will be the

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first time the dragon crew dragon has

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had a crew on board and so there's a a

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myriad of objectives we want to achieve

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the rendezvous and docking phase

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and then we'll spend some time onboard

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space station and do some docked

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activities with the vehicle and then at

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some point

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30 to 90 days later we will undock and

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do an entry and then landing in the

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it's it's a story

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on sts-127 which was my first flight i

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think we scrubbed

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on the order of six times over the

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course of about a month it was literally

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groundhog day trying to get into space

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and of course it's your first flight so

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you really really want to go we just had

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technical challenges for the first two

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or three launch attempts and then had to

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scrub for weather a number of times

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before we finally got to go that's why

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you got to go to the pad you got to get

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in the vehicle because you never know

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when the weather's going to clear it's

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not the best of stories but

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i think back so fondly on that mission

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we worked really hard for 16 days but it

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we first got down to kennedy we got

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every checklist out and every

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responsibility that each one of us had

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we kind of almost

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table topped it for the first couple

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days and you see that in sports teams

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you see the coaches uh and players that

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spend that extra time after practice and

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at night reviewing film and going over

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films of the other teams i think that's

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what you need to do in a space flight is

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you need to know what you're going to do

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almost instinctively if not completely

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by heart and then go from there and i

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with the shuttle you were on your back

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for almost four hours waiting to launch

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so part of it was just let's get this

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over with and get going but then when

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the when the engine's light it it you

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know you are going and you know you're

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going somewhere pretty fast and you go

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from in the case to the shuttle you go

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from three g's to zero g's

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instantaneously and things start

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floating and i remember distinctly just

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thinking

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what just happened because eight and a

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half minutes ago i was on earth and now

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i'm in space and obviously with falcon 9

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and dragon this will be the first time

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humans have ridden on the falcon 9 even

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though it's flown many many times you

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tend to pull more g's the first stage is

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pretty similar like shuttle we had about

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a two and a half minute first stage the

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difference is going to be

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with falcon 9 the engines

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you know you separate from that part of

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the rocket with the engines the first

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stage and so you get kind of a

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weightlessness there for a lack of

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acceleration there for a split second or

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two so that part of it is going to be

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distinctly different we could experience

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somewhere on the order of four plus g's

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whereas shuttle we were limited to just

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three g's

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i think our concentration has mostly

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been on

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you know the profile the the crew

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vehicle uh interface you know just how

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it how the dragon will work for crews

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going forward that's why we're going to

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do this flight now is to prove out what

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we think it will do ideally it will do

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the first

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simulator where we integrated the

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hawthorne mission control team and the

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houston mission control team was a huge

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moment to be able to just have the

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entire integrated

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team that's going to support us getting

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to and from space station talking

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together working through the challenges

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i think that was probably for me that

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the first big highlight and that wasn't

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that long ago it overwhelms you to think

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about how many people

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have in some way shape or form touch

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this program and this and this vehicle

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to get us to this point you know we

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obviously in a lot of ways are are the

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lucky ones that get to fly it but we

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certainly um

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not for one second take for granted the

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amount of effort that so many other

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people had to put into this to make it

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successful and uh you know we'll do our

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part to

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to make it successful and to

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and to get back here and celebrate with

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everybody uh in a few short months very