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good morning everybody from the johnson

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space center in houston

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welcome to today's mission status

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briefing it's been a busy day for the

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spacex and nasa teams and here to give

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us an update on the flight of the dragon

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so far is holly writings who is the lead

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nasa flight director we're also joined

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by john coloras from the spacex facility

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there in hawthorne california so we'll

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get started with holly

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all right well good morning everyone

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today is a really great day to come and

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talk to you because it's been very very

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successful up to this point

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today we performed our first joint

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operations

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with the team at spacex in hawthorne

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california this is really something

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we've been

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training for for for many years and

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really looking forward to and we're

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excited that

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this first operation jointly with that

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went as well as it did so we had a very

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successful fly under where dragon flew

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under the space station about two and a

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half kilometers

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below the space station again this was

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our first joint operation

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we had several activities that we wanted

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specifically to accomplish with this fly

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one of those was communication between

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the dragon and the space station we were

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able to establish that successfully

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check out that link both from the crew

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on board and the ground teams and so

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that was very very positive

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one of the capabilities that we needed

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to perform the rendezvous and the

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capture tomorrow

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we also were able to kind of shake out

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our process of working together again i

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mentioned we'd been training and

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practicing that for many years but doing

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it for the the first time with two

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dynamic spacecraft uh flying uh very

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close together

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you always want to make sure that you're

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going to be able to to work as as you

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trained and i'll tell you that it went

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very very smoothly it felt exactly like

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our training the teams communicated

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about

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all of the activities that were

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performed today

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in a lot of detail and showed a lot of

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understanding and

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communication

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the other thing we did today certainly

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on the on the space station side we

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worked some with our crew as they

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prepared for the rendezvous and capture

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tomorrow those activities were some

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training activities uh

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doing a kind of a last run through with

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the ssrms the

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robotic arm that's in the position it

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that they used to capture the dragon

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tomorrow and so they were doing some

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final training runs with a robotic arm

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and they were actually also setting up

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the crew command panel which again is

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how they uh communicate from a command

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standpoint with the dragon

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and we also were able to see the dragon

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as it flew under the crew reported to us

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a tally hoe with a dragon

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the dragon has a strobe light that was

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turned on and

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as the dragon passed below the space

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station we were the crew reported they

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were able to to see that light that

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strobe light and then our station

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cameras capture the dragon as well which

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picture that you're seeing on display

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here our downlink from our external

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so all of those things wrapped up into

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as i mentioned at the beginning a very

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successful day a great day

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in space and certainly from

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the nasa side we are excited about how

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the mission is going so far and so with

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that i'd like to hand it over to my

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colleague and my counterpart

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at spacex the dragon mission director

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good morning thanks holly yes it's a

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very exciting day for us at spacex

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as holly said we performed the flyby at

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two and a half kilometers below station

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uh all dragon systems checked out we

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look good we're currently uh past

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station now preparing to fly up and over

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station overnight and prepare for

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birthing uh dragons go for birthing day

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tomorrow and right now we're looking

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okay we'll take some questions starting

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here in houston first and then we'll go

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to the phone lines and since we have

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holly here and john out there in

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we ask that you direct your question let

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us know who you're who you're asking it

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uh thank you mark caro for aviation week

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uh this is for holly riding

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um can you um

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sort of compare

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what unfolded today with with what you

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kind of expected or anticipated even

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with all of the training

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though today was a success do you feel

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like you need to caution us that

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tomorrow is still pretty sporting or do

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you feel more confident based on what

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happened today okay so in terms of the

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obviously the missions really got two

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large components this was the first one

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the fly under the second is

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the rendezvous capture birthing activity

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which will take place tomorrow we had

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practiced and trained both of those

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components and i'll tell you today went

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really very close to how we had trained

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it there was no major deviations from

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our pre-flight plan

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and really nothing that that we saw

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that we had not discussed at some point

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prior to the mission so

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perform operations with a real vehicle

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interesting in terms of you learn things

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you see the real data but all of the

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preflight planning our flight rules are

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procedures

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everything held up

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under under the scrutiny of of really

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first time in terms of how i feel about

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certainly this is a demonstration flight

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a test flight as as we've been saying

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and to get through this first piece of

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tomorrow there's still a lot of really

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the teams need to to perform and and the

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vehicles frankly need to perform and so

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still definitely a demonstration a

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thank you very much i had a follow-up

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question uh during the activities today

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there were some difficulties on the

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station with um with the console

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in the lab i just wonder if there was

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any after action that's required

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they're all good to go now

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so the shorty answer is they're all back

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nominal configuration and ready for

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specifically we had one of the monitors

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so we had to go through a reboot process

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just like you'd reboot your laptop and

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so it comes back up the crew then did

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use that monitor for various activities

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and so we know it's functioning properly

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this again is is a standard thing we see

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cameras communicate with the information

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tomorrow and so that process took a

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done it for this specific vehicle we

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have done that calibration before

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actually executed that activity but

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uh i just had a question about the the

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timing for today and then also for

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the the ha2 burn today was about an hour

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behind the uh i guess the timeline that

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why was that and is that going to

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propagate out for tomorrow's rendezvous

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it's not going to propagate for

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tomorrow's rendezvous we expect the

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rendezvous to be on time for our

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pre-flight plan and then i think for the

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ran about uh 50 minutes from the nominal

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the height of just two burn time as

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decision we made just with

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managing the mission you know we had a

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pre-flight prediction and then after the

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dragon gone on orbit and we were able to

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to watch how it was flying it made a

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little more sense to us to

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start a little bit later in the in the

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crew day and make make sure we had a lot

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of really solid time to involve them and

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so we had a discussion and like said

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targeted that a little bit later than

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time tomorrow we don't have the luxury

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so we expect to be right back on our

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pre-flight plan tomorrow

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robert robert perlin with

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collectspace.com with a question for

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holly sort of working off of that if you

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do run into delays tomorrow is there a

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um you would you would either have to

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that it has to remain on the arm until

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the next day to be birthed

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timeline you know they are a resource

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go ahead and put the dragon in what we

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call an overnight park position where it

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stays on the arm overnight you finish up

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the birthing that's an analyzed

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configuration it's a it's a pre-planned

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configuration certainly i know everybody

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would be much more excited if the dragon

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was birthed but if we need to do that

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that's something we've discussed we have

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all the procedures and

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it's similar to

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plans for the other visiting vehicles so

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if you're looking for a hard limit it's

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really based on on the crew day and and

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how much we need

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to work them so there's a fair amount of

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margin beyond the actual capture time on

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the order of several hours

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that we'll be able to

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go ahead and

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work with through any challenges and

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still have enough time to get growth

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tomorrow and then even after that we've

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got this

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pre-planned activity this overnight park

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which we could use if we needed to

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and just a quick follow-up on that if uh

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if it did come push to shove would that

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be something that since it's based on

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crew time that don pettit and the others

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could call down and say no we want to

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work into the night and you'd allow them

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so you're familiar with some of our

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crews and they love to work

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it's my job and and don's job working

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with me to to protect them because they

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are a resource so we don't want to burn

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them out in in one day i i fully expect

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them to call and say hey we'd like to

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keep going but

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it's our job as a joint team to to know

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when

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we've done as much work as we need to

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today and make the decision that we'll

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just go to the next day and and preserve

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uh really the the team as a resource to

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to make sure we can make the right

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decisions

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okay

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do you guys have any questions over here

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no okay let's go to the phone lines i

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believe that we have charles atkinson

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good morning charles examiner.com for

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john what is the current fuel level

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aboard dragon and how does it compare

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uh certainly so currently uh we are

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tracking abr above our pre-flight plan

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we're about 36 kilograms if you'd like

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an exact number above our pre-flight

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plan and we're looking very good um

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it's a fairly consistent profile to the

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plan now for the re-rendezvous and

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birthing so we should be good and uh

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this protects us if we need to extend or

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as holly said as a test flight if we

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need to take more time and come back

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around a second time

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okay and john uh one more unlike today

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will the cameras aboard dragon allow

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viewers here on the ground to view the

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so the cameras will be available we use

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them we need to be over a ground station

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when we receive video the cameras will

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be or rather the video system will be

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connected to our thermal imagers so we

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will have video of station but it will

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be in the ir spectrum infrared spectrum

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okay and will that be available on nasa

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tv

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we are feeding

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video to nasa and i'll be working with

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holly when that's available

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okay and holly my final one is is may

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31st the absolute final day dragon can

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stay docked to station

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well let's see may 31st is our nominally

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planned departure day

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the dragon has other

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landing opportunities uh re-entry and

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the orbit opportunities and john could

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tell you some of the specific dates

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beyond that uh for dragon on the space

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station side

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you know at the beginning of june we're

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headed into a high beta

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time period for about

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10 or so days and so we'd like to not do

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any dynamic vehicle activities uh you

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know dockings undockings birth things

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unbirthings in that time period so

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may 31st is nominal we've got a couple

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of days after that to work with and then

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the dragon if needed to could could stay

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even longer than that

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pretty much

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hi a question for john

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uh want to know a little bit more detail

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about the rehearsals and simulations uh

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beforehand

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if it's possible to get any kind of idea

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of you know how much time that you

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worked with nasa on some of these

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simulations

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um and then in particular

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were there any things uh in the

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simulation

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for this next stage tomorrow's uh part

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of the mission that were ever

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problematic and it's something that

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you're really looking forward to i get a

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point getting past beyond the actual

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birthing itself

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certainly i've been working with nasa on

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this mission specifically for a little

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over five years now

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we've been simulating for almost three

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years on various stages but really the

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main thrust of our simulations have been

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over the past year and a half we've

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conducted almost 20 joint simulations

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with nasa

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and over 40 simulations internally here

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to spacex among the four shifts of

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operators we have working so we've been

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working it very hard we

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fly by the mantra of train like you fly

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and then fly like you train and so far

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the mission has been proceeding uh just

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like a regular simulation so we're very

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pleased with that

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tomorrow as holly said it is a test

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flight so

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i don't want to jinx myself and say what

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i can expect and then see something

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different but uh right now the mission

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is looking just like our simulation so

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we're uh we're fortunate there and i'm

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not expecting anything uh that we

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were there anything in the simulation

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that uh

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you know that was sort of that hump that

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you had to get past or that hump that

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you know cause any issues that you're

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gonna take a breath once it's over

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tomorrow

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uh we use the simulations and as i said

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we've been simulating for a number of

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years we use them to iron out work uh on

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the hardware as well as in the operation

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so it's one of those nice things about

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spacex because of our development

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process and we're all under one roof

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here at hawthorne when we find something

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in a simulation we'd go back to the

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hardware people and talk to them about

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it and be able to iterate back and forth

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so i'm not expecting anything

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that

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the teams at least aren't prepared for

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we have a very cracked team

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there's always a chance of something

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that we haven't simulated coming up but

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we also have hardware in the loop here

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in hawthorne that we can run against

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before we do anything on the spacecraft

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so again i'm very confident and our

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simulation supervisors have been uh

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they've i think they've enjoyed

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torturing us with very unique scenarios

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so we're looking forward to uh birthing

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thank you

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okay

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let's go to marcia don associated press

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uh yes hi good morning i have a question

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for um

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john over at spacex what was the

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atmosphere the mood like when you

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completed the operation this morning

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with um

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with such finesse and i'm wondering

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what what kind of a

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kind of a mood does that put you in for

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tomorrow do you

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do

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or most of the nerves gone now that you

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did so well

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uh it definitely does help with the

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confidence again achieving the

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c2 mission objectives the original c2

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mission objectives today is a big

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confidence boost everyone's very excited

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i want to make sure everyone got to bed

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so they're well rested for tomorrow

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but it's exciting to be you know an

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american and part of the uh

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of putting american spacecraft into

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thank you very much

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all right uh clara with space.com

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yeah hi uh my question is for holly and

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i'm wondering when was the decision um

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to give the official go-ahead for

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birthing made and and what was the

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process of decision making there was it

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just a straightforward thing

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let's see so it's actually a series of

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decisions

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so when we talk about the fly under

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today

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we did sort of step one in that process

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so we did a go

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sort of an official poll both at the

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control center in hawthorne and the one

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here in houston uh

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in order to

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bring the dragon up to that two and a

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half kilometers below the space station

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for the fly under as dragon flies around

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the space station over about the next

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20 to 22 hours there's a series of those

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decision points and at each one of those

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you're checking really the health of

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both spacecrafts and make sure you're

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still in

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what you expected pre-flight in terms of

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your of your performance and your

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systems and so uh you do that overnight

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and then you'll start into your

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rendezvous sequence

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i think of it it basically starts at the

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point where we were we call that the ha2

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the height adjust to burn

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that's the burn where we started the fly

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under the day instead of

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going under at two and a half we'll

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continue on up towards the space station

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and and you can see each in the graphic

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that they just put up for me you can see

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each of the kind of brown maybe red

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colored dots is a is another height

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adjust maneuver so again you're turning

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on the dragon engines the the team in

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hawthorne is and and moving the dragon

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closer to the space station and each one

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of those points again has a as a pole

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has a a go in our uh nomenclature and

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and you're doing that at two and a half

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you're doing that at 1.4 we do that

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again several times after the dragon

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is again on the r bar which is uh kind

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of that space below

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the space station if you drew that

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direct line from the space station down

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to the the center of the earth and so

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the final go for birthing

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is actually very close to the space

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station so 10 meters we call that the

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capture point and so after you've

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crossed through all the gates leading up

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to that point with an increasing number

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of

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systems and that that you need to be

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working correctly then you give that

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final go again that's a joint uh pull

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between john's team and and my team here

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in houston and then after that you

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really turn it over to the crew you tell

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them you're go for capture they take

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both spacecrafts into a free drift again

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so that the thrusters do not fire on

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00:20:53,830 --> 00:20:51,679
either spacecraft and reach out and

562
00:20:54,549 --> 00:20:53,840
capture dragon with the arm

563
00:20:57,430 --> 00:20:54,559
so

564
00:20:59,830 --> 00:20:57,440
when we talk about there having been a a

565
00:21:02,710 --> 00:20:59,840
go for birthing it's really again a

566
00:21:03,669 --> 00:21:02,720
series of activities the last one being

567
00:21:05,270 --> 00:21:03,679
right

568
00:21:07,270 --> 00:21:05,280
when dragon is is very close to the

569
00:21:10,950 --> 00:21:07,280
space station and that'll occur

570
00:21:12,950 --> 00:21:10,960
about 7 a.m central time tomorrow again

571
00:21:15,029 --> 00:21:12,960
roughly because we've got a lot of data

572
00:21:16,310 --> 00:21:15,039
to look at and activities to perform but

573
00:21:19,669 --> 00:21:16,320
that's the the rough time where that

574
00:21:20,549 --> 00:21:19,679
last go for birthing will occur

575
00:21:28,390 --> 00:21:20,559
thank you

576
00:21:33,510 --> 00:21:31,350
brownie there

577
00:21:36,070 --> 00:21:33,520
okay let's skip to brendan mcgeary with

578
00:21:40,950 --> 00:21:36,870
thanks

579
00:21:43,590 --> 00:21:40,960
parts here hopefully pretty brief though

580
00:21:45,190 --> 00:21:43,600
can you just summarize uh in brief what

581
00:21:47,430 --> 00:21:45,200
what happened this morning clearly the

582
00:21:48,630 --> 00:21:47,440
fly under is is sort of a milestone but

583
00:21:51,350 --> 00:21:48,640
you know to mention the strobe light

584
00:21:53,029 --> 00:21:51,360
there just a few more just highlights on

585
00:21:55,590 --> 00:21:53,039
on what exactly you guys accomplished

586
00:21:56,549 --> 00:21:55,600
this morning um uh

587
00:21:59,510 --> 00:21:56,559
two

588
00:22:01,909 --> 00:21:59,520
where things uh uh you know

589
00:22:03,909 --> 00:22:01,919
will are going uh i guess throughout the

590
00:22:05,590 --> 00:22:03,919
day you mentioned the sounds like the

591
00:22:07,510 --> 00:22:05,600
you know the race pack the circling is

592
00:22:09,830 --> 00:22:07,520
is now what's underway and then three

593
00:22:13,270 --> 00:22:09,840
just confirm for me the the scheduled

594
00:22:15,190 --> 00:22:13,280
birthing time for tomorrow

595
00:22:16,950 --> 00:22:15,200
okay well let's see the first part i

596
00:22:18,789 --> 00:22:16,960
actually was going to ask john if he

597
00:22:20,710 --> 00:22:18,799
wanted from his perspective to to give

598
00:22:21,909 --> 00:22:20,720
you the highlights of of the fly under

599
00:22:23,590 --> 00:22:21,919
since it was

600
00:22:26,710 --> 00:22:23,600
his his spacecraft we were seeing for

601
00:22:29,990 --> 00:22:26,720
the first time

602
00:22:31,909 --> 00:22:30,000
certainly so uh right before the flyby

603
00:22:33,669 --> 00:22:31,919
uh yesterday yesterday and the day

604
00:22:35,350 --> 00:22:33,679
before we performed some spacecraft

605
00:22:36,630 --> 00:22:35,360
checkouts which included an abort

606
00:22:41,909 --> 00:22:36,640
demonstration

607
00:22:44,390 --> 00:22:41,919
navigating off gps by itself and then a

608
00:22:46,390 --> 00:22:44,400
free drift demonstration and free drift

609
00:22:47,990 --> 00:22:46,400
is where we shut down all the thrusters

610
00:22:49,990 --> 00:22:48,000
and we do that at that 10 meter point

611
00:22:52,310 --> 00:22:50,000
that holly just mentioned prior to being

612
00:22:53,990 --> 00:22:52,320
grappled by the arm so we demonstrated

613
00:22:54,870 --> 00:22:54,000
all those and we're ready for flyby

614
00:22:59,590 --> 00:22:54,880
today

615
00:23:02,310 --> 00:22:59,600
were to prove first our katz uhf

616
00:23:05,430 --> 00:23:02,320
communications unit also known as cuckoo

617
00:23:08,390 --> 00:23:05,440
was able to close a link out to dragon

618
00:23:10,230 --> 00:23:08,400
cuckoo allows us to communicate between

619
00:23:12,710 --> 00:23:10,240
iss and dragon

620
00:23:14,950 --> 00:23:12,720
at very close ranges uh rough we're

621
00:23:17,430 --> 00:23:14,960
expecting roughly between 23 and 28

622
00:23:19,270 --> 00:23:17,440
kilometers we're very fortunate today we

623
00:23:22,149 --> 00:23:19,280
exceeded those uh

624
00:23:24,549 --> 00:23:22,159
going i'd say in excess of 90 kilometers

625
00:23:26,310 --> 00:23:24,559
so again very fortunate uh when you

626
00:23:28,549 --> 00:23:26,320
asked what were one of those points in

627
00:23:30,230 --> 00:23:28,559
the mission i'm kind of holding on to it

628
00:23:30,950 --> 00:23:30,240
was that and that was a great thing for

629
00:23:33,830 --> 00:23:30,960
us

630
00:23:36,070 --> 00:23:33,840
so uh cuckoo unit allows the crew to

631
00:23:37,990 --> 00:23:36,080
command dragon and we proved that that

632
00:23:40,789 --> 00:23:38,000
link works and it also allows dragon to

633
00:23:43,430 --> 00:23:40,799
know exactly where iss is by using iss's

634
00:23:45,909 --> 00:23:43,440
gps state so as we came in we performed

635
00:23:48,310 --> 00:23:45,919
the height adjust and colliptic 2 burns

636
00:23:50,390 --> 00:23:48,320
and we flew under station

637
00:23:53,350 --> 00:23:50,400
performed some cuckoo operations

638
00:23:56,310 --> 00:23:53,360
and then uh once we confirm gps is

639
00:23:57,830 --> 00:23:56,320
working the crew sent the crew

640
00:24:00,310 --> 00:23:57,840
from the crew command panel which is a

641
00:24:02,149 --> 00:24:00,320
panel connected to cuckoo the strobe on

642
00:24:04,470 --> 00:24:02,159
command and that was really to test that

643
00:24:06,310 --> 00:24:04,480
the crew can send a command to dragon

644
00:24:08,470 --> 00:24:06,320
and something that was benign

645
00:24:11,190 --> 00:24:08,480
and we saw that the strobes were indeed

646
00:24:13,510 --> 00:24:11,200
on and then we continued operations and

647
00:24:15,669 --> 00:24:13,520
then the crew through the same panel uh

648
00:24:18,310 --> 00:24:15,679
selected the strobes off so we have

649
00:24:20,149 --> 00:24:18,320
proven that the that both dragon can

650
00:24:22,390 --> 00:24:20,159
already navigate within close proximity

651
00:24:25,029 --> 00:24:22,400
of station and that the crew can command

652
00:24:28,710 --> 00:24:25,039
uh dragon so two very important mission

653
00:24:31,830 --> 00:24:30,310
let's see so i'll pick up with the rest

654
00:24:34,549 --> 00:24:31,840
of your question and add just a few

655
00:24:36,230 --> 00:24:34,559
points so on the space station side

656
00:24:39,110 --> 00:24:36,240
in order to do the the communication

657
00:24:40,470 --> 00:24:39,120
with dragon the uhf communication

658
00:24:43,350 --> 00:24:40,480
we put the space station in a very

659
00:24:44,870 --> 00:24:43,360
specific attitude which requires us to

660
00:24:46,549 --> 00:24:44,880
make sure our solar arrays are

661
00:24:48,230 --> 00:24:46,559
configured properly so the type of

662
00:24:50,310 --> 00:24:48,240
things we do for

663
00:24:52,310 --> 00:24:50,320
other visiting vehicles we also perform

664
00:24:54,630 --> 00:24:52,320
for dragon and there's a

665
00:24:55,830 --> 00:24:54,640
box on the space station uh the cuckoo

666
00:24:58,710 --> 00:24:55,840
box

667
00:25:01,110 --> 00:24:58,720
spacex built and flew up that

668
00:25:03,590 --> 00:25:01,120
communicates with its partner box on the

669
00:25:05,830 --> 00:25:03,600
dragon and so we made sure that was

670
00:25:06,789 --> 00:25:05,840
working correctly on the space station

671
00:25:08,789 --> 00:25:06,799
side

672
00:25:10,789 --> 00:25:08,799
john mentioned that we we gathered some

673
00:25:13,350 --> 00:25:10,799
relative navigation data

674
00:25:14,710 --> 00:25:13,360
so it's very important for us tomorrow

675
00:25:17,430 --> 00:25:14,720
to make sure that that relative

676
00:25:19,029 --> 00:25:17,440
navigation we call our gps data is

677
00:25:21,590 --> 00:25:19,039
accurate we did not use it for

678
00:25:23,990 --> 00:25:21,600
navigating today as we flew under but we

679
00:25:26,470 --> 00:25:24,000
gathered data and there's a team of of

680
00:25:28,470 --> 00:25:26,480
experts at nasa and spacex actually as

681
00:25:31,029 --> 00:25:28,480
we speak pouring through that data to

682
00:25:33,430 --> 00:25:31,039
make sure it's all working correctly

683
00:25:35,350 --> 00:25:33,440
for when we need it tomorrow as we

684
00:25:37,590 --> 00:25:35,360
approach closer into the space station

685
00:25:39,669 --> 00:25:37,600
and so that's a component that's very

686
00:25:41,190 --> 00:25:39,679
important to us that we go through that

687
00:25:43,510 --> 00:25:41,200
thorough review

688
00:25:46,230 --> 00:25:43,520
and understand that tomorrow when we do

689
00:25:48,390 --> 00:25:46,240
use that capability that the navigation

690
00:25:50,630 --> 00:25:48,400
will work correctly

691
00:25:52,710 --> 00:25:50,640
i'd see you asked to what else was going

692
00:25:53,990 --> 00:25:52,720
on today so one thing was the data

693
00:25:56,070 --> 00:25:54,000
review

694
00:25:57,750 --> 00:25:56,080
the dragon will perform a series of

695
00:26:00,230 --> 00:25:57,760
burns as it goes around the space

696
00:26:02,710 --> 00:26:00,240
station so that the joint operations

697
00:26:04,630 --> 00:26:02,720
between the control team operations team

698
00:26:07,190 --> 00:26:04,640
here and in hawthorne

699
00:26:09,110 --> 00:26:07,200
again continues uh all

700
00:26:11,029 --> 00:26:09,120
on the next two shifts before we report

701
00:26:12,390 --> 00:26:11,039
back for duty

702
00:26:14,390 --> 00:26:12,400
tomorrow

703
00:26:16,310 --> 00:26:14,400
again just making sure that the dragon

704
00:26:18,230 --> 00:26:16,320
can end up in exactly the right place to

705
00:26:19,510 --> 00:26:18,240
start the rendezvous

706
00:26:20,630 --> 00:26:19,520
tomorrow

707
00:26:22,310 --> 00:26:20,640
the crew

708
00:26:25,430 --> 00:26:22,320
for the rest of the day today will be

709
00:26:27,590 --> 00:26:25,440
continuing on with their preparation

710
00:26:29,990 --> 00:26:27,600
they've got some conferences

711
00:26:31,990 --> 00:26:30,000
to understand and get ready for the

712
00:26:32,710 --> 00:26:32,000
dragon cargo operations which of course

713
00:26:39,510 --> 00:26:32,720
is

714
00:26:41,830 --> 00:26:39,520
to bring up and and show that

715
00:26:43,510 --> 00:26:41,840
the crew can transfer cargo in and out

716
00:26:45,750 --> 00:26:43,520
of dragon and so they'll be doing some

717
00:26:47,909 --> 00:26:45,760
preparation for that activity

718
00:26:50,310 --> 00:26:47,919
those activities later in the week and

719
00:26:52,470 --> 00:26:50,320
into next week for the rest of their day

720
00:26:53,909 --> 00:26:52,480
on orbit today and i think your final

721
00:26:55,590 --> 00:26:53,919
question was

722
00:26:56,789 --> 00:26:55,600
birthing time so i mentioned earlier

723
00:26:58,950 --> 00:26:56,799
capture was

724
00:27:00,870 --> 00:26:58,960
you know going to be roughly 700 and i'm

725
00:27:03,750 --> 00:27:00,880
doing it in central daylight time

726
00:27:05,909 --> 00:27:03,760
birthing is 10 30 it's

727
00:27:07,909 --> 00:27:05,919
right about 10 30 central time is where

728
00:27:10,549 --> 00:27:07,919
it's timeline and of course it can move

729
00:27:12,950 --> 00:27:10,559
a little bit earlier later depending on

730
00:27:14,549 --> 00:27:12,960
how much time we need to evaluate the

731
00:27:16,789 --> 00:27:14,559
spacecraft as it

732
00:27:19,669 --> 00:27:16,799
sits below station in that our bar

733
00:27:21,909 --> 00:27:19,679
location but 10 30 is a rough nominal

734
00:27:26,230 --> 00:27:22,789
thank you

735
00:27:28,710 --> 00:27:26,240
all right irene klotz with reuters

736
00:27:30,549 --> 00:27:28,720
thanks josh um i had a couple questions

737
00:27:32,950 --> 00:27:30,559
for john first of all would you is your

738
00:27:36,070 --> 00:27:32,960
title also a flight director or what do

739
00:27:37,430 --> 00:27:36,080
you uh what's the spacex on designation

740
00:27:38,789 --> 00:27:37,440
for for you

741
00:27:41,190 --> 00:27:38,799
and um also

742
00:27:43,830 --> 00:27:41,200
was there anything in the test today

743
00:27:48,070 --> 00:27:43,840
that um you're going to use to tweak

744
00:27:52,230 --> 00:27:50,549
certainly so uh first at spacex we use

745
00:27:54,230 --> 00:27:52,240
the term mission director and i'm the

746
00:27:56,230 --> 00:27:54,240
lead mission director for the dragon c2

747
00:27:58,070 --> 00:27:56,240
plus mission uh we use the term mission

748
00:27:59,909 --> 00:27:58,080
director just to distinguish between

749
00:28:02,230 --> 00:27:59,919
mission and flight director calls while

750
00:28:03,590 --> 00:28:02,240
we're on communications with them with

751
00:28:05,029 --> 00:28:03,600
nasa

752
00:28:06,310 --> 00:28:05,039
secondly

753
00:28:08,230 --> 00:28:06,320
there's nothing that we would

754
00:28:10,549 --> 00:28:08,240
necessarily tweak

755
00:28:12,870 --> 00:28:10,559
one thing because cuckoo closed so far

756
00:28:14,870 --> 00:28:12,880
out i'm feeling very confident that some

757
00:28:17,110 --> 00:28:14,880
of our contingency procedures that we

758
00:28:20,070 --> 00:28:17,120
were looking to do were to getting

759
00:28:22,070 --> 00:28:20,080
closer will not be necessary so dragon

760
00:28:23,750 --> 00:28:22,080
looks good and uh we don't expect any

761
00:28:25,269 --> 00:28:23,760
tweaking

762
00:28:27,750 --> 00:28:25,279
thanks and the other question i had is

763
00:28:29,909 --> 00:28:27,760
just kind of a technical curiosity about

764
00:28:31,909 --> 00:28:29,919
why you use a

765
00:28:34,630 --> 00:28:31,919
video system connected to a thermal

766
00:28:37,510 --> 00:28:34,640
imager and what that gives you beyond

767
00:28:39,190 --> 00:28:37,520
optical spectrum thank you

768
00:28:41,350 --> 00:28:39,200
oh certainly so we actually have a

769
00:28:43,510 --> 00:28:41,360
number of video cameras on dragon as

770
00:28:45,430 --> 00:28:43,520
well as two thermal imagers

771
00:28:47,190 --> 00:28:45,440
we have two video cameras that point out

772
00:28:49,110 --> 00:28:47,200
at each solar array we use that to check

773
00:28:51,269 --> 00:28:49,120
out the arrays as well as get some

774
00:28:53,029 --> 00:28:51,279
pretty stunning views of the earth i

775
00:28:55,430 --> 00:28:53,039
believe we'll be posting those and we

776
00:28:57,269 --> 00:28:55,440
have a third camera that's inside the

777
00:28:59,830 --> 00:28:57,279
capsule itself so when the crew

778
00:29:01,990 --> 00:28:59,840
ingresses dragon they'll will be able to

779
00:29:03,669 --> 00:29:02,000
get some pretty good video of that the

780
00:29:05,909 --> 00:29:03,679
two thermal imagers are part of our

781
00:29:08,149 --> 00:29:05,919
proximity system so we use the thermal

782
00:29:10,789 --> 00:29:08,159
imagers in coordination with our two

783
00:29:11,669 --> 00:29:10,799
lidars to give us exact range and range

784
00:29:13,269 --> 00:29:11,679
rates

785
00:29:15,190 --> 00:29:13,279
to the international space station as

786
00:29:16,870 --> 00:29:15,200
we're approaching from the r bar as

787
00:29:18,470 --> 00:29:16,880
hollywood mentioned because they're

788
00:29:20,950 --> 00:29:18,480
thermal imagers we're able to hook them

789
00:29:22,389 --> 00:29:20,960
up via video switch to also get video

790
00:29:23,269 --> 00:29:22,399
from them so it's kind of a bonus

791
00:29:25,590 --> 00:29:23,279
there's

792
00:29:31,590 --> 00:29:25,600
no technical reason why we need infrared

793
00:29:36,710 --> 00:29:33,430
okay i guess that's it for marine uh

794
00:29:41,190 --> 00:29:39,190
all right thanks very much

795
00:29:43,269 --> 00:29:41,200
john a couple questions i think we we've

796
00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:43,279
seen obviously a number of vehicles come

797
00:29:46,549 --> 00:29:44,960
and go from the station could you just

798
00:29:48,630 --> 00:29:46,559
remind us why

799
00:29:50,389 --> 00:29:48,640
from from your perspective if you're

800
00:29:54,310 --> 00:29:50,399
able to birth it would be such a big

801
00:29:56,549 --> 00:29:54,320
deal and such a historic event

802
00:29:58,710 --> 00:29:56,559
uh certainly there are a number of uh

803
00:30:01,269 --> 00:29:58,720
unique items of dragon that uh other

804
00:30:04,070 --> 00:30:01,279
vehicles uh don't have the the biggest

805
00:30:06,310 --> 00:30:04,080
one being our ability to re return large

806
00:30:08,710 --> 00:30:06,320
amounts of cargo from orbit with the

807
00:30:10,549 --> 00:30:08,720
retirement of the shuttle uh now there's

808
00:30:12,870 --> 00:30:10,559
only one other vehicle the soyuz the

809
00:30:14,389 --> 00:30:12,880
crew carrying soyuz that can return

810
00:30:16,389 --> 00:30:14,399
uh mainly crew members and a small

811
00:30:17,990 --> 00:30:16,399
amount of cargo back to earth so dragon

812
00:30:20,549 --> 00:30:18,000
has a very significant amount of cargo

813
00:30:22,870 --> 00:30:20,559
it can bring back uh furthermore we're

814
00:30:24,310 --> 00:30:22,880
after this mission we're on contract for

815
00:30:26,389 --> 00:30:24,320
at least 12 more missions to the

816
00:30:29,830 --> 00:30:26,399
international space station and so we're

817
00:30:31,110 --> 00:30:29,840
looking to uh provide regular services

818
00:30:32,630 --> 00:30:31,120
uh again

819
00:30:38,230 --> 00:30:32,640
kind of at a faster rate than some of

820
00:30:43,350 --> 00:30:41,110
thanks and is it is it fair to say that

821
00:30:44,710 --> 00:30:43,360
your activity tomorrow is

822
00:30:46,389 --> 00:30:44,720
much more difficult than what you went

823
00:30:48,389 --> 00:30:46,399
through today obviously understanding

824
00:30:51,110 --> 00:30:48,399
that you had to get through this these

825
00:30:53,909 --> 00:30:51,120
steps first but i mean looking to to

826
00:30:55,669 --> 00:30:53,919
what's next is is the dragon maneuvers

827
00:30:57,029 --> 00:30:55,679
are they do they require much more

828
00:30:59,590 --> 00:30:57,039
precision and

829
00:31:00,950 --> 00:30:59,600
are they more challenging to the uh

830
00:31:02,310 --> 00:31:00,960
the software systems that you spend so

831
00:31:04,470 --> 00:31:02,320
much time working on or could you sort

832
00:31:06,549 --> 00:31:04,480
of characterize that

833
00:31:08,630 --> 00:31:06,559
yeah i'd see i'd say uh generically

834
00:31:11,509 --> 00:31:08,640
speaking it is definitely a

835
00:31:13,110 --> 00:31:11,519
a more intense day tomorrow uh fly by

836
00:31:14,950 --> 00:31:13,120
today allowed us to check out a lot of

837
00:31:17,269 --> 00:31:14,960
systems and retire a lot of risk for

838
00:31:19,509 --> 00:31:17,279
tomorrow's flight we're also able to get

839
00:31:21,029 --> 00:31:19,519
some uh additional objectives where we

840
00:31:23,110 --> 00:31:21,039
powered up the lidars and the thermal

841
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imagers which we use for very close

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range navigation to space station and

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those checked out good so again we

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retired a lot of risk for tomorrow but

845
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just like what you said there's a more

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fine maneuvering the dragon has a lot of

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automatic systems on board to protect uh

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station and dragon itself from

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if if we see a malfunction we haven't

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seen anything that would require those

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right now but it is the first time we're

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using them so it is a test flight and uh

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we are we are being uh cautiously

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thank you

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all right thanks james uh last one jay

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jay are you there

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okay are there any follow-ups here in

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houston anybody

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okay before we step away let's take a

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look at the remainder of our programming

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schedule for nasa television

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we will have iss update later on today

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at 10 o'clock at the top of the hour 10

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central 11 o'clock eastern

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we will return bright and early tomorrow

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morning at 1 a.m central time 2 a.m

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eastern time for live coverage of the

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grapple and birthing of dragon and we

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will stay on the air throughout the

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entire operation at noon central time

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we'll have a mission status briefing

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to take a look at the day's activities

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and uh how things have gone and then on

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saturday morning we will be on the air

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at 4 30 a.m central time

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5 30 a.m eastern time for coverage of

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the hatch opening

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and then later on that day at 10 25 a.m

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central time 11 25 a.m eastern time

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we'll have a crew news conference with

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some members of expedition 31 as they

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talk about their experiences

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and their reflections of the milestone

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of this mission so that'll wrap it up

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for us as a reminder iss update is up

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next here on nasa television at the top