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good afternoon and welcome to today's

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special spacex 3 post launch news

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conference after the launch of falcon 9

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and dragon we wanted to get together and

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and talk about how well the day went we

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are pleased today to be joined

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first by elon musk

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the chief executive officer and founder

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of spacex

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nasa's associate administrator for human

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exploration and operations mission

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and hans kunigsman

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the spacex vice president of mission

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assurance

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and we'll begin with opening remarks

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first we'll start in california with mr

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musk

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go ahead please

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sure

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so it looks like the

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everything looks great as far as the

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ascent phase of the mission

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and uh

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the so the rocket flight was um as

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perfect as far as we could tell

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and dragon deploy went well

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we had some some slight uh

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um initial challenges with with dragon

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but with respect to enabling some of the

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thruster quads but those have been

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resolved so looks like everything's good

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on on the dragon front

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uh for

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the rocket boost stage reentry

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we have good data

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down

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mach 1.1 everything looks fine and we're

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awaiting additional data to see how the

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potential landing bone went but we have

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a it was a very heavy sea state

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condition so i would give i wouldn't

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give high odds that the

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rocket was able to splash down

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okay um mr gerstenmaier

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thanks mike again i'd like to

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congratulate the spacex team on a

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tremendous launch today

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they did a lot of great work last night

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getting ready to to get the rocket ready

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to go fly

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with the weather conditions it was kind

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of sporty for them to figure out exactly

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when the right time to load the vehicle

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and get it ready and keep options open

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and and they just did a tremendous job i

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would say the entire nasa payloads team

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as well as the spacex team did a

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tremendous job of getting ready to do

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the late load they did it early so then

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that allowed them the option of picking

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the right time to roll out with all the

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phase two lightning warnings that were

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coming and going throughout the night so

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thanks to their efforts we got a launch

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attempt today and the weather happened

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to be good at lunch time and we got a

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good launch so again congratulations to

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the spacex team for showing that can-do

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attitude and and going that extra mile

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to really work hard to get things ready

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on board space station we're ready uh

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for the dragon arrival that the crew

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actually reported and talked to mike a

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little bit and said they actually got to

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see the launch so that's pretty exciting

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when our crew gets to see the launch out

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of florida so that was encouraging

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the multiplexer onboard space station

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the repairs of that spare device are

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ready so we're ready for the eva next or

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the eva next week to go change that

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external mdm so we're looking forward to

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all the research coming up on dragon

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tremendous things we got to see nice

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video of the two payloads in the trunk

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got to see the h dev and the

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and the optical communication package in

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the trunk it's pretty cool seeing those

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on orbit seeing them in the trunk and

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it'll be really exciting to see them on

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station and actually operating and

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bringing data back to us so i look

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forward to all this research that's

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going on in station the crews are doing

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a great job things are going well and i

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really want to congratulate the spacex

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team for just a wonderful day today

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getting ready and keeping our show open

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options open they did really really

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great so thank you hans yeah um that

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both teams both here and at the cape and

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beckham hawthorne worked

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very hard over the last couple days to

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to get the vehicle ready and then last

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night of course we had uh we had to deal

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with weather mostly today um where there

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was our primary concern

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everything worked very beautiful in the

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we got we got a beautiful launch and uh

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we got some some really pretty video

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from from orbit it's uh it's really good

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okay thank you we'll take questions now

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uh and uh because we have mr musk on the

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phone we want to make sure that you make

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sure that you address to whom your

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question goes please state your name and

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affiliation and wait for the microphone

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and let's start with marcia dunn

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marcia done associated press probably

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for mr musk

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sort of a light question um i'm

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wondering i know spacex has the

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tradition of putting uh surprises and

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gifts on board i'm wondering if there's

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anything in the way of chocolate easter

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eggs bunnies anything like that given

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that you'll be arriving on easter

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i i you know i

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don't know of anything joe hunts do we

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have anything on on the

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nasa's uh our customer here so i mean we

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deferred it to nasa you know as to what

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cargo has manifested um

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so um yeah i i don't think we

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and i yeah know of anything it's a

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surprise and it'll be a surprise for all

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we're we're a little too late in the

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launch so it won't i have not been

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briefed of anything uniquely that it's

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flying it but i wouldn't be surprised if

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there isn't something there but i don't

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know the details of what the teams may

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we i know the scientific cargo i don't

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know the other person so i'm sorry

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nothing from spacex that you know of

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hans okay fine

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irene thanks um irene klotz uh with

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reuters for um ilan um when you said

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that uh you give high odds that the

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rocket was able to splash down

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successfully do you mean in one piece

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said i wouldn't give high odds so

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that the sea state is quite heavy i mean

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height so it's really pretty pretty

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crazy out there in fact the boats

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splash down successfully but i think um

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provide some more information

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boost stage to a zero zero roll rate

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which is previously what has destroyed

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overcome the aerodynamic torque and so

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sort of spun up um and this time with

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nitrogen propellant we were able to

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to null the roll rate so that's that's a

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good a bit of good news there

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on ascent that the legs

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through the mac what's called max q we

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making it through max q okay

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awesome if as far as it gets that that

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with an increased probability of a

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longer coast and restart of the upper

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residuals were and what the

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environments would be on the stage

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mass and fuel remaining which is very

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essentially to reduce the uncertainty

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associated with propellant residuals

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and thus improve the the mission

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performance margin calculation on on

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future missions

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having some challenges with the quads

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that that valve was was not responding

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hi elon this is stephen clark with space

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flight now just a question looking ahead

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for the rest of the year with the

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the the thruster pod issue is it related

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at all to the

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uh

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so i mean i think we think we can

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probably still do 10 but um it's

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probably it's a bit too early to tell if

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all 10 will occur this year

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um

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the uh the the the main constraint is

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actually on vehicle production uh which

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uh

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and

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particular part which is an injector

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casting

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and we we think we've resolved that

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particular issue which should unlock

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the

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you know quite a high rate of boost

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production

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um

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and uh yeah so bottom line is that i

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think

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we will

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do 10 or something very close to 10 this

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year

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uh you searched obviously it's a launch

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month um slightly better than launch

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and then

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we don't get know enough to say whether

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there's any commonality between this

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uh

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this particular valve and the

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valve issue and the one that occurred

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i don't think it's the same but you know

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it's always

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i

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same but we don't yet know

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okay we're going to take one more

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question here before we go to the

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telephone bridge and then we'll come

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back for uh follow-up questions bill uh

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bill harwich cbs news for mr musk um

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technical stuff aside i'm just wondering

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how you're feeling this is the third crs

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mission it's off the ground to a good

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start you've got a pretty good string

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going what are your what are your

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personal thoughts is uh

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i realize the mission's not over but i

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mean at this point anyway thanks

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um i'm feeling pretty excited and this

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is a happy day um i mean most important

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of all uh is that

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you know that

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we did a good job for nasa i mean

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the

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number one thing do we do a job for our

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customer

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so you know that's you know everything

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else is like

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secondary to that so

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i'm just glad we're able to

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to you know

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do the job of a contract for or at least

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thus far we're doing it

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maybe it hasn't get docked with the

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space station but um

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number one i'm super happy that we have

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made good progress so far in

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you know

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for for our nasa customers so

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and then

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on top of that i'm also excited that we

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got

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good data

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through

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max dynamic pressure the

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of of the re-entry of the boost stage

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and even though we probably won't get

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the stage back i think we're really

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starting to put the connect the dots of

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what's needed uh when you combine the

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takeover overlanding yesterday of the

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flight design

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uh landing legs um

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and

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the greater progress

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on this flight today

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i mean there's just only a few more dots

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that needs to be there to have it all

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all work

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um and i think that

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that that i think it's i think we've got

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a decent chance of bringing a stage back

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this year which is which would be

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wonderful

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because i think what we've done thus far

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is is evolutionary

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evolutionary improvements but but that

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holds the potential for something more

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all right let's go to the telephone

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bridge and start off with alan boyle

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alan

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hi i guess this would be for elon or

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hans

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some people had remarked about a dark

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plume that that rose up along the side

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of the rocket

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during launch

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was that any concern uh what was going

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yeah

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i i mean i know what happened but hans

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you weren't doing anything i i actually

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don't know either i i think i heard

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people say that but i don't know what

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the root cause is at this point in time

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it could have been water

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um

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yeah that's uh so i i i thought that

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question might be asked so i um looked

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into it and and uh

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we

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all around the pad um and

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we essentially what happens is we splash

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so a little embarrassing but

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no harm

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okay uh

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still on the phone uh dan leone from

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space news dan

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hi everybody thanks for having the

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conference call um i guess one for nasa

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and one for spacex can we just get a

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sanity check about when rendezvous and

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proxima proc operations are supposed to

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start

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from nasa and sort of a big picture

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question

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on reusability uh how far down the road

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as far as you know doing some back of

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the napkin calculations have you gotten

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to see whether

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the cheapest way to increase launch

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rates and have inexpensive launches is

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really to fly a stages back refurb them

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refuel them and send them back up versus

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you know maybe just trying to make a

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dent

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in the manufacturing side or something

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like this

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i'll start off with the rendezvous

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question basically

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the burn got delayed a little bit the

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burn actually wasn't required but it

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won't affect the overall rendezvous

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sequence it'll still be on sunday pretty

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much as it's planned there may be a

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couple minutes of movement but not very

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much it's really set on lighting

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conditions so all the rendezvous stuff

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that we had planned will be pretty much

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as it's been published pre-flight this

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is just some minor changes and you'll

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so uh george to answer the question of

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like what is roof reflect likely to do

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um is that

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which

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just let me to give it context for

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example parts of the shuttle were

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reusable and the shuttle was impressive

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although i don't think anyone would

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argue that it was particularly

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inexpensive

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uh true uh so

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there is a um

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a step beyond simply reusing something

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that is important uh what's or some

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conditions on reuse in order to make the

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reuse um

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have a a big effect on the space

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industry which is that the reuse must be

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both rapid and complete

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um

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like an aircraft or a car or something

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like that

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if you have to disassemble and

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reassemble a car and change a bunch of

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parts in between driving it would make

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it quite expensive

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um

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we don't it's true that we don't just

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have to recover it we have to show that

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it can be reflown

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quickly and and easily with i said

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but the only change with the only thing

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changing being

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um reloading propellant um and another

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expensive you know

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basically

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the equivalent of refueling so

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um

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now the vehicle is is sort of designed

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for that um

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you know the unfortunate thing with the

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shuttle was that the the original design

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for the shuttle was

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um like

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well well sort of

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fairly well suited for

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a good reuse but then

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the requirements changed and made it

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very difficult to to reuse uh

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efficiently

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and

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you know so as long as we were able to

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hold to

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our our requirements i think we will be

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able to achieve the

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rapid and and essentially complete reuse

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um

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and uh so what i'm hoping will occur is

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and i'm feeling a little bit more

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optimistic about it is that this year at

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least we will recover the rocket booster

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i'm not sure we'll be able to re-fly it

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this year but i i think um re-flying it

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next year is

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is um is likely if we recover it this

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year

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and

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then you know that that'll

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complete the picture at least as far as

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the boost stage is concerned

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okay our next question is from michael

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hi there a question for elon i'm

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wondering how far down range

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the

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field was maybe off and

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how far downrange from the cape on

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uh sorry but it was a bit hard to hear i

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think you said how far down range

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um

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i think it's uh

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it's about four or 500 kilometers

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downrange um

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away from the cape essentially um

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and then

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the nearest shore is uh

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and that's at main engine cut-off or

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re-entry or both that's where that's

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sort of the normal

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which it was headed for i should mention

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that it was

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headed quite precisely for the the

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okay the next question is from rand

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because hopefully we'll have the

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aircraft telemetry that i'd like to look

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at so i'll just be on for another two

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okay um

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let's try miriam cramer miriam

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hey um yeah miriam famer with space.com

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uh so i have one question for spacex and

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another for nasa um and i'm wondering

547
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uh for elon i think were the multiple

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delays um challenging i mean was this

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kind of a test uh for the team just

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having to push it back and push it back

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and push it back um and then i'm for for

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nasa i'm curious does this mean um that

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the orbital launch is officially put off

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well i mean from the spacex we

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yeah

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there was there were a fair bit of new

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things with this rocket and with the

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dragon avionics this was actually quite

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a substantial revision of dragon

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avionics for example and a new software

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that accompanied it and of course the

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rocket had the

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landing legs

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and improved nitrogen thrusters and a

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few other things so

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uh it was definitely just definitely not

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our you know in the future we want to

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try to get to

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launching

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exactly on time without any delays

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um

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and

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having delays that's not our aspiration

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but i think the team

575
00:21:24,789 --> 00:21:23,360
did do a great job of responding to the

576
00:21:26,549 --> 00:21:24,799
various issues

577
00:21:28,710 --> 00:21:26,559
and i'm certainly very proud of what

578
00:21:30,630 --> 00:21:28,720
they've done

579
00:21:32,390 --> 00:21:30,640
yeah i think another thing to consider

580
00:21:33,990 --> 00:21:32,400
is space station is a pretty tough thing

581
00:21:35,909 --> 00:21:34,000
to do the rendezvous with when we look

582
00:21:37,510 --> 00:21:35,919
at all the constraints because we had

583
00:21:39,270 --> 00:21:37,520
you know progress flights coming up

584
00:21:41,590 --> 00:21:39,280
we've got some eva

585
00:21:43,110 --> 00:21:41,600
activities coming up pretty quickly

586
00:21:45,190 --> 00:21:43,120
we've got the

587
00:21:47,270 --> 00:21:45,200
soyuz landing and soyuz launch cycle

588
00:21:49,029 --> 00:21:47,280
coming up so and then we have to watch

589
00:21:51,029 --> 00:21:49,039
the dragon landing and the dragon

590
00:21:52,710 --> 00:21:51,039
landing has to be again set by orbital

591
00:21:54,710 --> 00:21:52,720
mechanics and where space station is and

592
00:21:56,149 --> 00:21:54,720
when you undock and where you put the

593
00:21:58,470 --> 00:21:56,159
dragon with respect to the coast of

594
00:21:59,830 --> 00:21:58,480
california that's another constraint so

595
00:22:01,990 --> 00:21:59,840
you put all those together and that

596
00:22:03,590 --> 00:22:02,000
makes space station flights even tougher

597
00:22:05,590 --> 00:22:03,600
from a manifesting standpoint so it's

598
00:22:06,870 --> 00:22:05,600
not only the hardware and the weather

599
00:22:08,149 --> 00:22:06,880
and the normal things with the rocket

600
00:22:10,470 --> 00:22:08,159
but then you've got all these unique

601
00:22:12,870 --> 00:22:10,480
phasing things that that play in and

602
00:22:15,029 --> 00:22:12,880
that makes it a pretty tough scenario to

603
00:22:17,029 --> 00:22:15,039
get a good launch

604
00:22:18,789 --> 00:22:17,039
together and make it work so the team

605
00:22:20,390 --> 00:22:18,799
again working last night to protect

606
00:22:21,830 --> 00:22:20,400
today's option was tremendously

607
00:22:24,950 --> 00:22:21,840
important to us that that really worked

608
00:22:26,789 --> 00:22:24,960
out well to your question about orbital

609
00:22:28,149 --> 00:22:26,799
because i'm superstitious we'll probably

610
00:22:30,390 --> 00:22:28,159
continue to ask orbital to keep

611
00:22:32,070 --> 00:22:30,400
preparing for may 6 until we get dragon

612
00:22:34,310 --> 00:22:32,080
safely

613
00:22:35,750 --> 00:22:34,320
attached to station and birth but once

614
00:22:37,669 --> 00:22:35,760
dragon becomes

615
00:22:39,750 --> 00:22:37,679
safely attached and birthed on sunday

616
00:22:41,350 --> 00:22:39,760
then we'll release the orbital team but

617
00:22:42,950 --> 00:22:41,360
i think until then we'll ask orbital

618
00:22:44,710 --> 00:22:42,960
still protect till may and then after

619
00:22:46,149 --> 00:22:44,720
that that birthing occurs we'll then

620
00:22:49,029 --> 00:22:46,159
release the orbital team and let them

621
00:22:50,710 --> 00:22:49,039
move into the june time frame

622
00:22:54,230 --> 00:22:50,720
our next question on the phone is from

623
00:23:00,950 --> 00:22:54,240
joseph abbott

624
00:23:02,789 --> 00:23:00,960
first i was going to ask if you have a

625
00:23:04,149 --> 00:23:02,799
date set now for the orbcom launch

626
00:23:06,149 --> 00:23:04,159
coming up

627
00:23:09,029 --> 00:23:06,159
and i was going to als i was also

628
00:23:11,590 --> 00:23:09,039
wanting to know if you could tell me

629
00:23:14,390 --> 00:23:11,600
how many more tests on the f9 or

630
00:23:16,310 --> 00:23:14,400
development vehicle at mcgregor before

631
00:23:18,630 --> 00:23:16,320
it moves on to spaceport america and new

632
00:23:19,990 --> 00:23:18,640
mexico

633
00:23:21,190 --> 00:23:20,000
for elon

634
00:23:22,230 --> 00:23:21,200
sure i'll

635
00:23:23,830 --> 00:23:22,240
answer that question then i'm gonna have

636
00:23:25,270 --> 00:23:23,840
to jump for the call

637
00:23:29,190 --> 00:23:25,280
um

638
00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:29,200
so let's see so for the ovcom launch is

639
00:23:33,350 --> 00:23:31,520
expected to to happen in the next four

640
00:23:34,950 --> 00:23:33,360
to six weeks um

641
00:23:37,029 --> 00:23:34,960
and uh you know

642
00:23:38,950 --> 00:23:37,039
we want to obviously make sure we review

643
00:23:40,230 --> 00:23:38,960
carefully the data from this launch

644
00:23:41,909 --> 00:23:40,240
because although i mean everything went

645
00:23:43,269 --> 00:23:41,919
fine but we always review the data to

646
00:23:45,430 --> 00:23:43,279
see if there were any

647
00:23:47,909 --> 00:23:45,440
near-miss issues that need to be looked

648
00:23:49,269 --> 00:23:47,919
into and corrected

649
00:23:51,190 --> 00:23:49,279
we don't know of anything yet but we

650
00:23:54,710 --> 00:23:51,200
want to make sure of that and

651
00:23:56,070 --> 00:23:54,720
then uh regarding the f9r um

652
00:23:57,110 --> 00:23:56,080
we're going to have

653
00:23:58,549 --> 00:23:57,120
uh

654
00:24:01,590 --> 00:23:58,559
really

655
00:24:04,870 --> 00:24:01,600
we're going to keep doing tests um at a

656
00:24:07,750 --> 00:24:04,880
mcgregor test site near waco

657
00:24:09,029 --> 00:24:07,760
with the f9r stage this so what we have

658
00:24:14,470 --> 00:24:09,039
at uh

659
00:24:19,350 --> 00:24:16,630
what's called fnr dev1 which is sort of

660
00:24:21,190 --> 00:24:19,360
developing unit one there's dev2

661
00:24:23,350 --> 00:24:21,200
um and

662
00:24:25,110 --> 00:24:23,360
so one of those will be at uh

663
00:24:28,549 --> 00:24:25,120
mcgregor one of them will be at uh

664
00:24:31,190 --> 00:24:28,559
spaceport america in new mexico

665
00:24:33,510 --> 00:24:31,200
and so so anything we can test at a

666
00:24:36,149 --> 00:24:33,520
relatively low altitude

667
00:24:37,669 --> 00:24:36,159
so below around ten thousand feet uh

668
00:24:41,269 --> 00:24:37,679
we'll continue to do

669
00:24:43,510 --> 00:24:41,279
um in uh in mcgregor uh and and then the

670
00:24:46,630 --> 00:24:43,520
the high altitude stuff where it's going

671
00:24:48,149 --> 00:24:46,640
extra atmospheric and um you know going

672
00:24:50,390 --> 00:24:48,159
going to sort of

673
00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:50,400
300 000 feet plus and that kind of thing

674
00:24:52,870 --> 00:24:51,200
will

675
00:24:55,750 --> 00:24:52,880
um we'll be doing in mexico because we

676
00:24:57,510 --> 00:24:55,760
just need a much bigger clear area

677
00:24:59,190 --> 00:24:57,520
um but i would expect those those tests

678
00:25:01,110 --> 00:24:59,200
to be we will continue refining the

679
00:25:02,310 --> 00:25:01,120
technology over time

680
00:25:03,669 --> 00:25:02,320
because

681
00:25:04,789 --> 00:25:03,679
we had further question that was asked

682
00:25:06,630 --> 00:25:04,799
earlier

683
00:25:08,470 --> 00:25:06,640
you know reusability

684
00:25:12,230 --> 00:25:08,480
only matters to the degree that to agree

685
00:25:13,510 --> 00:25:12,240
that it's rapid and complete

686
00:25:15,269 --> 00:25:13,520
otherwise

687
00:25:17,029 --> 00:25:15,279
it's sort of reusability but you don't

688
00:25:18,230 --> 00:25:17,039
you don't get the equivalent economic

689
00:25:20,470 --> 00:25:18,240
benefit that

690
00:25:22,230 --> 00:25:20,480
that has uh you know huge

691
00:25:24,230 --> 00:25:22,240
huge potential to to open up space

692
00:25:26,789 --> 00:25:24,240
flight

693
00:25:28,390 --> 00:25:26,799
all right thanks for the question

694
00:25:30,390 --> 00:25:28,400
all right mr bus thank you for being

695
00:25:33,110 --> 00:25:30,400
with us uh we'll try one more

696
00:25:34,630 --> 00:25:33,120
time for rand simberg on the telephone

697
00:25:37,190 --> 00:25:34,640
rand are you there

698
00:25:41,430 --> 00:25:39,590
go ahead with your question please

699
00:25:46,070 --> 00:25:41,440
yeah if elon's still available because

700
00:25:49,269 --> 00:25:47,269
i'm assuming that you're going to try

701
00:25:52,789 --> 00:25:49,279
another water landing uh you're not

702
00:25:54,149 --> 00:25:52,799
going to attempt land uh on on any on

703
00:25:55,990 --> 00:25:54,159
the next one i don't get this question

704
00:25:57,510 --> 00:25:56,000
did you get enough data to give you

705
00:25:58,549 --> 00:25:57,520
confidence that you can fly back to land

706
00:25:59,750 --> 00:25:58,559
or you're going to try it in the water

707
00:26:01,590 --> 00:25:59,760
again and

708
00:26:03,430 --> 00:26:01,600
how much of a setback is it that you

709
00:26:04,789 --> 00:26:03,440
still haven't actually recovered a stage

710
00:26:07,110 --> 00:26:04,799
to see how much wear you're actually

711
00:26:08,310 --> 00:26:07,120
getting on it

712
00:26:10,070 --> 00:26:08,320
unfortunately

713
00:26:11,190 --> 00:26:10,080
he had to hang up i don't know hans if

714
00:26:13,430 --> 00:26:11,200
you would be able to address the

715
00:26:16,390 --> 00:26:13,440
question or not i i can hear i think um

716
00:26:18,070 --> 00:26:16,400
that the next vehicle is going to try a

717
00:26:21,750 --> 00:26:18,080
water landing again

718
00:26:24,950 --> 00:26:21,760
um and honestly i think the data are

719
00:26:25,990 --> 00:26:24,960
at this point in time really what we're

720
00:26:27,190 --> 00:26:26,000
after

721
00:26:29,190 --> 00:26:27,200
um

722
00:26:30,870 --> 00:26:29,200
and and that gives us the the clues to

723
00:26:33,669 --> 00:26:30,880
to make the uh

724
00:26:35,510 --> 00:26:33,679
uh any changes or like

725
00:26:37,510 --> 00:26:35,520
allows us to to continue this

726
00:26:39,510 --> 00:26:37,520
development so i i would say

727
00:26:41,190 --> 00:26:39,520
um we didn't

728
00:26:43,350 --> 00:26:41,200
as i said earlier you know we didn't

729
00:26:45,510 --> 00:26:43,360
really expect those the stages to to

730
00:26:48,149 --> 00:26:45,520
come back you know or we had you know

731
00:26:50,830 --> 00:26:48,159
some hope of course but um overall i

732
00:26:53,430 --> 00:26:50,840
think the data is uh much more important

733
00:26:54,390 --> 00:26:53,440
here okay we're back in the room uh

734
00:26:58,789 --> 00:26:54,400
jason

735
00:27:01,110 --> 00:26:58,799
this question goes to hans and i have

736
00:27:02,630 --> 00:27:01,120
another one um

737
00:27:04,070 --> 00:27:02,640
while it's true you didn't get the

738
00:27:05,750 --> 00:27:04,080
landing you might have wanted did you

739
00:27:07,430 --> 00:27:05,760
see anything in the telemetry data that

740
00:27:09,590 --> 00:27:07,440
said okay we're on the right track here

741
00:27:11,110 --> 00:27:09,600
or perhaps maybe something that made you

742
00:27:13,029 --> 00:27:11,120
want to rethink something else sunlight

743
00:27:14,870 --> 00:27:13,039
could you talk a bit about that so from

744
00:27:16,710 --> 00:27:14,880
what i saw basically in the in the

745
00:27:17,830 --> 00:27:16,720
control room and uh and then on the

746
00:27:20,070 --> 00:27:17,840
video

747
00:27:21,990 --> 00:27:20,080
it looked uh it looked great it looked

748
00:27:24,549 --> 00:27:22,000
uh like it's doing what it's supposed to

749
00:27:25,909 --> 00:27:24,559
do um however there's data on top of

750
00:27:27,430 --> 00:27:25,919
that that that i haven't seen yet

751
00:27:30,070 --> 00:27:27,440
they're either on the boat or on the

752
00:27:31,669 --> 00:27:30,080
airplane and we need to we need those

753
00:27:33,669 --> 00:27:31,679
data to come back first and then put

754
00:27:35,430 --> 00:27:33,679
them together and see if you can get the

755
00:27:37,990 --> 00:27:35,440
uh the full picture basically from

756
00:27:40,950 --> 00:27:38,000
liftoff to to uh reentry and and

757
00:27:41,990 --> 00:27:40,960
possibly as far as possible into landing

758
00:27:43,430 --> 00:27:42,000
so

759
00:27:45,269 --> 00:27:43,440
and this was kind of off topic from the

760
00:27:46,630 --> 00:27:45,279
day but the other day uh gwen shotwell

761
00:27:48,710 --> 00:27:46,640
was here and the announcement was made

762
00:27:50,789 --> 00:27:48,720
that lc39a would be used for falcon

763
00:27:52,070 --> 00:27:50,799
heavy and that we expect to see the

764
00:27:53,590 --> 00:27:52,080
first launch in the first quarter of

765
00:27:55,110 --> 00:27:53,600
2015.

766
00:27:57,269 --> 00:27:55,120
my question goes that perhaps this has

767
00:27:58,630 --> 00:27:57,279
already been answered but up until then

768
00:27:59,590 --> 00:27:58,640
i believe the understanding was the

769
00:28:01,590 --> 00:27:59,600
first launch would occur out of

770
00:28:02,950 --> 00:28:01,600
vandenberg is that now change to where

771
00:28:05,269 --> 00:28:02,960
the first launch will take place in

772
00:28:08,630 --> 00:28:05,279
kennedy instead of vandenberg

773
00:28:12,789 --> 00:28:10,710
okay james

774
00:28:14,549 --> 00:28:12,799
uh james dean florida today hanzon so i

775
00:28:16,389 --> 00:28:14,559
just want to clarify a couple of details

776
00:28:18,470 --> 00:28:16,399
the uh the boats i understand weren't

777
00:28:21,110 --> 00:28:18,480
able to get close uh

778
00:28:23,269 --> 00:28:21,120
so far today but you are still trying to

779
00:28:24,470 --> 00:28:23,279
get out there and and find the booster

780
00:28:26,149 --> 00:28:24,480
or is there no point in doing that

781
00:28:28,389 --> 00:28:26,159
anymore it depends on the c-state and

782
00:28:29,990 --> 00:28:28,399
and and i i heard that the c-state is

783
00:28:32,230 --> 00:28:30,000
really um it's really pretty rough right

784
00:28:34,149 --> 00:28:32,240
now i'm pretty sure if they think it's

785
00:28:36,549 --> 00:28:34,159
safe then they will um you know move

786
00:28:38,149 --> 00:28:36,559
towards the stage and uh and take a look

787
00:28:39,590 --> 00:28:38,159
um also i don't know what the airplane

788
00:28:41,669 --> 00:28:39,600
saw um

789
00:28:43,510 --> 00:28:41,679
those those those

790
00:28:45,430 --> 00:28:43,520
data and news basically come back in a

791
00:28:46,230 --> 00:28:45,440
couple hours

792
00:28:48,549 --> 00:28:46,240
and the

793
00:28:49,990 --> 00:28:48,559
the source of the telemetry that you're

794
00:28:51,909 --> 00:28:50,000
talking about getting back is that the

795
00:28:53,350 --> 00:28:51,919
nasa aircraft or where is that coming

796
00:28:54,470 --> 00:28:53,360
from no this is a

797
00:28:57,269 --> 00:28:54,480
spacex

798
00:29:00,470 --> 00:28:59,190
just curious of the detail what what was

799
00:29:01,909 --> 00:29:00,480
flying up there because nasa was also

800
00:29:03,669 --> 00:29:01,919
tracking it uh cursed as well uh i'm

801
00:29:06,149 --> 00:29:03,679
just curious what was up there tracking

802
00:29:07,909 --> 00:29:06,159
yeah we were gonna have a p3 go fly and

803
00:29:09,830 --> 00:29:07,919
our intent was to take a look at the

804
00:29:11,430 --> 00:29:09,840
supersonic thruster firings that would

805
00:29:13,510 --> 00:29:11,440
occur and we wanted the data because

806
00:29:15,510 --> 00:29:13,520
that's applicable to mars entry descent

807
00:29:17,269 --> 00:29:15,520
landing we were unable to fly the

808
00:29:19,990 --> 00:29:17,279
aircraft because of icing conditions so

809
00:29:22,070 --> 00:29:20,000
we did not fly our p3 aircraft so it was

810
00:29:24,710 --> 00:29:22,080
a spacex aircraft that that captured

811
00:29:26,070 --> 00:29:24,720
telemetry that hans is talking about so

812
00:29:27,830 --> 00:29:26,080
we didn't get a chance to fly our

813
00:29:28,870 --> 00:29:27,840
aircraft okay

814
00:29:31,750 --> 00:29:28,880
and and

815
00:29:33,190 --> 00:29:31,760
data so far did it show uh

816
00:29:34,950 --> 00:29:33,200
or would it have shown if the landing

817
00:29:36,310 --> 00:29:34,960
lags did deploy or is that something

818
00:29:38,230 --> 00:29:36,320
that would come later

819
00:29:40,230 --> 00:29:38,240
that that's typically so the data we

820
00:29:41,590 --> 00:29:40,240
have right now at this arrow basically

821
00:29:44,310 --> 00:29:41,600
is the data that we got here from

822
00:29:46,230 --> 00:29:44,320
telford from from the range and and the

823
00:29:47,830 --> 00:29:46,240
range loses it goes over the horizon

824
00:29:51,590 --> 00:29:47,840
basically for the range

825
00:29:56,870 --> 00:29:52,549
bill

826
00:29:58,789 --> 00:29:56,880
can you clarify for me the the

827
00:30:00,549 --> 00:29:58,799
provisioning situation on station in the

828
00:30:01,909 --> 00:30:00,559
skip cycle and how all that plays out i

829
00:30:04,230 --> 00:30:01,919
was confused the other day when mr

830
00:30:05,830 --> 00:30:04,240
suffered any was talking to us about

831
00:30:07,669 --> 00:30:05,840
where your marks are out there for

832
00:30:08,789 --> 00:30:07,679
getting stuff up

833
00:30:11,430 --> 00:30:08,799
yeah i think

834
00:30:14,470 --> 00:30:11,440
the way we if we take no consumables

835
00:30:17,430 --> 00:30:14,480
resupply for a period of time um

836
00:30:19,990 --> 00:30:17,440
it i think we run into a skip cycle

837
00:30:21,669 --> 00:30:20,000
number which is like 45 days before we

838
00:30:23,029 --> 00:30:21,679
run out of critical consumables and i

839
00:30:25,029 --> 00:30:23,039
think food is one of the things that

840
00:30:26,950 --> 00:30:25,039
comes in roughly in the july time frame

841
00:30:29,029 --> 00:30:26,960
july august of this summer

842
00:30:30,789 --> 00:30:29,039
when we get spacex on board that'll push

843
00:30:32,310 --> 00:30:30,799
that date into the fall when we get

844
00:30:36,789 --> 00:30:32,320
orbital on board it'll even push it

845
00:30:41,029 --> 00:30:38,950
yeah it starts so then that's kind of

846
00:30:42,389 --> 00:30:41,039
the way we do that is we want to prepare

847
00:30:43,909 --> 00:30:42,399
if we have to bring the crew on because

848
00:30:45,430 --> 00:30:43,919
we're running out of supplies right

849
00:30:47,190 --> 00:30:45,440
that's the beginning of the clock that

850
00:30:48,950 --> 00:30:47,200
says we start preparing so we actually

851
00:30:51,909 --> 00:30:48,960
draw a line

852
00:30:53,750 --> 00:30:51,919
it's like the low uh low fuel light on

853
00:30:55,510 --> 00:30:53,760
your car right you still got quite a

854
00:30:57,029 --> 00:30:55,520
waste to drive but it's a warning that

855
00:30:59,509 --> 00:30:57,039
you are and that's and that's the july

856
00:31:02,950 --> 00:31:01,669
hi jared hayworth i'm a guest of nasa

857
00:31:04,389 --> 00:31:02,960
social and i'm a photographer with

858
00:31:06,149 --> 00:31:04,399
wehadtoday.com

859
00:31:08,230 --> 00:31:06,159
this is a question for hans looking down

860
00:31:09,590 --> 00:31:08,240
the road a little bit to the reusable

861
00:31:11,110 --> 00:31:09,600
first stage once the landing legs have

862
00:31:13,590 --> 00:31:11,120
been proven you're ready to start

863
00:31:14,630 --> 00:31:13,600
landing on the on land again

864
00:31:16,230 --> 00:31:14,640
where are you going to actually set

865
00:31:17,430 --> 00:31:16,240
these stages down this particularly

866
00:31:19,830 --> 00:31:17,440
thinking about something like a falcon

867
00:31:22,310 --> 00:31:19,840
heavy reusable where you have you know

868
00:31:23,190 --> 00:31:22,320
up to three stages coming back home

869
00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:23,200
that's going to be a particular

870
00:31:26,710 --> 00:31:24,559
challenge that's true um we're looking

871
00:31:28,710 --> 00:31:26,720
right now at landing sites um

872
00:31:30,710 --> 00:31:28,720
we we had a couple

873
00:31:32,149 --> 00:31:30,720
but we need we need to still evaluate

874
00:31:33,909 --> 00:31:32,159
exactly what's the best landing site

875
00:31:35,590 --> 00:31:33,919
here at the cape or yeah at the cape

876
00:31:36,870 --> 00:31:35,600
basically

877
00:31:38,389 --> 00:31:36,880
sorry you are still thinking somewhere

878
00:31:41,269 --> 00:31:38,399
here along the east coast somewhere on

879
00:31:42,549 --> 00:31:41,279
the florida coastline perhaps okay

880
00:31:44,630 --> 00:31:42,559
okay i think we'll take one more

881
00:31:46,549 --> 00:31:44,640
question and wrap it up go ahead please

882
00:31:48,549 --> 00:31:46,559
i am ian clought from the nasa social

883
00:31:50,470 --> 00:31:48,559
group and airlinereporter.com the

884
00:31:51,990 --> 00:31:50,480
question for spacex actually related to

885
00:31:55,190 --> 00:31:52,000
jared's question when you're bringing

886
00:31:56,950 --> 00:31:55,200
stages back have plans been started on

887
00:31:58,950 --> 00:31:56,960
how much airspace and ground area will

888
00:32:00,870 --> 00:31:58,960
have to be cleared for these tests and

889
00:32:01,909 --> 00:32:00,880
then how much will that come down when

890
00:32:04,389 --> 00:32:01,919
it gets too

891
00:32:07,110 --> 00:32:04,399
operational right so that's basically a

892
00:32:08,950 --> 00:32:07,120
question to to arrange safety um we

893
00:32:11,509 --> 00:32:08,960
we're basically um providing data for

894
00:32:13,430 --> 00:32:11,519
the analysis and then range safety will

895
00:32:14,870 --> 00:32:13,440
tell us how much space we need

896
00:32:16,070 --> 00:32:14,880
we believe it's about the same as what

897
00:32:18,470 --> 00:32:16,080
you need for

898
00:32:20,710 --> 00:32:18,480
a rocket going out

899
00:32:22,149 --> 00:32:20,720
coming back is a particular challenge

900
00:32:23,350 --> 00:32:22,159
but at the same time this stage is

901
00:32:25,750 --> 00:32:23,360
pretty empty

902
00:32:29,669 --> 00:32:25,760
so it's a safe state

903
00:32:31,830 --> 00:32:29,679
safe stage to come back basically

904
00:32:33,350 --> 00:32:31,840
okay uh do uh do you have any closing

905
00:32:34,789 --> 00:32:33,360
remarks

906
00:32:36,789 --> 00:32:34,799
again i would just say again

907
00:32:38,710 --> 00:32:36,799
congratulations to spacex on just a

908
00:32:39,909 --> 00:32:38,720
wonderful day today and tremendous

909
00:32:41,750 --> 00:32:39,919
preparation

910
00:32:44,950 --> 00:32:41,760
it's also fun for me to be down here in

911
00:32:47,110 --> 00:32:44,960
florida i got to go over and see orion

912
00:32:48,950 --> 00:32:47,120
get in testing over in the onc building

913
00:32:50,870 --> 00:32:48,960
they did their first sine wave sweep of

914
00:32:52,710 --> 00:32:50,880
the multi-vibration test of the orion

915
00:32:55,029 --> 00:32:52,720
capsule and they just completed all

916
00:32:57,190 --> 00:32:55,039
their avionics testing and power up so

917
00:32:58,710 --> 00:32:57,200
it's pretty exciting to see that vehicle

918
00:33:00,470 --> 00:32:58,720
come together that first beyond low

919
00:33:02,070 --> 00:33:00,480
earth orbit vehicle over in the onc

920
00:33:03,509 --> 00:33:02,080
building and if you get a chance you

921
00:33:05,430 --> 00:33:03,519
need to go over and see the vehicle as

922
00:33:06,710 --> 00:33:05,440
it goes through these next couple stages

923
00:33:08,789 --> 00:33:06,720
over the next couple months getting

924
00:33:10,549 --> 00:33:08,799
ready for the december launch so heat

925
00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:10,559
shield addition and putting it on top of

926
00:33:13,509 --> 00:33:12,000
the service module and looking at a

927
00:33:15,669 --> 00:33:13,519
launch abort system it's a pretty

928
00:33:17,190 --> 00:33:15,679
amazing spacecraft and it's fun for me

929
00:33:19,190 --> 00:33:17,200
as an engineer to get a chance to go see

930
00:33:22,070 --> 00:33:19,200
hardware again and get out of washington

931
00:33:23,750 --> 00:33:22,080
so this is an ultimately great visit for

932
00:33:25,430 --> 00:33:23,760
me down here i got to see our hardware

933
00:33:28,149 --> 00:33:25,440
beyond low earth orbit and i got to see

934
00:33:29,750 --> 00:33:28,159
a launch so it's a double win and a

935
00:33:32,149 --> 00:33:29,760
great weekend and a great start to the

936
00:33:34,870 --> 00:33:32,159
easter holiday so thanks to the ksc team

937
00:33:37,110 --> 00:33:34,880
again in the spacex team thank you

938
00:33:39,029 --> 00:33:37,120
yeah and and for me i'm i'm really happy

939
00:33:40,389 --> 00:33:39,039
that dragon is

940
00:33:42,149 --> 00:33:40,399
safe in orbit and

941
00:33:44,230 --> 00:33:42,159
on its way to the station

942
00:33:47,110 --> 00:33:44,240
i'm really looking forward to

943
00:33:50,389 --> 00:33:47,120
birthing at the station and uh and again

944
00:33:51,269 --> 00:33:50,399
also a great easter weekend

945
00:33:54,310 --> 00:33:51,279
all right

946
00:33:56,389 --> 00:33:54,320
uh thank you hans um the next uh plan

947
00:33:59,509 --> 00:33:56,399
televised event for spacex 3 is the

948
00:34:01,269 --> 00:33:59,519
grapple on sunday morning at about 7 14

949
00:34:04,230 --> 00:34:01,279
a.m with nasa television coverage

950
00:34:05,669 --> 00:34:04,240
beginning at 5 45 a.m between now and

951
00:34:07,509 --> 00:34:05,679
then you can keep track of all the

952
00:34:12,149 --> 00:34:07,519
activities that are happening by going

953
00:34:17,510 --> 00:34:14,710
spacex and we'll conclude with a replay

954
00:34:33,669 --> 00:34:17,520
of today's falcon 9 and dragon launch

955
00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:38,310
one

956
00:34:42,550 --> 00:34:41,430
and liftoff of the falcon 9 rocket and

957
00:34:45,669 --> 00:34:42,560
dragon

958
00:34:47,669 --> 00:34:45,679
spacex 3 is underway

959
00:34:50,310 --> 00:34:47,679
an american commercial spacecraft

960
00:34:52,550 --> 00:34:50,320
launching from u.s soil makes a special

961
00:34:56,790 --> 00:34:52,560
delivery of new science and technology