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good morning with the successful and

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spectacular launch of falcon 9 and

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dragon early this morning we're pleased

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to welcome you to the spacex crs4

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post-launch news conference

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here to share their thoughts on the

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success today are sam chamimi

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the international space station division

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director from nasa headquarters in

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washington

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and hans kunigsman

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spacex vice president of mission

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assurance and the chief engineer for

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today's launch

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we'll uh start off with some opening

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comments and then we'll be happy to take

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questions sam

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thank you uh first i want to say what a

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beautiful morning it was this morning

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put the spacex launch

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on a beautiful night sky you can even

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see the stars and

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and the uh falcon 9

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launch vehicle going through the

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constellation orion this morning it was

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a beautiful sight uh i want to thank the

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spacex team and all the nasa teams from

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around the country and cases and all the

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other scientific and researchers that

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are participating on this this flight

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and this mission

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this launch this from this morning kicks

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off a very busy month for us on the

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international space station

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coming up this week this thursday i

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believe we have a soyuz launch

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launching a new our new increment to the

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space station also we have a orbital

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crs launch coming up within a month and

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another progress flight as well as

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next month or so um with that again i

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want to congratulate spacex and hans and

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his teams for our beautiful launch this

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morning and that's all i have yeah thank

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you thank you very much um nothing like

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just fantastic

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worked very hard yesterday and uh

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weather wasn't quite playing along and

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then today everything was was beautiful

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weather cleared up

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in time um rain dissipated and uh

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glance um everything was was really

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perfect

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very good uh over insertion very nice

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propellant priming was perfect this time

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very nice orbit and solar rays deployed

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in time everything was basically on time

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we had success on the first stage too we

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had a couple of good burns on the first

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significant details um just sketchy

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light here and light there

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details and i saw it on the video which

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and then on the second stage also we had

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a second burn that been very successful

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from from the spacex team everybody is

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really happy everybody is

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delighted

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there's going to be a party

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all right thank you let's uh take

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questions please wait for the microphone

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state your name and affiliation and to

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whom you're addressing the question

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um rob

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hi rob perlman with collectspace.com for

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hans um uh two quick questions one uh do

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gnc bay door when that will open

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um and the thrusters when you'll get in

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your first burn in so thrusters are

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primed and and work and so that means

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they're already working

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and we got attitude control

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this one's for hans uh

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especially considering yesterday given

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the wonky florida weather we know that

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you know space flight's uh never really

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routine and the quick question i have is

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my understanding of crs is it's supposed

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to go through 2016 and you have eight

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missions remaining in that in that

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is there any wiggle room on on nasa's

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part or is that a really a hard date or

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is that kind of a more nebulous date how

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does that that deadline work so um

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the last mission yeah so that is that is

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hard and and a lot of things have to go

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right in order to make those 14 days

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turn around but that obviously allows us

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so there's there's ways to to speed

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integration even more so um having said

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at your conservative best house how

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frequently do you think spacex can

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follow up launch after launch is that

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two-week window what you think you could

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do or do you think maybe you can even

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shave time off that can't do this faster

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dynamic so it's rarely that you have

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the lightning and and uh

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is there an attempt to

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retrieve it or were you not even trying

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time it takes a while for the boat to

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the washington times and it's a little

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more of a broader question probably i'm

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playing catch up with everyone else here

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but can you just in layman terms explain

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terms of the dragon separation from the

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capture yeah

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so dragon um separated from the second

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went down and deposited again and dragon

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basically hover under the station

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continuously to keep dragon at that spot

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robotic arm will grab grapple dragon and

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that the station can move it basically

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well seeing no further questions um

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expanding on that the next spacex crs4

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televised event on nasa television

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which is scheduled to occur at 704 am on

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tuesday in the meantime you can keep up

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spacex and you can keep up with the