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good afternoon my name is tim hughes and

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i'm a member of the senior executive

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team at spacex

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on behalf of the nearly 5 000 employees

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at spacex

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we're honored and humbled to be with you

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here today at this historic site pad 39a

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and we look forward to making history at

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this launch site once again

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and to that end it's my pleasure today

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to introduce bob bob cabana legendary

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astronaut and director of the kennedy

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space center

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and gwen shotwell president and chief

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operating officer of spacex

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gwen and bob will make some brief

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opening remarks and then they'd be

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pleased to take questions from you

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please join me and welcome welcoming bob

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thanks tim

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i can't tell you how excited i am to be

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here today it was a little less than

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three years ago that gwen and charlie

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bolden and i were out here talking about

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turning pad 39a over to spacex you know

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this pad would have just sat here and

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rusted away in assault error had we not

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had the use agreement with spacex

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to continue to enable commercial

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operations for our nation

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this is the pad that commercial crew is

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going to launch from the falcon 9 heavy

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and tomorrow we're going to see cargo

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going to the international space station

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what an awesome use of a great american

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asset and i gotta admit

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i'm a little bit partial to pad a all

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four of my flights went off this pad so

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i think this is an absolutely

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outstanding exciting time for our nation

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for commercial space for space flight in

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general this is absolutely the right

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thing to do and spacex is a great

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partner in making this happen gwen

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thanks bob

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hi everybody um for those of you that

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were here i think it was april 15th

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my first remark was uh for one of the

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first few times in my life i uh was

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speechless

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and i'm feeling a little bit that way

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again today

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the

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tomorrow's event and spacex being here

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side by side with nasa

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is extraordinary for the space industry

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it's extraordinary for spacex and i

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think it's great for the united states

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as well

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crs 10 should launch tomorrow morning

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1001.

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just keep in mind it's a new pad for us

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and so let's uh we're going to try to

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lift off tomorrow

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and have a very exciting day but we've

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got opportunities in follow-on days as

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but back to 39a

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it's a historic pad

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we've taken good care of this pad during

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the refurbishment and the rebuild

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we've saved precious things that needed

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to be saved we've upgraded things to

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make them usable in the in the

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contemporary era here today and i i

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can't really it's hard to express how

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excited i am to be here uh just two and

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a half or so years after we got the

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being ready standing on the precipice of

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uh of a launch here tomorrow so thanks

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very much i look forward to your

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questions and uh yeah i'm so glad to be

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so if we could we'll take questions to

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the left and the right there are

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microphones on either side and we'll

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by name and your please

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marcia done associated press for miss

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shotwell um this will be your first

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launch from here since september 1st and

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going from paddy does that give you a

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psychological

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extra boost and

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talk about the comeback at least locally

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for getting back in flight

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have flown from 39a in our return to

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flight but we were ready uh for the

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iridium launch at vandenberg sooner um

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you know every launch for me is a

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significant emotional event there's not

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one launch that i feel

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comfortable and calm they're already

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i can tell you it's an extra special

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launch tomorrow for sure

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hi gwen irene oh sorry

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we've got another hi ken kramer universe

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today my question is for gwen um you

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crew can you tell us um give us an

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update on on how you are doing with the

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dragon constructing it building it what

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milestones have you achieved when you

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flight and uh what's the status of the

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manufacturing of the of the uh

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spacecraft thank you so we're in the

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process of building a number of dragon

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two spacecraft um and uh we are

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targeting to launch that first

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demonstration flight late this year uh

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from this pad actually and there's still

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more work to do on the pad by the way to

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prepare for crew we've got a crew arm to

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the launches that we execute here from

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39a the program is going well it's never

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uh going as fast as you want it to go um

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with our program and we're certainly

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uh flying crew

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on this pad and just at spacex in the

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united states generally

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thank you and good luck thank you

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hi i'm ryan klotz with reuters hi gwen

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hey irene um

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fixed service structure

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for a crew dragon thanks

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service structure it's i think it's 305

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height if we were to add vertical

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integration capability here for national

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security space launches so that's the

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reason why we would go taller on uh on

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the fixed service structure but for crew

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the uh the the spin system on the second

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stage i believe we've found it um we'll

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continue to work root cause today and

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make sure we're back on track for a 1001

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proceed with the count and and go into

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hi uh robin c mango with the new york

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first launch of the falcon heavy and

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that but again we need pad 40

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up and i don't currently have a payload

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our timelines uh and in our pace um so

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washington post um a quick red dragon

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you could update us and where that

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got a vehicle on this extraordinary pad

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behind me that that hopefully we're

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the lunar landing sitting in front of a

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crappy visual um the screen was all

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time this is really important

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most exciting launch for me actually

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such an extraordinary partner for us in

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our journey here and because of where

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we're launching from tomorrow

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attempt of the booster and has this

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really to increase our knowledge base

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our technology for ultimately taking

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tent uh launch attempt um

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take dragon to orbit and bring the

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booster back to landing zone one

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um and uh it will be the third land

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landing second one knock on wood

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for uh for nasa flight so that's also

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very exciting although i i always forget

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about the landing part i'm always so

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uh hi gwen tim fernholtz from quartz i

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wanted to ask about commercial crew as

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well in light of the gao report

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yesterday on the schedule delays

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in particular i guess the engine is

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going to have to be redesigned for human

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rating can you talk about what

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specifically you'll have to do for that

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and how long it will take thank you

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yeah so the news that came out a number

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of weeks ago in the wall street journal

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was not news

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that

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we've known about we've we've flown with

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cracks in our turbine wheel from the

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beginning of the falcon 9 program um

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they're cracks that we are qualified to

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fly with we are we were comfortable with

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it um for our commercial launches the

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crs program was comfortable with it as

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well however we do want to get rid of

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them when we're flying crew

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the

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redesign has been in works for quite

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some time

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and

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the final spin on that engine design we

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should we'll fly this year

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all right that is cesari with the utica

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phoenix and i was hoping to get some

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additional information on reusability of

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second stage and also payload fairings

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so second stage is harder to recover

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because it's going in orbital velocity

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you know the first stage isn't quite

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going orbital velocity so it's a little

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easier to slow down

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and bring back second stage will be

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harder

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but uh

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i mean we've learned how to bring dragon

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back which is kind of a third stage

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actually um

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so as far as recovering second stage

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that will be kind of an evolution for

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our next uh our next launch system um

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uh but we're not i don't think we're

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gonna look at recovering second stage on

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the on the falcon program

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and then you had a follow-up which i

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forgot sorry payload fairings payload

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fairings yeah we're gonna um

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we're gonna try to bring them back um we

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have i mean we've recovered payload

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fairings um i'm not sure any of them

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have survived in one piece

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but we do want to recover them both to

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be a good steward you want to you know

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you don't want them floating around like

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ships um and then also because we would

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eventually love to re to reuse them so

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you got to land them not in the water so

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we're working on that maybe this year

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you'll see that

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we want to save everything it's such a

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shame this hardware is so expensive you

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want to save everything instead of

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throwing it away or having it become

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like when james dean florida today

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you've talked a little bit about the

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history of the pad

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to what extent do you feel like you are

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making history tomorrow with this being

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a commercial vehicle and obviously more

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commercial launches to come off this pad

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how significant do you think that is

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that we're sort of changing the paradigm

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here and having a privately developed

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commercial vehicle

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flying this mission then could you just

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speak a little as well to

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you know

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long term

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you expect to make history in in more

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important ways i guess with with these

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mars missions i mean can you talk about

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what's coming down the line if all goes

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well from this bad

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yeah so i never look at what we're doing

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is making history i really just try to

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focus on the mission and do a good job

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for our customers so i don't i don't

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think about things in in that way

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generally

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um what i think it's important to note

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it might be a commercial vehicle

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but there's lots of government and

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private science on board as well and it

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was originally a government pad

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which you know spacex joined forces with

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and upgraded it so it's it's really a

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hybrid so tomorrow's launch is a hybrid

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launch we've got a government customer

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under a commercial launch authority

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commercially developed launch vehicle

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incredible amounts of science actually

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i'm pretty sure at the press conference

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the the science guys will go through it

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i was leafing through the

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the booklet and there's hundreds of

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experiments both taking up and coming

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down

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um really cool stuff

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and so i guess i'd rather look at this

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as a partnership kind of a hybrid it's a

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blend right it's a

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falcon 9 started out and dragon started

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out as a commercial

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excuse me a public-private partnership

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with nasa and i feel like all these

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launches

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continue to be along that vein and

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just

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talk about the mars activity that could

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you talk to red dragon already but

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for crude missions eventually

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we've not been shy about saying that uh

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really the reason why spacex was founded

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elon founded this company uh was to

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build space transportation systems that

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could ultimately take people to other

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planets we've got our site on mars

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for now frankly i think destinations

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outside of the solar system are more

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exciting than mars

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but but we got mars

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so we'll try we'll get try to get to

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mars

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very quickly actually we are

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we're very focused on

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accelerating that program as much as we

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can

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without losing sight of the important

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work that we're doing now

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for nasa and our commercial and other

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government customers

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i mean i i can't do a better speech than

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hi ken chang new york times another

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question about commercial crew and gao

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the report said that nasa needs to go

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look for contingency plans because it

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was worried that both

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contractors were going to slip into 2019

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i was wondering how confident you are

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that you as you can

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meet your 2018 schedule

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yeah i'm confident we'll fly crew in

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2018.

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so the response uh to that report this

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morning was the hell we won't

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hi gwen stephen clark from space flight

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now i had a question about the future of

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uh falcon 9 i think elon has mentioned

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uh another upgrade coming down the line

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i think he's called it block five um

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when do you expect that to debut and

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what are some of the

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upgrades you're going to introduce

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you know what changes will we see on the

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vehicle when that flies and have a

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follow-up

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so block 5 is the last big spin on

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falcon 9 and it's largely driven by the

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upgrades that we needed to make for

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the commercial crew program as well as

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national security space launch

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requirements

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there there is a performance upgrade

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here as well largely to get more margins

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for these other for these other uh

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customers very demanding customers um

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so there's there's a performance

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increase

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there's some manufacturing

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improvements we've we've addressed the

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turbine wheel issue

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that we talked about earlier here today

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on that

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and probably a hundred or so

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and i think on this launch you're flying

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with the autonomous flight safety system

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for the first time um

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why why the switch from the manual

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system that's been in use for

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you know decades and what does that

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offer spacex in terms of you know

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independence from

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the conventional range assets yeah so we

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were told to fly this

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we would have done it anyhow

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it makes our operations here at the

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range uh much

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more streamlined but ultimately the air

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force wants to um kind of

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get rid of some of it the assets that

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they have here

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that are necessary for launch

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so they wanted

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and i believe nasa was driving it as

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well

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it's just a much more streamlined way to

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launch

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relying on newer technology for sure as

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well saves on o m for the big radars

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we've been flying this system in shadow

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mode for quite many many missions by the

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way this is not the first time we're

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flying it this is the first time it's

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primary

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which makes it

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yet another

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nervous about the flight

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yeah hi gwen bill harwood cbs news

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actually mr clark stole my first

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question about the

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flight termination system but my

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follow-up was to bob cabana and i was

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wondering when crew dragon starts flying

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with an automated uh flight termination

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system maybe what an astronaut's

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perspective is

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when there's no human being in the loop

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anymore for us and events that could go

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bad i'll give you my perspective bill

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and

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we still have to certify it for uh crew

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operations but i mean this is the future

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this is where the range is going

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it makes sense to me uh prior to shuttle

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launches we used to uh go visit the guys

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that sat on console that would push the

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button and show them pictures of our

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kids and get to know them

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but you know the truth is uh with a

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human in the loop if you've got a an

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envelope

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that that rocket is to remain within as

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it goes out over the ocean if it's

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approaching the edge of that envelope

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you know a human may terminate it uh

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when the system is actually correcting

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to get back towards the center

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whereas an automated system done

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correctly

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it can iterate fast enough that the

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system sees that the guidance system is

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taking it back before it's going to

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exceed that limit so in my opinion if

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done correctly an automated system is

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actually safer more reliable than having

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a human in the loop but we still got

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some work to do before you know

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commercial crew is going to certify uh

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that this is the way to go but this is

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the future

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thank you gwen just a real quick follow

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uh on the same question does this give

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you guys the ability to launch uh to

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meet your manifest in other words if you

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don't have to have the range in the loop

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does it help you

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in terms of how fast you can fly like

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could you fly on the same day ula is

560
00:21:03,830 --> 00:21:01,679
flying that sort of thing so it does

561
00:21:07,029 --> 00:21:03,840
streamline the operations here

562
00:21:09,029 --> 00:21:07,039
at uh at both ranges actually but it

563
00:21:10,070 --> 00:21:09,039
doesn't i mean we still need the air

564
00:21:12,630 --> 00:21:10,080
force

565
00:21:13,750 --> 00:21:12,640
and and nasa to fly and the faa to fly

566
00:21:15,510 --> 00:21:13,760
but it does

567
00:21:17,510 --> 00:21:15,520
tighten timelines for sure i think the

568
00:21:20,470 --> 00:21:17,520
turnover to go from a ula launch to a

569
00:21:22,470 --> 00:21:20,480
spacex launch or you know um

570
00:21:24,390 --> 00:21:22,480
it's my it should be much faster

571
00:21:28,470 --> 00:21:24,400
so yeah it'll be enormously helpful to

572
00:21:32,149 --> 00:21:30,630
jeff faust the space news uh question on

573
00:21:33,750 --> 00:21:32,159
future launch manifest i know you've

574
00:21:36,149 --> 00:21:33,760
talked about ramping up the flight rate

575
00:21:37,430 --> 00:21:36,159
to launch maybe every two weeks or so uh

576
00:21:38,789 --> 00:21:37,440
at the same time earlier this week

577
00:21:40,870 --> 00:21:38,799
iridium said they were pushing back

578
00:21:42,950 --> 00:21:40,880
their next launch from april to june

579
00:21:44,390 --> 00:21:42,960
because of a backlog of launches on your

580
00:21:46,149 --> 00:21:44,400
manifest can you talk about how you're

581
00:21:48,070 --> 00:21:46,159
going to get through that manifest over

582
00:21:51,350 --> 00:21:48,080
the the next few months and and get to

583
00:21:52,789 --> 00:21:51,360
that uh launch every two weeks right

584
00:21:54,789 --> 00:21:52,799
well we're pretty close we're pretty

585
00:21:57,029 --> 00:21:54,799
close to the two-week tax right now out

586
00:21:59,190 --> 00:21:57,039
of the factory um

587
00:22:01,110 --> 00:21:59,200
and uh and out of texas as well so we

588
00:22:02,789 --> 00:22:01,120
really we just need to get flying and

589
00:22:04,230 --> 00:22:02,799
then you should see hardware here about

590
00:22:06,390 --> 00:22:04,240
every two and a half weeks initially

591
00:22:07,110 --> 00:22:06,400
going to every two or so weeks uh after

592
00:22:08,310 --> 00:22:07,120
that

593
00:22:14,870 --> 00:22:08,320
um

594
00:22:16,549 --> 00:22:14,880
fill in the queue of folks that are that

595
00:22:19,510 --> 00:22:16,559
have been waiting for a flight since we

596
00:22:20,789 --> 00:22:19,520
were down last september

597
00:22:22,870 --> 00:22:20,799
well still going to launch all their

598
00:22:26,950 --> 00:22:22,880
missions in the contractual time period

599
00:22:30,470 --> 00:22:28,710
scott powers from florida politics i

600
00:22:31,590 --> 00:22:30,480
have uh related questions for both bob

601
00:22:34,230 --> 00:22:31,600
and gwen

602
00:22:37,350 --> 00:22:34,240
i assume that uh the whole generations

603
00:22:39,430 --> 00:22:37,360
of engineers and technicians made their

604
00:22:40,630 --> 00:22:39,440
careers on this pad uh gwen i'm

605
00:22:42,630 --> 00:22:40,640
wondering whether or not you guys were

606
00:22:45,350 --> 00:22:42,640
able to hire any of them onto your staff

607
00:22:46,950 --> 00:22:45,360
here or through contractors and bob i'd

608
00:22:48,789 --> 00:22:46,960
like you to comment if you could sort of

609
00:22:50,070 --> 00:22:48,799
on their behalf about

610
00:22:52,390 --> 00:22:50,080
what it means to see this pad come back

611
00:22:54,710 --> 00:22:52,400
to life

612
00:22:56,630 --> 00:22:54,720
so we have had uh we have hired some

613
00:22:57,990 --> 00:22:56,640
folks from the from the shuttle program

614
00:23:00,070 --> 00:22:58,000
i don't know if we've hired even one

615
00:23:01,029 --> 00:23:00,080
that was part of building this pad

616
00:23:02,630 --> 00:23:01,039
um

617
00:23:04,070 --> 00:23:02,640
but uh but we definitely have hired

618
00:23:07,110 --> 00:23:04,080
people from the shuttle program they've

619
00:23:08,950 --> 00:23:07,120
been great contributors to

620
00:23:10,950 --> 00:23:08,960
work this spacex as far as

621
00:23:13,270 --> 00:23:10,960
operations go you know when you're at

622
00:23:15,029 --> 00:23:13,280
spacex you work everywhere at spacex if

623
00:23:17,750 --> 00:23:15,039
there's a need in texas you go to texas

624
00:23:19,830 --> 00:23:17,760
if there's a need at 39a you go to 39a

625
00:23:21,430 --> 00:23:19,840
so i can tell you 39a has had a lot of

626
00:23:23,909 --> 00:23:21,440
emphasis over the last three or four

627
00:23:27,590 --> 00:23:23,919
months to get prepared for tomorrow

628
00:23:31,270 --> 00:23:29,029
you mind repeating the question one more

629
00:23:32,710 --> 00:23:31,280
time i didn't quite hear it

630
00:23:34,390 --> 00:23:32,720
obviously a lot of engineers and

631
00:23:36,390 --> 00:23:34,400
technicians spent their careers at this

632
00:23:37,669 --> 00:23:36,400
pad i'm wondering if you can speak sort

633
00:23:39,750 --> 00:23:37,679
of on their behalf of what it means to

634
00:23:41,750 --> 00:23:39,760
see this pad come back to life

635
00:23:44,149 --> 00:23:41,760
well i think it it means a lot to see

636
00:23:47,029 --> 00:23:44,159
the pad just not sit in

637
00:23:49,190 --> 00:23:47,039
in waste away it's a tremendous asset

638
00:23:51,190 --> 00:23:49,200
and everybody that i've talked to is

639
00:23:53,350 --> 00:23:51,200
very pleased to see that

640
00:23:54,950 --> 00:23:53,360
we're still utilizing it that it's

641
00:23:56,950 --> 00:23:54,960
fulfilling a function

642
00:23:58,870 --> 00:23:56,960
we want to see more launches

643
00:24:01,350 --> 00:23:58,880
government and commercial off all these

644
00:24:02,950 --> 00:24:01,360
pads and i think we've got the team the

645
00:24:05,750 --> 00:24:02,960
contractors civil service team the

646
00:24:07,430 --> 00:24:05,760
partnership with our commercial partners

647
00:24:09,029 --> 00:24:07,440
to be able to do that and we want to

648
00:24:11,750 --> 00:24:09,039
continue to make it happen

649
00:24:14,630 --> 00:24:11,760
you know i see our role as an enabler

650
00:24:16,149 --> 00:24:14,640
you know we provide the services to

651
00:24:17,750 --> 00:24:16,159
to spacex

652
00:24:19,909 --> 00:24:17,760
to be able to make this operation

653
00:24:21,750 --> 00:24:19,919
possible and it's it's a great

654
00:24:23,430 --> 00:24:21,760
partnership it's great for our nation so

655
00:24:24,630 --> 00:24:23,440
we want to we want to continue it just

656
00:24:26,710 --> 00:24:24,640
like we want to do with the rest of our

657
00:24:28,470 --> 00:24:26,720
commercial partners you know you talk

658
00:24:31,510 --> 00:24:28,480
about young folks coming on board you

659
00:24:33,990 --> 00:24:31,520
know spacex of course is a very young

660
00:24:36,870 --> 00:24:34,000
and they got a few old season guys that

661
00:24:38,870 --> 00:24:36,880
they managed to steal too but you know

662
00:24:40,630 --> 00:24:38,880
uh here at ksc

663
00:24:44,230 --> 00:24:40,640
we've hired an awful lot of young folks

664
00:24:47,590 --> 00:24:46,390
training auditorium event the other day

665
00:24:49,350 --> 00:24:47,600
and i asked the folks to raise their

666
00:24:50,470 --> 00:24:49,360
hand how many came

667
00:24:53,029 --> 00:24:50,480
after

668
00:24:55,110 --> 00:24:53,039
the last launch of the shuttle and over

669
00:24:57,830 --> 00:24:55,120
a third of the folks in the auditorium

670
00:25:00,870 --> 00:24:57,840
raised their hand and they are truly

671
00:25:03,669 --> 00:25:00,880
excited to see launches government and

672
00:25:05,590 --> 00:25:03,679
commercial and what i say is you know

673
00:25:06,549 --> 00:25:05,600
every launch that we launch off this

674
00:25:09,590 --> 00:25:06,559
cape

675
00:25:12,390 --> 00:25:09,600
the ksc team needs needs to take credit

676
00:25:15,830 --> 00:25:12,400
and be proud of that because in some way

677
00:25:18,230 --> 00:25:15,840
we supported or helped enable it so

678
00:25:23,110 --> 00:25:18,240
it's an exciting time for space flight

679
00:25:28,310 --> 00:25:25,669
bart leahy space flight insider two

680
00:25:30,630 --> 00:25:28,320
questions for gwen uh one how soon can

681
00:25:33,350 --> 00:25:30,640
we expect to see all of spacex's launch

682
00:25:35,990 --> 00:25:33,360
pads in operation and two when do you

683
00:25:38,149 --> 00:25:36,000
plan to extend attach the crew access

684
00:25:40,390 --> 00:25:38,159
arm to 39a

685
00:25:42,470 --> 00:25:40,400
so the 39 or the crew access arm has to

686
00:25:44,630 --> 00:25:42,480
go on by the end of the year

687
00:25:46,710 --> 00:25:44,640
obviously to facilitate our crew

688
00:25:48,230 --> 00:25:46,720
demonstration flight

689
00:25:50,710 --> 00:25:48,240
i don't have an exact date for you but

690
00:25:51,990 --> 00:25:50,720
it'll be by the end of the year and then

691
00:25:54,470 --> 00:25:52,000
when will we have all our sites

692
00:25:56,630 --> 00:25:54,480
activated

693
00:25:57,750 --> 00:25:56,640
pad 40 should be back up and running uh

694
00:25:58,950 --> 00:25:57,760
this summer

695
00:26:01,909 --> 00:25:58,960
um

696
00:26:04,710 --> 00:26:01,919
and uh vandenberg's up and running and

697
00:26:06,390 --> 00:26:04,720
you know as of tomorrow uh although 39a

698
00:26:08,710 --> 00:26:06,400
is obviously already activated we did a

699
00:26:11,830 --> 00:26:08,720
static fire here this past sunday

700
00:26:13,750 --> 00:26:11,840
but first flight out of here tomorrow

701
00:26:15,029 --> 00:26:13,760
we have brownsville

702
00:26:16,470 --> 00:26:15,039
as well

703
00:26:18,710 --> 00:26:16,480
and i think we're still doing dirt work

704
00:26:22,230 --> 00:26:18,720
in brownsville trying to build

705
00:26:23,590 --> 00:26:22,240
that kind of giant mountain that you see

706
00:26:33,269 --> 00:26:23,600
the

707
00:26:37,590 --> 00:26:36,230
rick lamsby with wfit and npr news do

708
00:26:39,430 --> 00:26:37,600
you have an estimate of when we might

709
00:26:43,830 --> 00:26:39,440
see a flight with one of the flight

710
00:26:47,029 --> 00:26:43,840
proven boosters oh good question yes um

711
00:26:49,350 --> 00:26:47,039
yeah we're gonna fly uh the uh we should

712
00:26:52,470 --> 00:26:49,360
fly a flight proven booster this march

713
00:26:54,549 --> 00:26:52,480
here for the ses-10 mission

714
00:26:56,789 --> 00:26:54,559
yep out of this pad

715
00:26:57,750 --> 00:26:56,799
very exciting it's in the the boosters

716
00:27:02,470 --> 00:26:57,760
in the

717
00:27:04,070 --> 00:27:02,480
it's on its way back to the hangar it

718
00:27:07,430 --> 00:27:04,080
wasn't the hangar went to texas for

719
00:27:10,390 --> 00:27:07,440
testing now it's coming back

720
00:27:13,510 --> 00:27:10,400
marcia done ap again for you gwen um

721
00:27:15,669 --> 00:27:13,520
boeing recently introduced its starliner

722
00:27:17,909 --> 00:27:15,679
suits when can we expect to see the

723
00:27:19,510 --> 00:27:17,919
dragon suits and can you give us a

724
00:27:23,350 --> 00:27:19,520
little sneak preview

725
00:27:25,430 --> 00:27:23,360
i never give away spacex secrets

726
00:27:27,350 --> 00:27:25,440
our spacesuits are really cool though

727
00:27:28,710 --> 00:27:27,360
they look really good

728
00:27:31,750 --> 00:27:28,720
we've spent a ton of time on the

729
00:27:33,669 --> 00:27:31,760
engineering obviously the utility piece

730
00:27:36,230 --> 00:27:33,679
but we also wanted them to look really

731
00:27:38,549 --> 00:27:36,240
good like we're trying to inspire

732
00:27:40,470 --> 00:27:38,559
the next generation existing generations

733
00:27:42,230 --> 00:27:40,480
future generations and

734
00:27:44,230 --> 00:27:42,240
and maybe even some past generation

735
00:27:47,110 --> 00:27:44,240
folks uh to be thinking about the future

736
00:27:48,630 --> 00:27:47,120
and thinking about space travel um

737
00:27:51,350 --> 00:27:48,640
i'm not sure john do we know when we're

738
00:27:52,950 --> 00:27:51,360
rolling the suit out

739
00:27:55,430 --> 00:27:52,960
i don't know

740
00:27:57,029 --> 00:27:55,440
yeah it won't be me though i won't be

741
00:27:59,269 --> 00:27:57,039
rolling that one out ahead of its time

742
00:28:01,029 --> 00:27:59,279
it's great looking though super exciting

743
00:28:03,510 --> 00:28:01,039
it's not gonna be blue is it

744
00:28:06,149 --> 00:28:03,520
it's not gonna be what blue blue blue

745
00:28:09,830 --> 00:28:06,159
color uh you know i've seen i've seen

746
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:18,549
not pink i've not seen a pink one though

747
00:28:21,590 --> 00:28:20,149
thanks again james in florida gwen can

748
00:28:24,710 --> 00:28:21,600
you just kind of give us a state of

749
00:28:27,830 --> 00:28:24,720
spacex coming off that second mishap

750
00:28:29,430 --> 00:28:27,840
um how is the company doing uh uh

751
00:28:30,870 --> 00:28:29,440
in the worst case scenarios that we

752
00:28:33,029 --> 00:28:30,880
always worry about if you had another

753
00:28:33,990 --> 00:28:33,039
bad day anytime soon

754
00:28:35,830 --> 00:28:34,000
you know how would that affect the

755
00:28:37,669 --> 00:28:35,840
company can you withstand that yeah we

756
00:28:39,430 --> 00:28:37,679
can certainly withstand another bad day

757
00:28:42,470 --> 00:28:39,440
although i always hate talking about it

758
00:28:44,710 --> 00:28:42,480
um you know we have

759
00:28:47,990 --> 00:28:44,720
we've got cash in the bank and we have

760
00:28:49,430 --> 00:28:48,000
no debt so financially we're fine it's

761
00:28:51,350 --> 00:28:49,440
hard to make money though in a year when

762
00:28:53,110 --> 00:28:51,360
you have a failure though so

763
00:28:55,269 --> 00:28:53,120
i'm not going to kid anybody to say that

764
00:28:56,789 --> 00:28:55,279
that wasn't a painful financial year for

765
00:28:58,789 --> 00:28:56,799
us last year

766
00:29:00,549 --> 00:28:58,799
and frankly 2015

767
00:29:01,990 --> 00:29:00,559
but that doesn't mean we're still it

768
00:29:03,590 --> 00:29:02,000
doesn't mean we're not a healthy and a

769
00:29:05,669 --> 00:29:03,600
vibrant company we can withstand another

770
00:29:07,590 --> 00:29:05,679
failure for sure yeah i would not have

771
00:29:11,110 --> 00:29:07,600
done my job properly

772
00:29:15,590 --> 00:29:13,669
but people are smiling again at spacex

773
00:29:16,870 --> 00:29:15,600
after the last flight it was a good good

774
00:29:17,990 --> 00:29:16,880
good comeback

775
00:29:20,710 --> 00:29:18,000
um

776
00:29:23,350 --> 00:29:20,720
and uh people are really enthusiastic

777
00:29:24,789 --> 00:29:23,360
about uh the commercial crew program

778
00:29:27,590 --> 00:29:24,799
you know this this flight here out of

779
00:29:29,350 --> 00:29:27,600
39a falcon heavy is super exciting

780
00:29:30,950 --> 00:29:29,360
people are excited about red dragon and

781
00:29:33,029 --> 00:29:30,960
they're really excited to start working

782
00:29:34,950 --> 00:29:33,039
on the marship i need to keep everybody

783
00:29:37,029 --> 00:29:34,960
focused on the other stuff first let's

784
00:29:40,149 --> 00:29:37,039
get those things done reliably

785
00:29:41,510 --> 00:29:40,159
fly successfully um and then then

786
00:29:44,549 --> 00:29:41,520
there'll be lots of activity on the mars

787
00:29:49,110 --> 00:29:46,630
i'm jim siegel i'm with the celebration

788
00:29:51,029 --> 00:29:49,120
news and space flight insider and i'm a

789
00:29:52,950 --> 00:29:51,039
little curious about the number of

790
00:29:54,950 --> 00:29:52,960
launch pads or launch facilities that

791
00:29:57,430 --> 00:29:54,960
you have um

792
00:29:58,549 --> 00:29:57,440
i can understand one or two but

793
00:30:01,029 --> 00:29:58,559
um

794
00:30:03,029 --> 00:30:01,039
so why so many i mean since it seems

795
00:30:04,870 --> 00:30:03,039
like a kind of duplication of facilities

796
00:30:07,190 --> 00:30:04,880
is it because they're tailored for

797
00:30:09,190 --> 00:30:07,200
different payloads or what what's the

798
00:30:10,789 --> 00:30:09,200
reason so the launch site at vandenberg

799
00:30:13,190 --> 00:30:10,799
is tailored for high inclination

800
00:30:15,909 --> 00:30:13,200
launches you can't really do that kind

801
00:30:16,870 --> 00:30:15,919
of launch from here on the east coast

802
00:30:19,029 --> 00:30:16,880
um

803
00:30:21,830 --> 00:30:19,039
and

804
00:30:24,230 --> 00:30:21,840
we probably would be fine with these two

805
00:30:26,149 --> 00:30:24,240
plus the vandenberg site but we do like

806
00:30:28,789 --> 00:30:26,159
operational flexibility

807
00:30:30,710 --> 00:30:28,799
and geographic diversity as well on

808
00:30:32,230 --> 00:30:30,720
launch sites

809
00:30:35,269 --> 00:30:32,240
frankly the fact that we were this close

810
00:30:37,110 --> 00:30:35,279
to operations on 39a when we had the

811
00:30:39,350 --> 00:30:37,120
event on september 1st last year was

812
00:30:41,750 --> 00:30:39,360
enormously helpful

813
00:30:43,830 --> 00:30:41,760
it obviously takes longer to

814
00:30:45,669 --> 00:30:43,840
rebuild that pad than to get this one up

815
00:30:47,590 --> 00:30:45,679
and running quickly so i mean from a

816
00:30:49,909 --> 00:30:47,600
business perspective you really want to

817
00:30:50,950 --> 00:30:49,919
have multiple launch sites

818
00:30:53,830 --> 00:30:50,960
and

819
00:30:55,909 --> 00:30:53,840
commercial missions go rapidly you know

820
00:30:57,509 --> 00:30:55,919
my commercial customers are happy to you

821
00:30:58,870 --> 00:30:57,519
know sit on the deck as short of

822
00:31:01,029 --> 00:30:58,880
possible time

823
00:31:02,710 --> 00:31:01,039
or as short as possible but many of our

824
00:31:04,950 --> 00:31:02,720
government customers

825
00:31:06,470 --> 00:31:04,960
are likely to sit on the on the launch

826
00:31:07,430 --> 00:31:06,480
mount uh

827
00:31:09,350 --> 00:31:07,440
longer

828
00:31:10,870 --> 00:31:09,360
um and so you know you got you don't

829
00:31:12,310 --> 00:31:10,880
want to back up your commercial missions

830
00:31:14,470 --> 00:31:12,320
while you're waiting for a national

831
00:31:15,590 --> 00:31:14,480
security space launch to go so i think

832
00:31:17,029 --> 00:31:15,600
it's uh

833
00:31:19,350 --> 00:31:17,039
you know it's the mature thing for us to

834
00:31:24,070 --> 00:31:19,360
do is to have launch pads and we are

835
00:31:29,990 --> 00:31:26,470
hi again um gwen you've said that a new

836
00:31:32,230 --> 00:31:30,000
launch pad costs roughly 100 million um

837
00:31:34,710 --> 00:31:32,240
was this in that ballpark or about how

838
00:31:36,950 --> 00:31:34,720
much did you save by being able to take

839
00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:36,960
over and refurbish some of the shuttle

840
00:31:40,789 --> 00:31:38,240
assets

841
00:31:43,269 --> 00:31:40,799
yeah um keep in mind this is more than

842
00:31:45,269 --> 00:31:43,279
just a launch pad right there's the crew

843
00:31:46,870 --> 00:31:45,279
capability there's air force vertical

844
00:31:49,750 --> 00:31:46,880
integration capability that's going to

845
00:31:52,950 --> 00:31:49,760
get enhanced as well so um i wouldn't

846
00:31:54,789 --> 00:31:52,960
say that we saved a bunch of money here

847
00:31:57,669 --> 00:31:54,799
is 100 million a good figure to use or

848
00:31:59,909 --> 00:31:57,679
do you have a better ballpark

849
00:32:02,789 --> 00:31:59,919
you know i did not ask my finance guys

850
00:32:04,310 --> 00:32:02,799
how much we've spent so far

851
00:32:05,750 --> 00:32:04,320
it might be a little it might be less

852
00:32:07,350 --> 00:32:05,760
than 100 million

853
00:32:09,430 --> 00:32:07,360
but i think when it's fully outfitted

854
00:32:10,710 --> 00:32:09,440
for crew and nss it'll be well over that

855
00:32:15,029 --> 00:32:10,720
how's that

856
00:32:18,870 --> 00:32:17,269
gwen brendan berman wmf again um any

857
00:32:20,549 --> 00:32:18,880
hiccups you're expecting tomorrow do you

858
00:32:22,470 --> 00:32:20,559
have faa approval to launch are there

859
00:32:24,470 --> 00:32:22,480
any range issues weather anything that

860
00:32:26,470 --> 00:32:24,480
you're you're worried about um so i was

861
00:32:28,549 --> 00:32:26,480
worried about an faa launch license and

862
00:32:31,110 --> 00:32:28,559
weather and both have cleared up

863
00:32:33,350 --> 00:32:31,120
so uh we've got to obviously address

864
00:32:34,630 --> 00:32:33,360
this this spin issue tonight

865
00:32:36,230 --> 00:32:34,640
um but

866
00:32:37,029 --> 00:32:36,240
i don't see anything between now and

867
00:32:38,789 --> 00:32:37,039
then

868
00:32:40,630 --> 00:32:38,799
yeah so everybody keep everything

869
00:32:45,509 --> 00:32:40,640
crossed

870
00:32:49,750 --> 00:32:47,990
uh hi i just wanted to ask the the delay

871
00:32:51,750 --> 00:32:49,760
or the worry on the launch license can

872
00:32:52,950 --> 00:32:51,760
you talk about why that came in so last

873
00:32:55,029 --> 00:32:52,960
minute

874
00:32:57,750 --> 00:32:55,039
well i think we normally get our launch

875
00:32:59,909 --> 00:32:57,760
license from the faa pretty pretty close

876
00:33:01,430 --> 00:32:59,919
to the actual launch itself

877
00:33:04,310 --> 00:33:01,440
um

878
00:33:06,310 --> 00:33:04,320
this one was more work for everybody

879
00:33:08,470 --> 00:33:06,320
because it's first time we're launching

880
00:33:13,669 --> 00:33:08,480
off of 39a

881
00:33:16,470 --> 00:33:13,679
not really considered a government pad

882
00:33:19,110 --> 00:33:16,480
anymore either so the oversight that we

883
00:33:20,950 --> 00:33:19,120
have over at pad 40 with the air force

884
00:33:22,630 --> 00:33:20,960
we don't have here

885
00:33:24,149 --> 00:33:22,640
so everybody had to figure out what are

886
00:33:25,990 --> 00:33:24,159
the roles and responsibilities who's

887
00:33:27,750 --> 00:33:26,000
doing what make sure you check all the

888
00:33:29,990 --> 00:33:27,760
boxes to make sure no one gets hurt out

889
00:33:33,029 --> 00:33:30,000
there

890
00:33:35,029 --> 00:33:33,039
and so it just it took longer that plus

891
00:33:37,830 --> 00:33:35,039
the autonomous flight safety system that

892
00:33:40,310 --> 00:33:37,840
was a big challenge getting that done

893
00:33:42,310 --> 00:33:40,320
we did certify that for a range safety

894
00:33:44,149 --> 00:33:42,320
perspective but as bob mentioned earlier

895
00:33:45,830 --> 00:33:44,159
we still have to certify that for crew

896
00:33:49,029 --> 00:33:45,840
so certification work is by no means

897
00:33:54,389 --> 00:33:49,039
done there um but the faa has blessed it

898
00:33:58,630 --> 00:33:56,389
hi ken chang from new york times again

899
00:34:00,230 --> 00:33:58,640
uh for the marsh ship work when were you

900
00:34:02,070 --> 00:34:00,240
hoping to really start accelerating that

901
00:34:04,070 --> 00:34:02,080
work and how are you looking to finance

902
00:34:06,549 --> 00:34:04,080
all that

903
00:34:07,590 --> 00:34:06,559
so i think we will hit uh

904
00:34:08,869 --> 00:34:07,600
um

905
00:34:11,990 --> 00:34:08,879
we need to finish the work that we're

906
00:34:13,750 --> 00:34:12,000
doing right now so you know as we

907
00:34:16,230 --> 00:34:13,760
wind up commercial crew

908
00:34:18,230 --> 00:34:16,240
um as and i don't mean wind it up as in

909
00:34:20,149 --> 00:34:18,240
not do it anymore i mean wind up the

910
00:34:21,990 --> 00:34:20,159
development piece on that wind up the

911
00:34:24,069 --> 00:34:22,000
development on falcon heavy then you'll

912
00:34:27,190 --> 00:34:24,079
start to see a shift

913
00:34:29,349 --> 00:34:27,200
in in development teams at spacex

914
00:34:31,270 --> 00:34:29,359
but we will always have great engineers

915
00:34:33,270 --> 00:34:31,280
and technicians working you know the

916
00:34:35,190 --> 00:34:33,280
programs that we're working right now

917
00:34:40,629 --> 00:34:35,200
a year or so is when we'll start to

918
00:34:43,829 --> 00:34:41,990
stephen clark from space flight now

919
00:34:46,230 --> 00:34:43,839
again um what's the plan for the

920
00:34:47,829 --> 00:34:46,240
rotating service structure here

921
00:34:49,430 --> 00:34:47,839
and if it's going to come down when we

922
00:34:51,030 --> 00:34:49,440
see it come down yeah it's definitely

923
00:34:52,470 --> 00:34:51,040
coming down it's coming down in bits and

924
00:34:55,589 --> 00:34:52,480
pieces so you have to do a before and

925
00:34:58,950 --> 00:34:55,599
after i think the first two floors are

926
00:35:01,030 --> 00:34:58,960
are down um what we're doing is we're um

927
00:35:02,630 --> 00:35:01,040
pulling it down actually literally piece

928
00:35:04,310 --> 00:35:02,640
by piece

929
00:35:06,630 --> 00:35:04,320
and uh

930
00:35:09,510 --> 00:35:06,640
nasa gets the scrap value for for that

931
00:35:12,390 --> 00:35:09,520
medal so

932
00:35:14,870 --> 00:35:12,400
just as we as we get to it we we we pull

933
00:35:16,710 --> 00:35:14,880
more down and give nasa a check have you

934
00:35:21,589 --> 00:35:16,720
seen a check yet from us

935
00:35:25,589 --> 00:35:23,109
we get the scrap we don't get the money

936
00:35:27,109 --> 00:35:25,599
from spacex and we have to get rid of it

937
00:35:30,390 --> 00:35:27,119
oh you have to get rid of it oh we could

938
00:35:32,550 --> 00:35:30,400
sell it for you

939
00:35:35,510 --> 00:35:32,560
we we have time for one more question

940
00:35:37,589 --> 00:35:35,520
from this side ken kramer universe today

941
00:35:39,750 --> 00:35:37,599
uh northeast astronomy forum back to

942
00:35:41,589 --> 00:35:39,760
mars can you talk about uh

943
00:35:43,430 --> 00:35:41,599
um are you gonna have a science payload

944
00:35:45,430 --> 00:35:43,440
at all on this on this first mission i

945
00:35:46,550 --> 00:35:45,440
understand nasa is not going to have one

946
00:35:49,109 --> 00:35:46,560
now

947
00:35:51,750 --> 00:35:49,119
are you going to have a um industry

948
00:35:53,270 --> 00:35:51,760
universities at all compete to submit

949
00:35:54,790 --> 00:35:53,280
proposals

950
00:35:57,349 --> 00:35:54,800
are you talking about for red dragon red

951
00:35:59,510 --> 00:35:57,359
dragon oh um no we were gonna fly some

952
00:36:01,829 --> 00:35:59,520
stuff on the 2018. we could fly more in

953
00:36:05,589 --> 00:36:01,839
2020 because people are are more ready

954
00:36:07,190 --> 00:36:05,599
to fly in 2020 than 2018. um but uh no

955
00:36:09,829 --> 00:36:07,200
we're going to put as much

956
00:36:11,750 --> 00:36:09,839
um payload on dragon as we can by the

957
00:36:13,030 --> 00:36:11,760
way dragon just dragon landing alone

958
00:36:16,310 --> 00:36:13,040
will be the

959
00:36:18,630 --> 00:36:16,320
largest mass put on the surface of uh

960
00:36:20,950 --> 00:36:18,640
of mars just a dragon alone empty dragon

961
00:36:22,310 --> 00:36:20,960
which will be pretty crazy yeah but no

962
00:36:24,829 --> 00:36:22,320
we're there's a bunch of folks that want

963
00:36:27,190 --> 00:36:24,839
to fly european customers uh commercial

964
00:36:28,069 --> 00:36:27,200
guys yeah they'll be they'll be stuff in

965
00:36:31,750 --> 00:36:28,079
dragon

966
00:36:34,550 --> 00:36:33,190
that's right all right

967
00:36:36,150 --> 00:36:34,560
well thanks very much for your time and

968
00:36:37,910 --> 00:36:36,160
attention today we're really excited

969
00:36:40,550 --> 00:36:37,920
about tomorrow's launch i think the only