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jessica jensen the dragon mission

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office of commercial space

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so we'll begin with our opening comments

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so obviously a great launch today we

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uh go well uh after after yesterday's

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countdown fun and getting going uh

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in great shape and and really looking

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over the next month working all the

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okay thanks bill now to jessica jensen

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from spacex thanks

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yeah so obviously it's been a super

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it was really awesome to see 39a roar

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zone one so we're always very excited to

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underwood once again pam great thank you

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george good morning everybody and thank

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this uh great day we'd like to

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successful launch this morning and of

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re-entry and we're also responsible for

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yes right back here uh hi uh tim

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jessica what's your best guest on when

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over there not to for none of them none

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of your spacex drunks to call me

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anytime during the night to get them out

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of jail i'm tired of doing it

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same regardless where you fly from so

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that's a nice thing for the commercial

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space industry that you have that

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consistency across wherever it from it

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also means that effectively our job we

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review the same things each time we go

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through it vehicles change locations

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change absolutely but we do apply the

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same approach the same level of rigor

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with regard to public safety for every

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launch specifically for this flight of

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course the license was issued

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we have 180 days from the application

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acceptance to when we can by law uh when

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we can or should by law issue a license

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and we were well within that for this

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particular launch

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we did not issue the license until we

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made sure that we did review all of

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those regulations to make sure that the

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public safety elements were satisfied

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but once we had that we went ahead and

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issued the launch

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for the activity that took place this

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because of the amos 6 explosion were

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there any complications

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for this particular activity we had

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previously closed the amos 6

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investigation

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well in advance of this particular

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activity so there wasn't from our

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perspective no

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uh jim siegel i'm with the celebration

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news and space flight insider i have a

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follow-up for pam uh based on what uh

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what ken was asking um could you tell us

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a little bit more about how you

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physically oversee the the the process

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uh do you have people looking over the

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shoulder of the engineers and others at

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spacex and are you on the pad or in in

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the building where they build up the

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rocket

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how many people are involved and and how

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long a process is this is a one week

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process and one month five months

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whatever

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and that's a great question and it

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really goes to insight as to how does

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the faa implement that public safety

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responsibility that we have and i'm

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happy to answer that um the faa

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we have 180 days as i previously

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mentioned from the time a license is

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accepted to when we need to issue a

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determination for a particular launch so

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that goes to the level of involvement

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well in advance that we have with the

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companies

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and getting ready for and preparing for

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the activity with regard to your second

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question which i think is closer in once

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the license is issued how do we then go

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make sure that everything is satisfied

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that's through a process we called

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safety inspection and we do have people

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on site there's a spate safety

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inspections of public safety elements

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things that are critical for public

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safety installation of things that are

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critical for public safety so our folks

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have been on the ground with spacex now

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for weeks and months leading up to this

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activity that would include on day of

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launch we had two safety inspectors

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sitting on console right there in the

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spacex launch control center

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watching and again we're looking for

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compliance demonstration and compliance

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you know in advance of the launch the

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company in this case spacex told us how

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they were planning on meeting our very

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important public safety regulations and

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we're there to follow up to make sure

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have you ever withheld a license in the

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past

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for any particular launch for any

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particular reason

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so the any specific instances i won't be

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at liberty to talk about because that

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would be considered proprietary you can

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find information about our any license

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we've issued on our website

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and it's public knowledge for when we

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actually issue a license

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all right back over here irene in the

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back wait for the mic just for a second

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hi irene klotz uh for jessica

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um i may not just be understanding how

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this system works but um with the clouds

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today i was just curious if the um the

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autonomous flight

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safety system does that give spacex any

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anymore leeway to fly um there's no

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longer as much line of sight needed for

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range safety or does it affect anything

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other than the actual detonation of that

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system if it should be flying off course

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thanks sure so

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pam can correct me if i'm wrong but i

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believe that most of the weather rules

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um don't have as much to do with radar

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tracking as they do with vehicle safety

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so one of the things you worry about is

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building up a charge as you go through

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clouds on the vehicle and so that's

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independent of um you know range and

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radar assets so it would have been the

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same you know if those clouds had hung

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around longer today and would have been

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the right type of clouds we wouldn't

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have been able to launch even with our

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autonomous flight safety system

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all right uh james did you have a

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question

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yes all right if you come come right

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thank you james d in florida today um

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jessica i was wondering if you could

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tell us

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of the boosters you've recovered to date

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uh prior to today of course um how many

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does spacex consider to be

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uh reusable i guess for for additional

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flights beyond again we know ses 10

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coming up

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um and just about the landings in

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general i mean can

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i guess keep asking is it seem routine

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but it does seem to be coming more

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routine now um you know is that your

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expectation every time now um or or just

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kind of where are you at with

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your sense of the chance of landing

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successes yeah so

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um it is our i guess our expectation but

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again it's a secondary goal if we do

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lose a first stage it does not hurt our

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business in any way it only helps our

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business when we recover it so again it

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does not affect the primary mission at

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all we will still deploy satellites into

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orbit and dragon into orbit if the first

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stage winds up not making it back to

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land or not landing on the drone ship

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it's not a big deal but like i said you

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know when we can get them back it's

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great and we can reuse them so right now

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as of today this is the eighth one that

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we've recovered and we have let's see so

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the seven we had before there was one of

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them that we used for extensive life

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testing in texas i think we had

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published some information about that

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that we ran it through i can't remember

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how many

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mission duty cycles or it's equivalent

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of a flight and we ran it through i

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think eight of those

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so we basically took a flown booster and

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then put it on our test stand in texas

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and just kept running it repeatedly as

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if it was seeing flight multiple times

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so we would not likely refly that one

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all the other ones are looking good and

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are potential candidates for reflight

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but some we may choose to just do

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inspections on which can be very useful

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for the company

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we also have to work with our customers

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to ensure that they are okay with using

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reflown rockets so um we haven't decided

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which ones are going to which customers

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and which ones will be flown but

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as we move forward we expect to be able

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to refly more of them

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okay we're going to take a couple of

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social media questions here right now

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and then come back

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cool thanks um i'm emily for far with

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nasa social media um this first ask nasa

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question comes from thomas on twitter

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and he wants to know how much time does

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it take to prepare 39a from one launch

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to the next

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i can answer that one so it's roughly

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two weeks

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yep and depending on we added

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significantly more blast protection at

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39a compared to what we had at pad 40

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just based on lessons learned so we're

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hoping that the turnaround along with

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the massive water daily system that we

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now have protected the pad and that we

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can actually turn it around pretty

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quickly but as of now we're assuming

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that's going to take two weeks great

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and the second one comes from pauline

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what is the reasoning behind the

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decision to have the strong back pull

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away differently than before

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so the reason for the strong back

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pulling back differently uh oh man i

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forget this one um so partly it's to

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help with the umbilicals so we have the

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umbilicals that come off the basically

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the trends the strongback is what it's

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called

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all the

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all of your electrical and plumbing runs

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through there and then those connect to

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the vehicle through umbilicals and we'll

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be able to make we would say like higher

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reliability umbilicals not as long they

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won't get caught on things

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the way we have the system currently set

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all right more questions over here that

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go right here on the end

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[Music]

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uh chris gubhart with nasa space flight

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um wondering if you can talk about the

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work that still has to be done on pate

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for the crude dragon missions coming up

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and how

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that works going to be balanced with the

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cadence of launches that are coming up

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on that pad until slick 40 is ready

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again sure thing so

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um the main thing we have to do is add

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the crew accommodation so we're in the

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process of building an arm that the crew

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will actually you know come out onto

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dragon on that at a higher level from

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the tower so we have to get all of that

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underway

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the goal is now that we've had our first

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launch at 39a

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we'll obviously do inspections after

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flight today see how it looks but the

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goal is to send most people back over to

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pad 40 to start getting that back up

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we hope to have that

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up and running

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you know sooner this you know sometime

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this year and that by doing that by

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shifting most of our commercial

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satellite missions over to pad 40 while

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keeping dragon missions at 39a that

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we'll be able to spread the missions out

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enough so that we can get all the crew

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work done in time

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um and is the pad um when it was

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configured for today's launch is it also

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ready to host the first falcon heavy

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launcher

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for that um i forget the schedule i

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don't have the exact date off the top of

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my head but it is configured for heavy

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all right more questions over here yes

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right here

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hi i'm sarah lewinspace.com um

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for william i was wondering if you could

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say what

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the crew member's first priority will be

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as they start unloading um the cargo

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so um the first thing uh we have a lot

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of time critical stuff that we bring up

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that gets loaded very late into the

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vehicle so their their first steps for

562
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the crew will be getting that offloaded

563
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um onto the vehicle and getting into the

564
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experiments i think the one of the first

565
00:20:32,950 --> 00:20:30,240
things is the uh the rodents and getting

566
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them all of our mice set up and in their

567
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accommodations on board

568
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um and then also the ground teams will

569
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be working very hard and very quickly on

570
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the robotics ops as we talked about to

571
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to change out the uh the science that's

572
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in the trunk pull it out and then put it

573
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in its spots uh in orbit and put uh

574
00:20:52,070 --> 00:20:50,400
additional cargo back in that's no

575
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longer being used and to have that

576
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can you say what any of those payloads

577
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that are returning back down in the

578
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trunk are uh i can't remember off the

579
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top of my head i apologize uh i'd have

580
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to get back to you

581
00:21:08,310 --> 00:21:06,400
all right any more questions over here

582
00:21:09,590 --> 00:21:08,320
let's come right over here on the end

583
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then we'll go over to the side of the

584
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that is daddy cesari with the utica

585
00:21:20,149 --> 00:21:18,559
phoenix uh speaking of the falcon heavy

586
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i was hoping to hear if there's going to

587
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be any recovery attempts for the

588
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boosters

589
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yes there will um that's about all i

590
00:21:29,430 --> 00:21:26,159
know but we are definitely planning to

591
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recover the boosters one two three all

592
00:21:36,470 --> 00:21:33,350
all right let's try again let's come

593
00:21:43,430 --> 00:21:36,480
over here on right right here on on this

594
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hi jeff foster space news uh for jessica

595
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maybe you can talk a little bit about

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what you're going to be doing to the pad

597
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to inspect it and prep it for the next

598
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launch and for pam what's faa's role in

599
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the review and oversight of that before

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issuing a launch license for the next

601
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commercial mission

602
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so the main thing we want to inspect is

603
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all the systems that are critical for

604
00:22:07,590 --> 00:22:05,679
launch so cosmetic damage is no problem

605
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as long as the

606
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electrical wiring and all the plumbing

607
00:22:14,390 --> 00:22:12,799
for our locks kerosene the rp-1 helium

608
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as long as that is all intact that's

609
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what we're really looking for so if

610
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there's any damage to the critical

611
00:22:19,909 --> 00:22:18,559
flight systems we're going to need to

612
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repair those but if there's some

613
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cosmetic damage that's okay that's

614
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actually expected

615
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but that's mainly what we're looking for

616
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making sure the critical systems are

617
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ready for the next flight

618
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great

619
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i'm sorry go ahead i didn't know if you

620
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wanted from my for my part of that

621
00:22:35,270 --> 00:22:33,600
question jeff the uh the faas i've

622
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mentioned before we issue licenses for

623
00:22:38,470 --> 00:22:36,880
public safety

624
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uh national security foreign policy to

625
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united states we will follow the same

626
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process we've done before when we're

627
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certain that those

628
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elements of public safety and our

629
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regulations are satisfied then we'll

630
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all right we'll come over to this side

631
00:23:00,630 --> 00:22:58,549
hi bart leahy space flight insider

632
00:23:02,149 --> 00:23:00,640
questions for pam um

633
00:23:03,830 --> 00:23:02,159
was there extra scrutiny because this is

634
00:23:06,470 --> 00:23:03,840
the first time at the commercial launch

635
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and launch complex 39a and

636
00:23:10,230 --> 00:23:08,400
follow up with that would be now that

637
00:23:12,630 --> 00:23:10,240
you've had the first launch will it be

638
00:23:13,990 --> 00:23:12,640
simpler for spacex licensing going

639
00:23:15,909 --> 00:23:14,000
forward

640
00:23:17,510 --> 00:23:15,919
so that's a great question um and one

641
00:23:19,430 --> 00:23:17,520
i've heard before for me even applicants

642
00:23:21,350 --> 00:23:19,440
does it is the same process perceived

643
00:23:22,950 --> 00:23:21,360
the answer is yes we do the same thing

644
00:23:24,710 --> 00:23:22,960
every time we look at the same

645
00:23:26,230 --> 00:23:24,720
regulations the same regulations apply

646
00:23:28,310 --> 00:23:26,240
for every particular launch you know

647
00:23:29,830 --> 00:23:28,320
with regard to whether or not it's it's

648
00:23:31,590 --> 00:23:29,840
easier or more scrutiny on this

649
00:23:33,909 --> 00:23:31,600
particular launch

650
00:23:35,270 --> 00:23:33,919
we have to satisfy public safety and

651
00:23:37,270 --> 00:23:35,280
those public safety elements that we

652
00:23:38,870 --> 00:23:37,280
have to satisfy are consistent across

653
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all launches from anywhere that we

654
00:23:41,590 --> 00:23:40,000
license

655
00:23:42,870 --> 00:23:41,600
making it easier for them in the future

656
00:23:44,950 --> 00:23:42,880
i would imagine it's probably a little

657
00:23:47,430 --> 00:23:44,960
bit easier for spacex once they kind of

658
00:23:49,029 --> 00:23:47,440
get their processes under a certain

659
00:23:51,029 --> 00:23:49,039
amount of

660
00:23:52,950 --> 00:23:51,039
regular cadence i would imagine but you

661
00:23:54,549 --> 00:23:52,960
know from an faa perspective we have the

662
00:23:56,149 --> 00:23:54,559
same you know thresholds for public

663
00:23:59,110 --> 00:23:56,159
safety element for every particular

664
00:24:00,710 --> 00:23:59,120
license and every particular launch

665
00:24:03,110 --> 00:24:00,720
all right right here

666
00:24:04,870 --> 00:24:03,120
all right ken chang new york times

667
00:24:06,390 --> 00:24:04,880
for jessica what's the condition of 40

668
00:24:08,230 --> 00:24:06,400
and what do what do you have left to do

669
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to make it operational

670
00:24:13,430 --> 00:24:11,120
uh so the condition of 40 is still

671
00:24:14,549 --> 00:24:13,440
uh we haven't spent a lot of time on it

672
00:24:17,190 --> 00:24:14,559
what happened was we did the initial

673
00:24:19,669 --> 00:24:17,200
assessment of 40 after

674
00:24:21,750 --> 00:24:19,679
the amos accident and we looked at where

675
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39a was and we basically made a decision

676
00:24:25,830 --> 00:24:23,679
at that point to prioritize most of our

677
00:24:27,269 --> 00:24:25,840
team over to 39a that was going to be

678
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the quickest way for us to return to

679
00:24:31,190 --> 00:24:29,039
flight in the safest way so we

680
00:24:33,269 --> 00:24:31,200
prioritize most of our team to 39a we

681
00:24:35,269 --> 00:24:33,279
have completed all the inspections at 40

682
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and have done some minor work there but

683
00:24:40,230 --> 00:24:36,559
we really still you know have to do the

684
00:24:45,669 --> 00:24:42,950
yeah did you have a follow-up

685
00:24:48,390 --> 00:24:45,679
all right let's go right right next to

686
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him here we go

687
00:24:52,710 --> 00:24:50,240
uh yeah scott johnson with space flight

688
00:24:56,230 --> 00:24:52,720
insider um i believe this is the third

689
00:24:57,669 --> 00:24:56,240
booster to be returned to land uh i

690
00:24:59,350 --> 00:24:57,679
think the first one during daylight

691
00:25:01,190 --> 00:24:59,360
hours with that in mind will there be

692
00:25:03,590 --> 00:25:01,200
any opportunity for media to go out to

693
00:25:05,190 --> 00:25:03,600
landing zone one and view or photograph

694
00:25:06,870 --> 00:25:05,200
the landed booster

695
00:25:08,149 --> 00:25:06,880
someone from our media team may be able

696
00:25:11,430 --> 00:25:08,159
to answer that i don't know the answer

697
00:25:14,630 --> 00:25:13,190
all right with that

698
00:25:16,310 --> 00:25:14,640
let's take one more question here real

699
00:25:18,470 --> 00:25:16,320
quickly and then we'll we'll wrap it up

700
00:25:20,549 --> 00:25:18,480
right here on the end

701
00:25:22,149 --> 00:25:20,559
uh for jessica and pam i'm wondering

702
00:25:23,750 --> 00:25:22,159
what the current plans for the expansion

703
00:25:26,470 --> 00:25:23,760
of landing zone one are to accommodate

704
00:25:27,830 --> 00:25:26,480
the falcon heavy cores and for the fas

705
00:25:29,590 --> 00:25:27,840
part of that is there anything different

706
00:25:32,789 --> 00:25:29,600
with three cores coming back two at the

707
00:25:34,149 --> 00:25:32,799
same time one a few minutes later

708
00:25:36,070 --> 00:25:34,159
i actually don't have much information

709
00:25:38,390 --> 00:25:36,080
on that do you know

710
00:25:39,350 --> 00:25:38,400
well i can speak from the faa side

711
00:25:41,190 --> 00:25:39,360
you know

712
00:25:43,190 --> 00:25:41,200
again the the same regulations will

713
00:25:45,350 --> 00:25:43,200
apply when it is in fact three boosters

714
00:25:47,029 --> 00:25:45,360
whether or not it was three or one um we

715
00:25:48,549 --> 00:25:47,039
look forward to working with spacex and

716
00:25:51,110 --> 00:25:48,559
and reviewing those elements once

717
00:25:52,950 --> 00:25:51,120
they're determined um and and from that

718
00:25:54,549 --> 00:25:52,960
perspective once we know all of those

719
00:25:56,149 --> 00:25:54,559
public safety elements and regulations

720
00:25:57,750 --> 00:25:56,159
are satisfied we'll be able to license

721
00:25:59,590 --> 00:25:57,760
it just like we had done something today

722
00:26:00,710 --> 00:25:59,600
only it would be three boosters instead

723
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of one

724
00:26:03,669 --> 00:26:02,480
all right marcia real real short one

725
00:26:05,830 --> 00:26:03,679
because we're

726
00:26:08,789 --> 00:26:05,840
just wrapping up here

727
00:26:11,669 --> 00:26:08,799
um yes marcia ap for jessico so when is

728
00:26:15,990 --> 00:26:11,679
the next target launch from 39a what's

729
00:26:20,070 --> 00:26:17,110
i don't have the data off the top of my

730
00:26:21,750 --> 00:26:20,080
head but it's in approximately two weeks

731
00:26:23,430 --> 00:26:21,760
all right that's going to wrap up our

732
00:26:24,710 --> 00:26:23,440
our briefing now that we're off the

733
00:26:27,110 --> 00:26:24,720
ground and

734
00:26:28,870 --> 00:26:27,120
dragon is heading toward the station for

735
00:26:31,830 --> 00:26:28,880
further information you can go to

736
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www.nasa.gov

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station