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it's sunday 19th of january and we are

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awaiting spacex's launch escape test in

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just under 17 minutes and eight seconds

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the test today is to demonstrate the

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effectiveness of our launch escape

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system

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now we are currently go for launch from

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pad 39a at kennedy space center at 10 30

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a.m eastern standard time

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thanks for joining us i'm john isbecker

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falcon principal integration engineer

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here at spacex headquarters in hawthorne

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california and i'm marie lewis with nasa

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public affairs the purpose of today's

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test is to demonstrate crew dragon's

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ability to safely fly astronauts away

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from danger and separate from the falcon

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9 rocket during an in-flight emergency

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spacex's launch escape system is a first

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of its kind with its eight super draco

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thrusters built directly into dragon to

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push the spacecraft away from falcon 9

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in case of an emergency you can think of

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it as a rocket on top of a rocket

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now in order to test our launch escape

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system which is integral to the dragon

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spacecraft you see in front of you on

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the video we will be simulating an

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emergency with falcon 9 at about 84

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seconds into flight this could be a few

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seconds early or late as dragon waits

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for falcon 9 to reach a specific

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velocity before initiating the escape

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now before dragon separates and fires

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its super draco engines it will command

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falcon 9 to shut down its engines as

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part of the escape sequence because

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falcon 9 is then unpowered we are

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expecting the launch vehicle to fully

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break up at some point which should

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create some particularly interesting

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views for sure

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now it's not every day you get to see

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something like that so we're going to do

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our best to bring it to you live as it

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happens but a reminder with the weather

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in the clouds we're going to try to find

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the views that are best

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and to be very clear this is all part of

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today's test

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within the context of this test the

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views that you will see will allow us to

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validate the effectiveness of our launch

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escape system and we're hoping for some

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very exciting views but the whole point

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of the test today is the next step in

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our multi-year efforts to fly astronauts

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again from u.s soil it's part of nasa's

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commercial crew program and it's a

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partnership we have with spacex and

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boeing but this is not the first time we

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are putting dragon's launch escape

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system to the test if you remember back

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in 2015 spacex's paddleboard test

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demonstrated dragon's ability to escape

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from the falcon 9 in the event of an

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emergency on the pad before liftoff and

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the super dracos in the launch escape

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system on today's dragon capsule you see

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there were successfully static fired

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this past november

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and in addition to the tests that you

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just mentioned spacex also flew a full

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uncrewed demonstration mission to and

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from the international space station

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last year with its crew dragon vehicle

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now this was a full end-to-end test of

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the entire crew dragon system validating

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that our upgraded crew dragon spacecraft

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could safely dock with the space station

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and in addition our team has conducted

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over 700 tests on just the super draco

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system alone really looking forward to

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seeing those perform in today's flight

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absolutely and if all goes well today

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the next big milestone will be to launch

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astronauts as we mentioned to the

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international space station that's part

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of what we call demo 2 or demonstration

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now we're currently just inside of t

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minus 13 minutes and 45 seconds and

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counting down now weather's been a watch

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item the last couple of days with rough

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seas sustained winds in the recovery

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area we had to scrub yesterday we're

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also still listening they're evaluating

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constantly the weather in the splashdown

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area right now as we're doing the

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webcast now we do have a six hour window

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today in case we need to wait for better

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weather or less cloud cover we've

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obviously used two and a half hours of

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it already but right now we think this

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is our best opportunity

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now if the weather does not cooperate

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today we are preserving tomorrow as a

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potential backup

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now as a reminder again this is not a

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typical launch we're purposely testing

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dragon's escape system under the most

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extreme conditions so while we want

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everything to go right today we are

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prepared if everything goes wrong and if

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if that does happen that's the whole

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point this is exactly why we test we

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want to see if there's any potential

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issues and we want them to happen now so

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we can address those before we put

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astronauts on board and speaking of

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astronauts we have nasa's daryl nail at

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kennedy space center in florida that's

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where the test is taking place this

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morning and he has more about what those

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very first astronauts assigned to fly

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crew dragon will be paying special

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attention to this morning daryl

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good morning john marie it's a pretty

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nice day here at the kennedy space

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center in florida you can see behind us

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here on the lawn some of the media have

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gathered to shoot this launch and of

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course the countdown clock the iconic

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one they're counting 12 minutes until

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launch as you mentioned the first crew

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members assigned to fly crew dragon are

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nasa astronauts doug hurley and bob

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bankin and they have the most you could

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say invested in the outcome of this test

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flight right now they are just a few

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miles away from launch pad 39a which is

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just behind my left shoulder here

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they're in the spacex firing room inside

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the launch control center where they

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will closely monitor today's flight

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abort test now right now they've been

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training up until this point training

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hard with nasa and spacex so they can

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understand every aspect of dragon's

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systems their spacesuits and how to

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respond in a variety of potential

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emergency scenarios including an escape

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from a falcon 9 rocket in the middle of

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flight the end result of that could be

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an early splashdown in the atlantic

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ocean now both astronauts told us what

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they will specifically be looking for

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the inflate abort test is about to

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happen you know we kind of view that as

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the graduation exercise like a lot of

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that we're really confident that we've

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got a good plan and good procedures in

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place for pulling that mission off and

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end-to-end success so you know another

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forward and kind of walking through all

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the decisions that you have to make for

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the final exam so it's there's a lot

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riding on it but also i think it's a

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culmination of a ton of work from

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i'm just really proud that the team is

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trying to pull off something so

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rocket to have that system demoed before

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we would actually use it is pretty cool

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that folks are making the investment to

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we feel really excited about kind of the

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progress that the spacex and nasa have

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shows us that we're getting really close

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to our flight so to see all these

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capabilities all put together all the

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teams together and to be able to launch

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this vehicle it's just a huge boost of

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now there's an interesting human side to

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doug and bob's story they're not just

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crew mates they're also friends who have

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spent a lot of time together over the

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years both graduated from the same

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astronaut training class in 2000 both

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flew on the space shuttle both are

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married to astronauts and they were in

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john marie back to you

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all right thanks daryl you're taking a

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live look now this is inside spacex's

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firing room four that's where bob and

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doug are sitting today along with the

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watching following along today's test

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and this past friday they completed what

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rehearsal we saw some video of that

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during daryl's segment this is where the

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astronauts along with the spacex and

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and that is really exciting stuff

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especially that was the first time we

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saw them suited up walking out of the uh

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the astronaut uh suit-up room and so

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for demo too let's take a quick look now

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it stands almost 27 feet tall from the

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pressurized cargo and it has an

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that's down below

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for today's test much of the exciting

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work is going to be done by the dragons

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eight super draco engines we talked

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now to give you a sense of power

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when fired together the eight super

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dracos can move the spacecraft a half a

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mile in seven and a half seconds so from

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a standing start the super dracos

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436 miles per hour that's a lot faster

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carrier i know and it's it's hard to

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more thrust than an f-16 fighter jet at

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full afterburn so john if you were to

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something else too

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so that gets us through the major test

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objective today dragons separating from

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the falcon

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several minutes later we will deploy

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drogue parachutes followed by the four

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large main parachutes you'll see the

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main parachutes partially open at first

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if we've got video then fully open these

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will then control the descent of the

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dragon capsule softly into the atlantic

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ocean and while that vehicle that you

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see on the pad looks like a typical crew

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dragon spacecraft from the outside

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if you had a look inside you'll see that

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the interiors have been stripped down

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and there it is we do have a look inside

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for you

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the cabin has no interior panels except

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for one on the ceiling and there's no

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control panel in there for this test

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dragons also outfitted with two seats

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that you see there and sitting inside

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those seats we have two anthropomorphic

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test devices

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what no cool acronym i'll just call them

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test devices we have enough acronyms

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john

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while the test devices do not have any

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sensors on them today the seats they're

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sitting on are instrumented we'll be

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able to measure the loads on the seat to

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ensure that there are no unexpected

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issues in this dressing test case we've

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also made some other modifications to

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the dragon interior for today's test

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that's right there will be three cargo

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racks with some assortment of ballast or

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cargo bags and no floor now below where

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the floor would be there will be an

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assortment of mass simulators in place

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of the life support components and some

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other equipment that's down there when

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we have crew aboard

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now the test today will look a lot like

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a normal falcon launch for the first

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minute and a half we'll fly until falcon

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9 reaches a predetermined velocity this

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will occur about 84 seconds into flight

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and that happens at approximately 20

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kilometers up once we reach the required

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velocity dragon will then trigger and

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escape

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now as a reminder the ground is not

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commanding this abort it's up to the

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onboard computers to determine when to

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trigger the launch escape and do all the

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functions afterward

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once dragon does trigger the launch

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escape the first event will be

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commanding falcon 9 to shut down its

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nine merlin engines now as marie and i

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mentioned earlier dragon will then

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separate from the falcon using its eight

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super draco engines firing for about

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eight seconds that carries dragon

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capsule with the trunk up and away from

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falcon

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now once they finish firing the super

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dracos we coast we jettison the trunk at

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apogee we reorient the capsule to come

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back for entry into the earth's

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atmosphere

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we deploy about two minutes after apogee

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the drogue shoots and about a minute

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after that the four main parachutes will

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be released dragon will then splash down

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softly in the atlantic ocean about 35

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kilometers offshore

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now when dragon separates we no longer

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have that smooth aerodynamic shape on

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top of the rocket so the supersonic

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falcon is going to be exposed to strong

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aerodynamic forces in the upper

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atmosphere so we expect those

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aerodynamic forces will cause falcon to

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start to tumble

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our simulations show that the falcon

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will likely break apart due to the

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tumbling instead of having the destruct

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system triggered and destroying the

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rocket

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so now again this entire test will take

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less than 10 minutes from the time

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falcon 9 lifts off until dragon splashes

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down but marie once we splash down the

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works not over yet right it's just

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beginning for the recovery team we have

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a lot of things happening very rapidly

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in that first 10 minutes and the

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recovery operation takes quite a bit

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longer it'll be similar to the pad abort

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test but it will happen slightly farther

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down range in the atlantic ocean so

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after splashdown recovery teams will

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already be standing by for range

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approval to enter and clear that

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hazardous area and if all goes nominally

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spacex could have fully recovered dragon

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back onto its recovery ship

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approximately two hours after splashdown

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keep in mind though if this were to

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happen during an actual flight with crew

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on board rescuing them would be the

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number one objective of course and

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recovering dragon would be a secondary

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operation so if that were to happen an

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elite military rescue team would deploy

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at a moment's notice they're part of the

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u.s air force's detachment 3 or they

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have this really great nickname the

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guardian angels which is very

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appropriate they would jump from

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military aircraft there's a photo of

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that happening there where they would

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deploy their own parachutes to gently

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reach the water and from there they

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would help the crew out of the capsule

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and then onto a life raft to wait for a

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larger ship now this is not just any

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life raft there it has a cover that they

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can put over the top to protect them

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from the elements and it's also equipped

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with food water and medical supplies

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enough to last for days if needed this

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would be of course a worst case scenario

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it's one that we don't expect to happen

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but of course what do we do when we're

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preparing to fly crew we always plan for

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the worst so this is something that nasa

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spacex and the department of defense

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have rehearsed together over and over so

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that we're ready for anything

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and the spacex recovery team is also

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keeping an eye out for falcon 9 as we

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mentioned earlier falcon 9 is expected

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to break up over the water we've got a

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dedicated team of spacex recovery

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personnel who will be staged and ready

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to begin recovering debris shortly after

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breakup

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well the clocks kicking down rapidly

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we're just over t minus two minutes and

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14 seconds from liftoff you've seen the

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crew access arm it's back that was

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retracted away from dragon at t minus 42

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minutes a few minutes after that dragon

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launch escape system was armed just

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before we began loading propellant onto

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the falcon 9. so if an unplanned

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situation arose right now dragon would

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perform and escape

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now currently the engines are chilled in

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for launch on the falcon the dragon

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spacecraft is waiting for liftoff

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we have retracted and you can see in the

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video the strongback is moved away just

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about two degrees in readiness for

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liftoff we have also finished loading

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liquid oxygen onto both the stages so

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the falcon 9's just about ready the

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large white cloud you see coming off of

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the side we're venting down the pressure

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from the liquid oxygen supply lines in

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the strongback in preparation for launch

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last event you're going to hear start up

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at one minute when the computers take

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over and launch director go at 30

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seconds

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and we're coming right up on that in

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about 15 seconds now will be just a

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minute from liftoff and falcon 9 is as

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you just heard is moving into those

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final stages of the final countdown for

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the in-flight abort test today

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so far weather is looking okay we're

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hoping it's going to continue to

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cooperate and the range is green for

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launch now if for some reason we scrub

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today we will shift to our backup launch

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window which is tomorrow at the same

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time again this is just a test we're

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fully expecting falcon 9 to break up so

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don't be alarmed if you see that

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happening live and with that let's

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listen in now we're just 45 seconds from

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ftss armed

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minus 15 seconds

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ten

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nine

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eight

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seven

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six

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five

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four

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three

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two

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one

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zero ignition let's go simplify

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[Music]

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t plus 30 seconds falcon 9 with the crew

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dragon capsule is heading east from pad

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39a everything looking good right now

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as we get ready for max dynamic pressure

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everything continues to look good

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we are approaching the period of maximum

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dynamic pressure

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vehicle is supersonic and passing

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through maximum dynamic pressure you've

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heard we're supersonic we're through max

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q

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we're getting ready now to throttle the

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engines back up on the first stage

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stage one throttle up there's the call

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out okay the major activity coming up in

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just over 10 seconds shutdown and dragon

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and you can hear some really loud

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cheering in the room

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okay you just saw a bright flash there

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it looks like

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maybe falcon 9 breaking up

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we've got some loud cheers on here in

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hawthorne the folks that just watched

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live the dragon separate the next

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milestone we have coming up at two

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minutes 25 seconds we're expecting to

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see the trunk jettison

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so that claw that connects the trunk to

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the capsule is going to separate

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allowing dragon to

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separate from the trunk

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and we do have the report loss of

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telemetry from falcon 9

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and there you just saw the trunk

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jettison again some

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really loud cheers here in hawthorne

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california this test is looking great so

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far

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nice view from the back of the dragon

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capsule

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we're also trying to see if we get the

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view there on the right hand side from

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the aircraft it's orbiting the area

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now the dragon control system is now

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going to be reorienting the capsule

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we're at a high altitude where the air

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dynamics are negligible so we're going

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to use the small draco thrusters on the

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dragon capsule to reorient it that gets

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it in a position with a heat shield down

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to re-enter the earth's atmosphere and

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then later to deploy the drogue

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parachutes

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now those drogue shoots we expect to get

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confirmation that those have deployed at

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t plus four minutes and 48 seconds so

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we've got just a little bit of breathing

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those parachutes are protected during

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ascent on orbit and re-entry by a panel

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that's up near the nose cone of the

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so we're going to jettison the panel

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then the mortars will fire to deploy

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those two drogue shoots and that's

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coming up in just over a minute at t

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now those drove shoots when we see those

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come out those will open and those will

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come out before the main parachutes that

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those drug parachutes are what we use to

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begin to decelerate the dragon capsule

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we understand we're getting into the

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drug deploy envelope on the dragon

554
00:23:01,990 --> 00:23:00,159
capsule

555
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we expect that will happen when dragon

556
00:23:26,630 --> 00:23:15,909
about 15 seconds to draw drogue shoot

557
00:23:32,630 --> 00:23:28,149
and there they are

558
00:23:38,390 --> 00:23:35,350
again some major cheering going on here

559
00:23:39,909 --> 00:23:38,400
as every stage of this test unfolds

560
00:23:42,149 --> 00:23:39,919
now we're going to be getting ready for

561
00:23:44,149 --> 00:23:42,159
the main shoots to deploy

562
00:23:46,549 --> 00:23:44,159
now main shoots will be coming up fairly

563
00:23:48,950 --> 00:23:46,559
quickly there are four main parachutes

564
00:23:51,990 --> 00:23:48,960
these are the newest mark iii parachutes

565
00:23:54,630 --> 00:23:52,000
they're each 116 feet in diameter we

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00:23:57,269 --> 00:23:54,640
deploy them about two kilometers above

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00:23:59,350 --> 00:23:57,279
sea level 6500 feet above the atlantic

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00:24:01,669 --> 00:23:59,360
ocean we're getting good views from the

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dragon and the airplane showing the two

570
00:24:04,789 --> 00:24:02,960
drogue shoots

571
00:24:14,549 --> 00:24:04,799
now we're just waiting for the main

572
00:24:17,990 --> 00:24:16,230
and we have the view

573
00:24:20,710 --> 00:24:18,000
from a different camera dragon showing

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00:24:22,950 --> 00:24:20,720
the four main parachutes

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00:24:24,870 --> 00:24:22,960
now they are deployed in a reef

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00:24:26,710 --> 00:24:24,880
condition that means we're keeping them

577
00:24:28,630 --> 00:24:26,720
fairly shut to avoid shocks and now

578
00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:28,640
we're slowly opening up the four

579
00:24:32,230 --> 00:24:30,480
parachutes

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00:24:34,789 --> 00:24:32,240
great views coming off of the dragon

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00:24:37,029 --> 00:24:34,799
camera on the left and we can also see

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four parachutes run the airplane on the

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right

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00:24:42,549 --> 00:24:40,880
that is a really cool view

585
00:24:44,390 --> 00:24:42,559
nice view of the orange and white

586
00:24:46,470 --> 00:24:44,400
parachutes as they're opening up into

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the second position

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and then going to fully open

589
00:24:54,149 --> 00:24:51,279
from fully open we'll be descending

590
00:24:56,870 --> 00:24:54,159
about 20 to 25 feet per second down to

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the atlantic so from that 6 500 foot

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altitude it's going to take us a few

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minutes to splash down

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also right now now that the mains are

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out

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a sequence is performed on the dragon

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00:25:11,430 --> 00:25:09,200
which will reorient the crew seats into

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a splashdown position give them a little

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00:25:17,110 --> 00:25:14,400
better angle to take the slow bounce as

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we hit the ocean

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00:25:20,789 --> 00:25:18,880
now marie i talked about

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00:25:23,590 --> 00:25:20,799
the parachutes came out initially at a

603
00:25:25,669 --> 00:25:23,600
reef condition that's fairly standard

604
00:25:27,590 --> 00:25:25,679
they come out not fully open that way

605
00:25:29,750 --> 00:25:27,600
they're minimizing the shock on the

606
00:25:32,070 --> 00:25:29,760
parachutes we're also minimizing the

607
00:25:34,630 --> 00:25:32,080
shock on the capsule again we want to

608
00:25:35,990 --> 00:25:34,640
give a smooth ride to the crew

609
00:25:38,149 --> 00:25:36,000
as they are coming back through the

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00:25:40,950 --> 00:25:38,159
earth's atmosphere right

611
00:25:43,350 --> 00:25:40,960
now the parachutes are located behind a

612
00:25:45,110 --> 00:25:43,360
door that's at the bottom of the capsule

613
00:25:47,190 --> 00:25:45,120
it's below the crew hatch

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00:25:48,789 --> 00:25:47,200
so dragon commands the door to release

615
00:25:51,029 --> 00:25:48,799
and as you saw in the video the drug

616
00:25:53,669 --> 00:25:51,039
parachutes pull the door away and that

617
00:25:55,590 --> 00:25:53,679
pulls the four main parachutes out

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00:25:57,750 --> 00:25:55,600
now these are the new mark iii

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00:26:00,149 --> 00:25:57,760
parachutes we've completed here at

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00:26:01,110 --> 00:26:00,159
spacex over 80 tests of that parachute

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system

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00:26:05,510 --> 00:26:03,520
including 10 multi-parachute tests of

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00:26:07,909 --> 00:26:05,520
this particular upgraded parachute

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00:26:10,070 --> 00:26:07,919
design over the last few months to

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00:26:11,510 --> 00:26:10,080
demonstrate that the design is ready for

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00:26:13,590 --> 00:26:11,520
flight

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00:26:15,669 --> 00:26:13,600
and we are about we're just inside two

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00:26:18,230 --> 00:26:15,679
minutes of when we expect to see a

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00:26:19,909 --> 00:26:18,240
splash down the recovery teams are

630
00:26:22,789 --> 00:26:19,919
already out there in the atlantic ocean

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00:26:24,789 --> 00:26:22,799
standing by uh ready with fast

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00:26:27,190 --> 00:26:24,799
boats to begin their initial approach to

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00:26:28,950 --> 00:26:27,200
dragon again we mentioned this before

634
00:26:33,190 --> 00:26:28,960
but the recovery operation we expect to

635
00:26:39,269 --> 00:26:35,190
i've heard a call out we're below 500

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00:26:44,230 --> 00:26:41,669
and we expect when dragon splashes down

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00:26:52,310 --> 00:26:44,240
it's going to be roughly 32 kilometers

638
00:26:56,870 --> 00:26:54,149
again we're looking at a live view so

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00:26:59,029 --> 00:26:56,880
far uh all things have appeared to go

640
00:27:00,789 --> 00:26:59,039
nominal for this test all things looking

641
00:27:02,549 --> 00:27:00,799
great so far we saw the four main

642
00:27:03,590 --> 00:27:02,559
parachutes deploy you're looking at them

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00:27:05,029 --> 00:27:03,600
now

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00:27:07,430 --> 00:27:05,039
fully open

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00:27:15,430 --> 00:27:07,440
and we are coming up on about a minute

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00:27:18,950 --> 00:27:16,950
i think we may have heard a call out of

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00:27:33,430 --> 00:27:18,960
a hundred meters to go

648
00:27:37,430 --> 00:27:35,029
now those four parachutes are actually

649
00:27:38,710 --> 00:27:37,440
going to be released from the capsule

650
00:27:41,350 --> 00:27:38,720
after splashdown and they'll be

651
00:27:45,669 --> 00:27:41,360
recovered too

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00:27:52,070 --> 00:27:49,830
down a little bit early in fact

653
00:27:53,909 --> 00:27:52,080
and there you can see the recovery boat

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00:27:55,029 --> 00:27:53,919
beginning to approach

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00:27:56,630 --> 00:27:55,039
instantly

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00:27:58,470 --> 00:27:56,640
and i try to talk a little bit louder so

657
00:28:00,630 --> 00:27:58,480
you can hear me over the folks here this

658
00:28:01,750 --> 00:28:00,640
has been a really exciting thing to see

659
00:28:03,430 --> 00:28:01,760
because

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00:28:04,630 --> 00:28:03,440
we had the weather

661
00:28:06,389 --> 00:28:04,640
we're really sure if the weather was

662
00:28:08,149 --> 00:28:06,399
going to cooperate um we're trying to

663
00:28:09,669 --> 00:28:08,159
weigh you know is it favorable for

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00:28:11,110 --> 00:28:09,679
launch but also is it favorable for

665
00:28:13,269 --> 00:28:11,120
recovery because they really have to

666
00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:13,279
watch the height of those waves in order

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00:28:17,029 --> 00:28:15,120
to do this operation

668
00:28:18,870 --> 00:28:17,039
that that fast boat is is just off

669
00:28:20,549 --> 00:28:18,880
screen now but there's four fast boats

670
00:28:22,950 --> 00:28:20,559
out there in the area to begin again

671
00:28:25,190 --> 00:28:22,960
that initial approach to dragon um the

672
00:28:27,350 --> 00:28:25,200
recovery operation from here takes about

673
00:28:29,590 --> 00:28:27,360
two hours but all in all this looks like

674
00:28:31,350 --> 00:28:29,600
a really great test yeah a lot of fun

675
00:28:32,950 --> 00:28:31,360
watching the dragon come down we had

676
00:28:34,070 --> 00:28:32,960
great views from the onboard camera in

677
00:28:36,549 --> 00:28:34,080
particular

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00:28:39,110 --> 00:28:36,559
now i think this camera is from our go

679
00:28:41,029 --> 00:28:39,120
searcher recovery ship which is also the

680
00:28:43,110 --> 00:28:41,039
tender for the fast boats you saw one of

681
00:28:44,950 --> 00:28:43,120
them headed out there and you can also

682
00:28:46,710 --> 00:28:44,960
see it looks still a little choppy so

683
00:28:48,549 --> 00:28:46,720
you understand we were kind of on the

684
00:28:50,950 --> 00:28:48,559
edge of the weather conditions out in

685
00:28:53,510 --> 00:28:50,960
the splashdown area but they assessed

686
00:28:55,269 --> 00:28:53,520
the uh the boat data the buoy data

687
00:28:56,070 --> 00:28:55,279
looked at the forecast and said we were

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00:28:57,830 --> 00:28:56,080
go

689
00:29:00,230 --> 00:28:57,840
and while we took two and a half hours

690
00:29:01,590 --> 00:29:00,240
to get here we finally got here and it

691
00:29:03,590 --> 00:29:01,600
was great

692
00:29:05,750 --> 00:29:03,600
and that's the summary for today it

693
00:29:08,149 --> 00:29:05,760
looks like right now a great test

694
00:29:10,389 --> 00:29:08,159
visually everything happened falcon 9

695
00:29:13,669 --> 00:29:10,399
you saw the liftoff we had kind of a

696
00:29:15,830 --> 00:29:13,679
long view from the camera dragon did

697
00:29:18,630 --> 00:29:15,840
shut down the nine merlin 1d engines and

698
00:29:20,310 --> 00:29:18,640
separate we did see the flash as the

699
00:29:23,110 --> 00:29:20,320
falcon 9

700
00:29:25,909 --> 00:29:23,120
came apart as predicted no surprise

701
00:29:27,830 --> 00:29:25,919
there dragon we saw a great view as it

702
00:29:30,389 --> 00:29:27,840
got to apogee it deployed the trunk

703
00:29:33,269 --> 00:29:30,399
separating it reoriented then the drug

704
00:29:35,029 --> 00:29:33,279
shoots came out the main shoots came out

705
00:29:37,510 --> 00:29:35,039
and then we just waited for that nice

706
00:29:38,950 --> 00:29:37,520
soft splashdown in the atlantic ocean

707
00:29:40,710 --> 00:29:38,960
and we saw and it looks like we just

708
00:29:42,070 --> 00:29:40,720
lost the view from out there on the ship

709
00:29:43,590 --> 00:29:42,080
but you couldn't really see much from

710
00:29:45,269 --> 00:29:43,600
that particular angle

711
00:29:46,710 --> 00:29:45,279
again that recovery operation is going

712
00:29:47,909 --> 00:29:46,720
to take a couple of hours so we're not

713
00:29:50,230 --> 00:29:47,919
going to stay on the air for the

714
00:29:53,110 --> 00:29:50,240
duration of that but we are going to be

715
00:29:55,669 --> 00:29:53,120
back for a news conference coming up at

716
00:29:57,269 --> 00:29:55,679
11 30 eastern time this morning that

717
00:30:00,149 --> 00:29:57,279
would be let me do the math real quick 8

718
00:30:02,630 --> 00:30:00,159
30 pacific time we're going to hear from

719
00:30:04,149 --> 00:30:02,640
nasa and spacex leaders about their

720
00:30:05,269 --> 00:30:04,159
initial thoughts on this test that you

721
00:30:07,269 --> 00:30:05,279
just saw

722
00:30:08,789 --> 00:30:07,279
of course everything looked fantastic

723
00:30:10,310 --> 00:30:08,799
but there's going to be a lot of data to

724
00:30:12,070 --> 00:30:10,320
dig into they're going to also collect

725
00:30:14,549 --> 00:30:12,080
those parachutes get a lot of data from

726
00:30:16,950 --> 00:30:14,559
that and then see what the next steps

727
00:30:18,389 --> 00:30:16,960
are on the path to demo 2 when of course

728
00:30:21,430 --> 00:30:18,399
we're going to be launching nasa

729
00:30:23,269 --> 00:30:21,440
astronauts bob benkin and doug hurley so

730
00:30:25,750 --> 00:30:23,279
stay tuned for that news conference it

731
00:30:27,990 --> 00:30:25,760
will be carried live on nasa tv if

732
00:30:29,990 --> 00:30:28,000
you're watching on the web just tune to

733
00:30:32,230 --> 00:30:30,000
nasa.gov forward slash live so you can

734
00:30:34,870 --> 00:30:32,240
see that coverage again that's 8 30

735
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pacific time 11 30 eastern thanks so