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the at 7 27 pm the nasa spacex crew 1

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center's historic pad 39a with four

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walker in japanese astronauts soichi

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niguchi today we'll be joining we have a

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great group of people to talk about

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the crew one wish mission in this

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post-launch press conference and talk

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about the many historic elements of this

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administrator jim bridenstine kathy

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hiroshi sasaki vice president and

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officer of spacex and i'm bettina and

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administrator jim bridenstine

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well thank you bettina another historic

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night and i want to congratulate the

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nasa team and the spacex team for an

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uh and in fact that this operational

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vehicle and we're grateful to our

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um and hiroshi sasaki who's with us

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that japan would join us on crew one

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the united states of america and a great

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day for japan and we look forward to

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many more years of a great partnership

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cooperation i believe the human space

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launch i have a series of texts to prove

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it um as as usual he regardless of where

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he is on the planet uh he is watching

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closely and providing guidance and

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great our next question comes from

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hi

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my first question is uh for for gwen uh

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spacex has really broken a new ceiling

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here in terms of doing something that

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only countries had done before

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how many other companies do you see

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entering the orbital human space flight

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market in the next decade and kind of

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following in your footsteps now that you

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guys have done it

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you know i'm a horrible predictor i

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never i never get it right so i think

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what you can count on is what i say it

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won't be right

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um

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obviously we have uh we expect to have

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flights from boeing upcoming but i don't

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think you're asking about the existing

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providers i think you're talking about

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new ones this is a tough business to

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break into

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um i wouldn't expect any in the next

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five years

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but hopefully within 10 there'll be

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plenty of folks doing this kind of work

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to make it

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our next question comes from eric berger

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hi uh congratulations everyone uh such a

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such a big night for for human space

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flight

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i think this is a question for kathy but

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if someone else wants to take it that's

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fine too

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going back to yesterday's

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24-hour delay

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it's my understanding the primary driver

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of that was the the fact that the drone

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ship could get out of port due to

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tropical storm ada

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and i was just wondering you know a few

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years ago kathy could you imagine

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you know scrubbing or holding a launch

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for a day

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you know to to recover the first stage

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uh no but you know we were we're also i

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looking at the cadence that we had and

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trying to be as cost effective on our

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services going forward right

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uh i also this has been a horrendous

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years for storms

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i don't think if you would have asked me

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a few years ago if we would have had you

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know

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five storms hit the louisiana coast and

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uh another set hit me a couple of

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hitting florida in november i would have

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been surprised too but um

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you know with the systems that we have

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um

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there's constraints and and

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big choices and one of those choices was

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we had a beautiful

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opportunity on sunday and so that was a

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big

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part of the conversation and us deciding

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to pick this day yesterday it ended up

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not being that great a day around the

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launch time so

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this was a great day and it was a great

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launch and

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it was it was

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yeah it was a really incredible

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experience i think all of us are still

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excited about about seeing it

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our next question comes from irene klotz

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from aviation week

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thanks bettina um

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congratulations everyone my question is

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for gwen the uh

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15 months seven dragons um are you

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counting commercial missions in that and

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can you give us an update on

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where you stand on the commercial

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on the commercial flights aside from i

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think the axiom

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mission was now officially on the books

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for the end of next year is there

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anything else thanks

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so

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i believe we did count one commercial

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mission in there but i don't want to do

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math in public i will call you if i got

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that one wrong

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um

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the uh will be we'll be flying uh

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the crew 2 mission uh in about four and

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a half months

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and then

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crew 3 roughly possibly 6 months later

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we do hope to fly a commercial mission

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with axiom

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you know maybe some some other

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fun missions which i'll

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our next question comes from david

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curley

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glenn shot well um

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kind of curious about what happened uh

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to your emotions when they had to reopen

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a hat

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and can you explain to me the technology

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you know i think we're all kind of used

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to a hatch closing you crank the wheel

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and

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it seems to be a little bit longer

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process i don't understand everything

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that you've got going there but

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um you just kind of talk about the hats

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and what happened

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so i i'm not sure i heard you are if

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you're asking about the the do-over on

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the hatch operation that we had today

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so we closed the hatch the first time uh

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and uh the capsule did not uh pass its

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leak checks so we opened it um and took

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a look at the seals

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um did a found a little bit of fod

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cleaned that up adjusted the seals and

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uh reclosed the hatch uh and the dragon

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okay you probably need to make that

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operation a little smoother but

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thank you gwen

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our next question comes from jeff faust

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hi question um for either gwen or kathy

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there were some alerts after uh crew

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dragon made it to orbit about the

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thermal control system it looks like

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that was resolved but was that just a

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false alarm or was that an actual issue

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with the thermal control system that has

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since been corrected thanks

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well what's amazing in the first hour of

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flight is kind of all the systems are

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activated right and so

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um the fault detection systems are

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working and what happened was it it we

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hit a

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fitter and that kind of start that

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happens during system startups and it

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did exactly what it was supposed to do

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it it

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flipped over to the second leg we have a

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lot of redundancy in the system and then

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the team was able to go in and ended up

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clearing the faults and both legs are

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back up and running so this is not a

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very it's not an unusual thing to happen

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as when when systems are started up like

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this it's it's uh

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we all we go through the launch and then

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we we kind of hang out for that first

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hour of dragon activation because it

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kind of is amazing thing and it goes

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through and checks out all the different

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parts of it and gives us a good health

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check for the way the spacecraft's

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working and like one said

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thank you both our next question comes

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from joey roulette reuters

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hey thanks bettina um question for kathy

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i just wanted to follow up on that

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can you kind of give us a sense of what

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happened with the thermal control system

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and

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um for gwen uh how many private

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astronaut missions do you guys have

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booked up uh right now can you give us

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like a ballpark on maybe how much you're

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in talks for or how much you have

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solidified thanks

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well sometimes it's just a it's just a

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sensor issue right and it's just a

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startup sensor getting everything

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aligned and so actually um

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nothing really happened to the system it

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was kind of just a function of kind of

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running through

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um and

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when you have all these checks and your

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systems doing all the checks sometimes

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it'll it'll hit a limit and then flip

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over and then you reset the pieces of it

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and so actually it had to we have two

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good loops now and

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the system's working great so

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like i said it's just a little bit of a

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startup glitch

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thank you

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paul brookman upi is our next reporter

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yeah thanks um

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i'm uh

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i'm really thinking about the astronauts

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in space now and you know poor people

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trying to sweep after launching on a

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rocket and flying around the earth on a

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new spacecraft

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my understanding is that flight time

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tonight apparently was extended

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partly for their sleep time and we've

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heard how important it is that they get

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proper sleep um but i'm thinking that

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must be kind of a challenge so

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i guess um kathy or gwen could you talk

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a little bit about how well astronauts

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sleep in space and um

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is uh is it a really peaceful ride

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aboard dragon now is it cruising in

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orbit or is there a lights out rule or a

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no talking rule um

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yeah thanks well you know they do have

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little uh curtains that they cover the

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windows and um

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and they they do get out of their suits

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and get comfortable and lay down and you

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have to realize too you're you're in

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zero g too right so you're you're in a

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little bit different uh position

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you know these are experienced crew

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members and they know that they've got

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to get their rest and work through them

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and so

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the other really great thing is you can

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watch them because there'll be nasa a

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lot of nasa coverage of of the mission

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over this next

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um

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crew during different activities not

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while they're sleeping but doing other

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activities and so you'll be able to

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watch along what they do these folks

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know what they're doing they're very

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experienced they know that they got to

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get the rest so that they can do the

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sequence of events that are coming up

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for docking as safely as possible yeah

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still would be really hard to sleep

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right now are you really excited

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you notice them you guys need to watch

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them they were actually this crew was

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there they were there and they were

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enjoying being in space again

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yeah what an experience our next

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hi congratulations stephen clark from

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space flight now i just wanted to

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clarify one thing from when the seven

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dragon missions in the next uh 15 months

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i think you said

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uh do those include cargo missions or

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are those all crew missions

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and also um i wanted to get an update on

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uh your crew dragon production line how

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many crew dragons are

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currently being built you have two that

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have launched now um

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do you have any other crew dragons being

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assembled right now or or will you be

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doing your near term missions with these

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two vehicles thanks

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yeah so i was hedging a little bit i i

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did check my phone and the seven

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missions i was talking about were all

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for nasa uh crs 21 through 24 and three

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crew missions

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um but i was hedging just in case

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um just in case one of those doesn't go

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to include a

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a commercial mission between now and

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then

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um

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and then the other question you asked

571
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was

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oh how many dragons in production thanks

573
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so we have uh the demo two dragon uh is

574
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in the uh refurbishment process uh to

575
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fly um crew two

576
00:23:12,470 --> 00:23:09,280
uh dragon there's a dragon capsule

577
00:23:14,870 --> 00:23:12,480
uh well there's also the crs-21 capsule

578
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um i think there's two more

579
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dry um

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uh cargo capsules after that and we will

581
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have three additional

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crew dragon capsules

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i believe

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and

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most they're they're all to some extent

586
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okay

587
00:23:40,149 --> 00:23:37,600
so our next question comes from david

588
00:23:41,750 --> 00:23:40,159
mosher of business insider

589
00:23:43,750 --> 00:23:41,760
thank you for taking the question um

590
00:23:45,669 --> 00:23:43,760
kathy i understand the stocking will be

591
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fully automated that's coming up but is

592
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there anything um any stuff you're

593
00:23:52,789 --> 00:23:49,840
particularly concerned about or will be

594
00:23:54,710 --> 00:23:52,799
watching closely and gwen you mentioned

595
00:23:55,909 --> 00:23:54,720
some anomaly data

596
00:23:58,070 --> 00:23:55,919
maybe i misheard you but is there

597
00:24:00,149 --> 00:23:58,080
anything spacex and nasa saw during

598
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launch or seeing in orbit that means

599
00:24:04,630 --> 00:24:03,360
further investigating things

600
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so the

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dragon is designed to have an automated

602
00:24:12,549 --> 00:24:09,760
docking and um

603
00:24:15,909 --> 00:24:12,559
right now all the systems have are

604
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working and so we're not um expecting

605
00:24:21,350 --> 00:24:19,120
there to be any issues with the docking

606
00:24:22,870 --> 00:24:21,360
and obviously you know that they'll be

607
00:24:25,510 --> 00:24:22,880
checking out the systems as they get

608
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near station and they check the all the

609
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different sensor suites and make sure

610
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that things are functioning and then the

611
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the crew is also trained on being able

612
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to do

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some kind of backup

614
00:24:39,750 --> 00:24:37,679
maneuvers too but right now we're not

615
00:24:44,830 --> 00:24:39,760
expecting any issues and i'm sure

616
00:24:50,950 --> 00:24:48,070
right so um i wanted to get one more

617
00:24:52,710 --> 00:24:50,960
question for hiroshi sasaki we know that

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this crew this mission had a lot of

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00:24:57,190 --> 00:24:54,559
great milestones not only is it the

620
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first crew rotation from a commercial

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00:25:01,590 --> 00:24:58,880
space vehicle but also you're carrying

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the first international astronaut

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00:25:06,470 --> 00:25:04,960
on this mission what is next for jaxa um

624
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in the in the future

625
00:25:08,549 --> 00:25:07,360
uh next

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notes

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uh currently we want to

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send

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astronaut hosidae i will uh

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country uh

631
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he will i hope he will

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00:25:28,789 --> 00:25:24,960
become the

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fantastic

634
00:25:34,470 --> 00:25:32,000
well that's gonna we're gonna start

635
00:25:35,909 --> 00:25:34,480
wrapping up our this press conference

636
00:25:37,430 --> 00:25:35,919
but before we do that i'd like to turn

637
00:25:39,029 --> 00:25:37,440
it over to administrator brian stein for

638
00:25:41,669 --> 00:25:39,039
some closing remarks

639
00:25:43,830 --> 00:25:41,679
well sure i think uh what we've seen

640
00:25:46,390 --> 00:25:43,840
today is really remarkable

641
00:25:48,310 --> 00:25:46,400
so much work by so many people over a

642
00:25:50,630 --> 00:25:48,320
sustained period of time

643
00:25:53,750 --> 00:25:50,640
again thank you to spacex and gwen

644
00:25:55,990 --> 00:25:53,760
shotwell and elon musk for being an

645
00:25:57,750 --> 00:25:56,000
amazing partner to nasa for all of these

646
00:26:00,390 --> 00:25:57,760
years

647
00:26:02,630 --> 00:26:00,400
i i think it's also important

648
00:26:05,110 --> 00:26:02,640
to recognize kathy leaders

649
00:26:07,350 --> 00:26:05,120
who was very involved in the commercial

650
00:26:09,590 --> 00:26:07,360
resupply program

651
00:26:11,830 --> 00:26:09,600
which then kind of

652
00:26:13,750 --> 00:26:11,840
led to the development of a commercial

653
00:26:15,990 --> 00:26:13,760
crew program

654
00:26:17,830 --> 00:26:16,000
and of course kathy has done amazing

655
00:26:20,310 --> 00:26:17,840
work through both of those programs

656
00:26:23,110 --> 00:26:20,320
getting us to where we are as an agency

657
00:26:25,029 --> 00:26:23,120
now with commercial crew

658
00:26:26,710 --> 00:26:25,039
and and doing such an amazing job that

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00:26:28,549 --> 00:26:26,720
we decided to put her in charge of all

660
00:26:31,750 --> 00:26:28,559
human space flight for

661
00:26:34,149 --> 00:26:31,760
nasa so she's now responsible for

662
00:26:38,230 --> 00:26:34,159
getting us to the moon and on to mars so

663
00:26:40,230 --> 00:26:38,240
um just want to say to kathy leaders

664
00:26:42,710 --> 00:26:40,240
nasa is so grateful for all of your

665
00:26:44,549 --> 00:26:42,720
leadership for all of these years

666
00:26:46,710 --> 00:26:44,559
and i can't wait to see the amazing

667
00:26:47,669 --> 00:26:46,720
things that you and the team do in the

668
00:26:49,909 --> 00:26:47,679
future

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00:26:50,950 --> 00:26:49,919
i also want to thank our

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friends

671
00:26:54,789 --> 00:26:52,799
from japan

672
00:26:56,549 --> 00:26:54,799
again there is no better partner to the

673
00:26:58,950 --> 00:26:56,559
united states of america when it comes

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00:27:00,310 --> 00:26:58,960
to space exploration than the nation of

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japan

676
00:27:05,350 --> 00:27:02,159
jaxa has been

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00:27:07,269 --> 00:27:05,360
with us for a very very long time

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00:27:09,029 --> 00:27:07,279
they will be with us you will be with us

679
00:27:10,630 --> 00:27:09,039
for a long time into the future when we

680
00:27:13,269 --> 00:27:10,640
think about

681
00:27:14,950 --> 00:27:13,279
the the the artemis program

682
00:27:17,750 --> 00:27:14,960
we thank you for your commitment to the

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00:27:19,830 --> 00:27:17,760
artemis program for a sustainable return

684
00:27:21,750 --> 00:27:19,840
to the moon

685
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and of course eventually missions to

686
00:27:26,789 --> 00:27:24,640
mars and japan has been an amazing

687
00:27:27,990 --> 00:27:26,799
partner so thank you and of course for

688
00:27:31,750 --> 00:27:28,000
this mission

689
00:27:33,669 --> 00:27:31,760
so unique in that we are now going into

690
00:27:35,590 --> 00:27:33,679
basically operational missions that are

691
00:27:39,269 --> 00:27:35,600
commercial in nature where nasa is a

692
00:27:41,269 --> 00:27:39,279
customer our goal has been and will be

693
00:27:43,350 --> 00:27:41,279
to be one customer of many customers in

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00:27:44,710 --> 00:27:43,360
a very robust commercial marketplace in

695
00:27:46,070 --> 00:27:44,720
low earth orbit

696
00:27:48,070 --> 00:27:46,080
but we also want to have numerous

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00:27:49,430 --> 00:27:48,080
providers that are competing on cost and

698
00:27:52,149 --> 00:27:49,440
innovation

699
00:27:54,310 --> 00:27:52,159
and of course safety

700
00:27:56,470 --> 00:27:54,320
we've seen amazing work from spacex

701
00:27:57,990 --> 00:27:56,480
already there's more coming from from

702
00:28:00,710 --> 00:27:58,000
boeing

703
00:28:03,190 --> 00:28:00,720
but i think this this ecosystem

704
00:28:05,510 --> 00:28:03,200
this very virtuous cycle of continuous

705
00:28:07,350 --> 00:28:05,520
development is going to pay benefits to

706
00:28:09,269 --> 00:28:07,360
the american taxpayer and space

707
00:28:11,350 --> 00:28:09,279
exploration

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00:28:13,190 --> 00:28:11,360
and as these missions go forward and we

709
00:28:16,549 --> 00:28:13,200
get more and more into the commercial

710
00:28:18,950 --> 00:28:16,559
aspects of it the faa is going to

711
00:28:20,710 --> 00:28:18,960
continue to be a critical partner and uh

712
00:28:24,070 --> 00:28:20,720
we're grateful to the leadership there

713
00:28:25,909 --> 00:28:24,080
at the faa for licensing this launch and

714
00:28:27,110 --> 00:28:25,919
moving us forward as a nation into this

715
00:28:29,510 --> 00:28:27,120
new era

716
00:28:33,190 --> 00:28:29,520
of commercial human space flight into

717
00:28:35,510 --> 00:28:33,200
into orbital orbital space so

718
00:28:39,110 --> 00:28:35,520
so many amazing things on this flight

719
00:28:41,029 --> 00:28:39,120
as cathy said earlier it is not over

720
00:28:42,870 --> 00:28:41,039
this was a beautiful launch

721
00:28:45,430 --> 00:28:42,880
and we are all very excited about the

722
00:28:47,350 --> 00:28:45,440
launch but remember this is a this is a

723
00:28:49,269 --> 00:28:47,360
six month mission

724
00:28:51,269 --> 00:28:49,279
and it's the first of many and i will

725
00:28:53,590 --> 00:28:51,279
tell you that

726
00:28:55,350 --> 00:28:53,600
you know we use the word operational

727
00:28:57,350 --> 00:28:55,360
make no mistake when you're flying into

728
00:28:58,950 --> 00:28:57,360
space it is always

729
00:29:01,110 --> 00:28:58,960
there's always risk

730
00:29:03,110 --> 00:29:01,120
and we will always be diligent

731
00:29:05,830 --> 00:29:03,120
and we have all the confidence in the

732
00:29:07,990 --> 00:29:05,840
world in spacex and in the nasa team in

733
00:29:09,590 --> 00:29:08,000
our partners in international partners

734
00:29:11,269 --> 00:29:09,600
faa

735
00:29:13,110 --> 00:29:11,279
and of course boeing upcoming which is

736
00:29:15,830 --> 00:29:13,120
going to be exciting

737
00:29:17,669 --> 00:29:15,840
so i'm just very very thrilled about how

738
00:29:19,350 --> 00:29:17,679
today went and look forward to so many

739
00:29:21,669 --> 00:29:19,360
great days in the future

740
00:29:23,750 --> 00:29:21,679
thank you jim so stay with us we have

741
00:29:26,149 --> 00:29:23,760
lots of exciting news as we mentioned

742
00:29:28,389 --> 00:29:26,159
we'll be having live continuous coverage

743
00:29:29,510 --> 00:29:28,399
for on nasa television through docking

744
00:29:33,510 --> 00:29:29,520
which will happen

745
00:29:35,669 --> 00:29:33,520
at 11 pm um tomorrow and we'll also of

746
00:29:37,350 --> 00:29:35,679
course have the welcome ceremony you get

747
00:29:39,029 --> 00:29:37,360
all this information and lots more at

748
00:29:43,830 --> 00:29:39,039
nasa.gov

749
00:29:45,350 --> 00:29:43,840
live broadcast on nasa tv so thank you

750
00:29:48,070 --> 00:29:45,360
so much for joining us and have a good

751
00:29:51,750 --> 00:29:50,149
here's our first live look inside the

752
00:29:53,830 --> 00:29:51,760
suit up room

753
00:29:56,310 --> 00:29:53,840
crew dragon commander mike hopkins was

754
00:29:58,470 --> 00:29:56,320
born in lebanon missouri

755
00:30:01,190 --> 00:29:58,480
pilot victor glover is a native of

756
00:30:03,750 --> 00:30:01,200
pomona california

757
00:30:05,909 --> 00:30:03,760
and mission specialist shannon walker is

758
00:30:08,230 --> 00:30:05,919
from houston texas

759
00:30:13,110 --> 00:30:08,240
mission specialist naguchi is from

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00:30:16,870 --> 00:30:14,720
here they come walking down the hall

761
00:30:19,110 --> 00:30:16,880
[Music]

762
00:30:20,230 --> 00:30:19,120
oh quite peppy there that's so cool

763
00:30:24,540 --> 00:30:20,240
they're looking for people they're

764
00:30:30,470 --> 00:30:27,750
[Music]

765
00:30:32,310 --> 00:30:30,480
here they come the crew won astronauts

766
00:30:34,470 --> 00:30:32,320
now beginning their journey to the

767
00:30:36,389 --> 00:30:34,480
launch pad ahead of this historic