1 00:00:42,826 --> 00:01:00,009 ♪ 2 00:01:00,009 --> 00:01:04,781 >> THE EAGLE HAS LANDED. 3 00:01:04,781 --> 00:01:06,850 >> THE POSSIBILITIES ARE OPENING 4 00:01:06,850 --> 00:01:09,319 UP FOR SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION 5 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:16,860 BETWEEN COUNTRIES. 6 00:01:16,860 --> 00:01:17,527 LIFTOFF. 7 00:01:17,527 --> 00:01:19,262 AMERICA'S RETURN TO SPACE AS 8 00:01:19,262 --> 00:01:22,665 DISCOVERY CLEARS THE TOWER. 9 00:01:22,665 --> 00:01:31,474 >> GO FOR DEPLOY. 10 00:01:32,709 --> 00:01:43,486 ♪ 11 00:01:43,486 --> 00:01:46,389 >>> WELL, GOOD MORNING AND 12 00:01:46,389 --> 00:01:48,124 WELCOME TO THE KENNEDY SPACE 13 00:01:48,124 --> 00:01:48,458 CENTER. 14 00:01:48,458 --> 00:01:50,126 IT'S ANOTHER GREAT DAY AT 15 00:01:50,126 --> 00:01:52,162 AMERICA'S PREMIER MULTI-USER 16 00:01:52,162 --> 00:01:54,364 SPACE PORT AS WE GET READY TO 17 00:01:54,364 --> 00:01:56,332 MAKE HISTORY ONCE BEGAN WITH THE 18 00:01:56,332 --> 00:01:57,834 SUCCESSFUL TEST FLIGHT OF THE 19 00:01:57,834 --> 00:02:01,371 CREW DRAGON ON THE FALCON 9 THAT 20 00:02:01,371 --> 00:02:05,208 DELIVERED BOB BEHNKEN AND DOUG 21 00:02:05,208 --> 00:02:07,510 HURLEY TO THE INTERNATIONAL 22 00:02:07,510 --> 00:02:09,479 SPACE STATION AND BROUGHT THEM 23 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:12,215 HOME SAFELY. 24 00:02:12,215 --> 00:02:13,616 THE FIRST FLIGHT UNDER CONTRACT 25 00:02:13,616 --> 00:02:16,019 THE CREW ROTATION PWHEUGZ 26 00:02:16,019 --> 00:02:18,021 SpaceX TO THE INTERNATIONAL 27 00:02:18,021 --> 00:02:18,555 SPACE STATION. 28 00:02:18,555 --> 00:02:22,358 THIS IS CREWLY A NEW ERA OF 29 00:02:22,358 --> 00:02:23,293 HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT AND I 30 00:02:23,293 --> 00:02:24,427 COULDN'T BE MORE PLEASEED WITH 31 00:02:24,427 --> 00:02:33,002 WHAT THE NASA AND SpaceX TEAM 32 00:02:33,002 --> 00:02:34,571 HAS ACCOMPLISHED. 33 00:02:34,571 --> 00:02:37,140 WE ARE FLYING ON A REGULAR 34 00:02:37,140 --> 00:02:39,008 CADENCE TO SPACE ON U.S. 35 00:02:39,008 --> 00:02:39,342 ROCKETS. 36 00:02:39,342 --> 00:02:40,410 IT'S ALSO GREAT THAT WE ARE 37 00:02:40,410 --> 00:02:43,279 DOING IT WITH OUR INTERNATIONAL 38 00:02:43,279 --> 00:02:49,519 PARTNERS. 39 00:02:49,519 --> 00:02:51,654 I AM TRULY PROUD AND HUMBLED TO 40 00:02:51,654 --> 00:02:53,323 BE PART OF IT. 41 00:02:53,323 --> 00:02:55,959 IT'S MY PLEASURE NOW, TO 42 00:02:55,959 --> 00:02:58,428 INTRODUCE OUR NASA 43 00:02:58,428 --> 00:03:00,563 ADMINISTRATOR, JIM BRIDENSTINE. 44 00:03:00,563 --> 00:03:02,999 THROUGH HIS OUT STANDING 45 00:03:02,999 --> 00:03:08,404 LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY FOR LOW 46 00:03:08,404 --> 00:03:10,206 EARTH ORBIT AND TRANSFORMATION 47 00:03:10,206 --> 00:03:13,877 OF THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER TO 48 00:03:13,877 --> 00:03:15,445 A MULTI-USER SPACE PORT HAS 49 00:03:15,445 --> 00:03:17,146 BECOME REALITY. 50 00:03:17,146 --> 00:03:18,114 WELCOME A GREAT AMERICAN TO THE 51 00:03:18,114 --> 00:03:20,316 STAND, OUR ADMINISTRATOR, JIM 52 00:03:20,316 --> 00:03:22,151 BRIDENSTINE. 53 00:03:22,151 --> 00:03:22,919 [APPLAUDING] 54 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:25,188 >> THANK YOU. 55 00:03:25,188 --> 00:03:27,090 WHETHER, THANK YOU, BOB, FOR 56 00:03:27,090 --> 00:03:28,191 THAT INTRODUCTION AND THROUGH 57 00:03:28,191 --> 00:03:30,693 FOR YOUR AMAZING LEADERSHIP AT 58 00:03:30,693 --> 00:03:32,729 THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER THAT 59 00:03:32,729 --> 00:03:35,765 HAS BECOME A TRULY MULTI-USER 60 00:03:35,765 --> 00:03:37,667 SPACE PORT AND WE ARE LOOKING 61 00:03:37,667 --> 00:03:38,568 FOR TO SO MANY GREAT THINGS 62 00:03:38,568 --> 00:03:40,470 HANKING IN THE YEAR AHEAD -- 63 00:03:40,470 --> 00:03:42,005 HAPPENING IN THE YEAR AHEAD. 64 00:03:42,005 --> 00:03:43,706 IT'S ANOTHER HISTORIC MOMENT. 65 00:03:43,706 --> 00:03:46,075 EVERY TIME I COME TO KENNEDY WE 66 00:03:46,075 --> 00:03:47,744 ARE MAKING HISTORY AND THIS IS 67 00:03:47,744 --> 00:03:49,312 NO DIFFERENT. 68 00:03:49,312 --> 00:03:50,146 THE HISTORY BEING MADE THIS TIME 69 00:03:50,146 --> 00:03:51,848 IS WE ARE LAUNCHING WHAT WE CALL 70 00:03:51,848 --> 00:03:56,119 AN OPERATIONAL FLIGHT TO THE 71 00:03:56,119 --> 00:03:57,887 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 72 00:03:57,887 --> 00:03:59,789 VIGILANCE IS ALWAYS REQUIRED ON 73 00:03:59,789 --> 00:04:00,723 EVERY SPACE FLIGHT. 74 00:04:00,723 --> 00:04:02,792 BUT AS BOB SAID THIS IS UNDER 75 00:04:02,792 --> 00:04:03,893 CONTRACT. 76 00:04:03,893 --> 00:04:06,396 ANOTHER FIRST FOR NASA IS THIS 77 00:04:06,396 --> 00:04:11,601 FLIGHT IS CERTIFIED BY THE FAA, 78 00:04:11,601 --> 00:04:17,106 THE FEDERAL AVIVATION 79 00:04:17,106 --> 00:04:17,573 ADMINISTRATION. 80 00:04:17,573 --> 00:04:19,842 THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FAA IS 81 00:04:19,842 --> 00:04:20,143 HERE. 82 00:04:20,143 --> 00:04:22,779 OUR GOAL IS TO COMMERCIALIZE OUR 83 00:04:22,779 --> 00:04:25,748 ACTIVITIES IN LOW EARTH ORBIT. 84 00:04:25,748 --> 00:04:28,918 NASA WANTS TO BE ONE CUSTOMER OF 85 00:04:28,918 --> 00:04:31,220 MANY CUSTOMERS IN A ROBUST 86 00:04:31,220 --> 00:04:31,721 MARKET PLACE. 87 00:04:31,721 --> 00:04:33,656 WE DON'T WANT TO BE JUST ONE OF 88 00:04:33,656 --> 00:04:36,459 MANY CUSTOMERS WE WANT NUMEROUS 89 00:04:36,459 --> 00:04:38,061 PROVIDERS COMPETING AGAINST EACH 90 00:04:38,061 --> 00:04:41,597 OTHER ON COST, ON INNOVATION AND 91 00:04:41,597 --> 00:04:42,966 SAFETY. 92 00:04:42,966 --> 00:04:44,100 ULTIMATELY BRINGING MORE ASSETS 93 00:04:44,100 --> 00:04:45,969 TO SPACE THAN EVER BEFORE. 94 00:04:45,969 --> 00:04:47,837 WE, OF COURSE, HAVE HAD SUCCESS 95 00:04:47,837 --> 00:04:50,907 WITH COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY OF THE 96 00:04:50,907 --> 00:04:51,607 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 97 00:04:51,607 --> 00:04:53,042 WHERE WE ARE BUYING SERVICES TO 98 00:04:53,042 --> 00:04:55,545 GET OUR EQUIPMENT AND HARDWARE 99 00:04:55,545 --> 00:04:57,447 AND EXPERIMENTS TO THE ISS. 100 00:04:57,447 --> 00:04:59,749 WE ARE HAVING SUCCESS WITH 101 00:04:59,749 --> 00:05:01,017 COMMERCIAL CREW. 102 00:05:01,017 --> 00:05:02,618 TOMORROW'S FLIGHT IS THE NEXT 103 00:05:02,618 --> 00:05:04,253 MAJOR MILESTONE IN THIS 104 00:05:04,253 --> 00:05:04,687 DEVELOPMENT. 105 00:05:04,687 --> 00:05:06,856 AND, OF COURSE, THE NEXT BIG 106 00:05:06,856 --> 00:05:08,958 PHASE IS COMMERCIAL SPACE 107 00:05:08,958 --> 00:05:10,693 STATIONS THEMSELVES WHERE WE 108 00:05:10,693 --> 00:05:13,329 HAVE PRIVATE CAPITAL AND NASA AS 109 00:05:13,329 --> 00:05:15,965 A CUSTOMER AS WELL, ULTIMATELY 110 00:05:15,965 --> 00:05:17,000 CAPITALIZING FUNDING AND MOVING 111 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,968 FORWARD FOR THIS NEW ERA IN 112 00:05:18,968 --> 00:05:20,770 HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT WHERE, AGAIN, 113 00:05:20,770 --> 00:05:22,205 NASA IS JUST ONE OF MANY 114 00:05:22,205 --> 00:05:25,241 CUSTOMERS AND NUMEROUS PROVIDERS 115 00:05:25,241 --> 00:05:27,076 COMPETE ON COST AND INNOVATION. 116 00:05:27,076 --> 00:05:28,845 THE GOAL IS TO HAVE MORE 117 00:05:28,845 --> 00:05:31,881 RESOURCES FOR THINGS LIKE GO TO 118 00:05:31,881 --> 00:05:34,117 THE MOON AND ON TO MARS UNDER 119 00:05:34,117 --> 00:05:36,652 THE ARTEMIS PROGRAM AND THE MOON 120 00:05:36,652 --> 00:05:37,754 TO MARS PROGRAM. 121 00:05:37,754 --> 00:05:41,758 THAT'S WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO 122 00:05:41,758 --> 00:05:43,059 ACHIEVE AND BECAUSE WHAT IS 123 00:05:43,059 --> 00:05:44,594 HAPPENING TODAY ALL THESE THINGS 124 00:05:44,594 --> 00:05:46,162 WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE FUTURE. 125 00:05:46,162 --> 00:05:48,765 THIS IS A VERY EXCITING TYPE FOR 126 00:05:48,765 --> 00:05:49,065 NASA. 127 00:05:49,065 --> 00:05:53,703 AND THESE ARE, AGAIN, HISTORIC 128 00:05:53,703 --> 00:05:54,137 FIRSTS. 129 00:05:54,137 --> 00:05:56,072 TOMORROW'S LAUNCH IS LICENSED BY 130 00:05:56,072 --> 00:05:59,709 THE FEDERAL AVIATION 131 00:05:59,709 --> 00:06:00,176 ADMINISTRATION. 132 00:06:00,176 --> 00:06:02,879 STEVE DIXON IS A GOOD FRIEND OF 133 00:06:02,879 --> 00:06:04,947 MINE, THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE 134 00:06:04,947 --> 00:06:07,016 FAA AND THE GRADUATE OF THE AIR 135 00:06:07,016 --> 00:06:11,287 FORCE ACADEMY, F-15 PIE LOT BY 136 00:06:11,287 --> 00:06:14,857 TRADE AND -- BY TRADE AND FLEW 137 00:06:14,857 --> 00:06:18,294 FOR DELTA FOR NINE YEARS AND GOT 138 00:06:18,294 --> 00:06:20,930 A LAW DEGREE AND WAS THE SENIOR 139 00:06:20,930 --> 00:06:27,303 VICE PRESIDENT OF FLIGHT FOR 140 00:06:27,303 --> 00:06:30,573 DELTA BEFORE BECOMING THE 141 00:06:30,573 --> 00:06:32,175 ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE FAA. 142 00:06:32,175 --> 00:06:34,644 PLEASE WELCOME HIM 143 00:06:34,644 --> 00:06:41,117 [APPLAUDING] 144 00:06:41,117 --> 00:06:43,519 >> I APPRECIATE YOUR HOSPITALITY 145 00:06:43,519 --> 00:06:45,321 WITH BOB AT KENNEDY SPACE 146 00:06:45,321 --> 00:06:45,655 CENTER. 147 00:06:45,655 --> 00:06:46,389 IT'S AN HONOR FOR THE FAA TO 148 00:06:46,389 --> 00:06:47,123 PARTNER WITH NASA AND SpaceX 149 00:06:47,123 --> 00:06:49,792 ON THE FIRST OPERATIONAL CREW 150 00:06:49,792 --> 00:06:50,393 DRAGON LAUNCH. 151 00:06:50,393 --> 00:06:51,761 THIS IS WHAT HAPPEN WHEN YOU SAY 152 00:06:51,761 --> 00:06:55,798 ADD A DROP OR TWO OF ROCKLE FUEL 153 00:06:55,798 --> 00:07:00,436 TO INGENUITY. 154 00:07:00,436 --> 00:07:02,472 WE HAVE GIVEN COUNTLESS HOURS TO 155 00:07:02,472 --> 00:07:03,840 MAKE SURE THIS LAUNCH IS SAFE 156 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:04,640 AND SUCCESSFUL. 157 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,245 THE FAA'S JOB IN THIS SKPHEUGZ 158 00:07:09,245 --> 00:07:10,713 COMMERCIAL SPACE IS TO PROTECT 159 00:07:10,713 --> 00:07:12,381 PUBLIC SAFETY, PROPERTY AND 160 00:07:12,381 --> 00:07:12,949 NATIONAL SECURITY. 161 00:07:12,949 --> 00:07:14,484 WE HAVE THE RIGHT SKILL AND THE 162 00:07:14,484 --> 00:07:15,718 RIGHT WORK FORCE AND THE RIGHT 163 00:07:15,718 --> 00:07:16,652 TEAM TO GET THIS DONE. 164 00:07:16,652 --> 00:07:18,387 WE HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN DOING IT 165 00:07:18,387 --> 00:07:20,089 FOR MANY YEAR, BUT THIS IS OUR 166 00:07:20,089 --> 00:07:25,461 FIRST MANNED ORBITAL SPACE 167 00:07:25,461 --> 00:07:30,500 FLIGHT AND WE ARE PRIVILEGED TO 168 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:31,100 PARTICIPATE TODAY. 169 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:33,970 THE FAA HAS LICENSED 31 SPACE 170 00:07:33,970 --> 00:07:35,638 OPERATIONS THUS FAR. 171 00:07:35,638 --> 00:07:38,808 WE SET A RECORD IN THE MONTH OF 172 00:07:38,808 --> 00:07:42,078 OCTOBER WITH SIX IN ONE MONTH. 173 00:07:42,078 --> 00:07:44,480 AND WE EXPECT TO LICENSE 56 MORE 174 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:48,050 SPACE OPERATIONS. 175 00:07:48,050 --> 00:07:50,720 SO JUST ABOUT ONE A WEEK IN 176 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:51,020 2021. 177 00:07:51,020 --> 00:07:53,022 REALLY AN EXCITING TIME IN 178 00:07:53,022 --> 00:07:53,756 AEROSPACE IN THE UNITED STATES. 179 00:07:53,756 --> 00:07:55,758 IN AND OF THEMSELVES THESE 180 00:07:55,758 --> 00:07:57,493 NUMBERS ARE VERY IMPRESSIVE, BUT 181 00:07:57,493 --> 00:08:00,229 THEY REALLY ARE JUST THE TIP THE 182 00:08:00,229 --> 00:08:02,698 ICEBERG ABOUT WHAT'S TO COME. 183 00:08:02,698 --> 00:08:05,168 ONCE SPACE TOURISM TURNS THE 184 00:08:05,168 --> 00:08:07,203 CORNER WE WILL SEE TOPPING 100 185 00:08:07,203 --> 00:08:09,438 OPERATIONS A YEAR. 186 00:08:09,438 --> 00:08:11,507 WE ARE PREPARED FOR THAT. 187 00:08:11,507 --> 00:08:13,476 THESE OPERATIONS ARE GOING TO BE 188 00:08:13,476 --> 00:08:17,079 A HUGE PART OF THE NEW SPACE 189 00:08:17,079 --> 00:08:19,815 ECONOMY SOME SAY COULD BE WORTH 190 00:08:19,815 --> 00:08:22,652 A TRILLION BY THE YEAR 2040. 191 00:08:22,652 --> 00:08:25,988 IT'S MY JOB UNDER THE LEADERSHIP 192 00:08:25,988 --> 00:08:28,891 OF TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY TO 193 00:08:28,891 --> 00:08:31,727 MAKE SURE THAT THE U.S. IS 194 00:08:31,727 --> 00:08:35,765 A DOORWAY NOT A BARRIER TO THIS 195 00:08:35,765 --> 00:08:36,499 INONYIVATION. 196 00:08:36,499 --> 00:08:37,800 -- INNOVATION. 197 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,137 WE RECENTLY FINALIZED THE 198 00:08:41,137 --> 00:08:41,871 LICENSING RULE. 199 00:08:41,871 --> 00:08:44,207 NEW RULE WILL ALLOW SPACE LAUNCH 200 00:08:44,207 --> 00:08:46,075 OPERATORS TO USE A SINGLE 201 00:08:46,075 --> 00:08:48,144 LICENSE FOR MULTIPLE LAUNCHES 202 00:08:48,144 --> 00:08:49,745 FROM MULTIPLE LAUNCH SITES. 203 00:08:49,745 --> 00:08:53,416 IT STRIPS OUT A PRESWREUPTIVE 204 00:08:53,416 --> 00:08:55,484 REQUIREMENTS AND INJECTS 205 00:08:55,484 --> 00:08:57,887 FLEXIBILITY PERFORMANCE-BASED 206 00:08:57,887 --> 00:08:58,254 CRITERIA. 207 00:08:58,254 --> 00:09:00,022 WE TOLD THE INDUSTRY WE WOULD BE 208 00:09:00,022 --> 00:09:01,924 ON THE LAUNCHPAD WITH THEM AND 209 00:09:01,924 --> 00:09:04,427 WE HAVE KEPT THAT PROMISE HERE 210 00:09:04,427 --> 00:09:06,862 TODAY AMIAS WE CUT RED TAPE WE 211 00:09:06,862 --> 00:09:10,199 ESTABLISH OUR SPACE 212 00:09:10,199 --> 00:09:10,900 TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE. 213 00:09:10,900 --> 00:09:12,768 WE HAVE LICENSED 12 SPACE PORTS 214 00:09:12,768 --> 00:09:14,537 WITH SEVERAL POTENTIAL SITES IN 215 00:09:14,537 --> 00:09:17,039 THE PREAPPLICATION PHASE FOR 216 00:09:17,039 --> 00:09:17,506 CONSIDERATION. 217 00:09:17,506 --> 00:09:20,176 WE HAVE ESTABLISHED AN FA OFFICE 218 00:09:20,176 --> 00:09:22,845 OF SPATE PORTS TO -- SPACE PORTS 219 00:09:22,845 --> 00:09:24,981 TO DETERMINE WHAT REGULATION 220 00:09:24,981 --> 00:09:28,084 WILL BE NEEDED TO SUPPORT SPACE 221 00:09:28,084 --> 00:09:29,018 PORTS. 222 00:09:29,018 --> 00:09:30,353 ALONG WITH THIS A SUITE OF GAME 223 00:09:30,353 --> 00:09:31,454 CHANGING TECHNOLOGIES AND 224 00:09:31,454 --> 00:09:33,789 PROCEDURES TO SAFELY INTEGRATE 225 00:09:33,789 --> 00:09:35,424 SPACE OPERATIONS INTO THE 226 00:09:35,424 --> 00:09:36,626 NATIONAL AEROSPACE SUGGESTS. 227 00:09:36,626 --> 00:09:39,095 BY THE START OF NEXT YEAR WE 228 00:09:39,095 --> 00:09:40,830 PLAN TO DEPLOY A PROTOTYPE OF 229 00:09:40,830 --> 00:09:44,200 THE SPACE DATA INTEGRATOR OR SDI 230 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,802 AS WE CALL IT THAT WILL FEED 231 00:09:46,802 --> 00:09:50,506 REAL TIME TELEEM TREE DATA FROM 232 00:09:50,506 --> 00:09:53,242 THE SPACE VEHICLE INTO THE FAA'S 233 00:09:53,242 --> 00:09:55,711 TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGE'M SYSTEM TO 234 00:09:55,711 --> 00:09:57,513 MANAGE AIR TRAFFIC MORE 235 00:09:57,513 --> 00:09:59,248 SURGICALLY THAN WE HAVE BEFORE. 236 00:09:59,248 --> 00:10:02,718 WE'LL BE ABLE TO BLOCK OFF AIR 237 00:10:02,718 --> 00:10:04,186 SPACE FOR OPERATION AND RELEASE 238 00:10:04,186 --> 00:10:05,821 IT MORE QUICKLY SO IT'S 239 00:10:05,821 --> 00:10:08,457 AVAILABLE FOR OTHER AIR SPACE 240 00:10:08,457 --> 00:10:09,292 USERS. 241 00:10:09,292 --> 00:10:13,996 AND TO COMPLEMENT WE ARE USING 242 00:10:13,996 --> 00:10:18,267 TIME-BASED AIR TRAFFIC 243 00:10:18,267 --> 00:10:18,701 PROCEDURES. 244 00:10:18,701 --> 00:10:21,103 THIS IS ALSO, I THINK, AN 245 00:10:21,103 --> 00:10:22,204 INSPIRING TIME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 246 00:10:22,204 --> 00:10:23,372 AS WELL. 247 00:10:23,372 --> 00:10:26,142 WE WANT YOUNG PEOPLE TO KNOW 248 00:10:26,142 --> 00:10:28,778 WHAT THE OPPORTUNITIES ARE IN 249 00:10:28,778 --> 00:10:30,313 AEROSPACE AND SPACE IN 250 00:10:30,313 --> 00:10:31,947 PARTICULAR THAT COULD COME FROM 251 00:10:31,947 --> 00:10:33,249 A CAREER AND WE'RE WORKING TO 252 00:10:33,249 --> 00:10:35,584 REACH KIDS OF ALL AGES. 253 00:10:35,584 --> 00:10:40,089 AS A MATTER OF FACT WE'LL WATCH 254 00:10:40,089 --> 00:10:41,057 TOMORROW'S LAUNCH WITH A GROUP 255 00:10:41,057 --> 00:10:42,892 OF KIDS FROM TULSA, OKLAHOMA, 256 00:10:42,892 --> 00:10:46,796 WHO HAVE THE DREAM OF SPACE 257 00:10:46,796 --> 00:10:48,564 WITHIN THEIR REACH IT NEVER WAS 258 00:10:48,564 --> 00:10:49,532 FOR MY GENERATION. 259 00:10:49,532 --> 00:10:51,567 I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH THIS, 260 00:10:51,567 --> 00:10:53,369 TOMORROW'S CREW DRAGON LAUNCH IS 261 00:10:53,369 --> 00:10:55,805 A GREAT EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN 262 00:10:55,805 --> 00:10:57,940 INGENUITY AND A TREMENDOUS 263 00:10:57,940 --> 00:11:00,276 EXAMPLE OF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AND 264 00:11:00,276 --> 00:11:00,710 PARTNERSHIP. 265 00:11:00,710 --> 00:11:01,911 THERE ARE BIGGER AND BETTER DAYS 266 00:11:01,911 --> 00:11:02,578 TO CAPTAIN. 267 00:11:02,578 --> 00:11:04,313 AMERICA IS CATCHING AND THE -- 268 00:11:04,313 --> 00:11:05,314 TO COME. 269 00:11:05,314 --> 00:11:07,049 AMERICA CAN WATCHING AND THE 270 00:11:07,049 --> 00:11:09,185 ENTIRE WORLD IS TOO. 271 00:11:09,185 --> 00:11:14,256 FROM WHAT I SEE THIS INDUSTRY IS 272 00:11:14,256 --> 00:11:18,027 STEPPING UP TO THE TASK. 273 00:11:18,027 --> 00:11:22,031 I WILL INTRO* DUCE THE VICE 274 00:11:22,031 --> 00:11:24,600 PRESIDENT OF JAK SA. 275 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,436 THANK YOU. 276 00:11:27,436 --> 00:11:33,242 >> THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING ME. 277 00:11:33,242 --> 00:11:39,648 ON BEHALF OF ALL JAKSA, I WOULD 278 00:11:39,648 --> 00:11:46,122 LIKE TO EXPRESS TO NASA AND 279 00:11:46,122 --> 00:11:48,891 SpaceX FOR THE LAUNCH 280 00:11:48,891 --> 00:11:50,793 OPERATIONS. 281 00:11:50,793 --> 00:11:56,265 IT IS GREAT FOR ME FOR THESE 282 00:11:56,265 --> 00:12:04,540 EXCITING MISSIONS AND PREPARED 283 00:12:04,540 --> 00:12:10,579 FOR THE LAUNCH. 284 00:12:10,579 --> 00:12:13,149 AND ISS IS READY AND WAITING FOR 285 00:12:13,149 --> 00:12:16,585 THE CREW ARRIVAL. 286 00:12:16,585 --> 00:12:24,960 THIS MISSION IS SYMBOL OF 287 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,363 JAPAN-U.S. PARTNERSHIP AND WANT 288 00:12:27,363 --> 00:12:31,066 TO GO TOGETHER TO THE ISS AND 289 00:12:31,066 --> 00:12:31,400 BEYOND. 290 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,669 I AM LOOKING FOR TO THE LAUNCH 291 00:12:33,669 --> 00:12:36,405 TOMORROW AND I WISH YOU 292 00:12:36,405 --> 00:12:39,708 SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH. 293 00:12:39,708 --> 00:12:40,142 THROUGH. 294 00:12:40,142 --> 00:12:44,079 I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE NASA 295 00:12:44,079 --> 00:12:47,683 ASTRONAUT AND VERY FAMOUS IN 296 00:12:47,683 --> 00:12:47,983 JAPAN 297 00:12:47,983 --> 00:12:51,187 [APPLAUDING] 298 00:12:51,187 --> 00:12:53,055 >> IT IS SO GREAT TO BE HERE IN 299 00:12:53,055 --> 00:12:54,457 FLORIDAMENT I'M SO EXCITED TO 300 00:12:54,457 --> 00:12:58,461 SEE OUR FRIENDS LAUNCH TOMORROW. 301 00:12:58,461 --> 00:13:00,095 IT IS JUST GOING TO BE AWESOME 302 00:13:00,095 --> 00:13:02,198 TO SEE THEM GET TO THE 303 00:13:02,198 --> 00:13:02,965 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AND 304 00:13:02,965 --> 00:13:04,733 BE UP THERE WORKING FOR THE NEXT 305 00:13:04,733 --> 00:13:05,468 SIX MONTHS. 306 00:13:05,468 --> 00:13:07,136 YOU KNOW, THE COMMERCIAL CREW 307 00:13:07,136 --> 00:13:09,104 PROGRAM WITH BOEING AND SpaceX 308 00:13:09,104 --> 00:13:12,942 HAS BEEN SPECTACULAR WATCHING 309 00:13:12,942 --> 00:13:14,310 THE INNOVATION FROM BOTH 310 00:13:14,310 --> 00:13:15,878 COMPANIES HAS BEEN AMAZING. 311 00:13:15,878 --> 00:13:17,213 I AM SPECIFICALLY LOOKING 312 00:13:17,213 --> 00:13:19,281 FORWARD TO SEEING THEM LIVE UP 313 00:13:19,281 --> 00:13:20,816 THERE BECAUSE OUR CREW, MY CREW 314 00:13:20,816 --> 00:13:22,985 WILL BE THE COMPLEMENTARY CREW 315 00:13:22,985 --> 00:13:24,820 ON THE BOEING STARLINER AT THE 316 00:13:24,820 --> 00:13:26,188 END OF NEXT YEAR. 317 00:13:26,188 --> 00:13:28,357 THIS IS AN EXCITING TIME FOR ALL 318 00:13:28,357 --> 00:13:30,926 OF US WATCHING THEM PAVE THE WAY 319 00:13:30,926 --> 00:13:33,496 SO THAT WE CAN DO LOW EARTH 320 00:13:33,496 --> 00:13:35,331 ORBIT WITH COMMERCIAL CREW AND 321 00:13:35,331 --> 00:13:37,099 MOVE ON TO THE NEXT BIG STEPS. 322 00:13:37,099 --> 00:13:39,802 WITH THAT, I AM GOING TO 323 00:13:39,802 --> 00:13:42,705 INTRODUCE ONE OF THE NEWEST 324 00:13:42,705 --> 00:13:44,173 ASTRONAUTS JOHNNY KIM WHO IS 325 00:13:44,173 --> 00:13:46,308 GOING TO BE LEADING THAT 326 00:13:46,308 --> 00:13:47,309 EXPLORATION CHARGE. 327 00:13:47,309 --> 00:13:48,611 THROUGH. 328 00:13:48,611 --> 00:13:52,648 [APPLAUDING] 329 00:13:52,648 --> 00:13:53,249 >> GOOD MORNING. 330 00:13:53,249 --> 00:13:56,151 I AM JOHNNY KIM AND I AM HONORED 331 00:13:56,151 --> 00:13:58,554 AND PRIVILEGED TO BE HERE. 332 00:13:58,554 --> 00:14:00,155 IT'S CRAZY TO BE THINKING ABOUT 333 00:14:00,155 --> 00:14:01,624 WHAT WE'LL BE DOING TOMORROW. 334 00:14:01,624 --> 00:14:04,026 IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE HOW FAR WE 335 00:14:04,026 --> 00:14:04,994 HAVE COME. 336 00:14:04,994 --> 00:14:07,863 THE FIRST CERTIFIED FLIGHT OF 337 00:14:07,863 --> 00:14:10,799 A COMMERCIAL VEHICLE LAUNCHING 338 00:14:10,799 --> 00:14:13,002 THREE AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS AND 339 00:14:13,002 --> 00:14:14,503 INTERNATIONAL PARTNER TO THE 340 00:14:14,503 --> 00:14:15,004 SPACE STATION. 341 00:14:15,004 --> 00:14:17,673 WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OF THE 342 00:14:17,673 --> 00:14:19,775 THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO WORK 343 00:14:19,775 --> 00:14:20,976 BEHIND THE SCENES. 344 00:14:20,976 --> 00:14:23,012 WE TRULY STAND ON THE SHOULDERS 345 00:14:23,012 --> 00:14:23,812 OF GIANTS. 346 00:14:23,812 --> 00:14:27,449 FROM POERPLER ASTRONAUTS TO OUR 347 00:14:27,449 --> 00:14:29,051 ADMINISTRATOR AND OUR 348 00:14:29,051 --> 00:14:30,753 INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS. 349 00:14:30,753 --> 00:14:33,255 WE WOULDN'T BE HERE IF IT WASN'T 350 00:14:33,255 --> 00:14:35,090 FOR EVERYONE. 351 00:14:35,090 --> 00:14:36,725 YOU HAVE HEARD OF ALL THE 352 00:14:36,725 --> 00:14:38,027 BENEFITS THAT COMMERCIAL CREW 353 00:14:38,027 --> 00:14:40,663 PROGRAM IS BRINGING TO THE 354 00:14:40,663 --> 00:14:43,032 AMERICAN PEOPLE TO HUMANITY, 355 00:14:43,032 --> 00:14:45,167 WHAT I AM MOST EXCITED ABOUT IS 356 00:14:45,167 --> 00:14:48,003 BEING ABLE TO SEE FOUR OF MY 357 00:14:48,003 --> 00:14:51,073 FRIENDS LAUNCH ON THAT ROCKET 358 00:14:51,073 --> 00:14:51,440 TOMORROW. 359 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,777 THEY ARE BROTHERS, SISTER, 360 00:14:54,777 --> 00:14:57,379 PARENT, CHILDREN, BUT THEY ARE 361 00:14:57,379 --> 00:14:58,213 ALL HUMANS AND THEY REPRESENT US 362 00:14:58,213 --> 00:15:00,849 AND EVERYTHING THAT WE STAND FOR 363 00:15:00,849 --> 00:15:03,419 FOR HUMANITY. 364 00:15:03,419 --> 00:15:06,088 AND THE SUCCESSES OF THE 365 00:15:06,088 --> 00:15:08,557 COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM IS THE 366 00:15:08,557 --> 00:15:10,426 ISS, WHICH HAS BEEN INHABITED 367 00:15:10,426 --> 00:15:12,127 FOR 20 YEAR, HAS SET THE STAGE 368 00:15:12,127 --> 00:15:14,630 FOR FUTURE SPACE EXPLORATION. 369 00:15:14,630 --> 00:15:17,566 AS WE GO DEEP SPWOER SPACE, AS 370 00:15:17,566 --> 00:15:19,735 WE RETURN TO THE MOON AND 371 00:15:19,735 --> 00:15:22,571 BEYOND, SO I AM GREATLY 372 00:15:22,571 --> 00:15:23,372 PRIVILEGED AND HONORED TO BE 373 00:15:23,372 --> 00:15:25,074 HERE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO 374 00:15:25,074 --> 00:15:25,774 TOMORROW. 375 00:15:25,774 --> 00:15:32,915 [APPLAUDING] 376 00:15:32,915 --> 00:15:33,716 >> THANK YOU. 377 00:15:33,716 --> 00:15:34,883 WE'LL START TAKING QUESTIONS 378 00:15:34,883 --> 00:15:36,118 FROM REPORTERS. 379 00:15:36,118 --> 00:15:37,620 PLEASE ONE QUESTION PER 380 00:15:37,620 --> 00:15:37,987 REPORTER. 381 00:15:37,987 --> 00:15:39,521 OUR FOCUS IS ON CREW 1. 382 00:15:39,521 --> 00:15:41,590 ANY QUESTIONS OTHER THAN CREW 383 00:15:41,590 --> 00:15:43,025 1 WE'RE HAPPY TO TAKE AFTER THIS 384 00:15:43,025 --> 00:15:44,126 PRESS CONFERENCE. 385 00:15:44,126 --> 00:15:45,861 OUR 50 QUESTION? 386 00:15:45,861 --> 00:15:47,496 FIRST QUESTION? 387 00:15:47,496 --> 00:15:49,198 >> HELLO. 388 00:15:49,198 --> 00:15:52,434 FOR MR. BRIDENSTINE. 389 00:15:52,434 --> 00:15:53,235 ELON MUSK HAS BEEN TWEETING HE 390 00:15:53,235 --> 00:15:56,138 IS NOT FEELING SO GOOD AND SOME 391 00:15:56,138 --> 00:15:58,540 OF HIS COVID TESTS ARE POSITIVE, 392 00:15:58,540 --> 00:15:59,642 SOME ARE NEGATIVE. 393 00:15:59,642 --> 00:16:01,310 WHAT IS HE TELLING YOU 394 00:16:01,310 --> 00:16:01,710 PERSONALLY. 395 00:16:01,710 --> 00:16:04,780 WILL YOU ALLOW HIM TO BE IN 396 00:16:04,780 --> 00:16:07,049 LAUNCH QUARTERS EVEN IF HIS NEXT 397 00:16:07,049 --> 00:16:09,885 TEST COMES BACK NEGATIVE? 398 00:16:09,885 --> 00:16:13,522 >> I TALKED TO ELON TWO-DAYS AGO 399 00:16:13,522 --> 00:16:16,358 BEFORE THIS NEWS CAME TO BE. 400 00:16:16,358 --> 00:16:18,093 I'LL TELL YOU WHEN SOMEBODY 401 00:16:18,093 --> 00:16:20,295 TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID HERE AT 402 00:16:20,295 --> 00:16:21,830 THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER AND 403 00:16:21,830 --> 00:16:25,034 ACROSS NASA IT IS OUR POLICY FOR 404 00:16:25,034 --> 00:16:27,736 THAT PERSON TO QUARANTINE AND 405 00:16:27,736 --> 00:16:28,170 SELF-ISOLATE. 406 00:16:28,170 --> 00:16:31,473 WE ANTICIPATE THAT WILL BE 407 00:16:31,473 --> 00:16:33,308 TAKING PLACE AND, YOU KNOW, WE 408 00:16:33,308 --> 00:16:37,546 ARE LOOKING TO SpaceX TO DO 409 00:16:37,546 --> 00:16:40,315 ANY CONTACT TRACING THAT IS 410 00:16:40,315 --> 00:16:40,916 IMPORTANT. 411 00:16:40,916 --> 00:16:42,818 IF THERE ARE CHANGES THAT NEED 412 00:16:42,818 --> 00:16:45,254 TO BE MADE WE'LL LOOK AT THOSE. 413 00:16:45,254 --> 00:16:47,256 AUTOVERY EARLY TO KNOW -- IT'S 414 00:16:47,256 --> 00:16:48,090 VERY EARLY TO KNOW IF ANY 415 00:16:48,090 --> 00:16:49,758 CHANGES ARE NECESSARY AT THIS 416 00:16:49,758 --> 00:16:50,059 POINT. 417 00:16:50,059 --> 00:16:57,066 WE JUST DON'T KNOW. 418 00:16:57,066 --> 00:16:59,401 >> MY QUESTION IS FOR JIM. 419 00:16:59,401 --> 00:17:01,970 CREW 1 COMES AT A VERY 420 00:17:01,970 --> 00:17:03,505 TRANSITIONAL TIME FOR OUR 421 00:17:03,505 --> 00:17:06,041 COUNTRY AND AS WE PREPARE FOR 422 00:17:06,041 --> 00:17:07,009 A NEW ADMINISTRATION WHAT ARE 423 00:17:07,009 --> 00:17:09,211 YOUR HOPES FOR THE COMMERCIAL 424 00:17:09,211 --> 00:17:11,380 CREW PROGRAM THE FUTURE OF HUMAN 425 00:17:11,380 --> 00:17:12,981 SPACE FLIGHT AT NASA AND HOW DO 426 00:17:12,981 --> 00:17:19,388 YOU PLAN TO WORK WITH ANY SUCK 427 00:17:19,388 --> 00:17:19,788 SUCCESSORS. 428 00:17:19,788 --> 00:17:25,561 >> WHEN WE THINK OF THE 429 00:17:25,561 --> 00:17:27,796 COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM WE ARE 430 00:17:27,796 --> 00:17:29,331 GRATE TO FEEL CHARLIE BOLDEN AND 431 00:17:29,331 --> 00:17:31,633 HIS COMMITMENT GOING BACK MANY 432 00:17:31,633 --> 00:17:33,435 YEARS AND ROBERT LIGHTFOOT AND 433 00:17:33,435 --> 00:17:36,105 THE LEADERSHIP THAT I HAVE HAD. 434 00:17:36,105 --> 00:17:40,375 THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT HAS 435 00:17:40,375 --> 00:17:42,411 SPANNED MULTIPLE 436 00:17:42,411 --> 00:17:42,878 ADMINISTRATIONS. 437 00:17:42,878 --> 00:17:43,746 I HAVE ALWAYS SAID AND WILL 438 00:17:43,746 --> 00:17:46,381 CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR NASA, 439 00:17:46,381 --> 00:17:48,050 CREATING SUSTAINABLE PROGRAMS. 440 00:17:48,050 --> 00:17:49,852 THAT'S WHAT WE LOOK FOR. 441 00:17:49,852 --> 00:17:52,121 AND THAT'S SOMETHING I THINK WE 442 00:17:52,121 --> 00:17:55,157 ARE ACHIEVING WITH THE ARTEMIS 443 00:17:55,157 --> 00:17:55,491 PROGRAM. 444 00:17:55,491 --> 00:17:57,326 WE HAVE SEEN NOW BILLS IN THE 445 00:17:57,326 --> 00:18:00,596 HOUSE AND IN THE SENATE, 446 00:18:00,596 --> 00:18:02,331 RECEIVED STRONG BI-PARTISAN 447 00:18:02,331 --> 00:18:04,199 SUPPORT THAT FUND THE HUMAN 448 00:18:04,199 --> 00:18:05,434 LANDING SYSTEM FOR THE MOON AND 449 00:18:05,434 --> 00:18:06,602 THE ARTEMIS PROGRAM. 450 00:18:06,602 --> 00:18:09,805 THE THINGS WE NEED TO DO TO 451 00:18:09,805 --> 00:18:11,540 ACHIEVE WHAT WE WOULD SAY 452 00:18:11,540 --> 00:18:12,341 SUSTAINABLE PROGRAMS. 453 00:18:12,341 --> 00:18:15,010 WE ARE THINKING ABOUT PROGRAMS 454 00:18:15,010 --> 00:18:17,112 THAT LAST TPHAOT JUST DECADES 455 00:18:17,112 --> 00:18:18,447 BUT EVEN GENERATIONS. 456 00:18:18,447 --> 00:18:20,349 I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A DAY WHEN 457 00:18:20,349 --> 00:18:22,151 MY CHILDREN ARE MY AGE AND WE 458 00:18:22,151 --> 00:18:23,252 HAVE PEOPLE LIVING AND WORKING 459 00:18:23,252 --> 00:18:26,188 ON THE MOON AND, IN FACT, ON 460 00:18:26,188 --> 00:18:26,622 MARS. 461 00:18:26,622 --> 00:18:28,490 TO ACHIEVE THAT WE ARE GOING TO 462 00:18:28,490 --> 00:18:33,862 NEED TO HAVE STRONG APOLITICAL 463 00:18:33,862 --> 00:18:35,063 BIPARTISAN SUPPORT AND WE HAVE 464 00:18:35,063 --> 00:18:37,366 WORKED FOR THAT DAY IN AND DAY 465 00:18:37,366 --> 00:18:38,667 OUT SINCE I CAME TO NASA. 466 00:18:38,667 --> 00:18:39,835 THAT IS OUR COMMITMENT. 467 00:18:39,835 --> 00:18:41,637 I LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN 468 00:18:41,637 --> 00:18:43,572 THE HOUSE AND SENATE AND I AM 469 00:18:43,572 --> 00:18:46,642 CONFIDENT WE HAVE STRONG 470 00:18:46,642 --> 00:18:49,845 BI-PARTISAN SUPPORT THAT WILL 471 00:18:49,845 --> 00:18:53,549 SUSTAIN OUR PROGRAM. 472 00:18:53,549 --> 00:18:56,718 >> THIS IS FOR JIM. 473 00:18:56,718 --> 00:18:58,720 WONDERING IF YOU COULD BRIEFLY 474 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,223 TALK ABOUT THE FALCON 9 ENGINE 475 00:19:01,223 --> 00:19:04,960 ISSUE THAT STARTED WITH THE GPS 476 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:05,694 3 MISSION WITH THE LAST SECOND 477 00:19:05,694 --> 00:19:07,429 ABORT AND HOW THAT PLAYED OUT IN 478 00:19:07,429 --> 00:19:08,964 TERMS OF ENGINES BEING SWAPPED 479 00:19:08,964 --> 00:19:11,934 OUT ON GPS 3, CREW ONE AND 480 00:19:11,934 --> 00:19:13,468 CENTINAL 6 AND HOW MANY 481 00:19:13,468 --> 00:19:14,870 ULTIMATELY ARE BEING SWAPPED OUT 482 00:19:14,870 --> 00:19:17,506 ACROSS ALL THREE ROCKETS. 483 00:19:17,506 --> 00:19:19,775 >> I'LL ADDRESS YOUR QUESTION 484 00:19:19,775 --> 00:19:21,877 KIND OF BIG PICTURE, BUT I WOULD 485 00:19:21,877 --> 00:19:23,846 REFER YOU, WE ARE HAVING 486 00:19:23,846 --> 00:19:25,480 A FLIGHT READINESS REVIEW AND 487 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:26,782 WILL HAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE 488 00:19:26,782 --> 00:19:27,182 AFTER THAT. 489 00:19:27,182 --> 00:19:29,284 I WOULD REFER THOSE QUESTIONS TO 490 00:19:29,284 --> 00:19:31,286 THE PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER THE 491 00:19:31,286 --> 00:19:33,121 FLIGHT READINESS REVIEW. 492 00:19:33,121 --> 00:19:34,456 WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE 493 00:19:34,456 --> 00:19:36,191 COMMERCIAL PROGRAM ITSELF AND I 494 00:19:36,191 --> 00:19:37,526 SAID THIS EARLIER REMEMBER WHAT 495 00:19:37,526 --> 00:19:39,494 WE ARE TRYING TO ACHIEVE. 496 00:19:39,494 --> 00:19:42,097 NASA WANTS TO BE ONE CUSTOMER OF 497 00:19:42,097 --> 00:19:44,299 MANY CUSTOMERS IN A ROBUST 498 00:19:44,299 --> 00:19:45,167 MARKET PLACE. 499 00:19:45,167 --> 00:19:47,102 ONE OF THE BENEFITS IS THAT WHEN 500 00:19:47,102 --> 00:19:49,438 THE AIR FORCE OR THE SPACE FORCE 501 00:19:49,438 --> 00:19:52,708 OR A COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS 502 00:19:52,708 --> 00:19:55,110 SATELLITE LAUNCHES, WE ARE GOING 503 00:19:55,110 --> 00:19:57,546 TO GET DATA AND INFORMATION 504 00:19:57,546 --> 00:19:59,848 ABOUT THE ENGINE ON THE FALCON 505 00:19:59,848 --> 00:20:01,583 NINE ROCKET, ABOUT THE 506 00:20:01,583 --> 00:20:04,519 PERFORMANCE OF THE AFIONICS 507 00:20:04,519 --> 00:20:08,156 SETC. AND SO EACH ONE OF THESE 508 00:20:08,156 --> 00:20:09,992 MISSIONS IS VERY INFORMATIVE FOR 509 00:20:09,992 --> 00:20:11,860 WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO ACHIEVE AS 510 00:20:11,860 --> 00:20:13,662 AN AGENCY. 511 00:20:13,662 --> 00:20:15,631 THAT IS, IN FACT, WHAT I THINK 512 00:20:15,631 --> 00:20:17,499 IS SO MAGNIFICENT ABOUT THE 513 00:20:17,499 --> 00:20:19,835 COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM IN 514 00:20:19,835 --> 00:20:20,202 GENERAL. 515 00:20:20,202 --> 00:20:21,803 I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE 516 00:20:21,803 --> 00:20:24,673 GO BACK TO THE SHUTTLE ERA EVERY 517 00:20:24,673 --> 00:20:25,908 FLIGHT WAS A HUMAN FLIGHT. 518 00:20:25,908 --> 00:20:28,377 AND EVERY FLIGHT WAS, IN FACT, 519 00:20:28,377 --> 00:20:29,077 A NASA FLIGHT. 520 00:20:29,077 --> 00:20:31,013 AND IN THIS CASE WE HAVE 521 00:20:31,013 --> 00:20:33,448 COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS AS BOB CABANA 522 00:20:33,448 --> 00:20:35,050 HAS DONE, HE HAS TURNED THIS 523 00:20:35,050 --> 00:20:37,920 FACILITY INTO A MULTI-USER SPACE 524 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:39,855 PORT WHERE WE HAVE ALL THESE 525 00:20:39,855 --> 00:20:41,790 DIFFERENT ENTITIES USING THESE 526 00:20:41,790 --> 00:20:43,792 COMMERCIAL VEHICLES INCLUDING 527 00:20:43,792 --> 00:20:45,327 NASA SO WE CAN GET BENEFITS FROM 528 00:20:45,327 --> 00:20:46,628 THE OTHER LAUNCHES. 529 00:20:46,628 --> 00:20:47,963 I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT. 530 00:20:47,963 --> 00:20:50,365 I WOULD REVIEW YOU TO THE FLIGHT 531 00:20:50,365 --> 00:20:50,866 READINESS REVIEW. 532 00:20:50,866 --> 00:20:52,100 IT IS HAPPENING TODAY. 533 00:20:52,100 --> 00:20:54,202 AT THE CONCLUSION THERE WILL BE 534 00:20:54,202 --> 00:20:54,970 A CONFERENCE AND THAT'S 535 00:20:54,970 --> 00:20:58,006 A QUESTION I WOULD REFER TO 536 00:20:58,006 --> 00:21:03,578 THEM. 537 00:21:03,578 --> 00:21:05,347 >> FOR JIM, YOU TOUCHED ON THIS 538 00:21:05,347 --> 00:21:07,015 IN YOUR OPENING REMARKS, BUT 539 00:21:07,015 --> 00:21:08,583 THERE IS A LOT OF TALK ABOUT 540 00:21:08,583 --> 00:21:10,252 THIS BEING THE BEGINNING OF 541 00:21:10,252 --> 00:21:12,020 OPERATIONAL FLIGHTS FROM U.S. 542 00:21:12,020 --> 00:21:13,889 SOIL AND REGULAR FLIGHTS WITH 543 00:21:13,889 --> 00:21:16,491 CREW TO THE SPACE STAUGZ. 544 00:21:16,491 --> 00:21:18,894 THE CREW DRAGON HAS ONLY FLOWN 545 00:21:18,894 --> 00:21:19,661 A COUPLE OF TIMES. 546 00:21:19,661 --> 00:21:20,963 CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE 547 00:21:20,963 --> 00:21:22,764 DOING TO ENSURE IT IS SAFE. 548 00:21:22,764 --> 00:21:24,599 IT SEEMS TO ME THIS IS A TEST 549 00:21:24,599 --> 00:21:26,935 MISSION STILL IN A LOT OF WAYS. 550 00:21:26,935 --> 00:21:27,602 >> ABSOLUTELY, CHRIS. 551 00:21:27,602 --> 00:21:31,807 SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT FLIGHTS 552 00:21:31,807 --> 00:21:35,410 TO SPACE, THEY ARE ALL -- WE 553 00:21:35,410 --> 00:21:37,713 TAKE ALL OF THEM WITH GREAT 554 00:21:37,713 --> 00:21:39,815 PRECAUTION AND TAKE THEM VERY 555 00:21:39,815 --> 00:21:41,883 SERIOUSLY AND EVERY BIT OF 556 00:21:41,883 --> 00:21:43,952 ATTENTION TO DETAIL WE HAVE ON 557 00:21:43,952 --> 00:21:45,721 A TEST FLIGHT WE HAVE ON 558 00:21:45,721 --> 00:21:46,888 OPERATIONAL FLIGHT. 559 00:21:46,888 --> 00:21:50,025 THAT BEING SAID I HAVE SAID WE 560 00:21:50,025 --> 00:21:52,394 LEARN FROM EVERY SINGLE FLIGHT 561 00:21:52,394 --> 00:21:54,062 WHETHER OPERATIONAL OR TEST 562 00:21:54,062 --> 00:21:54,396 FLIGHT. 563 00:21:54,396 --> 00:21:56,898 WE ARE LAUNCHING FOUR ASTRONAUT, 564 00:21:56,898 --> 00:21:59,067 THREE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT, 565 00:21:59,067 --> 00:22:00,469 A JAPANESE ASTRONAUT, THEY ARE 566 00:22:00,469 --> 00:22:01,570 GOING TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 567 00:22:01,570 --> 00:22:03,205 STATION FOR A PERIOD OF SIX 568 00:22:03,205 --> 00:22:05,073 MONTHS TO DO VERY REAL AND 569 00:22:05,073 --> 00:22:06,641 SERIOUS WORK ON BEHALF OF THE 570 00:22:06,641 --> 00:22:11,513 AMERICAN PEOPLE. 571 00:22:11,513 --> 00:22:13,915 IT IS OPERATIONAL AND ALSO TRUE 572 00:22:13,915 --> 00:22:17,486 THAT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT SPACE 573 00:22:17,486 --> 00:22:18,220 FLIGHT EVERY FLIGHT IS A TEST 574 00:22:18,220 --> 00:22:18,553 FLIGHT. 575 00:22:18,553 --> 00:22:19,788 THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW 576 00:22:19,788 --> 00:22:21,757 AND ALWAYS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 577 00:22:21,757 --> 00:22:23,558 IN THIS CASE THEY ARE GOING FOR 578 00:22:23,558 --> 00:22:24,926 A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME AND WILL 579 00:22:24,926 --> 00:22:26,428 DO DIFFERENT THINGS ON THE 580 00:22:26,428 --> 00:22:27,129 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 581 00:22:27,129 --> 00:22:28,296 THEY ARE GOING WITH A CREW OF 582 00:22:28,296 --> 00:22:29,731 FOUR AND WILL DO DIFFERENT 583 00:22:29,731 --> 00:22:31,333 THINGS ON THE WAY. 584 00:22:31,333 --> 00:22:34,036 EACH ONE OF THOSE REQUIRES US TO 585 00:22:34,036 --> 00:22:36,571 BE EXCEPTIONALLY DILIGENT, WHICH 586 00:22:36,571 --> 00:22:37,539 WE ALWAYS ARE. 587 00:22:37,539 --> 00:22:39,374 MAKE SURE WE DON'T TAKE ANY OF 588 00:22:39,374 --> 00:22:47,716 THIS LIGHTLY. 589 00:22:47,716 --> 00:22:48,650 >> GOOD MORNING. 590 00:22:48,650 --> 00:22:50,685 THIS IS FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR. 591 00:22:50,685 --> 00:22:52,621 I AM PIGGING BACKING ON AN 592 00:22:52,621 --> 00:22:53,655 EARLIER QUESTION, REALLY. 593 00:22:53,655 --> 00:22:55,824 WE WERE TALKING ABOUT JUST THE 594 00:22:55,824 --> 00:22:57,325 CHANGE THAT IS COMING NOW WITH 595 00:22:57,325 --> 00:22:58,527 THE ADMINISTRATION AS WELL. 596 00:22:58,527 --> 00:23:01,163 I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF GIVEN 597 00:23:01,163 --> 00:23:03,031 THE OPPORTUNITY WOULD YOU LIKE 598 00:23:03,031 --> 00:23:05,867 TO CONTINUE THE WORK THAT HAS 599 00:23:05,867 --> 00:23:07,736 ALREADY BEGUN HERE? 600 00:23:07,736 --> 00:23:09,805 >> I WILL REFER YOU TO THE 601 00:23:09,805 --> 00:23:12,307 COMMENTS I MADE TOI REIN WHO IS 602 00:23:12,307 --> 00:23:13,041 STANDING BEHIND YOU. 603 00:23:13,041 --> 00:23:15,043 I MADE THEM ON SUNDAY AND I WILL 604 00:23:15,043 --> 00:23:23,485 LEAVE MY COMMENTS THERE ON THAT. 605 00:23:23,485 --> 00:23:25,554 >> HI. 606 00:23:25,554 --> 00:23:27,522 JIM, WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE 607 00:23:27,522 --> 00:23:29,825 DISCUSSIONS WITH THE RUSSIANS TO 608 00:23:29,825 --> 00:23:31,493 DO CREW SWAPS FOR COMMERCIAL 609 00:23:31,493 --> 00:23:35,297 CREW AND SOYUZ? 610 00:23:35,297 --> 00:23:37,365 >> I KNOW BOTH COUNTRIES ARE 611 00:23:37,365 --> 00:23:39,468 COMMITTED TO THE INTERNATIONAL 612 00:23:39,468 --> 00:23:40,802 SPACE STATION AND THE AMAZING 613 00:23:40,802 --> 00:23:41,636 WORK THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON 614 00:23:41,636 --> 00:23:43,605 THERE NOW WITH HUMANS ON BOARD 615 00:23:43,605 --> 00:23:45,006 FOR 20 YEARS. 616 00:23:45,006 --> 00:23:47,876 WE ARE MOVING INTO THIS NEW ERA 617 00:23:47,876 --> 00:23:51,046 WHERE INSTEAD OF NASA PURCHASING 618 00:23:51,046 --> 00:23:52,881 SEATS, WE WANT TO HAVE AN 619 00:23:52,881 --> 00:23:55,750 EXCHANGE OF SEATS WHERE AMERICAN 620 00:23:55,750 --> 00:23:58,787 ASTRONAUTS CAN FLY ON RUSSIAN 621 00:23:58,787 --> 00:24:00,489 SOYUZ ROCKETS AND RUSSIAN CANS 622 00:24:00,489 --> 00:24:02,624 FLY ON AMERICAN CREW VEHICLES. 623 00:24:02,624 --> 00:24:04,392 THAT'S THE DIRECTION I THINK 624 00:24:04,392 --> 00:24:07,829 BOTH COUNTRIES HAVE AN INTO IN 625 00:24:07,829 --> 00:24:08,663 ACHIEVING AND THAT'S NECESSARY. 626 00:24:08,663 --> 00:24:10,398 WE WANT TO SEE A DAY IF THERE IS 627 00:24:10,398 --> 00:24:12,033 A CHALLENGE WITH ONE OF THE 628 00:24:12,033 --> 00:24:13,335 VEHICLES AND IT'S DOWN FOR 629 00:24:13,335 --> 00:24:19,141 A PERIOD OF TIME WE HAVE 630 00:24:19,141 --> 00:24:21,209 CONTINUAL ACCESS BY BOTH 631 00:24:21,209 --> 00:24:21,676 PARTNERS. 632 00:24:21,676 --> 00:24:23,145 THOSE DISCUSSIONS ARE ON-GOING. 633 00:24:23,145 --> 00:24:24,446 WE DON'T HAVE A RESOLUTION AT 634 00:24:24,446 --> 00:24:26,248 THIS POINT BUT THAT'S SOMETHING 635 00:24:26,248 --> 00:24:28,350 BOTH COUNTRIES ARE WORKING 636 00:24:28,350 --> 00:24:28,984 TOWARDS. 637 00:24:28,984 --> 00:24:31,386 >> SECOND QUESTION OF 638 00:24:31,386 --> 00:24:31,786 MR. DICKSON. 639 00:24:31,786 --> 00:24:33,788 IS THE PROCESS YOU JUST WENT 640 00:24:33,788 --> 00:24:36,424 THROUGH TO CERTIFY THIS MICK 641 00:24:36,424 --> 00:24:38,727 SON, HOW SIMILAR WILL THAT BE 642 00:24:38,727 --> 00:24:40,462 WHEN YOU'RE ASKED TO CERTIFY 643 00:24:40,462 --> 00:24:43,331 FLIGHTS WITH NON-PROFESSIONAL 644 00:24:43,331 --> 00:24:43,732 ASTRONAUTS? 645 00:24:43,732 --> 00:24:44,833 >> GREAT QUESTION. 646 00:24:44,833 --> 00:24:47,369 IT WILL BE REALLY THE SAME 647 00:24:47,369 --> 00:24:47,702 PROCESS. 648 00:24:47,702 --> 00:24:49,237 AND IT'S VERY SIMILAR TO THE 649 00:24:49,237 --> 00:24:51,306 POSSESS WE HAVE BEEN USING 650 00:24:51,306 --> 00:24:53,341 FOR -- PROCESS WE HAVE BEEN 651 00:24:53,341 --> 00:24:55,577 USING FOR MANY GYROS UNMANNED 652 00:24:55,577 --> 00:24:56,511 COMMERCIAL MISSIONS. 653 00:24:56,511 --> 00:25:00,115 TO JIM'S POINT ABOUT SUSTAINABLE 654 00:25:00,115 --> 00:25:01,716 PROGRAMS, THE FAA BEING INVOLVED 655 00:25:01,716 --> 00:25:05,187 THIS IS PART OF SCALING MANNED 656 00:25:05,187 --> 00:25:08,256 COMMERCIAL SPACE MISSIONS IN 657 00:25:08,256 --> 00:25:08,690 A LARGER WAY. 658 00:25:08,690 --> 00:25:12,027 IT WILL BECOME A MORE ROUTINE 659 00:25:12,027 --> 00:25:14,663 PART OF THE AEROSPACE SYSTEM IN 660 00:25:14,663 --> 00:25:16,231 OUR COUNTRY. 661 00:25:16,231 --> 00:25:18,433 AGAIN, IT'S REALLY BUILDING ON 662 00:25:18,433 --> 00:25:20,068 THE WORK WE HAVE ALL DONE 663 00:25:20,068 --> 00:25:20,502 TOGETHER. 664 00:25:20,502 --> 00:25:22,704 NASA AND THE FAA HAVE PARTNERED 665 00:25:22,704 --> 00:25:23,939 ON MANY ISSUES OVER THE YEARS 666 00:25:23,939 --> 00:25:25,640 AND THIS IS JUST ANOTHER FORM OF 667 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:34,716 THAT PARTNERSHIP. 668 00:25:34,716 --> 00:25:37,152 >> FIRST FOR ADMINISTRATOR 669 00:25:37,152 --> 00:25:37,552 BRIDENSTINE. 670 00:25:37,552 --> 00:25:40,255 WANT TO GET YOUR RESPONSE TO THE 671 00:25:40,255 --> 00:25:40,922 APPROPERATIONS BILL IN THE 672 00:25:40,922 --> 00:25:42,958 SENATE THAT PROVIDES A BILLION 673 00:25:42,958 --> 00:25:46,094 TO THE HLS PROGRAM, LESS THAN 674 00:25:46,094 --> 00:25:47,862 A THIRD OF WHAT THE 675 00:25:47,862 --> 00:25:49,064 ADMINISTRATION REQUESTED. 676 00:25:49,064 --> 00:25:50,799 A LITTLE MORE THAN THE HOUSE 677 00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:52,867 VERSION BUT NOT AS MUCH AS 678 00:25:52,867 --> 00:25:53,335 REQUESTED. 679 00:25:53,335 --> 00:25:55,070 JUST WANTED TO SEE HOW THAT 680 00:25:55,070 --> 00:25:57,205 WHOLE PROCESS IS GOING TO AFFECT 681 00:25:57,205 --> 00:26:03,278 THE HLS PROCUREMENT AND 2024 FOR 682 00:26:03,278 --> 00:26:04,579 ARTEMIS. 683 00:26:04,579 --> 00:26:05,413 FOR WILLIAMS WHAT IS THE LATEST 684 00:26:05,413 --> 00:26:08,083 YOU ARE HEARING FROM BOWING ON 685 00:26:08,083 --> 00:26:10,719 STARLINER AND WHEN THE TEST 686 00:26:10,719 --> 00:26:12,787 FLIGHTS, CREW FLIGHT-TEST AND 687 00:26:12,787 --> 00:26:14,422 WHEN YOU WILL FLY AND WHAT IS 688 00:26:14,422 --> 00:26:15,724 DRIVING THE SCHEDULE RIGHT NOW. 689 00:26:15,724 --> 00:26:17,392 THANK YOU. 690 00:26:17,392 --> 00:26:19,027 >> GREAT QUESTION, BOTH. 691 00:26:19,027 --> 00:26:20,829 I'LL TELL YOU WHEN IT COMES TO 692 00:26:20,829 --> 00:26:22,297 THE BILLS WE HAVE SEEN IN THE 693 00:26:22,297 --> 00:26:23,064 HOUSE AND SENATE. 694 00:26:23,064 --> 00:26:26,101 FIRST OF ALL WE CURRENTLY HAVE 695 00:26:26,101 --> 00:26:28,703 ENACTED A $600 MILLION 696 00:26:28,703 --> 00:26:29,738 APPROPERATION FOR A HUMAN 697 00:26:29,738 --> 00:26:32,240 LANDING SYSTEM DONE WITH 698 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,642 BI-PARTISAN SUPPORT IN THE HOUSE 699 00:26:33,642 --> 00:26:35,377 AND SENATE AND HAS RESULTED IN 700 00:26:35,377 --> 00:26:37,712 THREE CONTRACTORS BEING 701 00:26:37,712 --> 00:26:39,381 CONTRACTED TO DEVELOP THE HUMAN 702 00:26:39,381 --> 00:26:40,915 LANDING SYSTEM. 703 00:26:40,915 --> 00:26:42,217 I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT IS 704 00:26:42,217 --> 00:26:45,253 SOMETHING THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED 705 00:26:45,253 --> 00:26:45,720 SINCE 1972. 706 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,723 SO WE ARE EXCEPTIONALLY GRATEFUL 707 00:26:48,723 --> 00:26:50,525 FOR WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW 708 00:26:50,525 --> 00:26:52,227 BECAUSE OF THE BI-PARTISAN 709 00:26:52,227 --> 00:26:54,229 SUPPORT WE HAVE HAD FROM THE 710 00:26:54,229 --> 00:26:54,729 HOUSE AND SENATE. 711 00:26:54,729 --> 00:26:56,331 AND I WOULD SAY WHEN WE LOOK AT 712 00:26:56,331 --> 00:26:57,966 WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE ARE 713 00:26:57,966 --> 00:27:00,535 LOOKING FOR FOR 2021, NUMBER ONE 714 00:27:00,535 --> 00:27:03,371 THE HOUSE HAS, AGAIN, PASSED 715 00:27:03,371 --> 00:27:07,342 A BIPARTISAN BILL THAT FUNDSES 716 00:27:07,342 --> 00:27:10,478 A HUMAN LANDING SYSTEM AND THE 717 00:27:10,478 --> 00:27:12,280 SENATE HAVE NOW PRESENTED A BILL 718 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,683 THAT HAS A HUMAN LANDING SYSTEM 719 00:27:14,683 --> 00:27:18,286 PUNNEDDED AT -- FUNDED AT 720 00:27:18,286 --> 00:27:18,853 $1 BILLION. 721 00:27:18,853 --> 00:27:21,156 STRONG BIPARTISAN SUPPORT IN 722 00:27:21,156 --> 00:27:21,690 BOTH CHAMBERS. 723 00:27:21,690 --> 00:27:23,558 VERY POSITIVE FOR THE CREATION 724 00:27:23,558 --> 00:27:25,627 OF THE SUSTAINABLE PROGRAM, 725 00:27:25,627 --> 00:27:27,495 WHICH, OF COURSE, IS OUR HIGHEST 726 00:27:27,495 --> 00:27:27,862 PRIORITY. 727 00:27:27,862 --> 00:27:29,464 WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH TIMES IN 728 00:27:29,464 --> 00:27:32,600 PAST THE VISION FOR SPACING 729 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,036 EXPLORE SKPAEUGZ PLANS GET 730 00:27:35,036 --> 00:27:35,403 CANCELLED. 731 00:27:35,403 --> 00:27:37,505 PLANS TO GO TO THE MOON AND GET 732 00:27:37,505 --> 00:27:37,906 CANCELLED. 733 00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:41,276 THAT'S WHY THIS BIPARTISAN 734 00:27:41,276 --> 00:27:43,578 A POLITICAL SUPPORT IS SO 735 00:27:43,578 --> 00:27:43,945 IMPORTANT. 736 00:27:43,945 --> 00:27:46,848 I AM GRATEFUL AS HARD AS WE HAVE 737 00:27:46,848 --> 00:27:51,119 WORKED TO ACHIEF IT -- ACHIEVED 738 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:52,921 IT AND DO WE HAVE EVERYTHING, 739 00:27:52,921 --> 00:27:53,955 THE ANSWER IS NO. 740 00:27:53,955 --> 00:27:55,824 THE PROCESS IS ON-GOING. 741 00:27:55,824 --> 00:27:57,359 THERE IS A BILL IN THE HOUSE, 742 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:58,126 A BILL IN THE SENATE. 743 00:27:58,126 --> 00:28:00,995 THEY WILL HAVE TO BE 744 00:28:00,995 --> 00:28:01,396 CONTPREPBED. 745 00:28:01,396 --> 00:28:02,831 THERE WILL BE DISCUSSIONS WITH 746 00:28:02,831 --> 00:28:04,466 THE WHITE HOUSE AND I THINK, YOU 747 00:28:04,466 --> 00:28:06,201 KNOW, AT THE FRIEND WE WOULD 748 00:28:06,201 --> 00:28:08,069 LIKE TO SEE THE FULL AMOUNT 749 00:28:08,069 --> 00:28:10,605 FUNDED, BUT I WILL ALSO SAY IT 750 00:28:10,605 --> 00:28:11,606 CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO 751 00:28:11,606 --> 00:28:15,076 RECOGNIZE THE STRONG APOLITICAL 752 00:28:15,076 --> 00:28:16,478 BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR THE HUMAN 753 00:28:16,478 --> 00:28:18,012 LANDING SYSTEM AND THE ARTEMIS 754 00:28:18,012 --> 00:28:24,252 PROGRAM IN GENERAL. 755 00:28:24,252 --> 00:28:26,287 >> SPAR LINER IS AN -- STARLINER 756 00:28:26,287 --> 00:28:28,189 IS AN AMAZING VEHICLE AND IT'S 757 00:28:28,189 --> 00:28:28,490 GREAT. 758 00:28:28,490 --> 00:28:29,791 WE ARE MAKING SURE ALL THE Ts 759 00:28:29,791 --> 00:28:32,694 ARE CROSSED AND I'S ARE DOTTED 760 00:28:32,694 --> 00:28:34,562 AND THE NEXT SPACECRAFT WILL BE 761 00:28:34,562 --> 00:28:36,197 READY FOR PEOPLE TO BE ON BOARD. 762 00:28:36,197 --> 00:28:38,700 IT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT WHERE 763 00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:39,901 WE DIDN'T HAVE ALL THE SYSTEMS 764 00:28:39,901 --> 00:28:40,502 IN PLACE. 765 00:28:40,502 --> 00:28:44,105 IT'S MORE DILIGENT THAT WE ARE 766 00:28:44,105 --> 00:28:44,773 WORKING ON THE SPACECRAFT. 767 00:28:44,773 --> 00:28:46,374 END OF THIS YEAR, BEGINNING OF 768 00:28:46,374 --> 00:28:49,511 NEXT YEAR WE SHOULD HAVE OFT 769 00:28:49,511 --> 00:28:51,613 READY TO FOLLOW BY SPRING TIME 770 00:28:51,613 --> 00:28:54,182 AND KNOCK ON WOOD I'M HOPING ME 771 00:28:54,182 --> 00:28:55,917 AND MY CREW WILL BE READY TO GO 772 00:28:55,917 --> 00:28:57,552 BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR. 773 00:28:57,552 --> 00:28:58,653 IT WILL BE AN EXCITING YEAR. 774 00:28:58,653 --> 00:29:00,121 WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT 775 00:29:00,121 --> 00:29:02,056 PORT, OPEN ON THE SPACE STATION. 776 00:29:02,056 --> 00:29:03,758 IT'S GETTING CROWDED IN SPACE 777 00:29:03,758 --> 00:29:04,959 AND THAT'S A REALLY GOOD THING 778 00:29:04,959 --> 00:29:07,562 AND WE'LL HAVE TO WORK INTO THE 779 00:29:07,562 --> 00:29:08,129 SCHEDULE. 780 00:29:08,129 --> 00:29:08,630 STAND BY. 781 00:29:08,630 --> 00:29:14,903 IT WILL BE BEFORE YOU KNOW IT. 782 00:29:14,903 --> 00:29:17,372 >> THIS IS FOR THE 783 00:29:17,372 --> 00:29:17,806 ADMINISTRATOR. 784 00:29:17,806 --> 00:29:18,940 WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE 785 00:29:18,940 --> 00:29:20,875 AND I KNOW IT'S NOT LOST ON YOU 786 00:29:20,875 --> 00:29:22,710 THAT THESE HISTORIC LAUNCH, 787 00:29:22,710 --> 00:29:24,579 HAPPENING IN THE MIDst OF 788 00:29:24,579 --> 00:29:26,147 A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. 789 00:29:26,147 --> 00:29:27,916 YOU COULD EVEN ARGUE MORE PEOPLE 790 00:29:27,916 --> 00:29:29,517 ARE SUFFERING NOW THAN THEY WERE 791 00:29:29,517 --> 00:29:31,453 IN MAY WHEN WE SAW THAT OTHER 792 00:29:31,453 --> 00:29:31,786 LAUNCH. 793 00:29:31,786 --> 00:29:33,755 HOW DO YOU CONVINCE THE AMERICAN 794 00:29:33,755 --> 00:29:36,991 PEOPLE THAT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT 795 00:29:36,991 --> 00:29:38,993 MISSION THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN 796 00:29:38,993 --> 00:29:39,461 RIGHT NOW? 797 00:29:39,461 --> 00:29:41,896 >> IT REALLY IS AN IMPORTANT 798 00:29:41,896 --> 00:29:42,263 MISSION. 799 00:29:42,263 --> 00:30:25,373 YO 800 00:30:25,373 --> 00:30:27,809 WHEN WE HAVE ADDITIONAL 801 00:30:27,809 --> 00:30:29,611 ASTRONAUTS, A FULL COMPLEMENT OF 802 00:30:29,611 --> 00:30:30,445 CREW ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 803 00:30:30,445 --> 00:30:31,846 STATION THE AMOUNT OF RESEARCH 804 00:30:31,846 --> 00:30:33,448 WILL BE TRANSFORMATIONAL. 805 00:30:33,448 --> 00:30:36,417 IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT AS WE 806 00:30:36,417 --> 00:30:38,152 ADVANCE THE HUMAN CONDITION HERE 807 00:30:38,152 --> 00:30:41,723 ON EARTH WHETHER WE TALK ABOUT 808 00:30:41,723 --> 00:30:44,225 CREATING HAOUL AN TISSUE IN 809 00:30:44,225 --> 00:30:46,628 THE -- HUMIDITY AN TISSUE IN THE 810 00:30:46,628 --> 00:30:47,962 GRAVITY OF SPACE WHERE IT 811 00:30:47,962 --> 00:30:49,931 DOESN'T GO FLAT LIKE THE GRAVITY 812 00:30:49,931 --> 00:30:52,867 WELL OF EARTH AND CAN BE USED TO 813 00:30:52,867 --> 00:30:54,536 MAYBE SAVE LIVES ONE DAY. 814 00:30:54,536 --> 00:30:55,803 THESE ARE THE KIND OF 815 00:30:55,803 --> 00:30:58,473 TECHNOLOGIES WHEN WE TALK ABOUT 816 00:30:58,473 --> 00:31:01,376 INDUSTRIALIZED BIOMEDICINE 817 00:31:01,376 --> 00:31:08,816 HAPPENING ON THE INTERNATIONAL 818 00:31:08,816 --> 00:31:09,684 SPACE STATION RIGHT NOW THAT MAY 819 00:31:09,684 --> 00:31:10,418 RELATE TO THIS PANDEMIC, THAT 820 00:31:10,418 --> 00:31:11,152 MAY RELATE TO THE NEXT PANDEMIC 821 00:31:11,152 --> 00:31:11,886 THAT MAY RELATE TO PEOPLE RIGHT 822 00:31:11,886 --> 00:31:12,453 NOW THAT HAVE MACULAR 823 00:31:12,453 --> 00:31:12,887 DEGENERATION. 824 00:31:12,887 --> 00:31:13,555 WE ARE CREATING ARTIFICIAL 825 00:31:13,555 --> 00:31:14,355 RETINAS FOR THE HUMAN EYEBALL ON 826 00:31:14,355 --> 00:31:17,659 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 827 00:31:17,659 --> 00:31:19,561 USING ADVANCED MATERIALS. 828 00:31:19,561 --> 00:31:21,362 THESE, THE KIND OF THINGS THAT 829 00:31:21,362 --> 00:31:22,997 ARE TRANSFORMATIONAL FOR LIFE ON 830 00:31:22,997 --> 00:31:23,331 EARTH. 831 00:31:23,331 --> 00:31:25,533 WE BELIEVE THAT IT'S CRITICALLY 832 00:31:25,533 --> 00:31:25,934 IMPORTANT. 833 00:31:25,934 --> 00:31:29,037 I WANT TO GIVE COMPLIMENTS TO 834 00:31:29,037 --> 00:31:31,606 BOB CABANA, SHUTTLE ASTRONAUT 835 00:31:31,606 --> 00:31:32,840 FOUR MISSIONS, WHO HAS DONE 836 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,044 GREAT WORK AS THE LEADER OF THIS 837 00:31:36,044 --> 00:31:39,213 CENTER. 838 00:31:39,213 --> 00:31:41,282 WE HAVE HAD CASES AT THE CENTER, 839 00:31:41,282 --> 00:31:42,383 BUT PEOPLE AREN'T GETTING IT 840 00:31:42,383 --> 00:31:42,684 HERE. 841 00:31:42,684 --> 00:31:45,353 THEY ARE GETTING IT OTHER PLACES 842 00:31:45,353 --> 00:31:47,855 BECAUSE OF THE PROTOCOLS BOB HAS 843 00:31:47,855 --> 00:31:49,891 PUT IN PLACE AND THE ADHERENCE 844 00:31:49,891 --> 00:31:50,258 THE. 845 00:31:50,258 --> 00:31:51,993 GREAT WORK FORCE HERE AT 846 00:31:51,993 --> 00:31:54,963 KENNEDY, THE ADHERENCE TO THE 847 00:31:54,963 --> 00:31:56,164 PROTOCOL, SOCIAL DISTANCING, 848 00:31:56,164 --> 00:31:56,965 MASK WEARING. 849 00:31:56,965 --> 00:31:58,499 IF YOU DON'T NEED TO COME TO 850 00:31:58,499 --> 00:32:00,602 WORK AND CAN DO IT AT HOME, DO 851 00:32:00,602 --> 00:32:01,636 IT FROM HOME. 852 00:32:01,636 --> 00:32:02,937 THESE ARE THE PROTOCOLS WE HAVE 853 00:32:02,937 --> 00:32:04,405 PUT IN PLACE AND BOB LED THEST 854 00:32:04,405 --> 00:32:05,773 AND THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF 855 00:32:05,773 --> 00:32:06,140 SUCCESS. 856 00:32:06,140 --> 00:32:08,443 WOOY NEED THAT -- WE NEED TO 857 00:32:08,443 --> 00:32:09,110 THAT CONTINUE. 858 00:32:09,110 --> 00:32:10,712 I FEEL GOOD WHERE WE ARE AND THE 859 00:32:10,712 --> 00:32:13,548 AMERICAN PEOPLE DO AS WELL, I 860 00:32:13,548 --> 00:32:18,419 THINK. 861 00:32:18,419 --> 00:32:19,988 >> THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS. 862 00:32:19,988 --> 00:32:21,756 JIM, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR 863 00:32:21,756 --> 00:32:22,890 BEING A GREAT ADPIN STRAIGHTER. 864 00:32:22,890 --> 00:32:24,492 YOU HAVE -- ADMINISTRATOR. 865 00:32:24,492 --> 00:32:25,927 YOU HAVE REALLY MOTIVATED 866 00:32:25,927 --> 00:32:27,261 EVERYBODY AND EXCITED EVERYBODY 867 00:32:27,261 --> 00:32:29,964 WITH ARTEMIS JUST LIKE THE FAA 868 00:32:29,964 --> 00:32:32,767 GENTLEMEN EXCITING THE KIDS IT'S 869 00:32:32,767 --> 00:32:33,234 SO EXCITING. 870 00:32:33,234 --> 00:32:35,036 WE HAVE BEEN WAITING DECADES TO 871 00:32:35,036 --> 00:32:36,304 GO BACK TO THE MOON. 872 00:32:36,304 --> 00:33:15,209 THANK YOU 873 00:33:15,209 --> 00:33:16,844 REASON WE DO THE GREEN RUN TEST, 874 00:33:16,844 --> 00:33:19,080 WE GO THROUGH EVERY SYSTEM AND 875 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,049 EVERY SUB SYSTEM AND WE TEST ALL 876 00:33:21,049 --> 00:33:22,583 OF THE LIMITS TO MAKE SURE ALL 877 00:33:22,583 --> 00:33:24,986 OF THE MARGINE ON AND WE'RE 878 00:33:24,986 --> 00:33:26,220 GOING TO FIND THINGS AND WE'LL 879 00:33:26,220 --> 00:33:27,455 GET THEM CORRECTED. 880 00:33:27,455 --> 00:33:31,292 REMEMBER, THE SLS ROCKET IS 881 00:33:31,292 --> 00:33:32,927 NOT -- IT IS A TEST VEHICLE. 882 00:33:32,927 --> 00:33:34,696 BUT IT IS GOING TO THE MOON. 883 00:33:34,696 --> 00:33:36,431 THAT ROCKET IS GOING TO FLY TO 884 00:33:36,431 --> 00:33:36,864 THE MOON. 885 00:33:36,864 --> 00:33:38,633 I'LL SAY THIS, IT'S GOING TO 886 00:33:38,633 --> 00:33:41,135 LAUNCH ORIION AND THE EUROPEAN 887 00:33:41,135 --> 00:33:42,003 SERVICE MODULE TO THE MOON. 888 00:33:42,003 --> 00:33:43,638 AND SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE 889 00:33:43,638 --> 00:33:45,740 GET IT RIGHT. 890 00:33:45,740 --> 00:33:46,808 AND WHEN WE GET THIS FIRST ONE 891 00:33:46,808 --> 00:33:51,312 RIGHT, YOU KNOW, THE SECOND SL S 892 00:33:51,312 --> 00:33:53,047 WILL LAUNCH AMERICAN ASTRONAUT 893 00:33:53,047 --> 00:33:53,881 AROUND THE MOON. 894 00:33:53,881 --> 00:33:57,318 THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT IS ON THE 895 00:33:57,318 --> 00:33:58,886 5-YARD LINE AND WE ARE EXCITED 896 00:33:58,886 --> 00:34:00,421 ABOUT GETTING THE TEST COMPLETE 897 00:34:00,421 --> 00:34:02,690 AND GETTING THE CORE STAGE HERE. 898 00:34:02,690 --> 00:34:07,628 YESTERDAY I WAS AT THE VEHICLE 899 00:34:07,628 --> 00:34:08,162 ASSEMBLY BUILDING. 900 00:34:08,162 --> 00:34:11,632 THE SOLID ROCKET BOOSTERS ARE 901 00:34:11,632 --> 00:34:11,966 THERE. 902 00:34:11,966 --> 00:34:14,035 THEY ARE IN A PROCESSING 903 00:34:14,035 --> 00:34:16,437 FACILITY AND HERE AT KENNEDY. 904 00:34:16,437 --> 00:34:19,707 WE SAW THE ORION CREW CAPSULE IS 905 00:34:19,707 --> 00:34:22,677 HERE AND TESTED AND THE EUROPEAN 906 00:34:22,677 --> 00:34:24,545 SERVICE MODULE IS READY AND 907 00:34:24,545 --> 00:34:24,879 TESTED. 908 00:34:24,879 --> 00:34:26,080 EVERYTHING IS READY, WE HAVE TO 909 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,615 GET THE CORE STAGE HERE. 910 00:34:27,615 --> 00:34:30,451 WE SAW JUST RECENTLY THE MOBILE 911 00:34:30,451 --> 00:34:32,587 LAUNCHER ROLL OUT AND ROLL BACK 912 00:34:32,587 --> 00:34:32,854 IN. 913 00:34:32,854 --> 00:34:35,323 AND YESTERDAY I SAW IT IN ITS 914 00:34:35,323 --> 00:34:36,758 COMPLETED FORM AND IT'S 915 00:34:36,758 --> 00:34:37,125 BEAUTIFUL. 916 00:34:37,125 --> 00:34:39,427 BOB TOLD ME THAT WOULD NOT BE 917 00:34:39,427 --> 00:34:42,363 WHAT HOLDS US UP AND SO FAR HE'S 918 00:34:42,363 --> 00:34:43,030 BEEN RIGHT. 919 00:34:43,030 --> 00:34:44,332 THERE IS A LOT OF POSITIVE 920 00:34:44,332 --> 00:34:45,666 THINGS HAPPENING AND WE ARE VERY 921 00:34:45,666 --> 00:34:47,301 EXCITED ABOUT GETTING THAT FIRST 922 00:34:47,301 --> 00:34:50,371 LAUNCH DONE. 923 00:34:50,371 --> 00:34:52,507 THE NOVEMBER DATE OF 2021 HAS 924 00:34:52,507 --> 00:34:53,274 NOT CHANGED. 925 00:34:53,274 --> 00:34:56,177 WE HAVE MARGIN IN THAT SCHEDULE. 926 00:34:56,177 --> 00:34:58,279 BUT I WILL ALSO TELL YOU THAT 927 00:34:58,279 --> 00:35:00,314 WITH COVID AND THE HURRICANES 928 00:35:00,314 --> 00:35:01,949 AND SOME OTHER THINGS THAT 929 00:35:01,949 --> 00:35:05,653 MARGIN IS GOING TO SLIP. 930 00:35:05,653 --> 00:35:08,322 RIGHT NOW WE ARE HOLDING TO THE 931 00:35:08,322 --> 00:35:08,689 SCHEDULE. 932 00:35:08,689 --> 00:35:09,357 WILL IT STAY THAT WAY? 933 00:35:09,357 --> 00:35:10,124 IT DEPENDS. 934 00:35:10,124 --> 00:35:12,193 AS TIME GOES ON WE'LL LEARN HOW 935 00:35:12,193 --> 00:35:14,328 THE IMPACTSES ARE AFFECTING US. 936 00:35:14,328 --> 00:35:16,831 >> CAN I ASK ONE MORE QUESTION 937 00:35:16,831 --> 00:35:17,498 ABOUT COVID. 938 00:35:17,498 --> 00:35:20,401 IF THERE IS ANY RESEARCH ON THE 939 00:35:20,401 --> 00:35:23,604 ISS OR DIRECTED OR HAVE YOU BEEN 940 00:35:23,604 --> 00:35:25,039 CONTACTED BY THE VACCINE 941 00:35:25,039 --> 00:35:27,008 COMPANIES WHERE THE ISS COULD 942 00:35:27,008 --> 00:35:29,110 ASSIST IN THAT RESEARCH? 943 00:35:29,110 --> 00:35:33,447 >> NOT ON THE VACCINES PER SE. 944 00:35:33,447 --> 00:35:36,083 WHEN THE PANDEMIC FIRST BEGAN WE 945 00:35:36,083 --> 00:35:39,921 HAD GREAT FOLKS AT THE JET 946 00:35:39,921 --> 00:35:43,958 PROPULSION LABORATORY AND THEY, 947 00:35:43,958 --> 00:35:45,927 WHEN THEY HAD TO STOP WORK ON 948 00:35:45,927 --> 00:35:47,328 PROJECTS BECAUSE OF COVID THEY 949 00:35:47,328 --> 00:35:49,063 WENT TO WORK IN THEIR OWN HOMES 950 00:35:49,063 --> 00:35:51,532 AND CREATED A VENTILATOR THAT 951 00:35:51,532 --> 00:35:53,134 USES NONE OF THE PARTIES THAT 952 00:35:53,134 --> 00:35:55,002 COME FROM THE OTHER VENTILATOR 953 00:35:55,002 --> 00:35:57,405 MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES. 954 00:35:57,405 --> 00:36:00,074 IT HAS NOW BEEN LICENSED TO 955 00:36:00,074 --> 00:36:00,942 A NUMBER OF COMPANIES FOR MASK 956 00:36:00,942 --> 00:36:03,377 MANUFACTURING IF AND WHEN -- 957 00:36:03,377 --> 00:36:05,379 MASS MANUFACTURING IF AND WHEN 958 00:36:05,379 --> 00:36:05,713 NEEDED. 959 00:36:05,713 --> 00:36:09,550 THE WAY WE MAKE SURE THAT WE 960 00:36:09,550 --> 00:36:11,619 PROTECT PLANETS WHEN WE FLY 961 00:36:11,619 --> 00:36:14,355 ROBOTS TO OTHER WORLDS THAT'S 962 00:36:14,355 --> 00:36:15,990 WHAT A FOG AND MAKE SURE THAT WE 963 00:36:15,990 --> 00:36:18,459 DON'T TAKE ANY MICROBES TO ANY 964 00:36:18,459 --> 00:36:19,660 OTHER WORLDS. 965 00:36:19,660 --> 00:36:22,663 THAT FOG ACTUALLY KILLS VIRUSES 966 00:36:22,663 --> 00:36:24,265 AS WELL. 967 00:36:24,265 --> 00:36:28,402 AND WE HAVE NOW PARTNERED WITH 968 00:36:28,402 --> 00:36:30,872 A COMPANY IN OHIO TO USE THAT 969 00:36:30,872 --> 00:36:32,740 FOG TO CLEAN THE INSIDE OF 970 00:36:32,740 --> 00:36:33,741 AMBULANCES AND NOW IT'S GOING TO 971 00:36:33,741 --> 00:36:36,377 BE SCALED UP TO CLEAN THE INSIDE 972 00:36:36,377 --> 00:36:37,879 OF CLASSROOMS AND BUSINESSES AND 973 00:36:37,879 --> 00:36:39,013 YOU NAME IT. 974 00:36:39,013 --> 00:36:41,449 ANY CLOSED SPACE. 975 00:36:41,449 --> 00:36:42,350 THERE ARE GREAT THINGS THAT ARE 976 00:36:42,350 --> 00:36:44,085 HAPPENING AT NASA THAT SUPPORT 977 00:36:44,085 --> 00:36:45,786 THE COVID RESPONSE. 978 00:36:45,786 --> 00:36:48,256 BUT AS FAR AS ANY IMMUNIZATION 979 00:36:48,256 --> 00:36:49,357 CAPABILITY AT THIS POINT IF 980 00:36:49,357 --> 00:36:51,659 THERE IS I HAVE NOT HEARD OF IT 981 00:36:51,659 --> 00:37:00,835 AT THIS POINT. 982 00:37:00,835 --> 00:37:03,137 >> ONE QUESTION AS THE RULES 983 00:37:03,137 --> 00:37:05,439 IMPLY BUT TWO PARTS. 984 00:37:05,439 --> 00:37:09,377 HAVE ANY TECHNICAL ISSUES AT ALL 985 00:37:09,377 --> 00:37:11,879 ARISEN ON LAUNCHPAD 39 WITH THE 986 00:37:11,879 --> 00:37:13,848 CREW 1 STACK AND AFTER THE 987 00:37:13,848 --> 00:37:17,318 SPLASH DOWN OF DEMO 2 AND ALL 988 00:37:17,318 --> 00:37:19,921 THE ANALYSIS POST SPLASH DOWN, 989 00:37:19,921 --> 00:37:22,490 WAS IT CONCLUDED THAT WAS 990 00:37:22,490 --> 00:37:28,296 A FLAWLESS LAUNCH AND MISSION? 991 00:37:28,296 --> 00:37:29,931 >> I'LL IDENTIFY TWO ISSUES THAT 992 00:37:29,931 --> 00:37:31,799 WE TOOK UP AND DEALT WITH AND 993 00:37:31,799 --> 00:37:33,634 I'LL TURN IT OVER TO BOB 994 00:37:33,634 --> 00:37:37,071 REGARDING THE LAUNCHPAD ITSELF. 995 00:37:37,071 --> 00:37:39,907 SO WHEN THE CAPSULE CAME BACK IT 996 00:37:39,907 --> 00:37:44,278 LOOKED LIKE THE APWHRAEUTED HEAT 997 00:37:44,278 --> 00:37:46,080 SHIELD HAD SPOTES WHERE IT 998 00:37:46,080 --> 00:38:38,199 AAABAPWHRAEUTED MORE THAN W 999 00:38:38,199 --> 00:38:39,934 AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR, THEY 1000 00:38:39,934 --> 00:38:42,336 WERE WITHIN MARGIN AND SAFE. 1001 00:38:42,336 --> 00:38:43,771 WE JUST WANTED TO UNDERSTAND IT 1002 00:38:43,771 --> 00:38:46,807 MORE AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AND WE 1003 00:38:46,807 --> 00:38:47,074 DID. 1004 00:38:47,074 --> 00:38:49,343 AS FAR AS THE PAD I'LL TURN IT 1005 00:38:49,343 --> 00:38:52,513 OVER TO BOB. 1006 00:38:52,513 --> 00:38:54,515 >> THE PAD'S READY TO GO. 1007 00:38:54,515 --> 00:38:56,017 AFTER EVERY LAUNCH REGARDLESS OF 1008 00:38:56,017 --> 00:38:57,651 WHAT PAD IT IS, THERE ARE 1009 00:38:57,651 --> 00:38:59,086 MAINTENANCE POSEEDURES THAT HAVE 1010 00:38:59,086 --> 00:39:05,426 TO BE -- PROCEDURES AND CHECK 1011 00:39:05,426 --> 00:39:08,729 AND BE READY FOR THE NEXT 1012 00:39:08,729 --> 00:39:09,163 LAUNCH. 1013 00:39:09,163 --> 00:39:11,232 SpaceX WENT THROUGH EVERYTHING 1014 00:39:11,232 --> 00:39:12,299 AFTER EVERY LAUNCH AND ARE GOOD 1015 00:39:12,299 --> 00:39:14,135 TO GO. 1016 00:39:14,135 --> 00:39:15,503 >> REFERRING TO THE PAD ITSELF 1017 00:39:15,503 --> 00:39:22,276 BUT THE CAPSULE AND ROCKET 1018 00:39:22,276 --> 00:39:22,610 STACK. 1019 00:39:22,610 --> 00:39:24,812 >> WE'LL HAVE IT READY AND HAVE 1020 00:39:24,812 --> 00:39:26,180 A REVIEW AT NOON AND FIND OUT 1021 00:39:26,180 --> 00:39:27,882 THE LATEST DETAIL OF EVERYTHING. 1022 00:39:27,882 --> 00:39:30,151 AS FAR AS I KNOW THEY ARE 1023 00:39:30,151 --> 00:39:31,652 WORKING NO SERIOUS ISSUE ARES 1024 00:39:31,652 --> 00:39:32,887 AND WE ARE GOOD TO GO. 1025 00:39:32,887 --> 00:39:34,355 WE'LL HAVE DETAILS AFTER THE 1026 00:39:34,355 --> 00:39:41,262 LAUNCH READINESS REVIEW AT NOON. 1027 00:39:41,262 --> 00:39:44,098 >> GOOD MORNING. 1028 00:39:44,098 --> 00:39:45,800 A QUESTION FOR MR. BRIDENSTINE. 1029 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,169 TOMORROW WILL BE A HISTORIC 1030 00:39:48,169 --> 00:39:54,508 FLIGHT OF CREW 1 WHERE WILL BE 1031 00:39:54,508 --> 00:39:57,878 FLYING ALONG SIDE AMERICAN 1032 00:39:57,878 --> 00:39:58,279 ASTRONAUTS. 1033 00:39:58,279 --> 00:40:00,815 WHAT IS THE MEANING OF IT FOR 1034 00:40:00,815 --> 00:40:03,918 NASA AS JAXA? 1035 00:40:03,918 --> 00:40:07,021 >> IT IS EXTREMELY SIGNIFICANT. 1036 00:40:07,021 --> 00:40:10,157 HE IS AN AMAZING ASTRONAUT AND 1037 00:40:10,157 --> 00:40:12,827 HUMAN BEING AND NOT JUST 1038 00:40:12,827 --> 00:40:14,395 A JAPANESE HERO, HE IS AN 1039 00:40:14,395 --> 00:40:15,129 AMERICAN HERO. 1040 00:40:15,129 --> 00:40:16,764 HE IS ONE OF THE FINEEST. 1041 00:40:16,764 --> 00:40:19,934 I WILL TELL YOU WHEN WE THINK 1042 00:40:19,934 --> 00:40:21,802 ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIPS WE HAVE 1043 00:40:21,802 --> 00:40:23,537 AROUND THE WORLD, JAPAN IS AMONG 1044 00:40:23,537 --> 00:40:25,339 THE BEST PARTNERS WE HAVE. 1045 00:40:25,339 --> 00:40:28,209 AND I WILL ALSO SAY THAT THE 1046 00:40:28,209 --> 00:40:29,710 SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT PARTNERSHIP 1047 00:40:29,710 --> 00:40:32,279 IS HERE WE ARE ON THE FIRST 1048 00:40:32,279 --> 00:40:34,148 OPERATIONAL MISSION OF 1049 00:40:34,148 --> 00:40:35,950 A COMMERCIAL CREW VEHICLE AND 1050 00:40:35,950 --> 00:40:37,318 JAPAN IS WITH US. 1051 00:40:37,318 --> 00:40:38,953 REALLY, ON DAY ONE, JAPAN IS 1052 00:40:38,953 --> 00:40:39,520 WITH US. 1053 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,355 WITH US ON THE INTERNATIONAL 1054 00:40:41,355 --> 00:40:41,989 SPACE STATION. 1055 00:40:41,989 --> 00:40:44,125 WE ARE LOOKING AT THE ENTHUSIASM 1056 00:40:44,125 --> 00:40:48,295 IN JAPAN FOR THE ARTEMIS PROGRAM 1057 00:40:48,295 --> 00:40:49,964 AND THE BUDGET THAT JAPAN IS 1058 00:40:49,964 --> 00:40:53,200 SEEKING TO ACHIEVE HUMANS 1059 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:54,702 LANDING ON THE MOON FOR THE 1060 00:40:54,702 --> 00:41:02,910 FIRST TIME SINCE 1972 AND 1061 00:41:02,910 --> 00:41:04,411 KNOWING THAT JAPAN WANTS TO BE 1062 00:41:04,411 --> 00:41:05,112 WITH US ON THE ARTEMIS PROGRAM 1063 00:41:05,112 --> 00:41:05,813 AND COMMITTING THEMSELVES NOT 1064 00:41:05,813 --> 00:41:06,547 JUST TO THE EFFORT BUT BACKING 1065 00:41:06,547 --> 00:41:07,448 IT UP WITH FINANCIAL RESOURCE, 1066 00:41:07,448 --> 00:41:10,551 JAPAN IS AN AMAZING PARTNER AND 1067 00:41:10,551 --> 00:41:11,285 WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE NATION 1068 00:41:11,285 --> 00:41:12,286 OF JAPAN. 1069 00:41:12,286 --> 00:41:15,189 AND I LOOK FORWARD TO ALL THE 1070 00:41:15,189 --> 00:41:17,024 AMAZING THINGS HE WILL DO ON THE 1071 00:41:17,024 --> 00:41:17,791 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION OVER 1072 00:41:17,791 --> 00:41:19,493 THE COMING SIX MONTHS. 1073 00:41:19,493 --> 00:41:22,396 HE IS A SPECIAL INDIVIDUAL. 1074 00:41:22,396 --> 00:41:24,765 AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO A LONG 1075 00:41:24,765 --> 00:41:30,171 AND STRONG PARTNERSHIP WITH 1076 00:41:30,171 --> 00:41:32,473 JAPAN AS WE CONTINUE. 1077 00:41:32,473 --> 00:41:38,412 >> THE LAST QUESTION. 1078 00:41:38,412 --> 00:41:39,547 >> ADMINISTRATOR, ABOUT ELON 1079 00:41:39,547 --> 00:41:41,782 MUSK AND THE POSSIBILITY THAT 1080 00:41:41,782 --> 00:41:43,217 HE'S NOT FEELING GOOD AND COULD 1081 00:41:43,217 --> 00:41:43,951 BE ILL. 1082 00:41:43,951 --> 00:41:46,187 I KNOW THE CREW IS IN 1083 00:41:46,187 --> 00:41:46,587 QUARANTINE. 1084 00:41:46,587 --> 00:41:48,022 HAS HE HAD CONTACT WITH THE CREW 1085 00:41:48,022 --> 00:41:52,026 OR OTHERS, TRAINERS OR OTHERS IN 1086 00:41:52,026 --> 00:41:53,227 CONTACT OF THE CREW AND HAVE YOU 1087 00:41:53,227 --> 00:41:56,397 BEEN ABLE TO CONTACT TRACE ALL 1088 00:41:56,397 --> 00:41:56,697 THAT? 1089 00:41:56,697 --> 00:41:58,766 IS THERE A CHANCE IF HE IS ILL 1090 00:41:58,766 --> 00:42:00,000 YOU WILL HAVE TO DELAY. 1091 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,402 >> AS FAR AS CONTACT WITH THE 1092 00:42:01,402 --> 00:42:03,103 CREW I AM UNAWARE WITH IT. 1093 00:42:03,103 --> 00:42:04,939 THE CONTACT TRACING SHOULD BE 1094 00:42:04,939 --> 00:42:06,840 UNDER WAY RIGHT NOW. 1095 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,310 AND OF COURSE, NASA AND SpaceX 1096 00:42:09,310 --> 00:42:11,278 WILL WORK THROUGH IT TOGETHER 1097 00:42:11,278 --> 00:42:14,281 AND COME TO THE RIGHT 1098 00:42:14,281 --> 00:42:14,882 CONCLUSION. 1099 00:42:14,882 --> 00:42:16,317 LOOK, THIS NEWS JUST BROKE 1100 00:42:16,317 --> 00:42:18,886 BEFORE THIS PRESS CONFERENCE. 1101 00:42:18,886 --> 00:42:21,222 LOOK, IF THERE ARE ADJUSTMENTS 1102 00:42:21,222 --> 00:42:22,656 THAT NEED TO BE MADE WE'LL MAKE 1103 00:42:22,656 --> 00:42:23,224 THEM. 1104 00:42:23,224 --> 00:42:24,959 OUR ASTRONAUTS HAVE BEEN IN 1105 00:42:24,959 --> 00:42:27,027 QUARANTINE FOR WEEKS AND THEY 1106 00:42:27,027 --> 00:42:29,063 SHOULD MOLT HAVE HAD CON-- NOT 1107 00:42:29,063 --> 00:42:30,998 HAVE HAD CONTACT WITH ANYBODY. 1108 00:42:30,998 --> 00:42:33,500 THEY SHOULD BE IN GOOD SHAPE. 1109 00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:34,868 >> IF THERE IS A CHANCE YOU 1110 00:42:34,868 --> 00:42:37,004 COULD DELAY IF THERE IS 1111 00:42:37,004 --> 00:42:38,505 A CONTACT TRACE THAT GETS BACK 1112 00:42:38,505 --> 00:42:39,173 TO THE CREW. 1113 00:42:39,173 --> 00:42:40,708 >> I DON'T KNOW THAT. 1114 00:42:40,708 --> 00:42:43,677 I AM NOT GOING TO SAY THAT. 1115 00:42:43,677 --> 00:42:45,079 THERE IS A LOT TO LEARN. 1116 00:42:45,079 --> 00:42:47,281 >> THANK YOU, SIR. 1117 00:42:47,281 --> 00:43:28,589 IS A LOT OF FIRSTS ON THIS 1118 00:43:28,589 --> 00:43:30,257 FLIGHT AND AMAZING DISCOVERIES 1119 00:43:30,257 --> 00:43:32,826 THAT WILL HAPPEN BY THESE FOUR 1120 00:43:32,826 --> 00:43:34,128 AMAZING ASTRONAUTS OVER THE NEXT 1121 00:43:34,128 --> 00:43:35,195 SIX MONTHS. 1122 00:43:35,195 --> 00:43:37,598 IT'S A GREAT TIME TO BE AT NASA 1123 00:43:37,598 --> 00:43:41,902 AND A GREAT TIME IF YOU ARE AN 1124 00:43:41,902 --> 00:43:44,305 ENTHUSIASTIC OF SPACE 1125 00:43:44,305 --> 00:43:45,572 EXPLORATION THERE IS A LOT 1126 00:43:45,572 --> 00:43:47,941 HAPPENING NOT JUST IN LOW EARTH 1127 00:43:47,941 --> 00:43:50,911 ORBIT BUT WITH THE ARTEMIS 1128 00:43:50,911 --> 00:43:51,745 PROGRAM AND TO THE MOON. 1129 00:43:51,745 --> 00:43:53,180 THANK YOU FOR BEING IN 1130 00:43:53,180 --> 00:43:54,348 ATTENDANCE AND WE LOOK FORWARD 1131 00:43:54,348 --> 00:43:56,450 TO A GREAT LAUNCH TOMORROW. 1132 00:43:56,450 --> 00:43:58,786 THANK YOU.