Derrol Nail (NASA Communications): Crew-6, on the move, inside Astronaut Crew Quarters…
Crew-6, walking outside Astronaut Crew Quarters for the second time,.
Andrey Fedyaev, Woody Hoburg, Stephen Bowen, and Sultan Alneyadi…
The crew departing the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout building… A full security escort
across NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to Launch Pad 39A…
The commander and pilot, Stephen and Woody making their way inside Dragon…
There go our two mission specialists as
they cross the hatch, being very careful. Raja Chari (NASA astronaut): Those five-point
harness, just to save wear-and-tear on the suits, a lot of times the
ground crew will help with doing that. Nail: As we watch the SpaceX closeout crew
close the hatch to the Dragon capsule. Mission Control: Three, two, one,
engines full power, and liftoff of Crew-6. Go Dragon, go Falcon! (Cheers and applause).
Gary Jordan (NASA Communications): Now launching on Endeavour’s fourth flight to
the International Space Station. Vehicle is pitching downrange. One point seven million
pounds of thrust provided by the nine Merlin 1D engines on the first stage.
Hearing good call – stage one propulsion is nominal.