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We. Knew.

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Everything right for you.

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And we've gone out and started.

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We are prepared to get back.

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You are looking

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live at SpaceX Launch Complex 40, where
a SpaceX Dragon and Falcon nine rocket

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are poised to lift crew 12 on a mission
to the International Space Station.

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NASA astronauts
Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway,

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European Space Agency astronaut
Sophie Adeno and Roscosmos

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cosmonaut Andre Fedya have ventured
to the International Space Station

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for a long duration
mission aboard the orbiting laboratory.

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Good morning, and welcome to NASA's
Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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I'm Steve Smith with NASA communications.

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And joining us for this morning's
prelaunch news conference are Steve Stich,

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program manager for NASA's
Commercial Crew Program.

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Dino Candela, deputy manager of NASA's
International Space Station program.

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Andreas Mogensen, human exploration group
leader for the European Space Agency.

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And joining us remotely is William
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vice president for build and flight
reliability with SpaceX.

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Crew 12

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is scheduled to lift off
no earlier than February 12th.

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That is an adjustment
after an earlier weather scrubbed call

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today due to a poor, poor conditions
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We're going to talk about that more in
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For those joining on the line,
press star one to join the question queue.

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We will be taking questions
from here in the room and from Colin.

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And we will start with Steve Stich.

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Steve. Yes.

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Thanks, Steve.

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And thank you for your interest

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in commercial crew and ISIS program
and human spaceflight.

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Had the opportunity to be out,

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at the launch countdown clock
there at the 39 press site this morning.

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And it was great to be out there
with our team.

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We always have a little ceremony
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and looked over at pad 39 B,
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the Artemis vehicle out at the pad.

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And then you look over at pad 40

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and we see, Falcon
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And so it's really exciting time
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launch systems
set up to launch cruise into space.

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We are really looking forward to crew 12
when we, get the right weather to launch.

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Jessica, Jack,
Sophie and Andre into space.

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As Steve said today, we adjusted our
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The 12th, 5:38 a.m.

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eastern launch time.

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When we had our weather briefing
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the launch site weather, which looks
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at the Kennedy Space Center.

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But we have abort weather,
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Where should something happen
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We can separate Dragon
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When we did that, we could see high winds
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Up to 24 to 28 knots, especially in what

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we would consider our higher risk
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There's a low pressure system
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that staging area,
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and we can really see the models
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So that is the reason why
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We'll have a meeting again
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look at the weather again.

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I would say right now
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will likely be there
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have our weather briefing in the morning
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The winds there are a little lower,
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for the remainder of the week.

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when we're ready,
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as we get ready for flight,
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We talked a number of topics about,
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the Falcon nine, Starlink, investigation
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We've gone through all the data.

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We don't really see anything off
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about how on crew nine,
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come back over and blow on to Dragon
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of getting the crew in the vehicle,
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I would say that all went well.

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and we just have to watch the weather, and
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very humbling to go look at the East coast
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and the weather outside is
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step, walk through the weather each day,
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Again, I want to thank the ISIS program.

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All of our teams, across space

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and NASA for all their hard work
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and all the agencies that support us.

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It's a huge team,
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And we'll just take it step by step
and we'll launch when we're ready.

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And I'll turn it over to Dina.

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All right. Thank you. Steve.

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and we're ready for crew
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You know, the crews here already?

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You know, a lot of folks will see them.

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There'll be a video from I.s.s.,
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If you remember, we've got Jessica
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I of have both flown at this one
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So they're returning residents
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I don't know, we're looking forward
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So, you know, on ISIS, we're not working
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Nothing urgent.
That's, pressing on us right now.

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You know, Chris, Sergei and Sergei
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They're doing great.
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After sometime in the end of February,
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when they get up there,
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I thought I'd highlight a couple of them.

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food production, for eventual exploration
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as Steve has mentioned, everyone,
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As I said, we are ready to go and ready
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Well, thank you. And, good morning.

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We at the European Space
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jealous of Andre Fedorov.

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I met him on the ice.

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And some of the things that she will be
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us, prepare for for future flights,
just to name a couple of things,

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the, European, Enhanced Exploration
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is a new exercise device that, Sophie
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You know, the i.s.s.

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affords us an incredible amount of space
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We have three different devices,

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but, in the future, we will likely be
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And so this new E-4 device is a

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combination of a

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rowing machine, bicycle machine,
and a strength exercising device.

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it'll give us, new information
about how to do countermeasures in space,

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using new types of devices that are much
more compact and smaller in size.

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Sophie will also continue
the use of the European everywhere

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application,
which is a health monitoring tool.

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Among other things, 
first flown by Thomas Pesquet.

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Our Artemis two crew will also actually be
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So we're excited again to make that link
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and Artemis.

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topic or, experiment,
that, Sophie will be working on

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is a, new, ultrasonic device
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to, do ultrasounds
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system uses augmented reality
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to allow astronauts, to do, ultrasounds
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Today on the ISIS,
whenever we do ultrasounds,

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we have, remote gliders, helping us.

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That's going to be much more difficult
as we travel further into space.

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So again, and, 
fantastic opportunity to use ISIS for,

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development of future technologies.

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So we're really looking forward to, crew

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12 and, Sophie's mission
on the International Space Station.

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This is, as always, 
a huge effort, from,

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everyone at the European Space Agency.

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And, we're very proud to be part of crew
12 and to work with NASA.

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Again. So thank you.

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And, without those words, I'll hand over
to, William Kirsten Meyer in Hawthorne.

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Thanks, Andreas.

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It's my pleasure to be with you here today
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to talk about crew 12, human spaceflight
is really special for us here at SpaceX.

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We go above and beyond to make sure
everything is ready.

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We're ready to support the crews.

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It's really a different
a different flight for us.

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And we spend an extra time
making sure things are really ready to go.

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And we're really ready to to go
do the mission.

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The Steve talked about.

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We completed a static fire.

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The rocket is, ready to go
is ready to fly.

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We found one check valve
that was a little sluggish

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and held back a little bit of pressure.

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It's on a transfer tube seal.

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We typically see that with static fires.

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We haven't done many static fires
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in this case, we saw that we removed
the check valve, put the new one in.

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We also bore scoped the line.

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We saw a little bit of moisture
in the line.

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That's probably indicative
of what caused the problem.

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There's likely some ice formation
that may have caused a slight pressurize,

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but again, that's part of the diligence
we go through to make sure everything

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is absolutely ready to go fly.

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Everything else looked really good
on the rocket.

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This morning.

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We went through a dry dress with the crew
to make sure they're comfortable,

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and our operators here in Hawthorne
are ready to

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to interact with the crew
and get the capsule

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closed out, get the hatch closed,
go through these activities.

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This is only our second launch
from pad 40 with crew.

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So this is a chance for us
to make sure things were really ready.

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And and that activity
went extremely smooth this morning.

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The dry dress was very good.

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We're ready to go once
the weather gets ready to go.

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As Steve talked about, we had a problem,

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last week, on Monday
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It was during the third burn of the,
of the back engine.

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It's a deorbit burn.

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During that burn,
we were changing the geo profile

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to go look at a new way of essentially
chilling in the engine.

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And it turns out, through that process,
we created a condition that essentially,

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starved the GPS of proper oxygen
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caused a problem with the engine
during the deorbit burn.

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I really want to stress that what occurred
on Starlink is unique to Starlink.

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We don't do three burns with true
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The first burn of the crew
mission is always the same.

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It's, fully chilled in, fully,

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ready to go

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fly through in a gravity environment
where there's no microgravity conditions.

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It's a really solid burn that occurs.

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And we've done that the same way
for every crewed mission.

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The second burn of the of the crew
flights are is also very standard.

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We didn't have to change anything.

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Based on what we learned
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It's the same profile we use.

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We stay with the standard kill
profile, etc..

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So again,
I think we're continuing to learn.

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We're still continuing

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to kind of push the envelope
to see how our hardware systems operate.

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And ultimately by pushing kind
of the envelope and seeing the corners,

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we understand where hardware works,
where it doesn't work well.

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So then when it comes time to fly crew,

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we can go back
more to the center of the envelope.

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We can get that high reliability
that's demanded by a crew mission.

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So so that's what occurred on,

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a couple weeks
ago, on Monday or a week ago on Monday.

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Again, a tremendous amount of effort
was done to make sure we really understood

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the problem.
There was no crossover to crew.

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We went through a full investigation,
developed the full Valkyrie,

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had, the FAA, NASA, 
the space Force were all involved

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with us in the investigation
and were truly ready to fly.

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And there's there's no crossover at all
to the crew flight that's coming up.

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You also may have noticed,

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if you look over at 39 eight,
that crew arm is coming down.

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We're going to do some maintenance
on some bearings on the crew arm.

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I think the general plan is
we'll keep the crew arm on the ground,

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if we do those repairs.

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But are we ready
to put the crew arm back up again?

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If we need to go back and watch crew
from pad 39.

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So again, you'll see that
it doesn't say we're

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backing away from 39 for crew flights.

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We'll just have it in reserve
when it's needed.

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And we need to do this
repair of the bearings on the on

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another interesting thing is this will be
the first, landing at landing zone 40.

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So we still have landing zone
two available to us if we need,

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but we're going to now land the,
first stage of the Falcon rocket

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right next to the launch pad.

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And that makes for easier
processing for us and moves us forward

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and keeps kind of launch and landing
in the same general area.

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So again,
I think overall we're we're ready to go.

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We treat human

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spaceflight, very differently than we do
any other flight.

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We work extremely hard with
all of our partners, with all the team

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members, to really make sure
we're really ready to go fly.

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There's no higher calling in.

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There is to fly crew.

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You know, I often say that, you know,
especially with the Super Bowl

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and the Olympics,
you think about athletics and sports.

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Human spaceflight
is the ultimate team sport.

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You have to be 100% transparent
about what you know, what you don't know.

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Share with your teammates, share
with the crew,

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share with everyone, and make sure
we're really ready to go flying.

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It's an honor to be part of this team.

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It's an honor to represent space and it's
honor to to be with you all today.

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We look forward to your questions
when they come back to you.

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Steve.

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Thank you.

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Thank you everyone.

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We're going to start our questions
here in the room.

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If you have called in

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star one, we'll get you in the queue
to ask a question if you wish.

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And star two

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we'll let you drop out of the queue
and we will start here in the room.

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And we're going to start with
Will Robinson.

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Smith from Spaceflight Now.

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Hi. Thanks so much Will Robinson
Smith for Spaceflight Now.

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Thank you for taking the time
to talk with us today.

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Quick went to Bill, Kirsten Meyer
and then to to Andy Mogensen.

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Regarding how quickly 39 eight
could come back into rotation if needed.

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What's the time frame
if if NASA calls that that pad

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could be ready for, 
another human spaceflight activity.

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And then for Andy,
can you describe the the mass

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of the workout equipment that,
Sophie is going to be demonstrating?

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You know, is it something that, you know,
is able to fit alongside them inside

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Dragon or just need to go into the, 
pressurized cargo area?

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Thanks.

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In terms of

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39 day readiness,
we'll be ready to support from 39 A

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as soon as we can get the rocket ready
to go fly and get the call up in place.

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So if NASA has a need,

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as soon as we're notified,
we'll start processing the Dragon capsule.

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We'll start processing the Falcon vehicle
and the timeframe

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it takes us to get Falcon
and Dragon ready.

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We can be ready to get the pad up
and operating.

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And regarding,

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the exercise, for the exercise device,
I mean, it's too big for, a capsule.

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But, potentially for, gateway.

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But this really is the first step.

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It's quite, massive.

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Still, because of the countermeasure,
system with the anti vibration system,

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because it's, a rowing device, it has,

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a different movement
and then the other exercise devices.

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So this will give us more understanding,
of, of exercise devices like that.

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And these are really,
more of a step on the way to,

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an exploration exercise device
than the actual end product.

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I would say in all of this
that we were planning to launch it

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on a Northrop Grumman cargo vehicle,
which allows us a little bit more space.

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And, you can launch different pieces
and parts of it, but, yeah,

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there's still quite a bit of mass
associated with this isolation system.

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So it's not doing.

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And one more in the room

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before we go to things.

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All right.

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Thank you Ken Kramer SpaceX up close.

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Thanks for all doing this.

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And and good luck.

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My question actually
is for all three of you.

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You you mentioned Andre,
is this new ultrasound device.

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So a question I've had for a while
since the crew 11 medical evacuation is

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are you guys reevaluating what medicines

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and what medical devices
you should have on board the I.s.s.?

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And would your device have helped crew

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11 at all in in analyzing
whatever was wrong?

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Thanks.

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Why don't I just kick us off here?

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I think I'll take it, but, I'll just say,
you know, we are continually looking

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at the various risks on board.

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What are the risks, 
medically, for our crewmembers?

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You know, there's
a large programmatic risk associated

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with having to bring home crews early.

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And, and we're just continually

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looking at the complement of, equipment
that we have on board.

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So there is, the specific item
that he's talking about is more of

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an experiment to see about remote guidance
and that type of thing.

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It's not specifically something
that we are,

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manifesting on board
or any particular, risk.

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It's more just overall risk reduction,
for multiple things.

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Understanding
blood flow and space is critical

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because it doesn't operate
quite exactly the same.

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You know, we're just continually
looking at all the various risks.

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And so his, his, remote guidance type of
techniques are important for exploration.

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And, really,
there's not been a very specific

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targeted,
something associated with his device

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that, is going to be used,
associated with that return.

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And I

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would just say I watched the ISIS program
operate all the time,

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and they're trying to all the time look
at the risk of the human body in space.

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If you just think about the population
on Earth, everybody in

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this room has a little different blood
physi physiology.

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Everybody has a little bit
different metabolism.

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Everybody's different.

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And drugs
work differently on all of us here.

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And so if you think about
what we're doing right now

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and it's flying, more and more people,
you get a wider population

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of how people behave in microgravity
for these long duration flights,

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we tend to try to fly more
and more diagnostic capability

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to augment
what we have here on the ground.

471
00:25:42,290 --> 00:25:44,042
Here we have wonderful medical capability.

472
00:25:44,042 --> 00:25:48,029
But again, for Mars, someday
we're going to need these long duration

473
00:25:48,029 --> 00:25:51,032
flights where people are in microgravity
for over a year.

474
00:25:51,032 --> 00:25:53,251
And so I assess
it's really a pathfinder for that.

475
00:25:54,452 --> 00:25:56,972
It's is there

476
00:25:56,972 --> 00:26:00,292
is there any specific medication or device

477
00:26:00,292 --> 00:26:03,295
you can point to that
you would like to have up there?

478
00:26:04,045 --> 00:26:08,667
Well, there's a there's
an entire hospital's worth of equipment.

479
00:26:08,667 --> 00:26:12,654
And frankly, really there is a but
but but practically speaking, like I said,

480
00:26:12,787 --> 00:26:15,440
we are looking at all kinds of things
to upgrade our medical complement.

481
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,542
But there's a lot of things
that are just not practical.

482
00:26:17,542 --> 00:26:19,044
And so that's one you need to bring.

483
00:26:19,044 --> 00:26:23,698
Astronauts home from space if you think
you need something that you can imagine.

484
00:26:23,698 --> 00:26:27,452
There's a lot of devices, in a hospital
setting that are available

485
00:26:27,452 --> 00:26:31,489
that are just not practical
to send up, onward, I guess.

486
00:26:31,489 --> 00:26:36,144
So, there's not really one specific thing
I'd say that I'd like to claim here,

487
00:26:36,144 --> 00:26:40,615
but, it's we're continually trying
to see what we can do to downscale

488
00:26:40,615 --> 00:26:44,402
equipment and, and manifest it on board
just for risk mitigation purposes.

489
00:26:46,037 --> 00:26:46,438
Thank you.

490
00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:47,689
We're going to go to the phones.

491
00:26:47,689 --> 00:26:50,692
Irene Klotz from Aviation Week.

492
00:26:52,344 --> 00:26:52,877
Good morning.

493
00:26:52,877 --> 00:26:54,029
Do you hear me? All right.

494
00:26:54,029 --> 00:26:56,698
We have you.

495
00:26:56,698 --> 00:26:57,232
Thank you.

496
00:26:57,232 --> 00:26:58,967
I have two questions.

497
00:26:58,967 --> 00:27:02,971
First, for dinner, 
do you have an update on the status

498
00:27:02,971 --> 00:27:06,091
of the repairs
to the launch pad at Baikonur?

499
00:27:06,091 --> 00:27:10,679
Following, the damage from the after that
and the 28 launch.

500
00:27:11,329 --> 00:27:13,948
And, probably for Steve, are there any,

501
00:27:13,948 --> 00:27:18,620
any schedule issues

502
00:27:18,620 --> 00:27:22,557
that might need to be deconstructed
with crew 12 launch and,

503
00:27:23,008 --> 00:27:28,229
ongoing, work
on, on Artemis for the wet dress.

504
00:27:28,496 --> 00:27:30,198
Thanks.

505
00:27:30,198 --> 00:27:30,448
All right.

506
00:27:30,448 --> 00:27:33,501
So relative to the to the, Baikonur

507
00:27:33,501 --> 00:27:36,588
Cosmodrome, launch pad for progress.

508
00:27:36,588 --> 00:27:41,793
And Soyuz, of course, that repairs,
under the guidance of Roscosmos.

509
00:27:41,793 --> 00:27:44,629
And so I don't have
any more details to share.

510
00:27:44,629 --> 00:27:47,215
I'll say that they're still targeting
March 22nd.

511
00:27:47,215 --> 00:27:50,452
We've not heard of any schedule changes, 
associated with that.

512
00:27:50,852 --> 00:27:52,103
So, you know, most cases

513
00:27:52,103 --> 00:27:54,289
we'll have more detail
on how they're progressing with that.

514
00:27:54,289 --> 00:27:57,642
But I'll just give you from a schedule
standpoint, nothing has changed. So

515
00:27:59,094 --> 00:27:59,761
and on

516
00:27:59,761 --> 00:28:04,799
the busy activities here, at the range,
we've got a couple of things

517
00:28:04,799 --> 00:28:08,870
we're watching, one,
ULA has the United Launch

518
00:28:08,870 --> 00:28:13,408
Alliance has a launch, a Vulcan launch
for Space Force, also on Thursday.

519
00:28:13,408 --> 00:28:15,210
So we'll work with them.

520
00:28:15,210 --> 00:28:18,480
If the weather doesn't look good for us,
we'll give them an opportunity

521
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:23,068
to go fly their mission and,
and accomplish their mission as well.

522
00:28:23,068 --> 00:28:26,571
And then we're watching
and talking to Artemis every single day.

523
00:28:26,571 --> 00:28:32,427
We did that, as you heard prior to,
prior to their, wet dress rehearsal.

524
00:28:32,427 --> 00:28:34,863
We'll watch what they're doing right now.

525
00:28:34,863 --> 00:28:38,299
We don't see conflicts this this week,
but we continue to talk to them

526
00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:39,317
all the time.

527
00:28:39,317 --> 00:28:41,302
They've made progress
at changing out a few Seals,

528
00:28:41,302 --> 00:28:43,488
and they're doing some testing
on those seals.

529
00:28:43,488 --> 00:28:47,275
And we'll we'll make sure that we have
an integrated operation where we can go

530
00:28:47,275 --> 00:28:51,262
fly and crew 12, since we have a vehicle
at the pad that's ready to go.

531
00:28:51,262 --> 00:28:55,066
And Dragon Field was hypergolic,
and then we'll work them in as well.

532
00:28:55,083 --> 00:28:56,785
And they're ready
to go do their white dress.

533
00:28:58,937 --> 00:28:59,387
Thank you.

534
00:28:59,387 --> 00:29:03,208
And our next question comes from Steven
Clarke at Ars Technica.

535
00:29:03,241 --> 00:29:06,227
Go ahead Steven.

536
00:29:07,495 --> 00:29:09,030
Hi Steven Clarke from our Seneca.

537
00:29:09,030 --> 00:29:10,165
Thanks for taking my question.

538
00:29:10,165 --> 00:29:13,218
I think my question is probably for, 
Steve

539
00:29:13,218 --> 00:29:18,423
or know about the upcoming
Starliner cargo mission.

540
00:29:18,423 --> 00:29:21,242
Is that still expected to launch?

541
00:29:21,242 --> 00:29:22,560
I think, in the April timeframe.

542
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,448
At one point, it was, expected to fly in
in that time frame.

543
00:29:26,448 --> 00:29:28,850
Is it still expected in that time frame?

544
00:29:28,850 --> 00:29:32,720
And also, you know, where
where things stand right now

545
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,439
in the investigation of

546
00:29:34,439 --> 00:29:37,976
of what happened on the,
on the crew test flight and what kind of,

547
00:29:38,660 --> 00:29:41,362
information or data
they hope to learn from this upcoming

548
00:29:41,362 --> 00:29:44,365
flight to be able to certify. Thanks.

549
00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:47,068
I'll start
and see if it has anything to add.

550
00:29:47,068 --> 00:29:51,723
So, right now we're continuing to have a
no earlier than April launch date,

551
00:29:51,723 --> 00:29:52,607
but we're really driven

552
00:29:52,607 --> 00:29:57,078
by closing out all the technical work
we need to do ahead of that flight.

553
00:29:57,779 --> 00:30:01,766
We've made great progress on
in the helium system.

554
00:30:01,766 --> 00:30:05,787
We remember we had in the service module,
we had helium leaks on that flight.

555
00:30:05,787 --> 00:30:10,441
We've changed out the seals,
with the seal that's resistant

556
00:30:10,441 --> 00:30:14,395
to, and nitrogen tetroxide vapor.

557
00:30:14,512 --> 00:30:18,867
And so that's been through our board
and the IFA has been closed out.

558
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,487
We did not fire,
the crew module thrusters,

559
00:30:22,487 --> 00:30:26,357
on the vehicle
we planned to fly for Starliner one.

560
00:30:26,508 --> 00:30:29,127
All 12 of those thrusters were not fired

561
00:30:29,127 --> 00:30:32,063
in the crew and cargo
processing facility for Boeing.

562
00:30:32,063 --> 00:30:33,898
Those are all work good.

563
00:30:33,898 --> 00:30:36,067
And then we're continuing to finish.

564
00:30:36,067 --> 00:30:39,687
As we talked about last fall,
we did an immense amount of testing

565
00:30:39,687 --> 00:30:43,007
at the White Sands test facility
with an integrated doghouse

566
00:30:43,374 --> 00:30:46,728
and, two thrusters,
what we call a single engine.

567
00:30:46,728 --> 00:30:48,229
Delta Klaw, one and two.

568
00:30:48,229 --> 00:30:51,783
We're taking all that data right now,
and in the process of building a model

569
00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:54,769
to try to predict thruster behavior.

570
00:30:54,769 --> 00:30:57,138
That model has been given, shared
with NASA.

571
00:30:57,138 --> 00:30:59,874
We're going through all that modeling
right now, and

572
00:30:59,874 --> 00:31:03,928
and so when we get through that and get, 
to a point where we're comfortable

573
00:31:03,928 --> 00:31:07,682
in predicting thruster performance,
then we'll go move forward and, and,

574
00:31:07,799 --> 00:31:09,167
and look toward a launch date.

575
00:31:09,167 --> 00:31:12,136
But again,
we have a lot of data to go work through,

576
00:31:13,104 --> 00:31:14,239
to get ready to go fly.

577
00:31:14,239 --> 00:31:19,227
And really, the purpose of Starliner one
is to validate the changes that we made.

578
00:31:19,427 --> 00:31:23,181
If you think about, in the service
module, we've made changes

579
00:31:23,181 --> 00:31:27,352
to draw heat away from each individual, 
reaction control system thruster.

580
00:31:27,802 --> 00:31:32,574
We've made changes to seals
to keep the plume from the Omak,

581
00:31:32,574 --> 00:31:35,577
the orbital maneuvering engines
from going back into the air.

582
00:31:35,627 --> 00:31:38,930
We have instrumentation in the doghouse
just to measure temperature

583
00:31:38,930 --> 00:31:40,398
throughout each of the dog houses.

584
00:31:40,398 --> 00:31:43,251
And so we've done a number of changes,
really.

585
00:31:43,251 --> 00:31:47,071
Starliner one is about validating
those changes in the flight environment,

586
00:31:47,388 --> 00:31:50,241
collecting that data
and then moving forward

587
00:31:50,241 --> 00:31:53,578
for the next flight, which would be a plan
to be a crew rotation mission.

588
00:31:55,496 --> 00:31:55,980
Thank you.

589
00:31:55,980 --> 00:31:59,867
Our next question comes from Andrea
Lynn Felder, Houston Chronicle.

590
00:31:59,901 --> 00:32:00,618
Go ahead, Andrea.

591
00:32:05,156 --> 00:32:05,907
Thank you so much.

592
00:32:05,907 --> 00:32:07,358
This question is for Dina.

593
00:32:07,358 --> 00:32:09,594
During the 12, excuse me.

594
00:32:09,594 --> 00:32:12,196
During the crew 12 news conference,
Jessica Meir mentioned

595
00:32:12,196 --> 00:32:15,199
that the space station crew
will talk to the art of his two crew.

596
00:32:15,233 --> 00:32:18,353
I'm curious, why are they going
to be talking and what will they discuss?

597
00:32:18,620 --> 00:32:20,838
Thank you.

598
00:32:20,838 --> 00:32:25,076
Well, you can imagine they're probably
talking about their various views

599
00:32:25,076 --> 00:32:28,079
that each of them is seeing,
you know, their earth views.

600
00:32:28,229 --> 00:32:28,763
Probably.

601
00:32:28,763 --> 00:32:31,316
Look a lot different from the Artemis
two viewpoint.

602
00:32:31,316 --> 00:32:34,202
And I assess viewpoint. So, we'll see.

603
00:32:34,202 --> 00:32:39,057
You know, their mission overlap and,
how that conversation takes place, but,

604
00:32:39,290 --> 00:32:42,927
I'm sure as, good friends
that are also probably going

605
00:32:42,927 --> 00:32:45,947
to just be excited to talk to each other
from different parts of the, of

606
00:32:45,947 --> 00:32:46,614
the cosmos.

607
00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:49,951
Thank you.

608
00:32:49,951 --> 00:32:54,055
And next, 
we have Robert Pearlman from Collectspace.

609
00:32:54,088 --> 00:32:56,407
Go ahead. Robert.

610
00:32:56,407 --> 00:32:57,175
Hi. Thank you.

611
00:32:57,175 --> 00:33:02,397
On, some of the code space in Space.com,
for Bill Gerstenmaier.

612
00:33:02,580 --> 00:33:05,900
Does the bearings
work, drive the timing of the removal?

613
00:33:05,933 --> 00:33:09,320
The access arm on 39 a and

614
00:33:09,504 --> 00:33:13,791
is there other work planned for that pad
that preclude space X

615
00:33:13,858 --> 00:33:17,028
from re reinstalling it
when that work is done?

616
00:33:17,161 --> 00:33:21,599
Or why is it being kept on the ground,
and where is it being physically stored

617
00:33:21,599 --> 00:33:24,602
or worked on?

618
00:33:26,938 --> 00:33:30,625
Here we're going to remove the arm
and then the the bearings.

619
00:33:31,142 --> 00:33:34,462
The arm physically has to come down
to get the bearings.

620
00:33:34,462 --> 00:33:37,765
These are the bearings
that actually hold the arm to the tower.

621
00:33:37,765 --> 00:33:41,552
They're unique to 39
and they're very different than they are

622
00:33:41,669 --> 00:33:43,788
for the arm that's on 40.

623
00:33:43,788 --> 00:33:47,508
And to physically get access to those
the arm needs to be removed.

624
00:33:47,508 --> 00:33:50,511
Those bearings have to come out
and they have to be reinstalled.

625
00:33:50,762 --> 00:33:53,164
We'll do that
work at the Kennedy Space Center.

626
00:33:53,164 --> 00:33:57,301
And the intent there is
we don't need to put the arm back up

627
00:33:57,869 --> 00:34:00,571
because again, as I described, we have,

628
00:34:00,571 --> 00:34:02,640
you know,
when we get a call up for a mission

629
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,877
and we have to go fly a mission
if it requires that we have plenty of time

630
00:34:05,877 --> 00:34:08,880
to get the arm back up,
that's the easy piece of putting it up.

631
00:34:08,996 --> 00:34:11,933
You also see a lot of work
going on at 39 eight.

632
00:34:11,933 --> 00:34:13,518
That's to work for Starship.

633
00:34:13,518 --> 00:34:16,554
That doesn't impact our ability
to launch from the pad.

634
00:34:16,854 --> 00:34:20,341
We're careful that we keep those things
separate and we're ready to go.

635
00:34:20,725 --> 00:34:23,211
But again, I think this is
just the right way to get to the arm.

636
00:34:23,211 --> 00:34:25,980
There is no way
we could repair these bearings in place.

637
00:34:25,980 --> 00:34:29,067
We looked at it,
we put some epoxy in place.

638
00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:31,369
We put some inverters in place.

639
00:34:31,369 --> 00:34:34,338
It was a bandaid
kind of fix for those bearings.

640
00:34:34,338 --> 00:34:35,573
But it's the right thing to do

641
00:34:35,573 --> 00:34:39,143
is get those bearings
replaced in an environment underground,

642
00:34:39,477 --> 00:34:42,063
make some upgrades to them
and then we'll be ready to go

643
00:34:42,063 --> 00:34:44,148
put the arm back up
when it's time to go fly.

644
00:34:44,148 --> 00:34:45,116
If we need to go fly.

645
00:34:48,002 --> 00:34:48,903
Thank you.

646
00:34:48,903 --> 00:34:53,241
Our next question comes from TJ Mascara
Epoch Times.

647
00:34:53,241 --> 00:34:56,244
Go ahead TJ.

648
00:34:56,544 --> 00:34:57,061
Good morning.

649
00:34:57,061 --> 00:34:59,580
Thank you so much for my questions
for Andy.

650
00:34:59,580 --> 00:35:04,252
With the increased launch traffic,
we're starting to see, here in Florida

651
00:35:04,252 --> 00:35:09,323
and with the increased interest
you're seeing, with, people

652
00:35:09,323 --> 00:35:14,128
wanting to be astronauts,
I was wondering if the, PSA will ever,

653
00:35:14,128 --> 00:35:17,448
develop and start flying its own, 
crew capsule

654
00:35:17,448 --> 00:35:20,451
and their crewed missions.

655
00:35:21,452 --> 00:35:23,838
So just if I understood the question
right,

656
00:35:23,838 --> 00:35:27,742
the question is, will ESA develop
a crew capsule?

657
00:35:28,342 --> 00:35:29,760
Was that the question?

658
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,747
Yes. Yes.

659
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:33,598
Yeah.

660
00:35:33,598 --> 00:35:35,099
Well, that's a good question.

661
00:35:35,099 --> 00:35:37,802
But it's something that,

662
00:35:37,802 --> 00:35:41,722
we are certainly, looking at and,

663
00:35:41,722 --> 00:35:45,810
if everything goes,

664
00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:51,449
according to plan, it's a potential thing
that we might bring to our member states.

665
00:35:51,449 --> 00:35:55,620
So the European Space Agency consists of, 
23 European member states,

666
00:35:56,037 --> 00:35:58,739
and they are the ones that, actually sets,

667
00:35:58,739 --> 00:36:01,742
European space policy.

668
00:36:01,843 --> 00:36:04,679
And, it happens every three years

669
00:36:04,679 --> 00:36:08,282
at our ministerial conference,
the last one was in November last year.

670
00:36:08,549 --> 00:36:11,485
And so the next one is in November 2028.

671
00:36:11,485 --> 00:36:15,056
And this is potentially one of the,

672
00:36:15,056 --> 00:36:18,259
topics that we would bring up, to discuss
with our member states.

673
00:36:18,259 --> 00:36:21,028
But, 
it's still a ways off in the future.

674
00:36:21,028 --> 00:36:23,748
But certainly it's something
that we are discussing.

675
00:36:27,084 --> 00:36:27,568
Thank you.

676
00:36:27,568 --> 00:36:31,622
Our next question is going to come in
from Jeff Foust from Space News.

677
00:36:31,639 --> 00:36:34,108
Go ahead, Jeff.

678
00:36:34,108 --> 00:36:35,009
Hey. Good morning.

679
00:36:35,009 --> 00:36:38,579
A couple of follow ups for Steve
from some earlier questions.

680
00:36:38,930 --> 00:36:43,668
One, if the weather improves for Thursday,
does crew 12 have priority on the range

681
00:36:43,668 --> 00:36:45,152
over the early Vulcan launch,

682
00:36:45,152 --> 00:36:46,287
or is there a way to squeeze

683
00:36:46,287 --> 00:36:49,523
both of them in, given
I think they're pretty close together

684
00:36:49,523 --> 00:36:52,526
in terms of the time of the morning,
they're scheduled to launch

685
00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:57,798
and then, for Starliner, 
what point do you have to make a decision

686
00:36:57,798 --> 00:37:01,852
on what vehicle flies the next crew
rotation mission after crew 12?

687
00:37:02,086 --> 00:37:06,591
How long how late could you fly
Starliner one and still have enough data,

688
00:37:06,807 --> 00:37:08,092
enough time to look at the data

689
00:37:08,092 --> 00:37:11,329
from that flight to decide it's available
for that next crewed mission

690
00:37:11,545 --> 00:37:13,547
to the station
towards the end of the year.

691
00:37:13,547 --> 00:37:14,916
Thanks.

692
00:37:14,916 --> 00:37:17,668
At the address, the first question.

693
00:37:17,668 --> 00:37:19,070
Yeah. Right. Right.

694
00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:22,256
Now we, crew 12 has priority

695
00:37:22,256 --> 00:37:25,526
on the range, over the Vulcan launch.

696
00:37:25,593 --> 00:37:29,880
And that's what we want to do today
a little bit is look at the weather,

697
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,015
talk to them,

698
00:37:31,015 --> 00:37:34,669
see their readiness, and, if the weather's
not looking very favorable, we would

699
00:37:35,119 --> 00:37:38,539
we would potentially give up the 12
for for them to allow them to go fly.

700
00:37:38,539 --> 00:37:41,909
So the way the rain scheduling works,
we had the 11th and 12th

701
00:37:42,243 --> 00:37:43,461
as our two prime dates.

702
00:37:43,461 --> 00:37:46,080
And so we we have priority right now.

703
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,216
But the way we work across, 
all the users at the range,

704
00:37:49,216 --> 00:37:52,637
we do this sort of thing
all the time and space does as well.

705
00:37:52,637 --> 00:37:56,757
With their flights, we try to optimize
the schedule so everybody gets to go fly.

706
00:37:57,591 --> 00:38:01,195
In terms of the next crew rotation
mission, we have not decided yet.

707
00:38:01,696 --> 00:38:06,384
In the fall, it could be either,
a crew 13 mission or Starliner to

708
00:38:06,851 --> 00:38:09,470
we want to work through and get through
Starliner one

709
00:38:09,470 --> 00:38:12,473
into the summer timeframe
and then see where we're at before.

710
00:38:12,473 --> 00:38:13,758
So we have some time to decide.

711
00:38:13,758 --> 00:38:16,761
We have, 
crews in training for both missions.

712
00:38:16,944 --> 00:38:20,481
And, we have a little bit more time
to decide into the summer. So

713
00:38:22,166 --> 00:38:22,550
thank you.

714
00:38:22,550 --> 00:38:25,286
We're going to come back in the room

715
00:38:25,286 --> 00:38:28,172
and we'll.

716
00:38:28,172 --> 00:38:30,141
Hi. Thanks for allowing another question.

717
00:38:30,141 --> 00:38:35,096
Question to, Bill Gerstenmaier
into, Dina as well.

718
00:38:35,463 --> 00:38:39,567
One of the experiments
that Jessica Meir mentioned

719
00:38:39,567 --> 00:38:45,089
that's going to be conducted is, 
demonstration of of landing on the moon.

720
00:38:45,089 --> 00:38:48,592
And she, you know, was specific to mention
that this is vehicle agnostic,

721
00:38:48,592 --> 00:38:52,413
that it's not directly related to either
Starship or Blue Moon.

722
00:38:52,413 --> 00:38:54,648
But I wonder, to to Bill.

723
00:38:54,648 --> 00:38:57,918
You know, what learnings are there?

724
00:38:57,918 --> 00:39:01,138
Is SpaceX taking away from work like this?

725
00:39:01,138 --> 00:39:05,509
And to Dina, are there
future experiments planned on station

726
00:39:05,509 --> 00:39:10,014
that will directly feed into,
the Artemis landing profile specifically?

727
00:39:10,314 --> 00:39:13,317
Thanks.

728
00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:16,220
Yeah.

729
00:39:16,220 --> 00:39:19,657
Again,
I think we recognize the microgravity

730
00:39:19,673 --> 00:39:23,010
environment is very different
than A1G environment here on the Earth.

731
00:39:23,010 --> 00:39:28,315
So if we can use the crews to demonstrate
some things, see how operations go in

732
00:39:28,315 --> 00:39:32,937
space, we can start applying those to,
to various other regimes to look at,

733
00:39:33,571 --> 00:39:36,891
control authority, layout of,
other things.

734
00:39:37,308 --> 00:39:39,894
You know, we're also going to be building
for Starship,

735
00:39:39,894 --> 00:39:42,897
essentially, one gravity.

736
00:39:42,947 --> 00:39:48,319
Lunar, a lunar lander mockup,
which will be high fidelity

737
00:39:48,319 --> 00:39:53,958
and crews will get a chance to experiment
and use that, as part of the HLS program.

738
00:39:53,974 --> 00:39:56,010
So that's a pretty exciting thing
that's coming up.

739
00:39:56,010 --> 00:39:56,761
But again,

740
00:39:56,761 --> 00:39:59,630
I think we want to take advantage
of all these flights, take advantage

741
00:39:59,630 --> 00:40:03,751
of space station, you know, learn
everything we can as we continue

742
00:40:03,751 --> 00:40:07,488
to keep moving, you know, human presence
further into the solar system.

743
00:40:07,488 --> 00:40:11,058
As I'm various talked about,
you know, what we can do today

744
00:40:11,058 --> 00:40:15,062
in low-Earth orbit, where we have
pretty rapid communication back and forth.

745
00:40:15,062 --> 00:40:15,963
It's very different

746
00:40:15,963 --> 00:40:19,767
than what we're going to do when we go
longer distances away from Earth.

747
00:40:19,767 --> 00:40:23,421
So what we can learn off of space station,
and how we can advance

748
00:40:23,754 --> 00:40:26,390
and get prepared for
the future is tremendously important.

749
00:40:26,390 --> 00:40:30,227
So I think this is a good example
of one of the things that we'll get to do

750
00:40:30,227 --> 00:40:34,432
on station that we'll definitely carry
forward to future programs.

751
00:40:35,549 --> 00:40:37,818
And I I'll just pile it on that.

752
00:40:37,818 --> 00:40:42,440
We absolutely,
are excited about this experiment.

753
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,993
And, you know, we have over the years
done experiments like this

754
00:40:46,310 --> 00:40:51,148
to test out and microgravity,
you know, is your reaction time the same?

755
00:40:51,482 --> 00:40:54,318
Are you able to do exactly the same thing
that you done on Earth?

756
00:40:54,318 --> 00:40:56,871
What parts of training might be different
or some

757
00:40:56,871 --> 00:41:00,508
anything that we would do differently, 
after microgravity environment to go

758
00:41:00,508 --> 00:41:01,592
and then land a spacecraft.

759
00:41:01,592 --> 00:41:05,463
So and we've done these,
like I said, some variations of them

760
00:41:05,463 --> 00:41:07,848
and learning each time some new things.

761
00:41:07,848 --> 00:41:10,768
And so I can envision,
as we ramp up to landing on the moon,

762
00:41:10,768 --> 00:41:14,788
that there will be additional experiments
and that's one of the reasons we fly,

763
00:41:14,905 --> 00:41:18,092
says, is to,
try to use it as a springboard

764
00:41:18,092 --> 00:41:22,196
for exploration and doing as much testing
as we can on board I.s.s.

765
00:41:22,196 --> 00:41:27,351
to ensure that we have,
the best operational, plan we can

766
00:41:27,351 --> 00:41:30,538
for any spacecraft that will land on
the moon or go to Mars. So.

767
00:41:33,140 --> 00:41:33,741
Thank you.

768
00:41:33,741 --> 00:41:36,026
We're going to go to the phones
for the next question.

769
00:41:36,026 --> 00:41:38,779
Jonathan Siri from Fox News.

770
00:41:38,779 --> 00:41:39,797
Great job.

771
00:41:39,797 --> 00:41:41,398
Thanks so much for doing this.

772
00:41:41,398 --> 00:41:46,670
This this questions for whoever, 
wants to talk about backup opportunities.

773
00:41:46,670 --> 00:41:50,357
I believe the one on Friday is 515.

774
00:41:50,357 --> 00:41:53,477
What opportunities do
you have going into the weekend

775
00:41:53,477 --> 00:41:56,480
and perhaps early next week?

776
00:41:57,598 --> 00:41:59,433
Yeah, I'll talk about the opportunities.

777
00:41:59,433 --> 00:42:00,000
Let's see.

778
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,837
So we do have a Friday, February
13th, 5:15 a.m.

779
00:42:03,837 --> 00:42:04,321
eastern.

780
00:42:04,321 --> 00:42:07,458
We would dock at about, 315 on Saturday.

781
00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:13,497
The Saturday launch opportunity is,
what we call a long phasing.

782
00:42:13,497 --> 00:42:17,334
So it takes quite a number of hours
to get, to i.s.s..

783
00:42:17,334 --> 00:42:20,337
It's around, 42 to 44 hours.

784
00:42:20,371 --> 00:42:25,192
We would look at that one very carefully
because the Dragon is a great spacecraft.

785
00:42:25,192 --> 00:42:28,862
It has a limited finite ability
to be in space.

786
00:42:28,862 --> 00:42:32,149
And so we want to make sure
we optimize the amount of time

787
00:42:32,149 --> 00:42:35,152
we spend on the front versus
the time we could spend on the back end.

788
00:42:35,486 --> 00:42:38,689
And then we have opportunities, Sunday,

789
00:42:38,689 --> 00:42:42,092
the 15th, 16th and 17th as well
if needed.

790
00:42:42,092 --> 00:42:44,311
So we have a good string of opportunities.

791
00:42:44,311 --> 00:42:47,147
Every fourth day or so is the long phase.

792
00:42:47,147 --> 00:42:49,516
And so we just got to look at that one
carefully.

793
00:42:49,516 --> 00:42:52,169
Hopefully the weather cooperates
and we can get off this week.

794
00:42:52,169 --> 00:42:54,572
We'll just take it one step at a time.

795
00:42:54,572 --> 00:42:55,940
I think we've been here before

796
00:42:55,940 --> 00:42:59,627
watching the weather up the east coast
in the winter, when cold fronts and low

797
00:42:59,627 --> 00:43:04,048
pressure systems move through and cause
the wind and waves to to increase. So

798
00:43:05,933 --> 00:43:06,300
thank you.

799
00:43:06,300 --> 00:43:09,303
Let's come into the room.

800
00:43:11,188 --> 00:43:12,539
Ken Kramer's face up close.

801
00:43:12,539 --> 00:43:14,208
Thanks. Thanks again.

802
00:43:14,208 --> 00:43:15,693
For Dina and Andreas.

803
00:43:15,693 --> 00:43:21,632
Andreas, tell us about the future
of European astronauts going to the ISS.

804
00:43:22,549 --> 00:43:24,268
A couple of years ago,
you had three in a row.

805
00:43:24,268 --> 00:43:26,453
I'm wondering what's
what's the future for that,

806
00:43:26,453 --> 00:43:29,657
as well as when you might expect
an Artemis launch in for Dina?

807
00:43:30,441 --> 00:43:33,744
I think, last week
you mentioned a really interesting science

808
00:43:33,744 --> 00:43:39,199
experiment to me about, these, IV bags
that you're going to you're going to make,

809
00:43:39,249 --> 00:43:42,753
try and make,
can you talk a little bit more about that

810
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,407
and what is the source of the water?

811
00:43:46,407 --> 00:43:50,277
Is it from the UPA, I guess,
and what kind of ground testing

812
00:43:50,277 --> 00:43:53,447
you've done to give you confidence
that this is going to work

813
00:43:53,447 --> 00:43:55,015
is really interesting. Thank you.

814
00:43:57,351 --> 00:44:01,221
Well, after, Sophie, we have, Rafael.

815
00:44:01,572 --> 00:44:05,042
Up next, his exact,

816
00:44:05,659 --> 00:44:09,897
mission still is a little bit
up in the air, I think.

817
00:44:09,897 --> 00:44:13,651
But, I think in 2027, 2028,

818
00:44:13,867 --> 00:44:18,172
he will be the next ESA astronaut
to fly, on a long duration mission.

819
00:44:18,789 --> 00:44:23,627
And then, you know, we're hoping for,

820
00:44:23,727 --> 00:44:27,681
potentially a third long duration
mission prior to the end of ISIS.

821
00:44:27,681 --> 00:44:33,520
So potentially in 2029, 
and of course, we,

822
00:44:33,570 --> 00:44:38,359
I mentioned a little bit, 
our, 2022 class of ESA astronauts.

823
00:44:38,442 --> 00:44:41,762
What was also unique about that
selection is that we selected

824
00:44:41,762 --> 00:44:44,748
a group of what we call
reserve astronauts.

825
00:44:44,798 --> 00:44:47,368
We've already seen two of,

826
00:44:47,368 --> 00:44:50,821
the reserve astronauts fly
as what we call project astronauts.

827
00:44:50,821 --> 00:44:56,043
That was, Marcus Vande from Sweden
on, axiom three.

828
00:44:56,477 --> 00:45:01,081
And, who's
Nancy, from Poland on axiom four.

829
00:45:01,081 --> 00:45:07,037
And I think, we can probably also expect
to see some more,

830
00:45:07,121 --> 00:45:11,542
ESA project astronauts
fly on future private astronaut missions.

831
00:45:11,542 --> 00:45:13,110
So there are,

832
00:45:14,661 --> 00:45:15,629
many new,

833
00:45:15,629 --> 00:45:19,133
flight opportunities,
in this commercial world.

834
00:45:19,133 --> 00:45:19,967
And, of course,

835
00:45:19,967 --> 00:45:24,505
we're also extremely excited to work, 
as a partner with NASA on Artemis.

836
00:45:24,738 --> 00:45:28,041
And, you know, first step is Artemis two.

837
00:45:28,041 --> 00:45:30,210
We'll see, how Artemis two goes.

838
00:45:30,210 --> 00:45:33,597
And then when, Artemis three, four,
and five come along.

839
00:45:33,597 --> 00:45:36,150
But that's certainly also on the horizon.

840
00:45:36,150 --> 00:45:40,554
And we're, of course,
very excited to one day see,

841
00:45:40,554 --> 00:45:43,557
a European astronaut,
on an artist's mission as well.

842
00:45:45,058 --> 00:45:45,359
Okay.

843
00:45:45,359 --> 00:45:48,362
And then relative to the IV food
bag experiment,

844
00:45:48,362 --> 00:45:52,232
if you didn't hear the previous
discussion, I had mentioned

845
00:45:52,616 --> 00:45:56,954
that what we're trying to do
is, to create I.V.

846
00:45:56,970 --> 00:46:00,707
medical food bags for, 
potential use in space.

847
00:46:01,408 --> 00:46:03,710
On a mars trip, for example, so long

848
00:46:03,710 --> 00:46:07,164
that your IV fluid
will expire by before the end of the trip.

849
00:46:07,498 --> 00:46:07,998
And you,

850
00:46:07,998 --> 00:46:09,950
without knowing
what type of medical events

851
00:46:09,950 --> 00:46:12,386
you might have,
you might have to launch a number of them

852
00:46:12,386 --> 00:46:15,506
and save a lot of mass and and,
volume to take up.

853
00:46:15,506 --> 00:46:18,091
So it would be better
if we would just be able to plug in.

854
00:46:18,091 --> 00:46:21,929
I just an empty bag,
into our potable water system

855
00:46:22,162 --> 00:46:26,033
and then fill it and filter
it appropriately so that it would have,

856
00:46:26,033 --> 00:46:30,471
all of the, I'd say microbes
filtered out anything that,

857
00:46:30,471 --> 00:46:34,224
you wouldn't want to insert into your,
you know, medical fluid bag.

858
00:46:34,825 --> 00:46:38,812
So in order to do that, we're taking it
out of the portable potable water system.

859
00:46:38,812 --> 00:46:42,749
So this would be the type of, water
that, is potentially been processed

860
00:46:42,749 --> 00:46:44,234
through the urine processor,

861
00:46:44,234 --> 00:46:47,321
and then through a number of series
of other processors.

862
00:46:47,421 --> 00:46:50,574
But this particular experiment
is trying to look at this filtration

863
00:46:50,874 --> 00:46:54,361
that takes it to an even finer level
so that it even filters out,

864
00:46:54,361 --> 00:46:58,382
all the bacteria and everything else
that would be, untenable

865
00:46:58,615 --> 00:47:01,735
for, for, medical I b iv purposes.

866
00:47:02,569 --> 00:47:05,489
So, we've done a version
of this in the past,

867
00:47:05,489 --> 00:47:08,392
and this is a little bit, 
a different type of filtration system.

868
00:47:08,392 --> 00:47:09,893
We're trying to refine it even more.

869
00:47:09,893 --> 00:47:13,497
And,
I believe it might be smaller as well.

870
00:47:13,497 --> 00:47:16,700
And so, just trying
to, to get our processes down.

871
00:47:16,967 --> 00:47:19,770
And then at the end,
we'll bring a medical, bag home

872
00:47:19,770 --> 00:47:22,039
and we'll test it and we'll say,
is it medical grade or not?

873
00:47:22,039 --> 00:47:23,807
And, or are there any upgrades

874
00:47:23,807 --> 00:47:26,276
that we'd like to do in the future
so that we have this capability?

875
00:47:28,412 --> 00:47:30,681
How long does it

876
00:47:30,681 --> 00:47:31,798
look?

877
00:47:31,798 --> 00:47:35,853
How long does it take to do
this experiment to collect the water

878
00:47:35,853 --> 00:47:37,387
in this bag?

879
00:47:37,387 --> 00:47:40,440
I, I don't know, for sure,
but I would guess it'd be very quick.

880
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,242
It's the filtration device.

881
00:47:42,242 --> 00:47:45,829
It's not something like a large machine
that it has to go through.

882
00:47:45,829 --> 00:47:48,482
It's more like a simple filtration device.

883
00:47:48,482 --> 00:47:53,036
So I guess, you know, matter of minutes,
a couple of hours to set it up.

884
00:47:53,036 --> 00:47:55,222
I don't know
if we can find that out for you.

885
00:47:55,222 --> 00:47:56,807
Okay,

886
00:47:56,807 --> 00:47:59,192
next, let's go to the, go to the phones.

887
00:47:59,192 --> 00:48:02,179
David Danault from About space today news.

888
00:48:02,212 --> 00:48:05,215
Go ahead. David.

889
00:48:05,215 --> 00:48:07,017
My question is for Andreas.

890
00:48:07,017 --> 00:48:11,271
Yesterday, Sophie was really excited,

891
00:48:11,271 --> 00:48:16,076
and she said, well, with this device, 
she had a rope to pull down.

892
00:48:16,076 --> 00:48:18,962
You said it's like a bicycle.
It's like a rolling machine.

893
00:48:18,962 --> 00:48:20,898
How big is this?

894
00:48:20,898 --> 00:48:23,901
And the applications for long duration
missions.

895
00:48:24,201 --> 00:48:24,952
How long is it?

896
00:48:24,952 --> 00:48:25,769
How does it work?

897
00:48:25,769 --> 00:48:31,558
But specifically, step by step, what are
the elements that the astronauts will use?

898
00:48:34,127 --> 00:48:36,530
So the it's a platform

899
00:48:36,530 --> 00:48:40,817
probably three feet, wide.

900
00:48:40,817 --> 00:48:42,586
So that you can stand on it.

901
00:48:42,586 --> 00:48:46,890
And it has a variety of, of, modes.

902
00:48:46,957 --> 00:48:51,228
You can fold out what essentially is
a flywheel,

903
00:48:51,378 --> 00:48:55,549
and that allows you
to do rowing exercises.

904
00:48:55,549 --> 00:49:00,988
But also to do,
cycle ergometer exercises.

905
00:49:00,988 --> 00:49:05,309
So it uses, some of the same technology
that's used on Sievers.

906
00:49:06,710 --> 00:49:11,999
And then what's ingenious
is that on the platform itself

907
00:49:11,999 --> 00:49:15,152
are various, places where you can hook

908
00:49:15,152 --> 00:49:19,256
in, bars, ropes, other things.

909
00:49:19,256 --> 00:49:23,193
So that you can do well, you can do
squats, you can do bench

910
00:49:23,193 --> 00:49:26,179
press, overhead press curls.

911
00:49:26,346 --> 00:49:31,768
Even a rope pulling, exercise.

912
00:49:31,768 --> 00:49:33,937
So it's very, very versatile.

913
00:49:33,937 --> 00:49:38,458
And it will be very interesting
to see it, performing in space.

914
00:49:41,778 --> 00:49:42,295
Thank you.

915
00:49:42,295 --> 00:49:45,649
And we're going to go to Adrian
Lynn Felder from the Houston Chronicle.

916
00:49:45,649 --> 00:49:46,016
Go ahead.

917
00:49:46,016 --> 00:49:49,019
And Adrian Andrew.

918
00:49:49,653 --> 00:49:51,188
Thanks for the follow up question.

919
00:49:51,188 --> 00:49:53,840
Dina, I just want to ask this again.

920
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:55,375
You know, Jessica made it sound like

921
00:49:55,375 --> 00:49:57,778
there was a scheduled time
to talk to Artemis two.

922
00:49:57,778 --> 00:49:58,345
So I'm wondering,

923
00:49:58,345 --> 00:50:02,065
is there a practical mission reason
they're talking, or is it just to say hi?

924
00:50:02,282 --> 00:50:03,417
Thanks.

925
00:50:03,417 --> 00:50:06,420
There's no practical mission reason
why that's necessary.

926
00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:08,372
But,

927
00:50:08,372 --> 00:50:13,343
I do think it's a as Steve highlighted,
this is a very unique, unusual time

928
00:50:13,343 --> 00:50:16,463
and human spaceflight
where we have human beings,

929
00:50:16,463 --> 00:50:20,150
orbiting the Earth, and then we'll also
have them orbiting the moon concurrently.

930
00:50:20,550 --> 00:50:22,352
And so I do think it's appropriate.

931
00:50:22,352 --> 00:50:25,739
And, it sounds like a great opportunity
for them to to, like I said,

932
00:50:25,739 --> 00:50:30,210
discuss the, moon views
and the Earth views that they each have.

933
00:50:32,429 --> 00:50:32,913
Thank you.

934
00:50:32,913 --> 00:50:35,449
And next we have Jonathan Syria
at Fox News.

935
00:50:35,449 --> 00:50:37,584
Go ahead. Jonathan,

936
00:50:37,584 --> 00:50:40,220
thanks so much for the, second question.

937
00:50:40,220 --> 00:50:43,907
I'm really interested
in the augmented reality

938
00:50:43,907 --> 00:50:47,811
ultrasound that you're going
to be testing on this mission.

939
00:50:47,811 --> 00:50:52,349
Why what are the advantages
of ultrasound?

940
00:50:52,349 --> 00:50:56,036
And on a hypothetical trip to Mars,

941
00:50:56,369 --> 00:51:00,774
what are the potential uses
that it would be put through?

942
00:51:00,857 --> 00:51:02,542
Thank you.

943
00:51:02,542 --> 00:51:04,661
So check on, Well,

944
00:51:04,661 --> 00:51:07,848
I'll just say, 
you know, we do ultrasound.

945
00:51:07,848 --> 00:51:11,551
We use ultrasound, quite a bit on the,
the space station, you know,

946
00:51:11,785 --> 00:51:13,737
where it's a lot like Earth.

947
00:51:13,737 --> 00:51:15,088
You're trying to do diagnostics

948
00:51:15,088 --> 00:51:18,508
without, 
you know, anything that's super intrusive.

949
00:51:18,508 --> 00:51:23,313
So, it's a really great tool
to look and and, kind of understand

950
00:51:23,313 --> 00:51:27,350
the human physiology and human physiology
is different in microgravity.

951
00:51:27,617 --> 00:51:32,372
And the specific experiment that Andy was
talking about, with augmented reality,

952
00:51:33,056 --> 00:51:33,990
as you said,

953
00:51:33,990 --> 00:51:37,377
one of the things we're trying to do
is avoid having a remote guider,

954
00:51:37,511 --> 00:51:38,462
on the Earth.

955
00:51:38,462 --> 00:51:41,465
So you can have very long
transmission times where

956
00:51:41,515 --> 00:51:44,401
if you were talking to your doctor
and you asked him a question

957
00:51:44,401 --> 00:51:47,337
and you tried to, show him an image,

958
00:51:47,337 --> 00:51:50,507
from your own ultrasound,
and it took 20 minutes to respond.

959
00:51:50,507 --> 00:51:51,241
You can imagine

960
00:51:51,241 --> 00:51:54,594
this would be a very difficult operation
to try to to kind of go back and forth.

961
00:51:54,594 --> 00:51:58,165
So, we're just trying to increase
that capability

962
00:51:58,165 --> 00:52:01,434
that the crew members have on board
for diagnosing their own issues.

963
00:52:01,434 --> 00:52:06,206
And this is a great tool for doing so,
if you have anything to add.

964
00:52:06,890 --> 00:52:09,709
No, I mean, this, you know,
ultrasound is one of the few devices

965
00:52:09,709 --> 00:52:12,746
we have, to look inside the body.

966
00:52:13,547 --> 00:52:16,099
You know, we don't have any,
unfortunately, mobile

967
00:52:16,099 --> 00:52:18,018
X-ray devices or MRI scanner.

968
00:52:18,018 --> 00:52:23,657
So, ultrasound, as you said, is a very
important diagnostic tool on the ISIS.

969
00:52:26,042 --> 00:52:28,428
And we have time for one more question
this morning.

970
00:52:28,428 --> 00:52:31,398
We're going to come here in the room

971
00:52:31,398 --> 00:52:34,401
to will.

972
00:52:35,669 --> 00:52:37,437
Hi. Thanks for allowing
one more follow up.

973
00:52:37,437 --> 00:52:40,557
Question to Steven to
to build some Meyer.

974
00:52:41,041 --> 00:52:44,544
Given that there's just,
a handful of planned years left

975
00:52:44,544 --> 00:52:48,782
for the International Space Station,
as you look towards the future

976
00:52:48,782 --> 00:52:53,036
of the commercial stations and,
future NASA astronauts flying to those,

977
00:52:53,370 --> 00:52:57,207
I wonder,
are there any additional experiments

978
00:52:57,207 --> 00:53:01,494
planned for, Dragon that would allow for,

979
00:53:01,778 --> 00:53:03,446
cooperation with these future

980
00:53:03,446 --> 00:53:07,250
commercial stations,
any, tests of of communication devices

981
00:53:07,250 --> 00:53:11,037
or additional advances that you want
to see in these last few years

982
00:53:11,037 --> 00:53:14,040
that you have of Dragon
going back and forth to the I.s.s..

983
00:53:14,191 --> 00:53:14,491
Thanks.

984
00:53:16,193 --> 00:53:17,427
Yeah, I'll let Bill start,

985
00:53:17,427 --> 00:53:20,430
and then I'll, follow on.

986
00:53:22,282 --> 00:53:22,499
Yeah.

987
00:53:22,499 --> 00:53:27,120
On some of our private missions,
we've used, we call it a laser.

988
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:30,473
It's essentially a laser
that we communicate

989
00:53:30,473 --> 00:53:33,560
with our Starlink
satellite networks in the trunk of Dragon.

990
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:37,797
So that that's a device we're looking at
using potentially more and more.

991
00:53:37,797 --> 00:53:40,800
We may may add that it can also relieve us

992
00:53:40,817 --> 00:53:44,037
from some tedious communication
requirements we have with Dragon.

993
00:53:44,037 --> 00:53:47,123
So that's something
I think we'd like to look at the future.

994
00:53:47,123 --> 00:53:51,828
We're starting to use that now more and
more on our second stages with, Starlink.

995
00:53:52,612 --> 00:53:55,799
We have a, a mini,

996
00:53:55,799 --> 00:54:00,003
a mini, Starlink antenna that flies,

997
00:54:00,437 --> 00:54:04,491
on those flights from Vandenberg,
where the essentially religious

998
00:54:04,491 --> 00:54:07,877
of ground coverage and allows us
to communicate with our Starlink network.

999
00:54:07,877 --> 00:54:12,082
So I think we're starting to tie
our Starlink network and communications

1000
00:54:12,415 --> 00:54:16,670
more and more into, other activities
that essentially are giving

1001
00:54:16,670 --> 00:54:21,541
a continuous communication
link for these potential future commercial

1002
00:54:21,691 --> 00:54:24,861
space stations that are that are in orbit
or are planned to be in orbit.

1003
00:54:26,663 --> 00:54:30,033
And I would say, as we look toward
the future of these stations as,

1004
00:54:30,033 --> 00:54:34,371
as Bill said, communication,
the network we know would not be there.

1005
00:54:34,371 --> 00:54:37,007
That's one thing.

1006
00:54:37,007 --> 00:54:39,259
We'll have to
look at how we approach and dock

1007
00:54:39,259 --> 00:54:43,113
we to rely on, the communication systems.

1008
00:54:43,113 --> 00:54:46,766
And it's to close the link
between the visiting vehicle,

1009
00:54:46,833 --> 00:54:50,370
and, and station.

1010
00:54:50,370 --> 00:54:50,670
Right.

1011
00:54:50,670 --> 00:54:53,606
We passed data,
we passed G.P.S. data and other things.

1012
00:54:53,606 --> 00:54:56,276
So we've got to start thinking
through that a little bit.

1013
00:54:56,276 --> 00:54:57,961
How we will do that
with the commercial stations.

1014
00:54:57,961 --> 00:55:01,731
We've got different ideas
and concepts of what we might do there.

1015
00:55:02,299 --> 00:55:06,236
And then when you dock, once the vehicle
stopped, we have to think about

1016
00:55:06,619 --> 00:55:10,256
ISIS has an incredible system
of exchanging air back and forth

1017
00:55:10,824 --> 00:55:13,860
between vehicles and but,
you know, you want to condition

1018
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,313
the vehicle
that's there, our crewed vehicle.

1019
00:55:16,313 --> 00:55:17,697
So we got to think about that
a little bit.

1020
00:55:17,697 --> 00:55:18,948
So we're in the middle of thinking

1021
00:55:18,948 --> 00:55:23,420
about all those things, but specifically
for Dragon, the, the pleasure

1022
00:55:23,420 --> 00:55:26,673
experiment that Bill talked about
is the one that we've demonstrated so far.

1023
00:55:28,758 --> 00:55:29,275
Thank you.

1024
00:55:29,275 --> 00:55:31,311
And that is going to wrap up our questions

1025
00:55:31,311 --> 00:55:34,347
for this morning's
prelaunch news conference for crew 12.

1026
00:55:35,031 --> 00:55:38,968
You can follow all continuing progress
on the countdown and on the mission

1027
00:55:39,119 --> 00:55:45,291
on NASA's social media channels,
including at space Station and at NASA.

1028
00:55:46,159 --> 00:55:49,162
We'll also have continuing coverage at

1029
00:55:49,496 --> 00:55:54,017
nasa.gov/commercial crew,
and we will have a broadcast

1030
00:55:54,017 --> 00:55:57,087
ahead of, ahead of the launch of the crew
12 mission.

1031
00:55:57,087 --> 00:56:01,524
And for those just joining us,
the crew 12 mission has been targeted

1032
00:56:01,524 --> 00:56:05,462
for February 12th,
no earlier than February 12th.

1033
00:56:05,912 --> 00:56:09,032
And that is dependent on the weather,
which, launched

1034
00:56:09,349 --> 00:56:12,569
flight teams will be monitoring
very closely for now.

1035
00:56:12,569 --> 00:56:14,237
Thank you very much for joining us.

1036
00:56:14,237 --> 00:56:17,407
Go, NASA, go space go crew 12. Thank you.