right station it's Houston on
space-to-ground to confirm that you were
ready for the event using this station
we are ready for the event caveat and
sir administrator Brighton Stein welcome
to MCC please call station for a voice
check station this is the NASA
Administrator can you hear me
we hear you loud and clear sir welcome
to the space station thank you Chris
it's good to see you and welcome to Bob
and Doug I I will tell you the whole
world saw this mission and we are so so
proud of everything you have done for
our country and in fact to inspire the
world
we sure appreciate that sir it's
obviously been our honor to be just a
small part of this we have to give
credit to SpaceX the Commercial Crew
program and of course NASA it's great to
get the United States back in the crewed
launch business and we're just really
glad to be on board this magnificent
complexed well we have some some VIPs
with us here and I'm sure they have some
questions that they'd like to ask you
but I have one of my own before I turn
it over and I just wanted to find out if
you guys got any sleep on your way up
there the last I'd say I get 19 hours
did you guys get any sleep yeah I think
a lot of folks in Hawthorne we're asking
the same question sir but we did get
probably a good seven hours or so
opportunity for sleep and I did succeed
at sleep and I did as well so the first
night is always a little bit of a
challenge but the dragon was a slick
vehicle and we had good air flow and so
we had a excellent excellent evening and
just excited to be back in low-earth
orbit again amazing well one of the
people that that is here with us today
is Senator Ted Cruz and of course he's a
huge advocate of America's space program
and he's been you know somebody who has
helped us so much as we transition from
one administration to the next
administration and the reason missions
like this can have success is because of
continuity of purpose and Senator Ted
Cruz was a leader on a bill called the
American the NASA transition
Authorization Act and because of that we
have had a lot of political support and
we're very grateful for his leadership
senator Cruz would you like to say a few
words
well congratulations gentlemen the eyes
of the world are upon you and everyone
is proud of you
all of the America is watching you and
today and yesterday represent big big
days we're looking at a decade since
we've had American astronauts launched
on an American ship from American soil
and I can tell you I sat with my wife
and kids in our living room watching on
TV yesterday and I suspect we did with
just about everyone watching in
including both of you which has held our
breath as it took off and we're glad to
see it landed safely we glad to see is
docked and so let me ask you that dragon
is an amazing vehicle how to handle it
flew just like it was supposed to it was
a we had a couple opportunities to take
it out for a spin so to speak once after
we got into orbit last night and again
today about 20 minutes before we docked
and my compliments to the folks back at
Hawthorne and SpaceX for how well it
flew it is exactly like the simulator
and we couldn't be happier about the
performance of the vehicle what do you
guys hope to accomplish in your time on
well what we're onboard the space
station of course with the new
spacecraft we do hope to put her through
our paces and so the good ship Endeavour
is going to get a lot of a check out
over the next week or two here and
hopefully we'll be able to declare her
operational and Doug and I will be able
to take some burden off of Chris and his
crewmates
Ivan an end totally so that we can keep
the space station operating at its up
peak possibilities so we're looking
forward to contributing any way that we
can and like I said trying to keep space
station as per
active as possible as a country we're in
the midst of a tough week we're seeing
protests we're seeing a lot of anger
we're seeing violence and I have to say
this launch and y'all's docking is a
powerful inspiration of what we can do
when we come together of the power of
unity
the power of ingenuity and and so I
guess the last question I would ask you
is since you have the opportunity to
address and particular all the young
people in America what would you tell
them in terms of what we can do when we
can come together you know that's a
great question nine years ago just about
exactly nine years ago we docked with
Atlantis sts-135 the last flight of the
space shuttle program a 30-year program
and folks at SpaceX folks at NASA the
Commercial Crew program put their heads
together and worked diligently year
after year making sacrifices working
hard and then nine years later American
launch capability was restored and this
is just one one effort that we can show
for the ages in this dark time that
we've had over the past several months
to kind of inspire especially the young
people in the United States to to reach
for these lofty goals and work hard and
look what you can accomplish thank you
gentlemen god bless you thank you
senator Cruz we have another very
special guest here that represents the
Johnson Space Center and of course it's
my good friend from the House of
Representatives dr. Brian bobbin and I
want to be clear he also was a big part
of the NASA transition Authorization Act
which gave us the continuity of purpose
to make this happen today so gentlemen
here is dr. Brian bobbin from the state
thank you great to be with you guys that
I was at the launch yesterday just want
to say a huge congratulations and you
know there was a thunderstorm that blew
in about 30 minutes or 45 minutes or so
before liftoff and it was in doubt there
for a minute but it was and just an
enormous achievement I just want to say
thank you for you guys really appreciate
what you're doing for America and the
crew that's already been up there Chris
and your your two fellow Russians what
to give you a great big thank you as
well I have a son who is a Navy SEAL and
I want to thank you for your service
there too Chris and also I would like to
just see what what what I know you've
said that that the the the craft the
dragon handled very well I want to see
how it compares with with the space
shuttle if one of you would address that
I would appreciate it well thank you sir
it certainly has been a long endeavor
for for us and our our named ship
namesake space craft we're proud to have
her on board the International Space
Station after all that the teams around
the country and across America have done
to get us here today as far as a
comparison with the Space Shuttle both
Doug and I took a few minutes while we
were accomplishing the approach and
docking to in our spare time talk a
little bit about it we were surprised a
little bit at how smooth things were off
the pad the space shuttle is a pretty
rough ride heading into orbit with the
solid rocket boosters and our
expectation was as we continued with the
flight in the second stage that things
would basically get a lot smoother than
the Space Shuttle did but Dragon was a
huffing and puffing all the way into
orbit and
we were definitely driving or riding a
dragon all the way up and so it was not
quite the same ride the smooth ride as
the space shuttle was up Tamiko a little
bit less G's but a little bit more alive
is probably the best way I would
describe it anything else Doug sorry I
had to apologize for actually using the
term miko it's a little bit confusing
between the space shuttle and the dragon
vehicle so it's a main engine cutoff is
what miko stands for those happened at
different times in flight for the two
vehicles for the space shuttle that was
when you were all the way in orbit for
dragon that was just a little bit after
two minutes and then we had the single
engine cutoff for second stage when we
achieved orbit so that time under the
single engine under dragon with one
engine was more of an experience than
the the shuttle was for that six and a
half minutes or so that we were under
that under that second stage motor well
I would just like to say it's in fact
Deb did you have something you wanted to
add there I met your mother and father
yesterday they had great great folks
they're very very proud of their son and
that's that's pretty cool hopefully they
enjoyed the launch I know for parents it
can probably be pretty nerve-wracking
for them to experience a launch this was
their third so I'm glad everything went
okay and hopefully it was a good show we
haven't obviously heard or seen any
video yet but we're looking forward to
seeing seeing the launch replayed some
time I can assure you that it was a
great show it was one of the one of the
treats of my lifetime I will have to say
it many many other
so we're sitting there looking all
across the country and even the world
and I can tell you senator Cruz said
we've gone through some really really
rough times over the last few days and
to have that successful launch
you know the public-private partnership
between NASA and SpaceX and you guys
being so well trained and having it go
off without a hitch was a tremendous
blessing for our country and I can't
tell you how many emails and
communications I've gotten from people
that who were so disturbed by what was
what's been going on transpiring around
the country to have the great news and
the wonderful liftoff and everything
going without a hitch so I just want to
say God bless both of you thank you so
very much
bless the rest of you folks up there as
well we thank our Russian partners and
thank you Chris we are all in our
prayers and we're looking forward to
seeing you you successfully complete
your mission and back on safely on earth
god bless thank you very much yeah and
just so you guys are aware this show was
in fact spectacular the ratings on NASA
TV beat everyone else not just some of
them all of them and that includes just
so everybody is aware the whole world
saw this it trended number one on
Twitter it was the number one thing
talked about on social media in general
this was this was an amazing moment and
it represents a transition in how we do
spaceflight from the United States of
America NASA is not going to purchase
own and operate rockets and capsules the
way we used to we're going to partner
with commercial industry for access to
low-earth orbit
and those partnerships are going to
enable our providers to get customers
that are not NASA and drive down our
costs and we're going to have numerous
providers that are competing on cost and
innovation and safety and we're going to
have more access to low-earth orbit than
ever before and this business model now
that it's been proven on on commercial
resupply of the International Space
Station now Commercial Crew to the
International Space Station this model
is going to apply and I know senator
Cruz has this near and dear to him when
we go to the moon and of course when we
go to the moon it's going to be done
because of the great people here at the
Johnson Space Center and so many other
centers across the United States of
America but when we go to the moon we're
going to land on the surface of the Moon
with commercial Landers and of course
we're very proud of the commercial lunar
payload services program being managed
right here out of the Johnson Space
Center as well so that we can take small
payloads to the surface of the Moon and
all of this is leading up to an amazing
day where we have humans living and
working for long periods of time on the
surface of the Moon but doing it with a
purpose and that purpose of course is to
go to Mars humanity is going to explore
more and be able to go further than ever
before because of the public-private
partnerships we all know that if the
government is creating the demand and
the government is creating the supply we
will always be limited but when we have
partners that are interested in
exploring commercially and doing the
things that are necessary you know to
get capital investment then we're all
going to end up better so I want to just
say the whole world saw this this is a
new era in human spaceflight and we are
so grateful for the service of not just
our two astronauts that embarked on this
mission but the hundred thousand plus
people that participate in it in this
mission
everything from the suppliers to the
main contractors to the NASA team the
SpaceX team what an amazing day for for
our country and in fact for the world
I'm going to turn it over for a second
to my deputy Jim more hard who's been a
great deputy at NASA
gentlemen congratulations you know Jim's
mentioned going to the moon and
yesterday and today one you've inspired
the Artemus generation which is our next
generation and that's what this is about
it's really bringing the children that
we've got in our grandchildren forward
so they'll be the ones that are going
into deep space this is the dawn of a
new era and we just thank you for being
at the beginning of it thank you so much
it was absolutely our pleasure but it's
just a huge team effort across the board
from SpaceX to NASA that made this all
happen we were just the lucky guys that
got to fly the rocket yesterday I have a
question for Chris Cassidy
you know our crew here decided to to to
be about three days late
you got to work them overtime I presume
now to get them caught up on all the
activities that they missed out on any
plans for him well the day they missed
out on was a good one for them to skip
it was Saturday housecleaning and and I
but I took care of it for them we'll
catch up next next weekend but in all
seriousness we've got a few things to
take care of tonight make sure we're all
safe and we know the plan in case
something bad happens and then we're
looking forward to some operational
stuff later in the month maybe we'll get
outside and do some spacewalks and our
efforts in these coming weeks will we'll
be in that effort so we're all super
excited to have two more crewmates to
the expedition 63 team awesome and of
course here in Houston this is the home
of the astronaut office in the the
Johnson Space Center is led by Mark
Guyer and I'm gonna turn it over to mark
for a few comments thank you Jim it's
great to see all of you there good to
see you Bob and Doug I know we
talked a few days ago you look a little
taller then I remember you and but I
also want to thank our so I want to
thank Anatole and Iman and of course
Kris for what you guys have been doing
since you all arrived and I know there's
been a ton to do and you've been really
busy and I appreciate that so I also
like this visual of our international
partnership we have had a tremendous
partnership with Ross cosmos and we will
continue to do so and but I do it is
nice to see crew arrive from this side
of the space station so that was pretty
cool after 9 years I did have one
question for Christo what might you do
to ensure that Bob and Doug stay longer
do you have any strategy there well
we'll slow down on the rate of which I'm
eating food and maybe we can stretch out
our consumables a little bit but that's
a great question we'll have to come up
with some conniving scheme here in the
next few days all right thank you thank
you guys look forward to greeting the
three of you eventually back in
Ellington after your work is complete
thank you and of course Mark Guyer has
an amazing deputy Venessa wife if you'd
like to come and say a few words thank
you Jim
hi guys you look really good I just want
to say on behalf of everybody here we
just want to thank you it was an amazing
launch and we loved seeing the docking
you guys all look really good just thank
you for all that you're doing and we
can't wait for you to return but not too
soon station wants you to get a lot of
work done so looking forward to all of
that but thank you god bless Thank You
Vanessa we appreciate that I also have
with with us
Steve Jurek who is the associate
administrator for the agency for people
who don't know what that is that of
course is the chief operating officer of
the agency but he
so ran the Flight Readiness review for
this mission he did a really an amazing
job and and I can't say enough about his
leadership at the agency Steve as you'd
like to say a few words ask a few
questions hey guys it is just great to
see you all on the station I can't tell
you how I was my adrenaline shut down
when you guys open the hatch I've just
been on edge ever since ever since
yesterday and the weather cleared I
can't tell you how great it's been to to
see you on station it has been a team
effort I felt like the last two years
I've kind of been part of the team
working through issues you know and it's
been a heck of a year and a half without
you know demo1 and and in flight abort
test and working through issues like
parachutes and the exam system and I
just could not be more proud of the team
for forgetting at this point it's
amazing and and you obviously we've been
part of that I really appreciate you all
showing up in Washington DC and our
reviews and because the last thing we do
at those Roos is look at you all because
you guys are the risk takers and make
sure you're okay with where we are and
where we're headed so I really really
appreciated that really appreciate your
active participation Matt and I could
not be more alike said more proud of the
team and congratulations it is awesome
to see you guys well thank you sir we're
just proud to be a part of the team that
got to bring a space flight back to the
Florida coast
I appreciated the comment earlier that
it was nice to see a vehicle come to the
forward portion of the space station but
I'll tell you what that's the only way
Doug and I know how to do it so thanks
the team for providing it to happen our
way we we appreciate that well Bob and
Doug just so just so you're aware I'm
get being given the rap single Doug Doug
did you have something to say before we
wrap it up here
no sir we're just happy to be here and
Chris is gonna put us to work and
hopefully we will fit in and not mess
too many things up I have no doubt that
you guys are going to do amazing work I
just want you to know that the president
came to the launch and the vice
president came to the launch about half
the cabinet was at the launch we had
members of Congress and members of the
Senate from both sides of the aisle and
this was an amazing moment of unity for
the nation it was an amazing moment for
the whole world to look up in the midst
of the corona virus pandemic and some
other challenges we were able to have
this very very special moment where we
could all look at the future and say
that things are going to be brighter
tomorrow than they are today and you and
the NASA team and the SpaceX team gave
us that opportunity and for that we are
so so grateful I would also be remiss as
the NASA Administrator if I didn't
promote what comes next
and of course this is the beginning we
are now launching to low-earth orbit
again but we will soon be going to the
moon we will going to the moon
sustainably with commercial partners and
international partners we're going to
use the resources at the moon to learn
how to live and work for long periods of
time ultimately we're going to take all
of that knowledge and we're going to go
to Mars and of course this time when we
go to the moon we go with a very diverse
highly qualified astronaut corps that
includes women which is why we call the
program artemis named after the twin
sister of Apollo and she in greek
mythology was the goddess of the moon
this is the beginning there is so so so
much more to come and I'm glad that our
representatives of the Johnson Space
Center are here because we're going to
be asking them to fund this project and
and what an amazing day that you guys
have given us so thank you thank you
thank you for not just me and the people
here but from the United States of
America and people all around the world
I'm more popular on Twitter than I've
ever been and it's because of you guys
thank you
to the crew on the internet knowledge
using thank you very much and course we
also you just hold your position for a
few minutes as of course a number of
photos we'd like to take and then a
quick note for those down here in the
room to senator Cruz congressman bobbin
administered or bridenstine director
Geyer and all of our distinguished
losers thank you for your participation
in today's historic event and thank you
for the leadership that has enabled it
station this is Houston ACR thank you
that concludes our event as we count
down to 20 continuous years of humans
living and working on the International
Space Station
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