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you're looking at the american-made
rocket and spacecraft that will return
american astronauts to the international
space station from american soil
for the first time since the retirement
of the space shuttle
last flown nearly nine years ago but if
all goes well today
we will mark a new first in nasa's
storied history
and usher in the commercial crew era of
american space flight
and we are looking at a live picture now
of bob benkin and doug hurley
walking down that hallway in the
astronaut crew quarters we just saw doug
wave at the screen
and they're just turning the corner
getting inside that elevator
and this you can't see it from here but
there is a banner hanging there you can
kind of see it in the back there's a
banner hanging
on the wall of the elevator with the
signatures of all the people who worked
on this mission so it was really
important
for them to hang that up in there so bob
and doug could see it
and there the doors are opening here
they come
and there they are nasa astronauts
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small crowd but big cheers
nasa astronauts bob bankin and doug
hurley doug on the left bob on the right
waving to the crowd there to cheer them
on
[Applause]
and there are their families right in
front of them the virtual hugs a very
special moment
fist bumps
are you going to listen to mommy and
make her life easy you can hear them
let's light this candle i agree
bye guys
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and there it is that that shot really
gives you a sense of the scale
of the falcon 9 rocket those teslas look
teeny teeny tiny
making their way up there yeah really
cool watching the tesla's pull up
driving on the launch pad just a few
feet away from
the vehicle this is awesome and getting
really excited over here
corn countdown one at two hours 57
minutes the crew has arrived
at the pad on schedule there they are
taken taken in the site
craning to see the top of the falcon 9
rocket
chlorine compound 1 at t minus 2 hours
and 46 minutes
the crew has arrived at the white room
and its ingress is in progress
on schedule and as they climb into
dragon they will buckle themselves
in and attach their umbilicals to their
suits
as you can see the suit techs are there
to help them
get buckled and settled into those seats
and we can see the seats slowly start to
rotate again they're in this down
position just to make it easier to climb
in and out of dragon
they'll rotate to this launch position
to put their backs a little bit more
parallel to the ground it
makes taking the g-force a little bit
easier for the crew on the way uphill
but most importantly
positions those touch screens directly
in front of them which is just their
gateway into dragon
dragon spacex seats are in the launch
position we copy
dragon spacex go for launch spacex
dragon
we're go for launch let's light this
candle
ten nine eight seven
six five four three
two one zero ignition
liftoff there's a falcon line and crew
dragon
go nasa go spacex
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america has launched
and so rises the new era of american
space flight
and with it the ambitions of a new
generation continuing the dream
20 seconds into flight stage one
propulsion is nominal
t-plus 30 seconds into this historic
mission
flying crew on board dragon and falcon 9
and look at them go
falcon power telemetry nominal
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m1d throttle down we're throttling down
to get ready for the period of maximum
dynamic pressure
we're in the throttle bucket
reports say all systems are go
is supersonic we've exceeded mach 1 on
the falcon 9.
m1d throttle up
we're throttling back up to full power
as we're through max q
copy one bravo
and we heard that one bravo call out
that's just the second abort zone that
they're in they'll continue to be on
this
until the first stage has done its job
and they switch over to the second at
this point
bob and doug pulling about 2.3 g's 2.3
times the earth's gravity
already moving it over to 1500 miles per
hour
we've heard the call out for mvac engine
chill that's getting the mvac engine
ready to light that'll come at about
2 44 into flight right now everything
continuing to look good
next major event coming up is going to
be the
triple we'll have main engine cutoff of
the nine first stage engines
stage separation and then ignition of
the second stage engine to continue to
carry
astronauts into orbit
and what you're seeing on your screen is
a live view of our drone ship
where our first stage will be coming
down
looks like we lost that live view but
we'll wait for confirmation of that
landing shortly here
falcon 9 first aid successfully landed
and there you can see on your screen
falcon 9 has landed this is the first
falcon 9 to carry
humans to orbit so very exciting for us
and as you can see on your right screen
bob and doug are still
making their way to their targeted orbit
dragon separation confirmed
countdown one is unmerged separation
confirmed
and there's that call out dragon is
now officially making its way to the
international space station today
dragon spacex with that separation call
we have a few words for you from our
falcon 19.
standing by dragon chief engineer on
dragon the ground
bob doug on behalf of the entire launch
team thanks for flying with falcon 9
today we hope you enjoyed the ride and
wish you a great mission
thanks bala congratulations to you and
the f9 team for the first
uh human ride for falcon 9.
and it was incredible uh appreciate all
the hard work
and uh thanks for the great uh rides of
space
capital power proud of you guys and the
rest of the team uh
thank you so much for what you've done
for us today putting
america back into low earth orbit from
the florida coast
guppy good luck godspeed
without further ado we would like to
welcome you aboard
capsule endeavor uh we chose
endeavor for a few reasons one because
of this incredible endeavor
uh nasa spacex
and the united states has been on uh
since the end of the shuttle program
back in 2011. the other reason we named
it
endeavor is a little more personal to
bob and i uh we
both had our first flights on shuttle
endeavor
and uh it just meant so much to us to
carry on that name
that's what we decided to go with so we
hope you enjoy that name
and once again welcome on board
today we accomplished the first flight
off the florida coast in uh quite some
time and doug and i were really proud to
have an opportunity to be a part of that
we're doing it in a brand new spaceship
a spaceship that's a lot different than
its namesake
endeavor the space shuttle and that it
has a
touch display screens that allow us to
accomplish
most of the interfacing requirements
that we have
but we've got the capability to
interface with the vehicle and it's kind
of interesting there's a command this
little button over here is actually what
the commands are for our displays
one thing that does get lost is there is
a extensive
button panel down below as well so
over on this side we can turn the
displays on and off
as well as send some commands for some
contingency situations
on the other side we have the ability to
deploy
shoots and things like that on entry so
we do have some buttons but the primary
interface is
these displays so nice new modern
cockpit that we've got
for our our uh compared to our namesake
the space shuttle uh
endeavor and i'm guessing it was the
first time a space vehicle was flown
with a touch screen before
so we got that going for us
we did it it turns out end up with one
stowaway on board our vehicle when we
launched today
it was not just doug and i
who accomplished the launch here we do
have an apatosaurus aboard
we both have two boys who are super
interested in dying
and we collected up all the dinosaurs
between the two houses
and trimmer the apatosaurus uh
got the vote from the boys to make the
trip into space today with us and so
that's
uh was a super cool thing for us to get
a chance to do for both of our sons who
i hope are super excited to see uh
their toys floating around with us on
board i'm sure they would rather be here
given the opportunity but hopefully
they're proud of this as well
at this point dragon now approaching
waypoint zero
at this moment we're less than a mile
away from station
dragging just under 1200 meters away
continuing to close the gap
pretty slow right right now moving in at
only about 1.7 meters per second
and here's a view from from dragon
dragon's got a number of relative
navigation sensors as well as a couple
of cameras that can look
forward that will hopefully get some
some additional views for as we get
closer to docking
here's a great view from a camera behind
bob and doug bob and the right hand seat
in the pilot seat
dug in the commander seat or the cdr
seat
there they are and that's
200 meters from this center line of this
base of the space station
we're inside 100 meters continuing to
close
i think you can see a meatball in
american flag
on that uh on the spacecraft that
structure
on the the fairing structure is actually
what the super dracos are
are housed in of course all of those are
deactivated now only used for
launch escape during the ascent portion
nose cone right at the
the top of the vehicle and you can see
sort of the sealing surface
those four circular slots right
underneath the nose cone within that red
ring
are the the ford bulkhead dracos that's
what we were using
while uh we were conducting all those
burns
um the five burns to get to this point
they are puppy binders down they're
sitting right there
20 meters from the docking port
one more view
okay
dragon closing in we're inside 20 meters
and yeah that crew hands off point
uh should come up in about
three minutes or so right before we get
that final docking it comes about 20
seconds
prior or just about two meters away from
the station still
and that's just the crew not issuing any
abort commands
at that point it would be too late and
so
any aborts would be executed
automatically by dragon itself
two meters
we are inside the hands off point the
chop the crew hands off point
one meter to go
soft capture complete
and we just heard it soft capture we
have docking
that coming at 7 16 a.m pacific time
with the station and dragon flying 262
statute miles
right over the border between northern
china and mongolia
dragon spacex docking sequence is
complete
next dragon recopy docked in complete
to say that it's been a real honor to be
just a small part of this uh 90-year
endeavor
since the last time the united states
spaceship has stopped with the
international space station
we have to congratulate the men and
women of
spacex at hawthorne mcgregor
and at kennedy space center their
incredible efforts over the last several
years to make this possible
to not go overstated
i'd also like to thank kathy leaders and
her
team of the commercial crew program of
nasa
an outstanding job by everyone
last i'd like to thank the the men and
women
of the national aeronautics and space
agency
this is an incredible time to be at nasa
three new vehicles to be flown
continuing mission in low earth orbit
and then
to the moon and mars we thank you again
and congratulate you
dragon arriving the crew of expedition
63 is honored to welcome
dragon in the commercial crew program to
welcome aboard the international space
station bob and doug glad to have you as
part of the crew
well done bravo zulu
we have bob bankin from spacex demo 2
mission entering the international space
station
followed by doug hurley
[Applause]
demo two crew now aboard the
international space station they entered
at 12
22 pm central time the station at the
time was 262 statute miles over
tuchmanistan
crew all gathered in front of the
cameras at the node
2 forward end of the international space
station just behind them is the hatchway
to the crew dragon
on this demo 2 mission
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 uh
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
crude launch business and we're just
really glad to be on board this
magnificent complex
first i just want to say thank you again
to bob and doug
and your families from all of us here at
spacex
all of our locations all of our partners
all of our vendors
everyone for uh trusting us to bring you
up there
hey thanks benji it's same back at you
you know congratulations to the folks
out of hawthorne mcgregor and at kennedy
just uh an incredible journey we've had
the last couple days
a great day in space today our first uh
first day of work and
on space station but uh what a great
ride on dragon and falcon 9 to get us
here
everything worked uh exactly the way we
plan it to work and that's a credit to
the teams there in hawthorne and
mcgregor and and kennedy just uh
it's a pretty awe inspiring uh trip so
far
and and very humbling and just we're
we're just so proud to represent uh
spacex and nasa
in this this new
next launch capability
you guys have a picture of the earth and
you have a flag which also represents
the
friendly competition maybe that uh
that brings us unity why don't you tell
us about that there
yeah so this is the uh flag that we left
uh here almost nine years ago on sts-135
it had actually flown an sts-1 and then
it flew again with us on sts-135
and at some point after the end of the
shuttle program
we decided we had we would have a little
friendly competition to see who came up
and got this flag
and uh congratulations spacex
you got the flag so bob and i
chris will not let us forget it uh
that's the biggest thing
is this will be on his to-do list when
uh
we get the nod to return dragon back to
earth
and and uh hopefully this will find a
a great place of honor somewhere in
hawthorne
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everyone at nasdaq is thrilled that
you're able to join us
here today virtually as we get set to
ring today's opening bell
[Music]
all right bob mini workstation brt
has a red small small yes
three short wire ties one long wire tie
one long
one two three shorts
i swing our breath small small
red small small to pgt number seven
number seven
cal not motor thirty point five
seven sixteen 12.
hey bob your helmet is locked just check
out all your stuff make sure you're good
the thermal cover is open i'm dressing
we copy
the two spacewalkers will be making
their way to the far starboard truss of
the international space station
to replace aging nickel hydrogen
batteries on the first
of two power channels for the s6 truss
with new lithium-ion batteries and their
associated adapter plates
[Music]
my
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foreign
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m
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so
of you back inside where you can see
that thermal cover of the hatch is
closed
still waiting on the opportunity to
close the hatch however
the space walk does not end until
re-pressurization begins
[Applause]
[Music]
hold bob for a second
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we'll get okay
first of all i'm super excited that this
is the uh
first payload you you're working with on
space station so
make it super special for me and you can
start we have the video we'll be
watching
[Music]
when you install the sample cartridge
we'd like you to first hand snug bolt
bravo
and then do bolt alpha and let us know
if there's any difference between those
two bolts
[Music]
so
[Music]
we'd like you to do is like with two
hands you're gonna grab the drink bag
and try to squeeze it uniformly so that
you actually drain it in about 15
[Music]
seconds
keep it going keep it going cool
[Music]
nice well done
[Music]
an endeavor he's been on two while we
wait for the fan
uh on this day in space history nine
years ago today
mr doug hurley launched on sts-135
well welcome aboard to the international
space station and the crew of expedition
63. it's an exciting day for us all
as uh we bid farewell to our two friends
and colleagues
bob and doug as they complete the the
journey
of this amazing test test mission before
i hand the mic over
to bob and doug i do want to make
mention of this
very special flag it has deep
deep space history getting deeper
as this flag will return to earth
with the the crew crew dragon guys and
uh
spend a little bit of time on earth and
very soon make a trip
to the moon in short order
so doug the flag's all yours
it's been a pleasure and here you go
thanks chris
thanks for this uh yeah this flag has
spent some time up here
uh on the order of nine years since we
dropped it off on sts-135
after it flew on sts-1 so very proud to
return this
flag home and see what's next for it
on its journey to the moon
it's hard to put into words
just what it was like to be a part of
this expedition expedition 63 it'll be
kind of a memory that will last a
lifetime for me just all the incredible
teamwork and accomplishments with the
highlights
obviously being the the four space walks
that we uh
work together literally as a crew of
five to
to have success and to complete that
part of the upgrade for the
international space station which leaves
it in a great posture for the future
as i look back on the the mission that
we've had here
on the international space station i'm
proud to have been a part of
much of the science activities that
happened over the last two months
as doug and chris mentioned the the
space walks and robotics activity
uh chris and i were able to join the 10
spacewalk club which is a pretty neat
thing that
you know just a few short months ago i
didn't think i would do another
spacewalk and uh to now have the chance
to have done
four more with commander cassidy was
just a
icing on the cake for a wonderful
mission
and as i look forward to heading back
home
for the splashdown i do think that from
a family
perspective my son and
doug's son are really excited not only
to get their fathers back but to get
our apotasaurus our zero g indicator
that they nominated to go with us
on this historic mission to the
international space station
and bringing that launch and return
capability back to the u.s and so
for jack and theo tremor the apatosaurus
is uh
headed home soon and he'll be with your
dads
you'll have to pick which one of us is
your favorite
dragon spacex on the big loop the final
reconfigurations for
undock are complete and nominal the
ground is go
for undocking at the undocking
sequence start time of 2330
gmt please confirm your visors are down
and that you are ready for undock and
departure
dragon copies gopro.com our advisors are
down and we're ready for departure
we copy y'all
dragon spacex all hooks open and
oh it's nominal
dragon departing dragon
spacex separation confirmed
okay separation physical separation 4 35
pm pacific
thrusters looking good counting down to
a nominal departure burn zero coming up
shortly
dragon spacex depart burn zero complete
and with that bob and doug have
concluded their stay aboard the
international space station they're on
their way back to planet earth
confirms a physical separation at 4 35
p.m pacific as the station and dragon
were flying 267 statute miles over
johannesburg
south africa
endeavor have a big loop ahead endeavor
chris we just uh can't thank you enough
it's been an honor and a privilege to be
part of expedition 63 with you
anatoly and yvonne it's been a great two
months and we appreciate
all you've done as a crew to help us
prove out dragon on its maiden flight
i'd also like to thank
zeb and his team in mission control in
houston for the incredible amount of
work they did to
make the doctor ops successful for
dragon
and also the teams of staffex that keep
us going towards the end of our mission
that we look forward to splash down
tomorrow
i also like to wish you a great success
on the
rest of your expedition at a safe flight
home
in the fall take care fred
endeavor thank you chris thank you
anatoly thank you yvonne
thank you houston and thank you spacex
endeavor station uh bob and doug i
wholeheartedly agree with those
sentiments uh it's been a real pleasure
it's been an honor to serve with you
safe travels and have a successful
landing endeavor is a great ship
godspeed
is all thanks chris
good morning dragon endeavor i'm happy
you went into space but i'm even happier
that you're coming back home
rise and time daddy we love you
we can't wait to see you wake up wake up
rise and shine dad me luke leo and mom
can't wait to see you daddy love you
wake up wake up wake up
wake up they wake up don't worry you can
sleep in tomorrow
hurry home so we can go get my dog
we love you dad
good morning jay good morning to spacex
and uh thank you
especially to jack and to theo for that
uh
wonderful message this morning hopefully
the pressure's all on uh
whoever's making the the weather call
because uh those boys seem excited to
bring us home
yeah we concur it was great hearing them
and happy to hear you
and lucky for you weather is looking
great at pensacola
dragon is also healthy and proceeding
towards the primary do-over opportunity
we've got some live views inside the
dragon endeavor capsule
bob and doug they're in their seats as
they are
making final preparations and doing
final reviews as we
get ready to initiate the deorbit
sequence
closest to the camera there is nasa
astronaut doug hurley
and further away from the camera is nasa
astronaut bob benkin
these are two incredibly
wonderful humans we affectionately call
them our space
dads here at spacex it's been such an
honor to be able to fly them
of course doug hurley was actually the
pilot of the final
space shuttle mission sts-135
back in 2011 and honestly when i heard
that he was assigned
to this mission i i cried because
you know just to have the opportunity to
return the pilot of that final mission
to the space station uh in in this
capacity was
is so cool and i just i i've loved
following this mission
since the moment that we started
training for it here in hawthorne
dragon spacex deorbit sequence start
never happened
there on your screen we have a shot of
the capsule as it is preparing to deploy
those
initial parachutes the drug parachutes
again these
parachutes help slow the vehicle down
even further
and help stabilize in preparation for
main shoot deployment
right about now the capsule is going
about 400 miles per hour
decelerating quickly and standing by for
drug deploys
visual two drugs out there on your
screen we have visual confirmation of
those two drug deployments
all right so two of two the droves now
out they're going to do their
slowing and stabilizing of the dragon
spacecraft
they should be detaching in just a few
moments
and then we'll see four parachutes the
main parachutes deployed
dragon under droves
trove decent rate nominal
so the expected descent rate the
expected velocity under the droves
nominal we're
right at around 150 miles an hour and
already dropping
you can see the droves now detach
and there we have confirmation of
deployment of the four main parachutes
we are visual on four shoots out we
are visual four main parachutes deployed
so at this point the main parachutes
have deployed they are
inflating as you can see there on your
screen continuing
to slow dragon down significantly
we are anticipating splashdown in just
under two minutes and 30 seconds
we've already slowed the vehicle down to
about 16 miles an hour it's already less
than a kilometer
in altitude
main shoot decent rate nominal passing
through 700 meters
so at this point dragon has saved all
propulsion systems on 600 meters
600 meters and we're 600 meters
above the gulf of mexico
should be approximately a minute 30 from
splashdown
mission control team here in hawthorne
has reported the precise landing
coordinates to the recovery team
they are standing by ready to go get
our space dads
we just passed about 300 meters
one minute till splashdown
200 meters we have brace for splashdown
copy brace for splashdown
so there we heard bob and doug reporting
that they are bracing for a splashdown
we should be able to see the gulf of
mexico here
in the shot just momentarily as we're
now just about
20 meters off the ocean
splash down as you can see on your
screen
we have visual confirmation for
splashdown
spacex copies and concurs we see
splashdown
and mains cut dragon endeavor has
returned home
nasa astronauts and endeavor on behalf
of the spacex and nasa teams
welcome back to planet earth and thanks
for flying spacex
truly our honor and privilege to fly in
flights of the
crew dragon and endeavor congrats
everybody at
uh all good and we're into section
of four decimal eight zero zero
thanks for those words doug and we uh
copy that you are into uh
four decimal eight zero zero so great
news
all around there our space dads are back
on earth after a 19-hour return journey
from space
dragon endeavor has played splashdown in
the gulf of mexico just off the coast of
pensacola florida and on your screen
there you can see our two fast boats and
they are indeed fast
racing out to greet dragon endeavor as
it sits there the first on there we can
see a view inside the capsule
bob and doug looking good although the
communication was a little choppy we did
hear
the endeavor in three decimal one we
show ourselves in
stable one
and spacex copies for vehicle assessment
step three decimal one
stable one good news
i was still getting a view from the wb
uh the airplane flying overhead it gave
us those
those great views of really our first
views of bob and doug re-entering the
earth's atmosphere
from up above you can see the four
parachutes in the water
we heard those were cut automatically as
expected by dragon
so for now the crew just standing by
again they're going to stay in their
suits in their seats
dragon will be hoisted using the
hydraulic lift out of the water and into
that nest
that nest will then be pulled towards
the camera from this view towards those
individuals on
that upper deck there
try again spacex brace for capsule lift
in about three zero seconds
we're ready thank you
all right so the crew was just told in
about 30 in the next 30 seconds
they have the lines to fix so they're
going to start lifting the capsule up
out of the water and at this point the
communication we're getting with dragon
is actually being routed through the
boat itself at this point
so there we can see the lift
dragon is out of the water yeah so now
a frame is going to start swinging it
back
and it's bound right for that nest at
the bottom of your screen
there we can see dragon endeavor being
carefully set down
into the recovery nest on top of go
navigator
dragon spacex welcome aboard the
recovery vessel
recovery personnel are completing final
checks and preparing to translate you to
the egress platform
be happy thank you
and we see the hatch is now open hatch
being opened at 12 59
pm pacific
match is open
so right now they're going to put a
piece of equipment in there that
basically smooths out the edges and make
sure that it is a
comfortable exit from the dragon capsule
just a little piece of structure there
to ensure that the hatch will remain
open
and that any sharp edges around that
side hatch
are protected
and solo from the plt i just wanted to
thank you guys for
bringing us home safe before we uh i
disembarked from
chip endeavor i'm sure doug will have
some good words for you guys as well but
uh
thank you for doing the most difficult
parts and the most important important
parts of uh
human space flight getting us into orbit
and bringing us home
safely thank you again for the good ship
endeavor
thank you bob for those awesome words
it's absolutely been an honor and a
pleasure to work with you from the
entire spacex team it's been awesome
i just would like to sort of reiterate
what bob said and add
my thanks to everybody over the last
several years that's either worked in
hawthorne mcgregor or down at
kennedy space center anybody who's
touched endeavor
you should take a moment to just cherish
this day
especially given all the things that
have happened this year
uh we certainly can't thank you enough
our families can't thank you enough
just proud to be a small part of this
whole effort to get the
company people to and from the space
station
they can celebrate with each other and
we'll talk to you soon hopefully in
person
thanks so much doug and you're welcome
and and thank you so much for those kind
words
and we all wish you a safe journey home
and a happy reunion with your family
soon and we look forward to seeing you
in person as well
yeah so bob bank and uh the pilot the
joint operations commander for this
mission out of the capsule now
so he's making his way over to the
medical area
and now they're gonna work to get doug
hurley out next
i think i saw a smile on bob's face
he was he was a thumbs up all the way
as they've been giving us some regular
status updates from inside the capsule
they've been feeling really good
and so now we're just standing by for
our spacecraft commander doug
hurley to make his way out into the
fresh air for the first time
in 64 days
and it looks like we've got him out
we've got some applause here
[Applause]
and as you can see in mission control a
standing ovation for a job well done
all around yeah our our crew members
bob and doug are now safely back home on
earth
and they're going to get checked out now
by the nasa medical team they're going
straight
into the medical quarters on board the
ship that'll be their
first stop on planet earth and then
they're going to be making their way
up into a helicopter and then heading
back to dry land
so once they're complete the team's
going to prepare dragon itself
and they're going to begin taking it
back to shore
i think the the biggest thing that we
would both like to talk about is just to
thank
uh you could see steve and kathy here
and
elon you know this has been a quite an
odyssey the last
five six seven eight years five years
since
bob and i started working on this
program
and to be where we are now the first
crude flight
of dragon is just unbelievable
we said it before just a tremendous
privilege to be part of this program to
be
part of nasa and to spend two months
on the international space station with
the
one of the greatest
officers crewmates astronauts chris
cassidy
just was a a real pleasure for both of
us
and i'm sure bob will talk about the
spacewalks but that just to see those
two work
out on the international space station
you're not going to see anything like
that again it just was uh it was just
amazing to be part of that
and then you know the flight of uh
dragon on falcon and then the re-entry
today
it's uh it's a lot the process
as i said five hours ago we were in a
spaceship bobbing around
making prank satellite phone calls to
whoever we could get a hold of
which was kind of fun by the way you can
send him the bill for the sat phone
but anyway we we really appreciate uh
all of you
uh coming to say hi and welcoming us
back it's
uh it's a little bit overwhelming to to
to see everybody here considering the
things that have gone on
the last few months since we've been off
planet but
thank you again for coming to say hi
and and uh hopefully we'll be able to
share a lot of this mission with you
in a few months hopefully if not sooner
but uh thank you again
[Music]
well first of all thank you for
everybody who came out today i know with
all the
challenges everybody's wearing a mask uh
with a situation that we're in it's a
not trivial to get this many people here
to try to be close and celebrate what
we've accomplished
i think for both doug and i the thing
that we're most excited
about having accomplished with this
mission is you know it's written right
on that sign where it says
launch america and then of course land
america today
uh as we went through our years
as astronauts here at the johnson space
center
we got to live through a big chunk of
the shuttle era
and uh a big chunk of the assembly of
the space station
uh when the space shuttles retired when
doug took his uh final flight
uh to wrap that up i think it was a sad
day for us
because there's something special about
having that capability
to launch and and bring your own
astronauts home
and uh we went through a lot of years
without that capability
and i think we're both super super proud
to have been just a small part of the
team that
accomplished bringing those space
flights back to the florida coast and
bringing that capability back to america
as doug mentioned we had the luxury of
having a
just a super crew on board the
international space station
with chris cassidy with anatoly and
yvonne
they just took a wonderful care of us i
can't
think of anything that we could have had
more
in place and ready for us when we
arrived then what chris set up for us
and so we're
we're extremely thankful for him and his
work to make things look easy for us
you know we didn't have the full
training template that was out there
we had an abbreviated flow and and got
to take advantage of
uh an opportunity if you will to try to
take care of space station as we
accomplish this test mission and so
uh i think we're both really proud of
that and happy that it didn't become a
distraction
we were able to accomplish the test
mission objectives and work through
those
kind of get dragon certified and in some
sense
to be ready for our return home when the
time came to do that
and so it all just worked out
wonderfully and so
uh today when we got the wake up calls
from our boys
uh telling us a little bit about what
they were looking forward to
which was us coming home and in theo's
case getting a new dog
it was it was a wonderful morning and we
very much appreciated it and so
again i think this kind of comes full
circle
took years to get here we brought the
capability back to america
and we came home safely to our families
and it took a lot of people
a lot of time to make that happen and so
to kathy thank you for that
of course you had steve as your right
hand man for the most recent history at
least
and we definitely really appreciate the
the hard work that that you all had to
go through to ensure that
the contractors in this case uh the
spacex team really
could understand nasa and what we needed
to
be able to have in place to have human
space flight be safe
in the way that we wanted to to operate
it
and i think for the spacex team we
couldn't have asked for a more wonderful
team to work with i think
you know we definitely are our old dogs
and uh
like some of our old tricks because it's
not always because
lazy sometimes it's because we did it
before and uh
we know an easy solution and we try to
share that with folks and
that's really as we go forward to
further activities
whether it's in low earth orbit to the
moon or beyond
we need to figure out the best way to
share what nasa knows
with the contractor team and help them
be as successful
as possible and and i think maybe we
weren't there
five or six years ago of course but by
the time we launched and certainly by
the time we returned
i think there was a very tight knit
relationship between the spacex team
and our nasa team and we work together
to accomplish what we accomplished
so with that i just want to thank you
all for coming out today and
celebrating this uh this victory
with doug and i and recognize our small
part
of what was accomplished thank you all
you