1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,235 WHEREVER YOU ARE TUNING IN, 2 00:00:02,302 --> 00:00:03,636 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON THIS 3 00:00:03,703 --> 00:00:06,139 EARLY MORNING. 4 00:00:06,206 --> 00:00:08,341 THE AX-2 MISSION IS THE 27 5 00:00:08,408 --> 00:00:10,243 ALL-PRIVATE CREW TO THE 6 00:00:10,310 --> 00:00:11,644 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 7 00:00:11,711 --> 00:00:14,848 DEDICATED TO EXPANDING ACCESS TO 8 00:00:14,914 --> 00:00:17,283 LOW EARTH ORBIT FOR ALL. 9 00:00:17,350 --> 00:00:18,284 YOU ARE WATCHING DOCKING 10 00:00:18,351 --> 00:00:20,487 COVERAGE AS NASA, SPACEX AND 11 00:00:20,553 --> 00:00:23,189 AXIOM SPACE BEGIN CLOSE 12 00:00:23,256 --> 00:00:24,391 PROXIMITY OPERATIONS. 13 00:00:24,457 --> 00:00:24,991 HELLO. 14 00:00:25,058 --> 00:00:27,394 I AM DUKE BRADY, A MULTIMEDIA 15 00:00:27,460 --> 00:00:30,397 SPECIALIST WITH AXIOM SPACE WITH 16 00:00:30,463 --> 00:00:34,200 ME IS KATE TICE HERE AT SPACEX. 17 00:00:34,267 --> 00:00:36,503 OUR FOUR-PERSON CREW WILL 18 00:00:36,569 --> 00:00:38,405 EXPERIENCE TEN DAYS ON ORBIT. 19 00:00:38,471 --> 00:00:40,407 EIGHT DAYS ONBOARD THE ISS. 20 00:00:40,473 --> 00:00:41,908 THE WEB CAST IS A JOINT 21 00:00:41,975 --> 00:00:44,010 BROADCAST BETWEEN NASA, SPACEX 22 00:00:44,077 --> 00:00:46,713 AND AXIOM SPACE AS WE WILL WALK 23 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:49,816 YOU THROUGH DOCKING WITH THE ISS 24 00:00:49,883 --> 00:00:51,518 AND CARRY THE COVERAGE THROUGH 25 00:00:51,584 --> 00:00:53,119 THE WELCOME CEREMONY THAT IS 26 00:00:53,186 --> 00:00:55,221 AWAITING THE CREW ONCE THEY ARE 27 00:00:55,288 --> 00:00:56,723 ONBOARD. 28 00:00:56,790 --> 00:00:58,425 AX-2 MISSION OFFICIALLY STARTED 29 00:00:58,491 --> 00:01:00,827 YESTERDAY, SUNDAY, MAY 21st 30 00:01:00,894 --> 00:01:03,730 WHEN THE AXIOM CREW LIFTED OFF 31 00:01:03,797 --> 00:01:07,534 AT 2:37P.M. PACIFIC. 32 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:09,235 5:37P.M. EASTERN. 33 00:01:09,302 --> 00:01:10,837 THE CREW INSIDE OF DRAGON 34 00:01:10,904 --> 00:01:12,839 SPACECRAFT IS NOW IN POSITION TO 35 00:01:12,906 --> 00:01:13,840 BEGIN APPROACHING THE 36 00:01:13,907 --> 00:01:14,841 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 37 00:01:14,908 --> 00:01:15,742 NOW LET'S CHECK IN WITH THE TEAM 38 00:01:15,809 --> 00:01:18,378 AT JOHNSON SPACE CENTER WHO ARE 39 00:01:18,445 --> 00:01:21,080 ACTIVELY MONITORING DRAGON'S 40 00:01:21,147 --> 00:01:30,290 PROGRESS. 41 00:01:30,356 --> 00:01:33,993 >> GOOD MORNING KATE AND LUKE. 42 00:01:34,060 --> 00:01:36,696 DRAGON HAS BEEN CHASING DOWN 43 00:01:36,763 --> 00:01:38,898 ALMOST 14 HOURS NOW AND SECONDS 44 00:01:38,965 --> 00:01:40,400 AWAY FROM THE APPROACH 45 00:01:40,467 --> 00:01:41,501 INITIATION BURN. 46 00:01:41,568 --> 00:01:43,403 NOW THE APPROACH INITIATION BURN 47 00:01:43,470 --> 00:01:45,205 IS GOING TO BRING DRAGON UP 48 00:01:45,271 --> 00:01:46,706 400METERS BEYOND THE 49 00:01:46,773 --> 00:01:48,007 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, SO 50 00:01:48,074 --> 00:01:50,410 A QUARTER OF A MILE, THEN ALSO 51 00:01:50,477 --> 00:01:52,912 WE HEARD THE CALL THE AI BURN 52 00:01:52,979 --> 00:01:55,014 HAS BEGUN AND PROBABLY HEAR SOME 53 00:01:55,081 --> 00:01:56,416 CHATTER BETWEEN THE CREW AND THE 54 00:01:56,483 --> 00:01:57,317 GROUP HERE THROUGHOUT THE 55 00:01:57,383 --> 00:01:57,917 MORNING. 56 00:01:57,984 --> 00:01:59,319 THE TEAMS HERE IN MISSION 57 00:01:59,385 --> 00:02:00,720 CONTROL HOUSTON ARE BEING LEAD 58 00:02:00,787 --> 00:02:05,525 BY FLORES AND MONITORING ALL 59 00:02:05,592 --> 00:02:08,528 SYSTEMS ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL 60 00:02:08,595 --> 00:02:09,028 SPACE STATION. 61 00:02:09,095 --> 00:02:09,529 >> OK. 62 00:02:09,596 --> 00:02:20,273 WE ARE MOVING TO GROUND 37 THEN. 63 00:02:20,340 --> 00:02:21,174 AND TO THE RIGHT OF MARCUS 64 00:02:21,241 --> 00:02:24,277 FLORES IS OUR CAPCOM. 65 00:02:24,344 --> 00:02:25,478 HE IS WORKING WITH THE TEAMS 66 00:02:25,545 --> 00:02:26,880 ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 67 00:02:26,946 --> 00:02:37,090 STATION THERE. 68 00:02:37,156 --> 00:02:41,995 IT IS 790 SECOND BURN. 69 00:02:42,061 --> 00:02:43,696 IT IS GOING TO BRING US 70 00:02:43,763 --> 00:02:46,799 400METERS. 71 00:02:46,866 --> 00:02:51,104 >> COPY THAT. 72 00:02:51,170 --> 00:03:07,720 COMPLETE. 73 00:03:07,787 --> 00:03:09,522 >> THAT CALL FROM PEGGY WHITSON 74 00:03:09,589 --> 00:03:10,723 ABOARD DRAGON. 75 00:03:10,790 --> 00:03:12,125 THEY ARE NOW IN THEIR SUITS AND 76 00:03:12,191 --> 00:03:26,773 THEY HAVE GOOD COM CHECKS. 77 00:03:26,839 --> 00:03:28,575 >> WE HAVE GOOD CONFIRMATION OF 78 00:03:28,641 --> 00:03:37,684 A GOOD AI OR APPROPRIATION BURN. 79 00:03:37,750 --> 00:03:44,290 AGAIN, STATION-- LINKED AND 80 00:03:44,357 --> 00:03:45,992 LOST FOR TEN MINUTES WITHOUT 81 00:03:46,059 --> 00:03:47,894 GROUND ACTION, DRAGON WILL 82 00:03:47,961 --> 00:03:49,195 PERFORM A BREAK OUT. 83 00:03:49,262 --> 00:03:50,096 MATERIALS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE 84 00:03:50,163 --> 00:03:56,002 EVENT DETAILS. 85 00:03:56,069 --> 00:04:02,008 >> COPY. 86 00:04:02,075 --> 00:04:04,110 >> DRAGON ON THE BIG LOOP. 87 00:04:04,177 --> 00:04:05,812 LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN. 88 00:04:05,878 --> 00:04:08,414 CHANGE YOUR PTT TO ISS THEN 89 00:04:08,481 --> 00:04:10,717 INITIATE CONTACT WITH SPACEX, 90 00:04:10,783 --> 00:04:29,168 HOUSTON AND STATION. 91 00:04:29,235 --> 00:04:30,670 >> DRAGON I BELIEVE YOU STILL 92 00:04:30,737 --> 00:04:53,092 HAVE GROUND WITH YOUR PTT. 93 00:04:53,159 --> 00:04:55,995 >> SPACEX GROUND DRAGON, HOW DO 94 00:04:56,062 --> 00:05:08,107 YOU READS US ON THE BIG LOOP? 95 00:05:08,174 --> 00:05:10,710 >> AND DRAGSON SPACEX ON DRAGON 96 00:05:10,777 --> 00:05:23,956 TO GROUND. 97 00:05:24,023 --> 00:05:26,159 >> SPACEX DRAGON ON THE BIG LOOP 98 00:05:26,225 --> 00:05:26,559 NOW. 99 00:05:26,626 --> 00:05:30,563 HOW DO YOU READ ME? 100 00:05:30,630 --> 00:05:34,667 >> I HAVE YOU 5X5 ON THE BIG 101 00:05:34,734 --> 00:05:35,268 LOOP. 102 00:05:35,334 --> 00:05:36,169 >> OK. 103 00:05:36,235 --> 00:05:38,071 >> STATION, DRAGON ON THE BIG 104 00:05:38,137 --> 00:05:43,376 LOOP, HOW DO YOU READ? 105 00:05:43,443 --> 00:05:45,878 >> DRAGON, STATION HAS YOU LOUD 106 00:05:45,945 --> 00:05:46,579 AND CLEAR. 107 00:05:46,646 --> 00:05:47,780 LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU 108 00:05:47,847 --> 00:05:48,381 GUYS. 109 00:05:48,448 --> 00:05:52,085 >> LIKEWISE. 110 00:05:52,151 --> 00:05:54,387 >> HOUSTON, STATION ON THE BIG 111 00:05:54,454 --> 00:05:56,589 LOOP, HOW DO YOU READ ME? 112 00:05:56,656 --> 00:05:59,092 >> HOUSTON READS YOU 113 00:05:59,158 --> 00:05:59,692 COPY. 114 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:08,701 >> WE HAVE YOU LOUD AND CLEAR. 115 00:06:08,768 --> 00:06:10,903 SPACEX DRAGON, DRAGON TO GROUND. 116 00:06:10,970 --> 00:06:12,905 HOW DO YOU READ? 117 00:06:12,972 --> 00:06:20,646 >> I HAVE YOU 5X5. 118 00:06:20,713 --> 00:06:44,670 >> SOUNDS GOOD, THANKS. 119 00:06:44,737 --> 00:06:46,472 >> AS YOU CAN HEAR, WE ARE UP 120 00:06:46,539 --> 00:06:47,373 AND RUNNING THIS MORNING. 121 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,375 YOU HEARD A LOT OF COM CHECKS 122 00:06:49,442 --> 00:06:52,278 AND THEY WERE DISCUSSING THE BIG 123 00:06:52,345 --> 00:06:52,779 LOOP. 124 00:06:52,845 --> 00:06:54,280 THIS IS A LOOP CREATED SO THE 125 00:06:54,347 --> 00:06:55,481 SPACE STATION, DRAGON WHERE AND 126 00:06:55,548 --> 00:06:57,583 THE TEAMS ON THE GROUND IN 127 00:06:57,650 --> 00:07:00,186 HAWTHORNE AND HERE IN MISSION 128 00:07:00,253 --> 00:07:02,388 CONTROL ALL COMMUNICATE ON THE 129 00:07:02,455 --> 00:07:12,598 CONTROL LOOP. 130 00:07:12,665 --> 00:07:14,100 >> ALL RIGHT, DRAGON. 131 00:07:14,167 --> 00:07:15,902 >> HI, JOHN, YOU HAVE A GO TO 132 00:07:15,968 --> 00:07:19,038 PERFORM 47.011 TO START YOUR 133 00:07:19,105 --> 00:07:26,145 SUIT LEAK CHECKS. 134 00:07:26,212 --> 00:07:27,547 >> OK SOUNDS GOOD. 135 00:07:27,613 --> 00:07:36,556 DRAGON. 136 00:07:36,622 --> 00:07:38,558 >> THE AX-2 CREWMEMBERS ARE 137 00:07:38,624 --> 00:07:39,759 ALREADY IN THEIR SUITS THIS 138 00:07:39,826 --> 00:07:42,061 MORNING. 139 00:07:42,128 --> 00:07:45,665 AND WE DID, AT THE START OF 140 00:07:45,731 --> 00:07:49,368 TODAY'S BROADCAST, DRAGON IS NOW 141 00:07:49,435 --> 00:07:50,870 400METERS BELOW THE 142 00:07:50,937 --> 00:07:52,271 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 143 00:07:52,338 --> 00:07:53,372 IT HAS ALSO PASSED THAT THE 144 00:07:53,439 --> 00:07:54,974 APPROACH ELLIPSOID. 145 00:07:55,041 --> 00:07:56,776 WE CALL THAT THE AE. 146 00:07:56,843 --> 00:07:58,678 THAT IS IMAGINARY SHAPE 147 00:07:58,744 --> 00:08:02,481 MEASURING A 4X2X2 A LARGE 148 00:08:02,548 --> 00:08:07,687 3-DIMENSIONAL OVAL. 149 00:08:07,753 --> 00:08:15,494 >> LOW PRIORITY. 150 00:08:15,561 --> 00:08:17,530 >> JOHN WAS JUST WONDERING. 151 00:08:17,597 --> 00:08:24,837 DID THAT ECHO RESOLVE ITSELF? 152 00:08:24,904 --> 00:08:25,638 >> CLEAR NOW. 153 00:08:25,705 --> 00:08:26,639 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 154 00:08:26,706 --> 00:08:28,641 >> THAT IS GOOD TO HEAR. 155 00:08:28,708 --> 00:08:34,747 THANKS. 156 00:08:34,814 --> 00:08:36,148 >> STILL REPORTING HEARING AN 157 00:08:36,215 --> 00:08:38,050 ECHO JUST MOMENTS AGO BEFORE WE 158 00:08:38,117 --> 00:08:39,652 JOINED THE BROADCAST TODAY WHEN 159 00:08:39,719 --> 00:08:41,454 THEY HAD MULTIPLE LOOPS SET UP 160 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,356 FOR COMMUNICATION, BUT NOW 161 00:08:43,422 --> 00:08:45,057 EVERYONE IS ESTABLISHED AND ON 162 00:08:45,124 --> 00:08:45,958 THE BIG LOOP. 163 00:08:46,025 --> 00:08:47,360 MEANING ALL TEAMS INVOLVED CAN 164 00:08:47,426 --> 00:08:52,965 HEAR THE COMMUNICATION. 165 00:08:53,032 --> 00:08:53,866 >> WE ARE TRACKING DOCKING TO 166 00:08:53,933 --> 00:08:56,669 THE SPACE FACING PORT THIS 167 00:08:56,736 --> 00:08:57,970 MORNING AT THE INTERNATIONAL 168 00:08:58,037 --> 00:09:00,373 SPACE STATION AT 8:10A.M. 169 00:09:00,439 --> 00:09:01,474 CENTRAL TIME. 170 00:09:01,540 --> 00:09:03,276 9:10 EASTERN TIME. 171 00:09:03,342 --> 00:09:10,383 SO MOVING RIGHT ON TIME. 172 00:09:10,449 --> 00:09:13,085 NOW 1:47:02 SINCE LAUNCH 173 00:09:13,152 --> 00:09:14,186 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. 174 00:09:14,253 --> 00:09:15,388 >> SPACEX DRAGON. 175 00:09:15,454 --> 00:09:26,999 DRAGON TO GROUND. 176 00:09:27,066 --> 00:09:29,001 >> DRAGON SPACEX, YOU ARE A GO 177 00:09:29,068 --> 00:09:41,013 TO INITIATE SUIT LEAK CHECKS. 178 00:09:41,080 --> 00:10:28,394 >> DRAGON COPY. 179 00:10:28,461 --> 00:10:29,996 AGAIN WE ARE HERE IN MISSION 180 00:10:30,062 --> 00:10:30,997 CONTROL HOUSTON THIS MORNING 181 00:10:31,063 --> 00:10:32,698 MONITORING DRAGON'S DOCKING TO 182 00:10:32,765 --> 00:10:34,300 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 183 00:10:34,367 --> 00:10:36,802 SCHEDULED FOR 8:10A.M. CENTRAL 184 00:10:36,869 --> 00:10:37,203 TIME. 185 00:10:37,269 --> 00:10:39,005 WE HAVE TEAMS IN MISSION CONTROL 186 00:10:39,071 --> 00:10:40,706 HAWTHORNE MONITORING DRAGON'S 187 00:10:40,773 --> 00:10:42,608 FLIGHT SINCE LAUNCH YESTERDAY AS 188 00:10:42,675 --> 00:10:43,109 WELL. 189 00:10:43,175 --> 00:10:44,810 SO I WILL SEND IT BACK TO KATE 190 00:10:44,877 --> 00:10:46,612 AND DUKE. 191 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:47,113 >> AWESOME. 192 00:10:47,179 --> 00:10:48,514 THANKS SO MUCH, LEAH. 193 00:10:48,581 --> 00:10:50,216 WE DID HEAR THE CALL-OUT. 194 00:10:50,282 --> 00:10:52,818 THE CREW NOT THE OK TO BEGIN THE 195 00:10:52,885 --> 00:10:55,121 SUIT LEAK CHECK AND THEY DONNED 196 00:10:55,187 --> 00:10:59,225 THEIR SUITS A LITTLE BIT AGO. 197 00:10:59,291 --> 00:11:01,827 THEY ARE MONITORING THE PRESSURE 198 00:11:01,894 --> 00:11:02,828 FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES TO MAKE 199 00:11:02,895 --> 00:11:05,131 SURE ALL THE ZIPPERS ARE IN THE 200 00:11:05,197 --> 00:11:07,133 RIGHT PLACE AND THE VISOR IS 201 00:11:07,199 --> 00:11:08,934 LATCHED AND LOCKED AND READY TO 202 00:11:09,001 --> 00:11:09,735 APPROACH. 203 00:11:09,802 --> 00:11:10,336 >> GREAT. 204 00:11:10,403 --> 00:11:12,938 GREAT TO HEAR THOSE HEALTHY COM 205 00:11:13,005 --> 00:11:13,739 CHECKS AS WELL. 206 00:11:13,806 --> 00:11:15,541 AS DRAGON BEGINS APPROACH TO 207 00:11:15,608 --> 00:11:15,975 SPACE STATION. 208 00:11:16,042 --> 00:11:18,377 LET'S LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE 209 00:11:18,444 --> 00:11:19,779 ABOUT THE AX-2 CREW. 210 00:11:19,845 --> 00:11:22,181 THE AX-2 MISSION IS COMMANDED BY 211 00:11:22,248 --> 00:11:25,284 RETIRED NASA ASTRONAUT PEGGY 212 00:11:25,351 --> 00:11:27,486 WHITSON BORN AND RAISED IN IOWA. 213 00:11:27,553 --> 00:11:29,288 SHE WAS INSPIRED WHEN SHE 214 00:11:29,355 --> 00:11:30,890 WATCHED THE APOLLO 11 CREW WALK 215 00:11:30,956 --> 00:11:31,490 ON THE MOON. 216 00:11:31,557 --> 00:11:32,892 SHE HAS SINCE BECOME THE MOST 217 00:11:32,958 --> 00:11:34,293 EXPERIENCED AMERICAN ASTRONAUT 218 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,296 AND ONE OF THE MOST DECORATED 219 00:11:37,363 --> 00:11:38,898 WHICH INCLUDES THREE LONG 220 00:11:38,964 --> 00:11:40,800 DURATION MISSIONS TO THE ISS AND 221 00:11:40,866 --> 00:11:43,602 HAS MORE CUMULATIVE TIME IN 222 00:11:43,669 --> 00:11:45,104 SPACE THAN ANY U.S. ASTRONAUT 223 00:11:45,171 --> 00:11:46,605 AND MORE THAN ANY WOMAN IN THE 224 00:11:46,672 --> 00:11:47,106 WORLD. 225 00:11:47,173 --> 00:11:49,408 SHE HAS CONDUCTED TEN SPACEWALKS 226 00:11:49,475 --> 00:11:51,310 WITH OVER 60 HOURS OUT IN THE 227 00:11:51,377 --> 00:11:52,711 VACUUM OF SPACE AND PERFORMED 228 00:11:52,778 --> 00:11:54,613 HUNDREDS OF RESEARCH EXPERIMENTS 229 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:56,315 ONBOARD THE ISS NOT ONLY THE 230 00:11:56,382 --> 00:11:57,817 COMMANDER FOR THIS MISSION, BUT 231 00:11:57,883 --> 00:12:00,820 PEGGY ALSO SERVES AS DIRECTOR OF 232 00:12:00,886 --> 00:12:02,521 HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT FOR AXIOM 233 00:12:02,588 --> 00:12:04,223 SPACE. 234 00:12:04,290 --> 00:12:07,226 >> THE PILOT FOR AX-2 IS PRIVATE 235 00:12:07,293 --> 00:12:09,328 ASTRONAUT JOHN SHOFFNER, BORN IN 236 00:12:09,395 --> 00:12:11,730 ALASKA, RAISED IN KENTUCKY, 237 00:12:11,797 --> 00:12:14,333 SCHOFFNER IS A EDUCATION 238 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,369 ADVOCATE, BUSINESS ENGINEER, A 239 00:12:17,436 --> 00:12:19,271 PILOT SINCE THE AGE OF 17. 240 00:12:19,338 --> 00:12:22,274 JOHN HAS OVER 78500 FLIGHT HOURS 241 00:12:22,341 --> 00:12:26,278 HOLDING COMMERCIAL, INSTRUMENTS, 242 00:12:26,345 --> 00:12:27,880 ENGINE AND LAND AND SEA AIRCRAFT 243 00:12:27,947 --> 00:12:29,582 AS WELL AS HELICOPTER. 244 00:12:29,648 --> 00:12:31,283 HE ALSO HOLDS RATINGS IN FORMER 245 00:12:31,350 --> 00:12:32,785 MILITARY JET AND HIGH 246 00:12:32,852 --> 00:12:36,188 PERFORMANCE-- 247 00:12:36,255 --> 00:12:38,591 >> DRAGON TO GROUND, FOUR SUIT 248 00:12:38,657 --> 00:12:39,792 LEAK CHECKS HERE. 249 00:12:39,859 --> 00:12:41,193 >> CONCURRED. 250 00:12:41,260 --> 00:12:41,694 >> ALL RIGHT. 251 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:42,495 GOOD NEWS THERE. 252 00:12:42,561 --> 00:12:43,896 JUST LETTING US KNOW THAT ALL OF 253 00:12:43,963 --> 00:12:46,699 THE SUIT LEAK CHECKS CHECKED 254 00:12:46,765 --> 00:12:47,500 OUT. 255 00:12:47,566 --> 00:12:50,302 AS AN ATHLETE JOHN HAS YEARS OF 256 00:12:50,369 --> 00:12:52,204 COMPETITIVE EXPERIENCE IN WATER 257 00:12:52,271 --> 00:12:56,208 SKIING, CYCLING, HANG GLIDING, 258 00:12:56,275 --> 00:12:58,410 SKYDIVING AND SPACE JUMPING. 259 00:12:58,477 --> 00:13:01,413 JOHN TRAINED AS AX-1 BACKUP 260 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:02,715 PILOT AND DURING THIS MISSION 261 00:13:02,781 --> 00:13:05,117 PLANS TO INVEST A LOT OF THE 262 00:13:05,184 --> 00:13:06,318 TIME IN STEM EDUCATION 263 00:13:06,385 --> 00:13:08,220 ACTIVITIES AIMED AT INSPIRING 264 00:13:08,287 --> 00:13:09,922 TEACHERS. 265 00:13:09,989 --> 00:13:11,624 >> AND REPRESENTING THE SAUDI 266 00:13:11,690 --> 00:13:13,025 SPACE COMMISSION AND SERVING AS 267 00:13:13,092 --> 00:13:14,126 A MISSION SPECIALIST, ALI 268 00:13:14,193 --> 00:13:16,962 ALQARNI WAS BORN IN MARCH OF 269 00:13:17,029 --> 00:13:19,565 1992 IN SAUDI ARABIA. 270 00:13:19,632 --> 00:13:21,967 ALI IS FLUENT IN ENGLISH AS WELL 271 00:13:22,034 --> 00:13:23,969 AS HIS NATIVE ARABIC, AND AS AN 272 00:13:24,036 --> 00:13:26,472 AIR FORCE CAPTAIN, ALI HAS 12 273 00:13:26,539 --> 00:13:28,474 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE PRIMARILY ON 274 00:13:28,541 --> 00:13:31,377 THE F-15 IN SERVICE TO THE ROYAL 275 00:13:31,443 --> 00:13:33,179 SAUDI AIR FORCE. 276 00:13:33,245 --> 00:13:34,580 ALI GRADUATED WITH A BACHELOR IN 277 00:13:34,647 --> 00:13:38,784 2013 FROM THE AIR ACADEMY IN 278 00:13:38,851 --> 00:13:41,487 SAUDI ARABIA. 279 00:13:41,554 --> 00:13:43,589 THE AIR ACADEMY IN SAUDI ARABIA. 280 00:13:43,656 --> 00:13:45,090 >> ALSO REPRESENTING THE SAUDI 281 00:13:45,157 --> 00:13:46,892 SPACE COMMISSION AND SERVING AS 282 00:13:46,959 --> 00:13:48,894 A MISSION SPECIALIST, RAYYANAH 283 00:13:48,961 --> 00:13:52,498 BARNAWI WAS BORN IN SAUDI ARABIA 284 00:13:52,565 --> 00:13:57,303 IN SEPTEMBER. 285 00:13:57,369 --> 00:14:00,406 RAYYANAH HAS A MASTER'S DEGREE 286 00:14:00,472 --> 00:14:02,908 FROM SAUDI ARABIA AND RIYADH, 287 00:14:02,975 --> 00:14:03,809 SAUDI ARABIA AND A BACHELOR'S 288 00:14:03,876 --> 00:14:06,412 DEGREE IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES 289 00:14:06,478 --> 00:14:09,315 FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW 290 00:14:09,381 --> 00:14:09,915 ZEALAND. 291 00:14:09,982 --> 00:14:12,017 SHE IS FLUENT IN ENGLISH, AND 292 00:14:12,084 --> 00:14:13,519 TURKISH AS WELL AS NATIVE 293 00:14:13,586 --> 00:14:14,620 ARABIC. 294 00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:16,055 SHE HAS BEEN A RESEARCH LAB 295 00:14:16,121 --> 00:14:18,257 TECHNICIAN SINCE 2013 AND THE 296 00:14:18,324 --> 00:14:20,259 STEM CELL AND TISSUE 297 00:14:20,326 --> 00:14:22,861 REENGINEERING PROGRAM AT THE 298 00:14:22,928 --> 00:14:24,263 SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH 299 00:14:24,330 --> 00:14:26,665 CENTER LOCATED IN RIYADH, SAUDI 300 00:14:26,732 --> 00:14:28,567 ARABIA. 301 00:14:28,634 --> 00:14:30,169 >> AND THERE YOU HAVE IT. 302 00:14:30,236 --> 00:14:31,870 THE AX-2 CREW. 303 00:14:31,937 --> 00:14:33,572 THIS IS A FANTASTIC WONDERFUL 304 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:35,474 GROUP OF PEOPLE, WHO HAVE SPENT 305 00:14:35,541 --> 00:14:36,875 MONTHS AND THOUSANDS OF HOURS 306 00:14:36,942 --> 00:14:38,277 PREPARING FOR THIS MOMENT. 307 00:14:38,344 --> 00:14:40,179 WE ARE SO PROUD OF THEM AND IT 308 00:14:40,246 --> 00:14:42,381 IS SO AWESOME TO FINALLY SEE 309 00:14:42,448 --> 00:14:42,781 THEM IN SPACE. 310 00:14:42,848 --> 00:14:43,182 >> YEAH. 311 00:14:43,249 --> 00:14:44,183 WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO 312 00:14:44,250 --> 00:14:45,384 ACTUALLY HEAR FROM THE CREW 313 00:14:45,451 --> 00:14:47,186 JUST, LIKE ABOUT THREE HOURS 314 00:14:47,253 --> 00:14:51,490 AFTER THEY MADE IT TO SPACE. 315 00:14:51,557 --> 00:14:52,191 >> YEAH. 316 00:14:52,258 --> 00:14:54,293 THAT IN ORBIT ON ORBIT MEDIA 317 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:55,494 EVENT WAS AWESOME. 318 00:14:55,561 --> 00:14:57,196 WE GOT TO SEE AND HEAR FROM 319 00:14:57,263 --> 00:15:00,599 PEGGY, JOHN, ALI AND RAYYANAH 320 00:15:00,666 --> 00:15:02,701 AND IT WAS SO COOL TO SEE THEM 321 00:15:02,768 --> 00:15:04,503 FLOATING AROUND, AND SPINNING 322 00:15:04,570 --> 00:15:06,505 THEIR WATER BOTTLES AND PLAYING 323 00:15:06,572 --> 00:15:10,009 WITH THE 0G INDICATOR AND YEAH, 324 00:15:10,075 --> 00:15:11,410 IT WAS A LOT OF FUN TO SEE THEM 325 00:15:11,477 --> 00:15:11,810 PLAY. 326 00:15:11,877 --> 00:15:12,511 >> YEAH. 327 00:15:12,578 --> 00:15:13,512 IT REALLY WAS GREAT. 328 00:15:13,579 --> 00:15:15,614 NOW TODAY'S CREW, AS WE SAID, 329 00:15:15,681 --> 00:15:18,350 PEGGY WHITSON, JOHN SHOFFNER, 330 00:15:18,417 --> 00:15:22,154 ALI ALQARNI AND RAYYANAH BARNAWI 331 00:15:22,221 --> 00:15:23,856 HAVE GONE THROUGH EXTENSIVE 332 00:15:23,922 --> 00:15:25,357 TRAINING AROUND THE GLOBE TO 333 00:15:25,424 --> 00:15:27,059 SPEND THE TEN DAYS IN SPACE. 334 00:15:27,126 --> 00:15:28,961 EACH CREW MEMBER HAS 700 TO 335 00:15:29,028 --> 00:15:31,563 1,000 LOGGED HOURS OF TIME SINCE 336 00:15:31,630 --> 00:15:34,166 MID 2021 DEDICATED TO LEARNING 337 00:15:34,233 --> 00:15:36,068 ISS SYSTEMS AND TO PREPARE FOR 338 00:15:36,135 --> 00:15:37,369 THE SCIENCE AND OUTREACH 339 00:15:37,436 --> 00:15:38,771 ACTIVITIES THAT THEY WILL BE 340 00:15:38,837 --> 00:15:41,874 CONDUCTING WHILE IN SPACE. 341 00:15:41,940 --> 00:15:44,076 PRIVATE ASTRONAUT TRAINING IS 342 00:15:44,143 --> 00:15:46,278 RIGOROUS TO THE AX-2 CREW FOR 343 00:15:46,345 --> 00:15:47,079 THE ISS. 344 00:15:47,146 --> 00:15:48,681 THE TEAMS HERE AT SPACEX HAVE 345 00:15:48,747 --> 00:15:50,783 SPENT THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS 346 00:15:50,849 --> 00:15:52,384 TEACHING THE CREW ABOUT ORBITAL 347 00:15:52,451 --> 00:15:53,686 MECHANICS AND RUNNING 348 00:15:53,752 --> 00:15:54,987 STIMULATION FULL OF MISSIONS 349 00:15:55,054 --> 00:15:57,890 FROM INSIDE OUR DRAGON TRAINING 350 00:15:57,956 --> 00:15:59,191 CAPSULES, THE TRAINING PROGRAM 351 00:15:59,258 --> 00:16:01,093 INCLUDES NEARLY 100 DIFFERENT 352 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,096 LESSONS COVERING ALL ASPECTS OF 353 00:16:04,163 --> 00:16:04,697 THE FLIGHT. 354 00:16:04,763 --> 00:16:06,198 >> AND THE LIST OF TRAINING GOES 355 00:16:06,265 --> 00:16:06,899 ON. 356 00:16:06,965 --> 00:16:09,702 THERE IS A LOT MORE THAT THEY 357 00:16:09,768 --> 00:16:11,503 DID AND WE'LL TRY TO RECAP IT. 358 00:16:11,570 --> 00:16:14,506 THE AX-2 SPENT TIME IN 359 00:16:14,573 --> 00:16:15,908 SIMULATORS TO ORIENT THEIR 360 00:16:15,974 --> 00:16:19,345 BODIES INCLUDING CENTRIFUGE HERE 361 00:16:19,411 --> 00:16:21,347 SIMULATING HIGHER G FORCES. 362 00:16:21,413 --> 00:16:23,449 ALTERNATIVELY, THE CREW 363 00:16:23,515 --> 00:16:25,851 PARTICIPATED IN A 70G FLIGHT 364 00:16:25,918 --> 00:16:28,153 THAT SIMULATED THE LACK OF G 365 00:16:28,220 --> 00:16:29,355 FORCES TO EXPERIENCE 366 00:16:29,421 --> 00:16:31,657 WEIGHTLESSNESS WHICH SEEMS 367 00:16:31,724 --> 00:16:32,257 AWESOME. 368 00:16:32,324 --> 00:16:34,660 ASIDE FROM THE GRAVITATIONAL 369 00:16:34,727 --> 00:16:36,762 FORCES THEY ALSO UNDERWENT 370 00:16:36,829 --> 00:16:40,165 ALTITUDE TRAINING IN HYPERBARIC 371 00:16:40,232 --> 00:16:41,667 CHAMBER WHERE OXYGEN LEVELS ARE 372 00:16:41,734 --> 00:16:43,068 LOW AND THE CREW USES THIS TO 373 00:16:43,135 --> 00:16:44,770 IDENTIFY HOW THEIR BODIES 374 00:16:44,837 --> 00:16:47,272 RESPOND TO SITUATIONS AS WELL AS 375 00:16:47,339 --> 00:16:48,974 RECOGNIZING THOSE EFFECTS IN THE 376 00:16:49,041 --> 00:16:49,675 CREW MATES. 377 00:16:49,742 --> 00:16:51,176 BE READY TO SPEND EIGHT DAYS 378 00:16:51,243 --> 00:16:52,478 ONBOARD AND WORKING ON THE 379 00:16:52,544 --> 00:16:54,380 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 380 00:16:54,446 --> 00:16:55,581 THEY SPENT TIME LEARNING FROM 381 00:16:55,647 --> 00:16:57,683 MISSION CONTROLLERS EXPERTS IN 382 00:16:57,750 --> 00:16:59,084 SAFETY AND EMERGENCY ISS 383 00:16:59,151 --> 00:17:00,786 PROCEDURES AS WELL AS ESSENTIALS 384 00:17:00,853 --> 00:17:03,589 TO LIVING ONBOARD THE LABORATORY 385 00:17:03,655 --> 00:17:05,391 HOW TO HEAT UP YOUR FOOD. 386 00:17:05,457 --> 00:17:08,994 THE GOAL IS TO CONFIDENTLY 387 00:17:09,061 --> 00:17:10,496 COMPLETE EVERY TASK ON THEIR 388 00:17:10,562 --> 00:17:11,997 TIMELINE, BUT ALSO TO BE 389 00:17:12,064 --> 00:17:13,499 CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS OF THE 390 00:17:13,565 --> 00:17:15,701 SPACE STATION AS A WHOLE AS 391 00:17:15,768 --> 00:17:17,236 OTHER ASTRONAUTS CARRY OUT THEIR 392 00:17:17,302 --> 00:17:18,137 DUTIES. 393 00:17:18,203 --> 00:17:19,938 AND TO THAT AND THIS CREW WILL 394 00:17:20,005 --> 00:17:21,640 BE WORKING ON AREAS AS THEY ARE 395 00:17:21,707 --> 00:17:23,342 OWNED AND OPERATED BY OTHER 396 00:17:23,409 --> 00:17:24,843 COUNTRIES, SO THE CREW TRAVELED 397 00:17:24,910 --> 00:17:27,446 TO GERMANY AND JAPAN TO BE 398 00:17:27,513 --> 00:17:28,747 QUALIFIED ON THOSE SYSTEMS. 399 00:17:28,814 --> 00:17:31,150 THE COLUMBUS MODULE WAS IN 400 00:17:31,216 --> 00:17:33,051 GERMANY WHERE THEY TRAINED ON 401 00:17:33,118 --> 00:17:34,353 SYSTEMS AND OPERATION FOR DAILY 402 00:17:34,420 --> 00:17:38,257 TASKS AS WELL AS RESPONDING. 403 00:17:38,323 --> 00:17:39,958 SEPARATELY TO QUALIFY HER TO 404 00:17:40,025 --> 00:17:41,860 JAPANESE EXPLORATION MODULE. 405 00:17:41,927 --> 00:17:43,962 THE CREW TRAVELED TO JAPAN TO 406 00:17:44,029 --> 00:17:47,466 LEARN THE INSTRUCTORS OF THE 407 00:17:47,533 --> 00:17:49,968 JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION 408 00:17:50,035 --> 00:17:50,669 AGENCY. 409 00:17:50,736 --> 00:17:52,171 AS YOU CAN IMAGINE INTERNATIONAL 410 00:17:52,237 --> 00:17:53,672 COLLABORATION IS A CONSTANT 411 00:17:53,739 --> 00:17:54,773 THROUGHOUT THIS MISSION SO ONE 412 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,074 THING TO LEARN THE SYSTEMS OF 413 00:17:56,141 --> 00:17:58,677 ISS, BUT JUST AS IMPORTANT HOW 414 00:17:58,744 --> 00:18:00,379 TO LIVE AND WORK IN A TEAM IN A 415 00:18:00,446 --> 00:18:01,980 SHARED SPACE, SO THE TEAM SPENT 416 00:18:02,047 --> 00:18:03,882 FIVE DAYS TRAINING IN THE HUMAN 417 00:18:03,949 --> 00:18:05,984 EXPLORATION RESEARCH ANALOG AT 418 00:18:06,051 --> 00:18:07,486 THE JOHNSON SPACE CENTER THIS IS 419 00:18:07,553 --> 00:18:09,788 A CONFINED EXPERIENCES THAT IS 420 00:18:09,855 --> 00:18:11,790 DESIGNED TO ISOLATE THE CREW TO 421 00:18:11,857 --> 00:18:13,692 BUILD COHESIVENESS AND TEAM 422 00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:14,092 WORK. 423 00:18:14,159 --> 00:18:15,093 THIS EXPERIENCE INCLUDED A 424 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:17,129 CHANCE TO SIMULATE WORK AND 425 00:18:17,196 --> 00:18:19,531 RESEARCH AND REHEARSE OUTREACH 426 00:18:19,598 --> 00:18:21,333 EFFORTS AND EVEN HE RESPONDED TO 427 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:22,434 MOCK EMERGENCIES ALL WHILE 428 00:18:22,501 --> 00:18:25,137 LIVING IN QUARTERS UNABLE TO 429 00:18:25,204 --> 00:18:25,838 LEAVE. 430 00:18:25,904 --> 00:18:27,239 THE TEAM ALSO SPENT TIME AT THE 431 00:18:27,306 --> 00:18:29,641 LAUNCHPAD IN THE SUIT UP ROOM 432 00:18:29,708 --> 00:18:30,542 AND WORKING THROUGH EMERGENCY 433 00:18:30,609 --> 00:18:32,144 PROCEDURES THAT MIGHT BE 434 00:18:32,211 --> 00:18:33,846 NECESSARY IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT 435 00:18:33,912 --> 00:18:36,448 OF A PAD ABORT SCENARIO. 436 00:18:36,515 --> 00:18:37,850 >> THAT IS COOL TO SEE. 437 00:18:37,916 --> 00:18:38,350 >> ABSOLUTELY. 438 00:18:38,417 --> 00:18:39,751 YOU KNOW ALL OF THIS TRAINING 439 00:18:39,818 --> 00:18:43,155 CULMINATED IN A FINAL PATCH 440 00:18:43,222 --> 00:18:44,957 CEREMONY TO MARK THE END OF THIS 441 00:18:45,023 --> 00:18:45,858 CREW TRAINING. 442 00:18:45,924 --> 00:18:47,860 IT IS A TRADITION OF NASA THAT 443 00:18:47,926 --> 00:18:49,862 DATES BACK TO BEGINNING OF ISS 444 00:18:49,928 --> 00:18:51,163 20 PLUS YEARS AGO. 445 00:18:51,230 --> 00:18:52,464 ALL OF THAT IS TO SAY THIS TEAM 446 00:18:52,531 --> 00:18:54,166 IS READY TO GO AND THE LAST FEW 447 00:18:54,233 --> 00:18:55,968 MONTHS HAVE ALL LEAD TO THE HERE 448 00:18:56,034 --> 00:18:57,069 AND NOW AND WHAT THEY 449 00:18:57,135 --> 00:18:58,170 ACCOMPLISHED ON STATION IS GOING 450 00:18:58,237 --> 00:19:01,173 TO HELP RIGHT THE GUIDE FOR THE 451 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:02,474 NEXT MISSION IN HOW WE 452 00:19:02,541 --> 00:19:04,176 COORDINATE EFFORT ON THE FUTURE 453 00:19:04,243 --> 00:19:05,277 AXIOM STATION. 454 00:19:05,344 --> 00:19:06,678 NEEDLESS TO SAY THIS IS 455 00:19:06,745 --> 00:19:07,779 IMPORTANT MOMENT FOR THOSE 456 00:19:07,846 --> 00:19:09,481 TRAINING CREWS AS REALLY THEY 457 00:19:09,548 --> 00:19:11,583 BECOME A FAMILY AND FEEL SO 458 00:19:11,650 --> 00:19:12,885 CONNECTED AFTER ALL OF THAT TIME 459 00:19:12,951 --> 00:19:13,385 TOGETHER. 460 00:19:13,452 --> 00:19:15,387 NOW, ON THE SCREEN, WE HAVE OUR 461 00:19:15,454 --> 00:19:17,389 FIRST VIEW OF DRAGON, THE VIEW 462 00:19:17,456 --> 00:19:18,490 COMES TO US FROM THE 463 00:19:18,557 --> 00:19:20,092 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 464 00:19:20,158 --> 00:19:26,298 WE CAN SEE THE LOCATION AND THIS 465 00:19:26,365 --> 00:19:28,300 IS THE FURTHEST AWAY IT WILL BE 466 00:19:28,367 --> 00:19:30,802 ON CAMERA. 467 00:19:30,869 --> 00:19:32,004 APPROACHING THE INTERNATIONAL 468 00:19:32,070 --> 00:19:33,305 SPACE STATION, FOR THOSE THAT 469 00:19:33,372 --> 00:19:35,207 HAVE JUST RECENTLY JOINED US, WE 470 00:19:35,274 --> 00:19:36,608 HAD CONFIRMATION THE CREW 471 00:19:36,675 --> 00:19:38,510 COMPLETED THE SUIT LEAK CHECKS 472 00:19:38,577 --> 00:19:40,112 AND THOSE LEAK CHECKS LOOKED 473 00:19:40,178 --> 00:19:42,214 GOOD, SO THEY ARE IN THEIR SEATS 474 00:19:42,281 --> 00:19:45,717 AND STRAPPED IN, AND THEY ARE 475 00:19:45,784 --> 00:19:48,020 MONITORING THE PROGRESS OF THEIR 476 00:19:48,086 --> 00:19:49,421 APPROACH TO THE INTERNATIONAL 477 00:19:49,488 --> 00:19:51,323 SPACE STATION. 478 00:19:51,390 --> 00:19:52,424 >> THIS IS WHAT TRAFFIC LOOKS 479 00:19:52,491 --> 00:19:56,328 LIKE AT THE ISS. 480 00:19:56,395 --> 00:20:16,882 >> VERY TRUE. 481 00:20:16,949 --> 00:20:18,083 >> THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT 482 00:20:18,150 --> 00:20:19,585 INCREDIBLE EFFORTS OVER THE LAST 483 00:20:19,651 --> 00:20:21,186 TWO DECADES HAVE SET THE STAGE 484 00:20:21,253 --> 00:20:22,287 FOR WHAT IS POSSIBLE IN LOW 485 00:20:22,354 --> 00:20:23,589 EARTH ORBIT. 486 00:20:23,655 --> 00:20:26,091 THE AX-2 MISSION IS A CRITICAL 487 00:20:26,158 --> 00:20:27,492 STEP TOWARD OPENING THOSE 488 00:20:27,559 --> 00:20:28,694 POSSIBILITIES TO A HOST OF NEW 489 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:30,696 PARTICIPANTS, GOVERNMENT'S 490 00:20:30,762 --> 00:20:31,797 DIVERSE RESEARCHES, 491 00:20:31,863 --> 00:20:33,699 MANUFACTURERS AND MORE. 492 00:20:33,765 --> 00:20:35,200 HERE ON EARTH, WE ARE ALREADY 493 00:20:35,267 --> 00:20:37,002 SEEING BENEFITS FROM RESEARCH 494 00:20:37,069 --> 00:20:39,004 CURRENTLY CONDUCTED ON THE ISS 495 00:20:39,071 --> 00:20:40,906 FROM WATER AND AIR PURIFICATION 496 00:20:40,973 --> 00:20:42,708 SYSTEMS TO TESTING MEDICAL 497 00:20:42,774 --> 00:20:45,310 DEVICE AND THERAPEUTICS. 498 00:20:45,377 --> 00:20:46,812 PRETTY AMAZING STUFF. 499 00:20:46,878 --> 00:20:49,414 >> IN ADDITION TO TECH DEMO AND 500 00:20:49,481 --> 00:20:51,316 MEDICAL RESEARCH, ACCESSES TO 501 00:20:51,383 --> 00:20:53,218 LOW EARTH ORBIT ALLOWS FOR A 502 00:20:53,285 --> 00:20:54,720 CONNECTION TO ARTS AND OTHER 503 00:20:54,786 --> 00:20:56,221 OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES. 504 00:20:56,288 --> 00:20:58,323 AX-2 IS THE FIRST OF SEVERAL 505 00:20:58,390 --> 00:21:00,325 PROPOSED MISSIONS IN ADVANCE OF 506 00:21:00,392 --> 00:21:02,728 AXIOM STATION THE WORLD'S FIRST 507 00:21:02,794 --> 00:21:05,230 COMMERCIAL SPACE STATION. 508 00:21:05,297 --> 00:21:07,633 A SUSTAINABLE LOWER EARTH ORBIT 509 00:21:07,699 --> 00:21:10,335 MEANS EXPAND ACCESS TO WORK IN 510 00:21:10,402 --> 00:21:11,937 SPACE AND ALSO FREES UP NASA AND 511 00:21:12,004 --> 00:21:13,639 THE PARTNERS TO PUT THEIR BUDGET 512 00:21:13,705 --> 00:21:15,240 TOWARD OTHER EXPLORATION 513 00:21:15,307 --> 00:21:17,075 PROGRAMS WHILE GRANTING SPACE 514 00:21:17,142 --> 00:21:18,577 AGENCIES AROUND THE WORLD MORE 515 00:21:18,644 --> 00:21:19,878 OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH COMMERCIAL 516 00:21:19,945 --> 00:21:21,480 EFFORTS. 517 00:21:21,546 --> 00:21:23,482 >> AND OVER AT THE FLIGHT TIME, 518 00:21:23,548 --> 00:21:25,784 THE ISS HAS ACCOMPLISHED 519 00:21:25,851 --> 00:21:29,988 UNPRECEDENTED FLEET CONTINUOUSLY 520 00:21:30,055 --> 00:21:31,089 SUSTAINED OPERATIONS FOR MORE 521 00:21:31,156 --> 00:21:33,091 THAN 22 YEARS THIS IS NOT ONLY A 522 00:21:33,158 --> 00:21:34,993 TRUE TESTAMENT TO TECHNOLOGY 523 00:21:35,060 --> 00:21:36,194 REQUIRED TO PHYSICALLY ACHIEVE 524 00:21:36,261 --> 00:21:37,195 THAT, BUT LOSS TO THE 525 00:21:37,262 --> 00:21:39,598 COLLABORATIVE AND COOPERATIVE 526 00:21:39,665 --> 00:21:39,998 EFFORTS. 527 00:21:40,065 --> 00:21:41,099 THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ACROSS THE 528 00:21:41,166 --> 00:21:43,001 WORLD TO ENSURE THAT MULTIPLE 529 00:21:43,068 --> 00:21:45,904 NATIONS, AGENCIES, BOTH PUBLIC 530 00:21:45,971 --> 00:21:47,806 AND PRIVATE WORK TOGETHER TO 531 00:21:47,873 --> 00:21:53,111 PUSH HUMANITY FORWARD PRIVATE 532 00:21:53,178 --> 00:21:54,413 INDUSTRIES HEAD TO TIME TO LEARN 533 00:21:54,479 --> 00:21:55,614 TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN THE 534 00:21:55,681 --> 00:21:57,616 RELATIONSHIPS EFFECTIVELY. 535 00:21:57,683 --> 00:21:59,818 SO BY FLYING PRIVATE ASTRONAUT 536 00:21:59,885 --> 00:22:02,621 MISSIONS LIKE AX-2 TO THE ISS, 537 00:22:02,688 --> 00:22:04,923 AXIOM IS TAKING ESSENTIAL STEPS 538 00:22:04,990 --> 00:22:06,425 TO GET THIS ON-THE-JOB TRAINING 539 00:22:06,491 --> 00:22:08,427 AS WE WORK TOWARD BUILDING THE 540 00:22:08,493 --> 00:22:10,328 WORLD'S FIRST COMMERCIAL SPACE 541 00:22:10,395 --> 00:22:11,329 STATION. 542 00:22:11,396 --> 00:22:13,331 AXIOM STATION IS AN OPPORTUNITY 543 00:22:13,398 --> 00:22:14,833 TO CONTINUE THE STORY OF THE 544 00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:16,668 ISS, SCIENCE AND RESEARCH 545 00:22:16,735 --> 00:22:18,370 THROUGH COOPERATION AND 546 00:22:18,437 --> 00:22:20,372 COLLABORATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF 547 00:22:20,439 --> 00:22:20,872 ALL. 548 00:22:20,939 --> 00:22:30,382 AX-2 IS THE NEXT CHAPTER. 549 00:22:30,449 --> 00:22:32,084 >> ONCE AGAIN WE ARE OBSERVING 550 00:22:32,150 --> 00:22:33,585 DRAGON FREEDOM. 551 00:22:33,652 --> 00:22:35,687 THE CREW HAS THEIR SUITS ON. 552 00:22:35,754 --> 00:22:36,788 THEY ARE IN THEIR SEATS. 553 00:22:36,855 --> 00:22:38,290 THEY ARE INSIDE OF THE BLINKING 554 00:22:38,356 --> 00:22:42,894 LIGHTS. 555 00:22:42,961 --> 00:22:44,296 AND WE WILL SEE THE BLINKING 556 00:22:44,362 --> 00:22:45,697 LIGHTS GET CLOSER AND CLOSER 557 00:22:45,764 --> 00:22:47,499 OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. 558 00:22:47,566 --> 00:22:49,101 EVERYTHING WHEN YOU ARE 559 00:22:49,167 --> 00:22:50,902 APPROACHING OR DEPARTING THE 560 00:22:50,969 --> 00:22:53,405 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IS 561 00:22:53,472 --> 00:22:56,708 HIGHLY CHOREOGRAPHED AND IT IS 562 00:22:56,775 --> 00:22:57,709 REALLY SLOW. 563 00:22:57,776 --> 00:23:01,913 THAT IS FOR SAFETY PURPOSES. 564 00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:03,115 IT IS THE SAFER WAY AND THE BEST 565 00:23:03,181 --> 00:23:05,617 WAY TO DO IT, SO WE WILL SEE 566 00:23:05,684 --> 00:23:07,619 DRAGON GET CLOSER AND CLOSER. 567 00:23:07,686 --> 00:23:09,721 YOU KNOW, EVEN THOSE TWO LIGHTS 568 00:23:09,788 --> 00:23:11,022 THAT WE SEE THE RED ONE AND THE 569 00:23:11,089 --> 00:23:13,325 GREEN ONE, THEY REPRESENT THE 570 00:23:13,391 --> 00:23:15,727 PORT STARBOARD SIDE, AND I NEVER 571 00:23:15,794 --> 00:23:18,063 REMEMBER WHAT COLOR GOES TO WHAT 572 00:23:18,130 --> 00:23:19,364 BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT WE WILL 573 00:23:19,431 --> 00:23:21,066 START TO SEE THOSE GET CLOSER AS 574 00:23:21,133 --> 00:23:22,367 WE HAVE BEEN EVEN OVER THE LAST 575 00:23:22,434 --> 00:23:27,873 FEW MINUTES. 576 00:23:27,939 --> 00:23:29,374 >> YOU MAY BE SEEING SOME STARS 577 00:23:29,441 --> 00:23:30,776 ON THE SCREEN, BUT MOST OF THOSE 578 00:23:30,842 --> 00:23:32,978 DOTS ARE DEAD PIXELS IN THE 579 00:23:33,044 --> 00:23:33,979 CAMERA SENSOR. 580 00:23:34,045 --> 00:23:35,881 THAT HAPPENS BECAUSE OF THE HIGH 581 00:23:35,947 --> 00:23:40,185 RADIATION IN SPACE. 582 00:23:40,252 --> 00:23:41,686 >> NOW DRAGON IS CAPABLE OF 583 00:23:41,753 --> 00:23:43,588 CARRYING UP TO SEVEN PASSENGERS 584 00:23:43,655 --> 00:23:45,090 TO AND FROM EARTH'S ORBITER AND 585 00:23:45,157 --> 00:23:45,891 BEYOND. 586 00:23:45,957 --> 00:23:47,292 IT IS THE ONLY SPACECRAFT 587 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:48,894 CURRENTLY FLYING THAT IS CAPABLE 588 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:50,495 OF RETURNING SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS 589 00:23:50,562 --> 00:23:52,597 OF CARGO TO ETHER AND. 590 00:23:52,664 --> 00:23:53,398 IT'S THE FIRST PRIVATE 591 00:23:53,465 --> 00:23:55,500 SPACECRAFT TO TAKE HUMANS TO THE 592 00:23:55,567 --> 00:23:56,401 SPACE STATION. 593 00:23:56,468 --> 00:23:58,503 DRAGON IS FULLY ANTONYMOUS WHICH 594 00:23:58,570 --> 00:24:00,605 MEANS THAT IT FLIES ITSELF. 595 00:24:00,672 --> 00:24:03,308 BUT IT ALSO FEATURES FULL MANUAL 596 00:24:03,375 --> 00:24:05,310 OVERRIDE CAPABILITIES IN CASE OF 597 00:24:05,377 --> 00:24:07,512 AN EMERGENCY. 598 00:24:07,579 --> 00:24:09,414 STANDING AT ALMOST 27FEET TALL 599 00:24:09,481 --> 00:24:10,715 FROM BOTTOM OF THE TRUNK TO THE 600 00:24:10,782 --> 00:24:12,517 TOP OF THE NOSE CONE, CREW 601 00:24:12,584 --> 00:24:15,120 DRAGON IS COMPOSED OF TWO MAIN 602 00:24:15,187 --> 00:24:16,154 ELEMENTS THE CAPSULE WHICH IS 603 00:24:16,221 --> 00:24:17,956 DESIGNED TO HOLD CREW AND 604 00:24:18,023 --> 00:24:19,658 PRESSURIZED CARGO AS WELL AS 605 00:24:19,724 --> 00:24:21,760 UNPRESSURIZED SECTION WHICH IS 606 00:24:21,827 --> 00:24:23,662 KNOWN AS THE DRINK. 607 00:24:23,728 --> 00:24:26,164 THE NOSE CONE AT THE TOP OF THE 608 00:24:26,231 --> 00:24:27,566 CAPSULE PROTECTS THE DOCKING 609 00:24:27,632 --> 00:24:28,967 SYSTEM AND THE GUIDANCE 610 00:24:29,034 --> 00:24:30,168 NAVIGATIONAL CONTROL SYSTEM 611 00:24:30,235 --> 00:24:31,570 WHICH IS THE SYSTEM THAT IS 612 00:24:31,636 --> 00:24:33,572 BEING PRIMARILY UTILIZED RIGHT 613 00:24:33,638 --> 00:24:35,774 NOW AS DRAGON IS APPROACHES THE 614 00:24:35,841 --> 00:24:37,275 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 615 00:24:37,342 --> 00:24:39,377 THAT NOSE CONE OPENS FOR DOCKING 616 00:24:39,444 --> 00:24:40,679 AND REMAINS ATTACHED TO THE 617 00:24:40,745 --> 00:24:42,180 SPACE STATION, OR ATTACHED TO 618 00:24:42,247 --> 00:24:43,782 THE CREW DRAGON SPACECRAFT 619 00:24:43,849 --> 00:24:45,884 UNLIKE PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF 620 00:24:45,951 --> 00:24:48,887 DRAGON AND THAT HELPS TOWARD THE 621 00:24:48,954 --> 00:24:50,589 EFFORTS TOWARD REUSABILITIES. 622 00:24:50,655 --> 00:24:52,490 NOW OPPOSITE OF THE NOSE CONE IS 623 00:24:52,557 --> 00:24:53,692 THE TRUNK. 624 00:24:53,758 --> 00:24:55,193 IT PROVIDES ATTACHMENT POINTS 625 00:24:55,260 --> 00:24:56,394 FOR FALCON 79. 626 00:24:56,461 --> 00:24:58,897 THE DRAGON CAPSULE AND CARGO. 627 00:24:58,964 --> 00:25:00,599 ONE-HALF OF THE TRUNK IS COVERED 628 00:25:00,665 --> 00:25:02,200 IN SOLAR PANELS. 629 00:25:02,267 --> 00:25:03,201 THAT IS THE BLACK SIDE OF THE 630 00:25:03,268 --> 00:25:05,303 TRUNK ON THE EXTERIOR. 631 00:25:05,370 --> 00:25:06,905 AND THOSE PROVIDE POWER TO 632 00:25:06,972 --> 00:25:08,306 DRAGON DURING FLIGHT AND WHILE 633 00:25:08,373 --> 00:25:09,507 ON THE STATION. 634 00:25:09,574 --> 00:25:11,109 THE OTHER HALF CONTAINS A 635 00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:13,011 RADIATOR AND IT REJECTS THREAT 636 00:25:13,078 --> 00:25:15,413 THE ACTIVE THERMAL CONTROL 637 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,349 SYSTEM TO SPACE USING SPACEX'S 638 00:25:17,415 --> 00:25:19,451 NEW TILING TECHNOLOGY. 639 00:25:19,517 --> 00:25:22,153 THE TRUNK ALSO NOW HAS A NEW 640 00:25:22,220 --> 00:25:24,856 AERODYNAMIC FINS WHICH PROVIDES 641 00:25:24,923 --> 00:25:27,659 STABILITY AT THE EVENT OF AN 642 00:25:27,726 --> 00:25:29,060 EMERGENCY ABORT. 643 00:25:29,127 --> 00:25:30,962 NOW, IN THE EVENT OF AN 644 00:25:31,029 --> 00:25:32,764 EMERGENCY ABORT, CREW DRAGON IS 645 00:25:32,831 --> 00:25:35,267 OUTFITTED WITH EIGHT SUPER DRACO 646 00:25:35,333 --> 00:25:36,768 THRUSTERS AS OPPOSED TO THE 647 00:25:36,835 --> 00:25:38,670 REGULAR DRACO THRUSTERS THEN 648 00:25:38,737 --> 00:25:40,872 THOSE POWER THE ASTRONAUTS TO 649 00:25:40,939 --> 00:25:41,273 SAFETY. 650 00:25:41,339 --> 00:25:43,775 DRAGON'S SUPER DRACO LAUNCH 651 00:25:43,842 --> 00:25:45,777 ESCAPE SYSTEM IS A KEY SAFETY 652 00:25:45,844 --> 00:25:47,379 FEATURE OF CREW DRAGON THAT 653 00:25:47,445 --> 00:25:48,980 GIVES THE CREW THE ABILITY TO 654 00:25:49,047 --> 00:25:50,682 QUICKLY SEPARATE FROM FALCON 79 655 00:25:50,749 --> 00:25:52,884 AND SAFELY ESCAPE THE TIME OF 656 00:25:52,951 --> 00:25:54,586 LAUNCH ALL THE WAY TO ORBIT. 657 00:25:54,653 --> 00:25:55,987 IT IS A FEATURE THAT NO OTHER 658 00:25:56,054 --> 00:25:58,990 SPACECRAFT IN HISTORY HAS. 659 00:25:59,057 --> 00:26:00,892 SO IT IS PRETTY AWESOME AND IT 660 00:26:00,959 --> 00:26:02,294 IS, IT IS A GREAT SAFETY 661 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:03,094 FEATURE. 662 00:26:03,161 --> 00:26:03,795 >> ABSOLUTELY. 663 00:26:03,862 --> 00:26:04,796 THANK YOU, KATE. 664 00:26:04,863 --> 00:26:06,698 WE ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO TOSS 665 00:26:06,765 --> 00:26:08,500 BACK NOW TO LEAH AT MISSION 666 00:26:08,566 --> 00:26:23,949 CONTROL AT JOHNSON SPACE CENTER. 667 00:26:24,015 --> 00:26:25,350 >> THANK YOU. 668 00:26:25,417 --> 00:26:28,353 THE ISS IS IN ORBITAL NIGHTTIME 669 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:29,654 CURRENTLY FLYING OVER THE SOUTH 670 00:26:29,721 --> 00:26:32,157 PACIFIC OCEAN ABOUT 261MILES 671 00:26:32,223 --> 00:26:33,558 ABOVE EARTH AND OF COURSE DRAGON 672 00:26:33,625 --> 00:26:35,160 IS SLIGHTLY BELOW IT. 673 00:26:35,226 --> 00:26:40,465 AS THE APPROACH INITIATION BURN 674 00:26:40,532 --> 00:26:42,867 BROUGHT DRAGON TO .0 AT 675 00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:44,569 400METERS BELOW THE 676 00:26:44,636 --> 00:26:46,171 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 677 00:26:46,237 --> 00:26:47,272 THE SYSTEMS HAVE CHECKED OUT AND 678 00:26:47,339 --> 00:26:49,975 NOW MOVING UP TOWARD WAY .1 THAT 679 00:26:50,041 --> 00:26:51,676 IS WHEN DRAGON IS ACTUALLY 680 00:26:51,743 --> 00:26:53,979 220METERS ABOVE THE SPACE 681 00:26:54,045 --> 00:26:54,980 STATION. 682 00:26:55,046 --> 00:26:56,781 IT WILL BE IN THE DOCKING ACCESS 683 00:26:56,848 --> 00:26:58,283 MEANING IT IS DIRECTLY IN FRONT 684 00:26:58,350 --> 00:27:00,185 OF THE DOCKING PORT SO THE CREW 685 00:27:00,251 --> 00:27:02,787 ARE HEADED TO THE ZENITH PORT 686 00:27:02,854 --> 00:27:06,391 THE SPACE FACING PORT OF NODE 2. 687 00:27:06,458 --> 00:27:08,093 AND THE OTHER DRAGON THAT IS 688 00:27:08,159 --> 00:27:09,894 CURRENTLY ONBOARD WHICH BROUGHT 689 00:27:09,961 --> 00:27:13,498 THE CREW, EARLIER THIS YEAR THAT 690 00:27:13,565 --> 00:27:16,334 IS DOCKED TO THE FORWARD PORT OF 691 00:27:16,401 --> 00:27:19,237 THE HARMONY MODULE. 692 00:27:19,304 --> 00:27:20,939 AS YOU CAN SEE, WE GO IN AND OUT 693 00:27:21,006 --> 00:27:22,640 OF RECEIVING FEEDS FROM THE 694 00:27:22,707 --> 00:27:23,842 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION THAT 695 00:27:23,908 --> 00:27:26,244 HAPPENS WHEN WE GO TO SATELLITE 696 00:27:26,311 --> 00:27:28,346 HANDOVER PERIODS INTERNATIONAL 697 00:27:28,413 --> 00:27:30,248 SPACE STATION IS ORBITING EARTH 698 00:27:30,315 --> 00:27:31,549 AND SEEING THE SUNRISE AND THE 699 00:27:31,616 --> 00:27:33,852 SUNSET EVERY 45 MINUTES, SO WE 700 00:27:33,918 --> 00:27:35,553 CONSTANTLY HAND OVER TO 701 00:27:35,620 --> 00:27:36,454 DIFFERENT SATELLITES THAT 702 00:27:36,521 --> 00:27:37,756 RECEIVE THE FEEDS FROM THE 703 00:27:37,822 --> 00:27:39,357 STATION AND SEND IT BACK TO US 704 00:27:39,424 --> 00:27:41,059 ON THE GROUND, AND SO YOU WILL 705 00:27:41,126 --> 00:27:41,960 SEE THAT A LITTLE BIT THIS 706 00:27:42,027 --> 00:27:42,260 MORNING. 707 00:27:42,327 --> 00:27:44,763 AFTER WE REACHED WAY .1 WE WILL 708 00:27:44,829 --> 00:27:46,965 PAUSE UNTIL DRAGON GETS A GO TO 709 00:27:47,032 --> 00:27:49,067 MOVE TO WAVE .27 AND ONLY 710 00:27:49,134 --> 00:27:50,668 280METERS AWAY THE 711 00:27:50,735 --> 00:27:52,170 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AND 712 00:27:52,237 --> 00:27:53,872 SPACECRAFT IS FOCUSED ON 713 00:27:53,938 --> 00:27:55,573 ALIGNING THE DOCKING SYSTEM THE 714 00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:00,378 INTERNATIONAL DOCK ADAPTER. 715 00:28:00,445 --> 00:28:01,780 >> SLOW AND STEADY WINS 716 00:28:01,846 --> 00:28:02,981 THE RACE, AT THIS POINT IN THE 717 00:28:03,048 --> 00:28:03,481 MISSION. 718 00:28:03,548 --> 00:28:05,183 RIGHT NOW, WE ARE MOVING LESS 719 00:28:05,250 --> 00:28:07,385 THAN FIVE MILES PER HOUR AND AS 720 00:28:07,452 --> 00:28:09,888 WE MOVE IN FROM WAVE .2 WE WILL 721 00:28:09,954 --> 00:28:11,890 BE MOVING SLOWER AND MAY HEAR 722 00:28:11,956 --> 00:28:13,992 THE CALL-OUT A LITTLE LESS THAN 723 00:28:14,059 --> 00:28:15,393 30 SECONDS BEFORE DOCKING THAT'S 724 00:28:15,460 --> 00:28:17,429 THE CREW HANDS OFF POINT WHEN 725 00:28:17,495 --> 00:28:19,631 ANY ABORTS NEED TO BE DONE 726 00:28:19,697 --> 00:28:21,733 AUTOMATICALLY BY DRAGON AND 727 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,234 TRACK DOCKING TO COME IN AT 728 00:28:23,301 --> 00:28:25,236 8:10A.M. CENTRAL TIME THIS 729 00:28:25,303 --> 00:28:25,737 MORNING. 730 00:28:25,804 --> 00:28:28,039 THE CREW ARE IN THEIR SUITS. 731 00:28:28,106 --> 00:28:30,041 THEY HAVE COMPLETED GOOD SUIT 732 00:28:30,108 --> 00:28:31,042 LEAK CHECKS. 733 00:28:31,109 --> 00:28:32,243 EVERYTHING CONTINUING TO MOVE 734 00:28:32,310 --> 00:28:54,566 ALONG VERY SMOOTHLY TODAY. 735 00:28:54,632 --> 00:28:55,867 A LOOK BACK AT WHAT WAS 736 00:28:55,934 --> 00:28:56,868 COMPLETED LAST NIGHT. 737 00:28:56,935 --> 00:28:58,169 SHORTLY AFTER LAUNCH AT 738 00:28:58,236 --> 00:29:00,472 57:23P.M. CENTRAL TIME, DRAGON 739 00:29:00,538 --> 00:29:02,674 EXECUTED THE PHASE BURN NOW THAT 740 00:29:02,740 --> 00:29:04,476 WAS THE FIRST OF THE FIVE MAJOR 741 00:29:04,542 --> 00:29:07,078 BURNS REQUIRED TO RAISE DRAGON'S 742 00:29:07,145 --> 00:29:08,279 ORBIT AND POSITION IT FOR 743 00:29:08,346 --> 00:29:12,984 APPROACH TO THE SPACE STATION. 744 00:29:13,051 --> 00:29:14,586 SEVEN HOURS LATER, WE HAVE THE 745 00:29:14,652 --> 00:29:15,987 BOOSTING BURN THAT PUTS THE CREW 746 00:29:16,054 --> 00:29:17,288 ON THE ORBIT WHERE THE HIGHEST 747 00:29:17,355 --> 00:29:19,491 POINT IS TEN KILOMETERS LOWER 748 00:29:19,557 --> 00:29:20,291 THAN THE STATION. 749 00:29:20,358 --> 00:29:22,293 AFTER THAT WE EXECUTED THE 750 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,395 CLOSED ECLIPTIC BURN AT 751 00:29:24,462 --> 00:29:35,707 12:51A.M. CENTRAL TIME. 752 00:29:35,773 --> 00:29:38,209 >> IT IS TEN KILOMETERS LOWER 753 00:29:38,276 --> 00:29:39,611 THAN THE STATION THE ENTIRE WAY 754 00:29:39,677 --> 00:29:41,913 AROUND THE EARTH INSTEAD OF 755 00:29:41,980 --> 00:29:44,616 BEING AT THE HIGHEST POINT. 756 00:29:44,682 --> 00:29:46,217 WE SAW THE TRANSFER BURN AT 757 00:29:46,284 --> 00:29:48,119 2:47A.M. CENTRAL TIME THIS 758 00:29:48,186 --> 00:29:48,520 MORNING. 759 00:29:48,586 --> 00:29:49,621 THAT IS THE FOURTH MAJOR 760 00:29:49,687 --> 00:29:50,922 MANEUVER WJERE WE RAISED 761 00:29:50,989 --> 00:29:54,926 DRAGON'S APOGEE AGAIN TO 762 00:29:54,993 --> 00:29:57,428 2.57-KILOMETERS LOWER THAT IN 763 00:29:57,495 --> 00:29:59,130 THIS SPACE STATION. 764 00:29:59,197 --> 00:30:00,632 >> DRAGON SPACEX ON THE BIG 765 00:30:00,698 --> 00:30:00,932 LOOP. 766 00:30:00,999 --> 00:30:03,034 MIDCOURSE BURN COMPLETE AND 767 00:30:03,101 --> 00:30:37,502 NOMINAL. 768 00:30:37,569 --> 00:30:39,504 WE HEARD CONFIRMATION OF A GOOD 769 00:30:39,571 --> 00:30:41,806 MIDCOURSE MANEUVER TO MAKE SURE 770 00:30:41,873 --> 00:30:43,308 DRAGON IS POSITIONED RIGHT UNDER 771 00:30:43,374 --> 00:30:44,609 THE STATION AGAIN ABOUT 772 00:30:44,676 --> 00:30:46,811 400METERS BELOW, SO 773 00:30:46,878 --> 00:30:48,713 CONFIRMATION THEY DID, INDEED, 774 00:30:48,780 --> 00:30:49,514 CONDUCT THIS MORNING AND 775 00:30:49,581 --> 00:30:50,515 EVERYTHING CONTINUES TO LOOK 776 00:30:50,582 --> 00:30:52,417 GOOD FOR DRAGON. 777 00:30:52,483 --> 00:30:54,619 WE ARE IN INTEGRATED OPERATIONS. 778 00:30:54,686 --> 00:30:56,120 THIS HAPPENS WHEN DRAGON GETS 779 00:30:56,187 --> 00:30:59,624 CLOSE FOR THE SPACE STATION WHEN 780 00:30:59,691 --> 00:31:00,925 THEY ENTER THE APPROACH 781 00:31:00,992 --> 00:31:11,236 ELLIPSOID BOUNDARY AROUND WHERE 782 00:31:11,302 --> 00:31:13,438 THEY CARRY CARGO OR THE CREW. 783 00:31:13,504 --> 00:31:36,894 WE ARE ALSO HEARING GOOD WORDS 784 00:31:36,961 --> 00:31:38,796 ABOUT TEAMS BEING A GO TO MOVE 785 00:31:38,863 --> 00:31:40,698 INSIDE OF THE KEEP-OUT SPHERE 786 00:31:40,765 --> 00:31:43,201 THAT CONSIST OF IMAGINARY SPHERE 787 00:31:43,268 --> 00:31:43,901 AROUND THE STATIONS WITH A 788 00:31:43,968 --> 00:31:52,810 RADIUS OF 200METERS. 789 00:31:52,877 --> 00:31:55,713 THE KEEP-OUT SPHERE REQUIRES A 790 00:31:55,780 --> 00:31:59,017 SIMILAR THAT IF DRAGON WERE TO 791 00:31:59,083 --> 00:32:00,218 LOSE CONTROL OF THE THRUSTER. 792 00:32:00,285 --> 00:32:01,319 IT'S THE SPACE STATION WOULD BE 793 00:32:01,386 --> 00:32:02,720 SAFE FOR SIX HOURS OR FOUR 794 00:32:02,787 --> 00:32:04,022 ORBITS HOWEVER EVERYTHING 795 00:32:04,088 --> 00:32:05,623 LOOKING GOOD ON DRAGON THIS 796 00:32:05,690 --> 00:32:06,024 MORNING. 797 00:32:06,090 --> 00:32:07,425 AGAIN, WE ARE IN ORBITAL 798 00:32:07,492 --> 00:32:08,026 NIGHTTIME. 799 00:32:08,092 --> 00:32:09,227 THIS VIEW COMING FROM THE 800 00:32:09,294 --> 00:32:10,528 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AS 801 00:32:10,595 --> 00:32:12,030 WE ARE TRACKING DRAGON AND ITS 802 00:32:12,096 --> 00:32:13,631 APPROACH TO THE ORBITING 803 00:32:13,698 --> 00:32:26,477 LABORATORY. 804 00:32:26,544 --> 00:32:27,679 >> ONCE DRAGON ARRIVED AT THE 805 00:32:27,745 --> 00:32:28,680 SPACE STATION TODAY, THEY WILL 806 00:32:28,746 --> 00:32:30,682 BE GREETED BY SEVEN CREWMEMBERS 807 00:32:30,748 --> 00:32:32,183 CURRENTLY LIVING ON ORBIT. 808 00:32:32,250 --> 00:32:34,085 THAT INCLUDES NASA'S FRANK 809 00:32:34,152 --> 00:32:36,888 RUBIO, STEVE BOWEN AND WOODY 810 00:32:36,954 --> 00:32:41,592 HOBURG AND SULTAN AL NEYADI AND 811 00:32:41,659 --> 00:32:45,897 ANDREY FEDYAEV, DMITRI PETELIN 812 00:32:45,963 --> 00:32:47,799 AND SERGEY PROKOPYEV. 813 00:32:47,865 --> 00:32:49,000 THAT WILL BRING THE CREW UP TO 814 00:32:49,067 --> 00:32:50,501 11 FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. 815 00:32:50,568 --> 00:32:52,503 WE ARE LOOKING AT EIGHT-DAY 816 00:32:52,570 --> 00:32:54,305 DOCKED MISSION FOR THE AX-2 CREW 817 00:32:54,372 --> 00:32:56,207 ABOUT TEN DAYS IN ORBIT IN 818 00:32:56,274 --> 00:33:18,363 TOTAL. 819 00:33:18,429 --> 00:33:19,764 >> THE CREW WILL BE MONITORING 820 00:33:19,831 --> 00:33:20,465 ARRIVAL THIS MORNING 821 00:33:20,531 --> 00:33:22,667 SPECIFICALLY WOODY HOBURG OF 822 00:33:22,734 --> 00:33:26,471 NASA AND SULTAN AL NEYADI OF THE 823 00:33:26,537 --> 00:33:28,473 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES WILL BE 824 00:33:28,539 --> 00:33:30,375 USING SPECIAL SOFTWARE TO MAKE 825 00:33:30,441 --> 00:33:32,577 SURE IT STAYS IN THE EXPECTED 826 00:33:32,643 --> 00:33:32,877 ZONE. 827 00:33:32,944 --> 00:33:35,480 ONCE DRAGON IS DOCKED, HOBURG 828 00:33:35,546 --> 00:33:36,881 WILL BE THE PRIME TO START THE 829 00:33:36,948 --> 00:33:38,883 HATCH OPENING OPERATIONS. 830 00:33:38,950 --> 00:33:40,485 HE WILL START BY OPENING THE 831 00:33:40,551 --> 00:33:41,986 LARGE HATCH ON THE NODE 2 832 00:33:42,053 --> 00:33:44,989 FORWARD OR NODE 2 ZENITH THAT IS 833 00:33:45,056 --> 00:33:46,090 GIVING HIM ACCESS TO THE 834 00:33:46,157 --> 00:33:47,792 PRESSURIZED MATING ADAPTER? THEY 835 00:33:47,859 --> 00:33:49,494 WILL THEN PRESSURIZE THE 836 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:50,294 VESTIBULE. 837 00:33:50,361 --> 00:33:53,097 THAT IS THE SMALL SPACE ON THE 838 00:33:53,164 --> 00:33:54,399 HATCHES AND THE DRAGON AND THE 839 00:33:54,465 --> 00:33:55,600 SPACE STATION AND EXPOSED TO 840 00:33:55,666 --> 00:33:57,702 VACUUM HERE TO DOCKING FOR THE 841 00:33:57,769 --> 00:33:58,403 CREW. 842 00:33:58,469 --> 00:34:00,004 >> BIG LOOP, DRAGON RANGE IS 843 00:34:00,071 --> 00:34:02,006 APPROXIMATELY 1,000METERS. 844 00:34:02,073 --> 00:34:04,809 MONITOR LONG RANGE APPROACH FOR 845 00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:08,212 STEPS 1 TO 4 AND 1.102 AND 846 00:34:08,279 --> 00:34:09,213 RETREAT MONITORING. 847 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,215 ISS CREW IS NOW PRIMED FOR 848 00:34:11,282 --> 00:34:31,769 VEHICLE APPROACH MONITORING. 849 00:34:31,836 --> 00:34:32,370 THAT CALL TO THE INTERNATIONAL 850 00:34:32,437 --> 00:34:34,672 SPACE STATION JUST AS WE WERE 851 00:34:34,739 --> 00:34:36,073 EXPLAINING, THEY ARE PRIMED TO 852 00:34:36,140 --> 00:34:38,276 MONITOR THE ARRIVAL OF THE AX-2 853 00:34:38,342 --> 00:34:43,781 CREW TODAY. 854 00:34:43,848 --> 00:34:45,583 AGAIN WE ARE HEADING TOWARD THE 855 00:34:45,650 --> 00:34:48,286 400-METER BELOW STATION MARK. 856 00:34:48,352 --> 00:34:50,988 WE ARE NOW 950 METERS FROM THE 857 00:34:51,055 --> 00:34:53,991 STATION CLOSING IN AT 2.79MILES 858 00:34:54,058 --> 00:35:01,699 PER HOUR. 859 00:35:01,766 --> 00:35:09,607 >> COPY. 860 00:35:09,674 --> 00:35:12,310 SO ONCE WE DOCK AT 8:10A.M. 861 00:35:12,376 --> 00:35:13,110 CENTRAL TIME, 862 00:35:13,177 --> 00:35:15,112 TAKES TWO HOURS TO PRESSURIZE 863 00:35:15,179 --> 00:35:17,248 THE VESTIBULE THE SPACE BETWEEN 864 00:35:17,315 --> 00:35:18,049 THE HATCHES. 865 00:35:18,115 --> 00:35:18,950 FLIGHT CONTROLLERS HERE IN 866 00:35:19,016 --> 00:35:20,651 HOUSTON WILL MONITOR AND VERIFY 867 00:35:20,718 --> 00:35:22,553 THE PRESSURE READINGS TO MAKE 868 00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:24,455 SURE EVERYTHING IS READY. 869 00:35:24,522 --> 00:35:34,165 >> APPROACH SETUP. 870 00:35:34,232 --> 00:35:36,467 >> GO AHEAD FOR APPROACH SETUP. 871 00:35:36,534 --> 00:35:38,669 GROUND HAS PULLED GO FOR 872 00:35:38,736 --> 00:35:40,671 APPROACH 70 AND ENABLING THE 873 00:35:40,738 --> 00:35:41,672 MANEUVER SHORTLY. 874 00:35:41,739 --> 00:35:43,474 THE EXPECTED START TIME IS PART 875 00:35:43,541 --> 00:35:44,976 OF THE DISPLAYS REMINDER THAT 876 00:35:45,042 --> 00:35:47,979 DRAGON WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 2 877 00:35:48,045 --> 00:35:50,281 WAVE .27 WITHOUT STOPPING AT 878 00:35:50,348 --> 00:35:57,188 WAVE .1. 879 00:35:57,255 --> 00:35:59,290 >> COPY. 880 00:35:59,357 --> 00:36:11,202 TAP INTO 0 TO 1. 881 00:36:11,269 --> 00:36:13,404 GOOD READBACK. 882 00:36:13,471 --> 00:36:26,951 GOOD READBACK. 883 00:36:27,018 --> 00:36:28,553 GOOD NEWS FROM THE GROUND TO THE 884 00:36:28,619 --> 00:36:30,755 CREW THAT COMING FROM THE CORE. 885 00:36:30,821 --> 00:36:33,357 THE CREW OPERATIONS RESPONSIBLE 886 00:36:33,424 --> 00:36:35,359 ENGINEER IN HAWTHORNE, 887 00:36:35,426 --> 00:36:37,061 CALIFORNIA, AS SPACEX 888 00:36:37,128 --> 00:36:40,064 HEADQUARTERS TO COMMANDER PEGGY 889 00:36:40,131 --> 00:36:44,569 WHITSON ABOARD DRAGON. 890 00:36:44,635 --> 00:36:46,070 THE TEAM WILL NOT HAVE TO PAUSE 891 00:36:46,137 --> 00:36:48,072 AT WAVE .1 AND SOMETIMES THERE 892 00:36:48,139 --> 00:36:49,473 IS A PAUSE ASSOCIATED THERE, SO 893 00:36:49,540 --> 00:36:51,776 THEY CAN CHECK OUT ALL SYSTEMS, 894 00:36:51,842 --> 00:36:53,477 BUT THINGS ARE LOOKING GOOD THIS 895 00:36:53,544 --> 00:36:54,378 MORNING TO CONTINUE THROUGH. 896 00:36:54,445 --> 00:36:56,480 DRAGON NOW 800METERS AWAY FROM 897 00:36:56,547 --> 00:37:01,085 THE SPACE STATION. 898 00:37:01,152 --> 00:37:02,286 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 899 00:37:02,353 --> 00:37:03,387 CREWMEMBERS HAVE BEEN PREPARING 900 00:37:03,454 --> 00:37:05,389 FOR ARRIVAL OF DRAGON BY MOVING 901 00:37:05,456 --> 00:37:06,991 AND SETTING UP LAPTOPS AS WELL 902 00:37:07,058 --> 00:37:08,492 AS CREW ALTERNATE SLEEP 903 00:37:08,559 --> 00:37:09,894 ACCOMMODATIONS THEN AGAIN WE 904 00:37:09,961 --> 00:37:11,896 HAVE 11 CREWMEMBERS, FEELS LIKE 905 00:37:11,963 --> 00:37:14,599 A FULL HOUSE ABOARD THE STATION 906 00:37:14,665 --> 00:37:16,434 ONCE THE AX-2 CREW ARRIVES TODAY 907 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:18,636 THE TEAM WILL DO THINGS LIKE 908 00:37:18,703 --> 00:37:21,439 MANEUVER THEM, SO THEY AVOID ANY 909 00:37:21,505 --> 00:37:23,641 PLUMES FROM DRAGON ONCE IT GETS 910 00:37:23,708 --> 00:37:28,946 CLOSER TO THE STATION. 911 00:37:29,013 --> 00:37:30,247 IT HAS BEEN A BUSY TIME ON THE 912 00:37:30,314 --> 00:37:31,349 SPACE STATION WITH ANOTHER 913 00:37:31,415 --> 00:37:33,651 VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES INCLUDING 914 00:37:33,718 --> 00:37:35,553 A PORT RELOCATION. 915 00:37:35,620 --> 00:37:37,254 JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO THE 916 00:37:37,321 --> 00:37:40,358 CREW-6 CREW BOARDED THEIR DRAGON 917 00:37:40,424 --> 00:37:42,360 SPACECRAFT AND MOVED IT FROM 918 00:37:42,426 --> 00:37:45,262 ZENITH THE SPACE FACING PORT 919 00:37:45,329 --> 00:37:49,567 NODE 2 TO THE FORWARD FACING 920 00:37:49,634 --> 00:37:51,469 PORT WHERE IT WILL DOCK TODAY. 921 00:37:51,535 --> 00:37:52,770 THE MANEUVER WAS TO PREPARE FOR 922 00:37:52,837 --> 00:37:55,973 THE ARRIVAL OF CR 28 THE 923 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,075 28th COMMERCIAL RESUPPLY 924 00:37:58,142 --> 00:37:58,643 MISSION TO THE INTERNATIONAL 925 00:37:58,709 --> 00:37:59,877 SPACE STATION AND THAT WILL 926 00:37:59,944 --> 00:38:01,379 BRING WITH IT SOME NEW SOLAR 927 00:38:01,445 --> 00:38:03,381 ARRAYS THOSE ARE INTERNATIONAL 928 00:38:03,447 --> 00:38:05,483 ROLLOUT SOLAR ARRAYS AND THOSE 929 00:38:05,549 --> 00:38:08,185 ARE STORED IN THE TRUNK OF 930 00:38:08,252 --> 00:38:10,888 DRAGON THE ZENITH PORT MAKES IT 931 00:38:10,955 --> 00:38:16,827 MUCH EASIER FORM THE CANADAARM 2 932 00:38:16,894 --> 00:38:19,830 TO HAVE ON THE SPACEWALKS LATER 933 00:38:19,897 --> 00:38:21,532 THIS YEAR. 934 00:38:21,599 --> 00:38:23,134 WE HAD A HANDFUL OF SPACEWALKS 935 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:24,535 HAPPEN OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS 936 00:38:24,602 --> 00:38:25,636 AT THE SPACE STATION. 937 00:38:25,703 --> 00:38:28,239 INCLUDING THREE SPACE WALKS TO 938 00:38:28,305 --> 00:38:29,740 MOVE AND CONNECT AND DEPLOY A 939 00:38:29,807 --> 00:38:38,049 RADIATOR. 940 00:38:38,115 --> 00:38:48,459 >> HOUSTON, COPY. 941 00:38:48,526 --> 00:38:50,161 >> WE RECENTLY HAD SPACEWALK TO 942 00:38:50,227 --> 00:38:51,762 PREPARE FOR THOSE UPCOMING SOLAR 943 00:38:51,829 --> 00:38:57,068 ARRAY INSTALLATIONS AND HEARING 944 00:38:57,134 --> 00:38:58,369 CONFIRMATION IN THE CREW ABOARD 945 00:38:58,436 --> 00:38:59,570 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 946 00:38:59,637 --> 00:39:02,173 THAT THEY THEMSELVES HAVE THEIR 947 00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:03,774 SIGHTS SET ON THE APPROACHING 948 00:39:03,841 --> 00:39:26,897 DRAGON. 949 00:39:26,964 --> 00:39:28,099 AHEAD OF ARRIVAL TODAY, THE 950 00:39:28,165 --> 00:39:29,700 SPACE STATION CREW MOVING 951 00:39:29,767 --> 00:39:31,102 THROUGH THE MORNING INCLUDING 952 00:39:31,168 --> 00:39:34,705 PREPARING THE NODE 2 AREA FOR 953 00:39:34,772 --> 00:39:36,507 DOCKING AND HATCH OPENING AS 954 00:39:36,574 --> 00:39:37,808 WELL AS GETTING THE REQUIRED 955 00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:42,213 EXERCISE FOR THE DAY. 956 00:39:42,279 --> 00:39:43,514 HERE WE HAVE A NEW VIEW OF 957 00:39:43,581 --> 00:39:44,915 DRAGON APPROACHING THE SPECIAL 958 00:39:44,982 --> 00:39:46,317 SPACE STATION THE INTERNATIONAL 959 00:39:46,383 --> 00:39:47,017 SPACE STATION ITSELF. 960 00:39:47,084 --> 00:39:49,019 AGAIN, WE ARE LOOKING AT DOCKING 961 00:39:49,086 --> 00:39:51,021 EXACTLY AN HOUR FROM NOW AT 962 00:39:51,088 --> 00:39:55,226 8:10A.M. CENTRAL TIME. 963 00:39:55,292 --> 00:39:56,427 THIS VIEW FROM THE INTERNATIONAL 964 00:39:56,494 --> 00:39:57,628 SPACE STATION WHILE DRAGON IS 965 00:39:57,695 --> 00:40:39,303 STILL 30METERS AWAY. 966 00:40:39,370 --> 00:40:42,106 AGAIN THIS IS AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT 967 00:40:42,173 --> 00:40:42,907 FOR DRAGON. 968 00:40:42,973 --> 00:40:44,708 THE CREW ABOARD HAS BEEN TRAINED 969 00:40:44,775 --> 00:40:46,110 THAT THEY CAN TAKE OVER IF 970 00:40:46,177 --> 00:40:47,611 NEEDED; HOWEVER, THINGS CONTINUE 971 00:40:47,678 --> 00:40:49,413 TO MOVE SMOOTHLY THIS MORNING. 972 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,816 THE CREW OFF-DUTY TIME ENDED AT 973 00:40:51,882 --> 00:40:53,617 5:30A.M. CENTRAL TIME. 974 00:40:53,684 --> 00:40:55,619 THE CREW GOT SUITED UP SHORTLY 975 00:40:55,686 --> 00:40:57,421 AFTER, AND THE BIG LOOP WAS 976 00:40:57,488 --> 00:40:58,923 CONFIGURED MEANING THAT TEAM 977 00:40:58,989 --> 00:41:01,926 MEMBERS HERE IN HOUSTON CAN 978 00:41:01,992 --> 00:41:04,528 SPEAK WITH TEAMS IN HAWTHORNE AS 979 00:41:04,595 --> 00:41:06,430 WELL AS ON THE SPACE STATION AND 980 00:41:06,497 --> 00:41:08,532 ON DRAGON ONE BIG COMMUNICATION 981 00:41:08,599 --> 00:41:11,235 LOOP RATHER THAN ON VARIOUS 982 00:41:11,302 --> 00:41:17,174 DIFFERENT LOOPS. 983 00:41:17,241 --> 00:41:17,775 BEING IT IS AN AUTONOMOUS 984 00:41:17,842 --> 00:41:19,276 FLIGHT, 985 00:41:19,343 --> 00:41:21,879 NASA ASTRONAUT WOODY HOBURG AND 986 00:41:21,946 --> 00:41:24,982 SULTAN AL NEYADI WILL BE IN THE 987 00:41:25,049 --> 00:41:28,686 CUPOLA TO MONITOR THE ARRIVAL OF 988 00:41:28,752 --> 00:41:30,087 DRAGON AND SEND COMMANDS IF 989 00:41:30,154 --> 00:41:31,488 NEEDED, BUT THAT IS NOT 990 00:41:31,555 --> 00:41:32,690 ANTICIPATED. 991 00:41:32,756 --> 00:41:35,492 HOBURG WILL THEN BE PRIMED FOR 992 00:41:35,559 --> 00:41:37,294 ASSISTING AND PRESSURIZATION OF 993 00:41:37,361 --> 00:41:38,996 THE VESTIBULE AND THE HATCH 994 00:41:39,063 --> 00:41:45,202 OPENING OPERATIONS. 995 00:41:45,269 --> 00:41:46,904 AFTER DOCKING AND THE WELCOME 996 00:41:46,971 --> 00:41:48,505 CEREMONY, ALL CREWMEMBERS WILL 997 00:41:48,572 --> 00:41:51,008 THEN MOVE TO ISS SAFETY BRIEFING 998 00:41:51,075 --> 00:41:53,210 MAKING SURE THEY HAVE ON 999 00:41:53,277 --> 00:41:54,211 EVERYTHING THEY NEEDED TO KNOW 1000 00:41:54,278 --> 00:41:55,613 WHILE LIVING ABOARD THE 1001 00:41:55,679 --> 00:41:57,514 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FOR 1002 00:41:57,581 --> 00:41:58,515 SAFETY PURPOSES AND, OF COURSE, 1003 00:41:58,582 --> 00:41:59,817 THEY GO THROUGH THAT TRAINING 1004 00:41:59,884 --> 00:42:03,120 HERE ON THE GROUND BUT IT IS A 1005 00:42:03,187 --> 00:42:06,423 GREAT REFRESHER ONCE THEY MOVE 1006 00:42:06,490 --> 00:43:01,211 ONBOARD YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN A 1007 00:43:01,278 --> 00:43:03,314 LITTLE BIT OF LIGHTING CHANGE 1008 00:43:03,380 --> 00:43:05,015 AND WE ARE NOW ENTERING THE 1009 00:43:05,082 --> 00:43:08,319 ORBITAL DAYTIME AGAIN, WE SEE 16 1010 00:43:08,385 --> 00:43:10,220 SUNRISES AND SUNSETS A DAY 1011 00:43:10,287 --> 00:43:10,921 ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 1012 00:43:10,988 --> 00:43:15,125 STATION MOVING AT 1500 PER HOUR 1013 00:43:15,192 --> 00:43:16,760 GIVING US A BETTER VIEW OF 1014 00:43:16,827 --> 00:43:18,662 DRAGON AS IT GETS CLOSER NOW 1015 00:43:18,729 --> 00:43:20,864 500METERS FROM THE ORBITING 1016 00:43:20,931 --> 00:43:34,878 LAB. 1017 00:43:34,945 --> 00:43:36,280 THE SPACE STATION AND DRAGON ARE 1018 00:43:36,347 --> 00:43:39,383 NOW FLYING 27 STATUTE MILES JUST 1019 00:43:39,450 --> 00:44:18,355 WEST OF CHILE. 1020 00:44:18,422 --> 00:44:20,958 AGAIN WE ARE HEADED 400METERS 1021 00:44:21,025 --> 00:44:22,059 BELOW THE SPACE STATION. 1022 00:44:22,126 --> 00:44:25,062 WE ARE NOW 480METERS BELOW THE 1023 00:44:25,129 --> 00:44:27,464 SPACE STATION. 1024 00:44:27,531 --> 00:44:29,566 THE CREW WILL NOT STOP AT WAY 1025 00:44:29,633 --> 00:44:34,571 .70 1026 00:44:34,638 --> 00:44:37,174 AND CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH. 1027 00:44:37,241 --> 00:44:39,276 ONCE THEY MAKE THEIR WAY TO WAY 1028 00:44:39,343 --> 00:44:42,880 .1 THERE WILL BE CONTINUED GO NO 1029 00:44:42,946 --> 00:44:44,982 GO TO ALLOW DRAGON TO BEGIN THE 1030 00:44:45,049 --> 00:44:46,583 APPROACH AND THAT IS LOCATED 1031 00:44:46,650 --> 00:44:48,886 INSIDE OF THE KEEP-OUT SPHERE 1032 00:44:48,952 --> 00:44:50,988 ABOUT 20-METERS AWAY WE DO NOT 1033 00:44:51,055 --> 00:44:54,391 HAVE TO HOLD AT WAY .1 ALL THE 1034 00:44:54,458 --> 00:44:56,093 SYSTEMS HAVE CHECKED OUT AND SO 1035 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:57,394 WE HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO 1036 00:44:57,461 --> 00:45:00,397 CONTINUE MOVING TOWARD .2 AND 1037 00:45:00,464 --> 00:45:01,899 HOWEVER WE DO CONDUCT A HOLD TO 1038 00:45:01,965 --> 00:45:05,002 MAKE SURE DRAGON IS COMPLETELY 1039 00:45:05,069 --> 00:45:07,004 ALIGNED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL 1040 00:45:07,071 --> 00:45:09,006 DOCKING ADAPTER ON THE NODE 2 1041 00:45:09,073 --> 00:45:22,853 ZENITH OR SPACE FACING PORT. 1042 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,855 SO AT THE 20-METER DISTANCE 1043 00:45:24,922 --> 00:45:26,757 DRAGON WILL SLOW ITSELF DOWN 1044 00:45:26,824 --> 00:45:28,759 EVEN FURTHER BRINGING THE 1045 00:45:28,826 --> 00:45:30,561 APPROACH IN AND EVENTUALLY MAKE 1046 00:45:30,627 --> 00:45:32,863 INITIAL SOFT CONTACT WITH THE 1047 00:45:32,930 --> 00:45:36,366 ADAPTER SOFT CAPTURE RING AND 1048 00:45:36,433 --> 00:45:38,268 BRING DRAGON IN TO THE HARD 1049 00:45:38,335 --> 00:46:36,059 CAPTURE SEQUENCE. 1050 00:46:36,126 --> 00:46:38,061 AGAIN, WE ARE INTEGRATED 1051 00:46:38,128 --> 00:46:39,663 OPERATION WITH TEAMS HERE IN 1052 00:46:39,730 --> 00:46:40,564 MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON 1053 00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:42,166 MONITORING DRAGON'S APPROACH TO 1054 00:46:42,232 --> 00:46:43,967 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 1055 00:46:44,034 --> 00:46:46,870 ALONG WITH TEAMS IN HAWTHORNE, 1056 00:46:46,937 --> 00:46:52,776 CALIFORNIA. 1057 00:46:52,843 --> 00:46:54,278 THE CREW ARE IN THE SUITS THEY 1058 00:46:54,344 --> 00:46:56,580 HAD GOOD SUIT LEAK CHECKS 1059 00:46:56,647 --> 00:46:57,981 EARLIER TODAY, AND THEY ARE ALSO 1060 00:46:58,048 --> 00:46:58,982 SEATED. 1061 00:46:59,049 --> 00:47:00,083 WE HAVE THEM GET IN THE SUITS 1062 00:47:00,150 --> 00:47:02,186 AND THEIR SEATS DURING DYNAMIC 1063 00:47:02,252 --> 00:47:03,487 PHASES OF FLIGHT EVEN THOUGH IT 1064 00:47:03,554 --> 00:47:05,589 LOOKS LIKE THE CREW DRAGON IS 1065 00:47:05,656 --> 00:47:06,590 MOVING SLOWLY WE WANT TO MAKE 1066 00:47:06,657 --> 00:47:08,692 SURE THEY ARE IN THE SUITS AS A 1067 00:47:08,759 --> 00:47:10,294 PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE DURING THE 1068 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:11,595 DOCKING PROCESS. 1069 00:47:11,662 --> 00:47:12,396 THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET 1070 00:47:12,462 --> 00:47:14,298 OUT OF THOSE SUITS AND HAVE FREE 1071 00:47:14,364 --> 00:47:16,133 TIME AS KATE AND DUKE MENTIONED 1072 00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:17,234 EARLIER AND THEY WERE ABLE TO 1073 00:47:17,301 --> 00:47:18,335 CALL DOWN TO THE GROUND LAST 1074 00:47:18,402 --> 00:47:20,137 NIGHT AND DISCUSS WHAT IT WAS 1075 00:47:20,204 --> 00:47:21,939 LIKE TO BE IN MICROGRAVITY AND 1076 00:47:22,005 --> 00:47:23,340 THEY ALSO HAD A CHANCE TO GET 1077 00:47:23,407 --> 00:47:25,442 SOME REST AND MAYBE EAT SOME 1078 00:47:25,509 --> 00:47:28,245 MEALS THEN EVENTUALLY THEIR CREW 1079 00:47:28,312 --> 00:47:30,948 REST TIME ENDED AT 5:30A.M. 1080 00:47:31,014 --> 00:48:43,153 CENTRAL THIS MORNING. 1081 00:48:43,220 --> 00:48:45,756 AGAIN YOU ARE WATCHING LIVE 1082 00:48:45,822 --> 00:48:48,859 COVERAGE OF THE AX-2 MISSION TO 1083 00:48:48,925 --> 00:48:50,661 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 1084 00:48:50,727 --> 00:48:52,562 THESE ARE NASA ASTRONAUTS 1085 00:48:52,629 --> 00:48:54,064 ARRIVING ABOARD DRAGON TODAY. 1086 00:48:54,131 --> 00:48:55,666 ONE OF THEM, HOWEVER, IS A 1087 00:48:55,732 --> 00:48:58,068 FORMER NASA ASTRONAUT PEGGY 1088 00:48:58,135 --> 00:49:00,170 WHITSON. 1089 00:49:00,237 --> 00:49:01,972 THIS IS HER THIRD SPACECRAFT TO 1090 00:49:02,039 --> 00:49:05,275 FLY ON AND SHE JOINS SMALL ELITE 1091 00:49:05,342 --> 00:49:07,577 GROUP OF ASTRONAUTS, WHO HAVE 1092 00:49:07,644 --> 00:49:09,279 FLOWN ON THREE SEPARATE 1093 00:49:09,346 --> 00:49:10,480 SPACECRAFT AND FLOWN ON THE 1094 00:49:10,547 --> 00:49:35,405 SPACE SHUTTLE AND NOW ON DRAGON. 1095 00:49:35,472 --> 00:49:36,907 SINCE NASA OPENED UP FOR 1096 00:49:36,973 --> 00:49:39,209 COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY IN 2019, WE 1097 00:49:39,276 --> 00:49:40,510 CONTINUE TO WORK WITH PRIVATE 1098 00:49:40,577 --> 00:49:41,912 INDUSTRY TO PREPARE FOR THE 1099 00:49:41,978 --> 00:49:44,214 FUTURE OF LOW EARTH ORBIT AND 1100 00:49:44,281 --> 00:49:46,516 THE LONG TERM GOAL IS TO NOR BE 1101 00:49:46,583 --> 00:49:48,518 A PROVIDER OF THE LOW EARTH 1102 00:49:48,585 --> 00:49:49,419 DESTINATION, BUT TO BE A 1103 00:49:49,486 --> 00:49:49,820 CUSTOMER. 1104 00:49:49,886 --> 00:49:51,722 WE WANT TO BE ONE OF MANY 1105 00:49:51,788 --> 00:49:54,524 CUSTOMERS PURCHASING OWNED AND 1106 00:49:54,591 --> 00:49:56,326 OPERATED SERVICE, SO WE NEED TO 1107 00:49:56,393 --> 00:49:57,427 WORK TOGETHER TO ENSURE THAT 1108 00:49:57,494 --> 00:49:59,930 PATH OF TOMORROW ENABLING THE 1109 00:49:59,996 --> 00:50:02,132 PRIVATE ASTRONAUT MISSIONS HELPS 1110 00:50:02,199 --> 00:50:04,434 US REFINE THE PROCESSES WE NEED. 1111 00:50:04,501 --> 00:50:06,536 SO NASA ASTRONAUTS ARE WORKING 1112 00:50:06,603 --> 00:50:08,939 SIDE BY SIDE. 1113 00:50:09,005 --> 00:50:10,841 >> APPROACH 0 HAS STARTED AND 1114 00:50:10,907 --> 00:50:12,743 TRAJECTORY CONVERGED ON. 1115 00:50:12,809 --> 00:50:16,179 EXPECTED ARRIVAL AT WAVE .1 IS 1116 00:50:16,246 --> 00:50:22,285 PER THE FOUR DISPLAYS. 1117 00:50:22,352 --> 00:50:35,198 >> DRAGON, COPY. 1118 00:50:35,265 --> 00:50:37,100 >> AGAIN WE HAVE REACHED THE 1119 00:50:37,167 --> 00:50:40,003 400METERS DIRECTLY BELOW THE 1120 00:50:40,070 --> 00:50:41,004 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 1121 00:50:41,071 --> 00:50:41,605 COMING UP. 1122 00:50:41,671 --> 00:50:43,407 WE ARE GOING TO MOVE FROM WAY 1123 00:50:43,473 --> 00:50:47,310 .70 TO WAY 3.1 CAUSE PAUSING AT 1124 00:50:47,377 --> 00:50:49,713 220 METERS PUTTING DRAGON ON THE 1125 00:50:49,780 --> 00:50:51,615 DOCKING AXIS MEANING IT IS 1126 00:50:51,681 --> 00:50:53,717 LIKELY IN FRONT OF THE DOCKING 1127 00:50:53,784 --> 00:51:05,629 PORT. 1128 00:51:05,695 --> 00:51:07,330 AS MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY ALL OF 1129 00:51:07,397 --> 00:51:09,433 THE VISITING SPACECRAFT TAKE THE 1130 00:51:09,499 --> 00:51:11,735 PHASED APPROACH TO THE ISS THEY 1131 00:51:11,802 --> 00:51:13,236 STOP AT PREDETERMINED GATES FOR 1132 00:51:13,303 --> 00:51:15,138 THE TEAMS TO RUN QUICK CHECKS ON 1133 00:51:15,205 --> 00:51:16,373 THE VEHICLE PERFORMANCE BEFORE 1134 00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,175 APPROACHING THE ORBITING LAB. 1135 00:51:18,241 --> 00:51:19,576 WHEN IT COMES TO BRINGING TWO 1136 00:51:19,643 --> 00:51:20,977 SPACECRAFT TODAY, SLOW AND 1137 00:51:21,044 --> 00:51:23,079 STEADY WINS THE RACE. 1138 00:51:23,146 --> 00:51:24,080 DOCKING OPERATIONS REQUIRE A 1139 00:51:24,147 --> 00:51:25,482 GREAT DEAL OF PRECISION TO MAKE 1140 00:51:25,549 --> 00:51:26,383 SURE WE ARE KEEPING THE 1141 00:51:26,450 --> 00:51:28,084 SPACECRAFT AND THE CREW SAFE, SO 1142 00:51:28,151 --> 00:51:29,886 WHEN WE SAY SLOW AND STEADY WINS 1143 00:51:29,953 --> 00:51:31,188 THE RACE, WE ARE NOW TRAVELING 1144 00:51:31,254 --> 00:51:35,792 AT LESS THAN HALF MILE PER HOUR. 1145 00:51:35,859 --> 00:51:37,093 AGAIN, WE ARE INTEGRATED 1146 00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:38,094 OPERATIONS DURING THAT TIME 1147 00:51:38,161 --> 00:51:40,597 MEANING TEAMS FROM BOTH 1148 00:51:40,664 --> 00:51:41,898 HAWTHORNE ON THE LEFT OF THE 1149 00:51:41,965 --> 00:51:42,799 SCREEN AND MISSION CONTROL 1150 00:51:42,866 --> 00:51:43,900 HOUSTON ON THE RIGHT ARE 1151 00:51:43,967 --> 00:51:45,202 MONITORING DRAGON AND THE 1152 00:51:45,268 --> 00:52:24,574 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 1153 00:52:24,641 --> 00:52:26,276 >> HOUSTON COPY. 1154 00:52:26,343 --> 00:52:28,578 THE AXIOM WILL WORK ABOARD THE 1155 00:52:28,645 --> 00:52:29,479 SPACE STATION THIS WEEK TO 1156 00:52:29,546 --> 00:52:31,181 ENSURE ALL OF THE PAYLOAD 1157 00:52:31,248 --> 00:52:32,082 OPERATIONS THAT THEY WILL BE 1158 00:52:32,148 --> 00:52:33,783 CONDUCTING AS WELL AS ANY OF THE 1159 00:52:33,850 --> 00:52:36,086 DOWN LINKS WITH TEAM MEMBERS ON 1160 00:52:36,152 --> 00:52:38,388 THE GROUND AS WELL AS MEDIA AND 1161 00:52:38,455 --> 00:52:40,490 POTENTIALLY SOME STEM OUTLETS 1162 00:52:40,557 --> 00:53:05,815 WILL BE EXECUTED SMOOTHLY. 1163 00:53:05,882 --> 00:53:08,118 AGAIN SATELLITE HANDOVER OF THE 1164 00:53:08,184 --> 00:53:10,320 TRACKING DATA AND RELAY 1165 00:53:10,387 --> 00:53:11,821 SATELLITE SYSTEMS THESE ARE 1166 00:53:11,888 --> 00:53:13,223 TRACKED THROUGHOUT THE FLIGHT. 1167 00:53:13,290 --> 00:53:14,224 WE SEE THIS WITH THE 1168 00:53:14,291 --> 00:53:15,325 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AS 1169 00:53:15,392 --> 00:53:16,760 WELL AS ON DRAGON. 1170 00:53:16,826 --> 00:53:18,061 MULTIPLE DIFFERENT CUSTOMERS 1171 00:53:18,128 --> 00:53:19,162 AROUND THE WORLD USED THESE 1172 00:53:19,229 --> 00:53:44,688 SATELLITE SYSTEMS. 1173 00:53:44,754 --> 00:53:47,290 ALL SEVEN CREWMEMBERS ABOARD 1174 00:53:47,357 --> 00:53:48,592 CURRENTLY MOVING ABOUT THEIR 1175 00:53:48,658 --> 00:53:48,992 DAY. 1176 00:53:49,059 --> 00:53:50,694 SOME OF THEM EXERCISING. 1177 00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:52,696 SOME OF THEM ENJOYING THE MIDDAY 1178 00:53:52,762 --> 00:53:53,096 MEAL. 1179 00:53:53,163 --> 00:53:54,898 OTHERS ARE WORKING ON VARIOUS 1180 00:53:54,965 --> 00:53:56,700 PAYLOADS AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 1181 00:53:56,766 --> 00:53:58,501 ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 1182 00:53:58,568 --> 00:54:02,105 STATION. 1183 00:54:02,172 --> 00:54:03,607 THERE ARE SOME CONSTRAINTS AS WE 1184 00:54:03,673 --> 00:54:05,609 MOVE INTO INTEGRATED OPERATIONS 1185 00:54:05,675 --> 00:54:07,711 SPECIFICALLY DURING DOCKING AND 1186 00:54:07,777 --> 00:54:09,713 ONCE THE SPACECRAFT IS SOFT 1187 00:54:09,779 --> 00:54:11,114 DOCKED THERE WILL BE EXERCISE 1188 00:54:11,181 --> 00:54:14,918 CONSTRAINT. 1189 00:54:14,985 --> 00:54:16,753 WE DON'T WANT ANY ADDITIONAL 1190 00:54:16,820 --> 00:54:19,356 LOADS IMPARTED ON DRAGON ANY 1191 00:54:19,422 --> 00:54:20,857 VIBRATIONS CAN BE CAUSED FROM 1192 00:54:20,924 --> 00:54:22,859 USING THE TREADMILL OR THE 1193 00:54:22,926 --> 00:54:24,160 STATIONARY BICYCLE. 1194 00:54:24,227 --> 00:54:26,563 WE WANT TO KEEP THAT AGAIN FROM 1195 00:54:26,630 --> 00:54:30,467 IMPARTING THE LOADS TO ENSURE A 1196 00:54:30,533 --> 00:54:32,869 SAFE AND DOCKING FOR DRAGON THE 1197 00:54:32,936 --> 00:54:37,073 CREW WILL BE ASKED NOT TO 1198 00:54:37,140 --> 00:54:38,775 PERFORM ANY ACTIVITIES DURING 1199 00:54:38,842 --> 00:55:50,680 THAT TIME. 1200 00:55:50,747 --> 00:55:51,581 THIS VIEW FROM THE INTERNATIONAL 1201 00:55:51,648 --> 00:55:53,683 SPACE STATION CURRENTLY FLYING 1202 00:55:53,750 --> 00:55:56,986 266 STATUTE MILES ABOVE THE 1203 00:55:57,053 --> 00:56:05,795 SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN. 1204 00:56:05,862 --> 00:56:07,597 DRAGON IS 400 METERS AWAY FROM 1205 00:56:07,664 --> 00:56:08,298 THE SPACE STATION. 1206 00:56:08,364 --> 00:56:11,101 AGAIN WE REACHED WAVE .0 AND THE 1207 00:56:11,167 --> 00:56:14,003 GO TO MOVE TO WAY .1 WHICH WILL 1208 00:56:14,070 --> 00:56:15,705 PUT US 220 METERS FROM THE SPACE 1209 00:56:15,772 --> 00:56:18,641 STATION ABOVE OR ON THE DOCKING 1210 00:56:18,708 --> 00:56:23,446 ACCESS ABOVE THE NODE 2 ZENITH 1211 00:56:23,513 --> 00:56:23,747 PORT. 1212 00:56:23,813 --> 00:56:27,951 AFTER WE REACH E'LL MOVE TO THE 1213 00:56:28,017 --> 00:56:31,554 200-METER SPHERE WITH RADIUS OF 1214 00:56:31,621 --> 00:56:32,956 200METERS AROUND THE 1215 00:56:33,022 --> 00:56:33,857 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 1216 00:56:33,923 --> 00:56:35,658 AGAIN THIS IS INVISIBLE BOUNDARY 1217 00:56:35,725 --> 00:56:36,860 THAT HELPS US MONITOR ALL 1218 00:56:36,926 --> 00:56:38,161 VEHICLES THAT ARRIVE AND DEPART 1219 00:56:38,228 --> 00:56:52,275 THE ORBITING LABORATORY. 1220 00:56:52,342 --> 00:56:53,676 FOR ANY MANEUVERS AT THAT POINT, 1221 00:56:53,743 --> 00:56:57,080 WE ARE SEEING DRAGON USE THE 1222 00:56:57,147 --> 00:56:59,783 SERVICE SECTION DRACO THRUSTERS 1223 00:56:59,849 --> 00:57:01,985 EACH PROVIDE 90POUNDS OF FORCE 1224 00:57:02,051 --> 00:57:04,287 THEIR 126 THOSE DRACOS THOSE ARE 1225 00:57:04,354 --> 00:57:06,189 ONLY USED IN THE VACUUM OF SPACE 1226 00:57:06,256 --> 00:57:07,490 GOOD FOR THE ATTITUDE CONTROL 1227 00:57:07,557 --> 00:57:09,292 MANEUVERS AND THOSE ARE GROUPED 1228 00:57:09,359 --> 00:57:11,394 INTO FOUR CLUSTERS OF THREE 1229 00:57:11,461 --> 00:57:14,697 THRUSTERS EACH. 1230 00:57:14,764 --> 00:57:16,633 ONBOARD DRAGON ALSO HAS SUPER 1231 00:57:16,699 --> 00:57:18,434 DRACOS THOSE ARE ONLY USED FOR 1232 00:57:18,501 --> 00:57:21,037 PAD OR ASSENT ABOARD SCENARIOS 1233 00:57:21,104 --> 00:57:23,039 CURRENTLY DISABLED AFTER THE 1234 00:57:23,106 --> 00:57:28,645 ASSENT PORTION OF THE MISSION. 1235 00:57:28,711 --> 00:57:30,647 THERE ARE ALSO FOUR FORWARD 1236 00:57:30,713 --> 00:57:32,448 BULKHEAD DRACO THRUSTERS 1237 00:57:32,515 --> 00:57:34,250 UNDERNEATH THE NOSE CONE AND 1238 00:57:34,317 --> 00:57:36,753 USED FOR LARGER BURNS LIKE THE 1239 00:57:36,820 --> 00:57:38,454 DEORBIT BURN, AND WE ARE NOT 1240 00:57:38,521 --> 00:57:40,657 LOOKING AHEAD THAT CURRENTLY WE 1241 00:57:40,723 --> 00:57:42,158 EXPECT THAT TO COME ABOUT EIGHT 1242 00:57:42,225 --> 00:57:42,859 DAYS FROM NOW. 1243 00:57:42,926 --> 00:57:44,160 WE ARE PLANNING FOR CREW TO 1244 00:57:44,227 --> 00:57:46,563 SPEND EIGHT DAYS ABOARD THE 1245 00:57:46,629 --> 00:57:52,669 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 1246 00:57:52,735 --> 00:57:54,571 ALSO LOCATED UNDERNEATH THE NOSE 1247 00:57:54,637 --> 00:57:56,072 CONE IS THE DOCKING HATCH. 1248 00:57:56,139 --> 00:57:57,974 THIS IS THE PORTIONS THAT WILL 1249 00:57:58,041 --> 00:57:58,541 CHECK TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE 1250 00:57:58,608 --> 00:58:00,076 STATION AND THE HATCH 1251 00:58:00,143 --> 00:58:01,578 CREWMEMBERS WILL USE TO FLOAT IN 1252 00:58:01,644 --> 00:58:05,181 AND OUT OF DRAGON. 1253 00:58:05,248 --> 00:58:07,083 THIS IS IN CONTRAST TO THE SIDE 1254 00:58:07,150 --> 00:58:08,484 HATCH THE CREW USED FOR THE 1255 00:58:08,551 --> 00:58:09,586 SPACECRAFT YESTERDAY, AND THEY 1256 00:58:09,652 --> 00:58:12,388 WILL ALSO USE TO DEPART THE 1257 00:58:12,455 --> 00:58:14,991 SPACECRAFT AFTER SPLASH DOWN AND 1258 00:58:15,058 --> 00:58:18,228 BEING PULLED ABOARD THE SPACEX 1259 00:58:18,294 --> 00:59:06,676 RECOVERY SHIP. 1260 00:59:06,743 --> 00:59:08,077 PRETTY QUIET HERE IN MISSION 1261 00:59:08,144 --> 00:59:09,279 CONTROL HOUSTON AS WELL AS 1262 00:59:09,345 --> 00:59:11,481 OBVIOUSLY ABOARD DRAGON IN THE 1263 00:59:11,547 --> 00:59:13,483 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AS 1264 00:59:13,549 --> 00:59:15,885 THE FULLY AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT AND 1265 00:59:15,952 --> 00:59:17,587 EVERYTHING CONTINUES TO GO WELL 1266 00:59:17,654 --> 00:59:19,589 FOR DRAGON AND ITS ARRIVAL THIS 1267 00:59:19,656 --> 01:00:16,579 MORNING. 1268 01:00:16,646 --> 01:00:18,681 AGAIN THE DRAGON IS MAKING THE 1269 01:00:18,748 --> 01:00:21,484 WAY TO 220METERS OF THE 1270 01:00:21,551 --> 01:00:22,986 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AND 1271 01:00:23,052 --> 01:00:24,387 THE INTENDED DESTINATION THIS 1272 01:00:24,454 --> 01:00:26,189 MORNING WHICH IS THE SPACE 1273 01:00:26,255 --> 01:00:28,591 FACING HATCH ON NODE 2. 1274 01:00:28,658 --> 01:00:30,193 SO WITH THAT, I WILL SEND IT 1275 01:00:30,259 --> 01:00:31,694 BACK OVER TO HAWTHORNE FOR A 1276 01:00:31,761 --> 01:00:32,996 STATUS UPDATE. 1277 01:00:33,062 --> 01:00:34,497 KATE AND DUKE. 1278 01:00:34,564 --> 01:00:36,499 >> THANKS. 1279 01:00:36,566 --> 01:00:38,701 CONTINUING TO FOLLOW DRAGON'S 1280 01:00:38,768 --> 01:00:40,603 PROGRESS AS IT GETS CLOSER AND 1281 01:00:40,670 --> 01:00:42,105 CLOSER TO THE INTERNATIONAL 1282 01:00:42,171 --> 01:00:42,605 SPACE STATION. 1283 01:00:42,672 --> 01:00:45,508 WE ARE NOW JUST .475-KILOMETERS 1284 01:00:45,575 --> 01:00:48,111 WAY FROM THE ISS. 1285 01:00:48,177 --> 01:00:51,514 AND AS LEAH MENTIONED, SLOW AND 1286 01:00:51,581 --> 01:00:53,116 STEADY WINS THE RACE. 1287 01:00:53,182 --> 01:00:54,717 NOW THERE ARE TEAMS SUPPORTING 1288 01:00:54,784 --> 01:00:56,319 THIS MISSION FROM MULTIPLE 1289 01:00:56,386 --> 01:00:58,021 LOCATIONS. 1290 01:00:58,087 --> 01:01:01,024 THIS IS JOHNSON SPACE CENTER 1291 01:01:01,090 --> 01:01:03,226 LOCATED IN HOUSTON, TEXAS. 1292 01:01:03,292 --> 01:01:05,228 THIS MISSION CONTROL ROOM IS 1293 01:01:05,294 --> 01:01:07,430 STAFFED 24 HOURS A DAY, SEVEN 1294 01:01:07,497 --> 01:01:10,833 DAYS A WEEK AT 365 DAYS A YEAR. 1295 01:01:10,900 --> 01:01:12,335 TEAM MEMBERS ARE TRAINED IN A 1296 01:01:12,402 --> 01:01:13,736 VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES AND 1297 01:01:13,803 --> 01:01:16,072 MONITOR ALL STATION SYSTEMS. 1298 01:01:16,139 --> 01:01:17,273 IN ADDITION TO THIS CONTROL 1299 01:01:17,340 --> 01:01:19,275 ROOM, WE HAVE THE MISSION 1300 01:01:19,342 --> 01:01:21,577 CONTROL ROOM HERE AT SPACEX 1301 01:01:21,644 --> 01:01:23,980 HEADQUARTERS IN HAWTHORNE, 1302 01:01:24,047 --> 01:01:25,181 CALIFORNIA, THAT IS THE VIEW 1303 01:01:25,248 --> 01:01:26,482 THERE ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF 1304 01:01:26,549 --> 01:01:27,984 THE SCREEN. 1305 01:01:28,051 --> 01:01:29,185 THAT IS WHERE OUR TEAMS ARE 1306 01:01:29,252 --> 01:01:30,887 MONITORING DRAGON AND CHECKING 1307 01:01:30,953 --> 01:01:33,289 IN ON ALL OF THE SYSTEMS. 1308 01:01:33,356 --> 01:01:35,391 AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE AXIOM 1309 01:01:35,458 --> 01:01:36,692 CONTROL ROOM ON THE RIGHT-HAND 1310 01:01:36,759 --> 01:01:37,393 SIDE. 1311 01:01:37,460 --> 01:01:37,794 YEAH. 1312 01:01:37,860 --> 01:01:38,294 YEAH. 1313 01:01:38,361 --> 01:01:39,796 FOR AXIOM SPACE. 1314 01:01:39,862 --> 01:01:41,597 THE TEAM THERE IS IN MISSION 1315 01:01:41,664 --> 01:01:43,199 CONTROL HOUSTON AS WELL. 1316 01:01:43,266 --> 01:01:44,901 IT IS PRETTY FANTASTIC FROM THIS 1317 01:01:44,967 --> 01:01:46,903 SECURE FACILITY. 1318 01:01:46,969 --> 01:01:49,305 WE HAVE LIVE ACCESS TO THE VOICE 1319 01:01:49,372 --> 01:01:51,607 VIDEO AND DATA FROM THE ISS AND 1320 01:01:51,674 --> 01:01:54,310 CAN WORK ALONGSIDE THE NASA 1321 01:01:54,377 --> 01:01:56,813 COUNTERPARTS TO RUN ON ORBIT 1322 01:01:56,879 --> 01:01:58,514 OPERATIONS AND MONITOR EVERY 1323 01:01:58,581 --> 01:01:59,515 ASPECT OF THE MISSION IN 1324 01:01:59,582 --> 01:02:00,516 REAL-TIME. 1325 01:02:00,583 --> 01:02:02,919 IT IS LEAD BY WHAT WE CALL THE 1326 01:02:02,985 --> 01:02:05,221 AXIOM OPERATIONS LEAP AND THEY 1327 01:02:05,288 --> 01:02:06,322 THERE ARE VARIOUS POSITIONS IN 1328 01:02:06,389 --> 01:02:07,924 THE ROOM FOR RESEARCH 1329 01:02:07,990 --> 01:02:09,926 COMMUNICATIONS AND STOWAGE, 1330 01:02:09,992 --> 01:02:11,727 TIMELINE OPERATIONS, ET CETERA. 1331 01:02:11,794 --> 01:02:14,230 PRETTY SIGNIFICANT STEP IN OUR 1332 01:02:14,297 --> 01:02:16,065 JOURNEY AS A COMPANY TO EXPAND 1333 01:02:16,132 --> 01:02:17,767 ACCESS TO LOWER EARTH ORBIT AS 1334 01:02:17,834 --> 01:02:19,869 THE ONLY THE 12th GROUND 1335 01:02:19,936 --> 01:02:22,071 SEGMENT PART FOR THE ISS PROGRAM 1336 01:02:22,138 --> 01:02:23,873 SO THROUGH THE FACILITY WE ARE 1337 01:02:23,940 --> 01:02:25,675 ENABLING THE CUSTOMERS IN THE 1338 01:02:25,741 --> 01:02:27,577 GLOBAL COMMUNITY FRONT ROW SEATS 1339 01:02:27,643 --> 01:02:28,778 TO THE WORK BEING DONE ON 1340 01:02:28,845 --> 01:02:30,279 STATION. 1341 01:02:30,346 --> 01:02:32,482 AS YOU CAN SEE, LOTS OF PEOPLE 1342 01:02:32,548 --> 01:02:34,283 SUPPORTING THIS MISSION FROM ALL 1343 01:02:34,350 --> 01:02:35,485 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AND IT 1344 01:02:35,551 --> 01:02:37,487 REALLY IS A TEAM EFFORT TO 1345 01:02:37,553 --> 01:02:39,088 EXECUTE THESE INTEGRATED 1346 01:02:39,155 --> 01:02:42,091 OPERATIONS SUCCESSFULLY AND PART 1347 01:02:42,158 --> 01:02:43,192 OF THE REASON IS, AS YOU CAN 1348 01:02:43,259 --> 01:02:45,495 SEE, IT IS NOT JUST THE FOUR 1349 01:02:45,561 --> 01:02:47,196 CREWMEMBERS THAT ARE INSIDE 1350 01:02:47,263 --> 01:02:48,297 DRAGON FREEDOM RIGHT NOW 1351 01:02:48,364 --> 01:02:49,799 APPROACHING THE SPACE STATION, 1352 01:02:49,866 --> 01:02:52,502 IT IS THE WHOLE INTEGRATED 1353 01:02:52,568 --> 01:02:54,003 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION TEAM 1354 01:02:54,070 --> 01:02:56,405 AS A WHOLE ONCE THE AX-2 CREW 1355 01:02:56,472 --> 01:02:57,907 ARRIVES ON THE STATION THERE 1356 01:02:57,974 --> 01:02:59,909 WILL BE ACTUALLY 11 CREWMEMBERS 1357 01:02:59,976 --> 01:03:01,811 TOTAL AND, IT IS GOING TO BE 1358 01:03:01,878 --> 01:03:03,212 EXCITING. 1359 01:03:03,279 --> 01:03:04,614 LIKE LEAH SAID, 1360 01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:05,214 A FULL HOUSE. 1361 01:03:05,281 --> 01:03:08,518 BUT THE AX-2 IS GOING TO BE 1362 01:03:08,584 --> 01:03:09,218 SUPER BUSY. 1363 01:03:09,285 --> 01:03:10,319 THEY HAVE A LOT OF SCIENCE AND 1364 01:03:10,386 --> 01:03:11,621 RESEARCH PLANNED, THEN THEY WILL 1365 01:03:11,687 --> 01:03:13,122 BE CONTRIBUTING TO THE STATION 1366 01:03:13,189 --> 01:03:15,024 AS WELL AS THE OTHER CREW MATES 1367 01:03:15,091 --> 01:03:17,260 THAT ARE UP THERE WITH THEM. 1368 01:03:17,326 --> 01:03:17,960 >> ABSOLUTELY. 1369 01:03:18,027 --> 01:03:19,962 THIS CREW HAS A VERY FULL 1370 01:03:20,029 --> 01:03:21,964 SCHEDULE WHILE ON STATION. 1371 01:03:22,031 --> 01:03:23,366 AND ACTUALLY A LOT OF THAT TIME 1372 01:03:23,432 --> 01:03:24,867 WILL BE FOCUSED ON PRETTY 1373 01:03:24,934 --> 01:03:26,469 FASCINATING EFFORTS. 1374 01:03:26,536 --> 01:03:27,770 FOR THE SAKE OF THIS 1375 01:03:27,837 --> 01:03:28,671 CONVERSATION, THAT WE'LL HAVE 1376 01:03:28,738 --> 01:03:29,872 RIGHT NOW, THE SILENCE THAT THEY 1377 01:03:29,939 --> 01:03:32,575 ARE DOING IS ORGANIZED INTO TWO 1378 01:03:32,642 --> 01:03:35,077 CATS FOU ARE LIKE LIFE SCIENCES, 1379 01:03:35,144 --> 01:03:36,279 PHYSICAL SCIENCE, TECH 1380 01:03:36,345 --> 01:03:37,380 DEMONSTRATIONS, ET CETERA. 1381 01:03:37,446 --> 01:03:39,182 SO WITH PHYSICAL SCIENCE, 1382 01:03:39,248 --> 01:03:40,183 INCLUDES SOME RADIATION 1383 01:03:40,249 --> 01:03:41,584 PROTECTION RESEARCH AS WELL AS 1384 01:03:41,651 --> 01:03:45,588 SOME STORM-RELATED RESEARCH TO 1385 01:03:45,655 --> 01:03:48,691 HELP CREATE RAIN AND CLOUD 1386 01:03:48,758 --> 01:03:50,193 SEEDING AND FASCINATING STUFF 1387 01:03:50,259 --> 01:03:51,694 LIKE THAT AND ENHANCE THE 1388 01:03:51,761 --> 01:03:53,496 UNDERSTANDING OF THE DANGEROUS 1389 01:03:53,563 --> 01:03:54,497 THUNDERSTORMS THERE IS A 1390 01:03:54,564 --> 01:03:56,499 PHENOMENAL CALLED TRANSIENT 1391 01:03:56,566 --> 01:03:57,800 LUNAR EFFECTS WHICH ARE 1392 01:03:57,867 --> 01:03:59,602 LIGHTNING. 1393 01:03:59,669 --> 01:04:01,604 >> IT IS AWESOME TO RESEARCH 1394 01:04:01,671 --> 01:04:05,708 POTENTIALLY HELP OPERATIONS AT 1395 01:04:05,775 --> 01:04:06,709 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. 1396 01:04:06,776 --> 01:04:08,911 THERE WAS A CLOUD ROLLING IN AND 1397 01:04:08,978 --> 01:04:10,513 YOU KNOW, IT IS REALLY 1398 01:04:10,580 --> 01:04:12,215 INTERESTING THIS RESEARCH THAT 1399 01:04:12,281 --> 01:04:15,218 AX-2 CREW WILL DO COULD 1400 01:04:15,284 --> 01:04:16,752 POTENTIALLY FEED BACK TO SPACE 1401 01:04:16,819 --> 01:04:17,954 OPERATION ON THE GROUND. 1402 01:04:18,020 --> 01:04:18,754 >> ABSOLUTELY. 1403 01:04:18,821 --> 01:04:20,556 A VERY FULL CIRCLE MOMENT THERE 1404 01:04:20,623 --> 01:04:21,757 BY THE TIME WE ARE LAUNCHING 1405 01:04:21,824 --> 01:04:24,260 AX-3, HE WILL HAVE THE DATA BACK 1406 01:04:24,327 --> 01:04:25,661 AND WILL BE EVIDENCE THAT GAME 1407 01:04:25,728 --> 01:04:27,463 SO IN THIS TECH SIDE OF RESEARCH 1408 01:04:27,530 --> 01:04:28,864 BEING CONDUCTED, THIS CREW WILL 1409 01:04:28,931 --> 01:04:30,166 ALSO DEMONSTRATE WAYS TO 1410 01:04:30,233 --> 01:04:32,368 AUTOMATE THE TASK THAT TAKE UP 1411 01:04:32,435 --> 01:04:34,570 PRECIOUS CREW TIME THINGS LIKE 1412 01:04:34,637 --> 01:04:36,172 TRANSFERRING DATA OR TRACKING 1413 01:04:36,239 --> 01:04:37,673 SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS ARE 1414 01:04:37,740 --> 01:04:39,075 ONBOARD THE SPACE STATION AND 1415 01:04:39,141 --> 01:04:40,576 ALSO AN EFFORT TO MAKE 1416 01:04:40,643 --> 01:04:42,178 COMMUNICATING WITH EARTH EASIER 1417 01:04:42,245 --> 01:04:43,980 SO THE HEART OF THE SPACE IS THE 1418 01:04:44,046 --> 01:04:45,681 MANTRA TO BUILD HISTORY TO 1419 01:04:45,748 --> 01:04:48,284 EXPAND TO LOWER EARTH ORBIT FOR 1420 01:04:48,351 --> 01:04:49,885 ALL AND DEDICATED TO CREATING 1421 01:04:49,952 --> 01:04:51,287 PARTNERSHIPS WITH COMPANIES THAT 1422 01:04:51,354 --> 01:04:52,788 YOU WOULDN'T TYPICALLY EXPECT TO 1423 01:04:52,855 --> 01:04:55,191 HEAR ABOUT GOING TO SPACE. 1424 01:04:55,258 --> 01:04:56,892 WE GROW THE VOLUME OF THOSE TO 1425 01:04:56,959 --> 01:04:58,394 CONDUCT MEANINGFUL RESEARCH AND 1426 01:04:58,461 --> 01:05:00,296 RESEARCH ONBOARD AND OUTREACH AS 1427 01:05:00,363 --> 01:05:01,797 WELL ABOUT SCIENCE AND 1428 01:05:01,864 --> 01:05:03,399 EVERYTHING ELSE. 1429 01:05:03,466 --> 01:05:05,301 SO A LOT GOING ON UP THERE AS 1430 01:05:05,368 --> 01:05:06,902 THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE THEIR 1431 01:05:06,969 --> 01:05:09,105 HANDS FULL ONCE THEY DOCK WHICH 1432 01:05:09,171 --> 01:05:10,506 WE SHOULD BE SEEING SHORTLY 1433 01:05:10,573 --> 01:05:11,007 HERE. 1434 01:05:11,073 --> 01:05:12,508 WE ARE VERY MUCH LOOKING FORWARD 1435 01:05:12,575 --> 01:05:13,209 TO IT. 1436 01:05:13,276 --> 01:05:14,010 I WILL LOOK AT THIS. 1437 01:05:14,076 --> 01:05:16,045 THIS IS THE FIRST VIEW INSIDE 1438 01:05:16,112 --> 01:05:18,147 THE DRAGON CAPSULE. 1439 01:05:18,214 --> 01:05:19,548 I LOVE THIS VIEW, SO ON THE 1440 01:05:19,615 --> 01:05:21,651 LEFT-HAND SIDE, WOULD BE THE 1441 01:05:21,717 --> 01:05:23,552 COMMANDER PEGGY WHITSON AND ON 1442 01:05:23,619 --> 01:05:25,154 THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF THAT VIEW 1443 01:05:25,221 --> 01:05:28,457 WAS PILOT JOHN SHOFFNER. 1444 01:05:28,524 --> 01:05:30,359 NOW THIS VIEW IS ALSO VERY COOL 1445 01:05:30,426 --> 01:05:31,661 BECAUSE THIS IS LOOKING AT THE 1446 01:05:31,727 --> 01:05:33,562 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FROM 1447 01:05:33,629 --> 01:05:39,869 THE DRAGON. 1448 01:05:39,935 --> 01:05:41,470 >> WHAT A GREAT SHOT. 1449 01:05:41,537 --> 01:05:42,672 >> JUST INCREDIBLE WE CAN GET 1450 01:05:42,738 --> 01:05:43,973 THE LIVE VIEWS TO SEE WHAT 1451 01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:45,474 DRAGON IS SEEING AS IT IS 1452 01:05:45,541 --> 01:05:53,282 APPROACHING THE ISS. 1453 01:05:53,349 --> 01:05:54,383 >> LIKE WE MENTIONED BEFORE, WE 1454 01:05:54,450 --> 01:05:57,286 ARE HEADING TO THE NODE 2 ZENITH 1455 01:05:57,353 --> 01:05:58,688 PORT THIS MORNING. 1456 01:05:58,754 --> 01:06:01,691 WE HAVE PASSED THROUGH WAVE .70 1457 01:06:01,757 --> 01:06:04,293 IT'S THE 400-METER MARK WHICH IS 1458 01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,295 400 METERS AWAY FROM SPACE. 1459 01:06:06,362 --> 01:06:07,897 WE ARE HEADING UP AND AROUND 1460 01:06:07,963 --> 01:06:09,999 OVER THE STATION TO WAVE .1, 1461 01:06:10,066 --> 01:06:11,300 WHICH IS ABOUT-- 1462 01:06:11,367 --> 01:06:13,102 >> DRAGON, STATION, ON THE BIG 1463 01:06:13,169 --> 01:06:13,502 LOOP. 1464 01:06:13,569 --> 01:06:15,938 EXPECT RECONFIGURATION OF THE 1465 01:06:16,005 --> 01:06:39,662 C2V2 RETURN LINK SHORTLY. 1466 01:06:39,729 --> 01:06:41,964 >> THAT WAS SPACEX LETTING THE 1467 01:06:42,031 --> 01:06:44,567 CREW KNOW OF THE UPCOMING EVENT 1468 01:06:44,633 --> 01:06:48,170 REFERRING TO C2V WHICH IS THE 1469 01:06:48,237 --> 01:06:49,171 COMMON COMMUNICATION FOR 1470 01:06:49,238 --> 01:06:50,172 VISITING VEHICLE AND THAT IS 1471 01:06:50,239 --> 01:06:52,775 BASICALLY THE LINK FOR THE 1472 01:06:52,842 --> 01:06:53,976 VISITING VEHICLE AND IN THE 1473 01:06:54,043 --> 01:06:55,778 CASE, DRAGON FREEDOM, BUT YEAH, 1474 01:06:55,845 --> 01:06:57,179 THIS VICE OVER THE SHOULDERS OF 1475 01:06:57,246 --> 01:06:58,881 OUR COMMANDER AND PILOT AND I 1476 01:06:58,948 --> 01:07:00,282 LOVE THAT YOU CAN SEE WHAT THEY 1477 01:07:00,349 --> 01:07:02,685 ARE SEEING AND IN THE CENTER WE 1478 01:07:02,752 --> 01:07:04,787 CAN SEE THEY ARE FOLLOWING ALONG 1479 01:07:04,854 --> 01:07:06,789 WITH THE UPCOMING EVENTS. 1480 01:07:06,856 --> 01:07:09,091 THE VIEWS ON THE FAR LEFT AND 1481 01:07:09,158 --> 01:07:13,195 FAR RIGHT PANEL WILL ILLUSTRATE 1482 01:07:13,262 --> 01:07:16,332 WHICH THRUSTERS ARE FIRING WHEN. 1483 01:07:16,399 --> 01:07:19,034 SO I DON'T REALLY SEE ANY-- OH, 1484 01:07:19,101 --> 01:07:20,736 LOOK, WE CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT OF 1485 01:07:20,803 --> 01:07:22,438 LIGHTS FLASHING, SO IF YOU LOOK 1486 01:07:22,505 --> 01:07:24,640 AT THE FAR LEFT PANEL ON THE 1487 01:07:24,707 --> 01:07:27,143 UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER, WE SAW 1488 01:07:27,209 --> 01:07:29,645 ILLUMINATION INDICATING THE 1489 01:07:29,712 --> 01:07:31,147 DRACO THRUSTERS WERE FIRING THEN 1490 01:07:31,213 --> 01:07:32,548 ONE THING THAT I LOVE ABOUT OUR 1491 01:07:32,615 --> 01:07:34,350 VIEW AS WE GET CLOSE FOR THE 1492 01:07:34,417 --> 01:07:35,551 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, THE 1493 01:07:35,618 --> 01:07:37,153 VIEWS THAT WE WILL GET FROM THE 1494 01:07:37,219 --> 01:07:40,356 ISS LOOKING AT DRAGON WE SHOULD 1495 01:07:40,423 --> 01:07:42,258 ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO SEE THOSE 1496 01:07:42,324 --> 01:07:44,760 DRACO THRUSTERS FIRING AS DRAGON 1497 01:07:44,827 --> 01:07:48,564 IS AUTONOMOUSLY GEARING THE 1498 01:07:48,631 --> 01:07:55,971 ITSELF TOWARD THE ZENITH PORT. 1499 01:07:56,038 --> 01:07:57,373 WHEN WE SAY AUTONOMOUS THAT IS 1500 01:07:57,440 --> 01:07:58,674 WHAT THAT MEANS. 1501 01:07:58,741 --> 01:07:59,975 DRAGON IS DOING ALL THE 1502 01:08:00,042 --> 01:08:02,378 CALCULATIONS AND, AND SEARING 1503 01:08:02,445 --> 01:08:03,779 AND FLYING. 1504 01:08:03,846 --> 01:08:05,281 AUTOMATICALLY, IT IS FLYING 1505 01:08:05,347 --> 01:08:08,484 ITSELF THAT BEING SAID, OUR 1506 01:08:08,551 --> 01:08:10,886 PILOT JOHN SHOFFNER HAS THE 1507 01:08:10,953 --> 01:08:13,789 CAPABILITY TO TAKE OVER MANUAL 1508 01:08:13,856 --> 01:08:15,491 CONTROL AT ANY TIME IF 1509 01:08:15,558 --> 01:08:24,533 NECESSARY. 1510 01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:25,634 BUT IT IS INCREDIBLE TO SEE WHAT 1511 01:08:25,701 --> 01:08:26,435 THEY ARE SEEING. 1512 01:08:26,502 --> 01:08:28,037 THE VIEW ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE 1513 01:08:28,103 --> 01:08:30,039 THERE, WE CAN ACTUALLY SEE THOSE 1514 01:08:30,105 --> 01:08:34,643 THRUSTERS, AS I MENTIONED. 1515 01:08:34,710 --> 01:08:37,847 IT ALMOST LOOKS AS IF DRAGON IS 1516 01:08:37,913 --> 01:08:39,748 SPITTING OUT A LITTLE BIT. 1517 01:08:39,815 --> 01:08:41,150 IT IS JUST REALLY COOL TO BE 1518 01:08:41,217 --> 01:08:42,751 ABLE TO SEE THAT PROPULSION 1519 01:08:42,818 --> 01:08:44,854 SYSTEM IN ACTION. 1520 01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:47,456 AS DRAGON IS FLYING ITSELF TO 1521 01:08:47,523 --> 01:08:52,862 THAT ZENITH PORT. 1522 01:08:52,928 --> 01:08:55,264 I LOVE IT WITH TWO VIEWS WE JUST 1523 01:08:55,331 --> 01:08:57,666 HAD BECAUSE IT IS DRAGON LOOKING 1524 01:08:57,733 --> 01:08:59,668 AT STATION AS WELL AS DRAGON 1525 01:08:59,735 --> 01:09:01,470 LOOKING AT DRAGON WHICH REMINDS 1526 01:09:01,537 --> 01:09:03,973 ME OF THE SPIDER MAN MEME OF 1527 01:09:04,039 --> 01:09:05,574 THEM POINTING AT EACH OTHER. 1528 01:09:05,641 --> 01:09:06,976 >> OH, YEAH. 1529 01:09:07,042 --> 01:09:08,878 A VERY META MOMENT. 1530 01:09:08,944 --> 01:09:09,578 >> YEAH. 1531 01:09:09,645 --> 01:09:10,779 >> ON THE RIGHT YOU CAN SEE THE 1532 01:09:10,846 --> 01:09:12,882 COMMANDER PEGGY WHITSON ON THE 1533 01:09:12,948 --> 01:09:15,084 LEFT AND PILOT JOHN SHOFFNER ON 1534 01:09:15,150 --> 01:09:16,385 THE RIGHT AND OUT OF FRAME IS 1535 01:09:16,452 --> 01:09:21,090 THE MISSION SPECIALIST RAYYANAH 1536 01:09:21,156 --> 01:09:25,895 BARNAWI AND ALI ALQARNI. 1537 01:09:25,961 --> 01:09:28,497 EVERYBODY EVERYBODY ONBOARD IS 1538 01:09:28,564 --> 01:09:29,999 ANXIOUSLY AWAITING THIS MOMENT 1539 01:09:30,065 --> 01:09:45,614 OF DOCKING. 1540 01:09:45,681 --> 01:09:47,816 >> NOW WE ARE ROUGHLY 20 MINUTES 1541 01:09:47,883 --> 01:09:50,419 AWAY FROM HITTING THAT APPROACH 1542 01:09:50,486 --> 01:09:55,124 1, OR THAT WAVE .1, WHICH LIKE I 1543 01:09:55,190 --> 01:09:56,125 MENTIONED BEFORE, IT IS 1544 01:09:56,192 --> 01:09:58,327 220-METERS AWAY FROM THE 1545 01:09:58,394 --> 01:10:01,130 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 1546 01:10:01,196 --> 01:10:03,132 SO WE CAN SEE THAT THE CREW HAS 1547 01:10:03,198 --> 01:10:04,733 THE VISORS UP. 1548 01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:07,036 WE DON'T REQUIRE THEM TO PUT 1549 01:10:07,102 --> 01:10:09,138 THEIR VISORS DOWN UNTIL THEY ARE 1550 01:10:09,204 --> 01:10:11,340 CLOSER TO THE SPACE STATION FOR 1551 01:10:11,407 --> 01:10:14,143 THAT DOCKING PROCEDURE. 1552 01:10:14,209 --> 01:10:16,579 SO THEY ARE STILL HANGING OUT. 1553 01:10:16,645 --> 01:10:18,180 CONTINUING TO MONITOR DRAGON'S 1554 01:10:18,247 --> 01:10:27,790 PROGRESS. 1555 01:10:27,856 --> 01:10:30,392 AS WE SAID BEFORE ONCE THE FOUR 1556 01:10:30,459 --> 01:10:33,095 AXIOM 2 CREWMEMBERS ON STATION, 1557 01:10:33,162 --> 01:10:34,296 THEY ARE GOING TO BE THERE FOR 1558 01:10:34,363 --> 01:10:35,397 EIGHT DAYS. 1559 01:10:35,464 --> 01:10:37,800 AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE VERY 1560 01:10:37,866 --> 01:10:39,101 BUSY. 1561 01:10:39,168 --> 01:10:41,303 WHEN YOU ARE ON STATION, YOUR 1562 01:10:41,370 --> 01:10:43,205 SCHEDULE IS PACKED WITH SILENCE, 1563 01:10:43,272 --> 01:10:45,407 RESEARCH, SLEEPING, YOUR SLEEP 1564 01:10:45,474 --> 01:10:47,509 PERIODS ARE SCHEDULED TO ENSURE 1565 01:10:47,576 --> 01:10:49,612 THAT EVERYBODY IS GETTING THE 1566 01:10:49,678 --> 01:10:52,014 APPROPRIATE REST, THE MEALTIMES 1567 01:10:52,081 --> 01:10:54,617 THEN YOU HAVE TO BUILD IN 1568 01:10:54,683 --> 01:10:56,619 EXERCISE TIME AS WELL. 1569 01:10:56,685 --> 01:10:57,019 YEAH. 1570 01:10:57,086 --> 01:10:58,520 THE CREW WILL BE VERY BUSY ONCE 1571 01:10:58,587 --> 01:10:59,722 THEY GET ON THE STATION SO THE 1572 01:10:59,788 --> 01:11:00,623 FINAL MOMENTS BEFORE THEY 1573 01:11:00,689 --> 01:11:03,626 ACTUALLY ARRIVE MIGHT ACTUALLY 1574 01:11:03,692 --> 01:11:07,730 BE VERY CALM AND RESTFUL BECAUSE 1575 01:11:07,796 --> 01:11:09,031 LIKE WE SAID BEFORE, THE CREW 1576 01:11:09,098 --> 01:11:10,733 RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE MONITORING. 1577 01:11:10,799 --> 01:11:12,134 THEY ARE KEEPING AN EYE ON 1578 01:11:12,201 --> 01:11:14,036 DRAGON'S SYSTEMS. 1579 01:11:14,103 --> 01:11:15,437 AND OF COURSE, KEEPING IN 1580 01:11:15,504 --> 01:11:17,373 CONTACT WITH THE INTEGRATED 1581 01:11:17,439 --> 01:11:19,375 OPERATION TEAMS FROM ALL THREE 1582 01:11:19,441 --> 01:11:20,876 MISSION CONTROL CENTERS THAT WE 1583 01:11:20,943 --> 01:11:27,082 MENTIONED BEFORE. 1584 01:11:27,149 --> 01:11:29,485 ONCE AGAIN THIS IS A LIVE VIEW 1585 01:11:29,551 --> 01:11:30,486 OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 1586 01:11:30,552 --> 01:11:31,887 STATION FROM DRAGON. 1587 01:11:31,954 --> 01:11:34,990 IT ALMOST LOOKS FAKE. 1588 01:11:35,057 --> 01:11:49,204 IT IS SO CLEAR AND BEAUTIFUL. 1589 01:11:49,271 --> 01:11:50,906 AS WE GET CLOSER, YOU SHOULD BE 1590 01:11:50,973 --> 01:11:52,307 ABLE TO MAKE OUT MORE CLEARLY 1591 01:11:52,374 --> 01:11:54,910 THE VARIOUS VEHICLES THAT ARE 1592 01:11:54,977 --> 01:11:57,112 DOCKED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL 1593 01:11:57,179 --> 01:12:09,925 SPACE STATION. 1594 01:12:09,992 --> 01:12:12,127 ONCE WE GET CLOSER, DEFINITELY 1595 01:12:12,194 --> 01:12:14,129 WANT TO KEEP AN EYE ON THOSE 1596 01:12:14,196 --> 01:12:15,330 VARIOUS PORTS. 1597 01:12:15,397 --> 01:12:16,965 AS WE MENTIONED, WE DID A PORT 1598 01:12:17,032 --> 01:12:19,368 RELOCATION MANEUVER FOR THE CREW 1599 01:12:19,435 --> 01:12:19,968 CAPSULE. 1600 01:12:20,035 --> 01:12:21,870 >> DRAGON, STATION, ON THE BIG 1601 01:12:21,937 --> 01:12:22,571 LOOP. 1602 01:12:22,638 --> 01:12:38,087 RECONFIGURATION COMPLETE. 1603 01:12:38,153 --> 01:12:40,789 >> AS I MENTIONED, WE DID A PORT 1604 01:12:40,856 --> 01:12:42,691 LOCATION MANEUVER. 1605 01:12:42,758 --> 01:12:44,893 IT WAS RELOCATED TO THE NODE 2 1606 01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:46,295 FORWARD PORT. 1607 01:12:46,361 --> 01:12:47,896 AND WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE 1608 01:12:47,963 --> 01:12:51,500 THAT AS WE GET CLOSER. 1609 01:12:51,567 --> 01:12:52,901 I JUST LOVE IT WHEN THERE IS A 1610 01:12:52,968 --> 01:12:55,104 DRAGON CAPSULE GETTING A VIEW OF 1611 01:12:55,170 --> 01:12:57,306 ANOTHER DRAGON CAPSULE, THAT IS 1612 01:12:57,372 --> 01:12:58,207 ON THE STATION. 1613 01:12:58,273 --> 01:13:00,409 WE HAD THAT VIEW DURING THE 1614 01:13:00,476 --> 01:13:02,511 CREW-6 DOCKING, IF I REMEMBER 1615 01:13:02,578 --> 01:13:03,312 CORRECTLY. 1616 01:13:03,378 --> 01:13:05,013 SO THIS IS A LIVE VIEW COMING TO 1617 01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:06,315 US FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 1618 01:13:06,381 --> 01:13:10,119 STATION OF DRAGON FREEDOM AS IT 1619 01:13:10,185 --> 01:13:21,964 APPROACHES. 1620 01:13:22,030 --> 01:13:22,364 ALL RIGHT. 1621 01:13:22,431 --> 01:13:24,666 AS WE ARE CONTINUING TO GET 1622 01:13:24,733 --> 01:13:25,768 CLOSE THOROUGH THE INTERNATIONAL 1623 01:13:25,834 --> 01:13:26,869 SPACE STATION, WE ARE HEADING 1624 01:13:26,935 --> 01:13:30,072 TOWARD THAT WAY .1 AND CHECK 1625 01:13:30,139 --> 01:13:31,573 BACK IN WITH LEAH OVER AT 1626 01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,176 JOHNSON SPACE CENTER TO HEAR HOW 1627 01:13:34,243 --> 01:13:35,377 THINGS ARE CONTINUING TO 1628 01:13:35,444 --> 01:13:37,279 PROGRESS WITH THE INTERNATIONAL 1629 01:13:37,346 --> 01:13:39,581 SPACE STATION'S PREPARATION FOR 1630 01:13:39,648 --> 01:13:49,591 DRAGON FREEDOM. 1631 01:13:49,658 --> 01:13:50,392 >> HI, KATE. 1632 01:13:50,459 --> 01:13:51,293 HI, DUKE. 1633 01:13:51,360 --> 01:13:53,195 THANKS FOR CARRYING US THROUGH 1634 01:13:53,262 --> 01:13:53,695 THAT. 1635 01:13:53,762 --> 01:13:54,997 THAT IS DRAGON APPROACHING THE 1636 01:13:55,063 --> 01:13:57,099 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 1637 01:13:57,166 --> 01:13:59,201 AS YOU HEARD, WE REACHED WAVE 1638 01:13:59,268 --> 01:14:01,804 .70 THE 400METERS AWAY FROM 1639 01:14:01,870 --> 01:14:02,404 SPACE STATION. 1640 01:14:02,471 --> 01:14:03,605 WE ARE JUST A LITTLE BIT BELOW 1641 01:14:03,672 --> 01:14:04,706 THAT NOW. 1642 01:14:04,773 --> 01:14:06,408 BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE MADE 1643 01:14:06,475 --> 01:14:08,310 QUITE A BIT OF MOVEMENT. 1644 01:14:08,377 --> 01:14:10,813 OUR PREVIOUS VIEW OF DRAGON HAD 1645 01:14:10,879 --> 01:14:12,314 THE EARTH IN BACKGROUND, NOW WE 1646 01:14:12,381 --> 01:14:14,416 HAVE SPACE IN THE BACKGROUND. 1647 01:14:14,483 --> 01:14:16,552 THE SPACE CRAFT HAS MOVED OUT IN 1648 01:14:16,618 --> 01:14:17,553 FRONT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 1649 01:14:17,619 --> 01:14:19,254 STATION STILL LESS THAN 400 1650 01:14:19,321 --> 01:14:21,356 METERS AWAY WHICH ABOUT 380 1651 01:14:21,423 --> 01:14:23,258 METERS NOW AND MOVING UP TO WAVE 1652 01:14:23,325 --> 01:14:26,862 .1. 1653 01:14:26,929 --> 01:14:30,265 AGAIN WAVE .1 IS 220 METERS A 1654 01:14:30,332 --> 01:14:31,466 WAY FROM THE SPACE STATION THAT 1655 01:14:31,533 --> 01:14:33,769 WILL BE DIRECTLY ABOVE THE NODE 1656 01:14:33,836 --> 01:14:39,875 2 ZENITH OR SPACE FACING PORT. 1657 01:14:39,942 --> 01:14:40,876 WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHECK 1658 01:14:40,943 --> 01:14:42,978 OUT ANY SYSTEMS IF NEEDED THEN 1659 01:14:43,045 --> 01:14:44,279 EXPECT I HAVE ARRIVAL IN ABOUT 1660 01:14:44,346 --> 01:14:58,493 TEN MINUTES. 1661 01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:00,896 ONCE DRAGON REACHES WAVE .1 THE 1662 01:15:00,963 --> 01:15:03,699 NEXT STOP IS WAVE .27 THAT IS 1663 01:15:03,765 --> 01:15:06,301 ONLY 20 METERS AWAY FROM ISS. 1664 01:15:06,368 --> 01:15:07,903 THAT IS WHEN WE HOPE TO GET THE 1665 01:15:07,970 --> 01:15:09,705 CRYSTAL CLEAR VIEW OF DRAGON 1666 01:15:09,771 --> 01:15:11,506 FREEDOM AND THE FOUR CREWMEMBERS 1667 01:15:11,573 --> 01:15:12,608 INSIDE. 1668 01:15:12,674 --> 01:15:16,144 WE DO CONDUCT A HOLD AT .2 TO 1669 01:15:16,211 --> 01:15:18,046 MAKE SURE WE ARE PROPERLY 1670 01:15:18,113 --> 01:15:20,916 ALIGNED WITH THE DOCK TARGET ON 1671 01:15:20,983 --> 01:15:22,317 >> This is a view of mission 1672 01:15:22,384 --> 01:15:24,786 control at SpaceX in Hawthorne, 1673 01:15:24,853 --> 01:15:26,021 California, these teams have 1674 01:15:26,088 --> 01:15:28,056 been monitoring the flight of 1675 01:15:28,123 --> 01:15:29,925 Dragon freedom since launch 1676 01:15:29,992 --> 01:15:30,559 yesterday afternoon. 1677 01:15:30,626 --> 01:15:32,394 Actually before launch yesterday 1678 01:15:32,461 --> 01:15:32,694 afternoon. 1679 01:15:32,761 --> 01:15:35,430 That launch coming at 5:37 p.m. 1680 01:15:35,497 --> 01:15:37,132 eastern time from Florida. 1681 01:15:37,199 --> 01:15:38,967 And flawless launch and then 1682 01:15:39,034 --> 01:15:41,370 about a 16-hour rendezvous to 1683 01:15:41,436 --> 01:15:42,571 the international space station 1684 01:15:42,638 --> 01:15:44,106 well got into integrated 1685 01:15:44,172 --> 01:15:45,374 operations earlier this morning 1686 01:15:45,440 --> 01:15:46,341 once we crossed through the 1687 01:15:46,408 --> 01:15:48,644 approach ellipsoid four by 1688 01:15:48,710 --> 01:15:51,079 two-by-two kilometer invisible 1689 01:15:51,146 --> 01:15:52,180 boundary around the space 1690 01:15:52,247 --> 01:15:55,951 station that helps us govern 1691 01:15:56,018 --> 01:15:57,686 visiting spacecraft and their 1692 01:15:57,753 --> 01:15:59,021 arrival and departure. 1693 01:15:59,087 --> 01:16:00,122 Teams here at mission control 1694 01:16:00,188 --> 01:16:01,623 Houston now on your screen are 1695 01:16:01,690 --> 01:16:03,926 being led by vincent LaCourt, 1696 01:16:03,992 --> 01:16:04,793 flight director. 1697 01:16:04,860 --> 01:16:06,161 They are working with astronauts 1698 01:16:06,228 --> 01:16:08,063 aboard the international space 1699 01:16:08,130 --> 01:16:09,364 station and staff this room 1700 01:16:09,431 --> 01:16:13,135 24/7, 365 to insure the 1701 01:16:13,201 --> 01:16:14,836 astronauts and the space station 1702 01:16:14,903 --> 01:16:16,138 systems remain supported. 1703 01:16:16,204 --> 01:16:20,275 We have had continuous presence 1704 01:16:20,342 --> 01:16:21,543 aboard the international space 1705 01:16:21,610 --> 01:16:23,645 station for over 23 years now. 1706 01:16:23,712 --> 01:16:25,280 And we'll be welcoming four crew 1707 01:16:25,347 --> 01:16:26,448 members shortly as part of the 1708 01:16:26,515 --> 01:16:28,383 AX-2 mission. 1709 01:16:28,450 --> 01:16:30,419 The second private astronaut 1710 01:16:30,485 --> 01:16:31,753 mission to the international 1711 01:16:31,820 --> 01:16:33,188 space station, this view coming 1712 01:16:33,255 --> 01:16:34,456 from their mission control also 1713 01:16:34,523 --> 01:16:35,857 here in Houston, Texas. 1714 01:16:35,924 --> 01:16:38,093 They'll remain on console all 1715 01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:40,162 week to monitor the status. 1716 01:16:40,228 --> 01:16:41,730 Astronauts as well as help them 1717 01:16:41,797 --> 01:16:43,966 step through their research, 1718 01:16:44,032 --> 01:16:45,600 payloads and any down link 1719 01:16:45,667 --> 01:17:55,737 opportunities that they have. 1720 01:17:55,804 --> 01:17:57,272 >> And we are expecting to 1721 01:17:57,339 --> 01:17:58,740 regain video communications with 1722 01:17:58,807 --> 01:18:00,275 the space station and Dragon 1723 01:18:00,342 --> 01:18:02,077 shortly. 1724 01:18:02,144 --> 01:18:03,278 Just a few moments from now 1725 01:18:03,345 --> 01:18:06,515 we'll see the AX-2 crew float 1726 01:18:06,581 --> 01:18:08,817 through the hatch and bring the 1727 01:18:08,884 --> 01:18:09,851 number of crew members living on 1728 01:18:09,918 --> 01:19:20,822 the station to 11. 1729 01:19:20,889 --> 01:19:21,923 >> Everything looking good ahead 1730 01:19:21,990 --> 01:19:23,825 of hatch opening on both sides 1731 01:19:23,892 --> 01:19:25,093 of the station and dragon. 1732 01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:34,836 We are just standing by to 1733 01:19:34,903 --> 01:19:36,371 regain video communications 1734 01:19:36,438 --> 01:19:38,473 before we go before that hatch 1735 01:19:38,540 --> 01:19:40,375 opens so we can insure we see 1736 01:19:40,442 --> 01:19:41,943 the smiling faces of our four 1737 01:19:42,010 --> 01:19:46,882 new crew members joining the 69 1738 01:19:46,948 --> 01:19:48,617 crew on the international space 1739 01:19:48,683 --> 01:19:50,018 station we expect them to stay 1740 01:19:50,085 --> 01:19:51,953 for about a week before return 1741 01:19:52,020 --> 01:19:53,355 on the ground Dragon freedom 1742 01:19:53,421 --> 01:20:29,891 back to earth. 1743 01:20:29,958 --> 01:20:33,428 >> Dragon SpaceX O big loop S 1744 01:20:33,495 --> 01:20:35,197 band will be deactivated 1745 01:20:35,263 --> 01:20:35,964 shortly. 1746 01:20:36,031 --> 01:20:38,900 Dragon ground will no longer be 1747 01:20:38,967 --> 01:20:41,636 available for comes, please set 1748 01:20:41,703 --> 01:20:44,206 to I.S.S. 1749 01:20:44,272 --> 01:20:50,745 >> Will do. 1750 01:20:50,812 --> 01:20:52,113 >> Teams in Hawthorne speaking 1751 01:20:52,180 --> 01:20:53,615 with the crew still aboard 1752 01:20:53,682 --> 01:20:55,083 Dragon freedom letting them know 1753 01:20:55,150 --> 01:20:56,384 that shortly they will not have 1754 01:20:56,451 --> 01:20:58,320 the ability to communicate from 1755 01:20:58,386 --> 01:20:59,888 or through the Dragon to ground 1756 01:20:59,955 --> 01:21:00,555 loop itself. 1757 01:21:00,622 --> 01:21:01,890 However, they will start using 1758 01:21:01,957 --> 01:21:03,091 the loops aboard the 1759 01:21:03,158 --> 01:21:04,893 international space station to 1760 01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:06,895 talk with teams here in mission 1761 01:21:06,962 --> 01:21:09,231 control Houston as well as in 1762 01:21:09,297 --> 01:21:09,864 Hawthorne. 1763 01:21:09,931 --> 01:21:11,700 Again, we are getting close to 1764 01:21:11,766 --> 01:21:12,767 hatch opening, docking this 1765 01:21:12,834 --> 01:21:14,703 morning occurring at 8:12 a.m. 1766 01:21:14,769 --> 01:21:15,370 central time. 1767 01:21:15,437 --> 01:21:17,038 So about an hour and a half ago. 1768 01:21:17,105 --> 01:21:18,406 It was a very smooth ride to 1769 01:21:18,473 --> 01:21:20,075 orbit yesterday launching at 1770 01:21:20,141 --> 01:21:24,212 5:37 p.m. eastern time and a 16 1771 01:21:24,279 --> 01:21:26,181 hour transit the fastest on 1772 01:21:26,248 --> 01:21:28,216 record for a Dragon crew to the 1773 01:21:28,283 --> 01:22:16,731 international space station. 1774 01:22:16,798 --> 01:22:18,600 >> Take a look inside Dragon 1775 01:22:18,667 --> 01:22:22,704 freedom as the crew members of 1776 01:22:22,771 --> 01:22:24,072 axiom two -- 1777 01:22:24,139 --> 01:22:25,573 >> We have all the suits stowed 1778 01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:29,477 and seat procedure 4.012 1779 01:22:29,544 --> 01:22:30,812 complete. 1780 01:22:30,879 --> 01:22:36,718 >> Copy all, Peggy, 4.012 1781 01:22:36,785 --> 01:23:27,702 complete. 1782 01:23:27,769 --> 01:23:29,371 >> Again, this view of the crew 1783 01:23:29,437 --> 01:23:31,373 inside Dragon freedom, our four 1784 01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:34,209 astronauts who have arrived as 1785 01:23:34,275 --> 01:23:36,177 part the axiom mission would the 1786 01:23:36,244 --> 01:23:37,512 second private mission to the 1787 01:23:37,579 --> 01:23:39,447 international space station up 1788 01:23:39,514 --> 01:23:40,215 in the center. 1789 01:23:40,281 --> 01:23:41,583 Screen still order of in her 1790 01:23:41,649 --> 01:23:42,817 seat, that's former NASA 1791 01:23:42,884 --> 01:23:46,788 astronaut Peggy Whitson the 1792 01:23:46,855 --> 01:23:47,222 commander. 1793 01:23:47,288 --> 01:23:47,589 Crew. 1794 01:23:47,655 --> 01:23:48,723 Over year the window you can see 1795 01:23:48,790 --> 01:23:50,658 Ali AlQarni representing the 1796 01:23:50,725 --> 01:23:52,026 Saudi space commission, down 1797 01:23:52,093 --> 01:23:53,361 below him, holding on to one of 1798 01:23:53,428 --> 01:23:55,997 the foot rests is John Shoffner 1799 01:23:56,064 --> 01:23:57,532 the pilot and just off camera, 1800 01:23:57,599 --> 01:23:59,434 you can see her hand right now. 1801 01:23:59,501 --> 01:24:00,902 That's Rayyanah Barnawi also 1802 01:24:00,969 --> 01:24:02,771 representing the Saudi space 1803 01:24:02,837 --> 01:24:03,071 commission. 1804 01:24:03,138 --> 01:24:04,439 We are standing by for hatch 1805 01:24:04,506 --> 01:28:34,942 opening of dragon freedom. 1806 01:28:35,009 --> 01:28:36,110 >> Again, you are looking live 1807 01:28:36,177 --> 01:28:37,779 inside Dragon freedom as we 1808 01:28:37,845 --> 01:28:39,080 prepare for the hatch to be 1809 01:28:39,147 --> 01:28:41,249 opened and these four crew 1810 01:28:41,315 --> 01:28:42,450 members to float into the 1811 01:28:42,517 --> 01:28:44,886 international space station on 1812 01:28:44,952 --> 01:28:46,254 what is the second private 1813 01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:47,488 astronaut mission to the 1814 01:28:47,555 --> 01:28:48,790 orbiting laboratory. 1815 01:28:48,856 --> 01:28:50,091 They will remain at the space 1816 01:28:50,158 --> 01:28:51,459 take for eight days before 1817 01:28:51,526 --> 01:28:52,960 undocking and returning to 1818 01:28:53,027 --> 01:28:53,327 earth. 1819 01:28:53,394 --> 01:28:54,295 While they are on board we will 1820 01:28:54,362 --> 01:28:56,597 have a total of 11 people living 1821 01:28:56,664 --> 01:28:58,132 and working aboard the space 1822 01:28:58,199 --> 01:30:33,327 station. 1823 01:30:33,394 --> 01:30:35,429 >> Again this, crew launched at 1824 01:30:35,496 --> 01:30:39,734 5:37 p.m. eastern time docking 1825 01:30:39,801 --> 01:30:41,803 this morning at 9:12 a.m. 1826 01:30:41,869 --> 01:30:42,270 eastern time. 1827 01:30:42,336 --> 01:30:47,575 The hatches are configured to be 1828 01:30:47,642 --> 01:30:48,876 open so we are just standing by 1829 01:30:48,943 --> 01:30:51,445 for that final go call to the 1830 01:30:51,512 --> 01:30:52,613 crew. 1831 01:30:52,680 --> 01:30:53,881 We'll remain on air through 1832 01:30:53,948 --> 01:30:55,516 their welcome ceremony. 1833 01:30:55,583 --> 01:30:56,918 Where you get to hear some words 1834 01:30:56,984 --> 01:30:57,985 from the crew themselves on 1835 01:30:58,052 --> 01:30:59,053 their flight. 1836 01:30:59,120 --> 01:31:00,555 As well as what they plan for 1837 01:31:00,621 --> 01:31:01,322 this time on board. 1838 01:31:01,389 --> 01:31:06,527 Afterwards, we will wrap our 1839 01:31:06,594 --> 01:31:06,894 show. 1840 01:31:06,961 --> 01:31:08,663 As the crew steps into their 1841 01:31:08,729 --> 01:31:10,464 safety briefings and eventually 1842 01:31:10,531 --> 01:31:11,866 gets to work aboard the space 1843 01:31:11,933 --> 01:31:27,415 station. 1844 01:31:27,481 --> 01:31:31,185 >> Dragon SpaceX on 2 for hatch 1845 01:31:31,252 --> 01:31:35,223 open. 1846 01:31:35,289 --> 01:31:37,325 >> Go for Dragon. 1847 01:31:37,391 --> 01:31:39,360 >> Hey, Peggy, just big picture, 1848 01:31:39,427 --> 01:31:40,628 following hatch open, we would 1849 01:31:40,695 --> 01:31:43,197 like you to complete part "C" of 1850 01:31:43,264 --> 01:31:46,367 2.102 prior to station ingress, 1851 01:31:46,434 --> 01:31:47,335 we are still ahead of the 1852 01:31:47,401 --> 01:31:48,836 timeline so we have time to 1853 01:31:48,903 --> 01:31:50,338 complete these tasks in the 1854 01:31:50,404 --> 01:31:51,639 nominal sequence. 1855 01:31:51,706 --> 01:31:53,407 With that, you are go for hatch 1856 01:31:53,474 --> 01:31:55,376 opening per decal. 1857 01:31:55,443 --> 01:31:56,377 Followed by the remaining 1858 01:31:56,444 --> 01:31:59,881 actions and procedure 4.400 1859 01:31:59,947 --> 01:32:03,618 section 6. 1860 01:32:03,684 --> 01:32:05,486 >> Copy hatch open per detail 1861 01:32:05,553 --> 01:32:10,157 and section "C." 1862 01:32:10,224 --> 01:32:12,293 >> That's affirmative, Peggy and 1863 01:32:12,360 --> 01:32:23,604 section 6 of 4.400 as well. 1864 01:32:23,671 --> 01:32:27,008 >> Yes, copy section 6 of 4.400 1865 01:32:27,074 --> 01:33:03,644 as well. 1866 01:33:03,711 --> 01:33:05,279 >> And we've got a view here in 1867 01:33:05,346 --> 01:33:07,548 Dragon freedom as Ali 1868 01:33:07,615 --> 01:33:09,150 AlQarni works to open the 1869 01:33:09,216 --> 01:33:10,184 Dragon side of the hatch. 1870 01:33:10,251 --> 01:33:26,233 Outta other side of the Dragon 1871 01:33:26,300 --> 01:33:28,536 hatch is NASA astronaut woody 1872 01:33:28,602 --> 01:33:31,505 Hoburg waiting to welcome the 1873 01:33:31,572 --> 01:33:32,773 crew on board after having 1874 01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:34,342 completed all the preparations 1875 01:33:34,408 --> 01:34:05,239 this morning. 1876 01:34:05,306 --> 01:34:07,908 >> Houston and SpaceX, Dragon 1877 01:34:07,975 --> 01:34:11,379 hatch is open. 1878 01:34:11,445 --> 01:34:13,347 >> Houston copies. 1879 01:34:13,414 --> 01:34:15,649 >> SpaceX copies. 1880 01:34:15,716 --> 01:34:18,219 >> At 10:00 a.m., central time, 1881 01:34:18,285 --> 01:34:20,421 the Dragon hatch is open. 1882 01:34:20,488 --> 01:34:21,756 Preparing to see our crew 1883 01:34:21,822 --> 01:34:23,491 members float through and join 1884 01:34:23,557 --> 01:36:21,008 the international space station. 1885 01:36:21,075 --> 01:36:23,944 >> Houston, the IMV duct is 1886 01:36:24,011 --> 01:36:26,313 installed and we are ready for 1887 01:36:26,380 --> 01:36:34,388 IMV activation. 1888 01:36:34,455 --> 01:36:49,336 >> Houston copies. 1889 01:36:49,403 --> 01:36:50,871 >> Again, Dragon hatch open at 1890 01:36:50,938 --> 01:36:53,140 sen a.m. central time after 1891 01:36:53,207 --> 01:36:56,076 docking at 8:12 a.m. central 1892 01:36:56,143 --> 01:36:57,278 time, following their 1893 01:36:57,344 --> 01:36:59,180 approximately 16 hour journey 1894 01:36:59,246 --> 01:37:01,649 from the space coast of Florida 1895 01:37:01,715 --> 01:37:02,683 to the international space 1896 01:37:02,750 --> 01:37:10,791 station. 1897 01:37:10,858 --> 01:37:13,561 >> And Houston station, in the 1898 01:37:13,627 --> 01:37:18,199 dragon, we are at 6.3 ready for 1899 01:37:18,265 --> 01:37:25,439 the procedures for the lie out. 1900 01:37:25,506 --> 01:37:27,274 >> Copy that, Peggy, Houston is 1901 01:37:27,341 --> 01:37:50,531 checking. 1902 01:37:50,598 --> 01:37:51,699 >> Dragon Houston on the big 1903 01:37:51,765 --> 01:37:54,401 loop you have a gee for step 6.3 1904 01:37:54,468 --> 01:38:00,808 and procedure 2.102. 1905 01:38:00,874 --> 01:38:01,475 >> 6.3. 1906 01:38:01,542 --> 01:38:03,777 2.102. 1907 01:38:03,844 --> 01:38:36,243 Thanks. 1908 01:38:36,310 --> 01:38:38,712 >> Again, we are preparing for 1909 01:38:38,779 --> 01:38:43,784 the AX-2 crew to float drew the 1910 01:38:43,851 --> 01:38:45,886 Dragon hatch and join the stays 1911 01:38:45,953 --> 01:38:48,188 space rue Otto try inside you 1912 01:38:48,255 --> 01:38:50,758 see woody Hoburg who has Montana 1913 01:38:50,824 --> 01:38:51,792 toured their arrival first in 1914 01:38:51,859 --> 01:38:53,193 the copula and then worked to 1915 01:38:53,260 --> 01:38:55,095 prepare these hatches, 1916 01:38:55,162 --> 01:38:56,997 pressurizing the vestibule that 1917 01:38:57,064 --> 01:38:58,699 space between both hatches and 1918 01:38:58,766 --> 01:39:00,301 eventually assisting in opening 1919 01:39:00,367 --> 01:39:03,704 the A pass hatch as well as Ali 1920 01:39:03,771 --> 01:39:05,606 AlQarni just at 10:00 a.m. 1921 01:39:05,673 --> 01:39:07,007 central time. 1922 01:39:07,074 --> 01:39:08,042 Five minutes ago, opening the 1923 01:39:08,108 --> 01:40:30,391 dragon hatch. 1924 01:40:30,457 --> 01:40:31,792 >> Again, this is live coverage 1925 01:40:31,859 --> 01:40:35,195 of the arrival of the AX-2 crew 1926 01:40:35,262 --> 01:40:36,463 to the international space 1927 01:40:36,530 --> 01:40:37,664 staying we are just standing by 1928 01:40:37,731 --> 01:40:39,433 for the crew members to make 1929 01:40:39,500 --> 01:40:40,734 their way out of Dragon and into 1930 01:40:40,801 --> 01:40:42,336 the space station moments from 1931 01:40:42,403 --> 01:40:42,503 now. 1932 01:40:42,569 --> 01:40:50,878 UAE Astro fall Sultan Alneyadi 1933 01:40:50,944 --> 01:40:52,746 floating out of screen on the 1934 01:40:52,813 --> 01:40:54,148 right-hand side there. 1935 01:40:54,214 --> 01:40:55,482 He has been working alongside 1936 01:40:55,549 --> 01:40:56,884 woody Hoburg this morning to 1937 01:40:56,950 --> 01:40:59,353 prepare the hatches for the crew 1938 01:40:59,420 --> 01:41:00,354 to float through. 1939 01:41:00,421 --> 01:41:01,989 As well as monitoring their 1940 01:41:02,055 --> 01:41:02,356 arrival. 1941 01:41:02,423 --> 01:41:10,531 Both Hoburg and Alneyadi arrived 1942 01:41:10,597 --> 01:41:12,466 as par of the Crew-6 crew and 1943 01:41:12,533 --> 01:41:14,234 part of composition 69 living 1944 01:41:14,301 --> 01:41:15,035 and work ago board the 1945 01:41:15,102 --> 01:41:16,837 international space station. 1946 01:41:16,904 --> 01:41:45,933 Teams are also preparing the 1947 01:41:45,999 --> 01:41:47,768 inner module vicinity laying, 1948 01:41:47,835 --> 01:41:48,869 that was the tube that we saw 1949 01:41:48,936 --> 01:41:51,104 earlier that woody Hoburg was 1950 01:41:51,171 --> 01:41:53,040 working with, they'll route that 1951 01:41:53,106 --> 01:41:54,107 from the station side into the 1952 01:41:54,174 --> 01:41:55,876 Dragon side to help equalize the 1953 01:41:55,943 --> 01:41:57,444 Hal atmospheres between both the 1954 01:41:57,511 --> 01:41:57,978 Dragon and station. 1955 01:41:58,045 --> 01:42:35,082 Currently the international 1956 01:42:35,148 --> 01:42:37,217 space station is flying 264 1957 01:42:37,284 --> 01:42:39,653 statute miles south west of 1958 01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:40,087 finally. 1959 01:42:40,153 --> 01:42:41,421 They are in an orbital nighttime 1960 01:42:41,488 --> 01:42:43,190 and here we have a great view of 1961 01:42:43,257 --> 01:42:45,359 four of our crew members on the 1962 01:42:45,425 --> 01:42:46,894 international space station. 1963 01:42:46,960 --> 01:42:51,098 On the far left that's NASA 1964 01:42:51,164 --> 01:42:53,267 astronaut Steve Bowen down not 1965 01:42:53,333 --> 01:42:56,403 bottom left NASA astronaut Frank 1966 01:42:56,470 --> 01:42:59,006 Rubio. 1967 01:42:59,072 --> 01:43:00,908 >> Cartridge is sealed per the 1968 01:43:00,974 --> 01:43:05,379 decal at 1508. 1969 01:43:05,445 --> 01:43:05,946 >> Copy. 1970 01:43:06,013 --> 01:43:08,515 >> Copy. 1971 01:43:08,582 --> 01:43:10,450 >> That's woody Hoburg was on 1972 01:43:10,517 --> 01:43:12,686 the right of your screen in the 1973 01:43:12,753 --> 01:43:14,555 center Sultan Alneyadi. 1974 01:43:14,621 --> 01:43:16,590 Again, preparations to he agrees 1975 01:43:16,657 --> 01:43:17,457 Dragon continue. 1976 01:43:17,524 --> 01:43:26,833 You can hear commander Peggy 1977 01:43:26,900 --> 01:43:28,001 Whitson that they are stepping 1978 01:43:28,068 --> 01:44:16,183 through the final checks. 1979 01:44:16,249 --> 01:44:18,051 >> SpaceX dragon for procedure, 1980 01:44:18,118 --> 01:44:19,252 do you want us to continue on 1981 01:44:19,319 --> 01:44:25,125 step 7? 1982 01:44:25,192 --> 01:44:28,195 >> Yes, affirmative on section 1983 01:44:28,261 --> 01:44:48,115 step 7. 1984 01:44:48,181 --> 01:44:50,083 >> Again, hatches between both 1985 01:44:50,150 --> 01:44:51,318 Dragon and the international 1986 01:44:51,385 --> 01:44:52,319 space station are open. 1987 01:44:52,386 --> 01:44:55,022 Teams in Dragon -- or the 1988 01:44:55,088 --> 01:44:56,823 astronauts in Dragon continuing 1989 01:44:56,890 --> 01:44:58,525 their final checkouts before 1990 01:44:58,592 --> 01:44:59,793 moving into the space station 1991 01:44:59,860 --> 01:45:04,364 side where they will -- on two, 1992 01:45:04,431 --> 01:45:05,932 all the valves are closed 1993 01:45:05,999 --> 01:45:11,972 including the iso. 1994 01:45:12,039 --> 01:45:27,387 >> SpaceX copies, thanks. 1995 01:45:27,454 --> 01:45:29,022 >> Again, this is a view from 1996 01:45:29,089 --> 01:45:31,491 inside node 2 also known as 1997 01:45:31,558 --> 01:45:32,259 harmony. 1998 01:45:32,325 --> 01:45:36,463 The X2 crew today docked to the 1999 01:45:36,530 --> 01:45:38,598 zenith or space-facing port. 2000 01:45:38,665 --> 01:45:39,566 There is another Dragon 2001 01:45:39,633 --> 01:45:41,435 spacecraft docked to the forward 2002 01:45:41,501 --> 01:45:43,103 facing port -- 2003 01:45:43,170 --> 01:45:46,306 >> Houston, or SpaceX dragon is 2004 01:45:46,373 --> 01:45:47,074 complete. 2005 01:45:47,140 --> 01:45:50,877 Step 8.9 of 2012. 2006 01:45:50,944 --> 01:45:53,714 >> Houston copies. 2007 01:45:53,780 --> 01:46:14,434 >> SpaceX copies. 2008 01:46:14,501 --> 01:46:16,303 >> This crew, part of the seven 2009 01:46:16,369 --> 01:46:18,438 that are on the international 2010 01:46:18,505 --> 01:46:20,340 space station patiently waiting 2011 01:46:20,407 --> 01:46:22,309 their four new crew members to 2012 01:46:22,375 --> 01:46:23,577 arrive for the next eight days. 2013 01:46:23,643 --> 01:46:40,861 Not pictured in this frame, 2014 01:46:40,927 --> 01:46:43,930 there are also three rose cosmo 2015 01:46:43,997 --> 01:46:50,537 not on board including sergey 2016 01:46:50,604 --> 01:46:52,372 Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, and 2017 01:46:52,439 --> 01:46:53,106 Andrey fedyaev. 2018 01:46:53,173 --> 01:46:55,108 We will have 11 total astronauts 2019 01:46:55,175 --> 01:49:15,482 now on station. 2020 01:49:15,548 --> 01:49:17,584 >> And we have our first views 2021 01:49:17,651 --> 01:49:19,552 of the axiom crew members 2022 01:49:19,619 --> 01:49:20,954 floating aboard, first is 2023 01:49:21,021 --> 01:49:22,522 commander Peggy Whitson. 2024 01:49:22,589 --> 01:49:27,327 Rejoining the international 2025 01:49:27,394 --> 01:49:27,794 space station. 2026 01:49:27,861 --> 01:49:34,267 Next up is pilot John Shoffner, 2027 01:49:34,334 --> 01:49:35,568 making his first visit. 2028 01:49:35,635 --> 01:49:46,680 Also on his first trip to space 2029 01:49:46,746 --> 01:49:48,181 you can see Ali AlQarni 2030 01:49:48,248 --> 01:49:49,482 representing the Saudi space 2031 01:49:49,549 --> 01:49:50,116 commission. 2032 01:49:50,183 --> 01:49:51,551 All smiles as he floats through 2033 01:49:51,618 --> 01:49:52,652 the Dragon hatch. 2034 01:49:52,719 --> 01:50:04,331 And rounding out the axiom 2035 01:50:04,397 --> 01:50:06,199 2 crew, that's Rayyanah Barnawi 2036 01:50:06,266 --> 01:50:07,867 also of the Saudi space 2037 01:50:07,934 --> 01:50:32,325 commission. 2038 01:50:32,392 --> 01:50:33,360 >> The crew of the space station 2039 01:50:33,426 --> 01:50:37,430 is now 11 crew members. 2040 01:50:37,497 --> 01:50:38,231 Big smiles from Rayyanah 2041 01:50:38,298 --> 01:50:38,832 Barnawi. 2042 01:50:38,898 --> 01:50:40,400 She is now the first female 2043 01:50:40,467 --> 01:50:55,515 Saudi to go to space. 2044 01:50:55,582 --> 01:50:58,118 >> With commander Peggy Whitson 2045 01:50:58,184 --> 01:50:59,686 at the helm they are in good 2046 01:50:59,753 --> 01:51:01,621 hands, Peggy has 665 days 2047 01:51:01,688 --> 01:51:02,655 already lived in space, she's 2048 01:51:02,722 --> 01:51:03,890 just adding to that together on 2049 01:51:03,957 --> 01:52:23,269 this mission. 2050 01:52:23,336 --> 01:52:25,538 >> John Shoffner in his first 2051 01:52:25,605 --> 01:52:27,140 trip to space getting help out 2052 01:52:27,207 --> 01:52:29,509 from woody Hoburg who is on his 2053 01:52:29,576 --> 01:52:31,377 first trip to space, he's been 2054 01:52:31,444 --> 01:52:32,779 there now for 81 days. 2055 01:52:32,846 --> 01:52:34,948 Again, the total number of 2056 01:52:35,014 --> 01:52:38,651 astronauts and cosmonauts on on 2057 01:52:38,718 --> 01:52:40,587 board the international the 2058 01:52:40,653 --> 01:52:41,488 space station now at 11. 2059 01:52:41,554 --> 01:52:51,064 Three. 2060 01:52:51,131 --> 01:52:52,966 Astronauts on the space station 2061 01:52:53,032 --> 01:52:54,634 represent NASA, three represent 2062 01:52:54,701 --> 01:52:57,070 Roscosmos. 2063 01:52:57,137 --> 01:52:58,571 Two rent the kingdom of Saudi 2064 01:52:58,638 --> 01:52:58,938 Arabia. 2065 01:52:59,005 --> 01:53:07,747 One relates the united Arab 2066 01:53:07,814 --> 01:53:08,148 Emirates. 2067 01:53:08,214 --> 01:53:23,263 Again, we are standing by for 2068 01:53:23,329 --> 01:53:24,097 the start. 2069 01:53:24,164 --> 01:53:25,465 Welcome ceremony. 2070 01:53:25,532 --> 01:53:27,600 The crew will take some time do 2071 01:53:27,667 --> 01:53:28,968 some seen and voice checks and 2072 01:53:29,035 --> 01:53:30,470 make sure that their microphones 2073 01:53:30,537 --> 01:53:32,005 are set up properly. 2074 01:53:32,071 --> 01:53:33,506 As well as that we have them all 2075 01:53:33,573 --> 01:53:35,842 in frame before going into their 2076 01:53:35,909 --> 01:53:37,810 welcome remarks and, of course, 2077 01:53:37,877 --> 01:53:39,512 afterward we will wrap our 2078 01:53:39,579 --> 01:53:41,414 coverage before they step into 2079 01:53:41,481 --> 01:53:43,483 their work and life aboard the 2080 01:53:43,550 --> 01:53:44,918 international space station for 2081 01:53:44,984 --> 01:53:49,055 the next eight days. 2082 01:53:49,122 --> 01:53:52,926 >> Station Houston for Frank 2083 01:53:52,992 --> 01:53:54,027 NPIO. 2084 01:53:54,093 --> 01:54:01,968 Frank, I just want to tag up 2085 01:54:02,035 --> 01:54:04,003 with you on the PAO event, we 2086 01:54:04,070 --> 01:54:05,972 are thinking about doing a seen 2087 01:54:06,039 --> 01:54:07,640 and voice in seven members for 2088 01:54:07,707 --> 01:54:10,877 now, will that work for you? 2089 01:54:10,944 --> 01:54:11,878 >> That will be perfect. 2090 01:54:11,945 --> 01:54:13,947 We'll call you back in about -- 2091 01:54:14,013 --> 01:54:14,981 yeah, we can even do five 2092 01:54:15,048 --> 01:54:16,349 minutes if you want, but we'll 2093 01:54:16,416 --> 01:54:21,788 call you back in seven minutes. 2094 01:54:21,854 --> 01:54:22,956 >> Copy that, we prefer closer 2095 01:54:23,022 --> 01:54:24,123 to seven minutes as we have a 2096 01:54:24,190 --> 01:54:25,191 hand over in about five minutes 2097 01:54:25,258 --> 01:54:30,163 from now. 2098 01:54:30,230 --> 01:54:34,601 >> Okay, great. 2099 01:54:34,667 --> 01:54:36,469 >> As you heard the capcom relay 2100 01:54:36,536 --> 01:54:39,272 to NASA astronaut Frank ratio, 2101 01:54:39,339 --> 01:54:47,614 we are expecting a hand over. 2102 01:54:47,680 --> 01:54:49,983 -- we are expecting that 2103 01:54:50,049 --> 01:54:51,851 shorthand over in a few minutes, 2104 01:54:51,918 --> 01:54:52,518 we want to make sure that we 2105 01:54:52,585 --> 01:54:55,355 have great audio and video from 2106 01:54:55,421 --> 01:54:57,023 our visiting astronauts so we 2107 01:54:57,090 --> 01:54:58,391 are holding for that shorthand 2108 01:54:58,458 --> 01:54:59,592 over and then we will start the 2109 01:54:59,659 --> 01:55:00,827 welcome ceremony. 2110 01:55:00,893 --> 01:55:07,033 This morning at 8:12 a.m. 2111 01:55:07,100 --> 01:55:08,868 central time, the Dragon hatch 2112 01:55:08,935 --> 01:55:11,004 opening at 10:00 a.m. central 2113 01:55:11,070 --> 01:55:11,504 time. 2114 01:55:11,571 --> 01:55:13,239 And then crew members floating 2115 01:55:13,306 --> 01:55:17,343 aboard just moments ago Ali 2116 01:55:17,410 --> 01:55:18,244 AlQarni looks like he 2117 01:55:18,311 --> 01:55:19,379 already has the hang of things 2118 01:55:19,445 --> 01:55:20,546 on his first flight to space. 2119 01:55:20,613 --> 01:55:41,734 The axiom crew has train today 2120 01:55:41,801 --> 01:55:42,935 months in preparation for this 2121 01:55:43,002 --> 01:55:43,269 mission. 2122 01:55:43,336 --> 01:56:15,234 The axiom crew has been training 2123 01:56:15,301 --> 01:56:16,536 for months in preparation for 2124 01:56:16,602 --> 01:56:17,837 this mission here at Johnson 2125 01:56:17,904 --> 01:56:19,305 space center as well as at 2126 01:56:19,372 --> 01:56:20,606 SpaceX. 2127 01:56:20,673 --> 01:56:22,775 Working with teams on the 2128 01:56:22,842 --> 01:56:23,776 research that they will be 2129 01:56:23,843 --> 01:56:24,844 conducting as well as learning 2130 01:56:24,911 --> 01:56:26,212 space station systems. 2131 01:56:26,279 --> 01:57:39,552 Three countries represented 2132 01:57:39,619 --> 01:57:42,855 here, we've got Sultan Alneyadi 2133 01:57:42,922 --> 01:57:44,424 of the UAE. 2134 01:57:44,490 --> 01:57:47,326 Two course ros cosmonauts as 2135 01:57:47,393 --> 01:57:49,629 well as our two new astronauts 2136 01:57:49,695 --> 01:57:51,364 representing the Saudi space 2137 01:57:51,431 --> 01:57:53,166 commission on their 8-day stay 2138 01:57:53,232 --> 01:57:54,200 on the international space 2139 01:57:54,267 --> 01:57:54,434 station. 2140 01:57:54,500 --> 01:58:33,473 Just above Barnawi and 2141 01:58:33,539 --> 01:58:34,507 AlQarni's heads you can see 2142 01:58:34,574 --> 01:58:37,977 the 2EMUs, extravehicular 2143 01:58:38,044 --> 01:58:39,745 mobility units used by the U.s. 2144 01:58:39,812 --> 01:58:41,514 astronauts on space walks. 2145 01:58:41,581 --> 01:58:45,985 Those have been moved from the 2146 01:58:46,052 --> 01:58:48,688 airlock to allow a little more 2147 01:58:48,754 --> 01:58:52,024 space for the axiom crew during 2148 01:58:52,091 --> 01:58:53,359 this flight. 2149 01:58:53,426 --> 01:58:54,794 Of course, we do have 11 crew 2150 01:58:54,861 --> 01:58:55,595 members on board now. 2151 01:58:55,661 --> 01:58:57,396 So we have to make some room for 2152 01:58:57,463 --> 01:58:57,964 sleep spaces. 2153 01:58:58,030 --> 01:59:14,914 Again, we are standing by 2154 01:59:14,981 --> 01:59:17,383 anticipating a satellite hand 2155 01:59:17,450 --> 01:59:18,885 over here momentarily. 2156 01:59:18,951 --> 01:59:23,523 Once we have regained 2157 01:59:23,589 --> 01:59:24,690 communications we'll go through 2158 01:59:24,757 --> 01:59:25,992 voice checks with the astronauts 2159 01:59:26,058 --> 01:59:27,760 and there it is as expected. 2160 01:59:27,827 --> 01:59:29,161 That hand over from our 2161 01:59:29,228 --> 01:59:31,063 satellites we'll do those seen 2162 01:59:31,130 --> 01:59:32,765 and voice checks when we come 2163 01:59:32,832 --> 01:59:34,000 back it make sure that we have a 2164 01:59:34,066 --> 01:59:36,402 picture-perfect view of the crew 2165 01:59:36,469 --> 01:59:37,937 members before they give us some 2166 01:59:38,004 --> 01:59:39,305 welcome remarks. 2167 01:59:39,372 --> 01:59:40,773 This view from international 2168 01:59:40,840 --> 01:59:41,908 space station flight control 2169 01:59:41,974 --> 01:59:43,776 room here in Houston, Texas, 2170 01:59:43,843 --> 01:59:45,278 teams continue to monitor the 2171 01:59:45,344 --> 01:59:47,313 arrival of our four new 2172 01:59:47,380 --> 01:59:48,080 visitors. 2173 01:59:48,147 --> 01:59:49,982 As well as all of the systems 2174 01:59:50,049 --> 01:59:51,450 aboard the international space 2175 01:59:51,517 --> 01:59:53,286 station and the astronauts and 2176 01:59:53,352 --> 01:59:54,453 cosmonauts that live there. 2177 01:59:54,520 --> 02:00:29,889 Just over two hours now since 2178 02:00:29,956 --> 02:00:32,758 the AX-2 crew arrived to the 2179 02:00:32,825 --> 02:00:35,861 zenith or space-facing port on 2180 02:00:35,928 --> 02:00:38,497 the harmony module also known as 2181 02:00:38,564 --> 02:00:40,933 node two that docking coming at 2182 02:00:41,000 --> 02:00:42,535 812 a.m. central time. 2183 02:00:42,602 --> 02:00:45,705 Hatch opening about 20 Sox 2184 02:00:45,771 --> 02:00:47,306 minutes ago, 10:00 a.m. central 2185 02:00:47,373 --> 02:00:47,506 time. 2186 02:00:47,573 --> 02:00:52,912 We should regain that video and 2187 02:00:52,979 --> 02:00:54,280 audio communication with the 2188 02:00:54,347 --> 02:01:23,943 space station momentarily. 2189 02:01:24,010 --> 02:01:26,379 >> Houston station on two for 2190 02:01:26,445 --> 02:01:29,815 voice check. 2191 02:01:29,882 --> 02:01:31,717 >> Hey, Frank, we are red for 2192 02:01:31,784 --> 02:01:32,785 seen and voice wherever you are 2193 02:01:32,852 --> 02:01:33,152 ready. 2194 02:01:33,219 --> 02:01:34,520 As a reminder you will be on the 2195 02:01:34,587 --> 02:01:37,123 hands-held mic for today's 2196 02:01:37,189 --> 02:01:39,659 event. 2197 02:01:39,725 --> 02:01:40,159 >> Sound good. 2198 02:01:40,226 --> 02:01:43,462 And let us know if that works 2199 02:01:43,529 --> 02:01:44,463 for you and then I can do the 2200 02:01:44,530 --> 02:01:45,297 countdown wherever you are 2201 02:01:45,364 --> 02:01:50,002 ready. 2202 02:01:50,069 --> 02:01:50,903 >> Frank being if you wouldn't 2203 02:01:50,970 --> 02:01:52,271 mind if you could gather 2204 02:01:52,338 --> 02:01:53,439 everybody into their spots, 2205 02:01:53,506 --> 02:01:55,941 we'll take a look at the scene 2206 02:01:56,008 --> 02:02:10,389 once everyone is in place. 2207 02:02:10,456 --> 02:02:11,557 >> Crew members begins to move 2208 02:02:11,624 --> 02:02:13,025 into their locations for the 2209 02:02:13,092 --> 02:02:13,926 welcome ceremony. 2210 02:02:13,993 --> 02:02:15,294 Obviously we have regained 2211 02:02:15,361 --> 02:02:18,764 communications the tracking data 2212 02:02:18,831 --> 02:02:21,967 and relay satellite system. 2213 02:02:22,034 --> 02:02:23,803 >> Say again for seen and voice. 2214 02:02:23,869 --> 02:02:26,272 >> Woody, we want to get 2215 02:02:26,338 --> 02:02:27,907 everyone into position before we 2216 02:02:27,973 --> 02:02:31,811 do our seen check. 2217 02:02:31,877 --> 02:02:33,379 >> All right, we copy, we'll 2218 02:02:33,446 --> 02:03:28,134 group up. 2219 02:03:28,200 --> 02:03:29,702 >> Like I said earlier, looking 2220 02:03:29,769 --> 02:03:31,270 at pretty full house here aboard 2221 02:03:31,337 --> 02:03:35,107 the international space station. 2222 02:03:35,174 --> 02:03:37,777 We have the crew that will fly 2223 02:03:37,843 --> 02:03:41,914 on so juice MS23 to return home 2224 02:03:41,981 --> 02:03:43,249 later this year as well as the 2225 02:03:43,315 --> 02:03:44,717 crew that arrived on Crew-6 and 2226 02:03:44,784 --> 02:04:01,333 now the AX-2 crew. 2227 02:04:01,400 --> 02:04:03,836 >> Frank, Houston on two, good 2228 02:04:03,903 --> 02:04:05,471 seen check we didn't hear audio 2229 02:04:05,538 --> 02:04:08,007 on the hand-held mic, can you 2230 02:04:08,073 --> 02:04:40,172 check the switch position. 2231 02:04:40,239 --> 02:04:41,707 >> Frank, we are checking on the 2232 02:04:41,774 --> 02:04:43,142 configure on the ground. 2233 02:04:43,209 --> 02:04:43,642 Stand by. 2234 02:04:43,709 --> 02:04:56,021 Frank, if you wouldn't mind give 2235 02:04:56,088 --> 02:04:58,023 us another long count, we needed 2236 02:04:58,090 --> 02:04:59,358 to sync things up. 2237 02:04:59,425 --> 02:05:20,946 Thanks, Frank, we are good on 2238 02:05:21,013 --> 02:05:21,847 seen and voice. 2239 02:05:21,914 --> 02:05:51,377 Station, this is Houston, are 2240 02:05:51,443 --> 02:05:57,116 you ready for the event? 2241 02:05:57,182 --> 02:05:59,585 >> Houston, this is station, we 2242 02:05:59,652 --> 02:06:00,786 are ready for the event. 2243 02:06:00,853 --> 02:06:01,820 >> Please begin the welcome 2244 02:06:01,887 --> 02:06:07,993 ceremony. 2245 02:06:08,060 --> 02:06:09,995 >> Houston and SpaceX, 2246 02:06:10,062 --> 02:06:12,197 congratulations on a beautiful 2247 02:06:12,264 --> 02:06:13,599 launch and a beautiful docking. 2248 02:06:13,666 --> 02:06:14,700 And it's great to have new 2249 02:06:14,767 --> 02:06:16,101 friends up here and so on behalf 2250 02:06:16,168 --> 02:06:18,270 of expedition 69 it's an honor 2251 02:06:18,337 --> 02:06:20,873 to welcome or new crewmates I'll 2252 02:06:20,940 --> 02:06:23,509 pass it off to the I.S.S. 2253 02:06:23,575 --> 02:06:25,544 commander Sergey Prokopyev. 2254 02:06:25,611 --> 02:06:28,948 >> Welcome aboard, dear friends. 2255 02:06:29,014 --> 02:06:33,819 This is really nice to see you 2256 02:06:33,886 --> 02:06:36,021 here, mission 69 so glad you are 2257 02:06:36,088 --> 02:06:37,222 here. 2258 02:06:37,289 --> 02:06:40,759 On station. 2259 02:06:40,826 --> 02:06:45,898 And we look forward to you -- 2260 02:06:45,965 --> 02:06:50,302 your arrival here, and watched 2261 02:06:50,369 --> 02:06:52,037 yesterday your amazing launch, 2262 02:06:52,104 --> 02:06:58,310 and this is returning the third 2263 02:06:58,377 --> 02:07:00,879 stage of falcon 9 on the launch 2264 02:07:00,946 --> 02:07:02,147 pad so grateful. 2265 02:07:02,214 --> 02:07:04,083 Congratulations on the 2266 02:07:04,149 --> 02:07:05,884 successful launch and your 2267 02:07:05,951 --> 02:07:09,121 docking and for me this is very 2268 02:07:09,188 --> 02:07:13,325 great honor to work next to 2269 02:07:13,392 --> 02:07:15,494 Peggy Whitson, the most 2270 02:07:15,561 --> 02:07:17,129 experienced and decorated 2271 02:07:17,196 --> 02:07:21,934 astronaut in the U.S. astronaut 2272 02:07:22,001 --> 02:07:24,336 corps and congratulations, you 2273 02:07:24,403 --> 02:07:28,240 astronauts, Rayyanah, John, Ali 2274 02:07:28,307 --> 02:07:31,110 and my congratulations to all of 2275 02:07:31,176 --> 02:07:31,276 us. 2276 02:07:31,343 --> 02:07:38,117 We have now 11 person on the 2277 02:07:38,183 --> 02:07:41,754 space station and my deep 2278 02:07:41,820 --> 02:07:43,188 congratulations to the Saudi 2279 02:07:43,255 --> 02:07:46,025 space commission and I am sure 2280 02:07:46,091 --> 02:07:47,393 you will have a great 2281 02:07:47,459 --> 02:07:49,862 achievement in the future in 2282 02:07:49,928 --> 02:07:52,297 your space exploration. 2283 02:07:52,364 --> 02:07:53,399 Thank you so much. 2284 02:07:53,465 --> 02:07:57,169 And welcome aboard. 2285 02:07:57,236 --> 02:07:58,437 >> Thank you so much, Sergey. 2286 02:07:58,504 --> 02:08:02,775 Thank you so much. 2287 02:08:02,841 --> 02:08:04,810 We are really excited to be 2288 02:08:04,877 --> 02:08:05,177 here. 2289 02:08:05,244 --> 02:08:06,845 It was a great launch, a great 2290 02:08:06,912 --> 02:08:07,146 ride. 2291 02:08:07,212 --> 02:08:09,415 We had a lot of fun on the way 2292 02:08:09,481 --> 02:08:11,216 up and we are really excited got 2293 02:08:11,283 --> 02:08:13,118 a lot of work done up here. 2294 02:08:13,185 --> 02:08:14,686 But it's great for me to come 2295 02:08:14,753 --> 02:08:15,487 back personally. 2296 02:08:15,554 --> 02:08:17,322 It does feel like home. 2297 02:08:17,389 --> 02:08:19,792 You might need to get some help 2298 02:08:19,858 --> 02:08:20,359 for a while. 2299 02:08:20,426 --> 02:08:21,827 I can help you with some of 2300 02:08:21,894 --> 02:08:23,195 these things. 2301 02:08:23,262 --> 02:08:25,464 It's a lot of fun to be here and 2302 02:08:25,531 --> 02:08:28,700 to see this place again. 2303 02:08:28,767 --> 02:08:29,768 It means so much to me. 2304 02:08:29,835 --> 02:08:34,506 It actually brings people 2305 02:08:34,573 --> 02:08:34,773 together. 2306 02:08:34,840 --> 02:08:36,842 I wanted you to meet my crew. 2307 02:08:36,909 --> 02:08:38,444 I want each of them to talk a 2308 02:08:38,510 --> 02:08:39,244 little bit about their 2309 02:08:39,311 --> 02:08:40,646 objectives and why they are here 2310 02:08:40,712 --> 02:08:42,381 and maybe a little bit about the 2311 02:08:42,448 --> 02:08:48,220 ride. 2312 02:08:48,287 --> 02:08:48,954 >> Hi. 2313 02:08:49,021 --> 02:08:52,925 I am John Shoffner. 2314 02:08:52,991 --> 02:08:53,725 Part. 2315 02:08:53,792 --> 02:08:56,462 AX-2 crew. 2316 02:08:56,528 --> 02:08:57,663 It's an honor to be here and 2317 02:08:57,729 --> 02:08:59,164 make new friends in space, first 2318 02:08:59,231 --> 02:09:00,999 time I have done that for sure. 2319 02:09:01,066 --> 02:09:02,801 I have been dreaming or working 2320 02:09:02,868 --> 02:09:04,636 toward this since I was eight in 2321 02:09:04,703 --> 02:09:08,140 a young astronauts club watching 2322 02:09:08,207 --> 02:09:09,775 gemini pilots do their things, 2323 02:09:09,842 --> 02:09:11,643 we have cardboard boxes 2324 02:09:11,710 --> 02:09:13,378 pretending to be gemini pilots. 2325 02:09:13,445 --> 02:09:14,880 You would think having that much 2326 02:09:14,947 --> 02:09:15,848 time to prepare I would have 2327 02:09:15,914 --> 02:09:17,015 better words than that. 2328 02:09:17,082 --> 02:09:18,884 But having a chance to be here 2329 02:09:18,951 --> 02:09:21,120 and fly with this amazing new 2330 02:09:21,186 --> 02:09:23,922 crew, Ali and Ray, and of 2331 02:09:23,989 --> 02:09:26,592 course, with Peggy Whitson, the 2332 02:09:26,658 --> 02:09:28,427 awesome Peggy Whitson and to 2333 02:09:28,494 --> 02:09:31,363 join expedition 69 say fabulous 2334 02:09:31,430 --> 02:09:34,333 thing for me fox, anyone to do. 2335 02:09:34,399 --> 02:09:35,400 I am honored. 2336 02:09:35,467 --> 02:09:37,269 I would like to thank NASA for 2337 02:09:37,336 --> 02:09:38,103 creating the opportunity and 2338 02:09:38,170 --> 02:09:39,505 opening the doors for private 2339 02:09:39,571 --> 02:09:41,673 and commercial space exploration 2340 02:09:41,740 --> 02:09:47,779 and also the ingenuity of SpaceX 2341 02:09:47,846 --> 02:09:49,848 and developing the platforms for 2342 02:09:49,915 --> 02:09:50,249 everyone. 2343 02:09:50,315 --> 02:09:51,850 I want to say thanks to my 2344 02:09:51,917 --> 02:09:53,752 lovely life for those magic 2345 02:09:53,819 --> 02:09:55,521 words one day she look odd the 2346 02:09:55,587 --> 02:09:56,722 news and said, look, you can 2347 02:09:56,788 --> 02:09:58,223 finally go to space. 2348 02:09:58,290 --> 02:10:00,526 [ Laughter ] 2349 02:10:00,592 --> 02:10:01,493 >> She was right. 2350 02:10:01,560 --> 02:10:03,262 Thank you for that, Jeanine. 2351 02:10:03,328 --> 02:10:04,596 Otherwise, we look forward to 2352 02:10:04,663 --> 02:10:06,732 some great work for stem 2353 02:10:06,798 --> 02:10:08,000 education outreach and some 2354 02:10:08,066 --> 02:10:09,401 amazing science that we have 2355 02:10:09,468 --> 02:10:10,502 going on up here and open you 2356 02:10:10,569 --> 02:10:11,737 guys will follow us. 2357 02:10:11,803 --> 02:10:16,008 Thank you very much. 2358 02:10:16,074 --> 02:10:16,909 >> Thank you, John. 2359 02:10:16,975 --> 02:10:19,311 This is Ali AlQarni. 2360 02:10:19,378 --> 02:10:20,746 If you will just allow me to 2361 02:10:20,812 --> 02:10:23,515 start speaking air big first. 2362 02:10:23,582 --> 02:11:28,313 [ speaking Arabic ] 2363 02:11:28,380 --> 02:11:30,015 >> Thank you, everybody, for the 2364 02:11:30,082 --> 02:11:31,850 great welcome. 2365 02:11:31,917 --> 02:11:33,051 It is such an honor and a 2366 02:11:33,118 --> 02:11:34,519 privilege to be here and meet 2367 02:11:34,586 --> 02:11:35,520 all of you. 2368 02:11:35,587 --> 02:11:37,456 As John said, making space 2369 02:11:37,522 --> 02:11:37,956 friends. 2370 02:11:38,023 --> 02:11:40,525 So, I am really excited to work 2371 02:11:40,592 --> 02:11:43,362 alongside with you all of you, 2372 02:11:43,428 --> 02:11:49,001 and eager to just share the -- 2373 02:11:49,067 --> 02:11:51,036 your expertise with you. 2374 02:11:51,103 --> 02:11:52,404 I learn from you. 2375 02:11:52,471 --> 02:11:55,474 Thank you -- thank you to our 2376 02:11:55,540 --> 02:11:56,742 king and his crown prince for 2377 02:11:56,808 --> 02:11:58,877 their support and trust in us. 2378 02:11:58,944 --> 02:12:01,280 Thank you to the Saudi people 2379 02:12:01,346 --> 02:12:02,547 this mission is not just for me 2380 02:12:02,614 --> 02:12:04,316 and Rayyanah. 2381 02:12:04,383 --> 02:12:05,484 This is for the people with 2382 02:12:05,550 --> 02:12:07,219 ambition and dreams and also you 2383 02:12:07,286 --> 02:12:12,024 can dream big in our country 2384 02:12:12,090 --> 02:12:16,295 with the support that we have 2385 02:12:16,361 --> 02:12:17,763 you will be able to reach it. 2386 02:12:17,829 --> 02:12:21,800 Thank you, everybody. 2387 02:12:21,867 --> 02:12:23,502 >> Hello, everything, so this is 2388 02:12:23,568 --> 02:12:24,136 Rayyanah Barnawi. 2389 02:12:24,202 --> 02:12:28,874 If you will allow me I am a bit 2390 02:12:28,940 --> 02:12:31,009 nervous first. 2391 02:12:31,076 --> 02:14:36,635 [ speaking Arabic ] 2392 02:14:36,701 --> 02:14:38,203 >> So greetings from outer 2393 02:14:38,270 --> 02:14:38,703 space. 2394 02:14:38,770 --> 02:14:40,939 I am here not only representing 2395 02:14:41,006 --> 02:14:43,875 myself, but representing the 2396 02:14:43,942 --> 02:14:45,444 hopes and dreams of everyone 2397 02:14:45,510 --> 02:14:46,178 back home. 2398 02:14:46,244 --> 02:14:48,647 Everyone in the region. 2399 02:14:48,713 --> 02:14:50,315 We are here gathering with 2400 02:14:50,382 --> 02:14:53,919 different cultures and with this 2401 02:14:53,985 --> 02:14:55,520 international collaboration. 2402 02:14:55,587 --> 02:14:57,589 This shows how space brings 2403 02:14:57,656 --> 02:14:58,890 everyone together. 2404 02:14:58,957 --> 02:15:00,959 It brings everybody different 2405 02:15:01,026 --> 02:15:02,360 backgrounds. 2406 02:15:02,427 --> 02:15:04,629 Some of us are doctors some of 2407 02:15:04,696 --> 02:15:06,465 us are researchers, engineers 2408 02:15:06,531 --> 02:15:07,799 and so on. 2409 02:15:07,866 --> 02:15:10,302 I am very happy to be here 2410 02:15:10,368 --> 02:15:11,670 representing the dreams and 2411 02:15:11,736 --> 02:15:13,071 homes of everyone back home. 2412 02:15:13,138 --> 02:15:15,040 And at the same time, I am very 2413 02:15:15,106 --> 02:15:17,275 glad that I have received 2414 02:15:17,342 --> 02:15:20,378 extensive training from trainers 2415 02:15:20,445 --> 02:15:22,447 who have trained previous 2416 02:15:22,514 --> 02:15:24,483 astronauts. 2417 02:15:24,549 --> 02:15:28,153 Like NASA, Jaxa, ISA and SpaceX 2418 02:15:28,220 --> 02:15:29,454 and axiom. 2419 02:15:29,521 --> 02:15:32,290 Age very happy to be here and 2420 02:15:32,357 --> 02:15:35,293 thank you all for listening. 2421 02:15:35,360 --> 02:15:36,461 Thank you for letting me share 2422 02:15:36,528 --> 02:15:39,030 my feelings and I am going to 2423 02:15:39,097 --> 02:15:40,866 live this experience to the Max. 2424 02:15:40,932 --> 02:15:41,266 >> Great. 2425 02:15:41,333 --> 02:15:45,103 Well, we all are excited for all 2426 02:15:45,170 --> 02:15:47,005 of the new astronauts here and 2427 02:15:47,072 --> 02:15:48,807 we have something special. 2428 02:15:48,874 --> 02:15:50,509 Ray, would you hold this while I 2429 02:15:50,575 --> 02:15:51,877 pin John. 2430 02:15:51,943 --> 02:15:52,377 >> Oh, wow. 2431 02:15:52,444 --> 02:15:58,950 Giving him an official astronaut 2432 02:15:59,017 --> 02:16:00,719 pen. 2433 02:16:00,785 --> 02:16:09,594 John is the 598th astronaut. 2434 02:16:09,661 --> 02:16:10,095 [ Applause ] 2435 02:16:10,161 --> 02:16:15,567 >> Wow. 2436 02:16:15,634 --> 02:16:16,535 >> I don't think I am ready for 2437 02:16:16,601 --> 02:16:20,438 clapping yet. 2438 02:16:20,505 --> 02:16:41,960 >> And Ali. 2439 02:16:42,027 --> 02:16:56,274 >> Mic is off. 2440 02:16:56,341 --> 02:16:58,276 >> So Ali is the 599th 2441 02:16:58,343 --> 02:16:59,377 astronaut. 2442 02:16:59,444 --> 02:16:59,744 >> Thank you. 2443 02:16:59,811 --> 02:17:01,513 >> And our little Ray is 600. 2444 02:17:01,580 --> 02:17:22,534 [ Applause ] 2445 02:17:22,601 --> 02:17:23,568 >> I am going to stick myself 2446 02:17:23,635 --> 02:17:24,169 more than anything. 2447 02:17:24,235 --> 02:17:25,070 Okay, there we go. 2448 02:17:25,136 --> 02:17:27,172 All right. 2449 02:17:27,238 --> 02:17:30,241 So thanks to inviting all of us 2450 02:17:30,308 --> 02:17:30,976 up here. 2451 02:17:31,042 --> 02:17:32,277 And welcoming three new 2452 02:17:32,344 --> 02:17:34,245 astronauts. 2453 02:17:34,312 --> 02:17:49,594 [ Applause ] 2454 02:17:49,661 --> 02:17:51,062 >> Okay, that concludes the 2455 02:17:51,129 --> 02:17:51,696 ceremony. 2456 02:17:51,763 --> 02:17:52,731 Thank you guys so much. 2457 02:17:52,797 --> 02:17:54,265 Again, it really feels like the 2458 02:17:54,332 --> 02:17:56,234 international space station up 2459 02:17:56,301 --> 02:17:56,701 here. 2460 02:17:56,768 --> 02:17:57,902 This will be an awesome week. 2461 02:17:57,969 --> 02:18:00,205 We are all excited and super 2462 02:18:00,271 --> 02:18:02,507 happy to have you guys up here. 2463 02:18:02,574 --> 02:18:03,742 >> Thank you. 2464 02:18:03,808 --> 02:18:08,179 >> Thank you so much. 2465 02:18:08,246 --> 02:18:10,348 >> Station, this is Houston ACR. 2466 02:18:10,415 --> 02:18:11,216 Thank you. 2467 02:18:11,282 --> 02:18:14,319 That con clouds our event. 2468 02:18:14,386 --> 02:18:15,120 >> Thank you, to all 2469 02:18:15,186 --> 02:18:16,254 participants, station, we are 2470 02:18:16,321 --> 02:18:17,522 now resuming operational 2471 02:18:17,589 --> 02:18:27,565 communications. 2472 02:18:27,632 --> 02:19:10,241 >> Copy. 2473 02:19:10,308 --> 02:19:11,843 >> And with completion of the 2474 02:19:11,910 --> 02:19:13,678 welcome ceremony, another big 2475 02:19:13,745 --> 02:19:17,248 welcome to the axiom 2 crew our 2476 02:19:17,315 --> 02:19:18,983 second private astronaut mission 2477 02:19:19,050 --> 02:19:19,951 crew to arrive at the 2478 02:19:20,018 --> 02:19:21,720 international space station, we 2479 02:19:21,786 --> 02:19:23,054 now have 11 people living and 2480 02:19:23,121 --> 02:19:24,689 work on this international space 2481 02:19:24,756 --> 02:19:25,590 station, again, we are looking 2482 02:19:25,657 --> 02:19:27,792 for the AX-2 crew members to 2483 02:19:27,859 --> 02:19:29,094 live and work on the orbiting 2484 02:19:29,160 --> 02:19:32,030 lab for the next eight days. 2485 02:19:32,097 --> 02:19:33,932 We saw docking this morning at 2486 02:19:33,998 --> 02:19:35,767 812 a.m. central time. 2487 02:19:35,834 --> 02:19:38,937 9:12 a.m. eastern and hatch 2488 02:19:39,003 --> 02:19:40,271 opening from Dragon to the 2489 02:19:40,338 --> 02:19:42,440 international space station at 2490 02:19:42,507 --> 02:19:43,475 10:00 central. 2491 02:19:43,541 --> 02:19:45,343 11:00 he's tear, all following 2492 02:19:45,410 --> 02:19:48,046 launch yet at 5:37 p.m. eastern 2493 02:19:48,113 --> 02:19:48,680 from Florida. 2494 02:19:48,747 --> 02:19:51,082 Smooth ride uphill approximately 2495 02:19:51,149 --> 02:19:53,184 16 hours ahead of the docking 2496 02:19:53,251 --> 02:19:54,119 today and now we are expecting 2497 02:19:54,185 --> 02:19:55,220 the crew members to live and 2498 02:19:55,286 --> 02:19:56,121 work on the space station for 2499 02:19:56,187 --> 02:19:57,021 about eight days before 2500 02:19:57,088 --> 02:19:58,590 beginning their journey home to 2501 02:19:58,656 --> 02:19:58,957 earth. 2502 02:19:59,023 --> 02:20:01,559 So for future updates on NASA 2503 02:20:01,626 --> 02:20:02,527 missions as well as what you can 2504 02:20:02,594 --> 02:20:04,262 expect from the AX-2 crew on 2505 02:20:04,329 --> 02:20:05,930 their return coverage, you can 2506 02:20:05,997 --> 02:20:08,933 keep an eye on NASA.gov W that, 2507 02:20:09,000 --> 02:20:10,201 that will wrap us up here in 2508 02:20:10,268 --> 02:20:11,436 mission control Houston and I am 2509 02:20:11,503 --> 02:20:13,104 going to send it back to my 2510 02:20:13,171 --> 02:20:15,140 friends at SpaceX. 2511 02:20:15,206 --> 02:20:16,407 >> Thank you so much, Leah, 2512 02:20:16,474 --> 02:20:17,442 excellent coverage from Johnson 2513 02:20:17,509 --> 02:20:18,710 space centering really following 2514 02:20:18,777 --> 02:20:20,245 along with all of the integrated 2515 02:20:20,311 --> 02:20:22,680 operations that ultimately led 2516 02:20:22,747 --> 02:20:24,849 us to what a touching welcoming 2517 02:20:24,916 --> 02:20:26,084 ceremony. 2518 02:20:26,151 --> 02:20:27,552 Now with that, we are going to 2519 02:20:27,619 --> 02:20:29,287 wrap up our live joint coverage 2520 02:20:29,354 --> 02:20:31,589 of Peggy, John, Ali and 2521 02:20:31,656 --> 02:20:32,924 Rayyanah's arrival to the 2522 02:20:32,991 --> 02:20:34,359 international space station. 2523 02:20:34,425 --> 02:20:35,660 It's been an honor to support 2524 02:20:35,727 --> 02:20:37,996 the AX-2 mission thus far. 2525 02:20:38,062 --> 02:20:39,664 We wish the Axiom crew a subit 2526 02:20:39,731 --> 02:20:39,931 is. 2527 02:20:39,998 --> 02:20:41,833 Time on station and we will look 2528 02:20:41,900 --> 02:20:43,067 forward to joining you when it's 2529 02:20:43,134 --> 02:20:45,136 time to bring them back home. 2530 02:20:45,203 --> 02:20:48,506 >> Absolutely and Kate I want to 2531 02:20:48,573 --> 02:20:50,508 say from launch to docking it's 2532 02:20:50,575 --> 02:20:51,843 been an absolute pleasure 2533 02:20:51,910 --> 02:20:52,777 sharing this deck with you. 2534 02:20:52,844 --> 02:20:54,979 Thank you. 2535 02:20:55,046 --> 02:20:56,381 Over the course of our crew's 2536 02:20:56,447 --> 02:20:58,082 time on station, we will be 2537 02:20:58,149 --> 02:20:59,350 providing daily mission updates 2538 02:20:59,417 --> 02:21:00,785 from axiom mission control to 2539 02:21:00,852 --> 02:21:02,086 highlight the range of science 2540 02:21:02,153 --> 02:21:04,322 research and stem education 2541 02:21:04,389 --> 02:21:05,557 event the crew will be 2542 02:21:05,623 --> 02:21:06,524 conducting over the course of 2543 02:21:06,591 --> 02:21:07,926 their eight days on station 2544 02:21:07,992 --> 02:21:10,128 think be sure to visit 2545 02:21:10,195 --> 02:21:12,163 axiomspice.com and follow the 2546 02:21:12,230 --> 02:21:13,832 Axiom social media channels for 2547 02:21:13,898 --> 02:21:15,600 real-time updates. 2548 02:21:15,667 --> 02:21:16,768 >> With that on behalf of 2549 02:21:16,835 --> 02:21:18,203 SpaceX. 2550 02:21:18,269 --> 02:21:19,437 Axiom space, and NASA, thank you 2551 02:21:19,504 --> 02:21:20,505 all for tuning in to watch.