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Core and countdown one
in two hours, 57 minutes.
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The crew has arrived
at the pad on schedule.
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Copy.
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Dragon's healthy
and ready for crew ingress.
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You're looking at the rocket
that will return American astronauts
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to the International Space Station
from American soil
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for the first time
since nearly nine years ago.
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Today's mission is known as
Demonstration Mission-2, or Demo-2.
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Demo-2 is the final test for NASA
to certify SpaceX
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for regular crew flights
to the space station.
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Core and countdown one
in T-minus two hours and 46 minutes.
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The crew has arrived at the White Room.
Its ingress is in progress on schedule.
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Dragon has transitioned to
terminal count and is on internal power.
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Stage one locks load, close out.
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Earth is the cradle of humanity,
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but you cannot stay in the cradle forever.
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It is time to go forth,
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be out there among the stars,
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expand the scope and scale
of human consciousness.
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Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
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five, four, three, two, one.
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There's this little candle
of consciousness on Earth.
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It hasn't been around for very long,
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and it could easily go out.
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It could be a meteor,
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extreme climate change.
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Who knows? A third world war.
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Clearly, we need to preserve
the light of consciousness into the future
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by becoming a multi-planet species,
extending life beyond Earth.
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Before starting SpaceX,
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I was waiting for NASA
to send people up to Mars.
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Every year, I'd look at the NASA website,
and I was like, "Well, it's hard to f--"
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There just didn't seem
to be a date
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for when we're sending people to Mars.
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In fact, uh, space, you could say, like,
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"Look, we were able
to go to the Moon in '69,
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and our last mission to the Moon
was in '72."
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"And now here we are half a century later,
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and still we have not gone
back to the Moon."
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The absolutely fundamental breakthrough
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that's needed for humanity
to become a multi-planet species
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is a rocket system
that's fully and rapidly reusable.
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-Yeah.
-So, uh…
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For 50 years,
NASA has been left behind.
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As the NASA administrator,
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I will tell you,
that is a failure of our nation.
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But now, through our partnership
with commercial companies like SpaceX,
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we have the opportunity to fix that.
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If Mission Demo-2 is successful,
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we'll launch American astronauts
on American rockets from American soil
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for the first time in nine years.
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The ability
to once again send our astronauts
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to the International Space Station
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is the first step
in getting humans ready to go to Mars.
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Good morning,
safety divers EV-1 and 2. How do you copy?
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Copy safety divers EV-1,
copy safety divers EV-2, going to backup.
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Five GPH and work on the blue.
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Alarms have been enabled,
and we show no alarms that impact testing.
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Hey, Bob,
you're gonna need a Bravo 7.
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Okay.
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Bob and I, we're laser-focused
on what we need to do
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to get Dragon safely to Space Station
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and then, you know, our mission
on board Space Station after that.
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We've been close friends
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since we started as astronauts
almost 20 years ago.
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-That feel better?
-Yep. That's good.
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Doug's a meticulous pilot
and extremely skilled at the same time.
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It's a… a rare person that kinda
can put both skills together
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where not only are they super good,
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but they're also super good
at staying out of trouble.
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He's a Marine, right? And so he does have
some of the stereotypical, uh, things
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about a Marine, so you need to know that.
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Everything has a place, and I like things
organized and symmetrical,
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and Bob… Bob's just…
He doesn't have time for that stuff.
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It's just an override.
It allows you to bypass…
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He's got a tighter sense of hygiene
than I do, I think.
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"Do you really want it cleaned that well?"
"Yes, I do."
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Try to give you as much flying
as possible today, just to show you…
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Bob's got an incredible mind.
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He's just always
a little bit ahead of everybody else.
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He's very analytical, very mechanical,
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which I think is why he's been
such a successful spacewalker.
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He pictures it,
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yet he has the ability, mechanically,
to do those things.
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I'll just get
to another handrail over here.
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Bob expects a lot out of himself.
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We set pretty high bars
for ourselves and each other.
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You got a lot you need to get done,
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and there's a lot of people
that are counting on you to get it done.
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How confident are you
that we'll see humans launch from US soil
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this year or in the summer?
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Um, it's been 17 years,
and we still haven't launched anyone yet.
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But hopefully, we will later this year.
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Seems like you're feeling good
about flying on it.
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Yeah, I think this is…
this is what you wanna see.
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You wanna see the team hitting its stride,
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uh, as we get ready
to put people on these things.
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Elon, you've got these two guys
sitting right next to you.
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Any thoughts on that,
how you're gonna get through that launch?
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I suspect it'll be extremely stressful,
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but we've been very focused on
just making sure that the vehicle works.
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We definitely won't launch till we've done
everything we can possibly think of,
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that's for sure.
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We are doing everything we can
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to make these vehicles
as safe as possible,
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because my generation,
we… we remember a catastrophe.
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I remember exactly where I was in 1986
when the Challenger exploded.
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I was in Miss Powers' fifth grade class.
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This was the mission
with Christa McAuliffe,
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a teacher going into space.
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They brought in the TVs.
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Challenger, go with throttle-up.
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What appears
to be a major catastrophe
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in America's space program,
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Challenger, only seconds
after leaving the launchpad,
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has exploded in midair.
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No word yet on if there are any survivors.
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Spaceflight
is an unforgiving environment.
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You know, you're riding
a controlled bomb into space,
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and you're accelerating
to 17,500 miles an hour.
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Obviously, there is inherent risk.
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With all of our experience
on the NASA side,
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having dealt with the risk,
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Doug and I were a good fit,
I think, for SpaceX.
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That experience
with the actual loss of a crew
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was something that they felt was important
for the crew members
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that were gonna work
on developing a new vehicle.
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Do you do it on the back one
normally, Bob?
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You know, Bob and I have been working
with SpaceX for five years.
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We're involved with the design.
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And, of course, one of the things
that we wanted Dragon to have
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that shuttle didn't have
is the abort system.
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If something goes really, really wrong…
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we'll be automatically separated
from the booster
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and parachute back down into the Atlantic.
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Today is the uncrewed test
of this abort system.
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Good morning, everybody.
We are now actually live.
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It's awesome,
but I'm also just a little bit sad.
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I don't wanna see a rocket
intentionally blow up
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and sacrifice itself for the safety
of humankind's going to space,
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but sometimes, that's what you gotta do,
you know, so…
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I've been doing this full-time on YouTube
for almost three years.
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I'll move closer
so you have a sense of scale.
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The point of Everyday Astronaut
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is to bring space down to Earth
for everyday people.
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We're gonna be trying to track
the rocket with this…
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Thirty-five percent of my audience
is in the United States.
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Sixty-five percent
is an international audience.
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And so spaceflight
is literally uniting people
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around this common goal
of space exploration.
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It's not… it's not just one person
or one country. It is humanity.
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You're exploring together.
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T-minus ten.
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Five, four, three, two, one,
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ignition.
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Look at that!
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We are in this. We are doing this.
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Yes!
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-Whoo!
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Yes! Look at that!
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-Car alarms are going off!
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Car alarms are going off!
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Oh, those clouds
might ruin our shots here.
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Here we go.
It's gonna happen right now in the clouds.
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No!
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We have to watch SpaceX's stream.
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Vehicle is supersonic
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and passing through
maximum dynamic pressure.
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Dragon launch escape initiated.
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Dragon's away.
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Okay, the major activity coming up.
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Okay,
you just saw a bright flash there.
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It looks like Falcon 9 breaking up.
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And there they are. Drogue chutes are out.
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Another amazing milestone
is complete.
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This was a very successful test.
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It looked beautiful.
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Yeah, obviously, I'm super fired up.
This is great, you know?
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I was wondering how much data
you were able to get after the breakup.
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We lost telemetry
on the first stage
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shortly after it exploded.
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There's definitely not any big pieces
of the rocket left.
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Hi. Loren Grush with The Verge.
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The explosion that happened today
with the Falcon 9,
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what would happen
if an explosion like that occurred
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while the Crew Dragon was still attached?
Is there any concern about that happening?
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It's much more a fireball
than it is an explosion.
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It should be, uh, really
not significantly affected by a fireball.
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So it could quite literally,
like something out of Star Wars,
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fly right out of the fireball.
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Um, so that's, uh…
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Obviously, we wanna avoid…
avoid doing that, but…
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Well, thank you, all.
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Elon,
doesn't this deserve a dance today?
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-Come on.
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I… I can't set these expectations,
uh, of… of dancing constantly.
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-I… I'm not that good of a dancer.
-You are!
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-I'm gonna have to work on my skills.
-You are.
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No, no. I… I am not your dancing puppet.
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I'll tell you what,
after crew launch, 100%.
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-All right, it's good to see everyone.
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What we did this morning
was almost a final exam for the system
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we're gonna fly here in a very short time.
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There's certainly
a fair amount of work left to do.
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We've got final simulations.
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But just to see the in-flight abort
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and think about flying rockets again
to the space station,
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it's unbelievable.
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I mean, nine years ago,
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you know, I was the pilot
on the last shuttle flight.
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At that point, I didn't know
if I was ever gonna fly again.
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We're about to see something
that none of us will ever see again,
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the launch of a space shuttle.
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On the 135th and final
space shuttle mission,
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the shuttle program coming to an end
after 30 years of flight.
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Space shuttle
spreads its wings one final time
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for the start of a sentimental journey
into history.
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Houston station,
Atlantis on the big loop.
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Atlantis…
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Flying high
over the Atlantic Ocean
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off the west coast of Africa,
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as we watch Doug Hurley
up on the flight deck of Atlantis.
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I remember the last night
we were in space.
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Right before I went to bed, you know,
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just looking out the overhead window
of the shuttle…
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you know, you could just see,
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I mean, literally see out into the galaxy.
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And to see what's over that next bend
and around that next curve
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is why I originally got
into this business.
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And, you know, knowing
it was the last flight of the shuttle,
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just looking out and thinking about
what was gonna happen after that,
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uh, it was pretty tough.
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With its signature sound
of twin sonic booms
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piercing the predawn sky
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as the space shuttle announces
its arrival at the launch site,
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having gone subsonic for the last time.
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Hurley now deploying the drag chute.
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Hey, thanks to you
and your team, Mike.
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Until the very end,
you all made it look easy.
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The shuttle's always gonna be a reflection
of what a great nation can do
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when it dares to be bold
and commits to follow through.
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When I became
Deputy Administrator of NASA,
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anybody who looked at it knew
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that we had to retire
the space shuttle program.
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It was very expensive.
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You know, we had already spent
hundreds of billions of dollars
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building it and keeping it going.
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And it was also dangerous.
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We'd lost astronauts twice.
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To replace the shuttle,
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we ultimately ended up
launching with the Russians in Russia.
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The American space agency
signed a new contract.
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The US will pay
about $82 million to Russia
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for every astronaut on board a flight
to the International Space Station.
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On the New York media tour,
Stephen Colbert asked the crew,
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"So what would you tell a kid today
growing up who wants to be an astronaut?"
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And Sandy Magnus answers,
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"Learn Russian."
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Three, two, one, zero.
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Oh goodness.
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The end of an era in Florida.
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One of Cape Canaveral's
most storied launch sites
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was imploded this morning.
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Forty years of space history
is being dismantled and demolished,
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just one more sign that human spaceflight
is coming to an end.
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It was really a tumultuous time,
I think, especially for the astronauts.
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Things were changing pretty drastically,
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and we weren't really sure
kinda what was gonna happen.
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We needed something very different,
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so we had to create a new program,
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which required
turning to the private sector.
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We will partner with industry,
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we will invest
in cutting-edge research and technology,
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and by 2025,
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we expect new spacecraft
designed for long journeys
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to allow us to begin
the first-ever crewed missions
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beyond the Moon into deep space.
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And a landing on Mars will follow.
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-And I expect to be around to see it.
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Thank you.
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I thought
tapping into the private sector
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was really a symbol of innovation.
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Of course, there were
a lot of questions and concerns.
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Like if companies are on the Moon,
does that mean they own it?
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So I thought we'd need new laws,
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but I was pretty sure that
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the private sector
would get us over the hump.
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Getting everybody to agree
was the challenge.
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I want order in this hearing room.
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I find serious flaws
in the president's proposal
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that relies on
a still-developing commercial sector
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that may not be able to deliver.
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Safety has been…
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You know, change is hard.
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The relentless momentum of the status quo
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of a tens-of-billions-of-dollar
government program
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is a lot to overcome…
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…and people
went batshit crazy on us.
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The proposal by the administration…
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…is a bad idea.
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…will be, in a word, devastating.
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Many of the companies are start-ups.
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We're not sending
cases of Tang into space.
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Future generations will learn
how the Chinese, the Russians,
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and even the Indians took the reins
of human space exploration away…
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The industry feared new entrants.
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You're in the club
if you're a big aerospace company.
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There's a lot of revolving doors
between astronauts
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who then go to companies,
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and it became us versus them.
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I want to welcome
Mr. Neil Armstrong,
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who was commander of Apollo 11,
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Eugene Cernan,
who was commander of Apollo 17.
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And we will start with you, Mr. Armstrong.
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There will be overlooked requirements
and unwelcome consequences.
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This proposal has no focus
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and is, in fact, a blueprint
for a mission to nowhere.
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You had to hold me down in my seat.
I was… I was so… I was so upset.
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And I was not the only one.
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I was very sad to see that, uh,
because those guys are… Yeah.
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You know, those guys are heroes of mine,
so it's really tough.
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They inspired you to do this, didn't they?
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Yes.
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And to see them
casting stones in your direction…
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It's difficult.
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I… I wish they would come and visit
and see what we're doing here.
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And I think that would change their mind.
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Why is this not working?
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I've worked for SpaceX for years now.
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Can't turn it on.
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And in that time, of course,
SpaceX has had lots of successes.
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Come on.
335
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But also, you know,
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it's had its fair share of failures.
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For many failures that we had, I felt like
we could have done better here or there.
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But this is what the business is, right?
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You make mistakes,
and you fix them the next time.
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Okay, you see it works.
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The great thing about Elon
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is that he understands that failure
is part of the development,
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and he's been that way
ever since the day I met him.
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I decided one day
to go to an amateur rocket weekend.
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All right, let's go. Let's go fly.
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We ran into Elon Musk there
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and talked a little bit about rockets
and… and plans what to do.
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And then he asked me
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if I'd be interested
in working at a company
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to build a rocket and go to Mars.
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If you say Mars in Germany,
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people will just laugh at you
and think you're crazy.
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It took me ten milliseconds
to just say yes.
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In a warehouse
near the Los Angeles Airport,
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Musk and his staff are building a rocket
they call the Falcon.
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Musk is no rocket scientist.
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He's a dot-com millionaire
many times over.
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Now he says he can do what NASA has not,
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jump-start the space age.
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I… I had somewhere in the order
of 100 million to invest…
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Oh wow.
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…and thought we could
at least do some good
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for the advancement of space exploration.
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Falcon 1 is expected
to launch this fall.
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Elon Musk's fortune will be riding on it.
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Hans introduced me to Elon.
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And I'd been in this industry
for 15 years,
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and I saw what could be done
and wasn't being done.
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And I really felt like, if anyone
was gonna break through the mire
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of a very bureaucratic industry,
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Elon and SpaceX
was kind of the last opportunity.
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These are dispersed rocket parts.
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Parts for the stages,
parts for the engines.
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I remember
the early days of SpaceX.
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It was a small team.
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But when you can all
rally around one project,
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magic can happen.
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We were all focused
on exactly the same thing,
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getting Falcon 1 to orbit.
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On the fuel side, we're gonna add
a port rather than mess with the valve.
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So we'll just…
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Designing an orbital rocket,
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it's… it's not the mad scientist,
like, "Yeah, I've got the idea." It's…
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It's just a monumental amount of work.
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00:25:23,438 --> 00:25:26,149
Everything, the engines,
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00:25:26,233 --> 00:25:28,985
software, hardware,
down to the nuts and bolts,
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00:25:29,903 --> 00:25:32,030
was redesigned for the modern era.
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00:25:33,907 --> 00:25:37,160
It's extremely difficult
to build a rocket from scratch.
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Falcon 1 is a two-stage rocket.
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00:25:42,916 --> 00:25:46,920
Basically, the rocket launches,
and the first stage burns out.
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The two stages separate,
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and the second stage ignites
to get to orbit.
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And rockets are unforgiving.
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One design error,
and… and everything is… is over.
395
00:26:02,310 --> 00:26:05,855
At that point, I was not sure
whether success was even possible.
396
00:26:06,773 --> 00:26:09,818
I told the team
I'd have enough money for three flights,
397
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and then that'll be it, you know.
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Curtains if we didn't make it
in three flights.
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We understood what was on the line.
400
00:26:17,284 --> 00:26:19,035
So we worked on it for four years.
401
00:26:20,328 --> 00:26:21,871
I had no doubts ever.
402
00:26:23,248 --> 00:26:25,875
I was just so focused
on building the company
403
00:26:25,959 --> 00:26:28,503
and… and getting…
getting the rocket to fly.
404
00:26:34,884 --> 00:26:41,099
Five, four,
three, two, one, zero.
405
00:26:41,182 --> 00:26:44,853
Plus one, plus two, plus three, plus four,
406
00:26:44,936 --> 00:26:47,731
plus five, plus six, plus seven,
407
00:26:47,814 --> 00:26:50,859
plus eight, plus nine, plus ten.
408
00:26:53,778 --> 00:26:55,655
This is the LC on the countdown net.
409
00:26:55,739 --> 00:26:58,241
Falcon 1 is airborne at this time.
410
00:27:06,541 --> 00:27:08,835
We have a loss of signal there.
411
00:27:12,589 --> 00:27:15,884
About 30 seconds after liftoff,
the engine shut itself off.
412
00:27:27,145 --> 00:27:30,649
The really hard part
was collecting the pieces the next day.
413
00:27:32,942 --> 00:27:36,655
We'd worked on it for years,
and suddenly everything was over.
414
00:27:39,616 --> 00:27:41,534
I came back home after a couple days,
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00:27:41,618 --> 00:27:45,664
and my wife told me
I did not talk at home for two months.
416
00:27:46,790 --> 00:27:49,751
I had… It took me…
It took me so long to just get over this
417
00:27:49,834 --> 00:27:51,670
and… and… and collect myself
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00:27:51,753 --> 00:27:54,881
and then continue working
on… on rocket number two.
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Five, four, three, two, one.
420
00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:07,227
A year later,
our second attempt failed.
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And the year after our second attempt,
our third launch failed,
422
00:28:18,571 --> 00:28:21,408
and we knew the company
was in a bad place.
423
00:28:24,577 --> 00:28:28,456
We were running on fumes
at that point. We had virtually no money.
424
00:28:31,793 --> 00:28:34,754
Uh, that was… that was definitely
the worst year of my life.
425
00:28:39,175 --> 00:28:41,553
And I never thought
I was someone who could ever
426
00:28:41,636 --> 00:28:43,346
be capable of a nervous breakdown,
427
00:28:43,430 --> 00:28:46,099
but I… I felt this is the closest
I've ever come,
428
00:28:47,142 --> 00:28:49,352
'cause it… it seemed pretty, pretty dark.
429
00:28:53,648 --> 00:28:55,859
I was pretty depressed at the time.
430
00:28:55,942 --> 00:28:58,236
You know, three failures in a row,
431
00:28:58,319 --> 00:29:01,573
um, wasn't really a testament
of… of great engineering.
432
00:29:03,450 --> 00:29:05,493
Elon pulled us in a big conference room,
433
00:29:06,411 --> 00:29:08,538
and I expected him to say,
"You guys suck,"
434
00:29:08,621 --> 00:29:10,206
and stop it at this point,
435
00:29:10,707 --> 00:29:12,417
but he was just the opposite.
436
00:29:14,127 --> 00:29:15,336
He was actually saying,
437
00:29:15,420 --> 00:29:17,130
"I want you guys to fix everything
438
00:29:17,213 --> 00:29:19,841
and launch another rocket
as fast as you can."
439
00:29:20,925 --> 00:29:23,636
He put all the money
that he had into SpaceX
440
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,765
and was doubling down,
basically, on… on… on this.
441
00:29:26,848 --> 00:29:29,642
And… and I was really,
"Whoa, okay, that's, uh…"
442
00:29:29,726 --> 00:29:30,810
I didn't expect that.
443
00:29:35,273 --> 00:29:36,733
T-minus 30 seconds.
444
00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:38,568
Deck one is triggered.
445
00:29:39,736 --> 00:29:42,405
I knew NASA
was watching our flights,
446
00:29:42,906 --> 00:29:45,074
and so we needed to get Falcon 1 to orbit
447
00:29:45,158 --> 00:29:48,620
to prove that we could earn the right
to work with them.
448
00:29:49,746 --> 00:29:53,416
I think Elon
was even more nervous, um, than I was.
449
00:29:55,460 --> 00:30:01,132
Ten, nine,
eight, seven, six, five,
450
00:30:01,216 --> 00:30:05,220
four, three, two, one.
451
00:30:10,558 --> 00:30:11,518
We have liftoff.
452
00:30:11,601 --> 00:30:12,477
Oh fuck.
453
00:30:31,996 --> 00:30:33,081
Come on, baby.
454
00:30:39,254 --> 00:30:41,381
Please tell me that's second-stage lights.
455
00:30:54,561 --> 00:30:56,396
-Fuck. Thanks.
-We're already 2B.
456
00:30:56,479 --> 00:30:57,814
Thank fucking God.
457
00:30:57,897 --> 00:30:59,816
I mean, whatever.
458
00:30:59,899 --> 00:31:01,734
-Thank whoever. Fuck.
459
00:31:07,323 --> 00:31:09,784
Come on. Just fucking hold, you fucker.
460
00:31:11,327 --> 00:31:15,248
It's hard getting to orbit,
but we learned a lot on flight one,
461
00:31:15,331 --> 00:31:17,500
we learned a lot on flight two,
462
00:31:17,584 --> 00:31:19,586
and we learned a huge amount
on flight three.
463
00:31:19,669 --> 00:31:20,920
And we were ready to fly.
464
00:31:21,504 --> 00:31:23,798
-Second stage approaching SECO.
465
00:31:23,882 --> 00:31:27,176
-And that would be a nominal SECO…
466
00:31:27,260 --> 00:31:30,930
…which means Falcon 1's the first
privately developed launch vehicle
467
00:31:31,014 --> 00:31:33,057
to reach Earth orbit from the ground.
468
00:31:40,732 --> 00:31:42,400
This is one of the greatest days
of my life,
469
00:31:42,483 --> 00:31:45,194
and I think probably
for… for most people here.
470
00:31:45,278 --> 00:31:48,072
We've shown people we can do it,
and this is just the first step of many,
471
00:31:48,156 --> 00:31:49,407
ultimately getting to Mars.
472
00:31:49,490 --> 00:31:52,744
And I think the future of SpaceX
is really great.
473
00:31:54,829 --> 00:31:56,497
In the history of spaceflight,
474
00:31:56,581 --> 00:32:00,293
only four entities
have launched a space capsule into orbit
475
00:32:00,376 --> 00:32:02,754
and successfully brought it
back to the Earth,
476
00:32:02,837 --> 00:32:07,592
the United States, Russia,
China, and Elon Musk.
477
00:32:07,675 --> 00:32:12,263
NASA called and told us
that we'd won the $1.5 billion contract.
478
00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:13,765
And I couldn't even hold the phone.
479
00:32:13,848 --> 00:32:16,809
I was like… I just blurted out,
"I love you guys."
480
00:32:20,355 --> 00:32:23,524
SpaceX again
successfully launched its Falcon rocket.
481
00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:26,152
Today will be
the fifth Falcon 9 launch.
482
00:32:26,235 --> 00:32:28,529
Today we'll be placing
a communication satellite…
483
00:32:28,613 --> 00:32:30,782
…a TV satellite into space.
484
00:32:30,865 --> 00:32:32,575
23 satellites,
geostationary orbit.
485
00:32:32,659 --> 00:32:34,452
-SpaceX…
-SpaceX…
486
00:32:34,535 --> 00:32:37,872
SpaceX plans to launch
a dozen commercial satellites a year.
487
00:32:40,041 --> 00:32:42,961
SpaceX may be in the lead
to win NASA's confidence,
488
00:32:43,044 --> 00:32:44,963
but SpaceX isn't alone.
489
00:32:45,046 --> 00:32:47,298
-You're creating, like, spaceships.
-Yeah.
490
00:32:47,382 --> 00:32:48,716
-Yes!
491
00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:51,719
Musk and Bezos
are dueling for contracts
492
00:32:51,803 --> 00:32:54,472
to supply the International Space Station.
493
00:32:55,056 --> 00:32:57,225
The third space billionaire, Branson,
494
00:32:57,308 --> 00:33:01,270
wants to create
a space tourism industry for hefty fees.
495
00:33:01,354 --> 00:33:03,731
You wouldn't imagine
that something shaped like that
496
00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:05,817
would fly so gracefully
and so beautifully.
497
00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:08,778
Somehow it all
seems a little less noble
498
00:33:08,861 --> 00:33:10,571
than in the early days.
499
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:17,578
Perhaps space travel today
is all about money and ego.
500
00:33:23,835 --> 00:33:25,712
Thanks for not lighting
this place on fire.
501
00:33:25,795 --> 00:33:27,213
-You're welcome.
502
00:33:27,296 --> 00:33:30,008
How does one decide
to just make a flamethrower?
503
00:33:30,091 --> 00:33:32,552
Well, I'm a big fan
of Spaceballs the movie,
504
00:33:32,635 --> 00:33:34,637
and in Spaceballs,
505
00:33:34,721 --> 00:33:37,765
Yogurt goes through
the merchandising section,
506
00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:39,851
and they have a flamethrower.
507
00:33:39,934 --> 00:33:42,895
-Spaceballs the Flamethrower!
-Ooh!
508
00:33:42,979 --> 00:33:44,355
The kids love this one.
509
00:33:44,439 --> 00:33:47,608
Does anybody tell you no?
Does anybody go, "Elon, um…
510
00:33:48,943 --> 00:33:51,446
…selling a flamethrower, the liabilities"?
511
00:33:51,529 --> 00:33:54,073
-Yeah, it's a terrible idea. Terrible.
512
00:33:54,157 --> 00:33:57,326
I said, "Don't buy
this flamethrower. Don't buy it."
513
00:33:57,410 --> 00:33:59,912
Still, people bought it.
I just couldn't stop them.
514
00:34:01,539 --> 00:34:05,918
Elon… …you know,
he's gonna do what he's gonna do.
515
00:34:06,544 --> 00:34:10,882
I mean, he has an Iron Man suit
in the middle of the factory floor.
516
00:34:11,883 --> 00:34:15,344
How does it work? Do people
get upset at you if you do certain things?
517
00:34:16,804 --> 00:34:20,016
There's tobacco and marijuana in there.
That's all it is.
518
00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:25,229
Oh, here we go.
Elon Musk back making headlines.
519
00:34:25,313 --> 00:34:26,856
That is his specialty.
520
00:34:26,939 --> 00:34:30,151
Elon was out there,
you know, creating lots of stories.
521
00:34:30,651 --> 00:34:35,948
And so I didn't have any reason
to believe at first he'd be the one.
522
00:34:36,032 --> 00:34:39,911
Now he took a lot of heat
for smoking marijuana on camera.
523
00:34:39,994 --> 00:34:43,623
He was ridiculed
for his wild middle-of-the-night tweets.
524
00:34:45,249 --> 00:34:47,335
What is going on with Elon Musk?
525
00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:51,964
He's an eccentric billionaire, I suppose.
So an eccentric sense of humor as well.
526
00:34:52,965 --> 00:34:54,801
He's a human,
just like the rest of us.
527
00:34:54,884 --> 00:34:57,762
You know,
we all have our pluses and minuses.
528
00:34:59,806 --> 00:35:04,060
To be out there among the stars,
I… I find that incredibly exciting.
529
00:35:05,269 --> 00:35:08,898
-That makes me glad to be alive.
530
00:35:08,981 --> 00:35:13,319
But I don't think it has anything
to do with individual antics
531
00:35:13,402 --> 00:35:14,946
or individual wealth.
532
00:35:15,613 --> 00:35:17,907
This is a much greater vision
533
00:35:17,990 --> 00:35:21,119
that he has
for not only society but the planet.
534
00:35:22,245 --> 00:35:23,871
That hasn't changed.
535
00:35:23,955 --> 00:35:26,749
And he demands a lot
of everyone around him,
536
00:35:26,833 --> 00:35:29,210
I think as much as he demands
out of himself,
537
00:35:29,293 --> 00:35:31,337
and, you know, he's relentless.
538
00:35:37,051 --> 00:35:39,428
You decided to build a space company.
539
00:35:39,512 --> 00:35:41,514
Why on Earth would someone do that?
540
00:35:43,724 --> 00:35:46,519
-Got that question a lot. That's true.
541
00:35:46,602 --> 00:35:49,147
The big innovation is still ahead,
and you're working on it now.
542
00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:50,690
Tell us… tell us about this.
543
00:35:50,773 --> 00:35:55,570
Uh, the goal of SpaceX is to try to crack
a problem that I think is vital
544
00:35:55,653 --> 00:35:57,780
for humanity to become
a spacefaring civilization,
545
00:35:57,864 --> 00:36:02,243
which is to have
a… a rapidly and fully reusable rocket.
546
00:36:07,540 --> 00:36:10,209
The space shuttle
was an attempt at a reusable rocket.
547
00:36:10,835 --> 00:36:12,795
But even the main tank
of the space shuttle
548
00:36:12,879 --> 00:36:14,672
was thrown away every time.
549
00:36:15,256 --> 00:36:18,926
So it's possible to achieve, let's say,
roughly a hundredfold improvement
550
00:36:19,010 --> 00:36:22,930
in the cost of spaceflight
if you can effectively reuse the rocket.
551
00:36:24,473 --> 00:36:27,476
A general estimate
of how much we have spent
552
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:31,772
in human spaceflight since Apollo
is around $350 billion,
553
00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:36,235
and we send
about 350 US astronauts to space.
554
00:36:36,319 --> 00:36:38,446
So it's about a billion dollars a person.
555
00:36:38,529 --> 00:36:42,992
So being able to lower that cost
is just such an obvious goal,
556
00:36:43,075 --> 00:36:45,828
or you're never going to go anywhere.
557
00:36:45,912 --> 00:36:47,955
In order to make spaceflight cheap,
558
00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:50,291
and in order to land on Mars
and do all these things,
559
00:36:50,374 --> 00:36:53,920
you have to have a fully reusable rocket.
560
00:36:54,003 --> 00:36:56,923
It's really common in space movies
and science fiction to see…
561
00:36:57,006 --> 00:36:58,257
Retros on!
562
00:36:58,341 --> 00:37:00,176
…you know,
the sci-fi vision of the rocket
563
00:37:00,259 --> 00:37:01,719
that can take off and land anywhere.
564
00:37:01,802 --> 00:37:04,347
That's so far away
from what was even considered possible.
565
00:37:04,430 --> 00:37:07,266
Like, that's
really, really, really hard to do.
566
00:37:07,350 --> 00:37:11,604
In fact, no one had ever tried
to land an orbital booster.
567
00:37:12,188 --> 00:37:15,483
Landing a rocket certainly seemed absurd
when we first started trying it.
568
00:37:15,566 --> 00:37:17,985
To get it right,
you have to set down this thing
569
00:37:18,069 --> 00:37:21,322
that is the size of a skyscraper
and weighing 30 tons
570
00:37:21,948 --> 00:37:25,034
and land it on this speck
in the middle of the ocean.
571
00:37:25,117 --> 00:37:28,287
At any point,
any part of that can go wrong,
572
00:37:28,371 --> 00:37:31,832
and it'll only end one way,
which is in an explosion.
573
00:37:41,634 --> 00:37:44,804
SpaceX is not afraid of failure.
They almost embrace failure.
574
00:37:45,388 --> 00:37:47,473
"Hey, we're gonna test this.
It might blow up."
575
00:37:47,556 --> 00:37:49,433
"If it blows up, we'll learn something."
576
00:37:50,101 --> 00:37:53,187
The way a traditional partner
with NASA works,
577
00:37:53,771 --> 00:37:55,648
everything all along the way
578
00:37:55,731 --> 00:37:59,068
is qualified
before it ever gets on the vehicle.
579
00:37:59,151 --> 00:38:01,320
SpaceX does things very differently.
580
00:38:01,404 --> 00:38:03,823
The two philosophies
couldn't be more opposite.
581
00:38:04,407 --> 00:38:07,326
You'll see NASA
literally solving everything on paper,
582
00:38:07,827 --> 00:38:11,038
and SpaceX is literally building stuff,
seeing what breaks,
583
00:38:11,122 --> 00:38:12,665
and then iterating from there.
584
00:38:13,249 --> 00:38:16,711
They're developing a rocket
around those explosions.
585
00:38:17,211 --> 00:38:20,798
That's why it's important to have a lot
of launches and make a lot of rockets.
586
00:38:20,881 --> 00:38:23,926
Every rocket, every launch
is an opportunity to improve.
587
00:38:24,010 --> 00:38:26,554
Obviously, we get unhappy
about failures that we have,
588
00:38:26,637 --> 00:38:29,515
but we also are pleased with the results
that come out of failures.
589
00:38:29,598 --> 00:38:31,559
You never know your system
590
00:38:31,642 --> 00:38:34,395
until you've pushed it to the limit
so that it breaks.
591
00:38:39,233 --> 00:38:42,445
One of the reasons
people had imagined reusable rockets
592
00:38:42,528 --> 00:38:44,113
but had never achieved it
593
00:38:44,196 --> 00:38:47,074
is that we'd never cracked
precision landing.
594
00:38:50,369 --> 00:38:52,288
After the rocket launches,
595
00:38:53,956 --> 00:38:56,042
the booster stage separates
596
00:38:56,667 --> 00:39:00,671
and then flips around
to shoot back towards Earth.
597
00:39:02,381 --> 00:39:03,758
So we had to figure out
598
00:39:03,841 --> 00:39:07,261
how to get a rocket that's moving
seven times the speed of sound
599
00:39:07,345 --> 00:39:08,679
back to its target.
600
00:39:10,931 --> 00:39:13,184
First, we developed the legs,
601
00:39:13,267 --> 00:39:17,772
the engines, the actuators and sensors,
and some very advanced algorithms.
602
00:39:19,899 --> 00:39:21,817
Finally, we added grid fins.
603
00:39:23,027 --> 00:39:25,237
By rotating these fins,
604
00:39:25,321 --> 00:39:29,617
we precisely guide
and fly the rocket back to the target.
605
00:39:31,952 --> 00:39:33,621
At the very last minute,
606
00:39:33,704 --> 00:39:36,957
we light the engines one more time
for the landing burn
607
00:39:38,042 --> 00:39:40,836
to slow the rocket
all the way down for landing,
608
00:39:41,712 --> 00:39:43,672
hopefully right in the middle of the X.
609
00:39:45,049 --> 00:39:51,514
Six, five, four,
three, two, one, zero.
610
00:39:55,351 --> 00:39:56,727
Liftoff of Falcon 9.
611
00:39:59,522 --> 00:40:01,357
Falcon 9 has cleared the tower.
612
00:40:05,945 --> 00:40:07,780
Stage separation confirmed.
613
00:40:09,573 --> 00:40:13,035
The first stage
is returning to land.
614
00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:16,914
-Stage one landing burn.
-Stage one landing burn.
615
00:40:24,922 --> 00:40:27,842
Thousands of people
worked on the booster landing.
616
00:40:28,426 --> 00:40:32,721
Seven years was entirely
about getting that booster to land.
617
00:40:34,056 --> 00:40:37,017
When that thing finally came down
618
00:40:37,518 --> 00:40:40,646
and did a picture-perfect landing
right on the target,
619
00:40:41,981 --> 00:40:43,190
it's just one of those moments…
620
00:40:44,608 --> 00:40:46,444
…that you will carry
for the rest of your life.
621
00:40:46,527 --> 00:40:49,155
-It's standing up. It's standing up.
-It's standing up.
622
00:40:50,531 --> 00:40:52,116
Oh my God.
623
00:40:52,199 --> 00:40:54,118
Look at this.
It's just sitting there.
624
00:40:54,869 --> 00:40:56,412
Holy smokes, man.
625
00:41:04,712 --> 00:41:06,797
To see them doing this
over and over and over
626
00:41:06,881 --> 00:41:08,674
and hitting these bull's-eye targets,
627
00:41:08,757 --> 00:41:11,969
it's just an absolute testament
to the… the engineering involved.
628
00:41:23,564 --> 00:41:27,526
Elon and SpaceX
changed our industry completely.
629
00:41:28,652 --> 00:41:30,488
Because everything is reusable,
630
00:41:31,322 --> 00:41:35,159
they can now launch for a tenth
of the cost that we had,
631
00:41:36,327 --> 00:41:39,288
which saves a lot of tax dollars.
632
00:42:20,287 --> 00:42:22,998
Launching in the midst
of a coronavirus pandemic,
633
00:42:23,624 --> 00:42:24,959
it's been a challenge.
634
00:42:26,252 --> 00:42:28,128
But we're gonna persevere through this.
635
00:42:28,212 --> 00:42:31,257
We're gonna get Bob and Doug
safely to the International Space Station.
636
00:42:33,050 --> 00:42:34,593
Because this mission
637
00:42:34,677 --> 00:42:38,472
to once again launch
our astronauts from American soil,
638
00:42:39,682 --> 00:42:41,058
it's really about hope.
639
00:42:42,309 --> 00:42:45,563
It's about looking up and saying,
"Look, we can still do amazing things,
640
00:42:45,646 --> 00:42:49,316
even when we're being challenged in ways
that we've never been challenged before."
641
00:42:53,529 --> 00:42:56,282
Bob and Doug are going into quarantine
with their families
642
00:42:56,365 --> 00:42:58,117
in the lead-up to launch day.
643
00:42:59,201 --> 00:43:01,829
This quarantine period
is normal for any launch.
644
00:43:02,329 --> 00:43:04,164
Though I guess
not much will change for them
645
00:43:04,248 --> 00:43:07,126
since they've been in some form
of quarantine since March.
646
00:43:09,003 --> 00:43:11,088
We entered the quarantine period,
647
00:43:11,171 --> 00:43:13,299
so it's hands-off to the rest of the world
648
00:43:13,382 --> 00:43:16,427
until we get back
from the International Space Station.
649
00:43:22,057 --> 00:43:24,893
-How's it look?
-Looks good to me.
650
00:43:25,686 --> 00:43:28,355
I'm guessing we're not gonna have this
on Space Station, right?
651
00:43:28,439 --> 00:43:29,273
Mm-mm.
652
00:43:29,356 --> 00:43:32,651
You know, everything
that you know and love is down there,
653
00:43:32,735 --> 00:43:34,570
and you're up here.
654
00:43:34,653 --> 00:43:36,697
And then hopefully everything will work
655
00:43:36,780 --> 00:43:39,575
so I can get back down there, uh,
to see 'em again.
656
00:43:40,367 --> 00:43:42,119
Mom, you're walking. I thought we…
657
00:43:42,202 --> 00:43:43,954
I'm gonna catch you.
658
00:43:44,038 --> 00:43:47,207
I wanna make sure
that I focus on my family,
659
00:43:47,291 --> 00:43:50,502
you know, this being
kind of my last opportunity.
660
00:43:53,130 --> 00:43:55,049
Oh yeah,
I might be living up there in two weeks.
661
00:43:55,132 --> 00:43:55,966
Sure.
662
00:43:56,550 --> 00:43:58,594
Remember when
you saw Mommy on this thing?
663
00:43:58,677 --> 00:43:59,595
Yeah.
664
00:44:00,512 --> 00:44:04,391
Probably nobody knows more about
what the astronauts are going through,
665
00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:06,477
of course, other than another astronaut.
666
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,313
Copy.
Oh, nice silhouette on the door.
667
00:44:10,606 --> 00:44:13,567
Bob and I, you know,
we're both married to astronauts.
668
00:44:13,651 --> 00:44:16,403
My wife, Karen, she's got two flights.
669
00:44:18,947 --> 00:44:21,575
After my shuttle flight
to the space station,
670
00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:24,912
I was not fulfilled completely.
I… I wanted more, you know.
671
00:44:25,788 --> 00:44:28,123
And so I went back up there
for six months.
672
00:44:28,707 --> 00:44:30,042
Hey, you guys.
673
00:44:30,125 --> 00:44:32,336
-Hey, you guys. Good to see you.
-Hey.
674
00:44:32,961 --> 00:44:34,588
Every day was varied,
675
00:44:34,672 --> 00:44:37,508
but the main objective
was to conduct science
676
00:44:37,591 --> 00:44:39,343
in a zero-gravity environment.
677
00:44:40,469 --> 00:44:44,598
I mean, the station is basically
a huge laboratory that's built in space.
678
00:44:46,392 --> 00:44:49,895
Any experiments where we interacted
with the researchers on the ground,
679
00:44:49,978 --> 00:44:53,357
that was always fun because
you could just feel their excitement
680
00:44:54,108 --> 00:44:57,861
and how these experiments help
to figure out what's happening on Earth.
681
00:44:59,863 --> 00:45:03,575
Because of the tremendous amount
of time Karen was on board the ISS,
682
00:45:03,659 --> 00:45:07,538
there were people years later saying,
"Hey, I found your wife's hair up here."
683
00:45:07,621 --> 00:45:09,206
I'm like, "Well, well, sorry."
684
00:45:10,541 --> 00:45:12,501
What a beautiful spaceship
we're on, guys.
685
00:45:14,753 --> 00:45:16,046
My wife, Megan,
686
00:45:16,130 --> 00:45:18,924
flew on a space shuttle mission
to the Hubble Space Telescope.
687
00:45:19,007 --> 00:45:23,053
Clear the pin.
Five seconds, the mode switch is in auto.
688
00:45:23,137 --> 00:45:26,306
-Three, two, one, release.
689
00:45:26,807 --> 00:45:30,686
My mission was the final servicing
and repair mission for the telescope.
690
00:45:31,562 --> 00:45:34,565
We would joke and say, "We're helping
to unlock the mysteries of the universe,"
691
00:45:34,648 --> 00:45:35,774
but it really is true.
692
00:45:35,858 --> 00:45:37,776
So whenever I see an article in the paper
693
00:45:37,860 --> 00:45:40,404
where a group of scientists
have discovered something new,
694
00:45:40,487 --> 00:45:44,366
I always think, you know, "Hey, you helped
a little bit with that."
695
00:45:45,284 --> 00:45:48,078
Before any of us
actually got into space,
696
00:45:48,162 --> 00:45:51,457
Bob and Megan and Karen and I,
we were all classmates.
697
00:45:52,499 --> 00:45:54,752
And so we spent a lot of time together.
698
00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:58,630
So far, so good on
the ascent of the space shuttle Atlantis
699
00:45:58,714 --> 00:46:00,841
on this its 22nd mission,
700
00:46:00,924 --> 00:46:03,761
the 99th flight in space shuttle history.
701
00:46:03,844 --> 00:46:06,138
One of the astronauts
from the class ahead of us
702
00:46:06,221 --> 00:46:09,266
hosted a party
to celebrate the incoming class,
703
00:46:09,349 --> 00:46:12,269
and I first met Doug at that party.
704
00:46:14,146 --> 00:46:16,440
We were friends first.
705
00:46:16,523 --> 00:46:20,652
It… it took a few years
to become more than that, but, um…
706
00:46:21,445 --> 00:46:24,114
Yeah, I think we were lucky, though,
to find each other.
707
00:46:24,907 --> 00:46:28,035
I remember actually
the first time I really heard about Bob.
708
00:46:28,118 --> 00:46:29,703
We each received kind of this pamphlet
709
00:46:29,787 --> 00:46:33,040
that showed everyone's picture
and, like, a two-sentence bio.
710
00:46:33,791 --> 00:46:35,918
He was born in this year,
and he graduated in this year,
711
00:46:36,001 --> 00:46:37,669
and he got a PhD by this year.
712
00:46:37,753 --> 00:46:40,047
He's got to be some kind of,
you know, child prodigy.
713
00:46:40,130 --> 00:46:42,758
And he said, "Well, there's actually
a typo in there with the dates,"
714
00:46:42,841 --> 00:46:45,135
But I think you'll find
that he is a prodigy.
715
00:46:47,262 --> 00:46:49,348
But over time,
I think it became clear
716
00:46:49,431 --> 00:46:51,099
that we were gonna build a life together.
717
00:46:52,351 --> 00:46:55,604
Had a chance to come out
to the old astronaut beach house today.
718
00:46:55,687 --> 00:46:59,149
I'm really looking forward to spending
some time with my family out here
719
00:46:59,233 --> 00:47:01,902
before launching on Dragon
in just a few short days.
720
00:47:02,653 --> 00:47:05,697
You know, I think the thing
that's most important to us right now
721
00:47:05,781 --> 00:47:09,326
is that we are living every day normally.
722
00:47:09,993 --> 00:47:14,081
We're just enjoying time together
as we get closer and closer to launch.
723
00:47:14,164 --> 00:47:16,416
-Blastoff!
724
00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:18,919
Oh, that was our new DM-2 tradition
725
00:47:19,002 --> 00:47:21,713
with our sons
to launch rockets from the beach.
726
00:47:21,797 --> 00:47:23,590
-Thank you.
727
00:47:24,591 --> 00:47:26,760
-Hey. Bye-bye.
-Thank you.
728
00:47:26,844 --> 00:47:28,971
-Thank you, guys.
-Bye-bye.
729
00:47:29,054 --> 00:47:30,472
As we approach liftoff,
730
00:47:31,223 --> 00:47:34,560
I'm just kind of feeling
sort of joy tinged with terror,
731
00:47:34,643 --> 00:47:37,354
I guess is the best way
that I can describe it.
732
00:47:38,105 --> 00:47:40,440
It's like every other trip, over-packing.
733
00:47:41,316 --> 00:47:45,612
Being the person watching,
especially having been a crew member,
734
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:47,990
it's all out of your control.
735
00:47:48,073 --> 00:47:50,367
There's nothing you can do
other than watch,
736
00:47:50,450 --> 00:47:52,870
and it's… it's definitely a lot harder.
737
00:47:54,079 --> 00:47:56,498
-None of these I would ever want.
-You gonna grow a mustache?
738
00:47:57,749 --> 00:48:00,836
The best your family can do
is break even, right? You come back.
739
00:48:00,919 --> 00:48:03,046
-Never want a what?
-Never had a mustache.
740
00:48:03,130 --> 00:48:04,673
I have wrestled with that.
741
00:48:06,633 --> 00:48:08,176
But in the end, ultimately,
742
00:48:08,260 --> 00:48:12,347
you want your child to understand
that during your life,
743
00:48:12,431 --> 00:48:14,349
there are things that are risky,
744
00:48:14,433 --> 00:48:19,021
but if it results in a better world,
maybe it's worth that risk.
745
00:48:33,243 --> 00:48:34,661
So what you're looking at here
746
00:48:34,745 --> 00:48:37,998
is our main stage
for the launch broadcast.
747
00:48:38,540 --> 00:48:41,460
We've got three cameras,
then what you don't see is the fourth one.
748
00:48:41,543 --> 00:48:43,420
-We'll have a jib out here as well.
-Okay.
749
00:48:43,503 --> 00:48:45,881
They're putting together
a Launch America banner
750
00:48:45,964 --> 00:48:48,425
that will be brought up
directly behind our hosts.
751
00:48:49,009 --> 00:48:51,345
Behind that,
you'll get a little NASA in there.
752
00:48:51,428 --> 00:48:54,181
You'll get a little of the American flag
in there as our backdrop.
753
00:48:54,264 --> 00:48:56,767
So you got layers of depth
to work with, which is kinda nice.
754
00:48:57,351 --> 00:49:00,687
And where we go from here
is the full dress rehearsal,
755
00:49:00,771 --> 00:49:02,189
as if it were live.
756
00:49:02,272 --> 00:49:05,525
This is the point
when the launch escape system is armed,
757
00:49:05,609 --> 00:49:09,529
and that happens just before SpaceX
begins fueling the Falcon 9 rocket
758
00:49:09,613 --> 00:49:11,740
at T-minus 35 minutes.
759
00:49:11,823 --> 00:49:13,617
As a reminder, the purpose…
760
00:49:16,954 --> 00:49:18,246
Right, I'm gonna interrupt Lauren
761
00:49:18,330 --> 00:49:22,709
because it looks like we've had
some type of anomaly on the pad.
762
00:49:22,793 --> 00:49:26,171
We have a developing situation
with our launch operations.
763
00:49:26,713 --> 00:49:27,965
We've taken a pause
764
00:49:28,048 --> 00:49:31,093
for our NASA and SpaceX teams
to gather information.
765
00:49:31,176 --> 00:49:32,761
We are not going away.
766
00:49:32,844 --> 00:49:35,013
We're gonna stay here on this pad shot,
767
00:49:35,097 --> 00:49:36,431
so please stay with us.
768
00:49:39,142 --> 00:49:41,269
Would we really hold on the disaster?
769
00:49:41,353 --> 00:49:43,230
In terms of what, when you say hold?
770
00:49:43,313 --> 00:49:44,481
Like, would we just watch it…
771
00:49:44,564 --> 00:49:47,818
Like, if it's a flaming mess,
we just watch the rocket explode?
772
00:49:47,901 --> 00:49:50,278
So depending on when
and how it plays itself out,
773
00:49:50,362 --> 00:49:52,447
we'd probably be cutting to a wide shot
774
00:49:52,531 --> 00:49:54,324
and watching this thing happen.
775
00:49:54,408 --> 00:49:56,034
Can we cut to a control room or something?
776
00:49:56,118 --> 00:49:56,952
We couldn't cut away.
777
00:49:57,035 --> 00:49:58,286
-Okay.
-Yeah.
778
00:49:58,370 --> 00:49:59,454
Ugh!
779
00:49:59,538 --> 00:50:00,622
Couldn't cut away.
780
00:50:00,706 --> 00:50:03,458
-Uh, we would get…
-Hey, look at that.
781
00:50:03,542 --> 00:50:05,961
-Static fire happening right now.
782
00:50:18,140 --> 00:50:21,309
So it looks like they have had
successful static fire of the rocket.
783
00:50:21,393 --> 00:50:24,146
That's where they hold the rocket down
and actually light up its engines
784
00:50:24,229 --> 00:50:26,023
to make sure all things are good to go.
785
00:50:26,106 --> 00:50:28,525
And it looks like that has gone smoothly.
786
00:50:28,608 --> 00:50:31,403
This is my sign.
This is when I was gonna hit the road,
787
00:50:31,486 --> 00:50:35,073
because that means they're still on track
to actually be launching here.
788
00:50:36,199 --> 00:50:39,369
I have to pack masks.
It's a freaking pandemic.
789
00:50:39,953 --> 00:50:41,371
This is the actual warning label,
790
00:50:41,455 --> 00:50:43,832
like on the International Space Station,
the hatches.
791
00:50:44,541 --> 00:50:46,460
I mean, even space underwear.
792
00:50:47,210 --> 00:50:49,504
I am… I'm a nerd.
793
00:50:55,635 --> 00:51:00,057
Now, with humans flying, starting to get
a little… a little nervousness
794
00:51:00,140 --> 00:51:02,809
because I have watched rockets fail.
795
00:51:03,310 --> 00:51:07,147
Just today, Virgin Orbit
had their first orbital launch attempt,
796
00:51:07,230 --> 00:51:08,315
and it failed.
797
00:51:08,398 --> 00:51:09,900
And it sucks. Space is hard.
798
00:51:09,983 --> 00:51:11,985
There's still so many moving parts,
799
00:51:12,069 --> 00:51:14,404
and there's so many things
that can go wrong.
800
00:51:14,488 --> 00:51:17,491
And, of course,
I have a lot of confidence in the systems,
801
00:51:17,991 --> 00:51:22,621
but it…
There is a real sense of… of importance.
802
00:51:22,704 --> 00:51:25,957
There's a real sense of danger now.
803
00:51:27,125 --> 00:51:29,086
It's getting a lot more real now.
804
00:51:48,021 --> 00:51:49,856
With primary day tomorrow,
805
00:51:49,940 --> 00:51:51,858
it's looking a little wishy-washy.
806
00:51:51,942 --> 00:51:55,570
Um, all the models are showing
some isolated storms
807
00:51:55,654 --> 00:51:57,989
just west of the staging area that--
808
00:51:58,073 --> 00:52:01,243
Yeah, you can see the map.
That's the front approaching.
809
00:52:01,326 --> 00:52:02,661
Looks pretty scary.
810
00:52:03,245 --> 00:52:07,207
The, uh, risk for, uh, the launch corridor
went up to 47%,
811
00:52:07,290 --> 00:52:08,708
in the high category.
812
00:52:08,792 --> 00:52:11,586
I was gonna suggest maybe Ben,
since he compiled this,
813
00:52:11,670 --> 00:52:14,256
what would be his recommendation?
814
00:52:14,339 --> 00:52:16,716
Looking at just wind and waves
at this point,
815
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,220
I… I feel like it's within a risk level
that we would accept.
816
00:52:20,762 --> 00:52:24,182
Um, but based
on the… the rain, the lightning,
817
00:52:24,266 --> 00:52:26,434
it's driving the numbers
quite a bit higher.
818
00:52:29,521 --> 00:52:32,149
Weather is very,
you know, fickle in Florida.
819
00:52:33,316 --> 00:52:36,653
Some of the most intense lightning
I've seen in the world
820
00:52:36,736 --> 00:52:38,238
happens at Cape Canaveral.
821
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:40,740
My job, at the end of the day,
822
00:52:40,824 --> 00:52:44,035
is to make sure
that the risk is acceptable
823
00:52:44,119 --> 00:52:46,663
and give the final go-ahead
for the mission.
824
00:52:47,372 --> 00:52:50,250
I basically have to have
nerves of steel.
825
00:52:50,333 --> 00:52:53,545
It's terrifying when you, like, say, like,
"Yeah, go for launch."
826
00:52:54,754 --> 00:52:57,215
It's gonna be
right on the edge, probably.
827
00:52:57,299 --> 00:52:59,634
We got to be crisp
on this thing going forward.
828
00:53:05,807 --> 00:53:07,893
Thunderstorms are such a big issue
829
00:53:07,976 --> 00:53:12,105
because our launch to the space station
is an instantaneous launch window.
830
00:53:14,399 --> 00:53:17,277
Basically, we have to wait
for the Earth to rotate
831
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,738
until station is directly overhead
832
00:53:19,821 --> 00:53:22,449
and then launch at that exact millisecond.
833
00:53:23,992 --> 00:53:26,661
Any problems it's like,
"Oh, we're scrubbed."
834
00:53:26,745 --> 00:53:28,788
You know, "We're not gonna go fly."
835
00:53:31,625 --> 00:53:34,002
In addition
to all those weather factors,
836
00:53:34,085 --> 00:53:35,879
one of the most nerve-racking moments
837
00:53:35,962 --> 00:53:38,048
is loading propellant
with astronauts on board.
838
00:53:40,217 --> 00:53:45,013
We're basically loading, like,
a million pounds of, like, fuel and oxygen
839
00:53:45,096 --> 00:53:48,266
into this big tank,
and the astronauts are sitting on top.
840
00:53:50,393 --> 00:53:52,854
A rocket is an energetic system,
841
00:53:53,813 --> 00:53:57,359
and anything leaking
can be pretty catastrophic.
842
00:53:58,652 --> 00:54:01,071
We have had an incident in the past…
843
00:54:09,496 --> 00:54:11,831
We destroyed the satellite,
we destroyed the rocket,
844
00:54:11,915 --> 00:54:13,333
we destroyed the launchpad,
845
00:54:13,416 --> 00:54:16,461
and it took us months
to figure out what… what happened.
846
00:54:21,716 --> 00:54:25,804
The rocket blew up, but it was not caused
by the fueling process, per se.
847
00:54:25,887 --> 00:54:27,472
It was caused by a pressure tank.
848
00:54:30,350 --> 00:54:33,478
I didn't expect it to fail that traumatic.
849
00:54:33,561 --> 00:54:36,106
When you work on this,
you really hope it works.
850
00:54:38,817 --> 00:54:41,194
I'm cautiously optimistic
about tomorrow.
851
00:54:41,778 --> 00:54:45,532
There's nothing more we can think of
to improve the probability of success.
852
00:54:46,241 --> 00:54:47,784
But I don't wanna tempt fate.
853
00:54:49,327 --> 00:54:51,121
There's always things
you don't know about,
854
00:54:51,204 --> 00:54:53,957
so you don't know
when those are gonna come and get you.
855
00:54:56,376 --> 00:54:57,419
Um…
856
00:55:02,966 --> 00:55:06,928
Making sure Bob and Doug are safe
is not simply our first priority.
857
00:55:07,012 --> 00:55:08,346
It is our only priority.
858
00:55:31,703 --> 00:55:33,330
So at the top of the hour,
859
00:55:33,413 --> 00:55:36,458
we're gonna make
another judgment on the weather.
860
00:55:36,541 --> 00:55:40,211
But remember, thunderstorms down here
in Florida are generally isolated,
861
00:55:40,295 --> 00:55:43,173
and so just because
there's thunderstorms on the horizon
862
00:55:43,256 --> 00:55:44,883
doesn't mean we can't launch.
863
00:55:44,966 --> 00:55:47,093
I'm more optimistic than pessimistic,
864
00:55:47,177 --> 00:55:50,013
but we're gonna get one last look
at the top of the hour.
865
00:55:50,096 --> 00:55:51,139
Thank you, sir.
866
00:55:51,222 --> 00:55:53,266
-Have a great launch.
-My pleasure. Thank you.
867
00:55:53,350 --> 00:55:56,478
-Hey, this is huge.
-We got more down there.
868
00:55:56,561 --> 00:55:58,063
Gets me through the day.
869
00:55:58,146 --> 00:56:00,065
-I'm very grateful.
870
00:56:01,483 --> 00:56:02,776
It's not too bad.
871
00:56:05,028 --> 00:56:05,945
I mean…
872
00:56:08,740 --> 00:56:12,577
…it's a mess, but at least it's…
It has a chance to clear up.
873
00:56:20,085 --> 00:56:22,379
The big thing right now
is isolated thunderstorms.
874
00:56:22,462 --> 00:56:25,423
The question is,
is it gonna be sufficiently problematic
875
00:56:25,507 --> 00:56:27,217
to where we… we can't launch?
876
00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:29,677
Um, right now, I'm being told fifty-fifty.
877
00:56:32,430 --> 00:56:34,849
Hi, it's me, Tim Dodd,
the Everyday Astronaut.
878
00:56:34,933 --> 00:56:37,727
I'm three miles away,
looking at the rocket right now.
879
00:56:38,228 --> 00:56:40,730
The weather is starting to clear up
here a little bit,
880
00:56:41,398 --> 00:56:43,775
but I can tell you,
based on the amount of people,
881
00:56:43,858 --> 00:56:47,237
this is definitely the launch
to watch for the year, guys.
882
00:56:47,862 --> 00:56:50,573
Now, just waiting to hear
what's gonna happen.
883
00:56:56,246 --> 00:56:57,497
My name is Jessie Anderson.
884
00:56:57,580 --> 00:57:00,125
I'm a lead manufacturing engineer
here at SpaceX,
885
00:57:00,208 --> 00:57:04,838
and I speak for all of us
when I say we could not be more excited
886
00:57:04,921 --> 00:57:08,633
to finally be sending humans
to the International Space Station.
887
00:57:08,716 --> 00:57:09,843
It's a great day.
888
00:57:09,926 --> 00:57:12,971
Today's mission is known as
Demonstration Mission-2.
889
00:57:13,054 --> 00:57:15,765
It's gonna be the first time
a commercially built spacecraft
890
00:57:15,849 --> 00:57:17,976
will launch people to the space station.
891
00:57:18,059 --> 00:57:19,978
Demo-2 is an end-to-end flight test,
892
00:57:20,061 --> 00:57:21,813
from launch all the way to docking,
893
00:57:21,896 --> 00:57:23,356
and ending with splashdown.
894
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,234
And it's the final test for NASA
to certify SpaceX
895
00:57:26,317 --> 00:57:28,987
for regular crew flights
to the space station.
896
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:36,828
I don't get nervous for launches.
897
00:57:36,911 --> 00:57:39,330
I don't get nervous
for doing speaking gigs.
898
00:57:40,540 --> 00:57:43,835
Starting a month ago or so,
I started getting nervous for this launch.
899
00:57:43,918 --> 00:57:45,628
I shouldn't have eaten breakfast.
900
00:57:46,171 --> 00:57:47,964
It's a stress-eating kind of day.
901
00:57:48,506 --> 00:57:53,136
And then yesterday was tough,
and today, just forget it.
902
00:57:53,219 --> 00:57:55,430
Hard to get any work done at all today.
903
00:57:56,181 --> 00:57:59,642
I always worry about the things
that we don't know about.
904
00:58:01,019 --> 00:58:03,104
Launch makes you superstitious.
905
00:58:04,189 --> 00:58:07,942
It's called launch juju. Um, I don't know
where that term came from.
906
00:58:08,026 --> 00:58:11,404
I think it's an Air Force term actually,
but people do very odd things.
907
00:58:11,488 --> 00:58:13,698
So here's my Dragon socks.
908
00:58:14,199 --> 00:58:16,201
Cool launch-day socks is my ritual.
909
00:58:16,284 --> 00:58:18,786
I don't look
at the mission sticker.
910
00:58:18,870 --> 00:58:20,538
I can't look at it before we fly.
911
00:58:20,622 --> 00:58:23,166
I will wear red sometimes
when it's really important.
912
00:58:23,249 --> 00:58:24,626
Don't wear red on launch day.
913
00:58:24,709 --> 00:58:26,336
-Really?
-Red means "no go." Don't wear it.
914
00:58:26,419 --> 00:58:28,338
Wearing green would be extra good luck.
915
00:58:28,421 --> 00:58:29,797
Hans has got it figured out.
916
00:58:29,881 --> 00:58:32,717
I call it the launch beard.
Like, you know, it grows out.
917
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:34,427
And then day of the launch, it cleans up.
918
00:58:34,511 --> 00:58:35,762
I usually have a beard,
919
00:58:35,845 --> 00:58:38,932
but if we don't launch more than
two days in a row, I shave the beard.
920
00:58:39,015 --> 00:58:39,974
Why is that?
921
00:58:40,058 --> 00:58:42,268
Just so that we can launch
on the third day.
922
00:58:42,352 --> 00:58:45,438
I was in Scotland
for the first time we got to orbit,
923
00:58:45,522 --> 00:58:47,023
so for every launch,
924
00:58:47,524 --> 00:58:51,069
I put stickies in my shoe
that say "Scotland" on it.
925
00:58:51,152 --> 00:58:54,656
So I am always in Scotland when we launch.
926
00:58:54,739 --> 00:58:56,866
Are you a very superstitious person?
927
00:58:56,950 --> 00:58:59,077
I'm not at all, uh, except for this.
928
00:59:00,912 --> 00:59:03,831
I think we've pounded flat
the risks that we understand
929
00:59:03,915 --> 00:59:05,375
and the risks we know about,
930
00:59:05,458 --> 00:59:09,295
and I really hope we do the right thing
by Doug and Bob
931
00:59:09,379 --> 00:59:11,548
and get them to the space station safely
932
00:59:11,631 --> 00:59:15,510
and inspire generations to come.
933
00:59:17,262 --> 00:59:19,639
Really, we just can't fuck it up.
934
00:59:20,932 --> 00:59:23,142
That's the most important thing
about today.
935
00:59:23,226 --> 00:59:24,769
No fucking it up.
936
00:59:27,438 --> 00:59:28,940
This is my second one.
937
00:59:29,023 --> 00:59:32,443
That was my first. So I don't know,
is that like three? I don't know.
938
00:59:32,986 --> 00:59:36,322
Okay, Jim,
we have the, uh, official weather update.
939
00:59:37,198 --> 00:59:40,827
The cell that they're worried about
has moved to the north.
940
00:59:40,910 --> 00:59:42,996
-So we're go for launch.
-Fantastic.
941
00:59:43,079 --> 00:59:45,081
-So we're gonna head over.
-Yes.
942
00:59:45,164 --> 00:59:45,999
Big day, sir.
943
00:59:46,082 --> 00:59:47,417
-It is.
-Yeah, it is.
944
00:59:52,255 --> 00:59:54,757
I think anybody
who's been involved in this
945
00:59:54,841 --> 00:59:56,217
for the last decade
946
00:59:56,301 --> 00:59:59,637
has got to be
on the edge of their seat right now.
947
01:00:02,265 --> 01:00:05,018
This agency has had
many, many tough times in the past…
948
01:00:07,061 --> 01:00:09,188
but for Bob and Doug's launch today,
949
01:00:10,106 --> 01:00:12,108
we've done everything we can.
950
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:18,364
There comes that moment
when you say, "Okay, now is the time."
951
01:00:19,782 --> 01:00:24,037
Here they come, NASA astronauts
Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley.
952
01:00:24,537 --> 01:00:27,123
They've each made this journey
twice before.
953
01:00:28,124 --> 01:00:30,627
There's Megan and Karen
and their sons.
954
01:00:30,710 --> 01:00:32,837
-I love you.
-I love you, Dad.
955
01:00:35,048 --> 01:00:37,175
Here's my big hug. Here comes the big hug.
956
01:00:37,717 --> 01:00:40,386
Oh, squeeze.
957
01:00:42,138 --> 01:00:46,309
When you're saying goodbye
to your family, you really realize
958
01:00:46,392 --> 01:00:49,062
that there's more to it
than just a rocket going up.
959
01:00:49,145 --> 01:00:51,481
That there's… There can be consequences.
960
01:00:59,614 --> 01:01:02,492
To see your parent launch
on the rocket,
961
01:01:04,035 --> 01:01:05,662
it's scary for a small kid.
962
01:01:08,039 --> 01:01:10,249
The first time we shared it with him,
963
01:01:10,333 --> 01:01:13,419
his opinion was, you know,
"Daddy can't go to space."
964
01:01:18,883 --> 01:01:22,095
That's something
I wasn't quite, uh, prepared for.
965
01:01:22,178 --> 01:01:25,848
I didn't expect to… to have that hit me
as much as it did.
966
01:01:40,655 --> 01:01:42,365
And we are following the convoy
967
01:01:42,448 --> 01:01:44,742
as they continue
to make their way to the pad.
968
01:01:46,244 --> 01:01:49,205
These people have been working long hours.
969
01:01:49,288 --> 01:01:52,291
Coronavirus happened, and we made it.
970
01:02:08,850 --> 01:02:09,976
And here they come.
971
01:02:10,768 --> 01:02:14,272
Just minutes from now,
the astronauts will climb into Dragon.
972
01:02:15,523 --> 01:02:17,191
It's a beautiful view up there, too,
973
01:02:17,275 --> 01:02:20,278
of getting ready for the business at hand
of heading to the cosmos.
974
01:02:24,449 --> 01:02:26,868
We're gonna make sure
all your zippers are closed,
975
01:02:26,951 --> 01:02:27,869
minus your gloves.
976
01:02:28,536 --> 01:02:29,579
Good?
977
01:02:44,886 --> 01:02:47,597
Does it feel like
this line is gonna move?
978
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:49,557
And then this will kind of move off.
979
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:52,351
This should subside
anything behind it.
980
01:02:52,435 --> 01:02:54,520
-Okay.
-Probably a couple hours.
981
01:02:55,646 --> 01:02:59,317
I think if we can get Elon here.
I just wanna make sure he's in the loop.
982
01:03:01,235 --> 01:03:03,821
I just wanna double-check.
Who's doing the measurement?
983
01:03:04,405 --> 01:03:05,281
The Range.
984
01:03:05,364 --> 01:03:07,200
Yeah, great, but who at the Range?
985
01:03:07,283 --> 01:03:09,535
Uh, the Launch Weather Officer.
986
01:03:09,619 --> 01:03:12,371
Basically, the whole weather office.
987
01:03:12,455 --> 01:03:15,792
They're the ones that basically
make the call on the Range weather.
988
01:03:21,756 --> 01:03:23,591
Mike's gonna call it right now.
989
01:03:25,593 --> 01:03:28,638
Dragon, SpaceX.
Weather is go at this time.
990
01:03:29,305 --> 01:03:31,098
Dragon copy. Go weather.
991
01:03:34,018 --> 01:03:36,646
Dragon, SpaceX.
You are go for section seven.
992
01:03:36,729 --> 01:03:39,232
Close visors and arm launch escape system.
993
01:03:40,441 --> 01:03:41,692
Visors coming closed.
994
01:03:48,950 --> 01:03:53,246
7.2, our visors are closed,
and we're arming the launch escape system.
995
01:03:54,956 --> 01:03:57,667
Launch escape system
is verified armed.
996
01:03:59,710 --> 01:04:02,380
Launch director
to countdown net, poll is complete,
997
01:04:02,463 --> 01:04:04,841
and we have a go
to proceed with propellant load.
998
01:04:10,805 --> 01:04:12,640
Propellant load has started.
999
01:05:04,442 --> 01:05:06,694
Dragon, SpaceX launch director.
1000
01:05:06,777 --> 01:05:09,238
- 2
- D to violate a couple of weather rules
1001
01:05:09,322 --> 01:05:12,700
that now do not expect to clear
in time for launch.
1002
01:05:13,367 --> 01:05:15,828
- Proceed to 2
- D
launch abort sequence, please.
1003
01:05:17,455 --> 01:05:20,875
We copy.
We can see some raindrops on the windows,
1004
01:05:20,958 --> 01:05:22,835
and it's just part of the deal.
1005
01:05:23,669 --> 01:05:24,712
Copy all.
1006
01:05:33,346 --> 01:05:34,221
That's it.
1007
01:05:35,264 --> 01:05:36,682
-It's aborted?
-Yeah.
1008
01:05:41,020 --> 01:05:41,938
It's not our day.
1009
01:05:43,773 --> 01:05:47,401
Basically,
we've got ten major weather rules,
1010
01:05:47,485 --> 01:05:49,695
and three of them
are in violation right now.
1011
01:05:49,779 --> 01:05:50,655
-Three?
-Yeah.
1012
01:05:51,864 --> 01:05:55,409
At least eyeballing it, this does not look
like we should be stopping launch.
1013
01:05:57,536 --> 01:05:58,412
We wanna make sure
1014
01:05:58,496 --> 01:06:00,790
we're not scrubbing
based on half-hour-old weather.
1015
01:06:00,873 --> 01:06:03,918
The measurement's real-time…
it's real-time lightning.
1016
01:06:04,001 --> 01:06:05,461
-Okay.
-Yeah.
1017
01:06:05,544 --> 01:06:09,006
We just wanna make sure it's real
and we're not jumping at shadows.
1018
01:06:09,090 --> 01:06:10,007
Okay.
1019
01:06:11,133 --> 01:06:13,094
So next launch time is Saturday.
1020
01:06:13,177 --> 01:06:14,178
Okay.
1021
01:06:21,352 --> 01:06:23,729
I… am bummed.
1022
01:06:24,271 --> 01:06:26,565
-Yes, I am bummed too.
1023
01:06:26,649 --> 01:06:28,859
I, too, am bummed. Yes.
1024
01:06:28,943 --> 01:06:29,860
I am too.
1025
01:06:32,697 --> 01:06:35,992
Dragon, SpaceX.
Thanks for the valiant effort today.
1026
01:06:36,534 --> 01:06:37,910
Appreciate your resilience.
1027
01:06:38,536 --> 01:06:40,538
Yeah, we appreciate those words.
1028
01:06:40,621 --> 01:06:44,333
Everybody did great today,
and we'll do it again on Saturday.
1029
01:07:02,435 --> 01:07:04,645
Today,
we're giving it another shot.
1030
01:07:04,729 --> 01:07:08,232
Wednesday's first attempt was postponed
due to that wild weather,
1031
01:07:08,315 --> 01:07:10,985
but if all goes well today,
we will mark a new first
1032
01:07:11,068 --> 01:07:14,780
and usher in the commercial-crew era
of American spaceflight.
1033
01:07:19,285 --> 01:07:24,457
To get an actual scrub,
it really was almost like a gift.
1034
01:07:27,752 --> 01:07:29,712
It was just one last chance
1035
01:07:29,795 --> 01:07:34,008
to go through and evaluate
and make sure everything's ready to fly.
1036
01:07:36,469 --> 01:07:40,723
But from an emotional standpoint,
it was extremely difficult.
1037
01:07:42,433 --> 01:07:47,813
My son, Jack, was really hit pretty hard
when we scrubbed.
1038
01:07:48,439 --> 01:07:52,902
Karen said he kind of went
and sat in a chair
1039
01:07:52,985 --> 01:07:54,695
and just wanted to be by himself.
1040
01:07:56,906 --> 01:08:00,284
He kind of gets
that there's a lot that can go wrong.
1041
01:08:02,244 --> 01:08:03,996
He had already said goodbye to me,
1042
01:08:04,747 --> 01:08:09,126
and I… I think he probably didn't wanna
have to go through that again.
1043
01:08:11,462 --> 01:08:12,922
Hey, buddy, I love you.
1044
01:08:14,924 --> 01:08:16,759
You bet. This is gonna be cool.
1045
01:08:18,636 --> 01:08:19,804
Be good for Mommy.
1046
01:08:22,389 --> 01:08:23,307
See you, buddy.
1047
01:08:26,143 --> 01:08:28,395
Hey, Theo,
you be on good behavior, okay?
1048
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:31,273
And enjoy today.
Watch the rocket for me, okay?
1049
01:08:32,858 --> 01:08:34,735
I'll call you from the space station.
1050
01:08:37,113 --> 01:08:38,531
Okay, you're welcome.
1051
01:08:40,741 --> 01:08:41,575
I love you.
1052
01:08:45,329 --> 01:08:47,957
To see your parent launch on a rocket
1053
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,835
is something that my son
hasn't been exposed to.
1054
01:08:51,669 --> 01:08:54,755
I needed to figure out a way
to prepare him for that.
1055
01:08:56,549 --> 01:08:57,842
This is, uh, Tremor.
1056
01:08:57,925 --> 01:09:01,887
Tremor is, uh…
was actually my son's dinosaur.
1057
01:09:03,722 --> 01:09:08,352
I decided to bring Tremor
and take him through the entire process,
1058
01:09:09,019 --> 01:09:12,648
you know, to make it feel
a little bit more normal for my son.
1059
01:09:15,025 --> 01:09:18,821
Core and countdown one
in T-minus 2 hours and 46 minutes.
1060
01:09:19,738 --> 01:09:23,492
The crew has arrived at the White Room.
Its ingress is in progress on schedule.
1061
01:09:27,204 --> 01:09:30,249
Launch Control,
clear to retract the axis arm on time.
1062
01:09:32,168 --> 01:09:34,044
Crew access arm retract has started.
1063
01:09:40,509 --> 01:09:43,137
Launch director
to countdown net, poll is complete,
1064
01:09:43,220 --> 01:09:45,806
and we have a go
to proceed with propellant load.
1065
01:09:46,432 --> 01:09:47,433
Copy.
1066
01:09:55,774 --> 01:09:57,109
What's up, Elon?
1067
01:09:57,193 --> 01:09:58,736
Looking a little nicer today.
1068
01:09:58,819 --> 01:10:00,196
It looks really nice.
1069
01:10:00,279 --> 01:10:03,616
-Oh, palo santo.
-Yeah.
1070
01:10:03,699 --> 01:10:07,536
Like it. Anything you can do.
1071
01:10:07,620 --> 01:10:08,787
It's for good luck.
1072
01:10:09,580 --> 01:10:12,291
Situations like this,
you can't have too much luck.
1073
01:10:12,374 --> 01:10:13,709
You believe in luck?
1074
01:10:14,293 --> 01:10:16,253
I believe luck
is the best superpower.
1075
01:10:18,214 --> 01:10:20,966
If you can have any superpower,
luck is the one you'd want.
1076
01:10:25,512 --> 01:10:27,431
Propellant fills are complete.
1077
01:10:28,432 --> 01:10:31,268
Falcon 9 is in startup.
Dragon is in countdown.
1078
01:10:32,561 --> 01:10:34,271
FTS is armed for launch.
1079
01:10:35,606 --> 01:10:36,690
All right.
1080
01:10:36,774 --> 01:10:37,775
Holy shit, here we go.
1081
01:10:37,858 --> 01:10:39,693
-Here we go.
1082
01:10:41,946 --> 01:10:44,323
Dragon, SpaceX.
Go for launch.
1083
01:10:45,324 --> 01:10:48,953
SpaceX, Dragon. We're go for launch.
Let's light this candle.
1084
01:10:50,079 --> 01:10:54,959
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
1085
01:10:55,042 --> 01:11:00,589
five, four, three, two, one, zero.
1086
01:11:00,673 --> 01:11:02,675
-Ignition. Liftoff.
1087
01:11:19,108 --> 01:11:20,818
-It's going.
-Here we go.
1088
01:11:24,196 --> 01:11:26,365
Stage one propulsion is nominal.
1089
01:11:29,660 --> 01:11:31,370
Falcon power telemetry nominal.
1090
01:11:32,162 --> 01:11:33,247
We're monitoring.
1091
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:37,584
Vehicle is supersonic
1092
01:11:37,668 --> 01:11:39,878
and passing through
maximum dynamic pressure.
1093
01:11:40,504 --> 01:11:41,588
Copy one bravo.
1094
01:11:46,010 --> 01:11:47,553
- And 1
- D throttle down.
1095
01:11:48,137 --> 01:11:50,306
Throttling down the Merlin engines.
1096
01:11:54,268 --> 01:11:55,978
Standing by for separation.
1097
01:11:56,478 --> 01:11:57,521
Dragon copy.
1098
01:12:00,399 --> 01:12:02,151
Stage separation confirmed.
1099
01:12:03,485 --> 01:12:05,321
First stage has done its job.
1100
01:12:05,821 --> 01:12:07,406
Switch over to the second.
1101
01:12:11,493 --> 01:12:13,120
Second stage ignited.
1102
01:12:32,139 --> 01:12:35,851
SpaceX, Dragon.
Thanks for the great ride to space.
1103
01:12:51,367 --> 01:12:54,495
Congratulations. We just put…
we just put astronauts in orbit.
1104
01:12:54,578 --> 01:12:55,913
-Incredible.
-Yeah!
1105
01:12:57,790 --> 01:12:58,665
Yeah.
1106
01:13:00,626 --> 01:13:01,502
Well-done, guys.
1107
01:13:02,878 --> 01:13:04,588
-Good work.
-That's awesome.
1108
01:13:04,671 --> 01:13:05,714
Congrats hug.
1109
01:13:07,091 --> 01:13:09,301
That's real, dude. That's space!
1110
01:13:10,052 --> 01:13:13,680
Wow. It only takes nine minutes
to get to orbit.
1111
01:13:13,764 --> 01:13:16,558
Nine minutes, and you're going
25 times the speed of sound.
1112
01:13:16,642 --> 01:13:17,476
Bob and Doug--
1113
01:13:17,559 --> 01:13:20,020
Bob and Doug are cool as cucumbers.
1114
01:13:20,104 --> 01:13:22,314
Just hanging out.
It looks too smooth.
1115
01:13:25,234 --> 01:13:26,068
Two dads.
1116
01:13:26,902 --> 01:13:28,237
Dads in space.
1117
01:13:33,951 --> 01:13:37,037
Well, everyone, kind of a tradition
we've had with spacecraft,
1118
01:13:37,121 --> 01:13:39,915
going way back to the Mercury era.
1119
01:13:40,624 --> 01:13:43,168
We're given the honor
to name this capsule.
1120
01:13:43,752 --> 01:13:45,170
Without further ado,
1121
01:13:45,254 --> 01:13:48,757
we would like to, uh, welcome you aboard
Capsule Endeavour.
1122
01:13:49,508 --> 01:13:52,636
Uh, I'll tell you
that for the ride uphill,
1123
01:13:52,719 --> 01:13:54,805
while it was a… an exciting ride,
1124
01:13:54,888 --> 01:13:57,182
I think we got a… a couple of surprises
1125
01:13:57,266 --> 01:14:00,936
just in terms of the way the vehicle
is kind of moving
1126
01:14:01,019 --> 01:14:03,730
and… and shaking
and taking you into orbit.
1127
01:14:03,814 --> 01:14:05,315
You can tell that it's, uh…
1128
01:14:05,399 --> 01:14:09,153
It's fighting against the Earth
as it makes its way into space.
1129
01:14:09,236 --> 01:14:14,116
We did, it turns out,
end up with one stowaway
1130
01:14:14,199 --> 01:14:17,786
on board our, uh, vehicle
when we launched today.
1131
01:14:17,870 --> 01:14:21,665
I hope both of our sons
were super excited to see, uh, their toy
1132
01:14:21,748 --> 01:14:23,417
floating around with us on board.
1133
01:14:23,500 --> 01:14:26,420
I'm sure they would rather be here,
given the opportunity,
1134
01:14:26,503 --> 01:14:28,714
but hopefully,
they're proud of this as well.
1135
01:14:32,050 --> 01:14:35,888
So with that, I think it'll be
good night from Capsule Endeavour.
1136
01:14:37,514 --> 01:14:39,141
Good night, Megan and Theo.
1137
01:14:39,641 --> 01:14:41,059
And Karen and Jack.
1138
01:14:45,939 --> 01:14:47,566
Thank you. Congratulations.
1139
01:14:47,649 --> 01:14:49,318
We can breathe
another sigh of relief.
1140
01:14:49,401 --> 01:14:50,569
Indeed.
1141
01:14:50,652 --> 01:14:52,070
You're good there?
1142
01:14:52,154 --> 01:14:54,448
-He's left of the pole? Yeah?
-I gotcha.
1143
01:14:56,617 --> 01:15:00,704
So far, everything has performed
very, very well,
1144
01:15:00,787 --> 01:15:04,500
and we are excited
that Bob and Doug are safely in orbit
1145
01:15:04,583 --> 01:15:07,169
and on the way
to the International Space Station.
1146
01:15:07,252 --> 01:15:10,506
Elon, what would you say
to those who doubted SpaceX could do this?
1147
01:15:10,589 --> 01:15:12,549
Do you have a message for them?
1148
01:15:13,050 --> 01:15:14,801
Do I have a message for those who…
1149
01:15:15,302 --> 01:15:16,428
-What?
-Who doubted you.
1150
01:15:16,512 --> 01:15:18,972
Oh, doubted. Okay.
I was like, "What did he--?" Okay. Um…
1151
01:15:19,765 --> 01:15:21,517
Maybe I just blank out the word "doubt."
1152
01:15:23,936 --> 01:15:26,688
No, I mean, I…
To be totally frank, I doubted us too.
1153
01:15:26,772 --> 01:15:27,856
When starting SpaceX,
1154
01:15:27,940 --> 01:15:30,984
I thought we maybe had
a 10% chance of reaching orbit.
1155
01:15:31,068 --> 01:15:34,446
But fortunately, fate has smiled upon us
and brought us to this day.
1156
01:15:34,947 --> 01:15:38,700
Elon, you said
that you had told Bob and Doug's boys
1157
01:15:38,784 --> 01:15:41,703
that you'd do everything you can
to bring them home safely.
1158
01:15:41,787 --> 01:15:45,415
Even with a safe launch out of the way,
that must still weigh on you,
1159
01:15:45,499 --> 01:15:47,668
and I wondered what it's like as a dad.
1160
01:15:52,130 --> 01:15:53,006
Um…
1161
01:15:56,552 --> 01:15:59,471
So, you know, uh, there's still…
1162
01:16:00,430 --> 01:16:04,434
We still gotta dock with Space Station.
We still gotta, uh… still gotta return.
1163
01:16:04,518 --> 01:16:06,144
I think there's an argument that
1164
01:16:06,228 --> 01:16:10,983
the return is more… more dangerous
in some ways than the ascent.
1165
01:16:11,066 --> 01:16:12,985
So we don't wanna declare victory yet.
1166
01:16:17,155 --> 01:16:20,242
Anyway… I'm getting choked up here, so…
1167
01:16:20,909 --> 01:16:23,912
It… It's… Really, this…
1168
01:16:24,413 --> 01:16:26,415
Yeah, I don't…
I'm getting choked up. Sorry.
1169
01:16:26,498 --> 01:16:30,043
I'm not sure I can answer the question
any more than that except, um…
1170
01:16:30,544 --> 01:16:34,172
Yeah, we're gonna do everything we can
to make sure it gets home safely.
1171
01:16:52,316 --> 01:16:55,611
Well, good morning,
everyone, from, uh, Endeavour.
1172
01:16:56,528 --> 01:16:59,448
We, uh, had a great night.
Got to get a little sleep.
1173
01:16:59,531 --> 01:17:03,952
And, uh, as you can see,
a beautiful day pass right now.
1174
01:17:05,329 --> 01:17:07,205
Getting pretty close to ISS,
1175
01:17:07,289 --> 01:17:12,502
uh, as we're flying
at about 17,500 miles an hour
1176
01:17:12,586 --> 01:17:13,712
around the planet.
1177
01:17:16,089 --> 01:17:18,925
Dragon, SpaceX.
Comm check on big loop.
1178
01:17:20,052 --> 01:17:23,096
SpaceX, Dragon.
Loud and clear now on the big loop.
1179
01:17:23,180 --> 01:17:24,681
Good morning, Anna.
1180
01:17:24,765 --> 01:17:26,808
Good morning.
Great to hear your voice.
1181
01:17:26,892 --> 01:17:28,810
It's great to hear yours as well.
1182
01:17:28,894 --> 01:17:32,147
We're looking forward to rendezvousing
with Space Station today.
1183
01:17:33,857 --> 01:17:39,404
I am responsible for being
Bob and Doug's eyes and ears on the ground
1184
01:17:39,905 --> 01:17:43,867
as they approach and then dock
with the International Space Station.
1185
01:17:45,035 --> 01:17:48,747
My role is to help make sure
that they are informed
1186
01:17:48,830 --> 01:17:50,374
of anything that's going awry,
1187
01:17:51,541 --> 01:17:54,961
and I am forever grateful
to be a part of this moment.
1188
01:17:56,922 --> 01:17:59,424
One of my fourth-grade teachers
was actually the daughter
1189
01:17:59,508 --> 01:18:01,927
of one of the astronauts
on the Challenger.
1190
01:18:02,594 --> 01:18:04,680
She brought our class to NASA,
1191
01:18:04,763 --> 01:18:07,140
and from that time on,
I knew I wanted to be
1192
01:18:07,224 --> 01:18:09,726
a part of space operations.
1193
01:18:10,936 --> 01:18:15,524
I still am amazed by how
she… she ultimately changed my life,
1194
01:18:15,607 --> 01:18:18,151
and I imagine that she changed
many other people's lives
1195
01:18:18,235 --> 01:18:19,444
as a result of something
1196
01:18:19,528 --> 01:18:21,947
that had to have been
incredibly painful for her.
1197
01:18:22,030 --> 01:18:23,490
Dragon, SpaceX.
1198
01:18:23,573 --> 01:18:29,287
Your rendezvous complete time
is expected to be 1050 UTC.
1199
01:18:29,955 --> 01:18:30,789
Copy.
1200
01:18:34,876 --> 01:18:37,879
As Dragon is approaching
the space station,
1201
01:18:37,963 --> 01:18:40,340
it's flying at incredible speeds.
1202
01:18:42,509 --> 01:18:44,428
It first does a series of burns
1203
01:18:44,511 --> 01:18:47,848
to get it in close proximity
to the space station
1204
01:18:49,516 --> 01:18:52,519
until the point at which
it is basically in a straight line
1205
01:18:52,602 --> 01:18:54,271
towards the docking adapter.
1206
01:18:56,231 --> 01:18:58,900
The whole time,
we are watching our telemetry
1207
01:18:58,984 --> 01:19:02,028
and making sure that
when it gets to the docking adapter,
1208
01:19:02,112 --> 01:19:04,364
it is precisely where it needs to be.
1209
01:19:05,824 --> 01:19:08,368
One problem, and it's a collision.
1210
01:19:12,622 --> 01:19:14,833
We face that risk, and we deal with that
1211
01:19:14,916 --> 01:19:17,961
by being extremely intentional
in everything we do.
1212
01:19:19,755 --> 01:19:21,673
Space Station on the big loop.
1213
01:19:21,757 --> 01:19:24,676
Dragon, tally ho. I know you guys
probably see it on the video cameras,
1214
01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:27,095
but with the naked eye,
we can see it as well.
1215
01:19:27,179 --> 01:19:29,931
Looking like a nice, shiny new friend.
1216
01:19:31,683 --> 01:19:34,186
Dragon copies. We'll be there in a second.
1217
01:19:35,145 --> 01:19:36,605
Dragon, SpaceX.
1218
01:19:37,230 --> 01:19:40,567
Ground is go for approach initiation.
1219
01:19:41,651 --> 01:19:43,779
Dragon on the big loop. We copy go.
1220
01:19:50,535 --> 01:19:53,663
Dragon,
just 400 meters directly below station,
1221
01:19:53,747 --> 01:19:58,627
swinging itself up out in front
to align itself with the docking adapter.
1222
01:20:01,004 --> 01:20:04,424
Dragon, SpaceX. Commanding hold.
1223
01:20:04,508 --> 01:20:06,426
Copy. We will command the hold.
1224
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:12,724
Dragon holding
a little over 17,000 miles an hour,
1225
01:20:12,808 --> 01:20:15,310
directly out in front
of the space station.
1226
01:20:16,561 --> 01:20:17,979
Space Station on the big loop.
1227
01:20:18,063 --> 01:20:21,608
Crew on the International Space Station
is ready for docking.
1228
01:20:22,859 --> 01:20:26,571
Dragon, SpaceX.
You are go to execute final approach.
1229
01:20:27,656 --> 01:20:29,241
Copy. Go for docking.
1230
01:20:31,993 --> 01:20:33,912
We are following along with you.
1231
01:20:36,206 --> 01:20:38,875
One hundred meters
away from the space station.
1232
01:20:41,461 --> 01:20:44,297
You know, as we were approaching
the space station,
1233
01:20:44,381 --> 01:20:46,341
I remember being extremely focused.
1234
01:20:47,259 --> 01:20:50,178
I had a checklist in my mind.
1235
01:20:51,137 --> 01:20:53,139
We're inside 20 meters.
1236
01:20:54,266 --> 01:20:56,685
And I remember at one point,
we were close to docking,
1237
01:20:56,768 --> 01:20:59,062
and I looked up, and I saw Dragon.
1238
01:21:00,981 --> 01:21:03,900
I just had this moment
of almost pinching myself
1239
01:21:03,984 --> 01:21:06,778
that… that I couldn't believe
this was happening.
1240
01:21:08,655 --> 01:21:13,618
I told myself this is…
this is an incredibly special moment.
1241
01:21:14,661 --> 01:21:15,954
Three meters to go.
1242
01:21:18,999 --> 01:21:20,000
Two meters.
1243
01:21:22,252 --> 01:21:25,714
We are inside the hands-off point.
One meter to go.
1244
01:21:36,182 --> 01:21:39,436
Dragon, SpaceX.
Docking sequence is complete.
1245
01:21:40,020 --> 01:21:42,564
Welcome
to the International Space Station.
1246
01:21:50,572 --> 01:21:52,490
Dragon arriving.
1247
01:21:52,574 --> 01:21:55,243
The crew of Expedition 63
is honored to welcome
1248
01:21:55,327 --> 01:21:59,247
Dragon and the commercial crew program
aboard the International Space Station.
1249
01:21:59,789 --> 01:22:02,292
Bob and Doug,
glad to have you as part of the crew.
1250
01:22:04,794 --> 01:22:06,880
Aboard
the International Space Station,
1251
01:22:06,963 --> 01:22:10,759
Commander Chris Cassidy
standing by in node two.
1252
01:22:10,842 --> 01:22:13,053
He does have two crew members on board,
1253
01:22:13,136 --> 01:22:14,554
both Russian cosmonauts.
1254
01:22:15,764 --> 01:22:19,309
He, uh, recently launched
on the same Russian Soyuz spacecraft
1255
01:22:19,392 --> 01:22:21,519
just a little more than a month ago.
1256
01:22:25,273 --> 01:22:28,234
And with that, Endeavour, welcome
to the International Space Station.
1257
01:22:28,318 --> 01:22:29,444
Please come aboard.
1258
01:22:54,636 --> 01:22:57,889
Station, this is
the NASA Administrator. Can you hear me?
1259
01:22:58,431 --> 01:23:00,350
We hear you loud and clear, sir.
1260
01:23:00,433 --> 01:23:02,102
Welcome to the space station.
1261
01:23:02,602 --> 01:23:04,604
Thank you, Chris.
It's good to see you.
1262
01:23:04,688 --> 01:23:07,440
And welcome to Bob and Doug.
1263
01:23:07,524 --> 01:23:09,818
I will tell you,
the whole world saw this mission,
1264
01:23:09,901 --> 01:23:11,736
and we are so, so proud.
1265
01:23:12,487 --> 01:23:14,322
I have a… a question for Chris.
1266
01:23:14,406 --> 01:23:17,867
Our crew here
decided to be about three days late.
1267
01:23:17,951 --> 01:23:20,036
You gotta work them overtime,
I presume now,
1268
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:23,373
to get them caught up on all
the activities that they missed out on.
1269
01:23:23,456 --> 01:23:27,168
Well, the day they missed out on
was a good one for them to skip.
1270
01:23:27,252 --> 01:23:29,587
It was Saturday housecleaning, and I…
1271
01:23:29,671 --> 01:23:32,966
But I took care of it for 'em.
We'll catch up next… next weekend.
1272
01:23:33,049 --> 01:23:34,509
Uh, but in all seriousness,
1273
01:23:34,592 --> 01:23:37,178
we're looking forward to some
operational stuff later in the month.
1274
01:23:37,262 --> 01:23:39,305
Maybe we'll get outside
and do some space walks.
1275
01:23:39,389 --> 01:23:42,892
So we're… we're all super excited
to have two more crewmates
1276
01:23:42,976 --> 01:23:44,978
to the Expedition 63 team.
1277
01:23:47,230 --> 01:23:50,650
Station, this is James Corden
with the CBS Late Late Show.
1278
01:23:50,734 --> 01:23:52,652
How are you, gentlemen? Can you hear me?
1279
01:23:53,361 --> 01:23:54,404
James.
1280
01:23:54,487 --> 01:23:56,489
Welcome aboard
the International Space Station.
1281
01:23:56,573 --> 01:23:57,741
We heard you loud and clear.
1282
01:23:58,324 --> 01:24:01,119
How are you getting on up there?
How are you doing? Are you okay?
1283
01:24:01,202 --> 01:24:02,412
We're doing pretty good.
1284
01:24:02,495 --> 01:24:06,541
I think we're assimilating
into the, uh, ISS life,
1285
01:24:06,624 --> 01:24:08,877
trying to help Chris out
as much as we can.
1286
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:11,546
That's great.
I'm jealous of both of you right now
1287
01:24:11,629 --> 01:24:14,674
because I've spent most of my life
wanting to be weightless.
1288
01:24:14,758 --> 01:24:17,302
Tell me, what's the best and worst thing
1289
01:24:17,385 --> 01:24:20,930
about living life
in zero gravity every day?
1290
01:24:21,765 --> 01:24:23,016
Oh, look at this.
1291
01:24:25,935 --> 01:24:27,395
That's magnificent.
1292
01:24:27,979 --> 01:24:30,231
You can imagine
that there's a lot of places,
1293
01:24:30,315 --> 01:24:31,941
like going to the restroom, for example,
1294
01:24:32,025 --> 01:24:33,777
where you like stuff
to stay where you put it.
1295
01:24:33,860 --> 01:24:37,572
And so, uh, we definitely find that
frustrating at times.
1296
01:24:37,655 --> 01:24:38,656
Time to go.
1297
01:24:39,449 --> 01:24:42,077
You take the valve, and, uh…
1298
01:24:49,042 --> 01:24:50,710
That's where your business goes.
1299
01:24:53,129 --> 01:24:56,883
They have six crew quarters
on board the space station,
1300
01:24:57,383 --> 01:24:59,969
and those crew quarters
are really, really nice.
1301
01:25:00,845 --> 01:25:02,972
You've got your laptop in there.
1302
01:25:03,056 --> 01:25:05,683
You've got your sleeping bag
attached to a wall.
1303
01:25:06,309 --> 01:25:08,686
Can you reach down
and touch your toes?
1304
01:25:08,770 --> 01:25:12,190
You probably would have to fold
your computer up,
1305
01:25:12,273 --> 01:25:15,693
and then you might be able
to kind of do a sit-up,
1306
01:25:15,777 --> 01:25:17,946
uh, and not hit both walls.
1307
01:25:19,072 --> 01:25:21,241
I mean, it's certainly not huge,
1308
01:25:21,324 --> 01:25:23,159
but it's actually kind of…
1309
01:25:23,243 --> 01:25:25,870
kind of cozy, if… if I had to be honest.
1310
01:25:28,915 --> 01:25:31,793
What kind of liquids
can you drink?
1311
01:25:31,876 --> 01:25:34,337
Is there a cocktail hour in space?
1312
01:25:34,921 --> 01:25:37,340
Every hour is cocktail hour for, uh…
1313
01:25:38,091 --> 01:25:39,092
for astronauts.
1314
01:25:39,175 --> 01:25:42,762
Because you can drink balls of fluid
right out of the air like that.
1315
01:25:43,346 --> 01:25:46,850
I don't know how many of these examples
I wanna set for my son,
1316
01:25:46,933 --> 01:25:49,477
because he'll be playing
with his food all day
1317
01:25:49,561 --> 01:25:51,604
if he gets the chance
to see something like this.
1318
01:25:53,481 --> 01:25:54,524
Chicken.
1319
01:25:56,067 --> 01:25:59,070
We exercise
for about two hours, uh, every day,
1320
01:25:59,154 --> 01:26:01,781
with weight lifting
and either running or cycling
1321
01:26:01,865 --> 01:26:04,909
to maintain our health and our fitness
for our return.
1322
01:26:05,743 --> 01:26:06,578
Our heart,
1323
01:26:06,661 --> 01:26:10,123
its most important job
is to feed the brain oxygenated blood.
1324
01:26:10,874 --> 01:26:13,334
And then when you take
the gravity vector out of the picture,
1325
01:26:13,418 --> 01:26:17,797
the heart sends too much up to the brain,
and your head gets all puffed up.
1326
01:26:18,673 --> 01:26:21,092
The way your body adapts
to weightlessness,
1327
01:26:21,176 --> 01:26:25,138
I distinctly remember
when I first got to space,
1328
01:26:25,221 --> 01:26:28,975
every time I would flip upside down,
I felt like I was upside down.
1329
01:26:29,058 --> 01:26:30,643
And there was a moment
1330
01:26:30,727 --> 01:26:33,563
where I was trying to hang my sleeping bag
on the mid-deck wall,
1331
01:26:33,646 --> 01:26:36,941
and, just like this,
my mind completely changed.
1332
01:26:37,025 --> 01:26:40,069
And from that point on,
I could be in any orientation,
1333
01:26:40,153 --> 01:26:42,155
and I never felt like I was upside down.
1334
01:26:43,364 --> 01:26:45,033
It was so neat to me,
1335
01:26:45,825 --> 01:26:48,786
the way your body and mind
just switch like that.
1336
01:26:49,996 --> 01:26:51,206
You feel congested
1337
01:26:51,289 --> 01:26:54,167
because you still have
all this extra volume in your head.
1338
01:26:54,250 --> 01:26:57,378
So your sense of smell
and your sense of taste are dull.
1339
01:26:58,296 --> 01:27:00,798
We have every hot sauce
known to humankind.
1340
01:27:01,299 --> 01:27:03,426
You pour that on absolutely everything.
1341
01:27:04,427 --> 01:27:07,263
I believe birthday wishes
are in order, Bob. Is that true?
1342
01:27:07,347 --> 01:27:09,974
That's true.
I got to join the 50-year-old club,
1343
01:27:10,058 --> 01:27:11,809
just like these two other guys.
1344
01:27:11,893 --> 01:27:13,978
They've been teasing me all day about it.
1345
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:17,232
Yeah, I know it's not safe
to put 50 candles on a cake
1346
01:27:17,315 --> 01:27:18,566
in a high-oxygen environment,
1347
01:27:18,650 --> 01:27:20,735
but at least make everybody sing to you.
1348
01:27:23,196 --> 01:27:27,283
Because I know so well what Bob
is doing, I know he's working really hard.
1349
01:27:28,743 --> 01:27:30,203
I've had those same experiences,
1350
01:27:30,286 --> 01:27:32,705
and I know it's hard
to be away from your family.
1351
01:27:35,083 --> 01:27:38,086
It was important to us
to do something special.
1352
01:27:39,462 --> 01:27:42,382
That encouragement from home,
I think, is really important,
1353
01:27:42,465 --> 01:27:45,134
that we're thinking of him,
that we know what he's doing is hard.
1354
01:27:46,511 --> 01:27:49,222
You know, the work requires,
you know, a lot of dedication,
1355
01:27:49,305 --> 01:27:52,767
a lot of focus, a lot of problem-solving,
and always a lot of risk.
1356
01:27:54,227 --> 01:27:55,561
Can you guys hear me?
1357
01:27:55,645 --> 01:27:57,647
Yeah, loud and clear.
-Okay.
1358
01:27:57,730 --> 01:27:59,482
Check the PTT's off.
1359
01:28:12,787 --> 01:28:14,914
Houston air lock on one.
1360
01:28:14,998 --> 01:28:16,291
Uh, we're complete
1361
01:28:16,374 --> 01:28:19,419
with the, uh, med-ox lab
change-out procedure.
1362
01:28:19,502 --> 01:28:22,922
Going back to step 15 in 1.225.
1363
01:28:24,674 --> 01:28:27,260
Thanks, Doug,
for working the setup so well.
1364
01:28:27,343 --> 01:28:29,804
Got us right on timeline.
We appreciate it.
1365
01:28:29,887 --> 01:28:31,764
Chris and Bob, good morning.
1366
01:28:31,848 --> 01:28:33,474
- Good morning.
-Good morning.
1367
01:28:34,183 --> 01:28:36,936
Okay, with that,
we'll step into the post depress.
1368
01:28:37,437 --> 01:28:39,605
-EV1 copies.
-EV2 copies.
1369
01:28:42,942 --> 01:28:45,570
To keep Space Station
flying over the Earth,
1370
01:28:45,653 --> 01:28:47,947
it's a constant maintenance program.
1371
01:28:49,198 --> 01:28:50,575
We do all these space walks
1372
01:28:50,658 --> 01:28:54,871
to either add modules to the space station
when we were building it.
1373
01:28:54,954 --> 01:28:57,457
And now it's to replace
pieces of equipment
1374
01:28:57,540 --> 01:28:59,959
that either are getting old or that fail.
1375
01:29:01,627 --> 01:29:05,715
Our mission is essentially
to upgrade the batteries.
1376
01:29:08,343 --> 01:29:12,180
You know, the power of the space station
is maintained by the battery system.
1377
01:29:13,389 --> 01:29:15,975
Through the solar arrays,
the batteries are recharged.
1378
01:29:16,059 --> 01:29:18,519
And so just like
a rechargeable battery at home,
1379
01:29:18,603 --> 01:29:20,271
after many years of these cycles,
1380
01:29:20,355 --> 01:29:22,190
and then of course the hot and cold
1381
01:29:22,273 --> 01:29:25,568
of being in space
between daylight and darkness,
1382
01:29:25,651 --> 01:29:26,986
those batteries wear out.
1383
01:29:29,530 --> 01:29:33,076
It's a big job, because these batteries
are like 400 pounds apiece.
1384
01:29:35,787 --> 01:29:39,415
Fortunately, we got both Bob and Chris,
1385
01:29:39,499 --> 01:29:42,251
two of our best spacewalkers.
1386
01:29:44,712 --> 01:29:46,422
-Doing good?
-Yeah.
1387
01:29:48,466 --> 01:29:51,636
During my first two missions,
I did six space walks
1388
01:29:51,719 --> 01:29:54,555
associated with the construction
of the space station.
1389
01:29:55,598 --> 01:29:58,309
But even though I've done it
a couple of times,
1390
01:29:58,393 --> 01:30:00,353
it doesn't get easy for me.
1391
01:30:02,438 --> 01:30:04,857
You know, there's a lot of pressure
in a situation like that,
1392
01:30:04,941 --> 01:30:08,611
that, uh, if you don't do
your job, uh, successfully,
1393
01:30:08,694 --> 01:30:10,655
I could float off into space.
1394
01:30:12,240 --> 01:30:15,284
You have to compartmentalize
and take deep breaths
1395
01:30:15,368 --> 01:30:17,745
so that you can pace yourself
and stay focused
1396
01:30:17,829 --> 01:30:20,581
in the face of this daunting task.
1397
01:30:23,918 --> 01:30:26,671
Hey, Bob, we're ready
with the crew lock depress.
1398
01:30:26,754 --> 01:30:31,968
We're gonna take the, uh, depress
pump power switch to "on."
1399
01:30:32,802 --> 01:30:35,096
Okay. Depress pump power coming on.
1400
01:30:36,431 --> 01:30:37,598
Good luck, guys.
1401
01:31:01,706 --> 01:31:04,709
Okay, guys, great job.
We're gonna pick up slowly.
1402
01:31:05,334 --> 01:31:06,169
Yeah.
1403
01:31:12,258 --> 01:31:16,012
Bob, for you, as you get outboard,
you're looking for handrail 2075
1404
01:31:16,095 --> 01:31:17,597
for your green hook.
1405
01:31:18,181 --> 01:31:19,974
Copy. 2075.
1406
01:31:24,729 --> 01:31:27,482
-It's kind of dark out here, Chris.
-Yeah, it's kind of dark.
1407
01:31:29,358 --> 01:31:31,569
How much longer
till daylight has me?
1408
01:31:32,445 --> 01:31:35,406
Approximately
three and a half minutes till daylight.
1409
01:31:42,955 --> 01:31:45,208
Sun.
- Here comes the sun again.
1410
01:31:59,722 --> 01:32:02,892
You should be coming up
on the coast of California soon.
1411
01:32:02,975 --> 01:32:05,394
If you look south,
you might see Hawthorne.
1412
01:32:17,615 --> 01:32:20,076
And, Bob, did you wanna go
to battery one first?
1413
01:32:21,202 --> 01:32:23,663
Let's go to battery three first.
1414
01:32:26,541 --> 01:32:29,710
You'll be going to H1.
Confirm socket tape line flush.
1415
01:32:29,794 --> 01:32:32,129
Looking for eight turns
to release the battery.
1416
01:32:40,388 --> 01:32:42,306
I have control of the batteries?
1417
01:32:42,390 --> 01:32:43,641
You have control.
1418
01:32:45,268 --> 01:32:46,185
Okay, copy that.
1419
01:32:46,769 --> 01:32:47,853
Looks good, guys.
1420
01:32:50,273 --> 01:32:52,525
And we're about
to enter a night pass.
1421
01:33:03,619 --> 01:33:07,039
Bob, I have several cautions and warnings
for you when you're ready.
1422
01:33:08,416 --> 01:33:09,292
I'm ready.
1423
01:33:10,501 --> 01:33:12,169
Okay, no sudden movements.
1424
01:33:12,253 --> 01:33:14,964
The Bravo 7 torque setting
may cause bolt failure.
1425
01:33:15,047 --> 01:33:18,509
This could result in a non-captive
sharp edge and broken shank.
1426
01:33:18,593 --> 01:33:19,594
How copy?
1427
01:33:20,428 --> 01:33:21,262
Copy all.
1428
01:33:22,680 --> 01:33:24,223
Is there any good news about this?
1429
01:33:24,307 --> 01:33:26,976
Sounds scary, Bob.
You sure you wanna do that?
1430
01:33:27,643 --> 01:33:29,520
-Obviously.
-Obviously.
1431
01:33:32,690 --> 01:33:34,775
It looks equal to me on both sides.
1432
01:33:34,859 --> 01:33:35,985
I agree.
1433
01:33:37,778 --> 01:33:40,197
In the indicator, those locked.
1434
01:33:40,281 --> 01:33:41,949
Copy, such a good install.
1435
01:33:42,033 --> 01:33:45,411
Just a heads-up, you're going
into a day pass in about a minute.
1436
01:33:52,251 --> 01:33:53,961
How about a picture?
1437
01:33:54,045 --> 01:33:56,213
It's a good location, good time.
1438
01:33:56,297 --> 01:33:57,173
Yeah.
1439
01:33:57,256 --> 01:34:00,509
I don't know if we're gonna make it
through another day-night cycle.
1440
01:34:01,677 --> 01:34:03,012
Yeah, that's good.
1441
01:34:09,518 --> 01:34:11,771
To see the wondrous events
that are happening
1442
01:34:11,854 --> 01:34:14,899
as you go through a space walk,
there's sunrises and sunsets,
1443
01:34:15,816 --> 01:34:17,902
you realize, you know,
our world is precious,
1444
01:34:17,985 --> 01:34:22,448
and you start having appreciation
for how little you actually are.
1445
01:34:25,034 --> 01:34:28,329
And I think every astronaut
kind of feels the same way.
1446
01:34:33,876 --> 01:34:36,754
As you go around the Earth,
you don't see the lines and the borders
1447
01:34:36,837 --> 01:34:38,005
that are drawn on maps.
1448
01:34:38,547 --> 01:34:41,258
You see the Earth as this one entity,
1449
01:34:41,842 --> 01:34:42,968
and it's our home.
1450
01:34:44,553 --> 01:34:45,930
You sense its fragility
1451
01:34:46,013 --> 01:34:49,433
in this sort of vast blackness of space
and this very thin atmosphere
1452
01:34:49,517 --> 01:34:51,227
that's what's keeping us all safe.
1453
01:34:52,395 --> 01:34:54,480
You feel very protective, I think,
1454
01:34:55,564 --> 01:34:57,817
and you feel a very strong connection.
1455
01:35:00,903 --> 01:35:05,574
Even the most hardened,
cynical astronauts, you know,
1456
01:35:05,658 --> 01:35:08,744
once they've gone to space,
it's changed them and for the better.
1457
01:35:11,163 --> 01:35:14,583
You know, you look down, and you go,
"We're all on this little ball."
1458
01:35:16,001 --> 01:35:18,212
And then you look back into space
1459
01:35:18,796 --> 01:35:21,549
and get this overwhelming sense
1460
01:35:21,632 --> 01:35:24,260
of, you know,
the things we're gonna do next.
1461
01:35:42,361 --> 01:35:45,197
Okay, Neil, we can see you
coming down the ladder now.
1462
01:35:46,490 --> 01:35:48,868
That's one small step for man,
1463
01:35:49,744 --> 01:35:52,580
one giant leap for mankind.
1464
01:35:56,792 --> 01:35:58,210
Oh gee, that's great.
1465
01:35:58,294 --> 01:35:59,295
Yes, indeed.
1466
01:35:59,378 --> 01:36:02,465
They've got the flag up now,
and you can see the stars and stripes.
1467
01:36:02,548 --> 01:36:04,425
Beautiful, just beautiful.
1468
01:36:06,385 --> 01:36:10,514
Here men from the planet Earth
first set foot upon the Moon.
1469
01:36:11,182 --> 01:36:14,769
July 1969 AD.
1470
01:36:15,436 --> 01:36:17,772
They came in peace for all mankind.
1471
01:36:29,158 --> 01:36:30,534
And welcome home.
1472
01:36:38,292 --> 01:36:39,627
Landing on the Moon
1473
01:36:39,710 --> 01:36:44,465
is singularly the most dramatic event
in the history of humanity.
1474
01:36:44,548 --> 01:36:47,218
And so this is the leftovers,
basically.
1475
01:36:49,094 --> 01:36:51,430
If you asked what inspired me,
this is what inspired me.
1476
01:36:51,514 --> 01:36:52,848
-Saturn V?
-Yeah.
1477
01:36:52,932 --> 01:36:55,434
I mean, that's what I saw
when I was a kid.
1478
01:36:56,811 --> 01:36:58,062
This is pretty crazy.
1479
01:36:58,896 --> 01:37:01,482
You know how much thrust it had?
A million and something?
1480
01:37:01,565 --> 01:37:03,692
Like the size
of that gas generator,
1481
01:37:03,776 --> 01:37:06,362
it almost looks like
the size of our thrust chamber.
1482
01:37:06,445 --> 01:37:07,863
-Exactly.
1483
01:37:07,947 --> 01:37:09,114
Yeah, it's huge.
1484
01:37:09,615 --> 01:37:13,202
This is the most powerful rocket
that had been built up to date.
1485
01:37:13,285 --> 01:37:15,996
Yeah,
you just need that energy to get--
1486
01:37:16,080 --> 01:37:17,164
To the Moon.
1487
01:37:17,248 --> 01:37:19,208
-Or to Mars.
-Mars, so…
1488
01:37:20,668 --> 01:37:23,629
The other thing to recognize
is, like, this was all like new stuff
1489
01:37:23,712 --> 01:37:27,091
that they had made and, like,
didn't have much flight experience on.
1490
01:37:27,174 --> 01:37:29,218
I mean, we have, like,
80-something flights.
1491
01:37:29,301 --> 01:37:31,095
And we're slowly
getting into those flights.
1492
01:37:31,178 --> 01:37:34,682
Only now are we confident enough
to put Bob and Doug in there.
1493
01:37:34,765 --> 01:37:38,227
And they tested it twice and said,
"Okay, you guys go in there."
1494
01:37:38,310 --> 01:37:39,311
Yeah.
1495
01:37:40,187 --> 01:37:42,064
All right, let's go one step further.
1496
01:37:43,274 --> 01:37:45,192
-That's the lunar lander.
-Yeah.
1497
01:37:45,276 --> 01:37:46,694
It looks small, actually.
1498
01:37:48,153 --> 01:37:49,655
-I wanna see that inside.
-Yeah.
1499
01:37:49,738 --> 01:37:51,782
They'd be standing up in there, basically.
1500
01:37:51,866 --> 01:37:53,951
There's no… no chair or anything.
1501
01:37:54,034 --> 01:37:57,496
Yeah, and this had the rudiments
of digital computers in there.
1502
01:37:58,038 --> 01:37:59,790
I mean, a computer on this thing,
1503
01:38:00,291 --> 01:38:02,376
I don't think there's anything
comparable that we have.
1504
01:38:02,459 --> 01:38:04,086
-A car key is probably smarter.
-Yeah.
1505
01:38:06,714 --> 01:38:08,090
But, I mean, they made it work.
1506
01:38:08,173 --> 01:38:10,968
-I mean, that's the main thing.
-That's the fascinating thing.
1507
01:38:11,051 --> 01:38:13,721
Even more dramatic
when you think that what they had
1508
01:38:13,804 --> 01:38:15,431
in terms of electronics to make that work.
1509
01:38:15,514 --> 01:38:16,682
Yeah.
1510
01:38:17,892 --> 01:38:20,561
Pretty inspiring coming back here
and just looking at it.
1511
01:38:22,229 --> 01:38:25,357
Now that we've shown
that we can fly astronauts…
1512
01:38:28,152 --> 01:38:32,031
…it's time to go back to the Moon
with astronauts again for a longer time
1513
01:38:33,782 --> 01:38:35,784
and extend our range to Mars.
1514
01:38:39,622 --> 01:38:41,999
These super smart,
super talented people,
1515
01:38:42,082 --> 01:38:43,375
they believe in the goal.
1516
01:38:44,460 --> 01:38:47,463
A base on the Moon
and a city on Mars can happen.
1517
01:38:49,798 --> 01:38:52,384
I was not sure
whether such a path existed before.
1518
01:38:52,968 --> 01:38:55,304
Now I am confident
that such a path exists.
1519
01:38:56,847 --> 01:38:59,850
But first, we got
a real important mission tomorrow.
1520
01:39:08,025 --> 01:39:09,485
Good morning, Bob and Doug.
1521
01:39:09,568 --> 01:39:11,654
We have a special message for you
to start your day.
1522
01:39:12,196 --> 01:39:15,157
Rise and shine, Daddy. We love you.
1523
01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:18,452
We can't wait to see you.
Wake up, wake up!
1524
01:39:19,328 --> 01:39:21,205
I'm happy you went into space,
1525
01:39:21,288 --> 01:39:23,749
but I'm even happier
that you're coming back home.
1526
01:39:23,832 --> 01:39:27,044
Hurry home so we can go get my dog.
1527
01:39:27,127 --> 01:39:28,545
We love you, Dad.
1528
01:39:31,090 --> 01:39:34,551
We're about to embark
on the final portion of the journey.
1529
01:39:36,261 --> 01:39:38,764
And as I look forward
to heading back home,
1530
01:39:38,847 --> 01:39:44,436
my son and Doug's son are really excited
not only to get their fathers back
1531
01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:47,606
but to get our Apatosaurus,
our zero-G indicator,
1532
01:39:47,690 --> 01:39:49,400
that they nominated to go with us.
1533
01:39:50,067 --> 01:39:52,403
And so for Jack and Theo,
1534
01:39:52,486 --> 01:39:55,614
uh, Tremor the Apatosaurus
is, uh, headed home soon.
1535
01:39:58,200 --> 01:40:01,328
Reentry is obviously
the next big milestone,
1536
01:40:01,412 --> 01:40:04,331
and so everything
has to work really, really well.
1537
01:40:04,415 --> 01:40:06,417
Dragon, SpaceX. Comm check.
1538
01:40:06,959 --> 01:40:09,753
SpaceX, Dragon. Comm checks.
Dragon to ground.
1539
01:40:10,504 --> 01:40:12,006
It's hard to prepare yourself.
1540
01:40:12,089 --> 01:40:14,508
You don't know exactly
what you're gonna feel.
1541
01:40:14,591 --> 01:40:16,385
But there's a part of you
that can't let go
1542
01:40:16,468 --> 01:40:18,929
of that sort of, you know,
hopefully irrational fear
1543
01:40:19,013 --> 01:40:20,222
that something could go wrong.
1544
01:40:20,305 --> 01:40:23,308
The final reconfigurations
for undock
1545
01:40:23,392 --> 01:40:24,977
are complete and nominal.
1546
01:40:26,228 --> 01:40:28,147
Am I gonna be nervous? Absolutely.
1547
01:40:28,230 --> 01:40:31,859
But I want my son to experience
the joy and excitement of that moment
1548
01:40:31,942 --> 01:40:35,195
and try to keep
all of the… the nervousness to myself.
1549
01:40:38,198 --> 01:40:40,659
The ground is go for undocking.
1550
01:40:40,743 --> 01:40:42,578
Please confirm your visors are down
1551
01:40:42,661 --> 01:40:45,164
and that you are ready
for undock and departure.
1552
01:40:46,874 --> 01:40:49,793
Our visors are down,
and we're ready for departure.
1553
01:41:00,846 --> 01:41:03,640
Dragon, SpaceX.
Separation confirmed.
1554
01:41:05,642 --> 01:41:08,020
Endeavour, Station. Bob and Doug,
1555
01:41:08,103 --> 01:41:09,980
it's been an honor to serve with you.
1556
01:41:10,606 --> 01:41:13,776
Safe travels
and have a successful landing.
1557
01:41:13,859 --> 01:41:14,860
Godspeed.
1558
01:41:15,903 --> 01:41:18,072
Endeavour copies all. Thanks, Chris.
1559
01:41:20,824 --> 01:41:23,619
Bob and I,
we're just excited to get back home.
1560
01:41:24,620 --> 01:41:27,873
But you can never let your guard down,
especially on a first flight.
1561
01:41:30,000 --> 01:41:33,045
You know, you really have to do
the whole mission end to end.
1562
01:41:34,713 --> 01:41:36,215
There was a time when we thought,
1563
01:41:36,298 --> 01:41:38,884
"Well, we just get through the ascent,
and we'll be fine."
1564
01:41:40,969 --> 01:41:42,471
But then we had Columbia.
1565
01:41:54,108 --> 01:41:56,235
Everything look good to you?
1566
01:41:56,318 --> 01:41:58,821
Control and rates
and everything is nominal, right?
1567
01:41:58,904 --> 01:42:01,657
Control has been stable.
We have good trims.
1568
01:42:01,740 --> 01:42:04,409
-I don't see anything out of the ordinary.
-Okay.
1569
01:42:05,744 --> 01:42:08,664
This is amazing. It's really
getting fairly bright out there.
1570
01:42:08,747 --> 01:42:11,416
Yeah, you definitely
don't want to be outside now.
1571
01:42:15,003 --> 01:42:19,091
Both Bob and I were on the runway
where the shuttle would be landing.
1572
01:42:20,467 --> 01:42:22,469
I remember them knocking on the window
1573
01:42:22,553 --> 01:42:26,598
and saying to us
that they'd lost, uh, comm,
1574
01:42:27,182 --> 01:42:30,853
uh, and data and tracking from Columbia.
1575
01:42:33,647 --> 01:42:35,774
Columbia, Houston, comm check.
1576
01:42:40,320 --> 01:42:43,365
Columbia, Houston, UHF comm check.
1577
01:42:46,493 --> 01:42:49,204
We do not have
any valid data at this time.
1578
01:42:54,293 --> 01:42:56,420
-Oh my God.
1579
01:42:56,503 --> 01:42:58,630
We've got some breaking news.
1580
01:42:59,131 --> 01:43:04,386
There you see what appears to be
multiple pieces of the shuttle.
1581
01:43:06,054 --> 01:43:10,184
We can only hope
that what we're seeing is not the worst.
1582
01:43:12,352 --> 01:43:15,230
When landing time came
and the shuttle didn't come,
1583
01:43:16,273 --> 01:43:17,524
we were there in the room
1584
01:43:17,608 --> 01:43:20,360
when they told the families
what they think had happened
1585
01:43:20,444 --> 01:43:23,197
and that it was likely not survivable
1586
01:43:23,280 --> 01:43:26,575
and that they were, you know,
gonna do the best they could,
1587
01:43:26,658 --> 01:43:29,828
but when the vehicle
broke up at 200, 250,000 feet,
1588
01:43:29,912 --> 01:43:32,039
that it's not likely
that anybody survived.
1589
01:43:36,126 --> 01:43:38,212
Just seeing the pieces of Columbia,
1590
01:43:39,546 --> 01:43:42,799
pieces of the crew module
and helmets and those kinds of things,
1591
01:43:44,051 --> 01:43:48,305
you know, that… that leaves an impression
that I think you never ever…
1592
01:43:49,431 --> 01:43:50,974
you never really get over.
1593
01:43:53,227 --> 01:43:56,855
When you lose a rocket
with a payload on it,
1594
01:43:56,939 --> 01:43:58,982
that is a bad situation.
1595
01:43:59,066 --> 01:44:02,194
But if you lose a rocket
with a crew on it,
1596
01:44:02,277 --> 01:44:05,030
that… that is
an order of magnitude different.
1597
01:44:05,113 --> 01:44:08,951
And in the end, you don't want anybody
to ever have to go through that again.
1598
01:44:21,421 --> 01:44:25,175
We have been preparing
for Bob and Doug to come home.
1599
01:44:25,759 --> 01:44:28,387
You know,
as soon as that capsule released,
1600
01:44:29,096 --> 01:44:30,681
uh, and we undocked,
1601
01:44:30,764 --> 01:44:32,182
the nerves popped up again,
1602
01:44:32,266 --> 01:44:35,686
the general feeling of like,
"Oh man, we're in free flight."
1603
01:44:35,769 --> 01:44:38,105
And these boys are coming home.
It's happening.
1604
01:44:38,647 --> 01:44:41,525
Um, there's no turning back at this point.
1605
01:44:41,608 --> 01:44:46,280
So… it's time to rock and roll,
1606
01:44:46,363 --> 01:44:49,283
talk to the recovery dudes,
and… and get Bob and Doug home.
1607
01:44:55,998 --> 01:44:58,500
Everything's been going
very smoothly for Bob and Doug
1608
01:44:58,583 --> 01:45:01,420
ever since they undocked
from the space station yesterday.
1609
01:45:01,503 --> 01:45:05,215
Now just ready and waiting
to begin the reentry process.
1610
01:45:05,299 --> 01:45:08,552
Yeah, really exciting day
as we approach splashdown here
1611
01:45:08,635 --> 01:45:10,012
in a matter of a few hours…
1612
01:45:10,095 --> 01:45:11,680
I've gotta talk to these two guys.
1613
01:45:11,763 --> 01:45:14,766
…to think that this all started
two months ago, and here we are.
1614
01:45:14,850 --> 01:45:17,978
-Did you get some sleep?
-Yeah. A few hours.
1615
01:45:18,061 --> 01:45:19,604
-A few hours?
-Yeah.
1616
01:45:19,688 --> 01:45:21,690
-How's everything looking?
-Ready to go.
1617
01:45:21,773 --> 01:45:24,901
Yeah, everything's looking great.
Dragon's in good shape.
1618
01:45:24,985 --> 01:45:26,236
All right, good luck.
1619
01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:27,988
-Good luck.
-All right, good luck.
1620
01:45:30,699 --> 01:45:31,742
Oh, look at that.
1621
01:45:32,659 --> 01:45:33,994
They seem super calm.
1622
01:45:35,120 --> 01:45:39,708
I guess it doesn't go over well
when they're nervous.
1623
01:45:41,918 --> 01:45:45,922
Actually, you can see they're nervous.
They do this…
1624
01:45:46,673 --> 01:45:49,343
You know, every once in a while.
1625
01:45:52,679 --> 01:45:55,307
I think reentry is the part
that everybody hates.
1626
01:45:58,894 --> 01:46:01,021
You're in a stable orbit around the Earth,
1627
01:46:01,563 --> 01:46:03,231
and then you do a reentry burn.
1628
01:46:04,733 --> 01:46:07,235
That's a thrust maneuver
that reduces your velocity
1629
01:46:07,319 --> 01:46:08,862
so that you start descending
1630
01:46:08,945 --> 01:46:11,073
until you hit dense atmosphere
1631
01:46:11,156 --> 01:46:13,367
and you can't get
a radio signal out anymore.
1632
01:46:14,743 --> 01:46:15,911
It's called "blackout."
1633
01:46:16,953 --> 01:46:20,082
For a few minutes,
you're in the dark on the ground,
1634
01:46:20,165 --> 01:46:21,917
and you have no idea what happens.
1635
01:46:22,918 --> 01:46:26,963
Okay, blackout here is 18:36,
1636
01:46:28,006 --> 01:46:29,841
and you land at 48.
1637
01:46:29,925 --> 01:46:33,011
So that's 12 minutes before we land,
is the blackout.
1638
01:46:33,595 --> 01:46:35,055
What altitude is that?
1639
01:46:35,138 --> 01:46:36,807
-A hundred and five?
-So…
1640
01:46:36,890 --> 01:46:38,558
A hundred
and ninety-five kilometers?
1641
01:46:38,642 --> 01:46:42,521
-Does that sound too high?
-Uh, it does sound a little bit high.
1642
01:46:42,604 --> 01:46:44,314
-Found it?
-Yeah.
1643
01:46:44,398 --> 01:46:45,232
Forty-seven.
1644
01:46:45,315 --> 01:46:47,109
-Okay, fifty.
-Fifty. Okay.
1645
01:46:47,192 --> 01:46:50,153
So it happens
between 50 and 30 kilometers.
1646
01:46:50,946 --> 01:46:54,699
That means you fall from 30 kilometers
to six kilometers in two minutes?
1647
01:46:54,783 --> 01:46:57,619
-That's crazy.
-That seems crazy fast, man.
1648
01:46:59,371 --> 01:47:01,331
-Yeah.
-Remarkable.
1649
01:47:04,835 --> 01:47:08,505
You're moving at high speed,
and you're using the atmosphere to brake.
1650
01:47:09,714 --> 01:47:10,966
It's a lot of energy.
1651
01:47:13,218 --> 01:47:14,970
It gets hot on the outside,
1652
01:47:15,554 --> 01:47:18,432
and on the inside,
you see the fire flying by the window.
1653
01:47:20,267 --> 01:47:22,602
You need a heat shield that is perfect.
1654
01:47:24,354 --> 01:47:28,442
And after you get through the atmosphere,
you still have to deploy the parachutes.
1655
01:47:29,609 --> 01:47:33,155
They come out, then two minutes later,
you deploy the chutes. It's pretty quick.
1656
01:47:33,238 --> 01:47:35,449
In my mind,
it's probably the parachutes
1657
01:47:35,532 --> 01:47:38,618
that are the most significant thing
that needs to work.
1658
01:47:38,702 --> 01:47:42,122
In spite of all the testing we've done,
that's still one of the riskiest parts.
1659
01:47:42,205 --> 01:47:43,039
Right.
1660
01:47:43,123 --> 01:47:47,419
And, you know, we haven't had
a splashdown since the Apollo program.
1661
01:47:47,502 --> 01:47:48,336
Yeah.
1662
01:47:51,131 --> 01:47:53,758
Dragon, SpaceX for entry brief.
1663
01:47:54,468 --> 01:47:55,427
Go ahead.
1664
01:47:55,510 --> 01:47:58,597
The recovery team is go,
and the weather is great,
1665
01:47:58,680 --> 01:48:01,558
and your vehicle
is still looking really good for entry.
1666
01:48:01,641 --> 01:48:03,059
No health issues at this time.
1667
01:48:04,186 --> 01:48:05,687
-Copy.
1668
01:48:09,483 --> 01:48:11,485
How long until
they hit the atmosphere?
1669
01:48:11,568 --> 01:48:13,778
They go into the sequence
in five minutes.
1670
01:48:13,862 --> 01:48:15,655
I'm actually here for the deorbit burn.
1671
01:48:16,156 --> 01:48:17,616
To make sure that goes well.
1672
01:48:18,158 --> 01:48:19,826
-Deorbit burn's coming up now?
-Yeah.
1673
01:48:19,910 --> 01:48:20,869
Ah.
1674
01:48:23,079 --> 01:48:24,122
Well…
1675
01:48:24,789 --> 01:48:26,666
Everything's looking good, I think.
1676
01:48:28,919 --> 01:48:31,379
Yeah, well, it certainly has been
quite a journey.
1677
01:48:31,463 --> 01:48:33,673
Crazy. Here we are, right?
1678
01:48:34,883 --> 01:48:36,092
Yes, 18 years.
1679
01:48:37,010 --> 01:48:39,221
-Are you nervous?
-Yeah, I am.
1680
01:48:44,684 --> 01:48:47,604
Dragon, SpaceX.
Deorbit burn start.
1681
01:48:48,271 --> 01:48:49,397
We copy. Go.
1682
01:48:55,487 --> 01:48:58,031
Cool as a cucumber,
because they're not breathing very heavy,
1683
01:48:58,114 --> 01:48:59,741
'cause their CO2's not going up.
1684
01:48:59,824 --> 01:49:01,535
-That's good.
-Yeah.
1685
01:49:02,953 --> 01:49:05,497
Dragon, SpaceX.
Deorbit burn complete.
1686
01:49:05,580 --> 01:49:06,957
Performance nominal.
1687
01:49:07,457 --> 01:49:09,376
Nose cone closure initiated.
1688
01:49:09,876 --> 01:49:10,919
All right, boys.
1689
01:49:11,002 --> 01:49:12,254
Brace for entry.
1690
01:49:12,879 --> 01:49:13,838
Copy.
1691
01:49:13,922 --> 01:49:14,923
All right.
1692
01:49:15,006 --> 01:49:15,966
Here we go.
1693
01:49:29,521 --> 01:49:31,356
Four G's. That's moving.
1694
01:49:32,274 --> 01:49:33,692
Almost like a little comet.
1695
01:49:38,989 --> 01:49:43,243
Dragon, SpaceX. We show
two minutes until predicted comm blackout.
1696
01:49:43,326 --> 01:49:46,705
We will see you
on the other side at 18:42.
1697
01:49:47,998 --> 01:49:50,584
Dragon copy, 18:42.
1698
01:49:54,254 --> 01:49:56,047
Okay, we're in blackout.
1699
01:50:00,010 --> 01:50:02,095
Dragon, SpaceX. Comm check.
1700
01:50:11,187 --> 01:50:13,523
Dragon, SpaceX. Comm check.
1701
01:50:14,399 --> 01:50:17,110
Jesus, dude. This thing is so long.
1702
01:50:21,781 --> 01:50:23,950
Dragon, SpaceX. Comm check.
1703
01:50:32,250 --> 01:50:34,586
Dragon, SpaceX. Comm check.
1704
01:50:35,962 --> 01:50:37,464
Come on, where is it?
1705
01:50:39,924 --> 01:50:41,343
Let's find that puppy.
1706
01:50:41,926 --> 01:50:44,929
Oh.
1707
01:50:45,764 --> 01:50:46,765
Oh!
1708
01:50:47,432 --> 01:50:48,391
Oh, there it is.
1709
01:50:53,521 --> 01:50:55,732
Dragon, SpaceX. Comm check.
1710
01:50:57,817 --> 01:51:01,237
Copy, I heard you loud and clear.
We're about 3.9 G's.
1711
01:51:02,364 --> 01:51:03,740
Copy, we've got you.
1712
01:51:03,823 --> 01:51:05,700
-All right.
-Hell yeah.
1713
01:51:06,576 --> 01:51:07,869
Coming in hot.
1714
01:51:13,958 --> 01:51:17,045
Passing 15 kilometers,
brace for drogue window.
1715
01:51:18,380 --> 01:51:19,631
Copy, we're braced.
1716
01:51:22,384 --> 01:51:23,468
Come on, baby.
1717
01:51:31,851 --> 01:51:33,561
Visual, two drogues out.
1718
01:51:34,688 --> 01:51:36,022
Oh yeah, we felt it.
1719
01:51:37,774 --> 01:51:39,150
Slow down, baby.
1720
01:51:39,234 --> 01:51:41,152
Drogue descent rate nominal.
1721
01:51:41,236 --> 01:51:43,154
-Nice.
1722
01:51:43,238 --> 01:51:44,114
Yep.
1723
01:51:44,823 --> 01:51:45,824
All right.
1724
01:51:46,616 --> 01:51:48,118
Let's get these mains out.
1725
01:51:57,335 --> 01:51:58,461
Inflate, baby.
1726
01:52:00,004 --> 01:52:00,839
Inflate.
1727
01:52:02,340 --> 01:52:03,216
Come on.
1728
01:52:04,676 --> 01:52:06,636
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
1729
01:52:12,934 --> 01:52:15,812
We are visual
on four chutes out.
1730
01:52:17,313 --> 01:52:19,274
-Ooh.
-Yeah.
1731
01:52:19,357 --> 01:52:21,526
Hold on. Almost down to the ground.
1732
01:52:25,155 --> 01:52:27,282
Main chute decent rate nominal.
1733
01:52:27,365 --> 01:52:29,117
Passing through 700 meters.
1734
01:52:31,244 --> 01:52:34,372
And we're back
to seven meters per second. Nothing.
1735
01:52:34,456 --> 01:52:35,790
It's, like, sitting there.
1736
01:52:38,793 --> 01:52:39,627
Boom.
1737
01:52:41,379 --> 01:52:42,380
Slowing.
1738
01:52:50,472 --> 01:52:51,931
Six hundred meters.
1739
01:52:58,104 --> 01:52:59,647
Six hundred meters.
1740
01:53:05,862 --> 01:53:06,988
Two hundred meters.
1741
01:53:07,864 --> 01:53:09,574
We are braced for splashdown.
1742
01:53:10,700 --> 01:53:12,368
Copy. Brace for splashdown.
1743
01:53:18,374 --> 01:53:22,045
-All right! Whoo!
1744
01:53:42,857 --> 01:53:46,277
Welcome back to planet Earth,
and thanks for flying SpaceX.
1745
01:53:48,822 --> 01:53:49,906
Hell yeah!
1746
01:53:51,825 --> 01:53:53,910
Yeah!
1747
01:53:55,453 --> 01:53:56,788
All right.
1748
01:53:58,623 --> 01:53:59,582
Everything's good?
1749
01:53:59,666 --> 01:54:02,210
Everything was great.
This was super smooth.
1750
01:54:02,293 --> 01:54:03,211
Okay.
1751
01:54:05,713 --> 01:54:07,674
Are there small boats out there?
1752
01:54:09,133 --> 01:54:12,387
That doesn't look like a 45-footer to me.
That looks like a…
1753
01:54:12,470 --> 01:54:14,848
Now there's a… Who the hell is this?
1754
01:54:16,516 --> 01:54:19,269
-It's a boat there. Not ours.
-Oh, it's someone else?
1755
01:54:19,352 --> 01:54:21,312
Not ours.
Yeah, these are not our boats.
1756
01:54:21,396 --> 01:54:24,148
-Who is that? Just random people?
-Just random people.
1757
01:54:34,951 --> 01:54:36,661
-They're just like--
-Oh my gosh.
1758
01:54:37,453 --> 01:54:40,331
Look at this, dude,
just like fucking 30 jabroni boats
1759
01:54:40,415 --> 01:54:42,125
just show up out of nowhere.
1760
01:54:42,208 --> 01:54:44,168
You got a front-row seat.
1761
01:54:46,421 --> 01:54:51,092
Dragon, SpaceX. Stand by
for side hatch opening and egress.
1762
01:54:53,928 --> 01:54:55,138
Copy. We're ready.
1763
01:55:05,315 --> 01:55:06,524
What's up, fellas?
1764
01:55:08,276 --> 01:55:10,653
All right,
so they're getting set up.
1765
01:55:10,737 --> 01:55:12,655
They're gonna work to get Bob Behnken,
1766
01:55:12,739 --> 01:55:16,326
the joint operations commander
for this mission, out of the capsule now.
1767
01:55:17,201 --> 01:55:18,661
We got a thumbs-up,
1768
01:55:18,745 --> 01:55:20,747
indicating that things are going well.
1769
01:55:21,873 --> 01:55:24,208
And now
spacecraft commander Doug Hurley
1770
01:55:24,292 --> 01:55:26,252
making his way out of the capsule.
1771
01:55:28,546 --> 01:55:30,381
There we go. Another thumbs-up.
1772
01:55:36,471 --> 01:55:37,680
-Whoo!
1773
01:55:38,723 --> 01:55:41,142
-Don.
-Thank you.
1774
01:55:41,976 --> 01:55:43,227
Will you have some?
1775
01:55:43,728 --> 01:55:46,606
Yeah! Whoo!
1776
01:55:46,689 --> 01:55:49,317
Here's to happiness
and to Bob and Doug safely home.
1777
01:55:49,400 --> 01:55:50,318
No doubt.
1778
01:55:50,401 --> 01:55:51,736
Whoo!
1779
01:55:59,369 --> 01:56:02,080
It had been a couple of months
since we had launched,
1780
01:56:02,622 --> 01:56:05,291
so I was just really excited
to see my family.
1781
01:56:07,043 --> 01:56:10,046
But first, we were going to do
a little bit of a press event.
1782
01:56:12,924 --> 01:56:16,511
Six-year-olds, you know, they didn't have
him in handcuffs or anything,
1783
01:56:16,594 --> 01:56:19,305
so he broke free
and ran to me at the airplane.
1784
01:56:21,140 --> 01:56:22,725
It was just awesome to see him.
1785
01:56:24,811 --> 01:56:26,312
I'm glad I didn't fall down the steps
1786
01:56:26,396 --> 01:56:29,023
when he tried to tackle me
at the base of the stairs.
1787
01:56:32,318 --> 01:56:35,113
All right, um,
we're not gonna stand right now.
1788
01:56:35,196 --> 01:56:37,031
For those of you
who have done this before,
1789
01:56:37,115 --> 01:56:40,618
you know it's not pleasant standing
for a few hours after you get back.
1790
01:56:40,702 --> 01:56:43,413
Five hours ago, we were
in a spaceship bobbing around,
1791
01:56:43,496 --> 01:56:47,291
making prank satellite phone calls
to whoever we could get ahold of.
1792
01:56:48,376 --> 01:56:49,919
You know, this has been a, uh…
1793
01:56:50,545 --> 01:56:52,630
quite an odyssey the last five years
1794
01:56:52,714 --> 01:56:56,175
since Bob and I
started working on this program.
1795
01:56:56,259 --> 01:56:58,094
And to be where we are now,
1796
01:56:58,177 --> 01:57:01,639
the first crewed flight of Dragon,
1797
01:57:01,723 --> 01:57:03,725
is just unbelievable.
1798
01:57:04,308 --> 01:57:07,562
There's something special
about having that capability
1799
01:57:07,645 --> 01:57:10,440
to launch and… and bring
your own astronauts home.
1800
01:57:10,940 --> 01:57:13,276
I just wanna thank you all
for coming out today
1801
01:57:13,359 --> 01:57:15,403
and celebrating what was accomplished.
1802
01:57:15,903 --> 01:57:17,822
-Thank you, all.
1803
01:57:18,489 --> 01:57:19,949
Whoo-hoo! Yeah.
1804
01:57:23,870 --> 01:57:25,705
After these great words that were spoken,
1805
01:57:25,788 --> 01:57:28,332
um, I… I'm not sure I have much to add.
1806
01:57:28,416 --> 01:57:29,751
I mean, I really came here
1807
01:57:29,834 --> 01:57:32,920
'cause I just wanted to see Bob and Doug,
to be totally frank.
1808
01:57:33,004 --> 01:57:36,966
Like, my entire adrenaline,
it was just dumped, you know.
1809
01:57:37,050 --> 01:57:39,010
It's like…
1810
01:57:39,093 --> 01:57:41,304
Like, "Thank God."
1811
01:57:42,138 --> 01:57:43,139
You know?
1812
01:57:44,891 --> 01:57:47,769
You know, I think
this is an achievement of humanity,
1813
01:57:47,852 --> 01:57:51,689
and… and I think the whole world
can look at this as a new era.
1814
01:57:51,773 --> 01:57:53,608
We're gonna have a base on the Moon,
1815
01:57:53,691 --> 01:57:55,818
and we're gonna have… send people to Mars.
1816
01:57:55,902 --> 01:57:57,904
Have… and make life multi-planetary.
1817
01:57:57,987 --> 01:58:02,617
And I think this… this day
heralds a new age of space exploration.
1818
01:58:11,334 --> 01:58:13,711
You're looking
at the Crew Dragon spacecraft
1819
01:58:13,795 --> 01:58:15,046
and Falcon 9 rocket
1820
01:58:15,129 --> 01:58:18,841
set to launch four astronauts
to the International Space Station
1821
01:58:18,925 --> 01:58:20,843
on a six-month science mission.
1822
01:58:23,846 --> 01:58:27,308
This crew is about to fly
in the exact same capsule
1823
01:58:27,391 --> 01:58:30,728
that first flew NASA astronauts
Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley
1824
01:58:30,812 --> 01:58:33,022
in last year's Demo-2 test flight.
1825
01:58:34,482 --> 01:58:38,027
This is the second crew to fly
on a commercial spacecraft
1826
01:58:38,111 --> 01:58:40,363
for this new era of human spaceflight.
1827
01:58:43,199 --> 01:58:46,119
And here they come,
the Crew-2 astronauts
1828
01:58:46,202 --> 01:58:50,540
taking their first steps outside
before their journey to space.
1829
01:58:51,624 --> 01:58:52,792
Yay!
1830
01:58:52,875 --> 01:58:53,960
Hey, Mommy!
1831
01:58:57,421 --> 01:58:59,382
Pilot Megan McArthur
in the front.
1832
01:58:59,465 --> 01:59:00,591
Hi, buddy!
1833
01:59:00,675 --> 01:59:02,385
Hey, Mommy, I love you.
1834
01:59:02,885 --> 01:59:06,264
Looks like Bob Behnken
is there with their son.
1835
01:59:06,848 --> 01:59:09,892
They are a power couple,
and I love it.
1836
01:59:10,893 --> 01:59:13,396
Now it's time for Megan's mission.
1837
01:59:14,897 --> 01:59:16,274
It's super exciting for us
1838
01:59:16,357 --> 01:59:19,193
that she's gonna be able
to ride the same Dragon capsule.
1839
01:59:19,777 --> 01:59:22,405
And so I need to step in
in the backup role
1840
01:59:22,488 --> 01:59:25,950
and flip-flop and make sure
our son Theo gets everything he needs.
1841
01:59:26,033 --> 01:59:27,160
See you in six months.
1842
01:59:27,243 --> 01:59:28,953
See you in six months. I'm gonna miss you.
1843
01:59:29,453 --> 01:59:32,206
My husband flew
the Crew Dragon last year
1844
01:59:32,290 --> 01:59:35,126
and happened to be
in the same seat that I'll be in.
1845
01:59:36,085 --> 01:59:40,047
This time it's Mom's turn,
and I'm gonna be up there for six months.
1846
01:59:43,718 --> 01:59:45,219
As our son gets older,
1847
01:59:45,303 --> 01:59:48,681
he's starting to build an awareness
of what it is that we do.
1848
01:59:50,349 --> 01:59:51,684
We want him to understand
1849
01:59:51,767 --> 01:59:54,437
we think it's important to explore
and to push the boundaries
1850
01:59:54,520 --> 01:59:55,688
of what we're capable of.
1851
01:59:57,565 --> 02:00:01,777
The crew now on their way
- to Launch Complex 39
- A,
1852
02:00:01,861 --> 02:00:04,447
ready for their ride to the space station.
1853
02:00:06,282 --> 02:00:10,536
I embrace this dawn of this age
of commercialization of space.
1854
02:00:13,080 --> 02:00:17,210
Our mission proved that we could get
humans in the low Earth orbit
1855
02:00:17,293 --> 02:00:20,463
and kind of planted the seed
for how we're gonna go beyond that.
1856
02:00:22,798 --> 02:00:26,427
As we go forward,
we wanna accomplish all those missions
1857
02:00:26,510 --> 02:00:28,846
that help us understand what's out there,
1858
02:00:28,930 --> 02:00:30,014
but at the same time,
1859
02:00:30,097 --> 02:00:32,016
we have to figure out the smart way
1860
02:00:32,099 --> 02:00:34,769
to take care of the resources
and our solar system
1861
02:00:35,353 --> 02:00:38,648
and not trash Mars
when the opportunity presents itself.
1862
02:00:39,774 --> 02:00:42,777
Of course,
there will be questions and challenges,
1863
02:00:43,319 --> 02:00:45,738
like how we're gonna govern
something like that.
1864
02:00:46,405 --> 02:00:50,117
But if we can continue
to get people into space,
1865
02:00:50,201 --> 02:00:52,286
I can't imagine it doesn't make us better.
1866
02:00:52,370 --> 02:00:54,413
Elon, are you go?
1867
02:00:54,497 --> 02:00:55,748
Absolutely.
1868
02:00:55,831 --> 02:00:59,126
MJ, we're here.
We just spoke to Elon. He's ready to go.
1869
02:01:00,086 --> 02:01:02,880
We should think more about,
what's the future we want?
1870
02:01:03,839 --> 02:01:05,299
What has the happy ending?
1871
02:01:06,759 --> 02:01:11,097
For me, it's, you know, making sure
we become a spacefaring civilization.
1872
02:01:11,639 --> 02:01:14,016
Dragon, SpaceX.
You are go for launch.
1873
02:01:14,892 --> 02:01:18,312
But it's very important
to appreciate this is not inevitable.
1874
02:01:22,858 --> 02:01:26,988
People are mistaken when they think that
technology just automatically improves.
1875
02:01:27,071 --> 02:01:29,031
It does not automatically improve.
1876
02:01:30,950 --> 02:01:33,661
If you look at great civilizations
like ancient Egypt,
1877
02:01:33,744 --> 02:01:37,331
and they were able to make the pyramids,
and they forgot how to do that.
1878
02:01:38,374 --> 02:01:41,043
And the Romans,
they built these incredible aqueducts.
1879
02:01:41,127 --> 02:01:42,378
They forgot how to do it.
1880
02:01:43,921 --> 02:01:46,716
In 1969, we were able
to send somebody to the Moon,
1881
02:01:46,799 --> 02:01:48,968
and we forgot how to do that.
1882
02:01:50,011 --> 02:01:51,721
T-minus 15 seconds.
1883
02:01:51,804 --> 02:01:53,723
The window of opportunity
is open right now
1884
02:01:53,806 --> 02:01:55,099
to make life multi-planetary.
1885
02:01:57,143 --> 02:01:59,312
But we cannot count on it
being open for a long time.
1886
02:01:59,395 --> 02:02:02,732
Ten, nine, eight, seven…
1887
02:02:02,815 --> 02:02:05,318
We need to take advantage
of that window while it is open.
1888
02:02:05,401 --> 02:02:08,738
…four, three, two, one.
1889
02:02:18,998 --> 02:02:21,334
Endeavour launches once again.
1890
02:02:21,417 --> 02:02:24,128
Four astronauts
from three countries on Crew-2
1891
02:02:24,211 --> 02:02:27,631
now making their way to the one and only
International Space Station.
1892
02:02:34,513 --> 02:02:36,849
Crew Dragon flying free.