in the navigator, mainly myself, they were saying bombs away, and then the pilotagain and then ge. >> two world war ii veterans, sunday night on c-span's "q&a." ■]asts on our c-span now app. >> next, prelaunch news conference on boeings first crude space lef-- spacecraft. two are flying the mission to the internation space station from kennedy space center discuss. this is about one hour. >> on tuesday, nasa astronauts

which wilmore and sonny williams landed their jet at the launch and landing solidity here in florida. the crew returned from houston. they were continuing the quarantine after the scrub, the first launch attempt on may 6. since then, they were to resolved various crew is now int the neal a armstrong operations and checkout building while awaiting saturday's launch. but not before taking a selfie with some folks out there, some boeing employees. out at the old shuttle landing facility. welcome to the auditorium at the kennedy space center. i will be your moderator for today's news conference. the second attempt of boeings crew flight test of the star liner spacecraft, scheduled for exactly and 40 seconds a.m. easrn time on the rocket that just returned to the pad

yesterday morning. our panel today, joining me to answer your questions, starting from my left, our nasa administrator, steve stich, manager of the crew program, the manager of space station program, new to the panel, then nasa astronaut who was theprime pilot for the t rotational flight from nasa and boeing to the iss. boeing program manager and vice president for the crew program. weavalliance vice president of government and commercial programs, and the cft launch weather officer with the 45th weather squadron based at the cape canaveral air force station. ,dwe are joined by members of te

media, as well as on the phone. we will take your questions following anelist. we will begin. >> thank you.

>> thank you. thank you for joining us for our next attempt to launch the first crude element of the boeing star liner family. we learned a lot more about the system since our first launch attempt on the sixth of may. the teams continue to work allegedly to ensure that when we do launch the test flight, we are ready to conducted safely. you have heard all of us on multiple occasions mentioned that we will fly when we are ready. the teams have been taking the right steps to conduct the necessary testing to get us rel hear a lot more about that today. there teams brought a number ofo the elements youavabout from the replacement, the heliumwe brouga because we wanted the whole team to hear and consider the evaluation and acceptance related to the cft affected systems and overall systems. they are really based on our plan. we are continuing to learn. th what spaceflight is

about. every day we learn with the ultimate goal of keeping our cruise safe, living there, and returning. as i mentioned, we will keep learning from this test flight,k and i'm looking forward to increasing our knowledge and the understanding of this new spacecraft and overall system. just one hour, and i'm not stealing dana's thunder for iss but r re years, people have been living and working off of this planet. we have posted 3000 research investigations from 108 counieit is a critical test bedr w4 everytng is trying to do to understand the challenges of long-duration space flights the research and technology, instructions conducted on iss and some of which move through cases are done so with

earth, but they also will help us and are helping us prepare for those missions beyond leo, the missions that will be foal leo s that will take us to the moon and mars. thank you for being here. with that, let me offer my individual that work to get us back here. that includes the crew who participated in a lot of discussions, who understand, but it is the individuals on the people that make space very special and help with the focus of keeping our cruise safe, so let me say to you i to them individually for their work. i will turn it over to steve. >> for those kind words. thank you for being here today. thank you for your interest in the commercial free program, and our it has been a busy few days,

even since we talk to you last friday and we gave you an on wednesday. test ready where we went through the readiness of several important aspects of getting ready for the flight. we talked about the helium lea t through that and then alsovulned about friday. we talked about a parachute crossover topic possibility, and i will talk more about that later. and we made sure we had a good plan for the operation of e self-regulating and they know it has been a long road to ge here. it is exciting for me to be here. i got here just after everyone arrived on tuesday. when the crew arrived, we are getting close to the launch, and i am verys that have worked very hard over

the last two weeks. ■4we were ableo get a little downtime and i could tell when we ce n tuesday, people looked more rested and really ready to go to hit tin operatioy to launch. 12:25 eastern is the launch time and we will 25.5 hours later at 1:56w0 p.m. on sunday, june 2. if we have to scrub we have a bp opportunity on sunday, june ease 6. it isa few things that we worken the last few days, and we will go into more detail, we received darom spacex on a reflector on iss that showed the port relocate that had degradation from one of the reflectors, so

spacex provided data to us. we took it over to the boeing team who ran a few simulations to make sure workede could go ahead and dock successfully. in the interim. kudos to spacex for sharing data with us. one of the things i'm starting to see amongst the entities that are eyeing in spaces that sharing of data -- are flying in space, that sharing of data is incredible. there was a recent flight had a parachute that did not fully inflate. star liner uses similar components to that parachute system in terms of line cutters that cut that system. their origin provided some that. they shared it with nasa, spacex, and boeing. we were able to go through the particular components on star

liner and we made sure we had good separation from particular parachute that did not fully inflate. we went through, looked at all the data, and that is good to go fly. we work was there was at this component on stations. we will talk more about that. it needed to be sent out,ed carr liner and are flying up about 140 pound items for the space station that really needs it, so we had to re-manifest and that was done today. i think what i have seen out of boeing and the nasa team and the team working with their space station team is a lot of agility dealing with these things as they come up, which tells me fly, and we will take it one step at a time. mark will talk about the weather. we have a really good shot at the weather, and we are just going to watch the onshore flow a little bit.

we are ready to go fly when the vehicles and crew isea >> thank you for being here today. wednesday's agency review is really thorough we had discussion about the helium leak and tolerance. i think the commercial crew and all the technical teams did a fantastic job bringing forward a discussion, and i feel like now we are really solid with our mission planned to fly this flight. from the station standpoint, are responsibility is what they call safety, the safety of the two vehicles as they operate together to rendezvous. those issues specificarisk of integrated operation spacewe diy morning. everybody is good to go, including national partners. as mentioned, we had an onboard

anomaly this week. on wednesday morning, the upa at urine all of the cruise urine and processes in the first step of a water recovery system and then sends it downstream to water processor that turns to drinking water. if the station is designed to be closed loop and have urine processed all the way down to drinking water, what that process -- if that process fail in the process where we have to store urine on boards. we can do that. we have bags and tanks for this the intent is to recover and get the equip going again. the pump that failed is expected to run until the fall timeframe, and we had our next manife on the cargo flight that goes up in august. it is available early, and that put us in a position where we

have to store a lot of urine, and that further capability we n board. we workedor iss team for a quice to the plan. on wednesdnnedy, got it to the launchpad. it is quitearge and its packed configuration is in a bag thag9t is about three feet long 20 by -- 20 inches to 20 inches and about 150 pounds total. a pretty substantial size. the key for the flight wasn't to perturb the mass property. we wanted to keep the mass of the vehicle the same, so we had to find cargo that we could displace without impacting that and we ended up pulling mouth two crew suitcases. those have -- pulling two crew

suitcases. those have clothing on them. it is funny to hear these technical terms. they have suitcases like we do. they do have a lot of clothing on board, so they will just use that. huge kudos team for the quick response. they turned thisro rapidly, so the flexibility from the boeing team, the cargo team in the iss team was outstanding to get us to this point so we can capture the launch. we will put it in ready soon after the vehicle arrives. obviously, we would like to get that capability up and running again. otherews onboard space station. vehicle or 86 p report 88, thate launched yesterday. it is preflight now. it will talk tomorrow around 7:45 eastern time, so about five hours for the cft launch.

the crew on board is working through eva preparations. we have a series of spacewalks we will do, starting june 13, so we will continue working through that. if they are up with us at that time, we could change the timeframe or move them for any star liner critical activities that would have priority over those eva's. so from a station standpoint, from our ground teams, we are ready to go fly the mission, and we are excited to be on the doorstep of this historic mission. with that, i will handed over to mike. >> good afternoon. good to be back here. captains, butch and sonny, they are astronauts, my dear friends, we have been training together for a long time. more importantly for this mission, they are test pilots, looking very forward to getting flight test data that will help

continue the certification process for star so that star liner 1, 2, 3, and to infinity and beyond, fly provide services to the international space station, and that depends other missions are available out there, too, and they are very excited for tomorrow's lunch. butch and sonny have not seen the capsule since i took them to the> launchpad, but they have nt seen the capsule since they got strapped in on may 6, so they are back in the capsule and they should be there just about now for some checks to make sure the caom comm systems are working to make sure that the control center in houston, here in florida, and the launch

alliance, and we will also sleep he can get reacquainted with the capsule, especially the new cargo configuration. will just make everything more ready for tomorrow. i can say that they have been in quarantine since end of april. they are very excited to go launch soon. but it has been a great process learning more about star liner along the way, and the more we know about our spacecraft, the safer and more successful we are , so butch and sonny, i talked to them, and they have every our spacecraft, and our teams, r leadership management teams, and they are definitely ready to go. and over to mark nappy. >> good afternoon and thank you for joining us.

they are monitoring the sp reported this morning at 3:30, powered up the vehicle, and they have been in continuous monitoring mode and will coinue to work the launch countdown leading up until 4:00 a.m., when the launch team will co so far, there have been no issues we are working with with the spacecraft, so all is going well. yesterday, we performed an minus two briefing, and the purpose was to close any open issues, and/or look at the changes that have happened until the may 6 attempt launcand make sure that we have this all closed and taken care of. that meeting was and we got aole to proceed to launch. there was a minus one crew also, and we are ready to go at 4:00 a.m.

we are looking forward to flying the mission. is is an exciting■to gary. >> we are excited to be here today, preparing for our first human spaceflight launch to deliver butch and sonny to the tespace station. we are doing our final launch preparations today, as we make sure everything isbetween the ld capsule. the majority of our team today,, they are getting set, because the team comes in to fuel the rocket and supported to tomorrow's launch. everything is going smooth. we a any issues,

and i would like to take this po to say thank you to the nasa and boeing teams for working with us to get past the next couple of weeks, may 6, and looking forward to lunch tomorrow. i will turn it over to mark, are launch weather officer. >> thank you. so we're hdinoon launch attempt so often times if you're familiar with florida weather, that would often mean thunderstorms. no such concern for tomorrow . generally local weather and uh weather down the uh ascent corridor over the atlantic look favorable for us. quite favorable for us. th bng said there is one watch item and that is the local winds you may have noticed it's already turning breezy out of there with sort of a stiff onshore flow and that's what we'll be monitoring uh for tomorrow. 90% chance of weather again not considering any rain or thunderstorms, a few clouds but nothing concerning for us. it is considering any

rain or thunderstorms maybe a few clouds but not anything concerning for us again as mentioned uh the winds uh will be a little feisty tomorrow not only in terms of the magnitude of the winds but also the direction of the winds so again a pretty good onshore component uh nearly perpendicular to the coast so that tightens or restricts us just a little bit in terms of favorability but again now winds as you know are a highly in time and space so hopefully we'll be able to to get off opportunity the next day on sunday again very similar weather conditions although uh luckily winds do ease a little bit so not only in terms of the magnitude but the direction uh becomes a little bit more uh southeasterly or east south easterly which is not quite head on to the coastline so again that gives us a little more latitude, as well. may pick up a few more uh clouds butise vere conditions for again early june . >> thank you, mark. i want to make one correction if i said a.m. in the beginning, i

meant p.m., it is 12:25 seconds p.m.. do not show up here overnight. by bugs. all right, we are taking questions. we will startith marsha. >> probably for you, steve. game plan since one month ago?

is it still planned to be an eight-day docking to the space station, and by my count, that wouldrliest coming back on june 10, does that sound right? >> y would have that question. right now, theisys long to fulfl the objectives.some of the things we would like to do, and we would like to demonstrate the ability of what we call safe haven, which is the crew with star liner, simulated if there is a problem on iss, but the earliest landing would be around be a noncentral, landing atx wod be the first one, around 1016 central, and then we h■5ave a backup on june 11 -- 10:16 central, and then at 5:35 central time.

again, once we get docked, we would like to time to check star liner out, check alls we need to do for the long increment flights. i would say that there is a chance that when we get to these opportunities, if we need to stayweather to get good, we will stay up a couple of hours. >> in the frontier. >>two questions for dana. first, do you need the progress eda to dock prior to cft laustee detail about what happened with the ns 25 parachute and what the possible oveap was and what storyline or thinks? >> in terms of progress, if they had a problem docking and they were in free flight, past the time of launch, we would want to stand out and let them talk. anytime you have a spacecraft in

free flight, it would have the priority. we would go ahead and deal witw, finished her docking and then scussions about where to launch. >> i will talk a little bit about and first of all, they have done a great■ job in trying to undan what happened in that perished test. so what we saw is that the cutters for some reason did not cut that line, and out we use a very similar cutter that blue origin uses, so it was important for us to back and le test data on our cutters. of what we are using, so we hadt good separation. we never saw any issue with so that is why wed flight separation.

> a little bit, assuming we have a successful launch the coming days, a nominal mission with no major issues, do youhey are still enough time to get star liner certified in time fo? >> i think that will be something we will wk on after right now, we are focused on the crew flight aobviously, the pat test. that is the most important thing we have towards certification, so we will go fly the flight and look at the data coming out of the flight, and that we will make the right call relative to when we go fly star liner one. we have to go through the school certification. we really haven't had a chance. and we have busy working out the crew flight h >> our next question.

>> thank you. i wanted to follow-up on the blue origin question, is nasa interested in learning about how origins is fixing that band issue? are you continuing to work with them? >> yeah, i would say blue origin has been outstanding. what we have fou i between spacex, boeing, nasa, blue origin is small group of people that work on the parachutes, so blue is in the middle of an investigation. they have been read at sharing the data. they don'ti would call any kind of [indiscernible] with them. >> [indiscernible] >> airborne makes the parachutes for all three. i don't really know who the recent line cutter manufacturers. >> my question is for steve and

mark. can you tell us what was the rate of launch? how much would it be, and what is the volume, what is the way to having the helium tank? on a percentage basis, i would like to know, how significant is ? what is the margin you have? do you have a different helium tank? ifou helium, please. thank you. >> i think we talked on friday a little bit, initially at the launchpad, and this p2d2e, we sk

rate of seven pounds per minute. keep in mind, the volume is very small, so it is like 15 cubic inches of volume, so when we close the manifold valve, that y big, so that is the leak rate. roughly -- i'm trying to think about how to characterize this. in terms of the total amount of helium, we have margin of about 500 psiank, pressure is about 3000 psi, so

we have quite a bit of margins. this kind of size leak uses a smalfr that. that is our rationale to go fly, and we will power up the vehle e pad tomorrow, we will te a look at those in the leak rate. we can see it in the tank, actually, so we will see if the leak is about what we expect it and i will see if mark >> there are about 50 pounds of helium on board, and this leak, if it was left open tojji vent l the time, it would lose about half a pound a day. so there is plenty of margin left over. >> we are going to close the manifold and isolate the tank. >> i believe it is two tanks. two tanks are together, tanks ho

manifold to go to each of the dog houses. >> let's go to the phonnes. bill harwood is on the line. >> thank you. apologies for not being in the room. follow-up. i realize nobody expected anything like this to actually happen, but when do you pressurize stems? when would they get a chance to check that leak rate and have context for the countdown? if the leak rate really did go up before a large, would your s there some rate that you will say, i'm not going to fly? thank you. >> that is a lot of what we have spent the last weeor on, was ale contingency have looked at when we open up these manifolds, for two minus

four hours, around 8:00 tomorrow morning, that is when we would see if this leak has increased or not, and if it has$ substantially. the managing of the system is a lot of what the teams worked on over the last two weeks, what if does increase prior to launch? what is acceptable and what would we do? what would causes to reevaluate our flight rationale? all of those conditions have been weighed out for the launch team, and same for flight. we have an increase in the leak or additional leaks, what is the criteria for what we would do? those are all laid out in the flight rules. the teams have been trained, the crew informed, and we are in good shape. >> i would just like to add that the crew spent a lot of time at the boeing facilities in houston

to practice the contingencies that we are not expecting, but inasv happen, our flight procedures and the crew will be able to safely come home into orbit, and that was part of our risk trade-off as we got closer to flight rationale area >> another question on the phone -- rationale. >> another question on the phone line. go ahead. >>■j stephen mk, regarding the design that, hgyou explain if ye i will start. have different methods of orbiting the we use those are

30 max -- those are three per house, and it turns out that for certain failure cases, we would lose omac thrusters and if we lost helium manifold due to

star board to get into this ■where we need to rcs thrusters. so a very low probability that would happen. we looked at potential failur modes, but we have a way to get out t.that is when we reduce th- which we don't expect and we are managing the system so we don't get into scenario preflight, but we could use these to in the sequences we talked about friday. talked to the process th we go through to come to these conclusions with safelite rationale. there are a number of different disciplines that get involved, and we walked through these step-by-step, and the leveltiond is pretty amazing to make that we fully understand what is going on,utions are, and what

if we are? that is what took place the last couple of weeks. not only does our team with boeing and nasa work this together, but we have independent people that come in d nasa that looks over our shoulders to make sure we answer all these questions and address the issue correctly, so with that, besides being a low probability that we would get into thisgh confidence thate solution we came up with works. >> let's come back to the room. gentlemen in the thir>> thank y. ou mentioned that boeing is seeking potential redesign of the propulsion system. i did this question before, if this needs to be done before star■ liner one, if this is the

case, how does that affect certification or could there be a delay? >> as far as a redesign, this would not be under the redesigns league has somehow snuck its way through the system. what we expected was that the seal was either damaged or there was some■od= debris■ng it to se. we would have to screen up before we get this far. what we are doing for star liner one is comin a screener technique that we can apply to r liner one to make sure we don't have the same situation. >> we would go look at maybe if there is a way to do a little more testing, or is there

software change to a much more thrusters to fire? >> let's go to the phone lines and get stephen clark. go ahead. >> just to follow-up on an earlier question about t flight rules for the helium leak, when you pressurize that system, the last time you leak radius, it was -- what would be the acceptable level? >> i will turn to our resident flight director. >> we could manage about roughly double the rate, and we could manage it in flight. we can look at one's the system is pressurized and open, we can

look a tank. we talked about two tanks. we will look at it. we know with the drop should be tank, so we will look at that to make sure it has not changed, and then ifwill isolatd take a look at this specific manifold and understand the leak rate, and we haveplace. >> just a follow-up on5'■, if there were to be in isolation of the, you would still

be able to proceed with a launch, do i understand that correctly? is there a particular drain in the leak that you would consider standing down? >> we will look at the leak rates, looking at the drop in the tank, so we ha 20 psi for e we isolate go. if it is more than that, we would think the leak is changed and we would look at that. we would not launch with the manifold isolate. part of the bety of the star liner system is it has an incredible system that relies on meeting all the thrusters maneuvering in each of those dock houses, so we could manage it should be get on orbit and see a change in the leak rate, we could close the dock house.

we looked to the station, and we can go into the does affect us at the end of the mission with the orbit capability. we have a criteriap in the tanke would launch that is above the 30 psi of the tank. >> we have got a number of reporters on the phone, so we ay there for the moment. >> this is andrea of the houston chronicle, thank you further questions. i'vei know you said you look at certification after but you havd nasa will be considering star liner by november or december. is that realistic? i would like to double check that it had 140 pounds of cargo

the cases that were removed, with a four butch and sonny or oaks on the station? >> i will take the one. there is other cargos the recene to, that one bag fully packed his 150 pounds, so for the last minute change. there is other cargo that is off the vehicle. for example, there are a few up. the two specific are clothing, and some h&g■ygiene equipment and materials. of course, we have geric ■s oaps, etc., and they can just use from the generic supply. they will use the generic supply

we have on board. e have them is for cases like this, in the cargo supply doesn't get there, we keep a contingency supply on board. >> certification process, about 80% of the certification process , we know it we have to do and have been doing that over the last year. and plan closes by november to have a certification review. 20%, or maybe a little is left over is relying on the mission on the cft flight. there are likely going to be some kind of anomalies or things or data that we need to collect' from the cft flight. we have to download the data, analyze it, and understand it. that will be part of what we bring to the certification review and the results of that. the longer it takes to fly cft, the shorter that time is for us

to review the data and make sure that we have reports for it and we understand it. that is the variable. how many in-flight anomalies do we have on cft and when do we bring the vehicle back, and do if we do not, then we will do a partial getting the certification review done as soon as we can is important, regardless of when we fly. >> back to the room. ma >> two quick questions. how deep into june can you epwot into next week? mike, when the crew is quarantined in houston, can they go home or have they been stuck not seen their home since the end of april? how tough has the quarantined and for soon-- quarantine

been for so long? >> we had launches june 1, send, five and six, and we had to stand down for a number of s on the launch vehicle on the rocket, and then if we have to talk about what the opportunities are after that. >> [indiscernible] gary can comment on how long it takes to replace the batteries. >> with the magnitude, probably 10 days. tough the quarantine has been, they were able to go back to houston, we did some training there. we do take the health stabilization program÷l lot, especially during the covid, so ■butch and sonny were able to go home. we have to be careful about maintaining sep

family, but. wilmore, if you know him, he really likes to sit on his lawnmor he has the best manicured lawn in his neighborhood, and i know enjoyed spending time with her puppies and dogs, and keeping the crew motivated and focused is important, so we were able to mana that for the flight docs, so they are back here and ready to go. >> here in the front. >> i'm nosuor mike, but with hindsight, if was the understanding that there would have been an issue for a ba de-orbit earn? do you believe that would have beend and was the

solution to develop the dual burn? was that obvious or does it only se now after you went through this and not in the heat of needing to get the crew home? just to have a sense of what discovery this before lunch sort of provides. thank you. >> i will starti would say if we on may 6, we would have gone to orbit and we would have seen the leak after weñ6 dk . we would have seen this small leak. i t wob and would have figured out we had the vulnerability. it is really hard to expect. i think we have figured out the solution we came up with. when we found the leak, i did not take long to see if we vuln.

rbit and we would have started looking at what the optionre i would be probably a e more forward on that. 99.9% s that it would have been caught. as part of the troubleshooting, we don't follow through, so this where the leak could have occurred the issue. had this occurred in-flight, we would have had an unexplained anomaly coming home. we would have gone through the same process, and we would have learned the same thing, so i'm confident we would have caught this. >> the process of developing the flight procedureunderstanding■,s similar to what we would have done anyway.

the only difference was butch and suni were able to be there for the procedure development and further testing out. had they been upn space, then their trusty backups and star liner one crew, we would have joined the team and helps with that, so we think we gotten to a similar, if not the same answer. >> joey? >>uestion for steve or mark. have you found out anything more about why you think the seals helium leak? is that somethigqéxng you are continuing to be interested in? mark, if the delay goes beyond thursday and the rocket has to have its batteries replaced, how long would that take? >> i will start with the seal question. we are staying hungry to find out what exactly happened here

and to learn as much as we can. we have some dock houses that we are taking apart right now. we plan to look at those seals closely to see if we can see anything that would give us more information about what might be happening inside of this one. we will continue to look for the root cause and try to build evidence on what it is. we know it is the seal. we just do not know if it was damaged or if there was as the leading cause, and we will work to determine what that is or was. the second part of thestion -- >> [indiscernible] >> so the work we have on star liner, we do have would go take, as well, but it all it's under the window of gary's flight termination battery systs being changed out. >> bk to the phone lines.

>> this is q are butch and sunig to have for breakfast before lunch? answer.supposed to know tha i called them up today, and, unfortunately, they were headed to the launchpad. we don't have that but i will assure you it will be delicious. ok. we will take another on the phone line. anthony? thank you for taking our questions today. i'm trying to wrap my head around this, and i'm trying to use it in terms so people can understand it. airplane, and there was a leak like this, i d'

to take off. i'm trying to understand why is going, we have a good backup plan here, but why don't we just play it on the safe side,g take the star liner off the rocket and fix the seal? thank y>>that and we will see wk has to add. first of all, we have looked were with this particular phalange. the fact that it has a fuel line that goes into it and an oxidizer line and the helium going into it makes it problematic to work on, almost unsafe to work on, so what we have done for the approach,we ta pound a day after 50■f■i poundsf

total capability in be tank, it is a small leak and well within the margin rate sometimes for spaceflight, you pn for contingencies and you designed the vehicle to have margin. in our case,e have margin in the helium tank, and we have worked really h margin and undee the worst cases," and we took te time to go through thathe leak t before we launch, and if it got your in-flight, we could manage and handle a leak that is 100 times worse than this. ■gso when we looked at all the data, we concluded that the smartest thing to do was to go fly the mission, and we could do it safely. >> it is really just a matter of safety. when we looked at this problem,

it did not come making trades. it came down to is it safer not? and it is safe. and that is why we determined we can go fly with what we have. another question on the phone. go ahead. >> i'm wondering about transatlantic abort scenarios. i have not seen any reference to a wondering what happens? i'm assuming that this would be a water landing. they are not going to parachute onto shannon airport. >> [laughter] no, we would not be landing in shannon airport. there is a period of time over

the north atlantic ocean, a spot over the north atlantic ocean that is called do not want to land because the water is alw68erous. so star liner, along with a dual engine scimitar has the near the exclusion zone, to head back towards canada, and points back, and that a st. john's abort, and if that is not going to work, we can continue the flight and we will fly onto the irish coast in the water sp. there is a guided entry sequence, and it will take us close to shannon, ireland, right ■gst, and hopefully, and irish coast guard to pick up my crewmates, and then we will get them bk >>go ahead.

thank you for taking my question. i was curious if you could share if we [indiscernible] going through the analysise, coming up to the flight rationale, what is your perspective? astronaut to fly like this? >>m an astronaut perspective, one say, and we met nasa commercial crew program■j office, as well as the boeing company have included us, butch, and their representatives and slight operations directory, and we are part of the team. we know wh i understand discussd

risks g mitigated. butch and suni have a strong voice. if they were concerned about something, we would send it up to our chain to the cheap astronaut who would take it d. if you ask butch and suni directly, i can answer for them they feel comfortable and confident forward, and as flight testers and engineers, this is something that we know is giving birth to the spacecraft -- dramatic -- but when you have a new spacecraft, you need to learn all about it. this has been a great exercise in understanding all the nuances a new spacecraft, as well as whatever he going to do about it team? this is a good example of finding a ;.trblem and coming up with solutions, answering a lot of what-ifs and looking forward to saying, how

do we make sure this doesn't happen aga? all of those pieces are in place. that is part of developing. it is development, not operations as much, and we see those sameprograms i've been ind with, as well as since we first got to the iss, i was there for that, and we learned how things operated, and we learned what pieces were going to fail sooner rather than later, and we know our space statn really well now, and we are going to put star liner through a lot of operations even better. the course, but this is what we do when we develop a new spacecraft. we understand everything isn't going to be perfect, so we have good discussions and understanding as we move forward and our crew was a part of it. all of us get a and

understanding, so we are excited for launch and we have every confidence in this mission. >> well said. we will end the briefing on those words. thank you tar panelists. we are -- thank you tar panelists for joinia. the ui layout was five rocket ck with star liner is set toe launch tomorrow, june 1, coverage on nasa plus and our nasa.gov/live at 8:15 a.m. star mike fink on the broadcast, that. should be entertaining, as well as informative. until then, everybody have a great afternoon. cft . >> c-span's "washington journal," live forum involving

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