esper would not continue secretary of defense into a second trump term, but given the way the election came out, i think there was an expectation he would finish out the term until january 20. that has been custom that most of the senior people within the administration, presidentially appointed people, would normally continue until from the kennedye center in florida. i would like to welcom >> we take you live to the kennedy space center. nasa's and spacex is flight to the international space station. i hear -- here to provide are detailsils -- all the are the folks who lead the preparations up to this moment. is a very exciting day for

everybody at nasa basics. let me introduce the panel and i will each one of them take some words. steve is the director for the program here at counter arid and joel, the nasa manager of the space center program at houston. the deputy manager of flight operations director at johnson. the joining us is benji, senior director of human spaceflight programs at spacex. nasa kurt costello, the program chief scientist and last but not least is arlena moses, the launch whether officer for our 45th weather squadron. i don't everybody is looking forward to hearing from them as well.

i will turn it over to steve and let them take it from there. > thank you. is great to be here following the launch readiness today. since we talked on tuesday, we have put the falcon nine through a static fire, an important test for us to check out the rocket and make sure all of the systems are functioning as expected. we removed all of that over the last few days and the rocket is really good. it's important to do some inspections and we swapped out a couple inches on those vehicles and everything looks really good. we also did a dry practice with the crew. they got in the spacesuits, went out to the launch pad and got that installed into the vehicle. it's the first time we put for people into dragon and the test went really well.

in terms of looking at the ,eather and chance of recovery we have it adjusted the launch day and have adjusted the launch date 24 hours later and today are targeting a sunday launch. that will put docking at 11 p.m. eastern time. we looked carefully at the weather and the onshore flow looked not so good for saturday. we needed to get the drone recovery ship in place for nasa. this booster is very important for us. we will reuse the first stage we are flying for the crew to mission.- two it's important to recover that booster and we need to get the drone ship in place. i will remind you that crew one will be the longest spaceflight

ever, exceeding what we had on the final skylab should. -- mission. the first mission to have for crew in the capsule to enhance science on the mission and it is launch.t faa licensed we are excited to fly this mission for the space station program. we will continue to watch the program and vehicles and now i will turn it over. >> thank you, steve. welcome to today's press briefing. over the past few days we have had a number of reviews and as we conclude, i can tell you the international space station partnership is ready for this mission. 7:27ng at a lunchtime of eastern time on sunday giving us a docking late monday evening

approximately 11 p.m. eastern time. shortly after docking we will do the standard checks and then have a book ceremony on board that will be about two and a half hours after docking. this week, we have been doing a and keepingssion them up to speed on the launch preparations. they are excited to have some new crew members on board. it is also bringing in approximately 240 kilograms of pressurized cargo to enhance what we are doing. these four crewmembers, adding to the three onboard will have a total of seven iss crewmembers. this vehicle will stay up there for long-duration increments and return in april of next year. we will look forward to having the extricate the on board which will allow us to increase the science development and expiration we do.

are also celebrating 20 years in continuous human presence on board the international space station and we have set the standard for international cooperation and operations but we keep learning and we learn every day. with american industry has developed these commercial be that allow us to bring more people to the international doce station and allow us to more signs at low-earth orbit and allow more commercial opportunities. so huge thanks to the commercial crew program and spacex for getting us where we are. the space station partnership is glad to be here and we are excited for launch on sunday. we're looking forward to monday's docking and a long-duration increment. with that, i turned it over to norton. the launch review went very

well and we echo that. onpping back and reflecting demo two and the development cycle to the operational cycle just with the journey leading up to this and the lr and it was really evident there was great improvement on the closed outwork the less openwork there was the overall readiness level. , ands very encouraging absolute focus on crew safety and vehicle safety which both the nasa and safety teams have done a great job with. of a dayhe heels yesterday to let the crew suit up and let them try out their vehicle. when major the fit was right to be a tweaked up part of

launching and it went very well. had an opportunity to meet with the crew this morning and talk a little bit about the upcoming launch. and were absolutely excited you could feel the radiant excitement coming off of them. when i walked out of that briefing i was excited myself. i could just feel the energy from the crew and we feel that throughout the team. it is great because we are real close and ready to go which is very. -- important. the message we wanted to convey is resilient and echo again that the journey to get here is one of resilience. it was a hard journey that resilience and termination by a lot of folks led up to this and will safely get them into orbit and get them docked performing

six months of science and returning back to earth safely. a lot of folks that were involved with that and just in --reciation for that heart hard work that has gotten us to that point. with that, i will turn it over to benji and i look forward later. >> thank you very much. againg here, i am excited that this is our third time we have had the opportunity to come and launch year from kennedy space center. we did our in-flight test at the beginning of this year and we did our demo to mission in the now we are coming up on crew one, our first operational mission to start providing services the station and keep the program running. it is just incredible and if you watch the beginning he saw the

montage about all the commissions. it is so cool and in honor to be here. i'm certainly stoked. on behalf of all of the spacex employees, our vendors and want to take this opportunity to say thank you to nasa and all of our partners to let us be a part of this to help andarry the sacred honor responsibility on our shoulders. this is the culmination of years of work and effort from a lot of people and a lot of time and we have built what i would call one of the safest launches -- launch vehicles in spacecraft ever and it is an honor to be part of that. we culminated our efforts with a

static fire on wednesday and in fact we have a video to show for that. great. those a full seven second we didn of static fire enjoy interviews with the nasa team and our team and it looks great. we assessed everything that came from the vehicle at we feel good about it. the engine and other aspects of the vehicle coming in and that is very key to ensuring we are ready to go like i said, the seven seconds look awesome. the next thing i want to show you is a picture we have from dry dress come a dress rehearsal we do with the crew. they do the whole thing where

they get suited up at the building here at kennedy space center. they get suited up they come across and they get all the way into dragon. it's very important process where we walk through all of that with our ground team working with the crew and making sure everything checks out when i look at this picture, i get very excited to think about this next step on the stage journey we have ahead of us we have four astronauts that will be going up. we have one person who has never been to space. we have our first international partner who will be joining us which is really cool. let's talk a little bit about what is going to happen on launch date so as i talked about , dry dress is a practice for before launchs day, the crew will be in the suit taxed up in our

will be helping them get ready doing various checks as we get through. the astronauts will come out three hours before launch, get into the teslas waved goodbye to their families and then come across to the launchpad. it will come up the launch tower and at about two and a half hours before launch, they will enter the vehicle. they will enter the vehicle get all strapped in and save and at about approximately, let me double check 45 minutes before launch, they will do the final and for loading the vehicle arming the escape system. we have an escape system on dragon that is ready to go just in case. dragonthing goes wrong can escape the crew to safety, so they will be armed.

minutes before0 launch is when we start loading launch vehicle with propellant and we are off. let's go next to our line drawing that we have. this gives you a sense of what looks like when we do the launch. i won't go through all the details let me comment on some of the highlights here. we have our first and second and the first stage will land on the drone ship heading out right now. the second stage will continue to carry dragon to orbit. eight minutes and 50 seconds into the mission, the second engine will cut out shortly after. dragon will separate and they are off on their journey. in the next drawing, we can get a sense of what they look like.

phasing is this process will be catch up with the space station it is zooming around the earth very fast. so is dragon and you're trying to do this game where you look at gravity, as well as minimizing the amount of fuel you have to use to get vehicles to come together. in this case, particular phasing time will take about 25 hours tony five hours will be close to where we need to be to be in position and a few hours after that will have docked. let's go ahead and i will talk a little bit about what will happen. station atlks on their argosy going to come through and be welcomed. though start to work very quickly. two things that particularly involves spacex that will be

happening during the six months on station one is coming up in just a few weeks. new dragon to cargo vehicle will be heading up and that is full of science for the crew one to to be working on. so the first few weeks after they docked they are going to be ready for that, wrapping up other works in preparing and when it shows up will spend a lot of time looking at all of the critical science near the end of the six months or so, we will be sending out another dragon. the dragon will go up docked to station and there will be a laterf and about a week our crew will come home. let's take a what -- a look at what that looks like we can see

here we do another departure. both the docking and undocking process is fully at thomas of course, if at any time during docking astronauts are able to take control in both astronauts on the vehicle are watching closely everything that is happening. station, weway from get into position to start our phasing to come home to start the process i talked about. we will make sure we had the right spot on the earth at the right time for splashdown. happens, our recovery crews will come out and be meeting the crew. we have a large recovery vessel plus fast boats that will come out and meet the crew. the first thing they will do is check the area and make sure everything is safe.

then we will go ahead with our larger vehicle which will pull dragon out of the water. one of the things i do want to mention as we talk about this recovery process, we know that everyone is very excited about launch, recovery and human spaceflight in general. , please wearlved your mask follow social distancing guidelines. we ask that all of the voters pay close attention to what the coast guard regulations are. very important we keep all of the recovery crews safe. i want to take one more moment to do a couple of important things. i want to thank all of the space

ers and their family and all of our different teams and partners who have been involved to get us here. it is a big team and part of .ertification that certification effort is very important and it means a lot and it represents the countless hours of that were put falcon.ragon and it is all of our launch teams, all of our hardware and software all of them who put the time and sacrificed. the same is true for all of our nasa and vendor partners, so a big thank you. and a special thank you to the astronauts who will be flying. and to your families, we thank you for the trust you to get you

space to be there and to get you home safely. thank you and behalf of all of .s >> x for the guys actually going up there. itas joe mentioned earlier, was less than two weeks ago we were celebrating 20 years of continuous crude presence in .rbit it is the start of a new era for research and discovery on board. the capabilities of the crew dragon bringing additional crew and samples back to the site ksc are an -- amazing capability.

we'll have easier access for the testes when the compactor when they come back to earth and easier human research. ofhave about 28 kilograms payments going up and some of those experiments will still be going up for so each -- for experimentsclude for him and then we have a human experiment called genes in space which will be looking at the humble fruit fly and how it adapts on orbit to changes in circadian rhythm. circadian rhythm is our sensitivity to the day night cycle here on earth. and if you can imagine on orbit, when you have 60 day night cycles every day, it can be a bit confusing to the body.

fruit flies are great little model organism. they help us understand what's going on in the human body because they share 75% of the gene that cause disease in a human body so we will be looking ,t those and last but not least our astronauts and members of the human research team. they will be conducting a number of experiments for and during the mission. physiology looking additional changes in astronaut diet can be beneficial . victor -- mike, victor, alum shannony old from rice, thank you for the amount of hard work at research

you will be putting in. >> another topic everybody likes is whether so let's turn it over to the launch weather forecast. florida, were in have been plate by tropical storm beta -- eta for most of the week. seakfully it is well out to and moving further with time with its passage is a bit of a .ool front in florida overall, it's going to give us a pretty good shot for whether. we are looking right now at a no go whether probability of 40% with a kind of weak front k-8 couple of days ago and it's

going to kind of creep back keep theards us and window light and variable. we are going to see a few showers in the air with a few concern fords and a flying both the rocket and dragon capsule in these showers that may be out there. if we take a look at the backup window going into wednesday, we try out quite a bit. a nice area of high pressure we get true flora cold front and we see it a bit here in florida. our rain chances drop quite a bit and we only have concerns for a few clouds. winds are going to be coming from the northeast a little bit

stronger on that particular day and not something that will be monitoring with the weather. good luck. we will be doing our part with the weather to make sure we launch excessively. >> we are ready for questions. there are a lot of people in the queue as you can imagine. it's been a long day and we have about a half-hour or so question and answer. can try to limit your question to one part questions so that we can try to get to as many folks as we can. done up is marsha associated us. >> i am wondering what is nasa's latest about elon being allowed into the launch control of his latest test coming up negative, and for benji, how important is

it to have him in person on consul? >> we have a little bit of an audio problem. >> let's see. question, is there a concern relative to the covid concern that elon musk raised earlier via tweet? >> i will jump in and start on that one. today, it wasnews reported that elon took several covid tests and that third up a --ch of questions tipped to relative to health.

and the partners have a health stabilization plan in place and really it's a protocol that protects the flight crew from any disease or any illness. are compromised, that can affect or jeopardize the mission. something in place since the apollo timeframe. the missionsor all as well to make sure we are protecting the flight crew. obviously,his is, when the crew comes close to launch or they're put into or into and they start the self-quarantine 21 days prior to dayst that is from 21-14 where there's a self-quarantine and they are really starting to isolate and reduce their exposure to other folks.

14 days to launch, we call it hard and that is where they are really isolated and really watched closely. so that's a protocol in place for the crew. in addition, that protocol is for all folks that have contact with the crew. it's what we do is we train our personnel. that we understand andene, social distancing mask requirements when around the crew. you have to have certain protocols met for you can get close to the crew. those people, depending on the level of contact are covid tested to make sure they are safe and that access is very restrictive.

you could think of it as concentric circles on the cruise in the center. as though circles go out, the protocols change relative to the contact people have. if any of the personnel in those come up with any covid type symptoms, they are tested and we do contact tracing to make sure we knew who they were around and what impact that could possibly have. again, we have health stabilization plans in place and it has worked effectively for many years just like it is working today. benji, would you like to add any specific words? it's important to remember we have thousand six and it takes all of those people working together. it's important we understand

that any one of our team members, if they do have covid or get a test or whatever, that we work through that. and that we have all of the protections in place to maintain and make sure everybody is safe. the case of our lunches and crew them everybody is safe and i can assure everyone that we are looking good for the crew one launch. i will just add one more thing on their. restricted access everything, nobody is above the access. theou have not met protocols or any have been compromised we are not letting you near the crew and it's to protect the overall mission we are trying to accomplish and .verybody recognizes that >> thanks to you both. i think we have the audio problem fixed.

ok. let's go to the next one. me?an you hear >> i'm not sure who the four. if you have already covered this, i apologize. was part of the issue today the expected weather? was it forecasted to be out of limits and the ownership could not get there in time or was it both? fundamentally, it's an issue getting the jump ship there in time. the weather was such because of the tropical storm that we could not get the joint ship leaving time and the states are such that we could not get the speed up.

get pouring to yesterday around midday and now we are getting there in time for sunday lunch. >> next is paul brinkman. go ahead, paul. >> for taking my call. can you hear me? >> my question is about the change. i want you to walk me through a little bit of what happens when you delay a launch by a day like this. does anything have to be done to the capsule? i'm assuming no more fuel has to be added for a longer flight. does the crew have to repack their cargo in a different way or anything like that since they will be up there three times ?onger

>> it is nothing different we checked out ready as we went to the test in the lead up many months up to launch now we do .hem to make sure we are ready all of these are actually go for lunch tomorrow and the only thing that isn't is that joint so thathis vision something we could do other than continuing to double and triple check. this is what we are all doing. all looking at data and ensuring everything is ready to go. also, it's going to be a good opportunity for people to catch up on some rest. >> from a q standpoint, whether they are getting to the station and eight or 27 hours, from a crew perspective, it's pretty

much the same. their timeline will change because for a saturday launch, they literally would have stayed up and pressed through docking but for sunday, it is a flight day to launch and so the crew will actually go to sleep in dragon and wake up and jump into the rendezvous profile to prepare them to dr. station. for slips like this, depending on the timing, there could be cargo that has to come off or science that has to be refreshed. kirk can address that but i don't believe that is the case for sunday. >> next up, space.com. >> thank you so much. my question is also for norm for thee extended trip crew one astronauts. tothe last flight with demo

trip wen this lengthy saw a lot of glimpses into what life on crew dragon was like and i'm curious. within this added time, what can we expect to see on this one? can we get a taste of what that trip is going to be like on a monday prior to the arrival? can you walk us through what to expect and what the viewers might expect? >> i will turn it over to benji and he can provide some details and will be get into orbit there will be a series of orbital birds to get .hem set up they have a timeline and we can get you information on it. i don't know if there are any press briefings in that time but

there can be constant contact with the ground and you will be hearing from them. they have a standard sleep period and wake up. start getting prepped again can i get situated and prepping for the day because it's a very important day that you start doing those critical burns. this time in that day if anything goes wrong and once they're on station, it utilizes whattime to really learn to do in case of an emergency and how to use a lot of the facilities on station that are very important. i don't know if you had anything to add. >> sure. it gives them more opportunity and to be parton

of the crew, which i assume is this exciting -- is exciting for them also for us because it is important to understand what that is like. they will be getting out of their seats and floating around like we saw bob and doug do. i'm sure there will be a couple of broadcast events and checking things out seeing the earth go by. i know i would love to be there it's great. to i think joey roulette with reuters. >> thank you. question for joel. i wonder if you could give us an update on what talks with russia are for mutual flights to the iss. are you envisioning some sort of bilateral agreement, and when do you think the soonest we can now when we will be able to fly russian vehicles will be?

looking to fly on each other's vehicles probably later in 2021 where we will have a cosmonaut flying on a u.s. commercial vehicle and an astronaut. we have to do the first step what we call implementing an arrangement that we work at the government level. so we are working with our state draftment drafted -- to it. once that is complete, we will turn it over and work within the government they will get it back to us and we will have probably another iteration or so but all of that with the goal of flying in late 2021. >> the next question is from morgan from business insider. go ahead. >> hi. steve mentioned the other day that crew one is launching on an f9 with upgraded turbines.

she says those upgrades have been going on for years. i am just wondering why did demo to lots with older version of and benji said the vehicle is now more robust to tolerate a wider range of weather conditions so i'm wondering what changes were made specifically and how they make the vehicle more robust. thanks so much. >> i will take that. but see. we do have a few upgrades flying on crew one and one of the things we have been working on is how we continue to involve this vehicle and make it better. the composite vessels on falcon nine, many of them have an upgraded liner that makes it a little bit more robust. spacex has improved that liner and will allow it to be use a little bit longer. the wheels on this vehicle have

been upgraded. it's a pretty cop gated process to design. prone to when you get to a certain setting, you can have certain conditions set up and so these are little bit more robust to the kind of throttle profile they fly. landing, we have made improvements to the structure so that we can handle a little bit more wind at the landing zone which gives us a few more opportunities to land. so those are three upgrades on this vehicle you will continue upgradescrew to -- with crew two. >> cnn? are you out there? >> i sure am. thanks for doing this. another covid question.

i was curious if i could get some insight to how contact tracing played out. who was in charge? was it spacex, nasa or joint team? and then if anybody can speak to as well if there was like control, at mission how that might play out the just equally. i think the way that we work from a medical viewpoint is that we have space x company flight surgeons as well as nasa has flight surgeons. they have the whole health and human medical services directorate and we all work very closely together. our surgeons talk to the nasa flight surgeons and they have worked out not only following protocols be talked about also overall good practices make sure we are following cdc local guidelines, including contact

tracing. while these are things that we can do on our side, like how we are managing all of our staff, we review that with nasa and make sure everybody is feeling really good about where we are at. staff's of critical operations at hawthorne here in the cape. we also have plans in place. we have backup operators. they have been at a heightened level. they actually go into a type of quarantine themselves with very limited public involvement and access and different things that we do. we do a lot of temperature checks and screenings to ensure that our operators are also ready for the launch and the long-term mission. it's important to note all of the great science going on requires six months of work and

that means dragon will be up for six months but we will be monitoring system just like how nasa is continuing to fly isf. continue to make them healthy for the long haul. >> on contact tracing, if there is any thought or concern of compromise to the flight crew, the nasa team will be doing that tracing and working with our ortner to do that trace whatever facility that might have come from. we will trace that back and find the impact for specific teams they have not had contact, that is left to nasa where whatever thisfic contractor to do thist is all under program.

it is very rigid and thorough. next up is kenneth chain -- chang, new york times. ok. but see who is next in the queue. just waiting for that update. off.ss cap dropped susie from business insider? >> thank you. is what are the launch dates on sunday, and wouldn't the idea launch date be on sunday? and what do the weather conditions at the sites look like in terms of what is wired for the recovery? >> i can take that question. we have a series of launch dates coming up.

obviously, sunday is our prime date and then we would stand down on monday. monday, there is a spacewalk going on in the isf so that's not a good day to go to rendezvous and dock with the space station. tuesday is also not a good day. it is a longer rendezvous profile we don't want to take so the next opportunity would be wednesday, thursday, friday in the middle of next week. for sunday, the weather looks pretty good along the coast. is we protect for an escape all the way up into orbit we have weather constraints and right now those look pretty good we have not looked far out to wednesday and right now the conditions look good not only for launch weather but recovery we are the drone ship

pretty well set up and we have to watch the local weather as comes through so we get some precept or thunderstorms. >> thanks, everybody. those are all the questions we had. that leads us to sunday and what everybody is talking about their the preparations for launch are ongoing, obviously. our nasa tv coverage is going to continue and start at 3 p.m. on sunday we have a comprehensive broadcast plan for you guys so make sure you tune in for that. the launch is targeted for 7:27 for launch complex 39 and, starting adventure to the international space station. evening, launch sunday

and as for astronauts are scheduled to dock as you heard on monday as well. so thanks to you guys, asked every buddy tuning in today. and one reminder, keep practicing social distancing and go through one -- crew one. thanks, everybody. tomorrow's launch was postponed due to weather and high wind tomorrow, we will have live coverage you can watch on c-span. dayunday night on queue and university of texas austin sociology fetzer talks about the use of big data and new surveillance technologies by law enforcement. >> as you said, the police have long been collecting their own data that some people they have contact with and what is happening now is the police are increasingly collecting

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