why is dragon glowing right now? actually, dragon isn't glowing. what we are seeing is the reflection of the sun. right now, both dragon and the international space station not in the earth's shadow. just from this view on the camera compared to everything else being so dark in the background of space, dragon is just coming out looking a little bit whitewashed from the exposure. so not glowing, but just seeing the reflection of the sun as we sort of adjust the white balancing. siva: dragon right now departing 4.4 meters per second, about 3.3 kilometers away from and the space station. what we are seeing on the screen is the view from the international space station. dragon, about 5k away -- excuse me, about 3.3 kilometers away from the space station. we got a question on what the main differences are between the draco thrusters and the other burners. i think what lucas is referring to is the super draco thrusters. dragon has two different types of propulsion systems on the spacecraft. we have eight super draco thrusters that live in those pods on t

[no audio] >> dragon spacex, all hooks open and nominal. >> all hooks open. >> dragon departing. >> dragon spacex separation confirmed. >> physical separation, 4:35 pacific. thrusters looking good, coming down to a nominal departure burn zero coming up shortly. [no audio] >> dragon spacex depart zero complete. >> complete. >> you heard depart burn zero complete, dragon moving slightly faster away from the iss, using dracos. bob and doug have concluded their stay from the iss and they are back to earth. confirmed physical separation as the station and dragon are flying 2067 statue miles over johannesburg, south africa. next departure burn coming up in about five minutes. we will monitor crew dragon throughout the departure sequence, but with the dragon flying free that will do it for us from mission control houston. godspeed, bob and doug. to take you to the rest of the sequence, we send it back to hawthorne. >> departure burn zero sets bob and doug on the journey home. dragon ship endeavor is on a trajectory to head up and over the station before additional maneuvers take it below and in f

they detected higher levels of one ofwant to see dragon, --ls used in in dragon. together,fuels, went without an emission source, will react, that is what makes them hyperbolic fuels, a more elegant solution youth and a lot of -- used in a lot of orbits in spacecraft. we are standing by. >> as you can see, there is one crewmember that has what looks like -- >> don't have a huge update, just letting you know the purge is still in the works. we will try to get you out of there shortly. >> copy. >> two individuals on your screen, one with a face mask and what looks like a scuba tank with some clean air. there might be another crewmember with the same personal protective equipment that will come on deck here. that type of equipment -- there we go. that is the kind of equipment required in order to perform this purge. toxic, we the fume, want to keep all crewmembers safe as we prepare the side hatch for opening in order to let -- limits areke dropping and getting pretty good. we are continuing with the purge just to be sure. >> ok. sounds good, thank you. >> we just he

the rigging has been affixed on the dragon capsule and they'll use the lift to get dragon up and out of the water. >> recovery vessel, go navigator is getting closer and closer to dragon endeavor as it awaits its recovery -- or -- or as it awaits to be hoisted out of the gulf of mexico and landed off the coast of florida near pensacola. maybe next time we should announce our landing zone. there we got a shot from the plane. looks like that area cleared out significantly. that's good to see. we're also hearing that all of the parachutes have bowies on them. also good news as the recovery process continues, for spacex demo two. dragon, spacex. go ahead, mike. >> we're about to reconfigure the link. that should happen shortly. >> call back. get data back. >> will do. so as the main vessel gets closer, it is going to back up. the dragon capsule still in the water. we should start hoisting operations in the next ten to 15 minutes. it will be a quick lift out of the water and into the dragon net and then they move it underneath the helipad and into the crew recovery area and they have a pl

very similar look to the neocargo dragon for most of or for all the dragon missions until now, we saw solar wings with solar arrays now the cargo dragon missions will have the solar arrays wrapped around the vehicle like we s for all of the dragon missions until now, we saw solar wings with solar arrays and now the solar arrays will be wrapped around the vehicle like we see here with crew dragon. >> it adds to the overall reliability of the vehicle anytime you have a mechanism in space that is a potential to go wrong. you need a motor to drive it. having wrapped solar panels around the trunk of the vehicle reduces that little bit of complexity and it is lighter, too, so we can add a little more cargo and add more to other parts of the system. on the others of the trunk is the thermal radiator. we have fluid running through that almost like an air conditioner. that fluid is pumped through different points in the vehicle. earlier, we heard a call from the core mentioning the crew could adjust the hex, or heat exchanger, to the position they wanted to control internal cabin temperature.

of crew dragon. shortly by nasa astronaut chris cassidy closing the hatch on the space station. we then stepped into the pressurization, the space in between the hatches that was exposed to vacuum whenever the crew dragon departed, and we saw an on-time departure, separation occurring at 4:35 p.m. pacific time, that is 11:30 p.m. gmt, the time used aboard the international space station. we had those two short bursts using the thrusters on dragon and the umbilical detaching, from itsx releasing home for the past couple of months. we saw the first three departure boards of crew dragon, the first two bringing it up and over the international space station. the astronauts were then able to take off their spacesuits and we just saw departure burn two which has lowered dragon and brought it down below the international space station at all times. next up for us will be departure burn three. we are looking for that at 6:14 pm pacific, 1:14 a.m. gmt >> a pretty busy day for bob and doug aboard dragon. there

dragon spacex. comm reconfigured. >> go ahead, mike. >> we are about to reconfigured the forward link. we may lose that for one or so minutes. that should happen shortly. >> copy. give us a call back when you think you have got it back. >> will do. >> as the main vessel gets closer, it is going to back up and get its hydraulic lift still in the water. bob and doug still inside. we should start the hoisting operations in the next 10 to 15 minutes. it will be a pretty quick lift up out of the water using the hydraulic lift onto the deck of the boat or the ship, rather. they will move it underneath the helipad to the crew recovery area will they will have a platform right up to the hatch. they will open up the hatch. the spacex medical doctor will be the. first one through the door. a quick. check-in with -- first one through the door. he and the other medical doctors and flight surgeons will help them out of the capsule. >> earlier after splashdown, we did hear bob and doug reporting they were feeling

racing out to greet dragon endeavor as it sits there.he first -- we can see a few inside the capsule. bob and doug looking good. although the communication was a little choppy we did hear -- >> spacex enderle three dez knowledge one we show ourselves in stable one. >> and spacex copies for vehicle assessment, step 3.1 stable one. good news. >> their up right in the water, stable two also another potential where it could be on itsy side or upside down but dragon has a water balance at system to keep it up right where it's able to pump sea water in to the blatters in the service section of the capsules but they are up right we can seat the fast poach approaches. they touched down, came right on time. at 11:48 a.m. pacific. 18:48 bob and doug in the water the recovery ops have already begun, we can see the fast boats starting to move in. we are still maintain the good communication back with bob and doug and the team here in hawthorne. we were being getting the go for move n beginning hyper and wrangle up the mayor parachutes, we can see bo

dragon has three g.p.s. units that it use in the parachute deployment issue as it helps the pressure sensors give a solid altitude on when they're upposed to deploy. we should be just under five minutes away from splash down. passion b 15 closmogsm 4 bout 14n another tuesday. 8.4 miles continuing to descent. >> there on your screen we have a shot of the capsule as it is preparing to deploy the initial parachutes, the drogue parachute. again, these parachutes help slow the vehicle down. even further, and help stabilize in preparation for main chute deployment. right about now the capsule is going about 400 miles per hour. did he celebrating quickly. >> and standing by for drogue deploys. >> visual two drogues out. >> there on the screen we have visual confirmation of the two drogue december h deployment. >> 2 of 2 the drogues now out they will do their slowing and stabilizing of the dragon spacecraft. they should be detaching in just a few moments. and then we'll see four parachutes, the main parachutes deplo

to hoist dragon out of the water. thetill getting a view from airplane flying overhead. it gave us those great views. really are first view of bob and doug entering earth's atmosphere. you can see the four parachutes in the water. we heard those were cut automatically as expected by dragon. the crew just standing by. they will stay in their seats. we are waiting for the initial checks. >> dragon spacex check. >> loud and clear. >> loud and clear as well. just wanted to verify a communication verification -- communication reconfiguration. >> essentially what just happened is they -- >> if you can relay status of the fast boats and recovery as you get them, we would appreciate it. >> absolutely. happened, you heard comms reconfiguration. that is looping bob and doug's configuration into the recovery team to they can hear feedback directly. >> spacex endeavor. we are doing pretty good so far. >> ok. we will let the flight decks know you are feeling good so far. >> really good news to hear they are feeling good and they c

you can think of it as the space between the exterior of the dragon capsule and the interior space. >> the air pressure essentially. >> yes. bob and doug are fine, they're breathing makes it -- they've been getting throughout the entire duration of -- of -- of today's operation but it will be essentially the area below their cabin completely sealed off from the service section. the service section than eight ago. and dragon, the purge is complete and we can proceed with hatch opening. >> good news. >> that's good news, indeed. confirmation that the purge is complete and near going to do one more test to make sure that all of the fumes of concern are away and that it is safe to open the side hatch and retrieve bob and doug. once that side hatch is open our flight surgeon will be the first to say hello, get a quick medical check-up, but based on the reports that they've been -- that the crew have been -- have been giving us along the way, it sounds like they're doing great, they're feeling good and they're pretty comfortable inside of crew dragon. dragon spacex, we show being below limi

inside the dragon? would you be comfortable in there for two or three days with a couple of people or sit kind of cramped? >> eric, good to talk to you. we're not familiar with that komodo dragon reference for our on-orbit procedure. that's not what we call it. the only other name we've used other than crew dragon is endeavour, and we appreciate them being ok with us putting a moniker on board the ship. that's something we cherish the opportunity to do. and as far as the habitable volume inside the dragon capsule, it's relatively small. if you tried to put a full crew of seven like we had on the space shuttle days inside that volume, it would be a stay in your seat sort of situation. but with three or four people, the operations normally will -- your job will be to be in your seat for the assent and docking and then of course the splashdown. there's plenty of room in those locations. around the interior of the vehicle, there is some spaces that folk cans get out of their seats and have their own small a

and dragon, the purge is complete and we can proceed with hatch opening. >> good news. >> that's good news, indeed. confirmation that the purge is complete and near going to do one more test to make sure that all of the fumes of concern are away and that it is safe to open the side hatch and retrieve bob and doug. once that side hatch is open our flight surgeon will be the first to say hello, get a quick medical check-up, but based on the reports that they've been -- that the crew have been -- have been giving us along the way, it sounds like they're doing great, they're feeling good and they're pretty comfortable inside of crew dragon. dragon spacex, we show being below limits and proceeding with hatch opening. >> okay. great news. thanks. >> all right. so there's the green light we've been waiting for. and in fact the green light we've been waiting for for -- for months at this point, this is our first opportunity to say hello to bob and doug our favorite space dads as they are now about to -- to -- to egress or exit from dragon crew endeavor. the culmination of what is about a 19-h

reporter: dragon crew, thank you. and commander of the station thank you for taking the , questions. everybody knows there are parts of flight that are extreme. it is re-entry in this case. the chief engineer of spacex says he is a little bit worried about plasma, potentially getting into the pods. bob you said you weren't , nervous. you are a lot closer now. what do you think? and did you just say you're going to have a bag ready which is completely understandable for splashdown? howdy, i think as we get closer, i think we really focus more and more on our preparations to be ready for the splashdown activities. we spent the day today working through the on board training that will refamiliarize with us -- that will refamiliarize us with the splashdown activities. what our responsibilities will be, the things we'll monitor. i know the spacex team, the chief engineer there and the nasa team are all looking closely at all the things that could possibly -- that they wish they had more information on or that they feel the

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but there are certainly things on dragon that could be tested more.just for an example, you know, we dock to the forward part of the space station. there's certainly the likelihood that dragon is going to dock to a different docking port, either the zenith -- i think it's the zenith port that is likely to be next for a commercial vehicle. that may sound somewhat insignificant, but it isn't. all the software that needs to go into the vehicle trajectory analysis and things they need to do in order to make that possible. and for our flight, that was not possible. the software hadn't been written yet to do those -- to do that docking port. so, just things like that. so i think it's going to take a few flights before -- and i think that's prudent, a few flights before we can consider this vehicle completely tested. and then as we all know, the space business, like a lot of those technically challenging businesses, is not forgiving. so, the bigger thing to take a look at is to just not let your guard down and don't just assume because the last flight went p

completing the first crewed flight of the spacex crew dragon. their mission was to test the capabilities of the knew commercial space vehicle for regular crew transportation to the international space station, but they contributed a whole lot more than that on their mission, during their 62 days aboard station they dedicated more than 100 hours to science investigation and worked with the competition 63 crew to upgrade the stations power system on four space walks. today is the first opportunity after splash down to ask questions to bob and doug, we'll be taking questions on our phone bridge as well as associate media platforms if you are on the phone press star 1 to ask add yourself toll queue. we would like to share some of the messages around the world welcoming bob and doug back to planet earth. >> splash down. >> welcome back too planet earth and thanks for flying spacex. >> yeah. ♪ music playing >> one, two, three, four. ♪ music playing >> live from india, #launchamerica. ♪ music playing >> thanks to all who submitted these messages using

this was not the flirt -- the first flight of dragon to. this-- dragon two. this vehicle had a lot of capability on it that was not flown during that demo 1. so i think we are surprised, minorly surprised and incredibly pleased that this went as smoothly as a dead. there snowquester -- as smoothly as it did. and there's no question we learned things we want to roll into the crew 1 flight. we learned about preflight. and the solar arrays, we are looking to have upgrades to make sure the vehicle survives on orbit for the six-month requirement. by the way, the solar arrays on this mission did better than anticipated. and we certainly would have been able to complete the mission, the original planned mission duration, we had a couple of months of margin to spare. so, pre-we learned some things. and we will make sure we include those in crew one. as far things we learned real time today. i think instead of two generators, a primary and backup on the rescue boat or the recovery boat, i think we will have three generators, one primary and two backups. that is one ex

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we will take you live tenacity the for the farewell ceremony of the spacex crew dragon before it undocks from the international space station. [no audio] >> station, this is houston. are you ready for the event? houston, this is the international space station. we are ready for the event. >> copy that. we are also ready, so over to you. welcome aboard the international space station and the crew of expedition 63. it is an exciting day for us all, as we bid farewell to our two friends and colleagues bob and doug -- colleagues, bob and doug, as they complete the journey of the amazing test mission. it was roughly two months ago when we were at this very hatch and greeted them aboard, and changed from a crew of three to a crew of five, and we executed two months of fantastic space station science and technical objectives with spacewalks and proud of we are very that and we are happy to have doug and bob be part of that. sad to see them it but very excited for what means for our international space program, to add this capability to bring people back and forth to the space station in low-ear

one, we'll review the all the telemetry and the grat the dragon. we have done that for the whole flight to date, we'll do it now for undocking all the way through splashdown and recovery so we will have engineers. we do it jointly with spacex and go through all the data for each of the various system and the life support and propulsion and so forth and go through that data to make sure there us nothing that is there. and secondly look at the parachutes. the parachutes is a the important system on the vehicle and spacex was doing a great job of recovering those chutes today and we'll take those back and analyze those and look at it to see they are performing well. and then, thirdly, spacex is going to take the vehicle apart. one of the benefits i would say is the fact that we'll take some of the, some of the vehicle apart. some of the nose cone come off and heat shield come off t. we start in to speck and sometimes we can learn that and do that inspection then we'll put that data together and head to the certification view. and probably toward the e

we will review that telemetry and data from the dragon. we have done that for the whole flight to date. we will do it now for undocking, all the way through/on and recovery. we will have engineers, and we do it jointly with spacex and we have our nasa team and spacex team work together and go through the data for the systems. life support, propulsion and so forth. so we will go through all of the data to make sure there is nothing anomalous there. second, we will look at the parachutes, a very important system on the vehicle. spacex was doing a very good job of recovering those today so we will take them back and analyze those to make sure they are performing well. third, spacex will take the vehicle apart. one benefit of reuse, i would say, is the fact that we will take some of the vehicle apart, some of the nose cone will come off, the heatshield comes off. we will start to inspect part of the spacecraft and sometimes we can learn things from that. so we will do the inspection and put the data together. and then head into the certificati

racing out to greet dragon endeavor as it sits there.t -- we can see a view inside the capsule. bob and doug looking good and the communication was choppy we did hear -- >> we show ourselves in stable one. >> spacex copies for vehicle assessment. stable one. good news. >> stable one essentially. up right in the water. it could be on the side or upside down but dragon has a water bah lall last system and pump seawater into bladders in the capsule and upright. we see the fast boats approaching. touchdown came on time at 111:4 pacific. 11:48 utc. bob and doug now in the water. we already see the fast boats starting to move in. we are still maintaining that good communication back with bob and doug and the team here in hawthorne. pretty soon we should be getting the go for them to move in. we can see bob and doug inside the capsule back on planet earth. >> fast boats moving in to do a couple things, performing a sniffer test. that's essentially to ensure that the air around the vehicle doesn't have any toxic fumes from the propellants on boa

this flag will return to earth and the crew dragon guys spend a little bit of time on earth, and very soon make a trip to the moon in short order. yours,he flag is all it's been a pleasure, here you go. >> thanks for this. this flag has spent some time up here, on the order of nine years since we dropped it off after it flew on sts one. we are proud to return this flag it onnd see what next for its journey to the moon. words just what it was like to be a part of this expedition, expedition 63. it will be kind of a memory that lasts a lifetime for me. all of the incredible teamwork and accomplishments with the highlights being the four spacewalks we did together as a crew of five to have success and complete that part of the upgrade for the international space station, which leaves it in a great posture for the future. the other thing to think about for us is our mission is not over. the test flight is, in some ways, just two thirds complete. we completed the rendezvous and docking. we completed our docked objectives. now is the splash down phase after we undock hopefully later today.

nasa's astronauts aboard the spacex crew dragon made a successful larnding as describe by nasa. waters not choppy at all. the astronauts bob and doug said they're feeling good and right now you're watching the two vessels approach the vessel and we should see signs of that capsule moving and we'll hear more from the two astronauts. let's go back to our panel. miles o'brien and rachel crane. i don't think anything could have topped the initial launch two months ago. this was close. i had tears in my eyes and this looks as though it couldn't have gone any better. miles, what is your take? >> you can't help but get a little misty and nostalgia to it because it takes us all back to the "apollo" days. i can vividly remember when "apollo 13" landed, splashed down after that harrowing mission. the whole world on the edge of its seat and this is an updated version of that. it was a beautiful day for it. the wind light. the seas look like a lake out there. i expect the astronauts not having too bad a time with potential motion sickness and talking about is a new era in space, a new way o

and dragon spacex, we show 0.4 parts for a million, 18 and dragon spacex, we show 0.4 parts fora millionwith hatch opening. ok, great news, thank you. there is the green light we have been waiting for. in fact, the green light we have been waiting for months at this point. this is our first opportunity to say hello to bob and doug, are favourites as they are now about to egress or exit from dragon crew endeavour. —— are favourite space dads. this is been about a 19 hourjourney home all starting yesterday as they departed the international space station. this hatch will be manually opened. you're watching bbc news and these are live pictures from nasa of nasa astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken having returned to earth, imminently being removed from their space capsule. there we have the door opening of the spacex dragon capsule which not long ago splashed down just off the coast of florida. the minutes spent two months in the international space station, and these astronauts are stepping out of these astronauts are stepping out of the capsule after a 21 hourjourney from space down to

arthel: yeah, it really is and dragon endeavor will be returned back to spacex, dragon there in florida get astronauts off and the -- the capsule will go in for processing as well. then the teams will then examine the data and performance of the spacecraft throughout the test flight to complete the certification of the system to fly operational missions for nasa's commercial crew and international space station programs that tom was just talking about. basically the certification process is expected to take about 6 weeks and then if that certification is successful, well, the first operational mission will launch with crew -- dragon commander michael hopkins, the pilot, victor glover and mission specialist shannon walker, all of nasa and joining them will be someone from the japan's aerospace exploration and launch on crew 1 mission from launch complex 39a as we saw a little while ago, two months ago before the guys left, nasa's kennedy space center in florida. it's going to be crew and spend 6 months on the space station, what do you think about that, tom, six months? >> well, this is