also, kurt costello, the nasa iss program chief scientist at johnson space center. and last but not least is arlena moses, the launch weather officer for our 45th weather squadron. i know everyone is looking forward to hearing from her as well. with that, i will turn it over to steve and let them take it from there. >> thank you. it is great to be here, following the launch readiness today. it has been eight busy few days. since we talked on tuesday, we have put the falcon nine vehicle through a static fire, an important test for us to check out the rocket, to make sure all the systems on the rocket were functioning as expected. we reviewed all of that date over the last few days, and the rocket looks really good. it was import for us to also do inspections after that. we swapped out a couple of engines on the vehicle and did those inspections, and everything looks really good. we also did a dry dress practice with the crew. the crew suited up, got in their spaces, went out to the launchpad and got installed in the vehicle. it is the first time we have put four peop