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let's discuss this with nasa administrator jim bryden stein, great to have you back.ant to start with some critics and give you a chance to respond. in a piece until they say if an activist directive latin organizational overhead expense for the separation and create countless beer credit fistfights over what goes into which part of this new department of the air force enterprise so and to the concern. >> i think that is silly. the challenge we have in space is immense. this kind of activity is something i was working on when i was a member of congress. we needed to create a space force back then. it is only because donald trump got elected and forced to through that it happened but i can tell you this, nasa is adversely affected by activities from the various actors in space, even right now and the space force is the element that will keep our assets safe. i will tell you nasa does not do national security or defense. we do diplomacy, we do economic development but we will benefit greatly from the space force. daymac the president talked about that today, there are s

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administrator bryden stein artemis to govern the future of space exploration development.ogether, we will assert america's rightful heritage is spacefaring nation on the planet, and already, it is not even close. in the half-century since united states stopped sending astronauts to deep into space -- 1972 -- no other country has ever done it. cost, technological complexity, and tremendous danger. for instance, i was told that ede rocket you just witness had to be launched within one second, or it would be impossible for it to hit its two daysnd i was here ago, and i said to jim, "jim, it's ok. why don't you wait five or 10 minutes?" [laughter] and he said, "sir, we only have a window of one second." and i walked out of here shaking my head. is that true, jim? yes, it's true. space travel is not a feat of engineering alone. it's also a moral endeavor, a measure of a nation's vision, it's willpower, it's place in the world. exploration is a test of our our faith.of america is a nation defined by its commitment to discovery. to solve mystery is to chart the unknown, to press

bryden stein, i have screens,tv with split nassau on one side and riots on the other. it reminds me of kid -- it reminds me of when i was a kid in 1968 with the apollo missions. can you provide some more detailed stats to back up your claims? convince how do you the millions of angry and upset people who are not watching tv? spaceship is in a more important than the problems than we have here back on earth, the line used back in 1968? there is not seem to be a isnection between what nasa doing and the subset of the population looking for answers. >> i think what nasa does is astonishing. it is impressive. it does bring people together. if the expectation was that things on the ground were going to change because we launched a rocket, i think the expectation might have been a little high. -- do youl you that have the numbers on how many numbers watched? >> we are still collecting the across allur metrics of our platforms was at least 10.3 million concurrent viewers, the most never tracked. -- ever tracked. >> i think it is impressive and i think a lot of people saw it.

i agree, joe bryden was wrong. but larry doesn't want to give me any credit for that. he wants to bring up ayanna pressley. he just change the subject. nothing changes. >> the same thing that biden said... be one we do have records here, >> sean: we do have records here, ari. 13 million more americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty, that was obama-biden. then you have historically black colleges, all the aid that president trump game. the opportunity zones, that's donald trump. criminalrt justice reform. talice johnson, that's donald trump. that wasn't biden, that wasn't obama. i think if we are going to play these identity politics game, i think trump has a solid record to run on. >> here's the numbers to keep your eyen. in november why i thk this stupid statement joe biden made will come back to him in some degree in november. republicans lose the vote 9-1. 90% goes democrat, 10% goes republican. african-americans turned out surgeons from about 10% of the electorate to 13% of the electorate. hillary clinton won the appian american vote only, she will make

administrator bryden stein, -- administration or jim bridenstine, welcome to the space station. you, chris, it is good to see you. welcome to bob and doug. the whole world saw this mission and we are so, so proud of everything you have done for our country and in fact to inspire the world. >> we appreciate that, sir. it has been our honor to be just a small part of this. we have to give credit to spacex, the commercial crew program, and of course nasa. it is great to get the united states back in the crewed launch business and we are glad to be in this magnificent complex. some vips here and i am sure they have some questions to ask you, but i have one of my own before i turn over. i want to find out if you guys got any sleep on your way up there in the last 19 hours. did you guys get any sleep? >> a lot of folks in hawthorne were asking the same question, sir. good sevenprobably a hours or so opportunity for sleep. i did sleep and doug did as well. ae first night is always challenge, but the dragon is a slick vehicle and we had good airflow. just excited to be back in low-earth

the nasa administrator jim bryden stein said he texted the two astronauts on monday and told them, "if to stop this thing for anything reason, just say so. i will stop it in a heartbeat if i need to. they both come back and said we are go for lunch. >> there is a lot of flexibility built into the back end of this mission but that's intentional. i want to reiterate that it is a test flight and the goals to get them to the international space station and test the systems i get them home. if they can do more work than that while they were on the iss then certainly that's okay. but this is a test flight. >> sandra: give it some context about what this must be like for these two astronauts that are taking this mission. >> this is very exciting. they are both very qualified and i know they are excited to. i talked to them briefly just before, maybe about a couple of months ago and they said they had ne no reservations. there is an old adage for test pilots saying never fly the a model of anything but if you are test pilots and of course you fly the a model. of course there is risk in the fir

jim bryden stein, we appreciate you leaving at nasa and the sign, administrator for the agency and we. >> thank you, we saw in the meantime while that interview was going on the hatch closed so that happened a few minutes earlier than we expected. our timeline has been happening at t minus one hour, 55 minutes so a few minutes ahead of schedule right now with the hatch closed and you can see the padded team they're working on things now. >> yeah, right now it looks like what they are doing is -- what are they doing? they perform a leak check, a mechanism called the site hatch mechanism that isof closes the hatch and sealed it. what we will do is perform a leak check on that for a few minutes to make sure that that is nice and tight and those o-rings are sealed really, really well. after that we will install -- you can see the leak check ground support equipment there and the technicians hands. >> while we are watching this, leland, we just heard them talk a lot about inspiring the next generation and you are a man of many talents but i know after your flight yourself you use to head t

bryden stein leads off -- ein leads off after introductions. >> good afternoon and welcome from the space center. office ofnasa's communications. what a day. we are here to discuss the return of human spaceflight's on american soil to the international space station with the astronauts. the spacecraft and falcon 9 rocket lifted today from complex 309a at the center at 3:22 p.m. bob and are safely on the way to the international space station. to talk about this, we have a great panel of guests, starting with nasa administrator jim musk, then, elon manager of the crew program, and the major of the international space station, and the