e e e e e e e e e e e e e [Music] [Music] out folder and then eventually started as an intern at SpaceX 35 minutes everything continues to look good a one reminder the only people on the pad right now are the dragon uh crew themselves the four people inside the dragon you can see that crew AIS arm the seals have been deflated they're retracted uh all of the uh handh holds are out of the way everything's been cleared the only thing really waiting for everybody is ideally we get inside 45 minutes so we can retract the arm so nobody's going back out to the pad right now uh all the vehicles are cleared off so we're going to just continue to give you status updates as we go along but Kate yeah hopefully the second t zero is the winner the first one turns out uh the weather is red right now and we wouldn't have been able to go yep well uh you know what it's been a good rehearsal so far um and realistic Ally speaking um while the Polaris Dawn crew I'm sure would be delighted to be closer to wait how long have we've been holding now would they be in space now I'm not sure my brain is a little mushy at this point but the point is that uh they would still be in the Dragon capsule right now regardless in their seats most likely so um they're not really doing anything significantly different physically anyway now we did as you heard John say we did rotate the seats a bit so that they could um kind of like stretch out a little bit more uh to be a little bit more comfortable so um yeah they're I'm guessing there's probably some like charades happening uh or other games involving um like hand signs and yeah so whatever they can do while still strapped into their seats right exactly y oh look there they are there you can see them on their tablets all four of them on their TBL I wonder if we've uh equipped those tablets with um any games I hope so I mean they'd have a lot more mobility in these Eva suits to be able to play some more games uh in these suits versus the Iva suits yeah that is definitely true uh gorgeous shot there of uh 39a um like we mentioned before we are in a um not quite a holding pattern because we're we're still progressing with the um with the launch countdown uh but we did have to reset the the t0 clock due to weather um and we are fingers crossed that our second targeted t0o time will be more fruitful than the first one yeah we are patiently waiting it is T minus 1 hour and 49 minutes until our new t0 um but yeah we're the crew is patiently waiting relaxing inside of dragon um and so now during the Eva for The Poon crew they will be wearing our newly designed Eva space suits which we see them wearing um in the Dragon capsule and there you could see uh the suit on your screen building a base on the moon and a city on Mars will require thousands of Suits so the development of this suit and the Eva that's going to be performed on this Mission are important steps to a scalable design for space suits on future long duration missions so let's take a look at the making of the suits our crew will be wearing during the first ever commercial spacewalk an Eva suit is an extra vehicular activity suit which is a space suit that can go outside of the spacecraft to do a space walk we started with the Iva suit that we have the intra vehicular activity suit as a kind of starting point and looked at it and said what would we have to change about this to be able to support a space walk so the first is mobility um the crew will have to do a lot of moving around inside of dragon to get outside and do The Space Walk we had to add in new joints um and new features in the suit to allow them enhance Mobility while the suit is pressurized when a crew member is pressurized in the suit the soft portions of the suit become rigid they need actual flexure and rotational joints to allow them to move around it's kind of like a suit of armor uh made of fabric we innovated in flexure joints to allow easy bending at the elbows and the knees as well as a collapsible Rotator joint that exists on the shoulder which allows the suit to remain nearly fully soft but when pressurized is a rotational bearing the difference between the Iva and Eva suit is that on the Iva suit the zipper system location is in the inseam uh but since we needed to have lots of Mobility on our Eva suit that was not the Preferred Choice by moving the zipper system from the inseam to the waist we mitigated risk of the stress of the siipper and another big element was also the the thermal side of things the crews obviously exposed to a much more extreme thermal environment during the Eva so we want to make sure that the inside of the suit is comfortable for them um and that as they interface with parts of the vehicle that is safe for them to touch as well the EV suit is built and designed here at SpaceX in Halton California we wanted to have something that's easy manufactured that we can handle here in house so develop this new material so it's fabric based we actually added a new layer to the suit uh which we refer to as the Faraday layer and this is a conductive cage around the suit that Shields the suit from external electric Fields the helmet on the Eva suit uh looks very similar to the Iva suit but is really an all new design of that helmet um it's much more robust from a thermal structural perspective since it will be taking more extreme temperatures we are really excited to introduce U this new single pane visor helmet to the world of space suits the Eva suit visor is made of polycarbonate and is coated with copper and I or indium T oxide these two Coatings together reflect the Sun away from the crew as well as reflecting infrared heat back to the crew when they are facing deep space our suit has a HUD or heads up display which is a small display screen in the helmet which is transparent which allows the crew to see through the display to have unfettered access during their Eva but it also provides critical Telemetry to the crew so pressure temperature relative humidity we're trying to improve the technology and streamline it in one way and at the same time we're also trying to get it more and more manufacturable with each generation the ultimate goal is that you can put on a spacit and go out and get work done anywhere in the solar system um and not feel like you're wearing anything more than you normally wear every day uh love seeing how we have designed those suits from really the the ground up they look similar to the Iva suits um but there's so many enhancements and changes in order to make them suitable for an Eva uh and we are definitely looking forward to seeing them in action uh in just a few days uh but until then uh let's take a look at how the actual Eva itself came together stands for extravehicular activity and it's any sort of operation in space where human is getting out of the spacecraft so in the case of Polaris Dawn we're going to be testing the mobility of the suit we're going to see if the inp space operation matches the training we've done here in Hawthorne there's really a lot of different things that can happen during an Eva and this is the first step for Dragon and SpaceX when I first started working at SpaceX I never thought I'd be training a crew to do an Eva it's brand new it's so unique we've never done anything like this before and so we wanted to make sure we had the best possible training program for this Mission we want to see if we can train a space walk on earth in a way that's representative it feels like in space even though only two people are going to be going outside during this first Eva all four crew will be in Eva suits going down to vacuum Dragon was always designed to vent to full vacuum but we've never taken full Dragon capsule down to vacuum and this will be the first time we do it in space we actually put crew into a chamber at johnon Space Center in Houston and had them live the exact profile that they will experience and making sure that no one actually experienced uh decompression sickness we have a couple new training assets for player stwn to train the Eva specifically the suspension system that we have is situated on top of the platform of our capsule Simulator the lines drop through the hatch they attach to a single crew member inside the capsule we can lift them up and get them situated so that they can erress the capsule and perform their tasks at Skywalker the mobility Aid the Skywalker what's amazing to me is a lot of people are going to think it's a metallic structure just bolted to the top of dragon but a lot of development effort test thing went into the Skywalker so we actually used similar technology as we have in the super Draco Chambers to apply a thermal barrier coating to the outside of the Skywalker that is going to be a really really amazing Mobility eight on the front end of dragon we also developed a sideways simulator so we flip the hatch on its side in the event the hatch fails to close they can manually close the hatch we have them do that in a sideway suspension system so gravity isn't helping them close or helping them open that hatch mechanism it's new development for Dragon it's new development for SpaceX and the industry as a whole so this is a great example of where polaron is forcing the team to innovate in a way that adds safety and reliability to every dragon mission going forward that's this huge challenge for us to go solve but that's also an opportunity for us to solve the problems that we have to go figure out anyway for our larger goals like putting people on Mars the poison objectives are the first step towards that ultimate flight with with humans inside of Starship which is right along the SpaceX development path that that we have towards getting to the moon and Mars it is so exciting to see not only development of the Eva suit but the Eva operations as well and how so much has specialized for this Mission with the goal of having the ability to open that top patch and have Jared and then Sarah um go out and test the mobility of the suit and and the functionality and it is it to me it's just so cool to be able to see the design and the planning that went into all of that to make what is about to happen happen yeah what I think is super cool is that historically you know they've done training and the the crew has done you know scuba diving but typically training has been done in a swimming pool in their suits right but uh as we just saw the the crew the training team got very creative and found different ways not have to submerge you know each crew member in their suits into water and have to deal with that but like be able to do this simulation training in a different way that made it a lot easier to maybe repeat the training um and you know keep the suits clean and and be be able to manage that which I think is so cool yeah I think we really just kind of innovate across the the board right just every aspect of the mission from the hardware to the training itself to just our processes so it's really great to see all of that one thing that actually really stuck out to me is the mention of how these suits will sort of be used in the far future you know I love how we always keep just the big picture in mind you know the goal of SpaceX make humans an interplanetary species get to the moon get to Mars get Beyond and so we really incorporate that into all of these sort of stepping stone missions right like we're pushing the boundaries we're doing this first Eva we're developing these suits but you know maybe in a few years who knows we're going to be having thousands of people in these suits doing work all over the place on the moon on Mars you know it's just so inspiring and incredible to sort of be a part of that story and get to hear about some of that from the crew yeah and these suits they look cool but they're super functional and thinking about what the f the the future suits the functionality that those suits will carry is like I think that's a good point of just like the the the far future what will that look like like is is very very cool well you talk about the far future and it may be because it's going on 1 in the morning here and we've got another hour and a half but in the near future my question is Halloween's coming up in the United States anybody want to make a mockup suit and go around trick-or treat maybe your kids you know it's like hey you want to dress up in an Eva suit we're going to see a lot of those this year huh yeah the different style suits for the costume you don't have to just stick with the white and the gray you know you you could use some colors you know a little bit like on Apollo lunar suits where they would use different colored Stripes to distinguish the commander because in the photos you're always going who are we looking at oh that so and so and that so and so yeah I love that um you guys were mentioning you know the future and how we're trying to work towards that now and they mentioned uh when they were making the space that they're thinking about the manufacturing obviously I've been in manufacturing for almost my entire engineering career so I love manufacturing but I love that we think about that um in the beginning stages of the design I think that's so important because design for manufacturability will make things a lot easier if you start with that versus you know designing something that may be functional but is really hard to manufacture and having to go back and make those updates and changes um so I think that's so cool that the spacit team really really focused on that with the suit yeah uh it's been so incredible to see the progression from the Iva suit to the early versions of the Eva suit to the suit that we see there on your screen um my personal favorite element is that that um not Shield the the visor there we go that's the word um and the views that we will see of Jared and Sarah as they emerge from the uh from from the the top hatch uh it's going to be incredible and just the fact that that just the visor itself not only does it look cool but it insulates them on the inside and the outside depending you know if they're looking toward the Sun or away from it it helps to keep them cool or warm respectively um I think that's just it it looks awesome but it has an important functionality to it as well yeah Kate you mentioned the moment that uh Jared and Sarah are going to at the capsule and we heard a little bit about that experience from from Mike on his multiple Evas and a little bit about the overview effect I think you know traditionally the public hasn't really had you know a live view into these events so it's truly a very unique very historical and special event that we're also going to be live streaming for the public you know we're going to see their first overview effect we're going to see them have that experience and kind of get to be along for the ride with them so pretty exciting we will have our own overview effect uh yeah that's a that's that's an excellent point yeah there's a camera inside of their helmet so we'll actually get their personal perspective of that at least for Jared and Sarah exiting the vehicles um but also we'll get to see Anna um and kids you know point of view from their camera too there's also a camera located um on the Skywalker structure uh so we'll also be able to see um earthspace with Jared SL Sarah somewhere in the in that photo or video which will be so cool other one I'm interested you know we've heard for example the inspiration 4 crew talk about their thoughts Jared comes back he flew the first time into relatively low earth orbit so he saw his overview effect but the Earth that close kind of fills up everything now he's going to be400 kilom up you not not doing the uh the Eva right there but he's going to look out through the windows and Pete Conrad when they went up on Gemini 11 in 1966 to just below where Jared and team are going Pete was you know he was out loud the Earth is round it looks different from this high so it's like okay Jared compare and contrast for everybody else who's stuck down here on Earth you know what's it really like could you tell you at400 kilometers up versus being you know 250 km or so the first time around on inspiration for yeah and even just the different Viewpoint of having the Koopa versus not and you know um being able to stretch your arms out and not hit the uh domed structure uh would would certainly be an experience although um I it's one of those things where it's like when you get on the the roller coaster you're told keep your hands inside the ride at all times we know they have certain um motions they're going to be doing to test out the mobility of the suit um but I hope they'll have an opportunity to to just chill for a minute uh in in the time that they are up there because they're going to be seeing some incredible incredible views yeah that's going to be super exciting um we'll get to watch them live the whole time again as attakus mentioned we'll be we'll have live coverage but also you know they do have an Eva it will be scheduled they will need to follow some procedures obviously the Eva is for a test it's to test the Eva suit um but we do have some margin in there so they might be able to get you know if they were able to complete their test they might just be able to get a minute or two to themselves to be able to enjoy that view uh now we are excited to watch that with them live uh whenever the Eva is actually happening um but for those of us who haven't experienced the overview effect personally fir hand with our own eyes here's a little bit more info on that phenomenon the overview effect is that sensation or that feeling that you get when you see our whole world from the perspective of being outside of it it ranges the whole Spectrum from like how delicate the Earth may appear because you know it's only this Thin Blue Line that separates this habit atmosphere of our home planet to you know the vacuum of space it's hard to comprehend what the impact is going to be when I first see Earth from space it just reminds us of how fragile our planet is one of my roles on this crew is to shoot as much footage as we possibly can so we can bring it back and share it with the world the big picture awareness that you gain from that sort of perspective when you were you know journeying amongst the stars and and see our our entire planet as we know it there're outside of your window and kind of the the philosophical and the the many different emotions that it provokes inside of you when you see it that way we have barely begun our journey to explore the worlds around us and that hit me right when I saw the the moon rise around Earth and saying like come on it's been 50 years we got to get back there and we got to get to ours and we got to figure out how to get out of our own solar system and try and figure out what this is all about there's so much incredible footage that crew members have taken from space and that you see from satellites I think it's one of the things I'm looking forward to most on the mission is getting to see the Earth from that perspective I can't wait to share what that experience is but I guess I'll have to let you know once I get back as you might imagine the Piston crew has spent a lot of time together through all the training and preparation for this Mission and naturally that fostered some great codery so let's hear what the crew had to say about their team bonding I have so many wonderful memories working with this crew one of the memories that stands out to me is back at the beginning of our relationship formation and that was when we were climbing kapi together the highs and lows of that experience and and the mental toughness required really helped break down barriers and create a platform to form a trust I mean you want to talk highs and lows we're literally jumping out of airplanes I think it just taught us an awful lot about each other and moments of like unbelievable happiness and super lows where things weren't going to plan mountains fly fighter jets honestly I think it's just the mundane moments that we have together to Jael as a crew and relying upon your crew knowing when we need to ask for help we each do have things that we're not going to be the best at we're not going to need to do everything we can distribute the load to maximize what each person is bringing to the team it's been such an adventure learning with them learning about them learning how to work with them I don't think 5 days is going to be enough it is awesome to think about getting to live and work with each other for 5 days in this capsule getting to be with them while floating in space doing work to contribute to long-term Endeavors of human space flight I am just so thrilled and excited and look forward to it now there are science and supplies going up on the Polaris Dawn Mission uh but also the crew is taking along some personal items for their 5-day trip around the planet we caught up with the crew during training to get a little more insight on what each of them are planning to take to space what am I going to bring to space um I thought long and hard about this one a book that I co-authored about a mama dragon that ends up training and flying to space my dad's necklace jewelry for my wife uh watches I have a Thunderbird watch and a and a fighter weapon School watch I don't know you know it's uh one of my takeaways after inspiration for was uh it's kind of like camping you brought too much one of my actual debrief points was bring less when I got married to my husband he went to the store and picked up a Cat in the Hat book for our entire wedding all of the ceremony was taped in this book all of our vows were taped in the book and then it got passed around and all the speeches got added to the book and so it's just a very fun collection of very special memories captured in a very endearing cat and Hat book I'm going to bring this big hunk of metal that will go higher than anyone has ever flown in Earth orbit I'd love to be able to have some sort of a memorabilia for everyone who contributes to this of which it's pretty hard because there's 10,000 plus space xers I guess I wish I could bring something for everyone who's made a difference in this program I will in particular get to read the story from space to my kids here on Earth as well as some of the Brave kids of St Jude Children's Research Hospital and I think that that connection moment while I'm up there floating in space is something I'm just really excited to have the opportunity to have so as you can see here on your screen the Polaris Dawn crew the seats have rotated back into the launch position so that is a good sign um everyone remains comfortable buckled into their seats um we're now just under an hour and a half until the next launch opportunity um and we are keeping our fingers crossed that the weather cooperates better this time than it did last time um so we saw a little bit there about what uh these four individuals are taking with them into space uh it's it's I I I think Jared's uh advice was kind of interesting take less um I kind of agree with that I personally would probably just take my wedding rings some flower seeds to plant uh in my favorite book um speaking of which we already mentioned it earlier um but it's just such like it's just such a beautiful uh book um this is h a book that Anna actually co-authored um and it is basically just like a story for her children and she's taking a copy with her to space and um it's I I am I'm going to order one for myself and uh very kindly ask her to sign it when she gets back yeah that's pretty cool that uh Anna gets to bring something that she wrote and created uh on to onto the vehicle um with her but eus what would you take I don't know maybe just some popcorn some candy some soft drinks you know yeah some snacks it's a it's a long trip potentially so would would you save any for you to eat when you came back to Earth or oh that's a good idea yeah maybe share with my friends some space candy there you go gifts what about you oh I would definitely have to bring a basketball um of course basketball is great made me who I am today but what I really want to do is bring Space Jam to real life that's my plan amazing your basketball will be your zero g indicator that is Jus or a Nerf ball yeah a Nerf basket not for an a mission with an Eva operation though oh yeah yeah John what would you take I I'll be more of a sentimentalist when I was in the Air Force working Titan launch Vehicles not the icbms but the above ground launch Vehicles the Air Force only had one way to distinguish and that was to give you a rocket badge that you would pin onto your uniform shirt and so it said yes you're working launch Vehicles well I've had that since 1980 when I started working launch vehicles and it's actually been to space and back on a falcon 9 first stage so I take that well worn and well traed bad and I'd take it with me again in way it would go yep and then come back down so it would have two flights on it and it would be a rocket badge it' be pretty cool I also thought of another one that you could do your binder the the infamous webcast binder just like I always have my uh my notebook um I think those would be two Staples if we were to go my [Music] brains who knows maybe we'll do a webcast from space one day right we'll have some of our own employees up there maybe broadcast live you never know right that could be cool Anna and Sarah are making the way for us to to go up there so that could be a thing yeah um we heard earlier that uh kid puked the whole time during his training that would be me 100% I can barely ride in the back of an Uber oh man yeah it's a little bit um more spicy than an Uber on the way up to space it's okay I will hold down the for here well you guys go it's only four G's only four G's yeah uh anyway um We are continuing to uh count down to the next launch opportunity for the Polaris Dawn crew uh for those of you that have just recently joined us uh all four of our crew members are inside that Dragon capsule there on your screen uh they are the only ones left at the Launchpad the closeout crew have Departed the pad um um and we unfortunately had to reset the countdown clock um just past I think it was like T minus 48 second or 48 minutes um so unfortunately there was a last minute radar scan that showed uh basically non-conforming weather um requirements and so we had to stand down and uh basically reset for our next opportunity which is coming up in just an hour and 22 minutes so the crew has remained in the Dragon capsule folks here um for Mission Control are uh cycling through giving an opp getting an opportunity to stretch their legs get some refreshments or some food um and really get refocused as we come back into almost right where we left off yep so as the clock continues to count we're just at about T minus 1 hour and 20 minutes so far everything with Falcon 9 and dragon are being reported as healthy but in the meantime John can we get a further status update well thanks adus T-minus 1 hour and 22 minutes as you're just saying everything is kind of in a bance for the moment we're waiting to get more information on weather you can see a view of dragon spacecraft on top of Falcon 9 at launch complex 39a on Kennedy Space Center lights are on in the crew access arm but it doesn't mean anybody is in the arm and you can see there on the screen the crew we rotated there seats back into the launch position at T minus 1 hour and 28 minutes just about 7 minutes ago currently we're come slowly moving up on T-minus one hour where things start to pick up and here comes the weather update uh all weather rules just cleared about 30 seconds ago so we have a green range for weather rules and uh we'll have our SpaceX meteorologist fill you in for the next two zero it's great to hear and say by and Dragon SpaceX weather officer here we uh did violate a number of uh launch rules for that cumulus that popped up at that initial t0 so made a good call there from the the whole team sld 45 and all um and we are tracking a much better POV for this next t0 um the elbow is tracking a 35% chance of violation and uh if everything holds as it currently looks for another 20 30 minutes we should be able to step that POV down but overall looking good for this next launch attempt and copy that weather officer that's uh really great to know 35% presently for Po and should be stepping down in the next 20 minutes or so good good to hear okay so they've told the crew that what we were just getting from the launch weather officer the first launch attempt we had to hold as we got inside T minus 45 minutes uh a cell had popped up and it looked like we were going to be noo at t0 which would have scrubbed us for the uh morning so instead we uh held off before we began prop load into the Falcon 9 that preserved a second launch attempt coming up in just under 80 minutes from now that t0 is plan for 9 hours 23 minutes 49 seconds universal time or 523 and 49 seconds a.m. eastern daylight saving time uh just uh about an hour or so before Dawn the are in Coco Beach Florida uh so hopefully they'll get a good view uh if the weather continues to dissipate as I mentioned we uh had the crew rotate uh seats back into the launch position at T-minus 1 hour and 28 minutes on the SpaceX Falcon 9 side the launch chief engineer is going through a technical Readiness poll making sure that the Falcon team is ready to pick up uh the count as we get inside team in his one hour also amplify a little bit on the launch weather officer it's always interesting a probability of violation or POV as they call it of 35% so that means essentially one chance and three of violating the weather constraints that we would have for a launch uh it's interesting uh an optimist would say it's a 60% probability of good weather you know I don't know why we do the probability of violation but that's the that's a history it's been that for as long as I have known it the big thing that is changing is that the weather was fairly chaotic over the last hour it's very hard to model and predict as the boundary layer was coming ashore what they're seeing right now in the weather radar is the boundary looks like it's dissipating and is uh the core told the crew and the weather officer Amplified we ought to know more in about 20 minutes as we get down close to T-minus one hour in which case the probab probability of violation may actually decrease give us an even better chance still looking at a variety of things uh the rain showers that we saw earlier on the camera lens uh making sure that they've dissipated that we don't fly through rain on the way up uh we also want to make sure the big one is cumulus cloud rules we don't want any uh thick uh high altitude clouds uh in the flight trajectory and then of course uh continuing to watch the winds but that that looks to be pretty good and if the rain dissipates and goes away then the electric field intensity uh which is currently green and go for launch should also stay that way so fingers crossed that the weather will continue to improve and we get uh a go here to continue through T minus one hour and then prop load and take it the rest of the way out down but right now okay things are looking a little more optimistic than they were an hour or so ago yeah certainly better um hearing that we've got a 35% chance of violating the weather requirements instead of 60 um that's certainly a welcome Improvement um so let's talk a little bit about uh the research that's going to be going up so Polaris da is the first of three planned missions in the Polaris program uh and this will conduct extensive scientific research to expand our knowledge of humans adapting living and working in space much of this research is also intended intended to improve our lives down here on Earth and like all science and research it begins with collecting tons of data and that process started well before today let's take a look we are in the Houston in SpaceX office today we are here for our what we call lus 30 or launch minus 30 days data collection for all of the research that we're doing on our mission we have about 40 experiments and a number of those required data collection pretty close to launch date and so we are doing all of that data collection today as well as doing some refresher training just to make sure we're really sharp on all of our procedures when we go to flight there's a lot of steps uh for each one of these uh science experiments they're beneficial for not only um improving and enhancing Health Care here on Earth but it helps us continue this uh progression with space exploration what kid and Anna are doing with the uh the endoscope uh up through the nose and looking down at the vocal cords I mean that is uh not something easy to perform uh you know in a hospital environment let alone in space they certainly stand to learn a lot from it uh reestablishing someone's Airway that's that's worthwhile in to know for going Mar someday um but I think that's a tough one to perform uh in space and uh but you got two really uh highly motivated individuals that are going to try and Conquer it in space there's inflammation we don't have the impact of 1G pulling on that fluid so we need to better understand what that ination looks like and once we have a better understanding we can develop the procedures and the equipment necessary to handle any type of tre out situation and we stepped into to this virtual reality scenario I think kid and I liked it a lot because they're flying as spacecraft on Mars to kind of gather like hand ey coordination motor skills some cognitive abilities now and then they're going to compare it to to postf flight as opposed to whether or not we can successfully land on Mars one of the unique things of our our missions they're 3 to 5 days length you maybe can't study the super long duration things but what you can study is what happens immediately when you get up there and how soon these things uh start to take place so this big problem in the astronaut Community is called Sands and it's where the astronauts eyesight and ocular health start to degrade over time so they will be wearing a contact that actually makes them look like a cyborg it has little coils that can measure the interocular pressure and then we can start testing countermeasures that might actually be able to prevent some of those negative effects we are doing an experiment called GBS disorientation and this experiment we wear a set of electrodes that sends electricity essentially through our brain between our inner ears and stimulates a disorientation and and an imbalance to train astronauts adaptation to different G environments and hope to Quicken that readaptation one of the things that we're doing with ultrasound is we are going to be collecting imagery of our veins and identifying whether there's actually bubbles for forming when we are changing cabin pressure it's very possible that nitrogen will bubble out into our blood if we see bubbles it will be completely normal and okay if we do see bubbles but we are hoping to capture that on on ultrasound in order for us to become multiplanetary we've got to overcome some of these challenges associated with space exploration on longer duration missions What We Gather on orbit in a zerg environment in a vacuum will help us continue this cause in further in space [Music] exploration today dragon has carried more than a thousand research experiments to and from low earth orbit in the International Space Station since 2012 whether it's returning time sensitive experiments from the International Space Station or bringing back signs performed inside the spacecraft wall in orbit Dragon safely returns at home while docked with the International Space Station dragon can also act as a lab providing extra room for astronauts to perform their work and when the space station is fully booked Dragon also serves as an extra bedroom when necessary yeah exactly Kate and actually NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins who joined us earlier in the show slept inside of dragon during his entire six-month stay aboard the station now dragon can also serve as a lab while orbiting Earth during the inspiration for Mission uh back in 2021 the crew as as you see there conducted research while traveling weightless at over 177,000 mph just as the Polaris daon crew will be doing uh over the next five days dragon's cargo capacity can be allocated for both crew Essentials as well as scientific equipment dedicated to microgravity research and experiments yeah and in fact SpaceX is currently accepting proposals for research studies and experiments to fly on Dragon this could be researched to understand mental and physical impacts while on or exploring how to improve training physical fitness and mental well-being or advancing Medical Care with the exploration of just in time training and tools the selected research study groups will have access to spacex's crude Dragon missions opening up opportunities for researchers that might not otherwise have an opportunity to do so for more information about spacex's on orbit research program visit spacex.com slh humans spaceflight resarch now as we mentioned at the start of the show there are a number of Firsts for this Mission the first commercial spacewalk uh possibly reaching the highest Earth orbit ever flown for a crude spacecraft which if that happens it would break the altitude record set by the geminy 11 Mission which was half a century ago yeah the Piston crew will also be the first to attempt to use the starlink network while in orbit dragon is carrying what we are are calling a starlink plug-in player and dragon we are cycling the orbit tank isolation valves again to equalize the lowf flow pressure system copy that space than for following and just a quick update from the core to the crew dragon is carrying what we are calling a sterling plug-in pler an inside dragon is a router connected to a user terminal in Dragon's trunk now this terminal will be linked to to the new plug-in player device that is mounted on board and all of this will be responsible for establishing and maintaining a laser Communications link with starlink satellites which will be in orbit about 200 kilometers below Dragon using this Hardware Dragon will attempt to talk to starlink the same way satellite excuse me starlink satellites talk between themselves with lasers no one has ever blown a laser communication system on a human rated human rated spacecraft before so there's 's a lot to be learned if this works the plug and pler could provide the first high-speed internet experience for people traveling in space yeah this technology will also help here on Earth by facilitating Health Care access and connectivity to underserved communities around the world the players program is donating starlink to St Jude Global Partners in five countries strong reliable internet will help support the St Jude Global Mission by providing Partners greater access to online medical conferencing case and imaging sharing and diagnostic assistance hospitals and foundations that are part of the pilot program will be able to provide better care to patients thanks to highspeed low latency broadband internet the first countries selected to receive starlink include the Philippines Brazil Chile Peru and mosm Beek the Polaris team is also donating Starling to 100 schools in Chile and Brazil striving to increased internet connectivity which can improve education and tele medicine efforts for communities in need the Polaris Dawn crew actually had a chance to hear from the students in Chile after starlink was installed it's so important to go to space because there is so much of it and we know so little about it how many of you would like to be an astronaut someday there we go how many of you want to go with us on our mission starlink is also enabling the rapid development of spacex's Starship vehicle which just completed its fourth flight test in June starlink on Starship once again enabled realtime Telemetry and live highdef video throughout every phase of entry with external cameras providing views all the way to the flight's conclusion down at Starbase Texas we're continuing to build test and fly the world's most powerful launch vehicle ever developed spacex's ultimate goal is to make life multiplanetary and Starship is the vehicle that will get us there Starship is a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry a massive amount of cargo and large numbers of people to Earth orbit the Moon Mars and Beyond Starship will be capable of car in up to 200 metric tons to orbit and up to 100 passengers and we're still in the testing phase but major Milestones like flying at a high Cadence full reuse and on orbit refilling are key priorities we're also building a second star based launch Tower to further increase starship's flight opportunities this will also allow for continuous upgrades to the towers while continuing to launch now also in testing our Engineers are proving out all systems necessary to make a trip to the moon possible such as as propulsion life support and even the elevator that will take the crew and cargo from the Starship hash opening down to the lunar surface in partnership with NASA Starship will put the first Artemis astronauts on the moon the vehicle will perform one uncrewed demonstration flight before the AR you go for Section Five of four decimal 1000 report when you are go for launch and c d SpaceX we're stepping into Section 5 4 deal 1 0 all right so just the core syncing up with the crew um informing them that we are continuing with the launch countdown um so I was talking about the the um Artemis 3 Program excuse me the Artemis program specifically the Artemis 3 mission uh and how the Starship vehicle like the one that you see there on your screen will perform an uncrewed demonstration Mission before the Artemis 3 mission um and that will be the first human surface Expedition since 1972 uh with the ability to deliver cargo and people to the lunar surface will space action 54 decimal one0 Cruise go for lunch all right that is cop crew is go for launch music to our ears uh crew is once again uh still ready uh for launch so with the ability deliver cargo and people to the lunar surface will be ready to help Humanity build a sustainable presence on the moon and learn how to live off world before the next step to Mars when the time comes for humans to explore the moon and Beyond they'll have to take everything with them for a service Expedition building bases or even cities will require huge amounts of cargo and eventually crew and that's where Starship comes in this year is shaping up to be a busy one for Starship as we mentioned uh we completed the uh fourth flight test of Starship on June 6th down in Starbase Texas as you see there the super heavy booster lifted off successfully and completed a full duration Ascent burn Starship executed another successful hot stage separation powering down all but three of super Heavy's Raptor engines and successfully igniting the six second stage Raptor engines before separating the vehicles following separation the super heavy booster successfully completed its flip maneuver and boost back break and to send it back towards its splash down Zone the booster's flight ended with a landing burn and soft splash down in the Gulf of Mexico 7 minutes and 24 seconds into flight The Landing was caught by both the onboard camera as well as one of our marine buoys meanwhile starship's six second stage Raptor engines successfully powered the vehicle to space and placed it on the plan trajectory for Coast Starship made a controlled re-entry successfully making it through the phases of peak Heating and maximum aerodynamic pressure demonstrating the ability to control the vehicle using its flaps while descending through the atmosphere at Hypersonic speeds and speaking of those flaps Starship provided live video throughout re-entry uh via space access starlink satellites providing most spectacular views and we all cheered on the little flap that could um as it hung on with the last strings for dear life uh now these starlink enabled views uh just they were incredible and uh we're looking forward to having similar incredible views on Polaris da yeah flight four ended with Starship igniting its three Center Raptor engines and executing the first flip maneuver and Landing burn since our high altitude test campaign followed by a soft Splashdown of the ship in the Indian Ocean about an hour and 6 minutes after launch the fourth flight of Starship made major strides to bring us closer to a rap rapid reusable future its accomplishments will provide data to drive improvements as we continue rapidly developing Starship into a fully reusable transportation system now looking forward to flight five we're getting ready to attempt the first ever Tower catch of a booster now returning the booster after launch is a core capability to Starship becoming rapidly and reliably reusable and speaking of rapidly as of August 21st we had both hour is fully stacked which is so incredible to see that's a real photo that's awesome so stay tuned for exciting updates as we get closer to this next launch and as always excitement is guaranteed now for those that have just recently joined us uh you picked a great time because we are exactly 1 hour and 1 minute and 13 seconds away from launch uh welcome back to the coverage for the Polaris Dawn mission the Polaris program is a first ofit kind effort to rapidly Advance human space flight capabilities while continuing to raise funds and awareness for important causes here on Earth the program's goal is to demonstrate important operational capabilities that will serve as building blocks to help further human exploration to the Moon Mars and Beyond Polaris Dawn is the first mission in the Polaris program the program will consist of up to three human space flight missions that will demonstrate new technologies conduct extensive research and ultimately culminate in the first flight of spacex's Starship with humans on board the plon crew will be performing some incredible first in space including the first ever commercial spacewalk and this Mission will fly higher than any dragon mission today attempting to reach the highest Earth orbit ever flown for crude spacecraft breaking the record set by Gemini 11 and a half a century ago the crew will also be the first to test starlink laser based Communications in space they will orbit the Earth for a to 5 days before splashing down off the coast of Florida and over the course of their mission in orbit the crew will conduct a wide range of research in microgravity designed to advance both human health on Earth and our understanding of human health during future long duration space flights now liftoff time is still holding for 5:23 a.m. eastern and we're currently tracking no technical issues with falcon9 or Dragon the range is green and weather at the moment is cooperating but the um last POV that we had was 35% and we heard that it was going to improve as we get closer to t0 so fingers cross it stays that way now over the last more than three hours I think more like five hours at this point um the polaron crew uh dawned their SpaceX suits and were then transported to the pad where our crew entered Dragon spacecraft um that the one you see there on your screen since arriving at the spacecraft the crew were helped by our closeout team to get in their seats those seats that you see there uh attached their suits to the special umbilicals that provide breathing air and communication link uh to Dragon systems they conducted successful leak checks and Communications checks with the core here in Hawthorne um and that is the person who they will be speaking to directly throughout the mission that stands for crew operations uh resource engineer yeah and the closeout team was able to seal the hatch which also gets its only Le check and the closeout team has already Departed the pad once that hatch was sealed uh they were able to clear the area and uh clear the pad um and now we've been doing some uh weather checks um as we got closer and closer to t0 so again we will be uh doing another final go no go for launch before we get to that final go no go the next team will do an internal poll making sure that conditions are right with Falcon 9 Dragon the crew the range and the weather of course team minus one hour until liftoff is the final evaluation checkpoint or the last opportunity for the SpaceX team to adjust the launch time if it's needed and with everything so far on track let's take a moment to meet the crew that will be flying today the Polaris Dawn Mission has many time objectives so the Polaris program chose a crew of experts who know each other well and have a foundation of trust that they can build on as they undertake challenges of this mission mission Commander Jared Rook isaacman served as commander of inspiration 4 the world's first all civilian mission to space Jared for a weather update go Space X Dragon we are currently go for launch uh updated probability of violation is 20% so with that we are going to be pressing towards t02 we'll keep you updated if any other weather comes through so as we just heard uh our our opportunity for launching is sounding better and better um the probability of violation for weather rules has decreased from 35% probability to 20% so that is excellent news um now let's talk a little bit about our mission Commander Jared Rook isaacman he served as commander of inspiration 4 the world's first all civilian mission to space Jared holds several world records including two speed around the world flights in 2008 and 2009 for the make A- Wish Foundation he has flown in over 100 air shows as part of the Black Diamond jet team dedicating every performance to charitable causes in 2011 Jared co-founded what would become the world's largest private Air Force dra International and that trains Pilots for the US a armed forces in addition to his role as CEO of Shift 4 Jared is an accomplished pilot and astronaut with over 7,000 flight hours Mission pilot Scott potit served as Mission director of inspir for and he goes by his call sign kid a retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel kid served for 20 years in roles that included commander of the 64th aggressor Squadron Thunderbird number four demonstration pilot US Air Force weapons school graduate operational test and evaluation pilot and flight examiner kid is a command pilot with over 3,200 flying hours and has logged over 400 hours of combat time following his Air Force career kid served in various roles including VP of strategy at Shift 4 Mission specialist Sarah Cooper Gillis is a lead space operations engineer at SpaceX responsible for overseeing the company's Astronaut training program she helped prepare NASA astronauts for the demo to and crew one missions and most recently directly trained the inspiration for astronauts Sarah is an experienced mission control operator who has supported realtime Ops for dragon's cargo resupply missions to and from the international space station as a navigation officer and as a crew Communicator for Dragon human space flight missions in 2015 while studying at the University of Colorado Boulder Sarah started an internship at SpaceX before moving into the Astronaut training program full-time and to cap off the Polaris Don crew mission specialist and medical officer Anna Walker Menan who also serves as a lead space operations engineer at SpaceX where she manages the development of the crew operations and works in mission control as both a mission director and crew Communicator during her time at SpaceX Anna has led the implementation of dragons crew capabilities and develop critical operational responses to vehicle emergencies prior to SpaceX Anna worked for seven years at Nasa as a biomedical flight controller for the International Space Station she received her bachelor's degree in mathematics and Spanish from the Texas Christian University and her master's degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University and and that is our Polaris Dawn crew uh and the first SpaceX employees to fly on a SpaceX Mission anah and Sarah also supported inspiration 4 and actually served as Trainers for the crew of that mission so I can only imagine how incredible and the feelings that they have um and how Wild it is to experience a launch from the other side of the mission uh now as the polaron crew prepared for this Mission they had a pretty cool opport Unity to sit down with a legend of space flight Apollo astronaut Charlie Duke one of only four surviving moonwalkers from the Apollo program he flew on the Apollo 16 mission to the lunar surface in 1972 and more than 50 years later he had some great advice for our crew in advance of the first ever commercial space walk aunch and a swinging I can all [Music] the Welcome to our mission control thank you very much down you got ACH of guys about to turnue we're breathing again thanks a lot what uh emotions run through your head as you watch that for Apollo 11 it was really tense yeah the tension emission control R was through the roof you know I was more tense than that Landing when I actually did it cuz you know in the space GP you seeing all the systems whereas an Mission Control you're just looking at a little screen you know I was never wor this big they were just little things first off I want to say thank you for inviting me to come out and uh get a briefing from y'all and maybe throw a little piece of advice every once in a while to you you're one of the 12 humans in history that has gotten to walk on the the face of the Moon and now you're sitting here at SpaceX I'm I'm curious what your your your aspirations your hopes your dreams are for the future of human space exploration well I'm excited about uh the privatization of space when it first came about I was a little dubious but then it was quickly obvious that SpaceX knew what they were doing and I've been a big supporter of what SpaceX is doing in in space and manned and unmanned launches I'm impressed with this facility and first time I've been here well sir it is a real honor it is a real honor to have you here and have this conversation player is the the first of uh you know up to three missions that are contemplated so we're going to vent down the vehicle and uh and conduct a uh a spacewalk and we're going to test out a new space suit that um the engineers at SpaceX here have been developing it's to learn really as much about the this new generation suit that SpaceX has built and and the entire operation associated with it I'll be one of the crew members that goes outside the vehicle uh Sarah will be as well and then um kid and Anna are going to be inside the vehicle and uh kind of supporting capacity and be the eyes and ears of uh while we're outside is that Bower assembly separate from your it's all integrated yeah it's a spiral waste zipper that we uh da and off the suit it's important to have a suit that works I mean is mobile and fits sir based on your training experiences what was the most memorable uh thing you went through let me cover something that's very similar to y'alls and that's the trans Earth Eva ropy looks like they old Mo both the Pao 15 16 and 17 had no problems with the Trans Earth Evas very spectacular I mean the view I mean that was my most impressive memory really is to float out and there was the earth down here about 180,000 miles away and my job basically was hook myself in so I don't float off and hold on how long are you depressurized so for the The Space Walk based on our the vehicle design and what we can support we have about two hours end to end for both depressurizing external operations and then repressurizing the spacecraft um but we'll all get suited up depressurize the spacecraft and then two people one at a time will go outside come back in before we repressurize the spacecraft my advice is don't let go I wish you well and thank you the goal of SpaceX is to build Technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary and this is the first time in the four billion year history of Earth that it's possible to realize that goal missions like Polaris Dawn are helping accelerate those efforts by developing and testing technologies that will enable humans to live and work in space while also improving life for us here and now I'm a total believer in the SpaceX mission and vision um I think the world is a more interesting place when you can Journey Among the Stars I believe that a lot of the questions that you know human beings have have asked themselves since the beginning of time are probably out there and we barely scratch the surface and SpaceX is trying to change that polaron has some really ambitious objectives and the missions that follow it will also as well and the hopes for all of these is that we will develop Technologies and test technologies that will help SpaceX ultimately achieve its long-term Ambitions of making human life interplanetary what's really unique about the pison mission is it's a development Mission so not only are we taking the basic fundamental of how to live in dragon and operate the spacecraft but we're now adding whole new operations for new suits new systems a new repressurization system in the capsule there are whole new procedures for executing the space walks we are doing incredible things and we are changing the world and we are making history the men and women of this organization the level of intelligence it's unmatched and that's why we're so passionate about our mission and about what SpaceX is is continuing to do with their Vision uh to further space exploration there's a lot of things that you can be on either side of debate on but for sure it's like it's okay to put a small percentage of our resources in advancing our species and along the way completely change the trajectory for humans on this planet in a in a positive way and we can try and fix some of the day-to-day problems too it doesn't have to be this either or but yet uh so often it is we're coming up on T minus 46 minutes the launch director and the launch Team have conducted their electronic poll the launch director has also checked with the dragon mission director for their Readiness everything continues to look good we're going to be hearing some instructions from the SpaceX launch director he'll be making announcements on the control room lockdown and protocols for hold or launch escapes and he'll also be reminding the team that inside of T minus 10 seconds only the computer can abort the launch now once the LD the launch director gives these instructions they will clear the team to proceed with moving the crew arm away from the launch vehicle you can see the arm is in the access position right now but once we get complete and the team is ready for crew access arm retract rep loading and launch both control rooms are going to lock down at tus 45 minutes and remain that state until the launch Escape system Sy is disarmed all operators are remaining at their console and maintain a sterile cockpit until MD confirms successful disarming the launch Escape system following orbit insertion or propellant offload in the event of a scrub for non- Urgent no-go conditions bre the c or LD and they'll approve a Waring the countdown for Urgent issues affecting the safety safety of the operation operator shall call hold hold hold on the countdown net launch control will report the launch Auto sequence immediately and proceed into the launcher board Auto sequence at tus 10 seconds launch control will be hands off relying on automated board CR for the remainder of the account operators advis the law tror whether structural breakup or fire is imminent or occurring for Dragon manual Escape flight rules launch control you may proceed with arming the crew arm for movement we've heard the instructions we're waiting to hear them inform the crew that access arm retract has started we're also watching on the monitors as we see the crew access arm arm waiting for it to begin into motion and once we get through this then we will be arming the launch Escape system and view arm retraction has started access arm retraction has started once that's all the way back in the stowed Position will arm the launch Escape system proceed down to propellant load starting at t- 35 minutes one other update weather probability of violation as we mentioned down to 20% and they just checked with the launch weather officer nothing appears to be in the area that would be a risk to t0 in just over 44 minutes and Jesse you can see cais arm starting to come back now yeah this is a very uh exciting moment here this is one of the last major visual Milestones that we'll see in preparation for liftoff and soon we should also hear the call out that the access arm retraction is complete and great call there that is the conclusion or completion of the crew access arm retraction we should also hear uh the call out for the launch Dragon you are go for Section six close visors and arm the launch Escape system copy that SpaceX we are stepping into section six we're going to close visors and arml and there it is they're getting ready to arm the launch Escape system and the crew is closing their visors which you can see there there's in preparation for that arming of the launch Escape system and then also coming up will be Falcon 9 prop loading beginning yeah we can see uh their tablets there on their legs strapped uh on top of their dragon section 6.2 our visors are closed and we are proceeding with arming Lees SpaceX copies so those tablets that they have provide all the information that they need for the mission um the crew as you can see uh reporting that they are ready for the next steps reporting that all their visors are closed um arming of the launch Escape system uh now coming up and we're just waiting for the call out launch Escape system is verified armed cop X show the sameon we're closing out four decimal 1 z0 four decimal 1 0 0 reference to copies closing four decimal z0 that's a procedure the crew is running on their tablets so with that the launch Escape system is now armed should something happen that requires Dragon to execute an emergency escape uh if something were to happen in the Falcon 9 or the pad right now system is ready to go there's another key reason once we got the cais arm back we went right into arming the launch Escape system because once that system is armed should we need to have the crew leave but depart via the crew AIS arm that arm took a minute or so to retract it can actually come back into the support position much faster than that so there's a high-speed mode but that highspeed mode requires that we be in the armed configuration so that it'll be enabled so if that was needed the crew could then leave the hatch go down the arm and depending upon the direction they can take the elevators the elevators are currently at level 255 when the ground team left the pad they send the elevators back up so if the crew needs them they're right there and of course we have the slide wire basket system on 39a is another way so there's several ways if the crew had to leave but the good news is coming up 40 minutes before launch everything continues to go well technically on Falcon n and dragon and it looks like the weather has begun to cooperate now now next major event coming up at T-minus 35 minutes will be the start of propellant loading on Falcon 9 once we get into that then we're committed to the t0 even though there's still more time in the window and a third launch opportunity if we need it uh we would not be able to take advantage of that if we get propellant going into the Falcon 9 again the views from 39a the arm is retracted you can't tell it but launch Escape system is armed on the dragon spacecraft it's quiet right now on the Nets team is most just waiting for the clock to get to 35 and this is getting pretty exciting you know we were very close to this point about an hour and a half uh ago um and again we did make that call due to weather to move the t0 and we did that prior to propellant loading because once we start propellant loading we're basically committed to that t0 um which was a great call again from the team on uh monitoring the weather and going for the second t0 which has a much better probability of good weather at the t0 uh so very very exciting yeah definitely uh we were operating at a 60% um probability of violation I.E 40% favorable at the original t0 called it off just before prop loading um and now fast forward to um hour and a half Tosh hours later um you know we're now closer to 20 % or not closer we are at 20% um probability of violation so 80% favorable so definitely a significant increase um and as you said uh stepping into prop load is a pretty strong vote of confidence that we're going to be able to to to make it hopefully fingers crossed there is always that 20% um but we are optimistic that uh we're we're going to see our Polaris Dawn crew in orbit sooner than later and it shows you know this is perfect example of you know why we have all these procedures and these Milestones where we're checking in throughout the countdown um to make sure that you know we have opportunities to make the right decision again for safety being the number one um thing that we're always looking out for especially with crew on board but just for any Mission um and we were able tanks will vent for the start of propellent load in 5 seconds yeah we'll be hearing call outs throughout the countdown up to the crew to let them know what's happening uh both Falcon 9 and dragon and then we'll also hear call outs on Asam yeah and the the core is keeping them updated so that they uh you know there's going to be new sounds coming into inside of the vehicle um and the the core can keep them updated to they won't be able to see what's happening um but they might be able to hear it uh so they'll be able to to monitor you know those familiar sounds or those expected sounds as the core is updating them with each Milestone now our next major event as we've mention is the start of propellant loading onto the Falcon 9 we'll hear that starting at T-minus 35 minutes we also may hear the call out launch Auto sequence has started that is the ground computer program that controls the last 35 minutes and we should also as we mentioned hear the launch director call out to the crew that propellant loading has begun propellent loading sequence on the Falcon 9 begins with loading fuel onto both the first and the second stages that's the rp1 kerosene fuel that we use will'll also begin with liquid load liquid oxygen loading onto the first stage now the second stage fuel loading will finish up fairly quickly at about tus 20 A2 minutes and then 4 minutes after that we'll begin loading liquid oxygen onto the second stage but right now T minus 35 minutes 30 seconds everything continues to go well we're waiting for the Handover from the countdown Master sequence to the launch automatic sequence to begin propellent loading once that begins that'll commit us to a launch early this morning here at pad 39a in Florida we listen in now for the start of propellant loading we are the launch Auto sequence has started and great call out there we just heard that the launch Auto sequence has begun this means that propellent loading has begun on Falcon 9 now we are team minus 34 minutes and 45 seconds from liftoff Dragon was loaded with its propellants about a couple weeks ago just a few miles down the road at what we call Dragon Land in order to fly Dragon needs a fuel and an oxidizer and for the fuel we use monomethyl hydrazine or mmh and nitrogen tetroxide or nto for the oxidizer now together these propellant feed the Draco engines that maneuver dragon on orbit as well as the eight super Draco engines that would power the launch Escape system in an abort scenario and again now the feeling for Falcon 9 has started that means the eight super Draco engines its side Dragon are ready if needed to launch the capsule away from the Falcon 9 rocket in an instant should there be any kind of emergency associated with the rocket or the pad now some of you are very familiar with the vehicles on the Launchpad today but for those of you who aren't no worries we're about to make you instant experts now on the left side of your screen is a live view of our Falcon 9 rocket with the dragon spacecraft on top together they stand about 229 ft tall Falcon 9 of course is a reusable two-stage rocket which means it's kind of like two rockets in one the first stage and the second stage the first stage is the bottom 2/3 of the vehicle you can see soot from the previous three missions that this booster has flown and those missions include NASA Crew 8 as well as two Starling commissions the first stage is responsible for accelerating Falcon and dragon through Earth's atmosphere and into space to do that it has nine Merlin engines at the bottom of the stage prior to liftoff the Falcon 9 first stage is loaded up with nearly 1 million pounds of fuel and liquid oxygen at liftoff the Merlin engines use these propellants to provide the first stage with a Thrust greater than 5 747 airplanes at full power these engines consume about 700 gallons of fuel per second the first stage accelerates the vehicle through the Earth's atmosphere into space and then separates from the rest of the rocket at just about 2 and a half minutes into flight from there the first stage will do what no other orbital last rocket in the world can do it will make its way back down to earth and Target a landing on our drone ship just read the instructions which you can see there on your screen and this drone ship is currently parked in holding position a couple hundred miles downrange in the Atlantic Ocean our drone trips are essentially autonomous powered spaceports and they allow our rocket to land offshore for reference our drone trips are about the size of a football field so while they may look small on screen they're actually pretty big in real life reusability is a critical part of our goal of making life multiplanetary and to that end we're working toward qualifying our Fleet of Falcon boosters and fairings to support up to 40 missions each as mentioned previously Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket and above the first stage is the second stage the second stage has a single Merlin vacuum or M engine and this engine ignites after stage one separates from stage two the second stage is a essentially a smaller version of the first stage and while the first stage gets us out of the Earth's atmosphere and away from the extreme forces of gravity the second stage is designed to operate in the vacuum of space and deliver payloads like Dragon today to their target drop off orbit and of course we have a great team here at SpaceX that will be monitoring both Falcon 9 and dragon after liftoff uh and like adus said we have uh teams here in Mission Control Hawthorne uh and that team is responsible for close monitoring of the crew and dragon every step of the way as the spacecraft orbits the planet along its customized flight path on Console or headset are a number of positions who are monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew the mission director responsible for mission ESS is in charge of that room and the person that you'll hear talking to the astronauts and the person we have been hearing speaking to the astronauts is the crew stage one cry helium load has started the crew operations and resources engineer or core the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the vehicle avionics software propulsion life support uh life support systems and Communications with ground segments different members of the SpaceX team will rotate through these positions throughout the mission to ensure 247 coverage of the crew and dragon through Splashdown which will be about 5 days from now and it's worth mentioning that two of our crew members Anna and Sarah have sat in these very seats before as part of the SpaceX team Anna served in Mission Control during multiple Dragon missions including demo 2 crew 1 CRS 22 and 23 crew 3 and crew 4 as well as axium 1 and Sarah has supported realtime operations for Dragons cargo resupply missions to and from the International Space Station as a navigation officer and as a crew Communicator for Dragons human space flight missions and now they'll get to see what it's like from the other side inside of dragons uh although Anna and Sarah have trained astronauts for SpaceX missions they were not exempt from going through that exact training themselves the polaron crew has gone through the same rigor of SpaceX training as our NASA astronauts plus they also had to train to perform an Eva or an extra extracurricular uh vehicle activity we had an opportunity to talk to Anna Jared kid and Sarah about their training experiences and here's what they had to say the the bulk of the training has been rightfully focused on the the Eva or the space walks uh a development program you don't know what you need to train to like how can we run pressurized operation you know simulate micro gravity but also have like a simulator that's powered you know with hatches to get in and out of uh so we don't have to submerge that in a uh in a pool we looked at a suspension system solution where we can set up a physics model that allows you to pressurize the suit put on a harness and then a hoist will lift a suited crew member up and you can basically use one finger and you press down and your whole body will move up just like in space it allowed us to really put into practice the different piece by piece steps that are necessary to complete this operation safely one aspect of our training has been scuba diving uh the buoyancy allows us to kind of experience a different environment uh the lack of communication is a is a challenge associated with scuba diving you rely on alternate forms of communication you'll use different hand signals to communicate like I'm okay you're okay so I would say scuba diving has a ton of great training um lessons that are directly applicable to our space walk I have to say I think the max fun here was uh the skydiving we did at the Air Force Academy that was some of the best training ever when I dropped out of that airplane I you know sitting in the airplane as I was going up I felt those those nerves those all of that Rush of emotions that comes with you know recognizing that you are about to do a really high consequence operation and you're standing out leaning into the wind out of aircraft and then you just let go and you fall it was incredible training some of the most memorable training we've done for the centrifuge training the purpose is to go through both a a launch and a re-entry as well as a launch Escape Mission profile in this human centrifuge that's spinning you around and and imparting forces on your body that are similar to the ones that we will experience when we go through those those operations actually in space when you're in space space you have to deal with the circumstances that uh you're dealt similar fashion is is climbing a mountain you're on the side of a mountain it's taking days to get where you're at approaching the summit you're dehydrated you're hungry you learn to to manage those stressors uh and those are all good preparation techniques in getting ready for space exploration we've had it all we've had unbelievable like you know highs um and we've had like lows it's just been a great two years of growth some of the best times of my life uh before the segment I called it an extracurricular activity my brain is clearly tired it's extra vehicular activity and as we mentioned earlier much of the training that the crew went through was to prepare them to perform that extra vehicular activity or an Eva because Dragon does not have an airlock the entire cabin will be depressurized so essentially all four astronauts will be performing the Eva Jared and Sarah will exit the spacecraft to perform their tasks while kid and Anna remain inside to conduct their experiments and act as the ears and eyes the Eva will last about two hours from the time that the cabin air is vented to when it is repressurized again as they prepare for the Eva the stage two cry helium load has started good call outs there as they prepare for the Eva the crew will go through a pre-breathing proced procedure which will involve slowly dropping the atmospheric pressure of dragon while increasing the concentration of oxygen in the air this process is similar to what is known as a safety stop in the diving Community this will give their bodies plenty of time to acclimate to the difference in pressure ahead of the Eva SpaceX designed the Eva suits to for the polaron crew um and they'll wear it during the spacewalk the Eva suits protect the crew inside the spacecraft while also allowing them to leave the spacecraft when needed upgrades include new joint designs that remain soft until pressurized while maintaining Mobility improve thermal management and an upgraded helmet with an exterior coating that acts like a sun visor along with a camera and heads up display that provides information on the status of the suit during The Space Walk let's take a look at the making of the suits that our crew will be wearing during the first ever commercial Eva chat more we are 12 suit is an extra vehicular activity suit which is a space suit that can go outside of the spacecraft to do a space walk we started with the I suit that we have the inic suit as a kind of starting point and looked at it and said what would we have to change about this to be able to support a space walk so the first is mobility um the crew will have to do a lot of moving around inside of dragon to get outside and do The Space Walk we had to add in new joints um and new features in the suit to allow them enhance Mobility while the suit is pressurized when a crew member is pressurized in the suit the soft portions of the suit become rigid they need actual flexure and rotational joints to allow them to move around it's kind of like a suit of armor uh made of fabric we innovated in flexure joints to allow easy bending at the elbows and the knees as well as a collapsible Rotator joint that exists on the shoulder which allows the suit to remain nearly fully soft but when pressurized is a rotational bearing the difference between the Iva and Eva suit is that on the Iva suit the zipper system location is in the inseam uh but since we needed to have lots of Mobility on our Eva suit that was not their choice by moving the zipper system from them inseam to the waist we mitigated risk of the stress of the siipper and another big element was also the the thermal side of things the crew is obviously exposed to a much more extreme thermal environment during the Eva so we want to make sure that the inside of the suit is comfortable for them um and that as they interface with parts of the vehicle that that is safe for them to touch as well the Eva suit is built and designed here at SpaceX in hon California we wanted to have something that's easy manufactured that we can handle here in house so we developed this new material so it's fabric based we actually added a new layer to the suit which we refer to as the Faraday layer and this is a inductive cage around the suit that Shields the suit from external electric Fields the helmet on the Eva suit looks very similar to the Iva suit but is really an all new design of that helmet um it's much more robust from a thermal structural perspective since it would be taking more extreme temperatures we are really excited to introduce this new single pane visor helmet to the world of space suits the Eva suit visor is made of polycarbonate and is coated with copper and I Orum T oxide these two Coatings together reflect the Sun away from the crew as well as reflecting infrared heat back to the crew when they are facing deep space our suit has a HUD or heads up display which is a small display screen in the helmet which is transparent which allows the crew to see through the display to have unfettered access during their Eva but it also provides critical Telemetry to the crew so pressure temperature relative humidity we're trying to improve the technology and streamline it in one way and at the same time we're also trying to get it more and more manufacturable with each generation the ultimate goal is that you can put on a spacit and go out and get work done anywhere in the solar system um and not feel like you're wearing anything more than you normally wear every day between 190 to 700 kilometers above Earth the polaron crew will attempt the first ever commercial space walk here's how it all came together Eva stands for extra vehicular activity and it's any sort of operation in space where a human is getting out of the spacecraft so in the case of Polaris Dawn we're going to be testing the mobility of the suit we're going to see if the in space operation matches the training we've done here in Hawthorne there's really a lot of different things that can happen during p and this is the first step for Dragon end SpaceX when I first started working at SpaceX I never thought I'd be training a crew to do an Eva it's brand new it's so unique we've never done anything like this before and so we wanted to make sure we had the best possible training program for this Mission we want to see if we can train a space walk on earth in a way that's representative of what it feels like in space even though only two people are going to be going outside during this first Eva for crew will be in Eva suits going down to vacuum Dragon was always designed to vent to full vacuum but we've never taken full Dragon capsule down to vacuum and this will be the first time we do it in space we actually put crew into a chamber at Johnson Space Center in Houston and had them live the exact profile that they will experience and making sure that no one actually experienced uh decompression sickness we have a couple new training assets for player stwn to train the Eva specifically the suspension system that we have is situated on top of the platform of our capsule Simulator the lines drop through the hatch they attach to the single crew member inside the capsule we can lift them up and get them situated so that they can ESS the capsule and perform their tasks at Skywalker the mobility Aid the Skywalker what's amazing to me is a lot of people are going to think it's a metallic structure just bolted to the top of dragon but a lot of development effort testing went into the Skywalker so we actually used similar technology as we have in the super Draco Chambers to apply a thermal barrier coating to the outside of the Skywalker that is going to be a really really amazing Mobility eight on the front end of dragon we also developed a sideways simulator so we flip the hatch on its side in the event the hatch fails to close they can ually close the hatch we have them do that in a sideway suspension system so gravity isn't helping them close or helping them open that hatch mechanism it's new development for Dragon it's new development for SpaceX and the industry as a whole so this is a great example of where polaron is forcing the team to innovate in a way that adds safety and reliability to every dragon mission going forward that's this huge challenge for us to go solve but that's also an opportunity for us to solve the problems that we have to go figure out anyway for our larger goals like like putting people on Mars the polaron objectives are the first step towards that ultimate flight with with humans inside of Starship which is right on the SpaceX development path that that we have towards getting to the moon and Mars all right we are T-minus 17 and just under a half minutes until liftoff of Polaris Dawn uh this Mission will fly higher than any dragon mission to date going to be lots of research experiments performed while the crew is in on orbit and most notably they're going to perform the first ever commercial space walk uh we're super excited to see the clock continue to count down uh the crew is in their seats the vehicle is actually um being loaded with propellants as we speak that began at Team minus 35 minutes um the launches system is armed and we have gotten the uh the okay to go uh from from the crew they are ready to go to space yeah super exciting um we've got their new Eva suits um on board with the crew this will be the first time that we've ever flown these Eva space suits which I think lock load has started which I think is one of the most exciting Parts about this Mission and we did get a good call that stage two lock liquid oxygen loading is now beginning on the vehicle now this Mission will orbit Earth for about five days um and uh in addition to the first commercial uh spacewalk uh it'll be the first time that we will be utilizing our newly designed Skywalker Hardware uh which I love the name um and it is a Mobility Aid that uh Sarah and Jared will use um in their Eva soup testing during their Eva um so we we are very much looking forward to the launch in just over 15 and a half minutes now um and everything so far looking good we had um much improved weather conditions um when our first t0 um uh occurred was 1238 wasn't so great here we are um sometime later and we're looking at a 20% um uh favorability so um as you can see on your screen um like I said about 15 minutes from the liftoff of Polaris Dawn lots of excitement uh building here in the building in Hawthorne just outside of Mission Control now I can only imagine what the crew is feeling as the clock counts down now as we all wait together let's hear from some of the crew of the inspiration 4 Mission as they reflect on what they were feeling just before their mission lift off I guess see right now launching people always ask me if I was afraid as soon as the engines lit and started taking off and I was like no I was ready but for me you know liftoff was really about concentrating on my job as the mission pilot and I was wondering because you guys you know had were were able to kind of sit there and and enjoy it and and sense it how was it for you launch was the most fun I've ever had it was I was just so excited and people had been asking me like are you going to be nervous and I thought I would be but um but I just again I kept waiting to get nervous and it didn't come and then they're counting down from 10 and I remember saying let's do this and U I might have had an exploitive in there too but um but then you know we're hearing the 10 count and it's delayed because um because of the delay from mission control and uh and so we're hearing like they're on maybe two whenever we're actually lifting off but Jared was giving us his own count and U and I remember he said something like all right guys get ready and then um and then we felt this big jolt and then of course a lot of g-forces that came on really quickly but it was just so smooth and I remember I had the biggest smile on my face like I I was having so much fun yeah and for me it was it wasn't just sitting there idly going for a ride it was thinking about okay what am I hearing what AM what's that pressure I'm feeling through my chest uh because this is happening probably just once right and so how do you share this how do you tell someone what you're going through in this moment if you're you're not paying attention to everything and so that's what I was really trying to do was you know look between my toes at the window or look over at your screen Cy and see you know where we are I was wondering if you could see how much you could see because I couldn't see out the you know I was laser focused on listening to Jared and watching the Monitor and I was surprised at how smooth it was because I was expecting for it to be a little bit more you know where the monitors are going like this but it it wasn't at all um but I always wondered did you look between your toes and see could you see out were you able to I I did I remember right before we launched just seeing it was very dark um but I don't think we could really see anything except Darkness yeah I don't think we really could see anything except and it wasn't until we got into space that close out are starting expect L thing there we go so the plum you see coming off of the strong back here that's normal as we come up on T-minus one minute we'll hear dragon computers in the countdown alalon 9 computers in the countdown flight termination system armed and then we'll hear the goes so let's listen into the last 66 seconds of the countdown FTS is arm falcon9 is in front and is now [Applause] drag go for launch send that STX T minus 30 seconds tus 15 t 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 [Applause] 3op one vehicle ping down range stage one propulsion is [Applause] nominal t+ 35 seconds into the polar daon Mission flying crew on board dragon and Falcon 9 to new heights power and Telemetry nominal and we're throttling down in preparation down for Max Q next call out vehicle Supersonic and there on the left side gotpic thumbs up from the pilot on the left side there ma Q we're throttled back up to power one Bravo and we heard the call out one Bravo cop one Bravo that just tells the crew what would happen uh should they need to initiate anything but right now everybody making nominal call outs on Falcon 9 nice views from the ground camera and nice views from inside dragon and back chill is underway an announcement lets us know we've begun the final chill of the second stage engine in preparation for its activity coming up at about t plus 2 minutes and 40 seconds two minutes into flight everything continues to look good we'll have in half a minute three major activities shutdown of the nine Merlin 1D engines stage separation and an ignition of the second stage engine Throttle Down we're holding a constant acceleration now for the crew just below 4 Gs see we're coming up 70 kilometers preparing for Mo main engine cut off two alpha stage separation confirmed Cy two [Applause] Alp as you can tell by the cheers behind us and the views on your screen the first stage booster now on its way to attempt landing on just read the instructions second stage there on the right hand side of your screen you can see that the first stage has not yet reached its apogee you can see the altitude there lots of thumbs up there excuse me from Pilot Scott kid potit now three and a half minutes into the Polaris Dawn Mission first stage continuing to to make its way up up to its apy we'll see that altitude begin to slow down Dragon SpaceX trajectory nominal great news there indicating cop that the second stage trajectory is looking good now the grid fins have deployed on the first stage if we get first stage views we might be able to see the Florida coast in the background oh there right there yeah we sure can once again the our drone ship is attempting to land on U excuse me our booster is attempting to land on our drone ship just read the instructions now the next event coming up will be the entry burn taking place around t plus 7 and a half minutes this burn will utilize three of the on the first stage that helps to slow the booster down as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere Dragon SpaceX trajectory nominal Dragon following the entry burn we will see the landing burn and that'll be around t+ 9 minutes that one will be just a single engine burn and that will bring the booster down for a soft landing on our drone ship around the same time as that we expect to see Dragon um be we expect to see Dragon be injected into orbit everything continuing to look good for second stage there on the right hand side of your screen beautiful glow with that mvac engine nozzle we can see the crew settling trajectory nominal cop crew seems pretty comfortable there at t plus 6 minutes they're at about Four G's and everything looks good first stage continuing its descent back down to planet Earth we can see the crew remain with their visors down in the locked position that'll remain that way until they are in orbit everything continuing to look great with the second stage uh engine burn there as well as the Dragon SpaceX trajectory nominal Dragon copies we're about 30 seconds away from the first stage entry burn this is the first of two Burns that the first stage will perform designed to help reduce the amount of drag experienced by the first stage stage two ftss safed all right standing by for entry burn begin on the first stage there on the left hand side of your screen and right on time you can see on your left hand screen that the entry burn has begun there's three engines lit on that first stage vehicle and this is about a 29 second burn and helps slow the vehicle down as it's re-entering the Earth's atmosphere there you can see that the engines have now shut down on that first stage that concludes the entry burn and the cool part about this uh with the stage one vehicle returning back to Earth is we get to fully utilize the atmosphere the atmosphere actually stage two is in termal Guidance the atmosphere actually scrubs about 70% of the Velocity uh on the vehicle so we use that entry burn to help slow the vehicle down then we utilize the atmosphere uh and the drag from the atmosphere to slow the vehicle down and then we do have one single burn for the landing burn copy Shannon and next up will be seo1 and that is second stage engine cut off one and that'll be on the second stage that MC engine on your right hand screen will shut down and allow the vehicle with dragon attached to coast and shut down and there's that shut down and the landing burn on the first stage should be starting up here moment bar and there it is landing burn has begun for Dragon SpaceX nominal orbit insertion Dragon SpaceX launch Escape system disarmed C SpaceX and we show the SC and a lot of events happening right there but you can see that the stage one vehicle has touch down just read the instructions a very excited crowd there here in hawthor we've also confirmed mvac engine shutdown and orbital insertion of the second stage with the crew on board yeah honestly a pretty impressive crowd uh for 2:30 in the morning here we can see the crew enjoying their first taste of micro gravity there on the left hand side of your screen now that the mbac engine has shut down uh they are able to uh just kind of float free we might catch a glimpse of the Zerg indicator I'm not can't quite tell if they've oh it looks like it's in the uh upper right hand corner it'll uh come back into view here once again they will keep their visors on until given the okay by uh core here on the ground at this point in time the dragon and the dragon trunk remain attached to the second stage second stage is basically safing itself um in preparation for uh the separation from the dragon trunk of course the trunk will remain attached to the Dragon capsule all the way up until the point in which we begin re-entry operations the trunk is what will help provide power to the Dragon capsule while it is on orbit using its solar arrays looks like our first clear view of planet Earth there our first of many for this Mission and the next event coming up will be um the separation of the dragon from the second stage I believe this view here is yep it's of the trunk we can see it separating from the second stage a g [Applause] view we can see that Polaris D sear [Music] confirmed Polaris Dawn flying free into the sunrise we're now at t plus 13 minutes and 5 Seconds into the mission next major event will be nose cone deploy Dragon SpaceX today you embark on a journey not just for yourselves but for all Humanity each of you has trained tiously and prepared rigorously for this moment where we reach higher in the space than ever before as you gaze towards north star remember that your courage lights the path for future explorers We Trust in your skills your bravery and your teamwork to carry out the mission that lies ahead know that the entire team back here is with you every step watching supporting and cheering you on as you walk into space we are sending you hugs from the ground God speed flare ston crew may you make history and come home sickly now words from our c dragon C welcome to orbit the Falcon team is honored to have helped you start your incredible journey we hope you enjoyed the ride the whole SpaceX family is looking up to you God speed and good luck LD CE uh message received we appreciate the kind words we wouldn't be on this journey without all 14,000 of you back at uh at SpaceX and everyone else cheering us on we appreciate it and we're going to get to work now some really nice words there from our tonight's launch director Frank MSA who fun fact was also the launch director on inspiration 4 as well as uh chief engineer for this Mission Jared met really nice to see some endearing hear some endearing words up to the crew well and with that the Dawn crew they're now in orbit t+ 15 minutes and they are scheduled to spend up to the next 5 days in space we heard that tone for a minute we thought we might hear from the crew but they're going to spend the next five days in space before splashing down off the coast of Florida the player Dawn crew is the the pois dawn mission is the first mission in the players program that will demonstrate new tech Technologies conduct extensive research and ultimately culminate in a flight of spacex's Starship with humans on board all of this while continuing to raise funds and awareness for important causes here on Earth you can learn more about the Polaris Dawn program and the Polaris program at pois program.com this Mission will fly higher than any dragon mission to date attempting to reach the highest Earth orbit ever flown for a crude spacecraft breaking the record set by geminy 11 half a century ago go and there it looks like we can see uh some nose cone separation action happening now the polaron crew will also be the first to test the starlink laser based Communications in Space over the course of the mission we'll be checking in periodically with the crew next up dragon will initiate a two-day pre-breathe process to prepare the crew for their upcoming Space Walk and that'll be this Thursday September 12th Dragon SpaceX nominal dehumidify activation and service section Draco checkouts and nose cone open is in progress C SpaceX we are tracking and again that's Thursday September 12th for that spacewalk so please be sure to tune in for our live coverage of this historic Milestone and of course we will also be back to bring you live coverage of Splashdown when the crew returns back to Earth you can stay on top of any potential live event from the crew by following us on X at SpaceX and keep tabs on the mission with the dragon tracker at spacex.com with that it's been a great early morning thanks for being with us thanks for watching and we'll see you back here soon e e e e e e e e e e e so obviously SpaceX um does amazing you know streams um not assuming he'll still be streaming but uh a little bit of a wrench in the plans last minute here so I just wanted to um you know let you guys know about the update and say sorry that I'm probably not going to be able to stream it for you guys uh but Tin Man is correct Polaris Dawn crew will be performing the first spacewalk from Dragon today Eva webcast begins at 4:55 a.m. eastern time so close to 4 in the morning here um in Texas and uh they were supposed to be doing it at about 1:30 Texas time so uh it has slipped and you know what this is sort of um just coming in so let me just look at spacex's page really quickly here for a second um actually let's see if they have it on polaris's page but uh how are you guys doing tonight I uh I know that this is a pretty exciting mil Stone um let's see so 13 minutes ago so yeah it's it's fairly breaking news all systems are looking good for the Polaris Dawn crew to perform the first Space Walk beginning at 4:55 so unfortunate for us who want to go to bed um yes I am awake but my sleeping schedule is still completely effed and I have to be up at like a decent time tomorrow and so the fact that this has just been delayed again really sucks really sucks for me but um but I was honestly like kind of do I really need to go live contemplating this because there are so many other amazing live streams not to like denigrate myself I know that you guys appreciate hanging out with me too but SpaceX has an amazing presentation um you know obviously NASA space flight angry astronaut and others so um there will be many live streams to choose from we know that that much is true uh but yeah let me just read some of the um the comments here hello from Russia hello to you maybe it's a more favorable time zone for you I make up perfect today oh that's so sweet yes I literally like curled my hair I keep looking at the wrong on camera I'm not even on the normal camera I like curled my hair and got ready to like I'm ready to go live and now I I don't know man I just I I have to get up um let's see Allan says most streams are not covering it uh thick wrist says wait no we want you oh um well oh that's so sweet of you guys um that's kind of why I'm hopping on right now I was like you know what I should let people know as this was kind of just announced about 13 minutes ago um so yeah I mean we had this same sort of uh change of plans for the launch right we had that clock reset and Joe tagm and I were tap dancing for about what three hours or so just shooting the um Stephanie Stephanie thank you Stephanie says if you need to sleep it's okay we can watch other streams does doesn't mean we'll not keep referring to watch you other times the Launchpad is covering it that is very sweet of you you know that I'm going to cover it the next day uh for sure so um uh Bobby Ellie what happened uh I'm just hopping on here to tell you that the spacewalk the Polaris on Space Walk has been delayed by a few hours so it's going to be closer to 5:00 a eastern time and I'm I'm not going to be able to live stream it um yeah so many comments I can't even uh can't even keep up um yeah enjoy the rest it's been a very wild month you guys there's like so much going on it's so hard to even keep up with um Friday by the way Butch and sunny are going to be doing a press conference um this weekend I'm driving to Houston to interview Eric berer in person he is the author of liftoff and the new sequel which is re-entry which I just finished like two hours ago um very good book can't wait for it to be released so I can start you know covering some of the stories from it I want to make some videos about it um yeah uh but yeah um let's see is I has SpaceX they haven't even started right let's let's just make sure that they haven't started their webcast no I don't think so I don't think so it's kind of crazy that it's you know they said that the spacewalk oh I keep looking at the wrong camera they said that The Space Walk would be see I'm still like frazzled and out of it um the spacewalk was you know supposed to be on day three and it it feels like just yesterday I was streaming the launch so man what is going on here yeah SpaceX uh shared this post 12:35 a.m. let me just share it with you what am I doing here oh my gosh bmer gizer you're so sweet thank you for the Super Chat I'm just like shooting the here in my office thank you so much well we have some news for you you say hopefully I can make it to if5 are you going to um because of the recent developments I absolutely think I'll be going uh previous to you know this big announcement from SpaceX we weren't sure if the launch was still going to be sometime in September maybe October um and that would have conflicted with a cruise that I'm going on in Europe with my family and then also uh a subsequent trip to e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e Dragon SpaceX successfully checks dragon has initiated cabin venting spe man it's it's early morning it's it's it happens this this is live TV you can't say it's not 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