LIVE: SpaceX Polaris Dawn Crew Conducts World's First Private Spacewalk

all right some some quick com checks we heard kid that Scott po he's going to be one of the support crew in there today so our our first calms down as we get ready for The Space Walk uh but we're looking out the view we're looking down at Earth that overview effect what's it like the first time you get to space you get to look back and I mean you can see Horizon to Horizon the whole the whole earth below you you know it's kind of funny Dan because uh the overview effect is definitely real but when I first got to space um on that on that soy use uh gosh how many years ago almost N9 years ago um I had this really weird feeling of falling and and so when I looked out that window the first time I wasn't really thinking the big thoughts of an overview effect I was kind of thinking like what is going on with my body right now this really that's pretty but oh no um but again fortunately when you have time to be in space you you do have an opportunity to experience that and it is definitely true um you know you'll hear people talking about that that small sliver of atmosphere and you you see that and that's what's keeping us alive you you see a World Without Borders uh which is incredible but uh you know one of the experiences of the overview effect that I had was that you know that it gives you that sense of answers but it also for me gave me a lot of questions and made me realize that there's a lot of this world I don't really know much about the other other parts other count countes other societies cultures languages and and so it sometimes it brought as many questions as it did answers hopefully a bunch of bunch more trips then right that's right that's right uh now for those of us who have never been to space uh it can be hard to imagine uh looking down from there uh here at Planet Earth um space photographer and author Frank White originally coined the term the overview effect in a book of the same name here's a little more on the phenomenon that few of us have yet to experience 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 habitable atmosphere of our home planet to you know the vacuum of space it's 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 en Planet as we know it they 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 moonrise around Earth and saying like come on it's been 50 years we got to get back there and we got to get to Mars 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 out 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 and I mean I I think I speak for a lot of space where se4 is next support 2 is next and then ev1 and two are surely behind copy on that crew status getting a quick quick crew status from kid H yeah I I think I speak for a lot of space SE we we really want to get up there and see that view to feel that effect to experience that um and being able to see it just from dragon and you know pretty soon getting able to see a couple of people go out of dragon for the first time in a spacewalk I mean space walks are kind of like living on the edge with space flight it's it's always really cool it's it's really important for just about any program like what are what are some of the things when you were outside the space station what were some of the things that you were working on Mike yeah so when when I went out I mentioned that first space Walkers a contingency we had a failure and so sometimes when we're going outside it's it's not planned and you have a component that that is no longer working and in this case it was a part of the cooling system external cooling system on station and so we needed to go out and replace this refrigerator size pump module and and so that took us a couple walks to do that other times we're we're going out and we're putting a new piece of equipment on board um sometimes uh normal maintenance sometimes we're upgrading equipment like uh new solar rays new batteries and and things of that nature and and sometimes you're doing like what uh what the Polaris Dawn crew is going to do today and you're just checking out the suits and checking out the equipment that that you're going to use in future spacewalks as well now uh with all of the experience that you have up there I'm guessing there might be uh an Eva experience or achievement that you are particularly proud of well I'm I'm uh yeah I'm proud of every of every one of them right when you uh when you get out the door and and then you come back in safely I think every that's what everybody that's what everybody wants to do um SpaceX for awareness we're going to be commanding a couple fans right here you'll hear them run but then we'll also be turning them off no correction required cby actually uh if I can I'm just going to jump in on that that's actually a very important call that was made you heard him say we're going to turn on some fans because when you're in space you acclimate to the sounds around you of the vehicle and when it changes all of a sudden you're kind of looking around at what was that and so you heard them give them a warning that we're going to turn on some fans yeah and so that they kind of knew what was going so that's actually a great call from the ground there but uh but anyway going back to those those space walks where I was uh at you know outside and and what are you proud of you're you know it's it takes so much to put these vehicles up into space and and so when you go out on the spacewalks and you know that um you're a part of keeping that going a big part of it is you don't want to mess up right because uh people are depending on you and couple of people watching over your shoulder that's right and so when you get back in and they call up and they say hey that repair that you just made everything's working looks good station's back up 100% just like okay that's that feels great Dragon SpaceX are fan commanding is now complete we see all right hopefully no surprise sounds in there for him so I mean space walks are something that you you train the heck out of they they playing down to like the minute what are you know why like what are some of the challenges you can you can run into when you're outside doing a space walk yeah so I mean one of the first challenges that you're always worried about is the how your suits functioning right because that's what's keeping you alive when you're outside like that so uh there are always you know you're monitoring your suits yourselves people on the ground are monitoring your suits and how that's performing and so those are certainly things that you need to be conscious of and and aware of um and and then when you're out there as well uh there are so many steps that it takes to get through a spacewalk I mean hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of steps and so it's too much for you to remember and so that's where there's a it's a teamwork between you and the and the ground and so they're making all of those calls hey here's your next step here's what the settings are for these tools and and they're just walking you through the whole process and and so I think that's one of the neat things about spacewalks that uh maybe people don't realize is you know you focus on the on the people actually getting to go out and and do the walk uh but but the team on the ground is such a huge part of that as well uh so on your third fourth subsequent Evas um you know they ex the these space walks um they they you train a lot for them beforehand before you even get up in space uh by the time you're on your fifth one it must have been more like a cakewalk it no it never felt like a cakewalk at at all um you know because it is you know it is a a risk SK Endeavor right so every time you go out on the spacewalk you're definitely U very very focused and and you never want to let your guard down with it I will say you certainly are are more comfortable with what's going on you're more familiar maybe there a better way to to say that but I think um you can kind of trace it back to experiences down here on Earth for me A lot of times it's my uh Sports background so I'll equate a little bit of of going out and playing a football game right before every game you're still nervous right you still got a lot of that energy it was the same thing on my fifth Space Walk Like it was on that first one you know you still have all of that kind of nervous energy as you're getting ready to go out well so right now we're still kind of waiting to get into some of the final preparations for this space walk uh we should be coming up on seat rotation I don't know if we missed it or not but again they're going to be rotating those seats uh to move them upright that's just going to give the crew a little bit extra room to move around as we get into this uh but for now why don't we take a coup of moments and meet Dragon uh Polaris Dawn is spacex's 14th human space flight Mission since 2020 when Dragon became the first private spacecraft to take humans to the International Space Station it's also the first private spacecraft to take an all civilian crew to orbit during the inspiration 4 Mission in 2021 and just prior to Polaris Dawn Dragon completed 46 launches 13 of those are human space flight missions and it's since flown 50 astronauts from representing 14 different countries throughout all of those missions dragon has helped support more than 1,000 experiments in space pretty incredible stats there um and even from low earth orbit dragon is helping lay the groundwork for deep space exploration through missions like inspiration 4 and Polaris Dawn we are rapidly expanding our knowledge of how humans will adapt live and work in space designed to be the safest spacecraft ever flown the fully autonomous Dragon stands nearly 27 ft tall and 13 ft around dragon is capable of carrying up to seven passengers to and front Earth orbit and Beyond but today it's carrying the four members of the Polaris Dawn crew and the crew is currently living and working in the top portion of the spacecraft that's that white section that you see there also known as the pressurized section this allows for the transport of people and environmentally sensitive cargo below that dragon's trunk it's sits right below the pressurized section that can carry unpressurized cargo on resupply missions and it remains attached to Dragon until shortly before re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and as you can see about half the trunk is covered in solar panels those provide Power to Dragon during the flight the other half is the radiator Dragon itself is equipped with 16 Draco thrusters we got really cool view of the four forward bulkhead ones firing earlier on this flight with lights on Earth behind you those are used to orient at the spacecraft during the mission they also get used for apog and Pary raise and lower Maneuvers orbit adjustments and attitude control for the Eva the Draco are going to be used to reposition Dragon so the trunk is facing the Sun and they're also there to be used for reorientation during the spacewalk if needed in order to accommodate accommodate a spacewalk this is the first dragon to be outfitted with a Skywalker in place of the Koopa observation Dome the Skywalker that you see there looking up at it uh from the from basically from underneath it um the Skywalker is a structure that is mounted to the top of the Dragon capsule and the astronauts will use this to assist in exiting and re-entering the spacecraft during their space Bo the team also added additional nitrogen tanks to assist in repressurization of the capsule after the Eva another new feature on Dragon is the addition of a motor plus hand holds and footh holds inside the spacecraft to help with open opening and closing the hatch during The Space Walk This Dragon also carrying what we are calling the starlink plug Ander making this the first mission on Dragon to use the starlink network in orbit inside a dragon is a router connected to a user terminal in Dragon's trunk and then this terminal is linked to a new plug-in player device that's mounted nearby while we're not using starlink for continuous coverage during this operation we've been testing its ability to establish and maintain laser Communications with our Starling satellites there in orbit that are below dragon dragon has proved to be quite a versatile spacecraft it can autonomously dock to the space station when outfitted with the ISS docking adapter and when it's intended for free flyer mode the docking ad adapter can be swapped out Dragon you guys are welcome to come on back aboard if you want SpaceX copies don't have uh ground station right now but we'll go ahead and bring cameras back on board so we get it when we do have cr stations it quick coms there with SpaceX core uh from the Dragon capsule that was uh the crew just letting the folks here uh in Mission Control letting us know that it's okay to turn the onboard cameras back on once we have uh coverage for those cameras um but getting back to the different um configurations that we have for the Dragon capsule um I was talking about the docking adapter previously when the Dragon capsule is intended for free flyer mode docking adapter can be swapped out for a Cupa uh which is the one in the middle there and that is used for the best views that you can get while in orbit and then of course our newest option the Skywalker Hardware to support extra vehicular activities and that's what the crew is going to be using this morning so those are the current three ways that dragon can be configured to support different types of missions but hey you never know what's to come we always got got something up Our Sleeve right now Mike crew one broke the record for the longest space flight by a us crew vehicle surpassed the 84-day mark that was set by an Apollo capsule during that final flight to the Skylab space station in 1974 what was it like CU we we went over it you literally called Dragon home during that time what was it like to live in there so so first of all I got to say it's pretty exciting because uh the the dragon that they're using right now is the dragon that I lived in that took us to orbit yeah we affectionally called resilience uh and it was a it was an amazing spacecraft uh it it from a standpoint of living inside it and um again it it a lot of room actually compared to some of the other crew quarters that we had on board and uh and and plus just uh you know being able to to uh spend all that time in it you know I call my family every night before I'd go to bed and I'd be looking out the window uh at the Earth uh as as I was doing that it was uh very special did did any of them get jealous cuz you had the window seat well yeah there was a little bit of that certainly uh going on up there nice now as you mentioned this Dragon capsule that the inspiration exuse me that the Polaris Dawn crew is flying in was previously used uh really debuted on the crew One mission hence why you guys had the um honor of naming it in the first place but this capsule was also used for the inspiration for mission that uh Jared also commanded um what is your take on uh this being one spacecraft but supporting multiple missions I think it's fantastic it just shows the flexibility of the design that SpaceX made when uh when looking at the crew Dragon Vehicles so I I I think it's very exciting to see a vehicle that can that can go from one mission to the other and and quite frankly do it quite uh quickly as well I think I don't remember the exact timing uh from our mission and when we landed to win inspiration 4 launch but it wasn't very long time and yet you were able to take that docking adapter off put the KOA on in a in a very short time which is also pretty impressive I actually have that noted here uh crew one took off in November of 2020 and inspiration 4 lifted off in September of 2021 that's that's a yeah we landed in May of 21 and So within that short period of time you reconfigured the vehicle and uh and we're able to put that coup on and launch yeah very impressive your mission patch sticker is in the is in the capsule that they're in now and add their own sticker to as well right all right well as you can imagine dragon has undergone some changes for this and with changes comes extensive testing for the mission and all the modifications that we made in preparation for today had to go through kind of their own test regimen yeah testing is a critical part of qualifying a spacecraft like Dragon for flight rigorous testing helps identify and mitigate potential risks verify system and component reliability and helps ensure that the designs meet the mission requirements there are many types of tests a spacecraft might undergo when qualifying for flight including structural thermal vacuum radiation software and Integrated Systems testing one of the tests the new Skywalker Hardware underwent is thermal vacuum testing this actually tested how Skywalker withstands the extreme temperature swings that it's going to see while it's in the vacuum of space and while Dragon was being put through all of its paces the Polaris Dawn crew was going through the same SpaceX training uh as part of our that we give to NASA astronauts they also had to train to perform their Eva though for basic training at SpaceX Hawthorne they train on everything from orbital mechanics to just how to live and work in microgravity also ran through numerous simulations of what the full mission would look like while they were seated inside of our Dragon trainer in addition to ensuring that they're familiar with spacex's Falcon 9 rocket and dragon spacecraft the crew went through an extensive training regimen to build their physical endurance and mental toughness ensuring that they are well-rounded and prepared for space flight and today's Eva now switching gear is one of the coolest things designed in-house by SpaceX the Eva suit is all the functions of our original space suit with the added bonus of allowing astronauts to exit the spacecraft while in orbit and this Mission this Mission gives us a great opportunity Unity to test our Eva suits in space building a base on the moon and a city on Mars will require thousands of space suits so the development of this suit and the Eva performed on this Mission will be important steps toward a scalable design for space suits on future long duration missions as we mentioned SpaceX designs and manufactures Space Walk it'll kind of come down and you'll just hear voices a little bit more clearly uh their their voices are actually going to change too like did that did that happen to you did that throw you Mike the first time you heard that it absolutely did yeah cuz you're you're you're talking and you're going who is that right you don't realize how how much different it can sound um your voice can sound in that lower pressure environment yeah speaking of lower pressure we can uh we can see the pressure changing there with the Telemetry in the bottom left hand side of the screen so we can see that suit pressure going up um and we're able to keep tabs there um as well with the dragon pressure so Dragon uh on the far left Circle that's the pressure within the cabin and then suit obviously that's the pressure within the suits so we'll be actually be able to and I think we've kind of been able to see it already um that these suits will inflate a little bit um look a little different and we were talking about the the visors before so when they're in the sunlight that coating will help keep them cool and not overheat them and then when they're in Shadow it'll help keep them warm so uh and it's also like your sunglasses as well right serves that purpose all right so at this moment the suits are getting their primary pressurization this takes about 3 and a half minutes a little bit less and then we're going to go through those actual suit leak checks I the crew will probably get a reminder they have to stay really still when we do those leak checks and I always was kind of wondering like why the heck and like if you if you bend your arms are actually going to start you know changing the volume inside the suit that'll cause pressure spikes and so that's right you got to stay really still yep and then after after we get through the Le checks we're going to go through kind of that final pre-breathe uh where they're going to hang out in that 100% O2 environment just to continue purging all of that excess nitrogen two stable with per complete secondary FL on report one complete T1 open one open the bar two open and right there they they finished the purge and they did a quick uh reinitiation of that secondary Flo response close secondary flow and Report complete e one cl close support one stay you confirm [Music] second these handles that we see Jared holding on to these were one of the additions uh or uh customizations for this mission that we talked about earlier [Music] [Music] support one face X [Music] [Music] [Music] cont we got you we got you all right copy got [Music] one Dragon Space X beginning s the check evaluation remain still for the checks [Music] so once again that background noise is expected um that is the microphones and the flow of air uh within the suits so we're trying to stay quiet to uh along with you listen in on what the crew coms uh are as they go through um we're also uh going to get views in and out as we mentioned before due to uh ground station coverage and it is it is a little bit tough to hear we just heard though that we got four good leak checks on their suits and now they're going to be in this final suited pre-bath so again this is going to last about 19 or so minutes uh and this is just to do kind of that final get all of the excess nitrogen out um and we started pre-breathe just two two hours after they got on orbit just by you know gradually lowering the pressure and I mean preb that that's something that kind of evolved over time with the space station where where were you when you were doing your space walk yeah so we were past the kind of the camp out phase of free breathe um but that's how we used to do it and it's very similar to what what the Polaris Dawn crew has been doing over the last couple of days we'd actually have uh astronauts stay inside the crew lock overnight at a lower pressure just like they did when they first got on orbit now we've moved on to we do it the day of it still is a long day we T start about 6 hours prior to going out the door uh but it's not 2 days prior it's worth noting uh along the lines of training and how the crew prepared for this mission that all four of our polaron crew members uh and some additional Polaris and SpaceX crew members actually went into um a a vacuum chamber and tested these suits out and spent uh a bit of time at lower pressure just to help learn what that feels like and get used to it well and I think the other thing that's important about that is it's real right it's it's the first time that you're in that suit and it's actually a vacuum around you right and there's just something mentally that I think is important to put people through those moments before you actually have to experience the first time in space yep we we saw some of the unique ways we train the the crew for this and I mean training for space station space walks I'm still really upset I never got on the pool that looks like one of the coolest like parts of being an astronaut is like not being in space but just doing some of this training yeah Dan I I I tell you I can still remember the first time I stuck my head underwater not in the in the soup but in the for diving but you can hear the calms of of everything that's going on through the water like that and it just gives me goosebumps to think think about that it was a really neat environment but it looks like these guys had a pretty neat way to train as well with the uh the the harness that would hoist them up and out and and all of that that's that's pretty impressive yeah um we definitely created some rigorous uh new training for the best we could simulate an Eva while still on Earth um with hoists and uh you know it was um it was a lot of fun to watch them train will be back on board with cameras in 3 [Applause] minutes so our core just called up we'll get we'll get views back on board in about 3 minutes as Kate talked about earlier we're using ground stations for our video coverage all of our communication with the astronauts are through tedris so tracking a data relay satellites so we have a little bit we'll have constant audio but that video we need those ground stations uh but right now they're just they're in that pre-breathe uh that final pre-breathe still we started our space walk about 13 minutes ago when we initiated O2 flow to the suits the time was 3:12 a.m. Pacific 12 1012 UTC I did some quick map took me took me 13 minutes to do it but I did it um so we're once they're through this pre- breath we're going to start getting into some really exciting parts of the space walk and and then after after we get to the pre-breathe we're going to get to cabin vent so you know what's what's going through your head when you're like man it's happening the Air's going out it's really happening it's happening yeah I I I tell you it is a long process to get to this point right they've been prepping for this for 2 days right and and one of the hardest things I found about the space walks is the waiting hurry up and wait hurry up and wait right you are so ready to to go out and to do this Mission and and to go out that hatch and it just takes time and I think that's one of the things you talked about my fifth versus my first you're fifth you kind of understand how long it's going to take you have a better appreciation for how long it's going to take and so you literally find yourself in these moments when when you're kind of waiting through this preg breath or you're waiting for the air loock to depressurize just kind of find yourself just floating there kind of zoning out trying to keep yourself calm and relaxed and and until that moment when it's it's game it's game time yeah now just a quick mention we about a minute out until we uh get those views back uh inside the cabin um The View that we had previously was our Dragon tracker which uh if you want to see where Dragon is you can actually look that up as well um we have it on our website spacex.com slf follow- Dragon um but yeah just as a reminder uh our our crew they are in their designated or well Jared's not but um the yeah um our our crew members basically Sarah and kid have switched their seats for the Eva um we saw we last time we were able to see inside the cabin we saw Jared awaiting um to open the hatch so he wasn't in his Commander seat but uh Sarah is now sitting in Scott's pilot seat also known as seat three um and then Anna is on the far left side and Scott is on the oh yeah we can see it there on the four on the far right side um and also just a reminder uh their their call signs for these Eva operations um Anna being support to kid being support one and then Sarah being ev2 and Jared ev1 representing uh that Jared will exit first uh do his activities which include just some Mobility testing of the suit uh and then SAR will go out and perform the exact same uh testing once Jared comes in um meanwhile uh kid and Anna will function as the eyes and ears uh they will be performing uh their own uh list of operations during uh or their own list of tasks during the Eva so while Sarah and Jared are going to be the ones that are you know par egressing the capsule once that uh forward uh door is open uh kid and uh Anna will also be performing an Eva in their own right that's right and we talked about it earlier first time four people exposed to the vacuum of space like that's there's a lot of first in this that's going to be a really cool first not just for us and dragon um but we are going to be getting views back really soon we're again just in that final pre-breathe step right now and then we're going to start venting venting Dragon down to near vacuum so we're going to have a couple of different valves that are going to open up and the atmosphere inside dragon is going to start going overboard out into the vacuum of space now the crew the ground they can control they can pause that cabin venting if they need to uh we can pause and resume the most likely reason is for ear Equalization is again you're you're going through a lot of pressure changes anytime you do a spacewalk and so if you've ever flown on an airplane and your ears popped you've experienced just a little bit of what they they might be going through right now uh once we start cabin venting if we terminate or abort that the spacewalk during that venting we cannot start again we talked a little bit earlier about how consumables are like the thing that really drives you uh and for us we don't have a great big airlock with this with you know a full station worth of oxygen and stuff like that um so complete confirm rting at [Music] T1 [Music] go copy initiating cabin V there we go that is great news so uh that breathing of incre that pre-breathe where they were breathing increased oxygen we just heard that uh they're good they all all four crew members gave the go uh so now we're going to vent the cabin yeah in in total this will [Applause] take in total this will take about eight8 minutes and you can this the graphics you see in your screen that's live Telemetry everybody so you can see the pressure inside Dragons starting to tick down you're going to see the sup pressure tick down as well is what we're really trying to maintain is a pressure differential and so with these suits we're going to be hovering right around five or so you might see about 4.9 to 5.1 5.2 um it'll be about 4.9 and then we'll probably see it go up a little bit uh when they reinitiate the secondary flow cop s yeah Dan and you talked about that uh about five PSIs what the suit will be we're actually a little bit lower in the Emu and so we've talked a lot about Mobility that difference between we're at 4.2 and they're going to be at five it can actually make quite a bit of difference just in how hard it can be to move the suit around Etc yeah this crew got to and that's something we can simulate you know on in a vacuum chamber or even just uh in 14.7 you can you can simulate that that differential pressure getting call from the crew they're they're monitoring along we're going to hear that kind of we're going to hear that chorus pretty frequently where you do those kind of frequent most like checkins and I know you guys did something kind of similar where like you would have to pause and you know check your gloves that kind of stuff we we did I I will tell you one of the interesting things watching this uh live right now the difference is how quickly the depressurization is happening here versus uh what my experience was and and so you talked about being able to clear your ears and all that you're not giving a lot of time for your you're not giv a lot of time for your your ears to adapt to that lower pressure so this this is seems pretty quick to me yeah break breaking new ground with this new suits new operations for everything we're at about 4.5 we're going to see that tick down it's going to get down to just under one and it's not going to go all the way down um and then what we'll actually see is we've got a capability to open the hatch automatically we got a motor in it um but Jared's actually going to unlatch it and he's going to give it a tub to kind of break the seal break any of the kind of the stion in the hatch itself and that's going to kind of take the capsule down to its final vent before Sarah who's at the displays she's going to command the hatch to actually open um yeah that's a good point and you know there's there will be slightly more pressure inside the capsule so really just helping PSI two pressures look good B copy is four so Jared really can't open the hatch all in one fluid motion so we will see him uh release that that pressure slightly um before being able to open it completely and I think one of the important things you guys I think had talked earlier about you put some more um restraint devices inside the capsule from when I flew on it and that's extremely important because there's going to be some force that Jared's going to have to be pulling down on and he needs to be able to Anchor his feet somehow um other he's going to pull and it's not going to go anywhere and so the the new restraint devices in there we're going to see how important that's going to become here when he tries to open that hatch yeah yeah that's that's one of the things that's why we have Skywalker out there we've we've talked about how kind of similar to to Gemini when they were first kind of stressing their legs but important to remember we've got that 50 or 60 years of space flight history that we're able to draw these are new suits this is a new operation this is to you know work out all the Kinks and really test this for the first time but we're going into this with a whole lot more information than they had back then we know you need handrails or it's going to get real hard real quick that's right that's right yep we did we did also hear uh dragon's moving into its uh its Eva orientation essentially we're going to point the trunk at the sun under 3 PSI I think it's also interesting you notice that the de pressurization has slowed down a little bit right so as we get to this lower pressure it's it's just taking it longer for that remaining little bit of air to to uh go out through the vents and E1 time check want loud and clear loud and clear as 12 now also hear the Vox starting to adjust its levels that that flow of oxygen has not stopped but the microphone's kind of adjusted and it's getting a little bit clearer and yeah keep keep an ear out you might hear their voices start to like tener down a little bit I do think that's a an important Point Dan that how important Comm is yeah right and and when it's compromised a little bit just by that extra air flow and the Vox not keeping up with it right away uh how challenging it was just to hear those calls and they can be some pretty important call so uh Comm is is just critical we can see Dragon capsule now approaching close to two psia like Dan mentioned earlier that's going to get to just under one it's incredible to think that uh you know the Dragon capsule in all of its power and glory and awesomeness the the new capsule is around their bodies right that is what is going to protect them um from the vacuum of space and uh you know just seeing how even though it's puffed up and we know that it's uh you know holding that pressure it still looks so cool for lack of a better yeah you really have four mini SP or spaceships in there pressure approaching PSI I guess that means we have four Al in there too that's right Dragon SpaceX less than 1 psi from hatch operating pressure we have a tedris Handover in 2 minutes we are going to wait until after the tedris Handover to command in Hatch open [Music] prep one c yeah I think you heard that the the tedris Handover so there's going to be a a short period of time there where they're out of um and we're at it's kind of interesting because we're at a very critical phase as well and so you want to make sure you have all the data and uh and the ability to talk to the astronauts before you actually take that next critical step we'll see it we we're seeing that pressure continue to tick down Dragon originally designed to be able to still operate in a vacuum vacum that was some of the emergency situations I know you trained for Mike we did make some modifications to this one uh to essentially turn Dragon into a functional airlock um we added some additional uh vent paths um we do use like some of the same ones that you guys use to like pressurize the vestibule and stuff like that um that are actually in the hatch but we've got a we've got an extra one in there to to be able to essentially do that deess as quickly as we did uh but we're going to we're going to see that get down to a little under one and then we're going to see Jared kind of jump into action he's going to unlatch the hatch and then he's going to give it a little pull to break the initial stion and then we're going to be able to uh see Sarah csia I'll fo dead C it's one thing to note that while we have been progressing through this pretty quickly we did have the capability to pause if any of the four crew members needed to uh you know take a moment to you know let their ears um come to equilibrium or just kind of get comfortable again um we did have that option but everything has been going really well so far we haven't had uh to to pause cabin venting and if you're just tuning in heck of a time to do it we're about a little under 28 minutes into the uh into the spacewalk today which again that started when we started flowing O2 to the suits of these crew members that was at 312 Pacific 1012 UTC we just heard that dragon's now in its Eva attitude [Music] complete so again we've got we've got dragon's trunk pointing towards the on board watching through the cross view that was SpaceX core Arthur baralt just letting the crew know uh that where're the cameras are on inside and uh basically which camera is is looking at them it's it's so fun to hear Arthur's voice because he was actually a part of our mission as well in fact Arthur was an intern sted out as an intern when we were first uh starting the training and and so now to see him as a as a core and uh is is pretty neat very similar to Sarah who also started as an intern yes yeah right we're coming up on one PSI you might see you saw the light change a little bit through that window is we're in our Eva position trunk facing the sun that's going to help us with thermal uh inside the capsule and on the cruise suits also going to make sure we're maintaining that that that optimal pointing for communications with the tedris satellites uh once the hatch is open we're going to disable any of the Draco thrusters that point forward CU you don't want thrusters firing off when a crew member's outside What's happen we're at one you can see the S pressure is ticked down too there's about 4.7 difference between the suit uh and the ambient cabin there in dragon that umbilical that you see there uh just to the side of Jared that will continue to flow the air into his suit as well as provide Telemetry and Communications connection that's also where we have the um safety harness built in as well so it's able to SpaceX cab pressure below hatch operating limit standby for transition to hatch open prep [Music] here we go Mike did you get to open the hatch I did did yes yeah when you when you go out as uh G hatch open Dragon SpaceX for E hat prep confirm CR to open [Music] hatch that is great SpaceX copies Dragon you or go to open hatch excited space no to open the hatch Mike as you mentioned before that continuous communication [Music] hand as you can hear we do have a crowd Gathering outside of Mission Control uh here in Hawthorne in their excitement somebody dropped a cup we can see our commander Jared isaacman now turning the crank which allows the uh that top hatch to open we'll see him give it uh a pretty heavy uh hatches Vis indic SpaceX copies stand [Music] by should see him give that hatch a pretty strong jolt to release that stion hatch is now unlatched Mike talked about we see him getting his feet getting his feet set that's right Dan you'd ask if I got open the hatch so when you go out a zv1 just like Jared here a zv1 that's that's typically the role for for you is to open that hatch and guys have to draw straws whatever it's exciting it is it's very exciting yeah now for those of you that have just recently joined as you can see we have successfully depressurize the Dragon capsule uh down to zero psia you see that in the bottom left hand side bottom corner of your screen um our four polaron crew members um have uh gone through the uh O2 flow and we see Commander Jared um isaacman now standing by uh to open that top hatch the nose cone is already open it opened just shortly after uh the crew got into orbit uh so Dragon SpaceX Target pressure reached [Music] have SpaceX I'm unseating the hatch now Jared now opening Dragon resilience into space so we saw some motion on the hatch again he's just giving it kind of that initial tug and then Sarah gets to push the button to swing that hatch open [Music] much more movement there on the forward hatch this must be pretty exciting for Jared because that center part of dragon Space X that's a good brace we're going to have you repeat the [Applause] [Music] operation center of the hatch actually has a window the hatch is unseated copy hope give it another [Music] call hatches several inated turn if you he like copy we we see it looking out that tiny window there in the forward hatch knowing he is going to have a much bigger window in just minutes Dragon Space X vent complete ev1 return to [Music] seat then E1 copy transitioning back under the display so again one of the reasons we had Jared do that was to Dragon SpaceX we're actually watching that hatch we're going to have you repeat the last operation sounds like they're going to have him repeat him one of the reasons we're doing that is just to kind of vent any of that residual atmosphere back from under this way and ev1 you are for manual hatch [Music] open sounds like we got our first audible of the day as we said that we can open the hatch opening the hatch man we could open the hatch man we could open the hatch automatically or we can do it manually and so they just gave Jared the go to open that hatch manually so we we just went out of ground station reach so we'll get the views back now we'll get the views back real shortly uh and then the the hatch see hatch open and hopefully we see it yeah hopefully we see a hatch open hatch is open SpaceX copies hatch [Music] open that is fantastic news uh for those that1 I'm looking at the seals initial view looks pretty good I don't see any voles oration copy on Hatch report yeah that seal that you just heard him talking about it's such a important part for the end of the Eva right so that when they close that hatch again you get a good get a good seal the e can you command open pullet hat this is going to stall it open there is our first view of the forward hatch wide open to space forward hatch execute if you just jumped in we are 38 minutes into today spacewalk and the hatch is open on Dragon first view from a helmet cam looking out Dragon Space X we see installed ev1 is go to [Music] continue that structure you see there [Music] for1 I'm transitioning back from under the display SpaceX copies we with you in your helmet cam [Applause] again this helmet cam what we that structure we see is the the space walker this is Jared now egressing through the forward hatch of dragon resilience these are the first views of the first ever commercial spacewalk and at the bottom of the mobility is progressing I have a feeling the crowd is about to go wild good call stck back at home we all have a lot of work to do but from here bir Ser looks like a perfect world [Music] you one I'm going to step into test Matrix One singlehanded Mobility demonstration Commander Jared isaacman now emerging test Matrix one watching from the nose [Applause] cone up down left and right are [Applause] threes pitch and roller a three Y is a two switching single-handed operations are fine static and with Dynamic disturbance switching to left hand [Music] up down left and right are threes maybe a two pitch is a four roll is a two Y into two so these are the suit Mobility checks that Jared is performing operations Dynamic and with disturbance are all adequate test Matrix one complete HUD check 5.3 PSI 48% RH 33 dmal 9 Celsius SpaceX copies test Matrix one and HUD [Music] readout SC off check ev1's good good one good two good D stepping into iCal translation we're going to start with the horizontal [Music] [Music] bars all right we're going to transition over to vertical [Music] I say vertical and horizontal are equally workable slightly savors horizontal I'm going to do a Max reach left hand's at the top of the mobility a at the midpoint you have good [Music] video we just lost our live video stand by one okay Switching over to Max reach switching T got SP X I'm holding up at the max re and ev1 go ahead and continue the operation uh we'll let you know we're back on with live video [Music] C [Music] that make sure you're awareness Max reach le8 and the mid bar Max test Matrix 2 is complete C readout 5.3 PSI 33 decimal 9 Celsius 50% RH copy test Matrix complete and HUD read up through off check e1's good e2's good we good two good stepping in test Matrix three hands free demonstration ev1 SpaceX for Ingress [Music] time go B6 recommended Ingress time of 02 flow plus 4 7 [Music] Minutes C that Ingress Time 4 7 minutes and dragon we're back on live video from the nose [Music] con Happ [Music] that and space at T1 I would say the handsfree demonstration is very comparable to the trainer in terms of the foot [Music] restraints SpaceX copies and ev1 when you have time if you'd like to return to the reach demonstration uh we'll take a look at that with the live video not that test Matrix 3 is complete the H readout is .3 PSI 47% RH 33 decimal 8 CSI and stepping back into max reach copy test M as you can see top of the mobility Aid and uh let's get a Quick Crew off check e1's good good I'm good good happy that okay uh Max reach so its left or right hand seems to be about the same top of the mobility Aid and then the mid run copy we see it checking up from the [Music] bottom any go back space x negative we got about 1 minute until ev1 Ingress happy to have 1 [Music] minute it's gorgeous [Music] [Music] want to see guys right ev1 we're checking out your helmet cam [Music] now now I'm checking out your nose con right now and looks pretty good got the overturn the nose cone see you looking at [Music] us all right we're coming up about that 02 FL timer time two check for inra E1 good too good all right St ja t one GRS for the huge team effort that have took to get us to this point we know it's just the start then I'm transitioning back in the vehicle [Music] [Music] [Music] and SP at ev1 we taking a quick look here the hatch seals from what I can see so far they look pretty good copy on the hatch seals and standby for transition to three off [Music] reset got face this and ev1 is [Music] clear all right so Jared back inside uh we we heard him going through with it's called the test Matrix uh it's basically just a bunch of Maneuvers using different hands using the foot Mobility is in progress calling out numbers right now though we're doing you just heard copy Arthur call up three off reset so we didn't use any of the forward thrusters while Jared was out there we're re-enabling them putting us back in our perfect attitude before Sarah gets ready to go out the door fun thing to note it's still not a vacuum inside a dragon is it's an open loop system so oxygen is kind of getting dumped into the cabin as this is going on so you got a higher pressure in Dragon than you have outside so we're not worried about thrust or pluming yeah now you mentioned Sarah um just like Jared she will have 10 to 15 minutes uh outside perform those same sets of Mobility tests as Jared uh like we heard the core do um with ev1 uh they will call out when there's one minute remaining attitude reset complete ev2 go for [Music] erress there's Sarah's clear to Pro crew check for ev2 E ev1's good ev's good good two good EV is going to go stand in the door and then step outside now this test Matrix that uh Jared just performed and the one that Sarah's about to perform they have both committed to memory um in order to execute these um we saw it being done pretty efficiently I can't believe how quickly that time went by Mike we were talking about how your Spice Box were hours and these guys only have 10 to 15 minutes and it just like that yeah it it can go pretty quick and uh but fortunately um let's good I see a little bit of a bulge between 14 and 13 so you're hearing Sarah call out some more of the seal check there as as she's exiting out SE SpaceX copies that report good fix so this was something we knew might happen um and between 28 and 27 copy the crew trained on exactly what to do in this scenario just pop it back in one final between 19 and 18 that might be best repeated with hatch closure SpaceX copies can you repeat the location EV complete between 19 and 18 all right copy I'll track that and uh ask again when you're [Music] inass floppy 82 is the shoting with e super exciting to see this our fellow space xer yeah Sarah Gillis now about to make her space walk e one I'm going to hand this back to you like we mentioned Sarah will be performing the same uh set of Mobility tests uh so we will do the same uh try to stand by and listen to those CS I mean I said it before a lot of us were characters we want to do this all right stepping into test Matrix one for singlehanded Mobility really cool to see one of our on out there that's awesome and ev2 for awareness we're watching from the nose [Music] cone and cofy all I would say in all three translation axis I'm having certainly cross cup with movements forward back I am inducing a bit of a roll similarly with left right and up down a bit of a pitch but all are achievable brating is three now is a three r a four and pites a three d s for left hand stepping into vertical [Music] translation SpaceX copies and ev2 for awareness we're tracking an Ingress time at O2 flow 59 [Music] minutes happy 5 9 minutes horizontal bars are definitely preferred and I'm not be able to stabilize my body with single hand disturbances C foot breath left and right stepping into MX reach do you have visual a firm we have visual on the nose [Music] cone copy from bar four to Bar two from top down and similar reach from bar two up to Bar four SpaceX copies reach and8 test Matrix one complete SE pressure 5.25 33.8 CS 3 7% humidity SpaceX copies HUD readout and test Matrix one [Music] complete setting the test Matrix two like we mentioned before views going in and out doing during excuse me due to those ground station uh coverage gaps yeah we we com some of the same coms are through satellites but we've got ground stations for video on dragon as you can see in the tracker we just flew over on New Zealand we're about to go right over the middle of the Pacific no ground stations in the middle of the Pacific are actually pretty good we're hearing the voice of mission specialist Sarah Gillis our fellow space xer on her space got just got about a minute left and then she's going to start heading inside and and with a little more work I can actually get between almost bar one and bar four on that stre space has copes and you could see the Earth dark and we flew into like an orbital and test to trying to combine them so we'll call that conce se pressure 5.27 38% humidity 33.7 C SpaceX copies Matrix complete and HUD [Music] out stepping into handre demo a to engage and disengage my feet copy that ev2 and once you are able to engage disengage we'll actually have you start Ingress we're just over 5 9 Minutes o02 flow cppy with that maybe toing up in Pro check for indress what's good E's good good good cppy coming on in all right and just like that Sarah is going to start making her way in here check those hatch seals again SpaceX copies on Striker plates and ev2 I have one more ask for the hatch if you can uh check that as well when ready to copy ready copy copy and ev2 what I'll have you do is when you Ingress can you get eyes on the hatch handle mechanism and see if the handle has been stowed in the Do Not Stow uh window and report if you can see that check it I think it's just outside copy just outside thank you just outside the range and for awareness I do see a couple of those same points holding again between 12 and 13 copy your go to no mostly between 12 and 13 right now SpaceX copies at 12 uh if you can you're go to address those copy in work these numbers being called out represent the location around yeah the location around the circular hatch just identifying where these bulges are so Sarah is now reting that seal not quite able to reach the bathroom so we'll proceed with clearing for hatch closure just like that we're already hearing about hatch closure it's incredible that these two Evas just in two blinks of the eyes are uh is clear on your screen there is SpaceX core uh or crew operations and resource engineer on duty tonight is Arthur baralt this is the uh The Voice to the crew throughout uh their operations of course you know everyone has to sleep so we have different shifts for core um but Mike your time and dragon driving Clos who good Cy handle a fing for un closing once we get ground station coverage uh again we will be sure to bring you views within the Dragon capsule but right now Sarah is closing the forward hatch it sounds like we might give the motor a try confirmed the hatch is visually indicating Clos hatches verifi lat hey command Eva hatch closed Eva hatch closed all Dr thrs enabled Dragon SpaceX we see Eva hatch closed and pressure indicates good hatch seal standby for transition to Eva repress [Music] one and ev1 copy everyone check secondary O2 valve Clos stopping going support one I'm good ev1's closed e2's close one close two [Applause] close a couple of real big moments right there Sarah was able to make sure e refresh oneop flow is closed and agree EV press one he was able to make sure that the seals were in good spot we got the hatch closed you can see a half PSI for 8.3 see the pressure starting to tick up just a final confirmation everyone confirmed secondary O2 valves are closed T1 closed CL and we're through one for eight point all right so each of the crew just closed those secondary O2 valves on their umbilicals again that was primarily for cooling um during the space walk itself suit's still pressurized by that primary and now we're going to start to see uh the pressure tick up inside of dragon uh right after they get the hatch closed they're able to do kind of an initial pressure check cuz again oxygen it's an open loop system with these suits still flowing into the cabin you're able to see positive pressure response showing that the cabin uh the hatch was closed and was sealed uh we'll still do a leak check on our way kind of back up to our nominal cabin pressure um so we're going to continue ticking up until we're about 8.3 PSI and then we're going to transition into the second phase of our repress um really the difference between repress one repress 2 is how frequently we're injecting atmosphere uh as kind of the the repress is also pretty unique with dragon um we're repressurizing with just nitrogen right now um which is a little bit unique obviously you have nitrogen and oxygen in your atmosphere uh with this we have O2 flowing into the cabin through the suits so we only need to add nitrogen so we're able to just basically add a bunch of that to really start getting your pressure up O2 continues to flow into the cabin through the suits and we're going to continue pressurizing until we're pretty much right back at our 14 non speing right about our 14 uh or so PSI and we're also looking at what the partial pressure of oxygen is cuz we want to make sure the crew takes helmets off and everything that plenty of oxygen in the cabin and then we're going to change that injection rate to just help with the mixing is micro gravity everything's harder everything's on hard mode um and you don't just have natural convection so like I mean space station I think I've heard it a bunch of times Mike like you just constant noise of fans that's right almost yeah there's uh you've got to continually recycle that air um and one to help get rid of the CO2 right because as they're taking in that oxy they're breathing out the CO2 and we need to to get that out of the system which is another important reason to have that air constantly circulating yeah um man that felt really quick did that was that was that was really cool to to see them outside for the first time and they they were what they were actually doing out there is a bunch of pretty simple tests as it looked but like this is just learning how the heck do you move cuz like just moving around yeah in micro gravity is tough right it is tough Dragon X about 2 and half minutes from Ted hand [Music] open One Cop out of three yeah that that movement is tough and and there is a big difference just of moving around when you're in your short sleeves like we're in inside the capsule and when you put on that space suit uh it it's much more challenging to to move around with that on yeah and what they were really doing was just kind of like you put your hand on on Skywalker and then you're changing your pitch you're doing translation up and down and then the one that I think is kind of cool is Max reach cuz like just going like that is you know not easy yeah and I think one of the other things I thought was interesting is you heard I think it was Sarah talk about the horizontal rail versus the vertical and how much easier that was for her to grab on to or utilize versus the vertical one so simple things like that you know for us it not a big deal yeah uh but out there in in that uh in the vacuum and in the micro gravity environment it does become a a much bigger deal and you and you know Dan and I we've never been in space so we certainly appreciate all of your expertise that you'd be able to share with us uh throughout this morning's operations and uh contributing your two cents yeah no thank you it was great to be here uh just an incredible moment uh not only for the Polaris Dawn for all of SpaceX and and really for for Humanity because it's just one of those small steps that's taking us that much closer to being that interplanetary species so thank you very much much for having me around our pleasure you're welcome back anytime excellent all right to see you thanks byee all right so repress is continuing we're a little over 4 PSI right now again we're going to keep that going up until we're a little over8 and then we're going to change our repress rate uh we're basically just going to be injecting nitrogen for shorter periods of time that's just going to help that atmosphere mix as we get the crew kind of back up to their basically their normal cabin atmosphere that they were they haven't actually been at for the last couple of days cuz we we started this whole process like right after we got on orbit yeah it was almost like we we launched them and gave them two seconds to acclimate and enjoy their cute zero g indicator and immediately stepped into the pre-bath um in order to prepare for today's activity uh and really like you said let them acclimate and uh let their bodies adjust and you know the success of that really was demonstrated today by the fact that we were able to step through uh all of the steps today without having to take the optional uh and available breaks to allow the crew members to adjust during oh sorry I thought we were going to get something there coming in the the tedris in and out so like we'll get it back but um so yeah just the fact that the uh all four crew members were able to just go right along and didn't have to pause um as the option was available I think it's a testament to the preparation that they did before and during good two just heard a quick check-in from him so we're going to keep keep counting the PSI up until we get to about a we are going to do another leak check on the way up uh to our nominal cabin pressure uh as you introduce atmosphere you're introducing temperature changes not just pressure changes and we essentially we'll get to a nice pretty stable point when we're at 8 and then we'll let it hang out there for a couple of minutes I'll let the thermals kind of cancel out um that'll take about 5 minutes to do that uh this obviously has to be done to make sure we've got a really tight seal with that hatch as before we let crew get out of their seats move about the cabin anything like that want to make sure dragon is fully recovered this is we B we just use dragon as an airlock yeah and actually the info that you were talking about you see it there on your screen live with that Telemetry there in the bottom left and bottom right hand Corners um we can see the Dragon capsule and the suit pressure starting or not starting But continuing to to Rise um it is incredible that we've only been in the Eva for 1 hour and 13 minutes um it flew by so so quickly um on cabin pressure approaching one PSI on P2 and I'm I'm sure for shared and Sarah it flew by even quicker yeah we just heard Jared called down we're coming up on one PSI for po2 so what we're really tracking before we give the crew the go to get out of their suits is both the actual like just the straight up what the absolute pressure is inside um but also what the partial pressure of oxygen is we want to make sure you you don't have a hypoxic environment inside basically you want to get them they're going to be pretty much right back at the atmosphere that we're walking around in right now uh before they get their suits off uh our Eva clock's going to continue to count until we hear the call for Eva uh operations complete from our core arur burial that's going to come uh once we are done with the repress repress operation uh we'll see a couple of uh other things happen with the suits they'll uh do kind of a final wash out of the Puro environment in the suit using Nitro before they get out Nitro being that same air mixture that you have in your scuba tank uh if got any scuba divers out there uh that nitrogen oxygen mixture um nope still still just there they're just going to keep pying out should hopefully be getting video back from ground stations passing seven stand by for transition to repress 2 at 8 decimal 3 and Cy that SpaceX we're following along we press two at 8.3 yeah so once we transition to repress two once we're at about 8.3 PSI we'll stay there for about 2 minutes and then once the cabin gets up to 9 we're going to pause the repress and we're going to do a cabin leak check this is another kind of critical check we did the initial one after they closed the hatch where you're able to do just kind of a let's look at the pressure is it increasing at the rate we expect inside Dragon yes it is um and so we were able to confirm that seals and everything looked good we're going to do another leak check now that we've got more pressure inside Dragon just to really make sure uh that we've got a good seal on that hatch before we finish the operation coming up on 8.3 we should be hopefully just about a minute and a half or so away from ground station so might get those views back inside a dragon yeah it would be it would be great to see them uh post Eva now just like when we were depressurizing the capsule there were there was the option to uh pause Eva refresh too Che ev1's good EV good good and yeah that coms that we're hearing half PSI before we get to Le check Che the continual checks with all four remembers to make sure that everyone is good um if the answer to one of those checks was no there would be an option in this repress sequence to uh pause possibly to reduce the um you know allow for ear pressure Equalization um but again just like the way that we depressurize now this repress seems to be going uh really smoothly yeah we're just about at 9: I'm going to say we're almost there and then it's going to take up we're going to pause at 9: we're going to do another cabin leak check so we should hear that moment aress two [Applause] stop d space with you in Eva repress 2 stop waiting 5 minutes for thermal stabilization got that SpaceX we're tracking and improve for your awareness we do a positive refresh r we are 30 seconds into the re check like we mentioned earlier uh right now the this repress is being done with nitrogen um once we get awareness pp2 is 1 decimal 35 halfway there suits are still flowing that oxygen um and in a few minutes we will begin to flow we'll do a flush uh of of nitrox uh into the suits all right we got our views back there they are it's a little sad to see that forward hatch closed again it's it's got to be really hard when they tell you it's time to go back in just one more minute yep reminds me of when I was a kid swimming in the pool you know time to get out just one more minute I mean it it it speaks to to the professionalism for for Jared for Sarah for the whole crew really like that's that's got to be this is something they've been training for for years and it's got to be really hard not to go for those you know that extra 30 seconds but they're professionals they know there's a timeline good what you good tp2 just passed 1.5 we're a couple minutes into our leak check you're you're seeing the pressure continue to tick up we've stopped the nitrogen injections but again oxygen coming out of potentially vent line on those suits um and that is why you're going to continue to see the pressure tick up you heard Jared call out the P2 that's gone up that's your partial pressure of oxygen uh we're looking to for that to get to over about 2.6 a little bit higher um and then our final actual like just ambient pressure inside dragon is going to be right around 14.4 or so and I mean that's that's a little bit lower than what we're walking around in now but like if you're at a little higher altitude uh state in the country or something that's that's what you might be sitting in right now in your house and that's they haven't been at that pressure since they left her yeah uh but after we get all the way up there we're going to do kind of a final uh flush of the suits using that nitrox uh that K was talking about uh that takes them out of that pure oxygen environment and that's one of the final steps before we'll he hear that call from Arthur of Eva operations complete and that's when our clock's going to stop uh our space walk did start today at 3:12 a.m. Pacific 1012 UTC it's continuing to tick up ours was unique we we talked about it a little bit with Mike there's there's different rules for every single spacewalk it's it's kind of it's fun a little challenging sometimes to track all of them um on the even on the space station there's Le we're about halfway through the leak check so we got about 4ish minutes left we can see the uh pressure inside Dragon stabilized during the Sleep check at 9.4 helps to ensure that uh that forward hatch is properly sealed and and shut it's very similar to a suit leak check um that we do in terms of sustaining a pressure and measuring that pressure over a period of time um and obviously the the leak check for the capsule takes a little longer than the individual suit leak checks uh but so far so good a little bit more than halfway through yeah big bigger volume valuation Peri start 3 minutes all right so we we hit cop X we're tracking hit essentially a thermal stabilization so again this is the fun I think it's chemistry I'm not sure but like as as you're raising the pressure you're you're changing the thermal environment inside the cabin so temperature goes up your temperature goes up your pressure can go up so you wait for all of that to kind of equalize and once that gets at a steady state you can do a a real no kidding pressure check on this hatch and so we're we're underway with that that's going to take a couple of minutes and then we'll hear the results and then look to resume uh with the repress it'll it'll slow down a little bit um for [Applause] slow down a little bit for the remaining of the repress uh kind of kind of going in reverse when we did the depress that initial a lot of that atmosphere was flowing over um and once we got down low it started to slow I keep [Applause] really enjoying these in Cabin views everyone gra foren this is looking good so far but we're still going to wait to [Applause] pull yeah copy that space TX we're [Applause] tracking sometimes it seems as though the the feed freezes just cuz everybody's relaxing as the we're coming up on S minutes in the Le check is 9 decimal 7 pop2 is at [Applause] two [Applause] enough the final final minute of our leak check reports from the ground everything's still looking good or Jared report down that partial pressure of oxygen right at about two once that gets to about 2.6 we can essentially stop flow of that pure oxygen to the Cru suits is like 2.6 is right where we want to keep it when we're at our final pressure Dragon SpaceX successful Le check standby for restart ress c x we're [Music] followable great news there successful leak check of the [Applause] cabin all right crew we're in Eva repress 2 as a reminder the Eva repress 2 will complete when either pp2 reaches 2 decimal 62 or cabin reaches one atmosphere right now we're coming up on 10 psi for cabin pressure and C2 is 2 deim [Applause] all it's a really good explainer there from Jared again those are those are the values we're looking at we're seeing uh the po2 that partial pressure of oxygen continue to tick up once that gets to about 2.62 uh we're going to be done flowing that uh pure oxygen to the suits of the crew uh and then eventually we're going to get to one atmosphere it's about 14.4 as our Target for today uh and then our repress will be complete so uh this will go a little bit slower than the initial repress uh this could take uh up to about 20 or 30 minutes even in some of the times that we simmed it uh you don't want to introduce them super quickly to a higher pressure um anytime you're doing pressure changes as gradual as you can make it the better um and that's why we have like the built-in holds that we talked about what the crew can do exactly uh these are opportunities for the crew to pause the repress and just um allow themselves to equil to come to equilibri equilibrium words are words are really hard right now um and uh we haven't had to utilize at 2.3 pp2 targeting 2.62 cab pressure is at 10.3 if I was a betting man I'd say we get to the pp2 threshold first at that time U will switch to nitrox in the all right good news there Interruption keep want Dragon Space X we concur with E1 [Applause] call continuing to repress the cabin we had a successful leak check uh and you can follow along with uh the repress along with the data there at the bottom of your screen um as Jared said we are targeting uh 14 about 14 psia for uh C pressure uh or when cabin pp2 that partial pressure for O2 reaches uh about 2.6 so we are continuing to progress uh pretty well cabin 10.55 however as Dan just said this this portion of the request could take up to 30 minutes uh just so that we're allowing the the crew to uh acclimate along with the capsule really cool day so far it was awesome to see them you know out there going through the test Matrix like we we only got to talk about it a little bit but you know just some of the the different tests that they were doing while they're out there this is like fundamental how do you do a space walk first of all you use your hands a lot and how are you going to be able to move around this the first time we've ever had the suit in that environment crew and so they were they had a basically a checklist of like these are are the things you're going to do it was you know use one hand and wave the other one around and see how well you can stabilize yourself and and and then rate that activity on a scale of 1 to five and report it back to we we could hear that a little bit in in the activity of okay I'm doing this thing here's how here's here's the functionality of that test yep yeah and then doing doing the reach test doing the up and down and uh they did it at the very end you saw Jared go handsfree for a second and that was he that we had a foot restraint uh in Skywalker as well if you've ever watched a a space walk in the space station you've seen astronauts in the robotic arm getting flown around with just their feet strapped in that's a pretty critical tool when you're working in micro gravity because otherwise you know you go to you go to swing the hammer and like it swings back at you so you need something to kind of brace yourself and a foot restraint can be really important yeah it was uh we also saw um the helmet cam getting checked out uh that was uh certainly a highlight for us to see what Jared was seeing uh even though at that point I think we were in uh you know the orbital night but um it it was many amazing views and it went by so quickly uh both Jared and oh and we're back we got views again SpaceX is with you reminder to start manual timer on nightclock to got St we're standing [Applause] by there it is box [Applause] started we're on ni round Pursuit cabin P2 is 2 deal 6 and cabin atmosphere is 11 1 one 3 well it might look like the feed is frozen if you look closely you can see small micro movements there with fingers and uh the strap above Anna's shoulder um we uh unfortunately due to uh ground station coverage don't have video 100% of the time even though we wish we did that would be great but we can see that uh Jared and Sarah uh are not strapped into their seats of course because they performed uh their Evas or their space walks uh extra vehicular activities where Anna and kid remained in their seats the window seats so we can see their um safety harnesses uh still strapped in there um at this point in time we are continuing with the repressurization of the uh of the Dragon capsule Dragon resilience uh we had a successful leak check good Commander Jared isaacman continuing to check in with his three fellow Che secondary O2 valve open e1's open may2 is open one or yeah 4 One open 4 two open [Applause] continuing to repressurize the Dragon capsule we're targeting about 14.1 psia for uh the dragon pressure which is the uh Telemetry readout in the far bottom left corner of your screen yep and along with that we're also tracking the partial pressure of oxygen so we did hear uh that they've stopped the flow of pure2 to the suits and they've switched over to nitrox so again anything that we're flowing into the suits also gets introduced into the cabin atmosphere it's an open loop system it's how you essentially maintain pressure in the suit um since you're just constantly flowing that air in there uh to wash out any carbon dioxide they're exhaling to actually function is they cooling um so we're switching over to Nitro just to make sure we we maintain kind of the right balance of nitrogen and oxygen in that cabin before uh they get to go to take their suits off so we're already at that um for the2 and so we're we're on nitroxin the suits now still injecting um kind of the pure nitrogen into the cabin itself and the teams just keep an eye uh on the O2 levels as we go throughout and we can we can adjust our injections as we need to uh so we're we're just kind of hanging out now waiting until they they get to that uh that 14 um a little yeah a little over 14 and then uh the the call we're going to be listening for uh is going to be Eva operations complete um from Arthur we four more four minutes into the O walk out Happ appear two decimal 9 cam pressure 12 decimal 5 [Applause] [Applause] you can see the Polaris Dawn crew continuing uh as we continuing to monitor uh the repress of the Dragon capsule on the far left side of your screen is Mission specialist and medical officer Anna Menan to her left or our right is Mission specialist Sarah Gillis uh both of these wonderful women are our fellow SpaceX employees so incredible to see them in space doing amazing things yeah and seeing seeing Sarah gets a poker head outside dragon that was I mean both of them have trained astronauts they've basically gotten people ready to go do this and it's it's got to just be really special to to get up there and do it themselves incredibly uh and then to the right of uh Sarah was commander Jared isaacman uh who was the uh first who performed the first EV um operation or excuse me Eva operation so Jared went first and then uh Sarah after him and then on the far right hand side of the capsule uh so not this photo but the the live view inside uh was uh Scott potit prefers to go by his call sign kid uh he had the other window seat um now if you tuned into to the launch phase of Polaris Dawn uh you might recall that Scott 3 cab pressure 13 Deal [Applause] 3 Scott is actually our Polaris on pilot so in order to enable Eva operations he and Sarah had to swap seats so Sarah has been keeping uh the pilot seat warm for kid yeah like we talked about only say only we only saw Jared and Sarah actually get up and go outside but all four of these crew members did a space walk today all four were exposed to the vacuum of space this is the first time that's ever happened in human history having four people all at the same time yep we saw Jared and Sarah go out and do those Mobility tests uh Anna and kid uh their one of their kind of main roles was being the eyes back inside if very similar if you've ever watched the space station and Space Walk where you'll have people inside who are able to kind of call out or fly a robotic arm or something they're just a really important part of the team to make all of this work like no space walk doesn't happen in a vacuum it happens in a vacuum but like you're never doing it solo um and so they were they were largely uh making sure that umbilicals didn't get uh hung up and keeping eyes on seals and stuff like that for the crew um so also keeping an eye on the umbilicals in case if it got wrapped around their foot uh and just really acting as the uh assistant coach uh while the Evas were underway all right work work coming up on 14 PSI again we're we're already at the the oxygen levels in the cabin that we'd look for and so now we're just waiting until we get to that that final pressure technically the Eva is still underway that's right uh we have not yet heard the call out Eva complete uh that will be uh that will be coming after we get a confirmation that the repress we're 9 minutes into the O2 wash out less than four minutes remaining cabin pop2 is 3 decimal 1 cabin pressure is coming up on one on 14 decimal 1 I want to review a few things so when the timer reaches 13 minutes we're going to uh shut down the nitrox FL the suits then we're going to close secondary O2 Valves and then you can vent uh use your manual vent valve in your plate uh when your visor did not disconnect on [Applause] develop I'll copy one second [Applause] keep one good two good Dragon Space X we are less than 2 minutes from a te's Handover but copy your call and plan we [Applause] concur that was Jared just uh reminding the rest of the crew um that they're uh when the timer hits 13 minutes um the order of operations they they have that manual valve there uh and this is something that we've seen all morning is continual check-ins repress is complete continuing suit wash [Applause] out happy ni than you great news there confirmation that Dragon repress is now complete [Applause] [Applause] so right now we're just waiting for that final call it the O2 wash out so again we've been using nitrox instead of the the pure oxygen into those suits [Applause] [Applause] for anyone that has joined recently unfortunately you missed most of the fun you'll have encourage you to rewind yep go back about an hour um we have had successful completion of both Jared and Sarah's space walks we saw them uh move through their test Matrix and perform the suit Mobility tests and the uh the the testing of the uh Skywalker uh Mobility Aid at located at the top of the Dragon capsule minut to go they move through it quite quickly really quite in the blink of an eye um and we've closed the forward hatch we have repressurized uh the Dragon capsule and uh we're now standing by for really the the the final operations of the morning um so yeah unfortunately if you only recently tuned in you should definitely rewind and and go back there were some incredible views uh of the taking place during the Evas uh the crowd that we had in front of michig control here in Hawthorne uh was almost on Q uh we certainly excited as were we to see the the views of Jared and Sarah emerging from the top of dragon resilience uh it's been quite a morning and can't believe it's already almost 5: a.m. Pacific uh we had there it is arming disconnecting next [Applause] and yep please all right check secondary O2 valves closed ev1's closed e2's closed sc one closed scort two closed all right you're going to manually vent down [Music] [Applause] [Music] ringing check box yeah [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] everybody smell that space Dragon SpaceX EV operations complete and Cy that space X we show the same nice job for everyone uh and everyone at SpaceX who made it possible all right t nine all seats push the talk to manual ared execuse space wow if you're just joining us we just heard the call out that EV Eva operations are complete which marks the completion ev1 uh com check on manual push talk manual push to talk loud and clear all right that's the crew just switching off we have you clear just switching off from box and back on to the push to talk that silence um really that's it that was the first ever commercial spacewalk um we started at 3:12 a.m. Pacific time which put which puts us at uh 1 hour and 46 minutes the four astronauts on board Dragon resilience performed a suited pre-breathe process to acclimate their bodies for the reduced pressure after that cabin was vented and the hatch door was opened and Mission Commander Jared isaacman he was the first to exit the spacecraft he got out there we saw him right as we were starting to get into that orbital sunset uh he was able to complete all of his tasks before he ingressed got back inside a dragon uh we did that quick attitude adjust and then it was uh spacex's own Sarah Gillis the second to exit the spacecraft do her task for the uh for the Eva uh Jared and Sarah got back inside everybody's reporting back healthy we had a pretty smooth and nominal repress our mission pilot Scott kid potit and our mission specialist and medical officer Anna Menan have been supporting the spacewalk throughout from inside they went through the same pre-br the same depress process as Jared and Sarah they did a space walk too today um and everybody's reporting back healthy um and just I'll say it again because all the stat heads out there I know you guys are tracking our official start time was 3:12 a.m. Pacific and our official end was at 458 a.m. Pacific that was 1 hours and 1 hour and 46 minutes of space walking time uh next the crew is going to prepare for post Eva operations this is uh powering down everything on their suit um these were only needed obviously while they were in there they're going to be able to get out of their suits uh next and kind of start moving around the cabin they turn the Vox off so we're not hearing kind of like the constant back and forth anymore um but wow really cool to see him back inside e complete and it's uh you know the the work isn't completely done yet he'll also have to perform some comms checks uh along with some additional tax tasks before uh their seats are rotated back into their preeva position uh and all in all it's wow just an incredible view we've said it already a couple times before if you're just joining Dragon SpaceX will be with you when you're ready in 9 decimal 3 cabin atmosphere is looking pretty good right now very stable yeah copy that SpaceX and we are ready SE rotation incredible news yeah uh we're moving into sea rotation so again after that the crew will be able to get out of their suits and that'll be the end of a just just a really successful day um hour and 46 minutes of space walking today uh so the players Don crew they're back in their seats inside Dragon completed a successful space walk first ever from Dragon a massive congratul ulations to the crew all the teams at SpaceX who made this possible this was space walks are hard and this was an incredible amount of work over years to get ready uh special thanks to Mike Hopkins hopper for being here with us today sharing some great insights always good to have somebody who's done the thing to help you explain like what's happening that was awesome not only having done Evas himself but also he's a dragon rider he commanded the uh crew One mission so it was it was great to have him now uh Polaris Dawn is the first mission in the Polaris program that will demonstrate new technologies conduct extensive research uh 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 now you can learn more about the program at Polaris program.com this has been an incredible mission on day two dragon went to its high apy point the highest point in its orbit more than 1,400 kilometers that's higher than any dragon mission to date this is the farthest from Earth anybody has been since Apollo and in 50 over 50 years since 1972 and then today the crew first civilians to perform an Eva in space first one in Dragon yeah and the crew also uh the first to test starlink laser-based Communications in space uh excuse me I got too excited and of course we'll also be back to bring you live coverage of Splashdown uh which uh we are hoping to have in a couple of days obviously weather dependent um but you can stay on top of all of the SpaceX updates by following us on X thank you for watching and we'll see you back here real [Music] soon e e uh reinitiation of that secondary flow check resp secondary FL complete give one cl [Music] support one stay you confirm [Music] secondary these handles that we see Jared holding on to these were one of the additions uh or uh customizations for this mission that we talked about earlier than support one SpaceX contact [Music] [Music] we got you all right copy got the [Music] [Music] one Dragon Space X beginning SE check evaluation turn still for the [Music] trck so once again that background noise