SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew conducts first private spacewalk | In Full

[Music] [Music] welcome to the webcast for the Polaris Dawn Eva also known as an extra vehicular activity or spacewalk for the first time ever a spacewalk will be performed by civilian astronauts flying on a commercial spacecraft good morning I'm Kate Ty senior quality systems engineering manager here at SpaceX in Hawthorne California and I'm Dan huitt from the communications team now the first Eva in history was performed in 1965 by Soviet cosmina Alexi leonov followed just 3 months later by the first American spacewalk done by Ed White during the Gemini 4 Mission from those humble beginnings to walking on the surface of the Moon repairing satellites building space stations in orbit spacewalks are really a core component of human space flight well Evas are wellestablished procedures for NASA and other space agencies this will be the first Space Walk using commercially developed hardware and procedures and spacex's brand new Eva suits which we debuted earlier this year now we've tested extensively in vacuum Chambers here on Earth but this is the first time that the suits will encounter the vacuum of space and on board the dragon spacecraft right now is the Polaris Dawn crew starting off you got Mission Commander Jared Rook isaacman Mission pilot Scott kid potit and for the first time ever we're excited about this two SpaceX employees Mission special Sarah Cooper Gillis and Anna Walker Menan who's serving as the mission specialist and medical officer four members of the crew have been orbiting Earth for 2 days since they lifted off from launch complex 39a at Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday September 10th it adds up to about 15 to 16 orbits around the Earth every single day in County on day two of the mission as you can see there on your screen Dragon fired its forward Draco bulkhead thrusters to send the spacecraft soaring higher than any dragon mission to date reaching the highest Earth orbit ever flown the crew uh topped out at more than 1,400 kmers breaking the record set by gmany 11 a half century ago when that spacecraft reached 13 excuse me 1,373 km this was also the farthest from Earth for a crude spacecraft since the last Apollo lunar mission in 1972 since that time dragon has gradually lowered its apog or the highest point in in its orbit as the crew got ready for the space walk today they started to Dawn or put on their Eva suits just a little bit of time ago and they've been undergoing a process called pre-breathing where the atmospheric pressure inside dragon is slowly decreased and oxygen is increased to prepare their bodies for the Eva suit environment we're going to dive more into the operations of the spacewalk a little bit later and we're going to be hearing in live communications with the crew throughout so be sure to listen in as those happen yeah it's going to be super exciting to hear that and as far as views goes we'll have dragon's regular internal cameras that we have seen before and up to three external cameras one aimed at the hatch uh kind of like what you see there uh one on Dragon's nose cone uh which actually is the one that's there that's the the the camera on the nose cone and one on the newest piece of Hardware that you see there in that view we that is the Skywalker um which we will come back to shortly we may also have helmet cameras that will give us a firsters view from the crew which will be incredible now since we are not using starlink to uh enable views today there will be moments of expected loss of signal due to ground station coverage so those views may be interrupted from time to time but generally we expect to get some great shots today and as of right now we're less than an hour away from the start of the Eva for now though let's learn a little bit more about the mission and our crew the Polaris program is a firstof its kind effort to rapidly Advance human space flight capabilities while continuing to raise funds and awareness for important causes down here on Earth today's goal is to demonstrate critical operational capabilities that are going to serve as those building blocks to help further human space exploration pois Dawn Mission has a lot of firsttime objectives so the Polaris program chose a crew of experts who know each other so they can tackle this mission's challenges as a team first up mission Commander Jared Rook isaacman also served as the 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 dren International and that trains Pilots for the US 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 next up Mission pilot Scott kid potit who served as the mission director of inspiration 4 and he goes by the nickname kid which is also his call sign he's a retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel kid sered for 20 years in roles that included commander of the 64th aggressor Squadron Thunderbird number four demonstration pilot US Air Force weapon school graduate operational test and evaluation pilot and flight examiner he's a command pilot with over 3,200 flying hours logged over 400 hours of combat time and following his Air Force career kid served in various roles including vice president of strategy at shift for Mission specialist Sarah Cooper Gillis is a lead space operations engineer here at SpaceX and she's responsible for overseeing our Astronaut training program she help prepare NASA astronauts for the demo 2 and crew one missions and most recently directly trained the inspiration for astronauts Sarah is an experienced mission control operator who has supported real-time operations for dragon's cargo resupply missions to and from the International Space Station as navigation officer and as a crew Communicator for dragon's 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 fulltime and capping off the Polaris Dawn crew mission specialist and medical officer Anna Walker Menan who serves as a lead space operations engineer here at SpaceX where she manages the development of 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 dragon's crew capabilities and develop critical operational responses to vehicle emergencies prior to SpaceX Anna worked for seven years at NASA is a biomedical flight controller for the International Space Station she received her bachelor's degree in mathematics and Spanish from Texas Christian University and her master's degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University everyone on this Mission certainly has the background the qualifications you would want in your crew mates when you're going to space that's clear but let's take a moment now to meet our Polaris Dawn crew in their own words hi I'm Jared isaacman I'm Scott kid potit I'm Sarah Gillis and I'm Anna Menan and we're the players Don crew I Love This Crew I mean all of them are just so hardworking so smart kid po over here is our mission pilot talk about a career in the Air Force doing every job as a pilot than than anyone who aspire to achieve and having somebody who has you know been there before and can bring that perspective to our training but also when we're on the mission is just so important we are what we are as a crew because of you you hold us together and you are always there glue glue you are always there predicting what every person is um and he's needy what our commander Jared I think he is incredibly sharp that's right something I have just witnessed over and over is that he's always like five steps ahead of everybody else he's a Visionary he wanted to make it bigger than just himself going to space it was about how we could contribute and support organizations here on Earth uh as well as continue to push the envelope for space exploration so Sarah Gillis the technical confidence we don't get out of any engineering update or brief or go through a procedure or debrief without getting into the weeds and making sure every tea is crossed every eye is is is dotted she holds my feet to the fire uh when when we need to uh understand the systems and the operations it's it's her intellect every time she speaks every word is so thoughtfully prepared that served her in her role as core it serves her in her role as a trainer Anna you have this incredible joy that you bring to everyday life it is infectious it makes us all smile feels like she always has this big picture doesn't necessarily always speak up on it but when she does it's like time for everybody to to stop and and listen and then as a biome medical engineer and a background like that inspires like a ton of confidence that you go up there if uh if people aren't feeling right that she's going to be there to take care I cherish all the moments that we've had uh in these experiences and uh we're just so excited to to go to space now that you know a little more about the Polaris daon crew let's recap the mission so far and what's coming up next since liftoff and getting to their initial Orbit on day one on the crew has been quite busy the crew had a few meals got some rest and spent a few hours demonstrating the Eva suits pressurized Mobility to verify positions and accessibility in microgravity the crew also prepared the cabin for the Eva and of course had an opportunity to talk to their families and check in as I mentioned earlier on day two dragon proceeded to a high apog of more than 1,400 km higher than any dragon mission to date this was also the farthest from Earth for a crude spacecraft since the last Apollo lunar mission in 1972 in preparation for the spacewalk dragon has been executing a series of a apog Lo apigy lowering phasing Burns by now dragon has lowered itself from the highest apigy of the mission of more than 1,400 km to about 190 by 700 km above the Earth also on day two the crew was joined on air by some very special guests uh as you can uh see here we uh we are not here but we had patients and families at St Jude Children's Research Hospital um and they they're joined Live While polaron crew member Anna Menan read from her new book kisses from space along with the patients and families at St Jude and his children James and Grace also joined the reading and afterward the crew hosted a Q&A and speaking of St Jude for this Mission the Polaris Dawn crew in listed the help of Childhood cancer survivor live to create the missions Zerg indicator while not a St Jude patient herself live met the inspiration for crew and inspired by the mission of St Jude she agreed to share her talents to support pois daong is live and I spell it l and then an apostrophe mark exclamation mark I can tell you anything about space from the miles from Earth to the sun to every Mission basically I had cancer in 2021 cancer survivor like haly I really have a passion for wanting to help St Jude and other kids who have those struggles as I had so I first met Liv a couple days after I got back from space at our Splashdown party and I got to meet her family and they told me about her journey that she was on I remember that she gave me a card she had written and it said thank you for helping other kids with cancer like me I hope to go to space like you someday and my eyes just filled with tears whenever I read that basically my one passion is to um be the first child in space Liv was really close with the players Don crew and they asked her to design the Zerg indicator a Zer indicator is like a little plush toy that floats in the air it basically shows that you're in zy they kind of hide it over in the corner and and then once you hit theg it'll float up and reveal itself my main idea for asteroid is based on El's dogy I I've always loved she buts they've always been really cute and then when I heard got poy I was like done I love her I want asteroid to be for every child and help them see oh asteroid went to space and I can too I can achieve my dreams [Music] we are also flying Liv's original drawing that you see there that was used to design the Zerg indicator which we plan to return to her after it has flown in space and while her design was inspired by the working dogs of St Jude Children's Research Hospital all donations from the sale of asteroid will will be General donations to St Jude the inspiration for Mission helped raise more than $240 million for St Jude Children's Research Hospital and polaron will continue to raise funds and awareness for St Jude while partnering with the organization to provide Health Care in underserved communities around the world now if you want your very own asteroid they are available at shop.ace x.com and polaris.com I did just look Unfortunately they are sold out right now but there are more on the way so be sure to check back at those sites to catch one of your own myself included I missed the first drop so uh I got like I snagged I got in there I got a kid who nice needs one all right now the first phase of the spacewalk the preparation actually started just about 2 hours after the crew reached orbit and this is when the pre-breathe process started that's when the oxygen levels started to increase incrementally as the actual the cabin pressure inside Dragon was started to get incrementally lower the pre-breathe process is designed to decrease the amount of nitrogen in the body which then reduces the risk of decompression sickness which can happen as atmospheric pressure lowers protocols like this are used for any space walk done today and might feel familiar to anyone here on Earth that has gone scuba diving and done a decompression stop after ascending from a pressure of in deep water back up to the surface and to do all this dragon's just been slowly decreasing that cabin pressure that allows the crew to acclimate each time the pressure gets lower as they get ready for the lower pressure they'll be in the suit during the spacewalk itself they've got the ability to pause the process if they experience any discomfort but the ear ear equilibrium just kind of naturally adjusts as the pressure decreases it's kind of like when your ears pop when you change altitude on an airplane um all four astronauts are going to be suited for the spacewalk today cuz Dragon does not have an airlock that's also kind of why the entire cabin is going to be depressurized it's why we have this kind of unique pre-breathe process with the stuff today too all that brings us to now so far the crew has prepared the cabin for vacuum which includes securing all loose items that they don't want floating around they also completed medical checks suit inspections and final checkouts of the oxygen venting and nitrogen repressurization systems after that it was time to put on their Eva suits and now Jared and Sarah will be exiting the spacecraft today while kid and Anna will be supporting from the inside crew in the outer two seats kid and Anna are going to be fully strapped in and then the two in the middle seat Jared and Sarah are just going to be lightly secured ahead of the spacewalk since they're going to be moving around and eventually heading outside as we listen into comms during the Eva you may hear the crew referred to as ev1 which is Jared and ev2 which is Sarah support one is kid and support two is Anna again they will not exit the dragon during the Eva but make no mistake they are very much performing in Eva just the same and their data is being collected as well once everybody's in position the seats are going to get rotated upright generally they stay in the recline position for the majority of the mission but we're going to rotate those upright during the Eva just to give more room to move about after that seat rotation the crew verifies that their heads up display or the HUD on their helmet visors are turned on operating as expected this is how the crew will actually be able to keep tabs in the health of their suits and they'll get some other stats of their suit operation during The Space Walk and that will take us to the first official go noo checkpoint to deter determine if the Eva can proceed after an operations brief from the SpaceX team the crew will announce their go noo status and then it'll be time for the spacewalk to begin it's expected to last about 2 hours from the time that O2 begins flowing to the crew suits until we complete the repressurization of the cabin and just prior to we get to cabin venting pure oxygen is going to start flowing to the cruise suits that's when the Eva clock will start so keep an eye on that and this all gets followed by a suit leak check we'll do the leak checks once those look good Mission Control will start to vent the cabin just removing the air in order to lower its pressure down till we can get to hatch opening next dragon will use its Draco thrusters to reposition itself so that the trunk is facing the sun this will help keep temperatures Communications and spacecraft power stable during The Space Walk at this point the crew should be ready to open dragon's hatch and exit the spacecraft after the hatch gets opened ev1 that's Jared's call sign during The Space Walk he's going to be the first to exit the spacecraft he's going to go outside and he's going to do a series of Mobility tests these are kind of the core component of the spacewalk today he's going to basically take the Eva suit through the paces it's going to take about 15 minutes before he climbs back into Dragon after that ev2 or Sarah will step out into space to perform the same tests of her Eva suit before she then climbs back into dragon in addition to the suit Mobility test tests Jared and Sarah will also evaluate dragon's new Skywalker Hardware we'll talk more about that in just a bit and then after she's completed her test Sarah will stand by near the hatch for the actual closing and at this point after the hatch is closed the Eva is not over the hatch door gets closed and then the cabin has to be repressurized we got to get all that atmosphere back inside after we start introducing that atmosphere we'll do cabin leak checks once those leak checks are complete the crew will return to their seats and the Eva will be complete when the cabin pressure has returned to nominal so for now the crew is suited up and awaiting final checkouts and Eva venting which will bring in dragon to vacuum uh with everything on track we're about 45 minutes or so from the start of the spacewalk and before we get there though we're going to expand the desk a little bit we're happy to be joined by former NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins we were fortunate to have him tune in with us uh during the launch and now we've got him to talk to us a little bit about space walking today good to see you Mike yeah it's great to be back it's great to be back here in Hawthorne with you tonight on this uh very memorable night for sure yeah absolutely uh now Evas may be new to SpaceX but uh you have participated in five yourself uh while you were on the International Space Station and spent a total of 333 days in space that's that's pretty cool yeah I mean I was very fortunate uh on my my two missions you know the first one was back in 2013 and I uh I went up on a Russian soy use and on that one we had two space walks and the interesting about those space walks is they weren't planned uh they were what we call yeah they were a big surprise for us uh contingency Space Walk and of course surprises happen at Christmas because that's when we actually went out the door our second walk was on Christmas Eve and uh that was pretty exciting to to be doing a space walk as everybody was getting ready to celebrate Christmas down here presence that's right that's right and then your first play was on the so but your second one you were the commander of crew one I mean that was obviously really huge for everybody here that was big for me I was there with you at Nasa still that was a huge moment that was the first like long duration mission to the space station on dragon and I mean you you really got to know Dragon probably more than anybody cuz you you actually got to call it home while you were docked up there that's right it I me I tell you it was quite an honor to to get to be a part of that crew to get command that crew um and and it was an great amazing group of people not only uh uh Victor Shannon and suichi but also everybody that that helped get us there at SpaceX and at Nasa but yes you're right Dan um while we were on board we we didn't have enough Cruise stations and actually you can see a picture of uh of where I slept while I was on board for that second mission and uh it was actually quite comfortable uh and one of the best parts about being able to sleep on Dragon is that I had a view I had the window and our other crew quarters did not so I've got some amazing amazing pictures from my time staying in Dragon that's amazing um it's great to have you here I had the pleasure of watching you launch uh in person I was hosting the crew one launch from the NASA press site and it was just so cool to see everything light up and just watch you ascend to the station where the station where you made it your home it was also so great to see you here around campus during your training period um to seeing you here on the Mez having lunch and uh that was really cool and during that time you got to get the spa get to know the SpaceX team pretty well in fact Anna and Sarah were two of your Trainers for crew one weren't they they were yes and uh you know I got to for the launch we saw some of their videos of training and I I thought it was kind of fun to see see them as trainees and somebody else getting to uh getting to test them all the time so yeah it was pretty neat to to get to see that switching it up a little bit cuz we're we're starting to get some views back from Dragon we've been treated to some pretty spectacular stuff as we were you know all the way out to, 1400 km uh we like to talk about something called the overview effect so kind of that first that oh and we're getting some coms from our crew too yeah I'm not Space X Dragon radio check cat loud and clear kid help me catch loud and clear dolphin continues and last just going to be right C Mike that K make that Dy 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 coms 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 nine 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 yeah 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 countries 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 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 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 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 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 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 space walk I mean spacewalks 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 you were working on Mike yeah so when when I went out I mentioned that first space Walkers 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 and when it changes all of a sudden you're kind of looking around of 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 um but uh but anyway going back to those those spacewalks 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 people are depending on you and 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 Space X our fan commanding is now complete how we see sir 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're they're 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 CU 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 yourself 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 space walk 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 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 risky Endeavor right so every time you go out on the spacewalk you're definitely um 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 uh you can kind of trace it back to experiences down here on Earth for me A lot of times it's my 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 couple 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 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 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 the spacecraft during the mission they also get used for appy 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 block 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 Foo holds inside the spacecraft to help with opening and closing the hatch during the spacewalk this Dragon also carrying what we are calling the starlink plug and pler 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 trunk and then this terminal is linked to a new plug-and pler 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 adop ad can be swapped out Dragon you guys are welcome 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 ground stations it quick comms 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 Koopa 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 Skywalk Walker 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 something up Our Sleeve right now Mike crew one broke the record for the longest space flight by a us crud 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 because 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 uh yeah we affectionally called resilience uh and and it was a it was an amazing spacecraft uh it it uh 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 because 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 excuse me that the polar Don 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 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 a very long time and yet you were able to take that docking adapter off put the uh Koopa 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 yeah we landed in May of 21 and So within that short period of time you reconfigured the vehicle and uh and were 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 too 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 sport 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 Po's 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 in 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 as all the functions of our original space suit with the added bonus of allowing astronauts to exit the spacecraft while in orbit and this [Music] Mission this Mission gives us a great opportunity 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 our own suits and we have a little behind the scenes look for you something most people don't get to see the inside of our very own suit lab 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 in 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's 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 made of fabric we innovated in flexure joints to allow uh 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 inene uh but since we needed to have lots of Mobility on our Eva 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 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 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 we developed 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 inductive cage around the suit that Shields the suit from external electric [Music] 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 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 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 [Applause] [Music] day we also had a chance to talk to the SpaceX team that developed some of the hardware and procedures for our first Space Walk let's hear what they had to say 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 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 of what 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 the vuum 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 ston to train the Eva specifically the suspension system that we have is situated on top of the platform of our capsule Simulator the lines Dro 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 egress 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 out side of the Skywalker that is going to be a really really amazing Mobility date 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 had 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 for 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 ours the poist daon 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 love seeing how not only the suit but the space operations for the Eva itself uh came together and were developed uh now we are still counting down to the spacewalk this morning uh the crew is or excuse me the crew on board is completing final fit-ups and we're going to be standing by for seat rotation and suit leak check so we're continuing to truck along to the the the main event uh now Mike you obviously went through some of the suitup process that we saw in that package in terms of um the the development of the suit and how it's custom fitted for each individual and that's that's the same case for an Eva suit so maybe you can share with us what that experience was like yeah it it's extremely important uh to to have a suit that fits whether again it's the Iva the EV Eva suit or the Emu that we wear with NASA when we go out on the spacewalks and the reason for that is because if it doesn't fit right it can be extremely uncomfortable you can get what you call hot spots or uh there can be a a a place where the a crease when it gets pressurized can really put a a uh a hard point on your arm or something of that nature so having a good suit fit check is extremely important and and it's one of the things that was kind of fun as well because you get to spend a lot of time with the the suit team here with Chris and Eric and Mar oh they they're fantastic and and I mean just over the years they've gained so much experience and they can really help you hone in on what a the really good fitting suit is is like like with just the way they ask the questions and lead you through that that process wow what are what are kind of The Sensational differences from being in like the Iva suit because a a lot of times the Iva suit when it gets pressurized you know it fills up but you're still in like a pressured environment with Eva suit you're in the vacuum right and so like what's it kind of like yeah so you know that Iva suit it has a different purpose right and that the purpose of that Iva suit is to Keep Us Alive in the EV of some type of an emergency that might happen during a launch or a landing and and so that's that case where either you have a fire or you have a depress event and so that suit's going to pressurize and so in that case we're not as worried about like the mobility of of the suits you just want to get home and and do it in a safe way and so you need to have enough Mobility to still be able to control the spacecraft and and do the things you need to do but but you're just not as worried about it because you're not trying to perform a maintenance activity or or something like that when you're going down on the on a on a spacewalk and and so I think that's that's one of the the biggest differences between the Iva suit and the Eva suit is just what the purpose of it is and what you're trying to do with it yeah that feedback loop um is so important to be able to communicate what feels good what doesn't um because I imagine um you know as you're out there and having to perform you know as you mentioned maintenance activities uh among other things that the functionality of your body is critical to to to perform those it it really is and probably one of the hardest I think parts of the suit to design is the gloves right because absolutely you know you hear us use the term it fits like a glove right we use that a lot but but you don't realize how much you use your hands when you're outside on a space walk as opposed to say your feet when you're you know CU in space we don't use our feet our legs as much as we do our hands and and so when you're in a a pressurized suit like that and you're constantly grabbing and reaching you are overcoming the pressure of the suit and your hands can get just exhausted and you can get those hotpots um I had some issues with my emu gloves when I first started training at Nasa and I would actually get uh what's called delamination on my fingernails yeah and and so there's just little things like that that it really matters how well that suit fits and and how well it functions and and so uh it you don't realize how important that is sometimes yeah um now we are going to be stepping into suit leak checks soon um can you share with us a little bit about what that process uh entails um and and and more importantly because you you've actually experienced what it feels like to go through suit leak checks what what that experience is like extremely important part of the whole process right because before you take the cabin in this case all the way down to vacuum you want to make sure that your suit is maintaining the pressure that it needs to and and so it's a it it's a not a very long process it's usually just you know a few minutes to 2 or 3 minutes um and you know the the interesting part is if you don't pass that leap check what do you do next and and so there's always usually procedures associated with that as well that start checking your zipper start checking how you've closed things up did you not get something sealed quite right um and and so it's always a good point in the mission when uh whether it's on the Launchpad getting ready whether it's in the airlock getting ready to go out the door when you when you hear that yeah good leak check uh because now you know that you're ready to go so today's going to be kind of unique because all four of our crew members are going to be like doing the spacewalk they're all going to be exposed to the vacuum of space but I mean even when you did space walks it's it's never a solo act right like you're always out there with a partner you you are it's uh it's extremely important in fact one of the hardest parts about our training for space walks is what we call incapacitated crew and so you need to always be able to get your crewmate back into the airlock if something should happen if uh if they should no longer be conscious and and something of that nature and so we we actually do spend quite a bit of time and that's why it's extremely important for us to go out in pairs because things can go wrong um and and so you want to be prepared for those those moments yeah uh that's a great Point Dan to make that um while only Jared and Sarah are going going to be somewhat exiting the spacecraft um all four crew members are going to be exposed to the vacuum of space and it's actually going to set a new record for most number of people exposed to uh or not them without a suit but like yeah in the vacuum of gravity all at the same time yeah that's actually interesting I never I never actually thought of that piece of this Mission and the fact that you're going to have four people on a spacewalk I I know at one point on a shuttle mission we had three y three folks outside on a on a spacewalk um and so yeah that's a that's a big deal and and kind of exciting you know one of the one of the things we do on the on the space station of course is We Have astronauts that are still inside and if we do get into those emergency situations they're there prepared to help us uh get back into the airlock and and uh and get unsuited and and things of that nature so of course when you have all the crew it just makes you think about those emergency situations probably in a little bit different way than we than we do on station yeah and hey if if you're just tuning in we are still waiting to really kick off our space walk today so right now the crew is inside the spacecraft they're getting suited up we should be hearing some coms from them pretty soon and then X Dragon um ev1 is completing glove zipper closures but at this time we are ready for seat rotation copy that for SE rotation can you confirm crew is ready with the current glove zip props all right I I guess they just needed me to to say it was coming soon and then and then there it is uh but uh we are going to hear the seat rotation coming up soon again they're in their recline position and I stand by well get to the seat copy standing by so they're going to get those seats rotated and then we're then we're pretty much going to be ready to start getting into things and uh our Eva is going to officially start when we start flowing O2 into those suits um and so that'll kind of start our clock we're going to be showing you some of the Telemetry so all those numbers the bottom of your screen you've got a couple right now uh that one all the way in the bottom left corner that's your dragon that's your dragon cabin pressure that's in PSI that's you're ready for seat location SpaceX copies initiating seat rotation great news there that's going to help give the crew a little bit more room to move around uh during The Space Walk and after we get through the seat rotation we'll be able to perform those suit leak checks that we were just talking about yeah before they do that they'll do what's called a tear so it's kind of like if you're ever using a scale you zero out the scale before you put something on it it's essentially what we're doing with the suits they'll get like a baseline reading and then as we start to actually pressurize the suits we'll be able to measure that against the Baseline make sure everybody's got basically a nice seal before we start that vent yeah that one's pretty important that was pretty important yeah um so a lot of that's coming up again some of the data on your screen you've got cabin pressure you've got suit pressure SpaceX seat rotation complete and nominal all right seat rotations complete so now they're going to start doing that tear getting [Music] ready Cy and can I get a confirmation of completion per the call out in 2 decimal 18 complete with 2 copy at this time you are go to step into section three and teror suit [Music] deers now just a quick reminder in case if you missed the top of um the show we're we're going to be referring to the crew a little differently for the Eva activity um than we were previously so we heard Anna uh talk ev1 that was referring to Jared so his basically his call sign for this uh Space Walk operation is ev1 um Sarah's call sign will be ev2 Anna will be support two and uh Scott will be support one uh also Scott and Sarah are switching seats uh I perhaps they already have copy standby for HUD power for pressure sensor checkouts okay so our suit tear completed so next up is going to be the HUD checkout so the HUD your heads up display very excited about this really really excited about this and Mike i' I'd love to kind of get your perspective on this real quick we do have on your screen though that's your seed order so uh you've got ev1 Jared uh is in that seat he's going to be in that seat right now but once we actually get ready to open the hatch and everything he's going to be positioned kind of over by the hatch and then Sarah ev2 is going to be in one of those Center seats then you'll have Anna and kid on either side Dragon SpaceX suit Huds powered report results of primary sensor HUD checks in three decimal 2 so again that's our that's our C layout we just heard the Huds are powered on so they've got heads up displays actually being kind of projected on their visor in their helmet which if you if you've ever seen space suits that's always kind of felt like that's that Space Age Technology that we're missing cuz Mike you guys you use kind of a a simpler but a little unorthodox way to see like your suit data yeah that that's right Dan it's uh of course this the suits and is that head check out complete on nomal copy swapping the backup sensors standby to repeat H checks so of course the suits that we use for the the space walks on station are a little bit older they've been around for for quite a while and and so some of this uh technology uh you know oh look it's our first live views inside Dragon resilience for this morning that's fantastic yeah I think this is the definition of chilling yeah so there out of his seat that's Commander Jared uh who like mentioned before will be referred to as ev1 behind him we can see already in his new seat uh pilot Scott kid potit uh he will be support one and then moving around in front of us is Sarah who will be ev2 and then just out of view underneath the camera but I think you can see her visor is um Anna Menan who is support 2 Dragon SpaceX we're on backup sensors repeat Hut checks the crew is going to check out those heads up displays one more time real quick check out back copy good Huds returning to primary standby for helmet camera checkouts on that heads up display they'll be able to see the O2 flow timer that's kind of like our mission clock essentially like once the O2 has started to flow to their seats and they know they've got about an hour and 50 minutes just under two hours for the whole time uh they'll be able to see their suit pressure temperature basically it's a way to kind of keep an eye on things and we were talking about it a little bit Mike but on the Emu is a little bit different yeah the Emu is certainly different uh a lot of that kind of information is on a on a display right in front of you that you have to kind of look down to see and it it can be pretty challenging to see in fact a lot of the information you have to use a mirror on your wrist uh to be able to to read it and know what you're what you're controlling as well uh you mentioned the timer of course we don't have that kind of information on on ours and I'm not sure I'd want to know that because I'd feel the pressure of I got to get a lot of things done I'm running out of time yeah all right um so they're they're going through these HUD checkouts again pretty soon Dragon Space X powering on helmet cams we're going to get the helmet cams powered on again give you that kind of look right over their shoulders yeah pretty excited for these we've uh seen them utilized during the training uh sessions that the crew has undergone and we're so excited to to see them live today yeah I I tell you the helmet cameras I mean it's going to be fantastic views right that we're all going to love but but there's also a very important um role for those cameras as well like when we have the same thing we have helmet cameras with the emus and what it allows is your ground team Dragon SpaceX suit cameras powered confirm good health so it really allows your ground teams to to kind of be able to see what you're doing and and almost double check your work copy checkouts complete Huds will remain powered proceed to step three decimal SE 3 operations review through 3 decimal 8 report when complete all right so we got through HUD checks we got cameras on powered ready to go so right now the crew is going to go through they're going to do kind of a final review of all of their procedures like you talked about this a little bit like these things are so choreographed because even if you couldn't see the clock like you're on the clock so you've got to you've really got to make the most out of like every single second you're doing one of these you do and and of course you see that with with today's space walk as well SpaceX repeating checkouts are complete Huds are going to remain powered proceed to step 3 decimal 3 operations review through 3 decimal 8 and Report when complete Happ the N work and and the reason it's so choreographed and important is because you only have so much time outside right you only have so many consumables that allow you to go out there and so you want to take advantage of all of that you want to have every step very well scripted so that so that there's not a lot of wasted time now that being said it is nice when you're out there once while to just kind of take a moment look around enjoy the views kind of try to absorb where you actually are which uh can be pretty incredible as well every every once in a while guys I'm a little tired I'm GNA take a minute that's right I need to take I see my house from here that's right yeah all right but like it's it's awesome we're seeing the crew inside we're getting close to the start of today's spacewalk we're going to start flowing O2 to the suits that's when our clock's going to start right now they're just doing kind of final cabin configurations they're going to check the lighting uh they're going to make sure that their umbilicals are in the right spot that's one of the things you'll see that's actually one of the the the roles that our support uh crew members are really going to that's kind of one of their one of their primary jobs during The Space Walk is to manage those umbilicals for you guys Mike you had one that's uh what plugs into kind of the leg in your suit and that's what's providing like the breathing gas coms connections all of that stuff uh for this spacewalk today it's a little bit different this one uh that uh they're going to be using has some tethers in it um for Anna or for Sarah and um Jared it's about 12 feet long so it's like about double double the length what you guys so so it's Dual Purpose right it's it's providing them the the air and the cooling that they need while they're out on the spacewalk uh but it's also providing that safety piece right so that if uh if something should happen they should slip or um that that they're not going to go floating off into space with the Emu uh that we use on the space station we actually you know all of those consumables are a part of the suit itself and we have a separate safety tether that the first thing we do when we open that hatch and we go out is is we hook up that safety tether and it's an 85 ft reel that uh as you're moving around it it goes out with you to again protect for that crazy moment when maybe uh an emergency happens and you come off station how how hard was it to manage all of those tethers I feel like every time I watched it was like there's no way in heck that this thing isn't getting snagged on something no you're absolutely right because everything and and you talked earlier about making sure there was no loose items in the cockpit right because when you open that that hatch uh things are going to want to float away if they're not tied down or stored or anything like that so when we go out on a spacewalk not only do we keep us Tethered to the spacecraft but any tool any part that we take out with us also has to be tethered and it can be quite a challenge to manage all you'll open up a bag and there's there's 10 pieces of Hardware in there with 10 different tethers and they get all tangled up and and it can really be pretty challenging it's important though um we simplified that a little bit for this Mission um we actually basically built in that tether into the umbilical one of which you can see actually they're floating uh under Jared's right arm so not only does that Pro provide airflow and and comms and uh all the normal connections that we have in the in the umbilicals but we also added that that strength uh to provide that protection yeah and and the managing of that tether is extremely important because you know as they go out if it can get tangled up and you actually see Sarah there kind of moving around right it's it's very easy in in this environment where you're floating basx Dragon Eva offer viw complete through our in position for Eva nice EXC cop C position but you saw Sarah kind of move the tether out of the way and the part of that is that's actually impacting you go to command box push a talk all seats copy more and so this will this will be one of the unique things about this spacewalk today it'll it'll feel familiar if you've ever if you watched some of Mike space walks uh the crew is going to go over to what's called V pocket set go for com check ev1 com check ev2 com check support one com check support two com check SpaceX copies all good coms all four [Music] crew so essentially now all of our crew are on open mics they can all talk and hear each other and they can talk to the ground and so you're going to hear a lot more chatter start to pick up uh once we start the sup pressurization you're going to hear almost like a sound that's just the air starting to flow into their suits um how how loud does it get inside your suit it it actually is quite loud uh that air flow is just constantly which is a good thing right because not only is it providing you the oxygen but it's also helping get rid of that CO2 that you're breathing out so you want that air flow uh to be constantly going and and so you always are hearing that fan uh that that's uh making that happen and so that is that is certainly pretty important and the Vox thing I got to say you know it's nice that you don't have to push a button when you're outside there to to talk Dragon SpaceX we're about 90 seconds from EV initiation got some fist bumps going on yeah and we just heard were about 90 seconds from Eva initiation so we should see them get the go to close their visors and then they're going to open up one of the O2 valves on their suits to start the suit Purge and that's going to be the official start of our spacewalk today so we're we'll get through the the final goes and then we'll see those visors get closed oxygen start flowing and we'll be off I love how everyone looks so calm and collected right now I think that's a a a great visualization of just all the extensive training that they've gone through to get to this point this has been years in the making um I'm sure they're excited uh but everyone's focused it it is an interesting time right now right because one of the hardest parts I always found about Dragon Space X SpaceX is go for Space Walk operations report visors down ready for secondary O2 flow initiation and crew is go for [Music] spacewalk verify your visors are closed secondary L2 Val is open and that you are go for the E ev1 is go ev2 is go support one is go support two is go Dragon Space X initiating secondary O2 [Music] and with that news our Eva has begun so you're you're going to hear referred to as primary and secondary O2 primary is going to be that primary flow of oxygen to pressurize secondary is largely putting oxygen into their suits to help with cooling but secondary is the first one we turn on and so our O2 flow timer has started Eva start at 312 am Pacific I'll do the math on UTC in a little bit so this first this first operation or this first step in the operation is a suit Purge so inside their suit obviously when the visor is still open it's still a nitrox environment it's the same as the cabin uh and since they're going to be at a lower pressure than what you can basically live at with with oxygen levels um they're going to be on pure O2 they're going to be a 100% oxygen environment and I mean you guys were kind of in the same thing it's it's because like your suit can't you can't move a suit around at 14.7 PSI can you maybe you can but like no that would be pretty that' be pretty tough to do and and as we talked about earlier that's why that Mobility is so important because uh when that suit is pressurized like that it it can be challenging to move around absolutely so here on your screen we can see the Polaris on crew now with their visors down the Eva has begun we are beginning to flow that uh O2 through now we will of course bring these views to you as we have them but due to ground station coverage they do come in and out here and there um but every moment that we can we will certainly be sharing these with you um I also wanted to point out quickly that the the the window near kids feet was so much brighter than it was uh just even five minutes ago we're going to be seeing that uh in STK contrast as soon as we get uh the Eva or with the hatch open and ev1 out there yeah it's kind of interesting you you you mentioned that because as you're going around the earth as fast as you are right in in 30 minutes or 45 minutes or so you can be passing in and out of that sun and and going into Shadow and and so that brings its challenges as as well because the temperature um can change pretty drastically just in those transitions from night to to Daylight and and so there's a there's a it's an interesting moment when you're passing through through that time that's actually one of uh the reasons that the visors have this new coating on them different than when you wore the a similar helmet um that coating actually helps to insulate the individual inside the suit so when they're looking at the sun dragon Space X a reminder after the initiation of primary O2 flow ev1 ev2 will need to adjust Vox threshold low following primary O2 flow [Music] initiation D1 copies B2 copies Dragon SpaceX secondary flow Purge complete close secondary O2 Valves and Report ready for suit [Music] pressurization ev1 closed ev2 closed report one closed report two closed facex dragon is ready for seat pressurization initiating primary [Music] O2 this is normal this is with the air flow coming through uh the crew members are on Vox meaning uh that their their microphone is on the whole time so Sarah and Jared are going to be adjusting their audio levels um as this flow continues to to help regulate that yeah the the the voxel kind of attenuate so it'll it'll sound like this now but as we get through The 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 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 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 three 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 you're 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 um two pure stable with perge complete actually secondary Flo on with Portland complete ev1 open one open the port two open and right there they they finish the purge and they did a quick uh reinitiation of that secondary flow check respon secondary flow and Report went complete one close support one stay quick and you can turn [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 [Music] [Music] earlier support one SpaceX Conta [Music] [Music] we got you all right copy got the one [Music] Dragon Space X beginning to the check evaluation and remain SK for the [Music] checks 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 listening 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 breath and 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-br just two two hours after they got on orbit just like you know gradually lowering the pressure and I mean pre-breathe 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 pre breathe U but that's how we used to do it it's very similar to what what the polaron 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 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 crew for this and I mean training for space station space Parks 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 Cals of of everything that's going on through the water like that and it just gives me goosebumps to think about 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 rigor uh new training for the best we could simulate an Eva while still on Earth um with hoist and uh you know it was um it was a lot of fun to watch them train be back on board with cameras in three [Applause] minute 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 St STS for our video coverage all of our communication with the astronauts are through tedris so tracking a data relay satellites so we have 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 we we initiated O2 flow to the suits the time is 3:12 a.m. Pacific 12 10 12 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 free breath we're going to start getting into to some really exciting parts of the Space Walk and and then after after we get through the pre-breathe we're going to get to cabin vents so you know what's let's go through here 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 two 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 pre-breathe or you're waiting for the airlock 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 mentioned 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 dasdragon um but yeah just as a reminder uh our our crew they are in their designated or well Jared's not but um the 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 far 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 Sarah 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 partially 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 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 uh venting Dragon down to near vacuum so we're going to have 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 space walk and so if you've ever flown on an airplane and your ears popped you've experienced just a little bit of what 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 great big airlock with this with you know a full station worth of oxygen and stuff like that um so confirm rting at [Music] 31's [Music] go copy initiating cabin ventage there we go that is great news exting so 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 take in total this will take about eight minutes and you can this the graphics you see in your screen that's live Telemetry everybody so you can see the pressure inside Dragon starting to tick down you're going to see the suit 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 at Dan and you talked about that 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 suggesting 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 81 P 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 check-ins and I know you guys did something kind of similar where like you wouldd 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 little tug to kind of break the seal break this 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 four PSI two pressures look good space 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 otherwise he's going to pull and it's not going to go anywhere and so the the new restraint devic is 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 us 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 it's going to get real hard real quick that's right that's right yep we did we did also here 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 an E1 time check if you want mad and clear mad and clear as well also hear the fox 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 clear 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 calls so uh Comm is is just critical we can see Dragon capsule now approaching close to 2 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 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 word one's good good two de yeah you really have four Mini Spa or spaceships in there approaching 2 PSI I guess that means we have four aliens 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 teachers hand over to command into Hatch open prep one copy 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 Comm and we're at it's kind of interesting because we're at a very critical phase yeah 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 that was some of the emergency situations I know you trained for mik 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 Ed 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 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 look good one cop now 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 good timing a little under 28 minutes into the uh into the spacewalk today which again that started when we started flowing o02 to the suits of these crew members that was at 312 Pacific 1012 UTC we just heard that dragons now in its Eva attitude complete so again we've got we've got dragon's trunk pointing towards the sun onard watch through the cross [Music] view that was SpaceX core Arthur baralt just letting the crew know uh that where 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 started out as an intern when we were first 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 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 is you don't want thrusters firing off when a crew member's outside we're at one you can see the suit 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 con ction that's also where we have the um safety harness built in as well so it's able to Dr SpaceX pressure below hatch operating limit standby for transition to hatch open prep here we go m did you get to open the hatch I did yes yeah when you when you go out as uh G hatch open Dragon SpaceX or Eva hatch open prep confirm CR to open [Music] hatch that is great SpaceX copies Dragon you are go to open hatch go excited space go to open the hatch Mike as you mentioned before that continuous communication [Music] handle as you can hear we do have a crowd Gathering outside of MiG 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 uh1 hatches Vis indicating open SpaceX copies standby [Music] 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 asked if I got open in the hatch so when you go out a zv1 just like Jared here is ev1 that's that's typically the role for for you is to open that hatch and you guys have to draw straws fever 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 depressurized the Dragon capsule uh down to zero psia you see that in the bottom left hand side bottom left 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 [Music] reached Space X I'm oning the hatch now Jarrett now opening Dragon resilience into space so saw some motion on the hatch again he's just giv it kind of that initial tug and then Sarah gets to push the button to swing that hatch [Music] open much more movement there on the forward hatch this supp be pretty exciting for Jared because that Center 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 unse copy give it another [Music] call hatches several in turn 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 sent complete ev1 return to [Music] seat then e one 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 and ev1 you are go 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 we could open the hatch man we could open the hatch automatically or we can do it manually and so they just gave Jared they go to open that hatch manually so we we just went out of ground station reach so we'll get the views back W we'll get the views back real shortly uh and then the the hatch will get hatch open and hopefully we see it yeah hopefully we see a hatch open the hatch is open text copies hatch [Music] open that is fantastic news uh for those that TV1 I'm looking at the seals initial view looks pretty good I don't see any voles oration copy on hat 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 two open get a good seal E2 Space X can you command open forward hatch this was going to stall it open there is our first view of the forward hatch wide open to [Music] that's if you just jumped in we are 38 minutes into today's spacewalk and the hatch is open on Dragon first view from a helmet cam looking out Dragon SpaceX we see installed ev1 is go to [Music] continue that structure you see there is for T1 I'm transitioning back from under displ SpaceX copies we with you in your helmet cam once 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 I'm at the bottom of the mobility a progressing I have a feeling the crowd is about to go wild good [Music] stay check back at home we all have a lot of work to do but from here birth sure looks like a perfect [Music] world right that one I'm going to step into T Matrix One singlehanded Mobility demonstration Commander Isaac men now emerging test Matrix one watching from the nose [Music] cone up down left and right are [Music] [Applause] [Music] threes pit and roller three y iny two switching single-handed operations are fun static and with Dynamic disturbance switching to left [Music] hand up down left and right are threes maybe a two pitch is a four roll is a two Y is a two so these are the suit Mobility checks that Jared is singed operations Dynamic and with disturbance are all adequate test Matrix one complete Hut check 5.3 PSI 48% RH 33 dmal 9 C SpaceX copies test Matrix of one and HUD read out scre off ja e one's good one good too good okay stepping into vertical translation we're going to start with the horizontal bars [Music] [Music] all right we're going to transition over to [Music] [Music] Vertical i' say vertical and horizontal are are equally workable slightly Savers horizontal I'm going to do a Max reach left hands at the top of the mobility a at the midpoint you have good video we just lost our live video We Stand by one okay Switching over to Max reach switching hand got Space X I'm holding up at the max and ev1 go ahead and continue the operation uh we'll let you know we're back on with live [Music] video C [Music] that and for your awareness Max reach L8 and the mid bar next test Matrix 2 is complete H readout 5.3 SI 33 decimal 9 celius % RH copy test Matrix complete and H read out off check ev1's Good's good we good stepping in tmri 3 three demonstration ev1 Space X for Ingress [Music] time go space recommended Ingress time of o2 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] cone happy nice p [Music] and space a ev1 I would say the handsfree demonstration is very comparable to the trainer in terms of the foot [Music] restraints SpaceX copies and ev1 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 Hut readout is 5.3 PSI 47% R 33 decimal 8 CSI and stepping back into max reach copy test Matrix you can see top of the mobility [Music] Aid and uh let's get a Quick Crew off check e he want good May I'm good happy that okay uh Max reachs whether it's left or right hand seems to be about the same top of the mobility Aid and then the mid R 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 minute it's [Music] gorgeous you want to see if guys you get right fo ev1 we're checking out your helmet cam now well I'm checking out your nose cone right now and looks pretty good copy we're turnning nose cone see you looking at [Music] us all right we're coming up about that O2 FL timer time two check for ingr ev1's good not too good all right than back TV1 that's for the huge team effort that it took to get us to this point we know it's just the start then I'm transitioning back in the vehicle [Music] and space ev1 just taking a quick look here at the hatch Shields from what I can see so far they look pretty good copy on the hatch seals and stand by for transition to read off reset [Music] guys face this and ev1 is clear [Music] [Music] all right so Jared back inside uh we we heard him going through What'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 cop 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 perfect 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 Thruster pluming yeah now you mentioned Sarah um just like Jared she will have 10 to 15 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 uhx attitude reset complete ev2 go for [Music] erress there is Sarah's clear to proceed crew check for ev2 E ev1's good ev's good good two good evq 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 you're Spice Box for 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 feels look good I see a little bit of a bulls between 14 and 13 so you're hearing Sarah call out some more of the seal check there as as she's exiting out 3 feed SpaceX copies that report good fck so this was something we knew might happen um and between 28 and 27 copy the crew trained on exactly what to do in the scenario just pop it back in and one final between 19 and 18 [Music] that might be best repeated with hatch closure SpaceX copies can you repeat the location after Eva [Music] complete between 19 and 18 all right copy I'll track that and uh ask again when you're [Music] Ingress floppy E2 is proceeding with e super exciting to see this our fellow space xer yeah Sarah Gillis now about to make her space walk you one I'm going to hand this back to you like we mentioned Sarah will be performing in the same uh set of Mobility tests uh so we will do the same uh try to stand by and listen to those coms I mean I said it before a lot of us sare characters we want to do this all right stepping into test Matrix one for single handed Mobility really cool to see one of our own out there that's awesome and ev2 for awareness we're watching from the nose cone and copy all I would say in all three translation axis I'm having certainly cross cup of 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 our achievable rating is [Music] three now a three R the four and pites a three [Music] [Music] [Music] scores from Left Hand stepping into vertical translation [Music] 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 [Music] and on how to be able to stabilize my body with single hand disturbances C for breath left and right stepping into MX reach do you have visual a firm we have visual on the nose [Music] cone puppy from bar four to Bar two from top down and similar reach from bar two up to Bar four SpaceX copies reach and test61 complete SE pressure 5.25 33.8 Celsius 37% humidity SPX copies HUD readout and test Matrix one [Music] complete after 7 to 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 coms are 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 paic are actually pretty good we're hearing the voice of mission specialist Sarah Gillis our fellow space xer on her Space Walk got she's got about a minute left and then she's going to start heading inside and with a little more work I can actually get between almost bar one and bar four on that street space has copies and you could see the Earth dark and we flew into like an orbital and chest to trying to combine them so we'll call that complete he pressure 5.27 38% humidity 33.7 CSUS SpaceX cop Matrix complete and HUD out steing into handsfree demo I'm able to engage and disengage my feet copy that D2 and once you are able to engage disengage we'll actually have you start Ingress we're just over 5 9 Minutes O2 flow poppy what that ev2 sitting up IND check for ind's good ev's good good 14 cppy coming on in all right and just like that Sarah's going to start making 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 [Music] copy ready [Music] 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 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 folding again between 12 and 13 copy your go to no mostly between 12 and 13 right now SpaceX copies at 12 if you can you're go to address those copy 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 reing 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 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 close we good puppy theing handle a f for and 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 hatch verifi lap hey commanding Eva hatch [Music] closed Eva hats closed all Dr go is enabled Dragon SpaceX we see Eva hatch closed and pressure indicates good seal standby for transition to Eva repress [Music] one ev1 copy everyone check secondary O2 valve Clos cing going support one I'm good d1's closed d2's close 4 One Clos part two closed [Applause] so a couple of real big moments right there Sarah was able to make sure ref one copy secondary flow is closed and agree eess he was able to make sure that the seals were in good spot we got the hatch closed you can see PSI for 8.3 see the pressure starting to tick up just the final com information everyone confirmed secondary O2 valves are closed T1 closed close G and we're through one for a 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 spacewalk itself suit still pressurized by that primary and now we're going to start to see uh pressure tick up inside of dragon 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 the suit 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 right at 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 microgravity 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 oxygen 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 that was it did that was that was that was really cool to to see them outside for the first time and there 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 Dron SP X we're about 2 and2 minutes from Ted hand [Music] over1 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 everything and then the one that 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 e 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 microgravity 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 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 CU 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 for having me around our pleasure you're welcome back anytime excellent all right to see you Hopper thanks by 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 over 8 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 inting the the Teedra sent and out so like we'll get it 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 if want good we're good two good just heard a quick check in from him so we're going to keep keep counting the PSI up until we get to about 8 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 so we'll 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 uh 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 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 onab pressure approaching one PSI on P2 I'm I'm sure for shared and Sarah flew by even quicker yeah we just heard Jared call 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 there suit 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 barrial 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 pure2 environment in the suit using nitrox before they get out nitrox being that same air mixture that you have in your scuba tank uh if you got any scuba divers out there uh that nitrogen oxygen mixture um nope still still just there they're just going to keep psyching out should hopefully be getting video back from ground stations stand by for transition to repress 2 at 8 decimal 3 C SpaceX we're following along we press two at 8.3 and so once we transition to repress 2 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 point 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 refres to Che ev1's good good F you and yeah that coms that we're hearing half PSI before we get the Le check monitoring check at 9 have a continual checks with all four crew members 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 de pressurized 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 tick up but we're going to pause at 9: we're going to do another cabin leak check so we should hear that momentarily time we ress two stop Dragon space with you and Eva repress to stop waiting 5 minutes for thermal stabilization and we're that effect we're tracking and C for awareness we do a positive refres rate 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 TPO 2 1 decimal 35 halfway there they're still flowing that oxygen um and in a few minutes we will begin to flow we'll do a flush uh of of nitro 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 true professionals yep they know there's a timeline's good good good cp2 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 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 was unique we we talked about it a little bit with Mike there's there's different rules for every single Space Walk 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 half through the Le check still positive we're about halfway through the leak check so we got about 4ish minutes left you 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 [Applause] through yeah big bigger volume valuation start 3 minutes all right so we we hit cop that St we 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 the 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 [Applause] for slow down a little bit for the remaining of the repress uh kind of kind of going in reverse when we did the deess that initial a lot of that atmosphere is flowing over um and once we got down low it started to slow [Music] [Applause] really enjoying these in Cabin views everyone this Che is looking good so far but we're still going to wait to pull [Applause] yeah probably that space XX we're tracking sometimes it seems as though the the feed freezes just because everybody's relaxing as the minutes check is N9 decimal 7 pop2 is at two [Applause] enough the final final minute of our leak check reports from the ground everything's still looking [Applause] 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 cruise suits is like 2.6 is right where we want to keep it when we're at our final pressure Dragon space Su check stand by for rart to ress thanks thanks we're F great news there successful leap 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 two decimal 62 or cabin reaches one atmosphere right now we're coming up on 10 psi per cabin pressure and pp2 is 2 decimal to [Applause] 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 is 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 that the crew can do exactly uh these are opportunities for the crew to pause the repress and just um allow themselves to equal to come to equilibri equilibrium words are words are really hard right now is um and uh we haven't had to utilize we're at 2.3 pp2 targeting 2.62 C 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 Nitro in the F all right good news there and up dragon PX we concur with [Applause] E1 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 cabin pressure uh or when cabin P2 that partial pressure for O2 reaches uh about 2.6 so we are continuing to progress uh pretty well 2. cabin's 10.55 however is and just said this this portion of the repress 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 well 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 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 then rate that activity on a scale of one 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 microgravity CU 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 view views and it went by so quickly uh both Jared and oh and we're back we got views again STX is with you reminder to start manual timer on nightclock to Suits got that St we're standing [Applause] by there it is box [Applause] started we're on Nitro purs cin P2 is two decimal 15 and cabin atmosphere is 11 1 decimal 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 one good Commander Jared isaacman continuing to check in with his three secondary O2 valve open e1's open is open one or yeah four one open 4 two [Applause] open 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 as they're 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 the O2 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 to be Eva operations complete um from Arthur we four more four minutes into the O walk [Applause] out cabin P2 is 2 decimal 9 cabin pressure 12 deal 5 [Applause] you can see the Polaris Dawn crew continuing uh as we continuing to monitor uh the rep press 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 poke her 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 the launch phase of Polaris Dawn uh you might recall that Scott period three cabin pressure 13 decimal [Applause] 3 Scott is actually our polaron 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 very similar if you've ever watched a space station Space Walk where you'll have people inside who are able to kind of call out or fly a robotic arm or something there 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 Mak sure that umbilicals didn't get uh hung up and keep an 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 4 minutes remaining cabin P2 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 sh down the nitrox phota suit then we're going to close secondary O2 valves and then you can uh use your manual V valve in the plate uh when you're visor do not disconnect [Applause] envelop I'm copy one's good good one good you're good Dragon Space X we are less than 2 minutes from a te's Handover but copy your call and plan we can [Applause] Cur that was Jared just uh reminding the rest of the crew um that they 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 evess is complete continuing suit wash [Applause] out happy ni day thank you great news there confirmation that Dragon repress is now [Applause] complete so right now we're just waiting for that final we call it the O2 wash out so again we've been using nitrox instead of the the pure oxygen into those suits [Applause] for anyone that has joined recently unfortunately you missed most of the fun I 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 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 Queue 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 5:00 a.m. Pacific uh we had there it is arming disconnecting [Applause] night [Applause] and want get it yep please all right check secondary O2 valves closed TV One's closed TV2 is closed sc one closed scort two closed all right you're going to manually vent down [Music] [Applause] [Music] ringing check box yeah everybody [Applause] [Laughter] smell that space Dragon SpaceX EV operations complete and that's Cy that SpaceX 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 [Music] AR 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 com check on manual push talk manual push talk loud and clear all right that's the crew just switching off from CLE just switching off from Vox 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 adjustment 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 uh 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 preb 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 are 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 them back inside e complete and it's uh you know the the work isn't completely done yet they'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 de 3 cabin atmosphere is looking pretty good right now very stable yeah copy that SpaceX and we are ready for your seat rotation SpaceX cop incredible news yeah uh we're moving into sea rotation so again after that 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 congratulations 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 this 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 1400 km that's higher than any dragon mission to date this is the farthest from Earth anybody has been since Apollo and been 50 over 50 years since 1972 and then today the crew first civilians to perform an EV in space first one in Dragon yeah and the crew also uh the first to test starlink laser based Communications in space uh ex 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 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