Historic Launch: NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 Misson Flight Day Highlights

On May 30, 2020, NASA and SpaceX launched astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station. After a 19-hour ride aboard the new SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, the astronauts docked to the ISS on May 31. This mission marks the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011 that humans are flying to the space station from American soil, and begins a new era of human spaceflight aboard a commercial spacecraft. Behnken and Hurley were among the first astronauts to begin working and training on SpaceX’s next-generation human space vehicle. As the final flight test for SpaceX, this mission validates the company’s crew transportation system, including the launch pad, rocket, spacecraft, and operational capabilities. Learn more about the mission here . In a related story, look back at Tech Briefs' 2011 interview with NASA's Director of Commercial Spaceflight Development, Phil McAlister, right after SpaceX was awarded the largest commercial launch vehicle contract in history.

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00:01:14 my [Music] good morning dragon we hope your evening aboard endeavor was restful and we are planning to resume all nominal communications at this time how copy i don't endeavor and uh great to talk to you mike and the team uh and congratulations by the way hopefully the new edition is doing well

00:01:53 thanks very much uh yeah young joseph solomon is doing great he's at home hopefully letting his mom sleep a little bit all right well the crew has been woken up if you didn't get the song right off the bat that was planet caravan by black sabbath so that is your first wake up song played on a crew dragon planet caravan black sabbath we know uh

00:02:18 from their interviews pre-launch bob and doug uh definite fans of 70s 80s rock and also into the 90s which i was like yeah guys thumbs up on that one sensational two good morning and dragon tally ho i know you guys probably see it on the video cameras but with the naked eye we can see it as well looking like a nice shiny new friend

00:02:42 and station on two good morning to you as well and thanks for pointing that out i hadn't but i see it now well good morning everyone from endeavor we uh had a great night uh last night got to get a little sleep and uh as you can see from the video we are just passing over saudi arabia and the middle east

00:03:08 a beautiful day pass right now and uh heading northeast up towards central asia and then we'll work our way out the western western part of the himalayas there and work our way all the way out over looks like japan out into the pacific for this particular pass if you look closely in the video you can

00:03:45 see just a sliver of moon uh kind of halfway between the surface of the earth and the window pane as we're flying at about 17 500 miles an hour around the planet getting pretty close to iss when we were in the uh night part of this orbit we actually got

00:04:08 to see iss out the window which was pretty neat to see it for the first time on this trip bob's painting the camera back now just kind of taking a look at around the uh cabin just to see how things look after a cruise lived in dragon for an evening we uh

00:04:30 last night the way things went we had our normal uh activation got out of our suits had some a little bit of dinner then [Music] reconfigured the cabin for uh orbit ops did a couple uh other events including

00:04:54 the media event last night and then we proceeded to get ready for bed which uh in space takes takes a little bit longer than i think on planet earth that we had to pull out sleeping bags and sleeping clothes and all those kinds of things got kind of cleaned up and then we ended up sleeping just like we are right now right in our

00:05:18 chairs which was actually a pretty comfortable night's sleep one of the things we did yesterday was actually manually fly crew dragon uh for the first time and uh i want to compliment the teams and hawthorne just a spectacular job with the simulator as the vehicle flew exactly like the simulators out in hawthorne so

00:05:50 just want to thank the teams that did all the work on that particular training device as well as all the modeling and the gnc really worked out well and was a joy to fly and i'm guessing it was the first time a space vehicle was flown with a touchscreen before so

00:06:10 we got that going for us well hello folks uh welcome aboard the dragon capsule endeavor doug and i had a good night's sleep last night we were surprised i think at how well we actually slept aboard the vehicle a little bit quieter than space shuttle a little bit more i guess environmentally controlled so we had a

00:06:36 didn't have co2 pockets or things like that build it up giving us a congestion which was uh super awesome he talked a little bit about the changing and going back and forth between our suits and our sleepwear and the clothes we're in now and uh managing all those things but we've managed to keep the ship

00:06:55 pretty tidy at this point as we went through the the night's activities and then got into our preparation for today we did get our suits dried out get them packed away into the black bags that are stowed in the outboard seats you can if you look closely you can see we've got them strapped in with the the regular straps that you'd use for

00:07:20 uh riding into uh orbit and then over against uh kind of that that former window location there is a uh you can see doug's uh sleep bag there next to his uh crew notebook and so that's how we're keeping all of our our laundry constraint floating all around today doug mentioned the manual flying and and

00:07:42 how well the simulator matched that uh i'll tell you that for the ride up hill on ascent they just are never able to capture that at the simulator and so i think doug and i were talking about all the observations that we had all the way uphill um while it was uh an exciting ride i think we got a a couple of uh minor surprises just in terms of the way the vehicle is kind of moving

00:08:07 and shaking and uh taking you into orbit you can tell that it's uh it's fighting against the earth as it uh it makes it wait it's way into space and that's just something a simulator can never never truly simulate we do have a a friend on board with us we introduced you to tremor yesterday when we did our a little activity with the camera trimmer also

00:08:30 had a good night's sleep i know that both of our sons are pretty happy about that with their pet dinosaur making it into orbit and and having a good night in zero gravity we plan once we get on board the space station to reunite uh tremor with earthy and plan to bring both of them back to earth i know that uh we'll get tremor through the safety brief and get all the

00:08:53 education that's required so that uh we'll have a safe operation while we're on board the space station should anything come up that we need to be prepared for i know that trimmer's also looking forward to helping us out with eba preparations just in case we need to do a spacewalk and so we're looking forward to that as

00:09:14 well two minutes until os let's see i think we'll go ahead and bring the camera out a little bit and we'll show you what's going on underneath the seats on board the dragon capsule endeavor we've got quite a bit of cargo that we'll be taking to the space station we've got some hard

00:09:35 racks as well the hard stowage that we have can also be swapped these hard containers here for powered cargo which lets us bring back refrigerated things from the international space station and if you're super lucky you don't have that this time but i bet you some crew will take ice cream to the international space station with those uh that'll be

00:10:06 exciting for those crews to get to have that we we do have some emergency equipment labeled in red which is nice to have and easy to see as as well as the other stowage bags that we have down here as well i don't know if you were watching closely during our strap in and uh insertion on the on the pad but

00:10:27 we did have the seats rotate at one point we were down in a easier configuration to ingress the vehicle in so when we climbed the board the seats were rotated down and after we were strapped in they rotated up our activities and so those seats will rotate again in preparation for splashdown when we eventually come home

00:10:51 so if any of you all know uh uncle uh kirk sherman as we call him you could ask him when we're coming home and make sure that he starts having a plan for us well we appreciate you having them uh coming on board again with us on endeavor and enjoy showing you around both inside and out the next time uh we'll be on video for

00:11:29 you we'll hopefully be on board chris cass in just hours so we appreciate you stopping by and even loud and clear now on the big loop tell us wonderful to hear i have you loud and clear as well

00:12:01 station spacex com check on big loop international space station from expedition 63 wonderful to hear all of your voices there in hawthorne congratulations and good luck to everybody today dragon spacex the ground is go for approach initiation we will be enabling the maneuver shortly and our updated expected maneuver start

00:12:32 time is one two eleven utc at this point dragon now approaching waypoint zero and really at this point it's all relative maneuvers a very slow and steady approach to the station of course that small translational test with

00:12:56 bob and doug commanding dragon to do some small manual piloting maneuvers at this moment we're less than a mile away from station dragging just under 1200 meters away continuing to close the gap pretty slow right right now moving in at only about 1.7 meters per second we're going to be standing by there's going to be an internal go no-go pull

00:13:19 about passing waypoint zero that should be coming up in about seven minutes i will continue to listen in with the teams we're expecting dragon's arrival at waypoint zero which we heard its trajectory has converged on so that means dragon pointed in the right direction on its way to that waypoint just 400 meters below the space station dragon spacex on

00:13:45 big loop the ground is go for approach zero we will be enabling the maneuver shortly the expected maneuver start time is one two five six utc reminder that dragon will nominally continue approach through way point one toward waypoint two without stopping at waypoint one next dragon on the big look we got the

00:14:09 go and 12 colon 56. good copy here's a cool view from the station station camera you can see dragon approaching we've just got those red and green lights on on either side of the capsule it gives uh folks looking at the capsule a sense of orientation of the vehicle

00:14:37 and here's a view from uh from dragon dragon's got a number of relative navigation sensors as well as a couple of cameras that can look forward that will hopefully get some some additional views for as we get closer to docking so here's a good view of the space station here's a great view from a camera behind bob and doug bob and the right-hand seat

00:15:03 in the pilot seat dug in the commander seat or the cdr seat we've got a display in front of them that's the the ford view it's got some procedural information on the left hand side that's telling them criteria that they're looking for anything off nominal they could of course step in and issue a command if

00:15:25 necessary then on the uh the right left hand and right hand screen where actually they're they're piloting controls so when when the vehicle is in an appropriate state to receive those commands they can just hop in and use those uh touch sensitive gloves issue commands to the vehicle's attitude

00:15:42 control system just about 240 meters away from the space station we're pretty much lined up right in front of it along what we've been calling the v bar and you may hear that on on comms there is a very nice shot of the dragon vehicle from cameras aboard the space station

00:16:08 you just saw the one of the draco thrusters there firing just to keep it in that whole attitude flying right in front of the station we have two cameras on the very forward port of node two so right where dragon's going to be headed following the completion of this manual piloting test

00:16:30 dragon spacex on big loop c2v2 link reconfiguration is complete the soft capture ring extension is also complete good ring extension and c2 b2 reconfig dragon that completes the manual piloting demonstration and i only had to twist doug's arm for two or three minutes to get him to allow me to deactivate the piloting controls copy

00:17:05 excellent thank you and with that we ask that you from the display used for manual piloting please go to audio settings and adjust a gain setting for seat one or four and in addition we would appreciate any handling qualities evaluation of the proximity piloting possible we've completed the gain setting

00:17:32 adjustment for seat one and i'll turn it over to doug for the handling quality quick look spacex dragon on the big loop for the handling qualities it flew just about like the stem so my congratulations to the folks in hawthorne that flew really well very crisp it was a little sloppier and wide just

00:17:59 like we saw in them but all the other axes as well as uh closure and opening were all just as perfect excellent to hear thank you houston station on the big loop uh in step two review of steps three and fours complete cruise on the international space

00:18:25 station is ready for uh docking station houston big loop we copied the review of three and four complete international space station ready thank you at this moment that approach is continuing still moving in at about three tenths of a meter per second dragons coming up on just 100 meters away from the space station

00:18:51 so the very top there is the the nosecone on the spacecraft where we're inside 100 meters continuing to close and we're gonna have a short hold at 20 meters teams will just do a final check and then they'll give dragon the go we're expecting it to be pretty brief we

00:19:11 should get to that hold point in just about four minutes moving at our current pace i think you can see a meatball in american flag on that on the spacecraft the the nasa logo of course the referred to as the meatball i think there was some spirited discussion about the meatball versus the worm during ascent and uh those are you can see those logos

00:19:34 they're they're that structure on the the fairing structure is actually what the super dracos are are housed in of course all of those are deactivated now only used for launch escape during the ascent portion nose cone right at the the top of the vehicle and you can see sort of the sealing surface

00:19:52 those uh four circular those four circular slots right underneath the nose cone within that red ring are the the ford bulkhead dracos that's what we were using while we were conducting all those burns the five burns to get to this point dragon spacex on big loop the ground is go for approach two we will be enabling the

00:20:24 resume shortly as a reminder ensure your visors are closed prior to dragon's departure from the waypoint and once dragon is inside the crew hands off point retreat and breakout are not permitted and for your awareness we have sunset in a little less than 8.5 minutes i can cap these all on the big loop go

00:20:46 for docking station houston on the big loop houston and station are now go for docking chris you can monitor for steps three and four three and four and one decimal one zero four crew dragon approach and retreat monitor happy steps three and four next dragon on the big loop our visors are down

00:21:12 puppy visors down with the crew confirming their visors down we should see the final approach resume from approach to copy and bound mission copy and we're going to be racing that sunset the approach has resumed

00:21:38 dragon closing in we're inside 20 meters and yeah that crew hands off point should come up in about three minutes or so right before we get that final docking it comes about 20 seconds prior or just about two meters away from the station still and that's just the crew not issuing any abort commands at that point it would be

00:22:02 too late and so any aborts would be executed automatically by dragon itself so we're closing in at less than a tenth of a meter per second at this point you can see the the surface section draco's just doing all these very small minor attitude corrections really the autonomous docking system at work making sure that the

00:22:31 the vestibule and the soft capture system is lined up with ida2 it's the international docking adapter you can see much more clearly there the hinge mechanism for the nose cone those four black circles are the ford bulkhead dracos not to be used at this time and then of course the the pedals of the soft capture system

00:23:03 and we are just five meters away again we're racing that sunset this dragon continues to close four meters to go those shadows of the of the space station on the vehicle yeah you can actually see the center line camera pretty clearly there um sort of with the contrast of the sun right now

00:23:29 three meters to go two meters we are inside the hands-off point the chomp the crew hands-off point one meter to go soft capture complete soft capture confirmed standby for retraction and docking 95 and we just heard it soft capture we have docking that coming

00:24:24 at 7 16 a.m pacific time with the station and dragon flying 262 statute miles right over the border between northern china and mongolia dragon spacex docking sequence is complete next to say that it's been a real honor to be just a small part of this uh 90-year endeavor since the last

00:24:58 time the united states spaceship that's stocked with the international space station we have to congratulate the men and women of spacex at hawthorne mcgregor and at kennedy space center their incredible efforts over the last several years to make this possible to not go

00:25:19 overstated i'd also like to thank kathy leaders and her team of the commercial crew program of nasa an outstanding job by everyone last i'd like to thank the the men and women of the national aeronautics and space agency this is an incredible time to be at nasa

00:25:43 three new vehicles to be flown continuing mission in low earth orbit and then to the moon and mars we thank you again and congratulate you [Music] dragon arriving crew of expedition 63 is honored to welcome dragon in the commercial crew program to welcome aboard the international

00:26:14 space station bob and doug glad to have you as part of the crew well done bravo zoo hello you endeavor this is houston bob and doug welcome to the international space station after your spectacular rendezvous and docking of the first crew dragon vehicle for the first time since the retirement

00:26:36 of the space shuttle you have completed a historic ride to the iss and have opened up a new chapter in human space exploration on behalf of the flight control teams here in houston and in hawthorne california and to our spacex colleagues bravo on a magnificent moment in spaceflight history and on the start of a new journey that has changed the face

00:26:56 of space travel in this new area of space transportation bob and doug good luck and we look forward to working with you on board dragon spacex bob and doug we here at spacex are honored to have been part of ushering in this new era of human space flight on behalf of the spacex and nasa partnership

00:27:23 congratulations on a phenomenal accomplishment and welcome to the international space station well thank you anna we appreciate all the good words and uh everyone thanking us but it truly was a magnificent effort by the entire team the spacex team the nasa team and a team across america who was able to pull this off and bring human space flight

00:27:49 again to our nation thanks for everything happy to be aboard and with that the hatch is open 1202 pm central time 102 pm eastern behnken and doug hurley opened the hatch to the international space station after launching from american soil on a u.s vehicle for the first time in nine years the first time ever for a commercially

00:28:27 built spacecraft we have bob bankin from spacex demo 2 mission entering the international space station followed by doug hurley [Applause] demo two crew now aboard the international space station they entered at 12 22 pm central time the station at the time was 262 statute miles over

00:29:15 tuchmanistan crew all gathered in front of the cameras at the node 2 forward end of the international space station just behind them is the hatchway to the crew dragon on his demo 2 mission station this is the nasa administrator can you hear me we hear you loud and clear sir welcome to the space station

00:29:38 thank you chris it's good to see you and welcome to bob and doug i i will tell you the whole world saw this mission and we are so so proud of everything you have done for our country and in fact to inspire the world we sure appreciate that sir it's uh obviously been our honor to be just a small part of this we have to give credit to spacex the commercial crew

00:30:03 program and of course nasa it's great to get the united states back in the crude launch business and we're just really glad to be on board this magnificent complex senator cruz would you like to say a few words well congratulations gentlemen the eyes of the world are upon you and everyone is proud of you

00:30:27 all of the america is watching you and today and yesterday represent big big days we're looking at a decade since we've had american astronauts launched an american ship from american soil and i can tell you i sat with my wife and kids in our living room watching on tv yesterday and i suspect we did what

00:30:50 just about everyone watching did including both of you we just held our breath as it took off and we're glad to see you've landed safely we're glad to see you've docked uh and so let me ask you that dragon is is an amazing vehicle how does she handle it uh flew just like it was supposed to

00:31:13 it was uh we had a couple opportunities to uh take it out for a spin so to speak once uh after we got into orbit last night and again uh today about 20 minutes before we docked and uh my compliments to the folks back at hawthorne and spacex for uh how well it flew it is exactly like the simulator and we couldn't be happier about the

00:31:38 performance of the vehicle what do you guys hope to accomplish in your time on international space station well while we're on board the space station of course with the new spacecraft we do hope to put her through her paces and so the good ship endeavor is going to get a lot of a check out over the next week or two here and hopefully we'll be able to

00:32:02 declare her operational and doug and i will be able to take some burden off of chris and his crewmates ivan and anatoly so that we can keep the space station operating at its a peak possibilities so we're looking forward to contributing any way that we can and like i said trying to keep space station as productive as possible

00:32:26 as a country we're in the midst of a tough week we're seeing protests we're seeing a lot of anger we're seeing violence and i have to say this launch and y'all's docking is is is a powerful inspiration of what we can do when we come together of the power of unity uh the power of ingenuity

00:32:47 and and so i guess the last question i would ask you is is since you have the opportunity to address in particular all the young people in america what would you tell them in terms of what we can do when we can come together you know that's a great question nine years ago just about exactly nine years ago we

00:33:09 docked with atlantis on sts-135 the last flight of the space shuttle program a 30-year program and folks at spacex folks at nasa the commercial crew program put their heads together and worked diligently year after year making sacrifices working hard and then nine years later american launch capability was restored

00:33:35 and this is just one one effort that we can show for the ages in this dark time that we've had over the past several months to kind of inspire especially the young people in the united states to to reach for these lofty goals and work hard and look what you can accomplish thank you senator cruz we have another

00:34:01 very special guest here that represents the johnson space center and of course it's my my good friend from the house of representatives dr brian babin thank you so great to be with you guys it i was at the launch yesterday i just want to say a a huge congratulations and uh

00:34:22 you know there was a thunderstorm that blew in about 30 minutes or 45 minutes or so before liftoff and uh it was in doubt there for a minute but it was a just an enormous achievement i just want to say thank you for you guys uh really appreciate

00:34:43 uh what you're doing for america and uh the crew that's already been up there chris and your uh your two fellow russians uh what a to give you a great big thank you as well i have a son who is a navy seal and i want to thank you for your service there too chris and uh also uh i would like to just see what what uh what i i know you've said that that the

00:35:08 the the craft the dragon handled very well but i want to see how it compares uh with uh with the space shuttle well thank you sir it certainly has been a a long endeavor for for us and our our nameship uh namesake spacecraft we're proud to have her on board the international space

00:35:29 station after all that the teams around the country and across america have done to to get us here today as far as a comparison with the space shuttle uh both doug and i took a few minutes while we were accomplishing the approach and docking to in our spare time talk a little bit about it we were surprised a little bit at uh how smooth things were off the pad the space

00:35:53 shuttle is a pretty rough ride heading into orbit with the solid rocket boosters and our expectation was as we continued with the flight into second stage that things would uh basically get a lot smoother than the space shuttle did but uh dragon was uh huffing and puffing all the way into orbit and we were definitely driving or riding a dragon all the way

00:36:17 up and so uh it was not quite the same ride the smooth ride as the space shuttle was up to mikko a little bit less g's but a little bit more alive is probably the best way i would describe it i'm going to turn it over for a second to my deputy jim morhard who's been a great deputy at nasa gentlemen

00:36:39 congratulations you know jim's mentioned going to the moon and yesterday and today one you've inspired the artemis generation which is our next generation and that's what this is about it's really bringing the children that we've got and our

00:36:58 grandchildren forward so they'll be the ones that are going into deep space this is the dawn of a new era and we just thank you for being at the beginning of it thank you so much uh it was absolutely our pleasure uh but it's just the huge team effort across the board from spacex to nasa that made this all happen we were just the lucky guys that got to fly the rocket

00:37:27 yesterday i have a question for chris cassidy um you know our crew here decided to to to be about three days late um you got to work them overtime i presume now to get them caught up on all the activities that they missed out on any plans for them well the day they missed out on was a

00:37:48 good one for them to skip it was saturday house cleaning and uh and i but i took care of it for him we'll catch up next next weekend uh but in all seriousness we've got a few things to take care of tonight make sure we're all safe and we know the plan in case something bad happens uh and then we're looking forward to some operational stuff later in the month

00:38:07 maybe we'll get outside and do some space walks uh and our efforts in the in these coming weeks will will be in that effort so we're we're all super excited to have two more crewmates to the expedition 63 team awesome and of course uh here in houston this is the home of the astronaut office and the the johnson space center is led

00:38:28 by mark guyer and i'm going to turn it over to mark for a few comments thank you jim hey it's great to see all of you there good to see you bob and doug i know we we talked a few days ago you look a little taller than i remember you and uh but i also want to thank also i want to thank anatoly and iman uh and of course chris for what you guys have been

00:38:51 doing uh since you all arrived and i know there's been a ton to do and you've been really busy and i appreciate that so i also like this visual of our international partnership we have had a tremendous partnership with ross cosmos and we will continue to do so and uh but i do it is nice to see crew arrive from this side of the space

00:39:14 station so that was pretty cool after nine years i did have one question for chris though what might you do to ensure that bob and doug stay longer do you have any strategy there well we'll slow down the rate of which i'm eating food and maybe we can stretch out our our consumables a little bit but uh

00:39:35 uh that's a great question we'll have to come up with some conniving scheme here in the next few days and of course mark guyer has an amazing deputy vanessa weiss if you'd like to come and say a few words thank you jim hi guys you look really good i just want to say on behalf of everybody here we just want

00:39:57 to thank you it was an amazing launch and we we love seeing the docking you guys all look really good uh just thank you for all that you're doing and we can't wait for you to to return but not too soon station wants you to get a lot of work done so looking forward to all of that but thank you and god bless

00:40:19 thank you vanessa we appreciate that all right we also have with with us steve jerzik who is the associate administrator for the agency for people who don't know what that is that of course is the chief operating officer of the agency but he also ran the flight readiness review for this mission he did a really an amazing job and and i can't say enough about his

00:40:44 leadership at the agency steve if you'd like to say a few words ask a few questions hey guys it is just great to see you all on the station i can't tell you how um i was i my adrenaline shut down uh when you guys opened the hatch i mean i just been on edge ever since ever since yesterday and the weather cleared

00:41:06 i can't tell you how great it's been to see you on station um it has been a team effort um i felt like the last two years i've kind of been part of the team uh working through issues you know and it's been a heck of a year and a half with uh you know demo one and uh and then flight a board test and working through issues like parachutes and

00:41:26 the escape system and i just could not be more proud of the team for for getting to this point um it's amazing and uh and you obviously been part of that i really appreciate you all showing up in washington dc at our reviews and because the last thing we do with those rules is look at you all because you guys are the risk takers and make sure you're okay with where we are

00:41:48 and where we're headed so i really really appreciate that i really appreciate your active participation in that and uh i could not be more like i said more proud of the team and uh congratulations and it is awesome to see you guys on station well thank you sir we're just uh proud to be a part of the team that got to

00:42:05 bring a space flight back to the florida coast i appreciated the comment earlier that it was nice to uh see a vehicle come to the forward portion of the space station but i'll tell you what that's the only way doug and i know how to do it so uh thanks the team for uh providing it to happen our way we we appreciate that

00:42:24 um i just want you to know that the president came to the launch and the vice president came to the launch about half the cabinet was at the launch we had members of congress and members of the senate from both sides of the aisle and this was an amazing moment of of unity for the nation it was an amazing

00:42:45 moment for the whole world uh to to look up uh in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and some other challenges uh we were able to have this very very special moment where we could all look at the future and say that things are going to be brighter tomorrow than they are today and you um and the nasa team and the spacex team gave us that opportunity and

00:43:07 for that we are so so grateful i would also be remiss as the nasa administrator if i didn't promote what comes next and of course this is the beginning we are now launching to low earth orbit again but we will soon be going to the moon we will be going to the moon sustainably with commercial partners and international partners we're going to use the resources of the

00:43:29 moon to learn how to live and work for long periods of time ultimately we're going to take all of that knowledge and we're going to go to mars and of course this time when we go to the moon we go with a very diverse highly qualified astronaut corps that includes women which is why we call the program artemis named after the twin sister of apollo and she in greek

00:43:51 mythology was the goddess of the moon this is the beginning there is so so so much more to come and i'm glad that our representatives of the johnson space center are here because we're going to be asking them to fund this project and uh and what an amazing day that you guys have given us so uh thank you thank you thank you from not just me and the people here but from

00:44:15 the united states of america and people all around the world um i'm more popular on twitter than i've ever been and it's because of you guys thank you [Music] you

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