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Welcome to our live coverage of Space six's demo.

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Dragon has performed its final departure Burns from the international space station and is on its way back home to US Chase Mission actually began back on March 2nd when Dragon launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Following that successful launch, Dragon arrived at the space station and docked with the orbiting lab.

On March 3rd, Dragons returned to Earth will mark the third completion of Space X's first demonstration mission for NASA's commercial crew program.

While there are no astronauts onboard Dragon today, this demonstration mission represents an important milestone as we approach our first crewed mission later this year.

Earlier today, Dragon powered up from sleep mode and began its departure procedures and system checks.

That's right.

Then the spacecraft autonomously undocked from the International Space station at 11:32 p.m. Pacific time just yesterday on March 7th.

Pretty sure it's March 8th now we've been here all night, and then it began a series of departure burns to move away from the station.

We're gonna be bringing you live coverage of the rest of the mission in the moment that dragon jettisons its trunk to the de orbit burn all the way that splash down, which we're targeting for 5:45 a.m. Pacific time with Dragon scheduled to splash down about 230 statute miles east of Kennedy Space Center.

One interesting historical note for you real quick.

It's actually been nearly 50 years to the day since Apollo nine is the last spacecraft built for humans.

Just splashed down in the Atlantic.

It completed its mission back on March 13th 1969.

So a pretty big day in a pretty big historical note here, unfortunately, due to a communications blackout when I could be able to show you every step of dragons journey home.

But we're gonna be bringing you live status updates as it goes through the phase of things like your bitch burn and the trunk separation.

And we've been getting pretty great views from the recovery ships out there, so we should have good use of dragon as it comes down towards the water Now, in this next phase of the mission, Dragon has a series of steps that complete before it returns home, First Dragon will jettison its trunk.

Like Dan just said, Which is the cylindrical unpressurized part of the spacecraft?

We do this as the trunk is no longer needed to complete the mission.

Yeah, that's gonna be coming up in about 15 minutes or so.

Like we said, we can't show every part of this for the mission, but we are gonna be listening to the flight control teams.

Can we have one here?

Right behind us and Hawthorne.

And they're the ones basically monitoring all dragon systems just like they've been doing since it lifted off six days ago.

It's flown by so far.

It really has.

We're gonna be listening in and giving you the updates as they come in.

Now, if you've been watched following along so far this morning, you might have seen us on the earlier Webcast last night.

This morning it's hard to tell what time of day it is at this point.

But you saw Dragon complete of a series of burns.

There were a number of departure burns away from the International space station that dragging completed, which allowed the spacecraft to move further and further away from the station in a series of choreographed maneuvers.

Everything went really well, and like we said now, we're just awaiting for that trunk separation on Dhe.

After that, we'll have a pretty exciting de orbit burn and a splash down, so we're looking forward to all that at this point.

The Dragon Spacecraft is well below the international space station and quite a few kilometers ahead of it at this point.

And that's just to make sure once that trunk separated, it's not on the same orbital plane, basically, as the international space station is.

So that will be the next major milestone coming up and then that de orbit burn, which will go through all those times in just a little bit.

But it's gonna be about a 15 minute firing of those throats, those thrusters on Dragon, and that's just basically gonna take it out of orbit.

So it's gonna fire the thrusters until that trajectory is basically pointing it right back down in the ocean in the Atlantic, where we're landing a spacecraft built for humans for the first time in 50 years.

This is gonna be really exciting morning, and like I said, we'll be bringing you some pretty great views.

The sun is up already over on the East Coast, so we'll have a nice day time splashdown.

As someone who has seen this specific vehicle get built over the last couple of years, it's pretty incredible, too.

Like I mentioned earlier in today's Web, Castillo actually see the astronauts on board the International space station, floating in it out of the capsule as they were opening the hatch.

And that was very exciting.

And then, upon the departure, burns earlier to see the imagery from the station.

As Dragon was leaving, it was just incredible.

We had some amazing shots, and we've seen the artistic renderings for a couple of years now, what it would look like when Dragon was on station and to finally see it.

I was just a wonderful moment in terms of those of us that have had so many hours put into this spacecraft.

It almost didn't look, really, Yeah, yeah, when I actually saw it flying out there.

But I mean, since since it's a part of that happened early in the crew's day onboard the space station, so they've since moved on to a bunch of other tests.

They actually woke up about an hour before her dragon on doctors.

They're operating on Greenwich Mean Time so early in the morning for them.

But they did offer some great words as Dragon undocked and flew away.

Once it was outside of the approach of lip sorts, about a kilometer or so away from the International space station and his Kate said it executed all of its departure burns and executed for departure burns following that initial separation, basically taking it out in front and then up around, and then finally out beneath three International Space Station, where it's now on its orbit, awaiting this trunk separation and eventually the de orbit burn.

So in terms of space X history, this demonstration mission is incredibly important, as it's like I said, the demonstration of our crew program, interestingly enough, the Dragon spacecraft that's hanging behind me here and Hawthorne, California Space six headquarters is similarly the same demonstration mission of our cargo program that we've been operating for NASA for the last couple of years in terms of the cargo resupply missions to the International space station.

So who knows if the demo one capsule will also be hanging behind us here in a Hawthorne?

I don't think we have the structural support for that.

But in terms of what you see behind me, it's similar in terms of historical referencing for the importance of today's mission.

And that capsule actually already has another mission on the books for it.

Space X is planning to use it in their asset abort test, coming a little bit later this year.

That'll be between Demo one, which we're about to wrap up today, and demo to which will be the first flight that we actually have.

Our astronauts onboard that spacecraft Bob Banking and Doug Hurley, the two NASA astronauts, will be the 1st 1 to take Dragon into space in the ass on a board that will be a pretty cool test.

I wouldn't want to be involved with thinks that's a lot of G forces, but it'll be really, really important for us to be able to demonstrate the ability for the capsule to leave the vehicle in an urgent need to do so.

So we're all looking forward to that that test flight as it's also something we've been working towards for the last couple of years.

And yeah, that should be coming up in a couple of months here.

Yeah, and that'll be.

That'll be the second before you guys have done because you did a paddleboard test already with Dragon Spacecraft.

So basically just really putting the vehicle through all of the faces, All these different abort test missions like this one right now, all ultimately with that goal of sending humans to the international space station Onek drag something else really interesting about the today's mission and, in fact, the the commercial crew program going forward in terms of space, actors approach to landing the capsules.

We are landing them in the in the Atlantic like we mentioned earlier, where, as the commercial exists, that cargo resupply Mission Dragon capsule pack capsules have all landed in the Pacific.

So today is really exciting.

We're really pumped to bring you footage of our recovery team as we pull Dragon out of the Atlantic Ocean.

It's a it's a lot of firsts today.

It's been a lot.

It's a lot been a lot of firsts all week and to say the adrenaline has been pumping around here is an understatement.

Yeah, we even I mean, we even had a crowd earlier this morning behind us gathered down at the control.

And there's even more now.

Yeah, now, Now it's well, it's 4 30 in the morning here on the West Coast, but the crowd is already starting together here at Space X headquarters.

But interesting.

No, yeah, normally, those cargo dragons landing over in the Pacific on While this vehicle ultimately designed for crew, it's also carrying some cargo carried about £400 of cargo up to the International space station, and it's been packed with a little over £300 for the return trip home.

And that's broken out across a couple of different areas.

One of the more interesting ones and one of the ones NASA's really keen on is it's bringing back where we call utilization.

So some science, and it actually has to bags basically like coolers on board that are packed with these cold bricks that were able to put science samples.

And so the ones that are coming back home today, using some of the human research projects on board the International space station is way like to say the astronauts are experiments themselves who was poking and prodding while they're up there just to see how the human body changes in reacts in micro gravity.

And a lot of the samples from a couple of those projects are coming home on Dragon today, also bringing home a couple of radiation monitors.

And one thing that our program manager, Kirk Charm, and for the space station program noted.

It's also gonna have a fan pump separator on it.

That's actually a piece.

It's a piece of the space suits, the emu's of the extravehicular mobility units.

I'm from NASA.

Way too many acronyms on.

It's a piece that actually failed on orbit sometime back, bringing it home to take a look at it since replaces a spare unit.

We do have some space.

Mark's coming up in March so very busy time in space right now.

But right now kind of all focused.

I'm watching this dragon come home.

So the next milestone that we have coming up in about seven minutes eyes the trunk separation.

We will take a break for a few minutes while we await that.

So stay tuned and we'll see you in a couple e.

So right now we're waiting to hear for that trunk separation again.

We are expecting to get that call just on the internal nets.

Any moment now.

That'll be the next major milestone.

Then we'll be on to de orbit.

Burn.

Exactly.

So we should have that call out any minute now.

A cz we await for trunk separation.

This is the last thing that dragon has to do before it is able to re enter the Earth's atmosphere and splash down in the Atlantic Ocean.

That's right, the trump not coming home, but the rest of the dragon capsule.

The more important part is gonna be coming home by the other stuff that Dragon's gonna do before does that final reentry is close that nose cone, and we'll get to a little bit of that soon.

But basically, that nose cone's going to protect that top part of the Dragon spacecraft, the docking adapter and also the guidance and navigation and control sensors.

So that's one of the last major milestones.

That's another kind of departure from the cargo dragon, which that nose cone gets jettisoned, uh, during the launch during the launch phase, but with crude dragging, keeping the nose going all the way through it helps in the actual reusability of the crew dragon for future missions.

Now, that trunk section is unpressurized, and we are able to use it to transport cargo on the way up to the international space station.

But everything that comes back from station is put into the pressurized section so way are able to jettison that trunk as it's no longer needed and were able to shed that extra weight.

And I think we just heard Trump separation.

All right.

So hopefully we'll be able to bring you visual here shortly.

Actually, no, we're too far away from station at the moment, so yeah, eso next up is gonna be the spacecraft using some forward thrusters to form the de orbit burn.

This is gonna be really major step, because once that deorbit burn happens, you're coming home.

You like you're you're leaving orbit.

You're coming back to Earth.

That's gonna put Dragon on a trajectory for that return.

The burn will last about 15 minutes once it starts, So we're gonna again continue to stand by.

This is kind of the calm before the storm, if you will, where we're just waiting for things to really get into motion Dragons going to pretty soon do that de orbit burn and then following that it only takes about 45 minutes or so until it's in the water down in the Atlantic and ready to get picked up by the team's on the boats out there.

So once again, we're gonna continue to stand by.

We're gonna bring you these updates as they come in by one more milestone down.

Just a few more to go on the dragon's home.

And so again, right now, we're just standing by for this deorbit burn to start.

We are expecting it to start in about a minute or so, and then after that, it's gonna take a little over 15 minutes to complete.

Yeah, so we have already jettison the trunk as you heard us talk about a couple of minutes ago.

That was the last thing Dragon needed to do before it is able to read.

Enter the Earth's atmosphere on Dhe like we said that that will be about a 15 minute burn and then we will have a parachute deployment and splash down after that.

So, like Dan said kind of the calm before the storm, we're gonna have a lot of activity coming up once we do pass through the re entry burn.

But at this point, we should be getting confirmation of the de orbit burn in a couple of seconds here.

That's right.

And once the de orbit burn is complete, it's just about trying to do quick math in my head as I look at everything.

But it's just about 40 minutes or so until Dragon scheduled to be back down in the water.

So it's a pretty quick ride from being in outer space to be in right back down in the ocean.

And we just heard confirmation of the deorbit burn.