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| SpaceX has successfully launched a mission carrying four crew members to the International Space Station from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. | ||
| This is about 15 minutes. | ||
| As we mentioned earlier, that mist forming around the outside of Falcon 9 is totally normal. | ||
| That's just some of that. | ||
| Stage 1, LOX load complete. | ||
| Some of that liquid oxygen that has now been fully loaded on board to stage one, venting out into the warm Florida air and condensing into clouds. | ||
| So we continue to check off events here in the last minutes of the countdown. | ||
| Dragon is in terminal count and is on internal power. | ||
| And the confirmation a minute ago, we started the move into transition. | ||
| And there on the left side of the screen and the right, you can see some of the watch parties, Paul. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| On our left side of the screen, you can see the school in India. | ||
| And then the right side of the screen is the planetarium in Poland with students and fans of this crew cheering on what's about to be a momentous moment. | ||
| That good in the planetarium. | ||
| I'm keeping it dark in there for them. | ||
| Okay, we're waiting to hear the confirmation that second stage LOX load is complete. | ||
| That should be coming up momentarily. | ||
| Stage two, LOX load complete. | ||
| There's that confirmation from Mission Control right on schedule. | ||
| So the next major visual milestone we're likely to have from the outside of the spacecraft is going to be venting. | ||
| Auto idle. | ||
| Confirmation there from Mission Control that we are in auto-idle on board Dragon in that final minute and a half before launch. | ||
| Now we are expecting gas closeouts to be followed by some loud venting and we're likely to see a larger cloud of liquid oxygen. | ||
| Closeout has started. | ||
| Expect cloud venting. | ||
| There's instructions to the crew also right on schedule. | ||
| And a great nighttime shot of Dragon sitting there at Historic Launch Complex 39A with the AX-4 crew safely tucked inside with just over a minute to go until liftoff. | ||
| Seated left to right inside Dragon from this camera's perspective. | ||
| You have Tibor Capu there on the left-hand side. | ||
| Then beside him is our pilot, Shubanshu Shukla. | ||
| Then to the other side. | ||
| Is Commander Peggy Whitson? | ||
| And then Farm. | ||
| On the far side is Swavos Uznansky Vishnevsky of ESA. | ||
| Dragon, SpaceX, go for launch. | ||
| AX-4 is go for launch. | ||
| That is great news for Mission Control and from our crew on board Dragon. | ||
| With that, we are just at T-minus 30 seconds to lift off of ax4 Let's go. | ||
| Ax4, 15 seconds. | ||
| T minus 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2, 1 for three nations. | ||
| A new chapter in space takes flight. | ||
| You've got speed X4. | ||
| Two plus 30 seconds into flight with the Axiom 4 crew on board Dragon headed to the International Space Station. | ||
| Waiting to hear call outs from the Falcon 9 engineering team. | ||
| team. | ||
| Power telemetry, nominal stage one, Torto. | ||
| We're throttling down the nine Merlin engines. | ||
| We're into the throttle bucket preparing for max q. | ||
| Max q vehicle is supersonic. | ||
| we should begin throttling the merlin engines back up now Stage one, Torload mission control, confirming stage one. | ||
| Bravo, that throttle up. | ||
| And we are hearing our commander, Peggy Whitson, call out the first abort mode. | ||
| Each of these are a specific phase where if, for any reason, we had an in-flight dragon, would would abort to a safe location. | ||
| So we're going to call out each of those milestones as we pass through them. | ||
| We also just heard the call out for mvac chill. | ||
| We're going to trickle just a little bit of liquid oxygen now into the turbo pumps onboard our Merlin vacuum engine on stage two, in preparation for second engine start one, which will of course be shortly after stage separation. | ||
| now at this point we are just about 30 seconds away from four events that are going to happen in rapid succession the first one will be main engine cutoff or miko then again followed by stage separation ignition of that second stage engine which we are already preparing for as well as the first stages boost back burn with that confirmation from mission control that we are throttling the first stage engines down we are expecting miko at t plus two minutes and 26 seconds | ||
| miko stage preparation from stage one boost back startup there we had confirmation of all four of those events Incredible views on our screen here too, as that boost back, as that first stage boosts its way back to earth. | ||
| Stage two, alpha and confirmation from our commander that we have entered the two alpha abort mode. | ||
| Of course we're getting lots of cheers from behind us here at mission control here in Hawthorne California, as well, and at this point our Ax4 crew is on their way to space. | ||
| The view you have on your screen right now is our Mvac engine burning. | ||
| For that second engine, first burn. | ||
| We're expecting that seco here. | ||
| Second engine cutoff, which will likely be called out over the nets as seco in just a couple of minutes. | ||
| Stage one boost back shutdown. | ||
| Confirmation that the boost back burn on our first stage booster is now complete and the booster is heading back toward the Florida coast to attempt a landing at LZ-1. | ||
| At this point, stage one is actually still coasting to apogee. | ||
| We're about to deploy those grid fins so that we can steer the vehicle as it enters the Earth's atmosphere. | ||
| SpaceX, nominal trajectory. | ||
| And that call out from Mission Control meetings. | ||
| Stage copies, nominal trajectory. | ||
| Everything is right on track. | ||
| T plus four minutes, everything continuing to go well, and we've got our first view of the crew. | ||
| They're inside Dragon. | ||
| Second stage continuing to fire. | ||
| Right now, second stage, just a little bit more than 1G. | ||
| There's so much propellant that even with a 220,000-pound thrust engine, takes a while before the G-loads start to build up during the second stage flight. | ||
| Meanwhile, first stage continuing to coast up to apogee, and actually now, as you can see on the bottom left of your monitors, we have begun coming back down. | ||
| It takes a couple minutes to go up, couple minutes to come back down. | ||
| That first stage heading back to landing zone one at Cape Canaveral. | ||
| Dragon SpaceX, nominal trajectory. | ||
| Words we love to hear. | ||
| Dragon copies, nominal trajectory. | ||
| Haggie Witson echoing back the call up from the ground. | ||
| Our next major event coming up will be in about a minute and 10 seconds. | ||
| That's going to be the entry burn. | ||
| That's where we're going to light a single center engine on the first stage. | ||
| That's going to slow us down in preparation for entering the Earth's atmosphere again. | ||
| We'll then have a landing burn about a minute later at T plus seven minutes and 19 seconds. | ||
| Now for that one, we actually light three engines again. | ||
| Then quickly we'll, once we've kind of jammed the brakes on, then we'll turn off two of the engines. | ||
| We'll be down to just a single engine. | ||
| Getting good views of the MVACD engine. | ||
| There are a couple of cameras on the back of the second stage that give these views. | ||
| And of course, the view inside the Dragon spacecraft showing the crew. | ||
| Dragon SpaceX nominal trajectory. | ||
| Continuing the call-outs right on top. | ||
| Dragon copies, nominal trajectory. | ||
| Now, right now, as Ronnie pointed out, the grid fins have been deployed, but they're not being used. | ||
| Right before the entry burn, we'll possibly see a little bit of motion if we can pick up the first stage camera. | ||
| That's just a checkout. | ||
| It's not until we actually get through the entry burn that we get back in the atmosphere. | ||
| And now here is entry burn call out. | ||
| This is going to be about a 12-second burn that's going to slow the vehicle down. | ||
| You can watch that. | ||
| There, you just saw on the left-hand side of your screen that first stage entry burn shutdown. | ||
| Right now on your screen, we've got great views of our second stage ending our AX4 crew to orbit. | ||
| The next milestone for our first stage is going to be the landing burn, where we'll relight just the center engine, as John mentioned. | ||
| Dragon SpaceX nominal trajectory. | ||
| Again, things we love to hear. | ||
| Stage one FTS. | ||
| Dragon Copy, nominal trajectory. | ||
| Continuing to get good communication from our crew on board Dragon. | ||
| Stage one Transonic. | ||
| Confirmation that Stage One is now transonic on its way back to LZ1, which is just about nine miles away from our liftoff location today. | ||
| LZ-1, of course, is the site of the first successful landing attempt, and hopefully it will be the second time that this particular booster sticks its landing. | ||
| Seeing those actuating of the grid fins that John mentioned. | ||
| Stage one landing lake deploy. | ||
| Stage two FTSS saved. | ||
| Stage one landing confirmed. | ||
| That was a picture-perfect landing. | ||
| That was great. | ||
| absolutely stunning. | ||
| So coming up next for our crew, now that we've confirmed that booster touchdown is going to be second engine cutoff, also called out as SECO. | ||
| Then the second stage will coast for a few minutes until Dragon is commanded to separate from the second stage. | ||
| There's our AX-4 crew awaiting that Seco call-out here. | ||
| Stage 2 is in terminal guidance. | ||
| Good, continued burn from our second stage engine there. | ||
| Now, at this point, our crew is experiencing about three Gs in the lead-up to Seco 1, which, of course, will be their first taste of microgravity. | ||
| SpaceX Dragon, Shannon. | ||
| There's confirmation of the Shannon abort mode. | ||
| MVAC shutdown. | ||
| Nominal orbit insertion. | ||
| Nominal orbital insertion, SpaceX and we had an incredible ride uphill, and now we'd like to set our course for the International Space Station aboard the newest member of the Dragon fleet, our spacecraft named Grace. | ||
| Grace is more than a name. | ||
| It reflects the elegance with which we move through space against the backdrop of Earth. | ||
| It speaks to the refinement of our mission, the harmony of science and spirit, and the unmerited favor we carry with humility. | ||
| Grace reminds us that space flight is not just a feat of engineering, but an act of goodwill. | ||
| Benefit of every human everywhere. | ||
| How are you, sir? | ||
| 10 minutes in the flight. | ||
| This is not a long journey from the international space station. | ||
| It is a small program of human space. | ||
| I told you all in the space station will become a poster of the person. | ||
| Don't want to fuck you. | ||
| Don't even bring excitement ever. | ||
| That we will get us through the human space program of human space. | ||
| Good day. | ||
| Good day. | ||
| Dear Polans and Polans. | ||
| Today we are going to take a big step towards the technological future. | ||
| of Poland. | ||
| Poland based on knowledge, knowledge and vision. | ||
| The mission will be the beginning of the epoch, in which our power and power are now modern Poland. | ||
| For us and for all the people. | ||
| The cosmos is always one of the people. | ||
| I am today a part of each of you. | ||
| Your strength, your hope, your faith. | ||
| I am not alone. | ||
| I represent all of you. | ||
| I thank you for your faith. | ||
| The cosmos for all. | ||
| Space for everyone. | ||
| And with that, over to YouTube. | ||
| We are | ||
| getting some views inside of the newly named capsule that the crew announced today. | ||
| On behalf of the entire SpaceX launch team, thank you. | ||
| It's been a privilege to work with you so far, and we're excited for you to have a safe flight and a safe return home. | ||
| Good things come to those who wait. | ||
| Godspeed to the maiden crew of Grace. | ||
| And we thank you all as well. | ||
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