Watch SpaceX launch NASA's Crew-11 to the ISS!

[Music] Hi, it's me, Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut. Good morning again. I really hope today we see a launch with, uh, with four humans going to the International Space Station for Crew 11. Uh, for those of you that are just now tuning in, maybe you missed yesterday's launch attempt that had, like, 90, I think it was 85% uh, go for launch, uh, with basically only a 15% chance of weather violation. And of course, you know, the odds sometimes, uh, don't go in your favor. And unfortunately, a thunder cloud went right over top of the launch pad right when they were about to lift off. They were literally within, like, I mean, it was like right there. So at T-minus 1 minute yesterday, they scrubbed. So, uh, boo. But that means we're back at it today again. And hopefully today, unfortunately, today, uh, there's a 60% chance of go, 40% chance of of violation. However, that's only talking kind of like at the launch pad. That violation doesn't always take into effect, um, things like upper level winds or especially downrange abort zone weather, which could be issues today. Um, so, they're keeping an eye on it. They're talking quite a bit. I'm going to kind of just fly through our pre-launch preview in case you're, you know, haven't, uh, didn't see yesterday's and, uh, and in case you're watching this in, you know, retrospect. I just want to keep you informed and and give you kind of the typical run of show and then we'll get caught up here, uh, when they get ready to, uh, arm the abort system. Actually, they might be almost doing that right now. So, let's fly. Wait, I think that's T-minus one hour. So, uh, they might have already done it. Okay. Anyway, let's cut here. Uh, we'll go to the pre-launch preview. Uh, and then we'll catch up on what what's going on. So, again, this is, uh, supposed to be taking off today, hopefully. Weather pending, um, August 1st, 2025. Uh, and as you can see right here in the screen over there, uh, we are T-minus just under an hour. So, uh, crew, the mission for this is Crew 11. The launch provider, this is a SpaceX rocket. Um, it's, uh, specifically it's the, it's a Falcon 9 and this is particularly the B1094-3. So, it's the booster 1094. It's the 94th booster they've made. Uh, the third flight. That's what the -3 means. Uh, and it last flew 37 days ago. So, um, that's actually these days almost a slow turnaround time, but because it's a crew booster, it kind of give it an extra fine-tooth comb there. So, uh, the and this is, uh, the customers for this is NASA, of course. This is a NASA mission with a JAXA astronaut, as well as we still do this this seat swapping with Roscosmos. So there is also a Russian cosmonaut on board and, uh, we'll continue that partnership, I think, as long as the International Space Station, uh, is operational. The launch location, this is taking off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Uh, this is one of two crewed launch pads now there at the Cape. Um, well, two for SpaceX. The Slick 40 is also the other option. Uh, but of course, we have, uh, we have the Starliner launch pad as well for the for Atlas and Vulcan. So there's actually four. And then, yeah, 39B for, uh, SLS and Artemis 2 will be coming up. So there's four crewed launch pads. I didn't even, I I don't know why that's just now hitting me. That's that's, uh, that's a lot. That's, uh, that's, yeah, we haven't seen that since the Apollo program. Really? Okay. Payload mass. It's around, you know, a little probably around 12 tons is about how much the Dragon capsule tends to be. 12 and a half-ish. Uh, where is the spacecraft going? This is going to the International Space Station, uh, which is about 400 km above the Earth at a 51.6 degree inclination. So, uh, 260 miles above the Earth, um, orbiting every 90 minutes. So, they got to, you know, take off right when it's the path of the orbit is over top of the launch pad. And when it's, and sometimes it's, you know, a decent rendezvous. Today actually is a lot shorter rendezvous, uh, because of just the phasing of where the International Space Station is compared to where they are when they launch. So, um, I forget what it is. Was it 14 hours? I already forgot. Uh, but I think it the the new opportunity today is is a lot shorter. I think it's 14 hours instead of 39 like yesterday. So actually, they they'll get to the space station about the same time, which is really interesting. Um, so, okay, the, uh, this will be the 169th orbital launch of 2025. I don't know if we updated this from yesterday because I think there was a Starlink launch last night. 97th SpaceX mission of the year, 94th Falcon 9 mission of the year, 500th Falcon recovery attempt, 537th overall SpaceX mission, 516-day turnaround for Dragon, um, and the sixth flight for Dragon Endeavor. It was originally designed for five, they certified it for six. Um, and then you can see the crew on board here. We have Commander Zena Cardman, who this is her first flight, which is awesome. Uh, she got bumped from Crew 9. Uh, ended up having to broadcast Crew 9 liftoff when it only had two out of the four seats filled. She was supposed to be on two of the seats that were not filled. Um, and so she got bumped and they they had to keep two seats empty for the crew of Boeing Starliner, who was still on the International Space Station and needed a safe ride home. So, uh, yeah, that's awesome. Eventually, finally gets to fly. Uh, we have pilot Mike Frink, who is a veteran astronaut, flown three missions prior. Um, yeah, awesome. He he's been deeply involved with the commercial crew program from the start. Um, then we have, uh, mission specialist Kima Yui, who is, uh, also a veteran, I believe has flown, was it twice? Um, oh, here we go, just once. Flew once before in 2015. So, um, this will be his second flight. That's awesome. And then we also have another rookie here, mission specialist Oleg Platinoff, who, uh, yeah, from Roscosmos. So, we actually have that's our crew here today. And, uh, yeah, let's, I'm going to go ahead and see where we're at here. Okay, they're in the studio. So, I'll take your guys' questions while we wait here for the rest of everything to go on. Hopefully, we learn some new things here and hopefully we find out if if this thing is actually going to go today because this is my last opportunity here today. I'm gone this weekend. So, unless it it moves to next week. Um, yeah, we'll, we'll find out here. So, all right, let's, let's answer. If you guys have, uh, questions, go ahead and just ask them there in the chat. If you if you tag Everyday Astronaut, it pops up in our little queue a little easier. We still pull stuff from everywhere. So, if you have questions, ask them. Uh, and I'm going to start taking questions here. Starting off with Andromeda Aerospace asks, uh, do wider rockets withstand higher winds? So, okay, I need to kind of make sure I know the answer to this, but there's a few things at play. Actually, the the Mercury Atlas and Mercury Redstone is perfect. Not to be Mr. Product Placement here or anything, but, uh, this is about as perfect as example as you can get. They're almost the same height. Like, they're pretty, they're within, you know, 15% of each other's height. Atlas is a lot wider. Um, so the fineness ratio of these two rockets. Technically, the Redstone is a finer rocket than the Atlas because its width to height ratio is is different. So, uh, that means the the ratio between how tall it is versus how wide it is is higher on the Mercury Redstone. Mercury Atlas is not as fine of a rocket and the fineness of a rocket is a very big factor in, uh, basically how like how strong especially bending forces, you know, how, uh, if you think imagine a really, really, really long pole, uh, like say you stacked markers, you know, those markers that can stack end to end to end, let's say you just had two of them or one of them, you know, that bending force is gonna be really strong. You know, you don't have to worry about snapping that one marker. If you stack five of them on top of each, you could literally easily just go, dink, like that, and it just snaps down the middle, right? So, that's that bending force that we're worried about. So, the width of the rocket doesn't necessarily make it stronger to winds, uh, withstand higher winds per se, but it helps if it's a higher or a lower fineness ratio. It can help with some of those bending forces. However, with a wider rocket comes higher, uh, surface area. However, with higher rockets also comes wider rockets also comes larger weight and and larger mass. So a large, huge, huge, huge rocket should be less susceptible to wind forces than say a bottle rocket, right? I mean, obviously, there's just more mass there and it's, uh, more, it takes more energy to move that mass around. So, um, in general, a wider, bigger rocket is going to be less susceptible to wind stuff. One more, one more quick note on that, though. Um, see in the background here, I have the Falcon Heavy in the middle. Falcon Heavy versus a Falcon 9 actually has different wind constraints for ground winds because at the one angle, from this angle, when you're looking straight on, it can, you know, if wind's hitting it straight on like that, it has three times more surface area almost, and so it can get pushed and, you know, be pushed in towards, uh, ground equipment or ground support equipment and have the wind has a higher effect on it versus the other way. Okay. So, if the wind is coming this way, the ground wind is coming, uh, this way where it's all three cores are aligned, uh, it might be able to withstand and take off in higher winds than if the wind is 90 degrees to that where it's hitting all three cores. So, I just thought that's interesting. Um, that's my rant about rocket width. Uh, Patrick, 71 months of membership. I didn't even know we had memberships 71 months ago. How did you even, did you like hack YouTube to make it so you can be a supporter 71 months ago? That's incredible. Thank you very much, Patrick. You got to be one of the longest. I don't think we had memberships much more. I didn't even think we had them five years ago. So, thank you so much, Patrick. Uh, and, uh, hope I hope it's one of those lovely rains, a lovely rainy day in Germany. I I some of those summer rains are are kind of fun where there's just a nice pleasant rain. Let's see here. Um, John Olric, how long will they spend in orbit before rendezvous? I believe. Okay. I I literally just forgot, but I'm pretty sure it's 14 hours. Um, I just read it last night and now I'm I'm pretty sure it's 14 hours. It's a lot shorter than yesterday. It's it's over half as long. It's almost almost will arrive at the same time that they would have yesterday, just happens because of orbital, you know, rendezvous and orbital mechanics. That's just how this opportunity, uh, lines up. So, um, yeah, it's, it's a lot shorter, but I don't, I don't remember. Maybe in in chat, if you guys can remind me, is it 14 hours? Because I don't exactly remember off the top of my head. Um, and I'm kind of just listening here to make sure. Okay, they're just doing kind of stuff, but they're going to start loading prop loading at 42. So around 45 minutes or so, we'll usually hear from launch director who will let us know if they're go for prop load. That's the big thing that we're waiting on is, you know, they load propellant. Once they start loading propellant, uh, then it's it's it's game on, right? So, um, that's if if there's questions in weather and things like that, if they just see there's absolutely no go for the sea states and things like that and the recovery zones, uh, in the case of an abort, then we would know about it at this T-minus 45 minutes or so. So, we're going to listen in around then, but until then, I'll keep answering some questions. Um, thank you so much, Michael, for eight months of membership. Sometimes I go to Epcot and ride Mission: SPACE and pretend I'm a real astronaut. Don't we all? Don't we all sometimes have to do that? Ooh, hold on. I want to hear about this modified Dragon designed to guide the space station through a controlled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. And when the time comes and the International Space Station reaches the end of its orbital life and mission, Dragon will help achieve a safe de-orbit. And another innovation SpaceX is work has been working on is the intravehicular space suits or IVA suits that astronauts wear during Dragon missions. Our team recently made some design upgrades to make the suit easier to get in and out of and to make it easier to incorporate future updates. The new suits have height adjustability built in, so they won't need as much customization as with previous designs. Now you can see the crew right there. The one that's wearing this new suit is astronaut Mike Frink, which is the second one from the left. Today's mission, Frink will be the only one wearing this new suit as the crew 11 pilot. And that said, we expect to see SpaceX's new IVA suit on all astronauts for Crew 12, but astronauts who have previously flown on SpaceX missions still have the option to continue wearing their original suits. And for the Crew 11 astronauts, they are staying comfortable in their suits right now as they prepare for liftoff while the clock continues to roll back. And we'll check in with Ronnie on the status of today's countdown. Thanks so much, Joseph. So, we are coming up on just under 46 minutes to launch, and our teams are carefully moving through our pre-flight process. Next up in the countdown, we're going to hear SpaceX's launch director check in with the team for readiness. And that's readiness both for propellant load and for launch. As mentioned earlier, the Dragon launch team, as well as key NASA launch members, are in the launch and landing control center at SpaceX's Hangar X in Florida. Our launch director will also check in with the Dragon mission director, referred to as MD, and the NASA launch manager to make sure they're ready to move forward as well. Of course, our Crew 11 astronauts right now are on board Dragon waiting to get the green light to stow the crew arm for launch and arm the launch escape system. Got some great shots of our astronauts on the left-hand side of your screen right now. And of course, they are safely tucked inside Dragon on the right-hand side. Once we hear that launch director give the go-ahead, we'll get a great view of that access arm moving away from the spacecraft. So, yep, this is good news. Move. We're going to stand by here and listen in for that final poll and some instructions to our team in that final lead-up to liftoff. One thing they did earlier, the launch director or mission director was calling out that one of the some of the astronauts didn't have their feet down in the proper restraints there. And I think that's because when you come up and start getting ready to arm the abort system, your feet need to be in those straps. And launch is complete. Standby for briefing on control room procedures for all operators at MCCX and Hangar X. Both control rooms will go into lockdown at T-minus 45 minutes and will remain in that state until leases is disarmed. All operators are to remain at their console and maintain a sterile cockpit until MD confirms successful disarming of the launch escape system following orbital insertion or propellant offload in the event of a scrub. For non-urgent no-go conditions, brief the CE or LD and they will approve boarding the count. For urgent issues affecting the safety of the operation, operator shall call hold, hold on the countdown net. Launch control will abort the launch out of sequence immediately and proceed into launch abort. At T-minus 10 seconds, launch control will be hands off and relying on automated abort criteria for the remainder of the count. Operators advise launch director whether structural breakup or fire is imminent or occurring per Dragon manual flight escape rules. Launch control, you may proceed with arming the crew arm for movement. Arming crew arm now. Sweet. Crew arm swinging back in a second, hopefully. So, we just heard those instructions to our team. Again, we're about to see that crew access arm move away from the spacecraft. Armor retraction started starting right now. And with that, propellant loading is going to get underway here in a little bit less than 10 minutes. So with that, let's check back in with Daryl and Nick. And you can see now the crew access arm articulating away from the Dragon Endeavor where our crew of four is inside. That's a beautiful shot there. A big milestone after getting the go from the launch director at SpaceX. A look from inside the crew access arm now. I love that shot. And out over the Space Coast. In this moment in between having the crew access arm rotate away and the arming of the launch escape system, there's a little bumper there where the astronauts, um, will be on their own until that can be armed and then we start tanking the rocket, right? So everything is leading up to crew access arm, adding the propellant, adding the oxidizer, you know, filling those tanks on the rocket. And so what do you need to do to be safe for that? Well, I need to arm the launch escape system, but I don't want to do that when the arm is right next to the capsule. So I need to move the arm away. Now I can arm the launch escape system and then we can start filling the rocket. T-minus 41 minutes and counting here at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. You are go for section six, close visors and arm launch escape system. There we go. Go for section six, closing visors and arm and launch escape system. Now we're talking. Here's a beautiful shot from our helicopter looking west. You can see the formation of cumulus clouds in the area. Weather is a watch item for today. The launch weather officer, Dragon visor closed. Arm launch system copies. The launch weather officer putting it at 60% go for today. The concern is the buildup of cumulus clouds. The ones that you see there building up. There's a lot of moisture in the atmosphere. But although you see those clouds around the pad, notice as we start to circle around to the west and look east, clear skies out over the Atlantic Ocean. So when you look at this picture, Nick, you can certainly understand that even though we have clouds that are building in the area, there's an area that we can find over top of this launch complex that we could potentially system is verified armed. Get clear enough path to launch this rocket. Yeah, you you just need a hole big enough to to launch through. So you don't have to have cloudless skies. You just need clear enough skies. Looking at the east looks way better. A hole would be nice. I think if we think enough positive thoughts here at the launch site, we can create that bubble. I'm working on mine. Me too. And so we've been listening as they walk through the milestones here. Cool. All right. All right. So, the next big milestone will be prop load at T-minus 35 minutes. So, uh, I'll just kind of keep listening here because, um, they're just chilling right now. The launch abort system is armed. They're ready to go. If there's, you know, when they start fueling, they have an escape system, um, in case something would go wrong during the fuel-up process. But 35 minutes, once once the prop starts loading, you know, the the Dragon, the Falcon 9 is just basically, you know, they launch this thing about every two or three days at this point. So, that's a a pretty safe procedure these days and, um, it goes down through the count and it's pretty much no big deal, hopefully. So, uh, let's see here. Uh, this is from Dspree. What are the ideal conditions for thy rocket? I'm guessing you maybe meant the rocket, but I like thy rocket instead. So, uh, ideal conditions, I mean, humidity is not great for rockets. Um, anything that can cause static, uh, electricity is not ideal for a rocket. So flying through thunderhead clouds, um, things like that, uh, are not good. So, yeah, blue skies is pretty ideal, frankly. Um, low humidity is probably not a bad thing either, but you don't typically get either of those things in Florida, but Florida is an ideal location otherwise, uh, considering just the southern latitude and, uh, it's the fact that you have just ocean to the east. Um, you can, and you can even do polar launches from Florida as we've seen in the past couple years by doing a little bit of a dog leg maneuver. It's pretty cool. Um, this is from Eduardo, wants to say, Tim, weird question. What's your favorite part of Starship? I mean, real parts like flaps, engines, heat shields. I I think one of the most interesting things, I'll say, I'll I'll start with interesting. I think the flaps and the heat shields are extremely interesting. The the novel re-entry style of Starship is is, uh, yeah, I think that's probably the most interesting thing. Um, I think the engines though, it's hard to not think that that's my favorite part because I love rocket engines. It's still probably the thing that out of aerospace that I like the most. It's actually the engines because it's kind of the kind of that is the rocket, you know. The rest of it's just a a fuel tank for those engines. Um, and then the payload. So, I don't know. I love I love rocket engines and and Raptor's pretty exceptional. So, um, especially, you know, the full-flow staged combustion cycle, um, is kind of what got me obsessed with all this stuff or one of the things that got me pretty obsessed with this stuff. So, um, I would say the engines. Um, thank you. Weird comment. I'm unfamiliar with that, so I don't want to, uh, I don't want to like publicize it too much, but thank you very much. I'll look into it though for myself. Um, Don wants to know if there is a successor to Crew Dragon, like Crew Dragon 2. Well, technically, don't forget this is already Dragon 2. Um, there's cargo and crew Dragon, but they're both considered Dragon 2. Dragon 1, um, was that kind of simpler capsule shape. It didn't have the cool cowlings over the the abort systems, even though, you know, the cargo has those same cowlings even though it doesn't have, um, Super Draco in there. But I, uh, I don't think that, you know, Dragon, Elon was trying to cancel Dragon earlier this year or whenever that was or last. Oh, we're coming up on it. Um, so I'll just listen in a little bit. But, um, I don't think there's going to be a successor to Dragon. I still personally would love to see a version of Starship that had a dedicated crew capsule that you know could pop out like, um, you know, had an integrated heat shield and all these things and and had a way to be able to abort off the top of the second stage. I would still love that. I think that'd be a nice to have and you could call that something else, but I don't think we'll ever see another crew capsule. Um, let's see here. How many? This is from JC Boy. How many rocket launches have I seen in person? I've only probably seen probably about three dozen or so. Probably around 30 to 35. Um, I don't think I've seen that much more than that. There's a lot more. There's a lot of people that have seen a lot. You know, John Kraus has seen hundreds. Most of the people that live in Florida these days have seen way more launches than I ever have, um, just because of their frequency. But listen, let's listen in quick because we're good. And prop load, load is a launch auto sequence has started. And there we have the signal that the automatic prop loading sequence is underway. All of this prop load that loads the four tanks, the two LOX tanks and the two prop tanks, sequentially is now being done. It's fully automated. Yeah. And highly timed, choreographed so that these super cold liquids don't have an opportunity to boil off too much and cool. Okay, so that's that's a good sign. I like that. I like that we're moving forward. Uh, so they must have enough confidence that and they're going to try. You know, they're always going to try because, you know, you don't want to go, "Oh, the weather looks not ideal right now. Let's just call it." Um, they'll go right up until because things can change right up until the last minute, just like yesterday. The inverse of yesterday can happen where yesterday there was only a 15% chance of violation of, and of course, literally it was trending fine until the very last minute, basically. I mean, it it likely violated it before then, but they had to call it at the 1-minute mark. Um, but it could be this, it could be the inverse of that. It could be like trending like not good and and violation up until the last minute, and they'll see, "Oh, we actually are clear at a 10-mile radius of any, you know, any lightning and things like that," and they could go for it right there, um, at the last minute. And if you don't load the the rocket with full propellant, that is not an option. So, let's see. Let's keep going here. Um, let's see. Dream Machine, my birthday was yesterday. I just wanted a shout out. Love your content. Always high quality and professional. Dream Machine, you're in great, you're in great company there with a July 31st birthday. I One of my best friends, Neil, his birthday was yesterday. Happy yesterday birthday, Neil. And one of my really good, my one of my other best friends, also named Neil, his daughter's birthday is the 31st. So, happy birthday to you as well as my other friends. That's awesome. Um, let's see. Can a rocket launch while raining? Technically, yes. There's nothing about rain, per se. I mean, there might be things like the Space Shuttle didn't want to fly through rain because it could break the heat shield tiles, um, because they were that fragile. But like Soyuz, so when you say can a rocket, I I'll kind of say yes, rockets generally can, but it depends on specifics. So if there's a rocket that has thermal protection or some consideration exposed, you know, like on the outside of the rocket, um, flying through rain might not be a good idea. Um, the, like I said, Soyuz has flown through blizzards and rain. I mean, it it flies through almost everything. They just don't care. So it's like the honey badger of spaceflight. Um, the, uh, yeah, Falcon 9, the big thing is most rain clouds also can be associated with thunder, especially in Florida, and lightning. I mean, sorry, uh, especially in Florida, that is an even bigger concern. So you don't want to launch the rocket when there's lightning because it can, uh, the the carbon and trailed in the exhaust, you know, makes a perfect lightning rod. So as the rocket lifts off, it basically leaves a a trail of carbon that reconnects to the ground and makes for a wonderful conductor for lightning. And so to avoid lightning strikes, they have like a 10-mile rule, 16 kilometers, um, where they don't want any lightning within that a 10-mile radius. And so, um, yeah, they do that just to make sure that they, out of an abundance of caution. So hopefully that answers your question. Kitty Donghue, 62 months of membership. Thank you so much. You also must be near the top of the membership train there. That's incredible. Thank you so much. Um, this is from John Olric. What if they used cryogenic RP-1 as a solid propellant? Thoughts? I well, how would you, how would you move it through the through through the rocket engine? You know, you don't want to use, um, you know, if you, if you, a solid rocket booster by design is just very simple. It's just a canister. You end up with pretty low pressure or low ISP, low specific impulse. Well, kind of, because it's throwing out fairly heavy solid chunks as opposed to lightweight, you know, hydrogen or something. Um, but a lot of the way that the performance of an engine increases is by increasing the pressure inside the the chamber. And in order to do that, you have to have pumps. And if you have pumps, you can't have solid propellants, right? So, um, and I don't think RP-1, RP-1 might be a substance where when it goes into a solid, it actually expands, too. So, that'd be actually really bad as far as energy density. Uh, so it's probably mostly a practicality thing of how do you pump it? Um, and, uh, wouldn't be a good choice as a as a solid because I think it gets really sludgy, too. Like, I think there's a a big state where it's just like kind of mucky and before it turns completely solid. Um, but hopefully that answers that. Uh, what if they used a nuke as fuel? That's the Orion, not the Orion capsule that we all know and love. But the Orion project was this idea to basically just use nukes, like literally light a bomb and it like blasts off and just keeps dropping bombs and has like this, I mean, it's the most, like I literally would think about that when I was in, you know, elementary school of like, what if a rocket just threw bombs out the back, you know, and that's basically what that is. You can also use nuclear as a fuel though in other ways. The the most common and the way that's been the most tested and totally ready to go basically is nuclear thermal. So, um, you can basically just use a reactor as your, that's, you know, heat is energy, energy is heat. Uh, well, heat is energy. Um, and so if you, if you have the heat of a reactor core and you're flowing hydrogen through it, you can make that hydrogen turn into steam, get really high pressures built up, you know, in the in the chamber, and then have it expel out a nozzle just like a regular rocket engine. So instead of a chemical reaction to combust the the propellant, you can just literally warm it up enough to like a steam engine. It's basically a steam engine in space is is how that works. And, um, we there are talks of us reworking, uh, nuclear thermal thermal generated, wait, not RTGs, thermonuclear, there we go, uh, re, uh, reacted, wait, how do you say that? Thermonuclear propulsion, there's a better word for it, but I I'm blanking right now. Uh, Discord, um, but yeah, that, so yes, nukes as a fuel is is a possibility. And there's also, uh, you know, thermonuclear electric propulsion where you basically would use again, a a reactor to just power like a xenon gas or an ion thruster or something like that. Uh, let's see here. This is from Andy Burns. Yeah, we talked about this a good amount yesterday that Australians are trying to launch rockets. How full is the airspace if they are coming out of the southern hemisphere? Um, if they're coming out of, how full is the airspace if they are coming out of the southern hemisphere? Well, I think generally the southern airspace is a lot less busy than where this rocket's flying. I mean, this is one of the busiest air corridors in the world. I think literally, uh, yeah, eastern coast of the United States is like crazy, right? Um, Europe's obviously also very crazy for flights. So, I don't think flying through Austral, you know, flying out of Australian airspace is too much. Um, but I'm a little bit confused. If they're coming out of the southern hemisphere, how full is the airspace if they're coming out of the southern hemisphere? Or are we talking orbital airspace? Like, or how busy is the orbital, um, shell? Like, is there a lot of spacecraft they have to contend with, you know, once in orbit launching from the southern hemisphere? So, don't forget, just because you launch from the southern hemisphere, let's say you're launching at a 50 degree latitude, um, uh, yeah, latitude. Uh, if you're at 50 degrees south and and you're launching due east, you'll end up on a, you know, 45-ish degree angle on an inclination. And you're on the next orbit, like next time around, halfway through your orbit, you'll be at 50 degrees north latitude. So, um, you're, any rocket that launches from here ends up in the southern hemisphere. Any rocket that launches in the southern hemisphere ends up in the northern hemisphere unless you're on an equatorial orbit where you're perfectly orbiting just the equator. That's the only exception. But otherwise, any inclination, even a one-degree inclination, is technically flying through the northern hemisphere and then the southern hemisphere on every orbit. Every 45 minutes, it's going between the two hemispheres. So, um, hopefully that answers, uh, that question. Can't wait to light this candle. Agreed. D or Drake or D Richards. I am ready. T-minus 25 minutes. We're getting close. I really hope it goes off today. That'd be awesome. And thank you so much for your four months of support. You are awesome. Uh, Steve Muny, what are the chances we might see a crew launch from Texas? We already do. Blue Origin. Yeah, New Shepard launches from Texas. Not to orbit, of course. It is suborbital, but we do see crewed launches from Texas to space, only for about four minutes at a time. Uh, but yeah, that's, other, I'm I'm assuming you're more wondering if we'll ever see Starship crewed launches from Texas. I definitely think they want to, um, like I was just talking about earlier, I do I do want to see Starship have some kind of abort system, some kind of capsule on top of the whole rocket or something that makes it, I don't know. I'm I'm just leery about having a vehicle of that kind of complication with, uh, with no secondary abort or no secondary capsule of some kind, you know, to to be able to pull the crew away, um, in case of an emergency. You might argue, you know, Falcon 9 though has been flying unbelievably reliably that maybe the crew statistically at this point would be would be just as safe flying on that as as, you know, the car that drove him to the launch pad, you know? I mean, it's, uh, yeah, pretty crazy. I They haven't had a catastrophic failure of a, let me think about this, of where a payload didn't get to orbit. They've had, they've lost a couple boosters from like an engine shutdown, but I think the last time and besides Amos-6, which was on the launch pad, I mean, you kind of have to factor that in. Before that, it was CRS-7 and that was 2016, 2015, 2015. I mean, it's been a long time and they've flown like 500 times since then. I mean, just statistically, the odds are getting pretty darn good. Um, I don't know if they're good enough to warrant not considering an abort system. I don't think that. I think that's always a good thing. Um, but Starship, it's a little bit different beast. Um, ZEV wants to say, "Okay, question. I recognize why a launch to the ISS is an instantaneous window, so any hold is a scrub, but why do they scrub for the day? Can't they just hold for 90 minutes and catch the ISS on the next orbit?" No. So, good question. The problem is the Earth is spinning. So, actually, let's pretend that this, it's this is not what this would be a 90-degree inclination orbit. This would be a polar orbit. But let's pretend that the International Space Station or that the spacecraft you're trying to rendezvous with is just this bar, right? Uh, the Earth spins, you know, once every 24 hours. So if this takes 90 minutes to orbit, in 90 minutes, the launch pad's over here. Your inclination is way off. So that's what's happening here is the right now we're we're basically 23 minutes away from the from Florida being lined up with the orbit as the Earth is rotating towards that inclination. So, uh, towards that orbit. Now, again, in real life, this orbit would be about 51.6 degrees northeast, but that's what they're waiting for. They're waiting for the orbit to cross. Now, 90 minutes from now, that orbit's going to be over here. So, they have to wait basically 24 hours. Um, if you do it in 12 hours, here's the funny thing. In 12 hours, it'll be coming the opposite way. It'll be coming down 51.6 degrees down the coast this way on a descending node, that's called. So, that's the back side of the orbit. Right now, the problem is there. If they launched on the descending node, they'd fly right through the Bahamas. So, they can't do that yet. I mean, they're starting to do things like that where they're landing in the Bahamas and things like that. Um, but they they aren't able to do that full flight corridor yet. Um, that'd be awesome though. That that could be an option someday. It'd be able to just fly on the southern trajectory, uh, on the descending node. But yeah, for now, it's, you know, that orbit only passes, an orbit like that only passes us twice a day. So, once on the ascending and once on the descending node. Hope that makes sense. Kerbal Space Program again would be a, uh, recommended if if you play that a lot and understand orbital rendezvous and stuff, and especially rendezvous at an inclination. If you were on the equator and this was an equatorial launch, then yeah, you could you could literally rendezvous with it probably every 90 minutes, but that's not the case here. Um, yeah, uh, Archinist, what am I most excited about in the next 24 months? I think Artemis 2 is way up there for me. Really, really, I mean, we're seeing video of it right now. Really excited about that. To see humans go out to the moon again for the first time since 1972. How can you not be excited about that? That's that's awesome. Um, can't wait for that. That's like, yeah, I I I'm all in on that. That's going to be super, super fun. Um, I'm also, I think in the next 24 months, I really hope to be able to see, um, a reused Starship would be awesome. Um, I also think within 24 months, we should see Blue Moon. I think I think we'll see the Mark 1 Blue Moon hopefully land on the moon, which would be awesome because, you know, it's just a good sign of of progress towards humans getting back to the moon in a sustainable manner. Um, I need to say in a sustainable manner because it's it's way different than how we did things for the Apollo program. Um, yeah, Rise Jones, thank you for saying hi. I appreciate that. I am doing well. I love summers. Summer always makes me very happy. I, uh, I try to spend a lot more time outdoors and I think that's really important to have just, you know, some fresh air. I went, I think I walked seven miles yesterday and just need that. You just need that sometimes. All right, let's check in and make sure we're not missing anything. Thank you very much, Daryl and Nick. And right now we're prepared. Complete. And that was going to be the update as that fueling continues to be occurring for the Falcon 9 rocket. As you take a look at it on your screen now, it is a two-stage rocket that is 229 feet tall and getting ready for liftoff in just a little less than 20 minutes. And at launch, it produces more than 1.7 million pounds of thrust. And rockets like Falcon 9 don't use all that thrust just to go straight up. Early in flight, Falcon 9 performs a gravity turn, a smooth pitch maneuver that tilts the rocket sideways to build up horizontal velocity. You may hear this call at about 10 seconds into launch as the vehicle is pitching downrange. Once the first stage completes its portion of the mission, it shuts down and separates. A stage rocket like Falcon 9 sheds the booster to eliminate weight and uncover the Merlin vacuum engine on stage two. To reach orbit, the vehicle needs to go fast, hitting an orbital velocity of about 28,000 kilometers an hour, just to keep from falling back to Earth due to gravity. That's fast enough to lap the Earth in about 90 minutes. And as we mentioned earlier, after stage separation, today's booster will be landing at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, returning to Earth for its third time. The second stage takes over from there, powered by a single Merlin vacuum engine, also known. All right, we've seen this stuff. Let's let's answer a few more questions. And this one makes me happy. Slower, slower thinker says, "The future doesn't involve cleaning the outside of the rocket. My mother would not be happy with all those grubby black marks." So that's funny. They looked into trying to clean it when they, you know, the first time they they landed a booster. They're like, "Wow, this thing is like really dark and what do we do now? All these soot marks and stuff." And they basically found out it's it's actually kind of hard to clean it. And they but they also found out that it doesn't really decrease performance. So, you know, the juice wasn't worth the squeeze, so they say. So they basically just let it get all sooty and and, you know, dark like that, and it just kind of becomes a, you know, almost like bragging rights. The the the darker and more sooty it is, the more times it's flown. Uh, and they're getting up to what is it? Is it 20 times now? Almost 20 times. I've lost track. I've completely lost track, but I think the life leader is right around 20. Is it 19 or 20, or did they break 20 and is that 23 or something? I already forgot. It's crazy. It's absolutely wild. You know, there people were thinking like 10 would be absolutely impossible. Well, first they thought, you know, landing and re-flying would not even be worth it or barely possible, but now, yeah. Um, the height difference between Falcon and Starship towers is pretty insane. Yes, it's, it's, it's wild when you see far away shots of of 39A and the and the tower that supported the Space Shuttle, and then you see the Starship tower next to it. It's, it's, it's absolutely wild. And the big thing too is the tower for Starship though, um, the orbital launch mount is also quite elevated. To the tower needs to be also, it looks a lot, it looks a lot taller because, uh, you know, Starship's tall, 120 meters or so tall, but it's also sitting 30 meters or so off the ground, so the tower needs to be that much taller, you know, roughly roughly about 140 meters is how tall the tower is now. Um, but yeah, it is crazy when you see them in the same shot, and you know, I think we all know, you just, we know that Starship ship is a bigger rocket than Falcon 9. Um, but to actually see it like that on the same screen where you're seeing side by side like that, it can be pretty shocking. Yeah. Let's see here. Uh, Frank from Disney. Cool. Uh, waiting over here in Orlando, just 50 miles away. I love stepping out my front door and watching the human progress firsthand. That's a That is still our watch item. Uh, we are seeing some development in the area. So, this is going to come down to a matter of time. We're going to keep an eye on it and continue marching towards T-0. Um, and we'll see if we manage to thread the clouds today. Okay, Dragon copies. We've got a healthy rocket, healthy Dragon. Weather is continuing to develop. We'll keep going until we can't. And great communications there between the team on the ground and with Crew 11 on board. And that's exactly what we're keeping an eye on is not only the tanking of the rocket and that procedures, but also today's weather. And you heard that update right there. So to continue with our updates and kind of bring us up to speed on what's been going on, let's toss it to our teammate and Ronnie. Thanks so much, Joseph. Um, I can give you a little bit more color than we just heard, but obviously the important things we've heard are that we are still on track for an on-time liftoff today. But we're monitoring lots of different factors as we get closer to liftoff. If everything goes as expected, this is also going to be our last landing at LZ1 today. So, lots of different launch pads, landing sites, staging areas, lots of things in play. But the best news is that both Dragon and Falcon 9 continue to be healthy. You heard us wrap up stage 2 RP-1 loading just after T-minus 20 minutes and stage two liquid oxygen, um, has be will begin here at about or has begun already, excuse me.

We've also heard that call out that the launch escape system is armed. Um, of course, the launch escape system, which we discussed in more detail yesterday, is designed to propel Dragon away from Falcon 9 in the unlikely event of an emergency during launch.

We've also heard from the Eastern Range, which is monitoring keep-out zones among other key flight requirements today. They're continuing to report no issues and they are go to support today's launch, weather depending. Um, so again, as you just heard, weather is a watch item. We're now tracking a 60% chance of violation at our target liftoff time, with isolated showers in the staging area and some clouds building right over the launch pad. You are actually seeing them continue to grow on your screen right now. For now, though, we are go for the sixth mission of Dragon Endeavor. And I want to hand it back over to Sandra for a status update from Houston. Sandra, thanks, Ronnie.

Back here in the International Space Station flight control room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, teams are continuing to work around the clock to monitor activities aboard the orbital outpost. Leading the team inside the room today is NASA flight director Anthony Varyia. The team in Mission Control Houston, the team in Hawthorne, and the astronauts aboard the space station will track the autonomous docking of Dragon Endeavor when they enter joint operations. This will happen when the spacecraft enters the approach ellipsoid, which is the invisible boundary stretching 4x 2x 2 km that helps us monitor all arriving and departing spacecraft. It's essentially the neighborhood of the International Space Station. Once docked, crew members in both Dragon and aboard the International Space Station will perform a series of leak checks, then work to open the spacecraft's hatch for Crew 11 to float into the space station and begin their stay. We anticipate that the hatch will be opened about an hour and a half after docking occurs. And when they enter the orbital outpost, Crew 11 will be greeted by the rest of their Expedition 73 crew and will come together for some opening remarks. For now, that's going to be all for us today here in Mission Control as the anticipation builds for launch in, uh, less than 13 minutes now. So, how's it looking on the Space Coast, Darl?

Well, Sandra, we wish it was looking better. We've just had a downgrade in the weather forecast from 60% go to only 40% go. The launch weather officer informing us that conditions are ripe, and we have even seen the development of cumulus clouds in the area, some that could trigger lightning if a rocket went through them. So this is a very high watch item at this moment. Nick. Yeah, they're watching it. The, you know, everybody is focused on crew safety at this point, making sure that we make the right call. Um, but there's a chance, and I'll stay positive. And you've been positive. I appreciate that about you. You've done that throughout the broadcast. Here's a look from our helicopter flying over the spaceport right now. And this is the formation of the clouds that is a concern because it is so humid out right now, and we've got a sea breeze that is flowing over the warm land. It is just creating this convection around the spaceport. In fact, we are also expecting to go into a phase one lightning alert, which I hate to say it, but just before we scrubbed yesterday, Dick, that phase one lightning alert went into effect. So, uh, things are starting to stack up against us weather-wise. But nonetheless, it's at this point because this is a fully automated fueling sequence, it behooves us to just continue to march to see if anything might just clear at the end. Yeah. So, there's been nothing that happened up to this point to stop the countdown. So, proceed to T-minus zero. I do love that last shot of the rocket where it's kind of getting hit by sunlight, but you see the dramatic clouds in the background. It's just really pretty lighting. It would have been a beautiful shot if it happened to take off at that point with that lighting. I mean, that would have been gorgeous photos for all the people out there. Uh, let's keep answering a few more questions. Well, to see some type of positivity in that moment, but it's certainly something that all eyes are on around the Space Coast to see if this rocket is going to go. Fun little fact down there right where you see that the tallest building kind of near the bottom of the screen, the black one that's around there is where they actually suit up. So that's the, there's a bridge there that goes over to the Cape. That's technically Space Force Station there on the other side of the water towards us, like if, like kind of off behind the back of the camera operator here is the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. So if you ever visited there, that's where you are. And we're right on top of the road basically that takes you out to the launch pad from to our family, friends, all support us at SpaceX, NASA, Jackson, Roscosmos. Thank you for this freedom to explore, resilience to endure. May grace fly alongside this endeavor. Crew 11, from all of us on the ground, we've enjoyed working with you in preparation for your mission. We look forward to continuing to do so in flight. Good luck. Enjoy the ride. Yeah. And Zena, you know, hitting the tone I would expect her to do. She is the consummate professional. Um, this big message of thank you. Yeah. The gratitude, the team focus, freedom, resilience. These are big themes. These are things that are important to her and some great words from her. Let's send it now back out to our commentary team for the final minutes of countdown. Joseph and Okay, final minutes here while they're kind of going back out. We got the rocket on in the shot there. Um, let me answer. I have a few thank yous. I got Judy. Thank you so much for your super chat. Really appreciate that. Uh, Andy Burns, thank you so much also for a very generous donation as well. And Daniel, good to hear you from Daniel. Hey Tim, hope you have been well. Ready for the 2026 Astro Awards. Uh, I think we're still trying to figure out and nail down the date for that. Uh, we are waiting for, do we, we're trying to line up two venues this year so we can actually have like an exhibit space, a big exhibit space, not just a little tiny room. So, we'll actually have a lot of exhibitors coming and we have a lot of companies trying to line up and get in there so you can actually see some cool hardware and things like that, too. So, I'm hoping that Astro Awards, we're, I think we're looking at the third week of January, weekend in January in Austin, Texas. So, mark it in your calendars now or at least put it like pencil it in. Uh, we'll have announcements soon, but um, yeah, can't wait. Astro Awards last year and the year before. Last year was awesome. Year before was really stressful for me, so it wasn't as fun. Last year was just a lot of fun. I really, really enjoyed myself last year. Um, and I think from everyone I heard it was it was also awesome. So, hope you guys can make it. Um, and this is from La Lro. Go SpaceX. Go Dragon. Go Crew 11. Love the content. Thank you so much. Uh, by the way, yes, thank you so much Phoenix. You're right. We looked in Discord here. Upic reminded me that we've seen B1067 is the life leader right now at 29 flights. I guess just it got to the point once it crossed 20, I think it just got to the point where it just went into absurd land and I just forgot about it. Like it's just too hard to, it's in 29 times a single booster has flown. Uh, yeah, that's actually wild. So crazy, crazy times. Um, and I also think this would be a good, I'll wait for a little bit more opportune moment, but there is one thing that I forgot to do today or yesterday. I haven't done it yet today and maybe this is the reason, but we do need to do a pointy end up flaming down tech. And I am a certified rocket orientation specialist. So, from this angle, forget the Starship launchpad that's photobombing the Dragon capsule there. We do have a good shot of the pointy end, though, and it looks like it's got an extra weird point to it. Okay, here we go. They're going to start retracting their but this is a great shot. It is underway. We're looking ahead to the call out that that RP1 load is complete, which just occurred a moment ago, and again prevents that thermal shock. You got to stretch before you can start running, and RP1 is densified kerosene or rocket fuel that will prepare the crew, propel the crew into orbit. And all that RP1 is now fully or about to be fully loaded into the rocket since we're previously heard that the second stage is completed or about to be completed here in just a couple moments. And then while we're still loading liquid oxygen on that first stage and second stages, this is the oxidizer. Soon they'll do the recline of the strongback. So they'll actually let go of the little claw that you kind of see in the shot here and recline to three degrees the strongback. Um, but anyway, yeah, we do have pointy end up flaming down is confirmed. Perfect shot for that pointy end up flaming down. They did get the rocket out there in the right orientation. Um, very good sign. So, they are not pulling a Joe Barnard and they don't have the flaming end up, which I think is a very good sign of things to come. But I, the skies and the weather, it is weird. You can see a really distinct shadow there where a cloud is looming overhead. The rocket's in perfect sunlight, but you can see that cloud just ready to scrub. In the countdown, the transporter erector or TE will begin to retract from Falcon 9. That is the large truss structure you see there standing next to the rocket. It's hinged at the base and connected to the launch mount beneath the first stage. First, the clamps around the second stage will begin to open. Tanks are pressing for strongback retract. And we're hearing good calls. Dragon configur and we're continuing to hear great callouts over the nets. Then the TE will begin to pivot back slowly, swinging away from the rocket, and it will reach full recline in just about a minute. Strongback retract has started, and we are just beginning that strongback retraction process. Um, it's called the strongback. It's also called the TE or transport director. Same structure, different name. The TE does a lot more than just lean. It rolls Falcon 9 out to the pad, raises it vertical, and stays connected through the final seconds. It provides fuel, power, telemetry, and command connections between ground systems and the rocket. Everyone say in your Toy Story voice, the claw. Uh, this is a good question here from Cherries Rosen. Hi. What in what is in the fuel propellant? So, they use liquid oxygen. So that's the oxidizer. And of course, in space, there's no air. So you can't use an air-breathing engine. So you have to bring your own oxygen. So a good amount of this rocket is using just liquid oxygen is a lot of the weight. And RP1, or which is basically a kerosene. Uh, it's actually a more refined version of the same fuel that we put in jets. So, basically jet A fuel, continue to refine it even further, it becomes RP1. So, rocket propellant one. So it's, so we call that combination KeroLOX. So, kerosene and liquid oxygen, otherwise known as KeroLOX. Hope that answers the question. And the liquid oxygen is what you see that's so cold because it's cryogenic. In order to take oxygen and make it cold enough to become a liquid, it becomes really, really cold, like -67 degrees Celsius. And so, you know, sitting in these tanks, these tanks don't have a huge amount of insulation or anything. So, that's why you see when the humidity and the warm air comes in contact with that cold skin, because right on the other side of that, you know, thin aluminum skin, like that, then yeah, you're seeing that humid air come in contact with that really, really cold metal surface. If you went up and touched your hand on it, it would probably likely freeze almost to it, you know, because it's so cold. Um, but yeah, we're looking good here. I mean, they're going for it, but who knows if it's actually going to happen today. Um, before I'm basically going to shut up here at about T-minus one minute and just right before T-minus one minute and listen in in case there's a hold called. Um, but I just wanted to thank you guys for watching with me. I know I don't stream, especially in the summer. I feel like I'm running around so much. I don't always get a chance to stream, but I still love streaming, you know, things like this. And it's good to see everybody here. I do hope you will liked my last video that I put out about, you know, what if you could yeet Starship or Falcon 9 and Electron and all these rockets, running the numbers on using a yeet system to throw it. If you haven't watched it, it's we get really deep and really nerdy. So, give it a watch because it's ridiculous and fun. So, um, thank you for watching. Thanks for all the support. I'm going to listen in now because we're getting close to where we might hear some callouts. That transition to the final countdown is smooth, and all flight computers on board are in sync. Close out. Expect loud venting. Configured for launch. And there's the closeouts we've been talking about, and the venting that will be shortly followed. One minute and 10 seconds to liftoff of NASA SpaceX Crew 11. FTS is armed. Falcon 9 is in startup and is now controlling. Dragon is in countdown. Flight computer is switching to countdown mode now. Dragon, SpaceX, go for launch. Oh, wow. SpaceX, Dragon, go for launch. Holy cow. My clock's about 3 seconds ahead, so I'm fixing that. 30 seconds. Wow. All right, go for launch. Go Crew 11. Go NASA. Go SpaceX. Go Dragon. Go JAXA. Go ROSCOSMOS. Let's go. 15 seconds. T-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Mission is full power and liftoff. Go. Go NASA. Go Crew 11. Together we rise as NASA's SpaceX Crew 11 heads up to the International Space Station. Vehicle pitching down range. 1.7 million pounds of thrust. Propulsion is nominal. Propelling Falcon 9 as the vehicle pitching down range and making its way up the East Coast and will soon join Expedition 73 aboard the orbiting laboratory. So far, getting good callouts on that first stage performance. Oh, what a shot. But come on. Don't listen. We are now T plus 35 seconds into the Crew 11 mission on board Dragon and Falcon 9. Falcon, the Falcon 9 engines, stage one throttle down, are throttling down to help power and telemetry are nominal to help pass through the period of max Q or maximum aerodynamic pressure on the vehicle during ascent. Max Q. We just had max Q right there. Look at that little hole in the clouds. That's probably the reason they're able to launch is they have just a big enough area there to just avoid flying directly through clouds and around the weather systems. 9 seconds into what is a little bit more a 9-minute flight uphill as Dragon continuing. Stage one Bravo. Copy one Bravo. Zena sounds happy. Now one Bravo again. That's the abort zone. That last abort zone for stage one if necessary. The crew already pulling over two G's. The next, we're going to have a couple of events happen in rapid succession. We'll be getting ready for the second stage to warm up and have the second stage MVAC chill. And then we'll also have MECO, or main engine cutoff, where the nine engines on the first stage will cut off ahead of the first and second stages will then be separating from one another. And then the single Merlin vacuum engine on the second stage will ignite and continue to carry Crew 11 to orbit while the first stage begins its journey back to Earth. As we're now a minute and 56 seconds into today's flight, the nine Merlin engines are starting to throttle down and are standing by for MECO, or main engine cutoff. M back chill is started. And we just heard that call out for M back chill. And coming up in under 20 seconds, we have five events happening back to back: MECO, stage one throttle down, stage separation, stage one flip, SCS1, and the start of boost back burn. It's going to be pretty quick, so keep a close eye on the action and the mission event tracker at the bottom of your screen. Stage two alpha, stage separation confirmed, and back ignition. There you see stage one pulling away. Ignition of the lone Merlin vacuum engine for stage two. And again, those happening in quick succession as we continue to get great views of that Florida coastline and the eastern seaboard there as Crew 11 continuing its path to orbit, now approaching 3 minutes into today's flight. Still a little ways to go, about 6 minutes left as they continue to climb their way up and eventually track down the International Space Station. And there you great see you see the Merlin vacuum engine, the second stage on the right-hand side, and great views of the first stage that's making its return to Earth on the left. About 5 and a half minutes of powered flight remaining as we continue to monitor the progress of both vehicles. Stage two and Crew 11 making the climb uphill, and stage one looking to land again at Landing Zone One. The last landing at that location for this Falcon 9 booster. Look at all the ice coming off the booster. That's a cool shot. Dragon SpaceX nominal trajectory. Dragon copy. We are hearing, we're continuing to hear great callouts over the nets that both Dragon and Falcon are right on track to orbit. So, the first stage booster is now on its way to Landing Zone One. And we just saw those grid fins open up on the left-hand side of your screen. That's just ice. The first stage has a couple events ahead of its landing. Stage one will start its entry burn, which will be the second of three burns to return the booster a few miles from its launch site at Landing Zone One. During this entry burn, Falcon 9 will use its engines to pump the brakes to slow the vehicle down before it reaches the denser parts of the Earth's atmosphere. And if more ice, not a UFO on the left screen. Shield that is designed to protect the engines and the vehicle from all that combined thermal and aerodynamic loading during max entry Q, which is the moment of max stress on the vehicle during entry. And that will be followed by a landing burn. And this burn will last. Dragon SpaceX nominal trajectory. Continuing to hear good calls. Great performance calls continue as we're now five minutes into today's flight. Still about eight and a half to go. A little bit more than that as the second stage continuing to perform nominally on the right-hand side. 2400 meters per second. Crew 11 cruising into the upper echelons of the Earth's atmosphere while we continue to monitor the second stage on that left-hand side. And we'll also get continued guidance and navigation callouts from the control officers here in SpaceX. Dragon is pointed in the right direction and continuing its flight. And again, that second stage going to continue firing until close to that 9-minute mark into flight and accelerating Dragon to more than 17,000 mph and placing the crew in orbit. You'll hear good orbital insertion would be that call out. There's the single Merlin vacuum engine that can produce over 220,000 SpaceX nominal trajectory pounds of thrust on that nominal trajectory you're hearing right now. And into the vacuum of space now approaching 6 minutes into today's flight. About 2 minutes and 40 plus seconds remaining. Here's my favorite part. We are coming up on the entry burn, which is just under 30 seconds from now. And so you'll see the first stage's center Merlin engine reignite as it comes back down to Earth. And after that, we will be approaching burn startup. And there is the beginning of entry burn right there. Again, this is the second of three burns to return the booster to landing zone. Shut down. The last time they'll land. Made it through entry burn. And you're getting some great views too on that stage one's return to the Florida coastline. Again, landing at Landing Zone One. While on the right-hand side, the second stage and that Merlin vacuum engine continuing to propel Crew 11 Dragon SpaceX nominal trajectory into orbit, and Dragon copies. And again, great. And now with about 2 minutes left of powered flight remaining, still receiving those great calls from the crew on the ground, and we're getting those relays from Crew 11 commander Zena Carter. Stage one transonic. We are now very quickly approaching the start of our landing burn where three engines, engines 1, 5, and 9 will relight to help slow the vehicle down just before it touches down on Landing Zone One. We should hopefully have some great tracking shots of that. Stage one landing burn. Stage two FTS is saved. Stage one transonic. Let's go. Return there of the stage one booster. Plan our final plan landing at LB1. Another so a successful landing of the first stage booster as we continue to follow along with a little less now than 1 minute of powered flight of the second stage, and you'll hear the call out SECO, or second engine cutoff. Is there glowing orange right when the with the right when the engine shut down, when you see the little flash of tab there at the end, you heard a boom, and I don't think I'm pretty sure that just happened to be the sonic boom lining up with the video. But here we go. They're getting close here. And, um, someone asked, how many G's are they feeling right now? They're experiencing the highest seconds remaining of power flight. If I remember below 4G. I think they're experiencing about 3.8. Copy Shannon. And there's the great call out for Shannon. We talked about earlier, that last abort zone if necessary, where they can land off the coast of Shannon, Ireland. SECO. There we just heard that. Good call for SECO, or second engine cutoff. Sweet. They're in orbit. Coming up next will be stage separation. Dragon SpaceX nominal orbit insertion. And that's the great call you want to hear. Copy. A good look inside the trunk there as you're looking for that separation, but you wanted to hear that nominal orbital insertion as Crew 11 now has reached microgravity. Now, we'll continue to coast for a little bit after after SECO to allow rates and motion from the burn to settle out. I hate to say I got a call out. I hate the word microgravity. I don't think we should use it. We on suborbital launches because there's still, you know, motions and things like that often. But there we go. Hang on. They're in orbit. I'll go as you see Dragon coast into its orbit. And a wonderful view there is Dragon Endeavor with Crew 11 on board. Safe Dragon separation confirmed and safe. Dragon chief engineer on Dragon to ground Mike Kima Oleg. Welcome to orbit. On behalf of the entire Falcon team, we thank you for flying with Falcon today and wish you a great mission. Dragon will take you from here. Over to launch director for a few words. On behalf of the launch team, it's been an absolute honor working with you towards launch today. We wish you well on the rest of your mission and we will be awaiting your safe return. Godspeed Endeavor. Godspeed, Crew 11, and thanks for flying SpaceX. SpaceX Dragon, I have no emotion but joy right now. That was absolutely transcendent. Ride of a lifetime. Thank you. This has been an incredible honor, and it's my privilege now to pass me, uh, pass us along to Mike with some additional awards. Boy, it's great to be back in orbit again. Thank you to SpaceX and NASA to get us here. What a ride. And, uh, Zena and Oleg, let me be the second to welcome you to your first orbit around beautiful planet Earth. Kiman Okayi, welcome back. And to the ISS Expedition 73 team, the crew on board, and our friends in MCC, we're on our way. Over to you, Kim. Okay, thank you very much for everything. Thank you very much, and I'd like for the beginning to say thank you very much, ROS, SpaceX, and NASA for this unique opportunity to be here with my great crew. [Applause] Crew 11, we copy all of your words. We are very excited for you to have reached orbit, and we will now proceed with getting you to the International Space Station. Uh, you have approximately 3 minutes left in this ground station pass if you'd like to introduce your zero G indicator. Let's see it. Almaine, thank you so much. We'll get out our fifth crew member here in just a moment. This review indicator honors a shared memory with our lead trainer Paul Weiss, for all the mentors and team members who got us here through sacrifice of time and dedication. I hope we made you proud today. Thank you so much. We don't get to see it. I want to see it. Some great words there from all four members of Crew 11, and the astronauts and cosmonauts to all that cadre are well on their way to the final destination, which they have about a 16-hour ride to do so, and the phasing to ultimately the International Space Station, where they will turn that group into a full group of 11. So, only fitting for Crew 11. To summarize where we are with vehicle activation, we've had nominal dehumidifier activation and service section Draco checkouts. Currently opening the nose cone, and we have just gotten confirmation that nose cone copies all and will be on ready for advisor's open with ecoigation complete. We just had great comms that nose cone deploy is underway. The six hooks that hold the nose cone in place during the launch and ascent portions have to retract, and then the nose cone will be able to start to swing open and deploy. This uncovers a number of critical systems for the flight up to the space station, including the forward bulkhead thrusters and the docking hatch. And that call from the core here in Hawthorne indicating that we had good checkouts of the 12 Draco thrusters around the service section. Four to go after we get the nose cone open and the ELAS, the environmental control and life support system activated inside Dragon. Soon the crew will be able to get their visors open and get out of their suits and settle in for their ride to the space station. Cool. Well, that's great. I think I'll answer a few more questions and then wrap it up. I didn't even think I'd be able to stream today. I'm supposed I'm leaving town here shortly. So, let me go ahead and answer a few more of these questions for you guys. And again, thank you for watching with me. It always means a lot. Good to see you all here. Um, let me do a quick shout out. Uh, we did, like I said yesterday, we do have $25 off of our new rockets. So, any of our Falcon 9 model rockets, if you wanted to have one of your own metal Falcon 9 model rockets at 100 scale with grid fins and everything, you can get those over at everydayastronaut.com/shop, as well as our brand new Mercury Redstone, Mercury Atlas rockets that are all to the same scale. All these rockets are to the same scale. The Falcon 9, just the upper stage is almost the size of the Mercury Atlas that took John Glenn into orbit. So, we have all of our rockets to the same scale. Look at the look at the Mercury compared to Falcon 9, Mercury or Mercury Redstone compared. I mean, they're that's just the upper stage. Look at like I love seeing these to the same scale. So, we have $25 off of our rockets today. everydayastronaut.com/shop. Use coupon code launch day. All one word, all lowercase. Um, also, we do have new versions, new colorways of the orbital shirt today. These, this crew member, all four of them, Crew 11, went orbital. We have little cheat codes on how fast they're going in low Earth orbit and all the other orbits. Um, but you've seen the black one for a while now. Um, I've secretly had these other two colorways for like a year. We finally do have them in the shop. So, if you want to get that, check those out as well. And new youth tees as well. We have a, I think we have two new youth tees actually now that I think about it. Um, and, so, yeah, people have been asking. Yeah, we finally have a rocket orientation tee, and we still have a few other youth tees. So, if you have kids, people have been asking for more kids shirts. Now we have the orbital shirt and the pointed up flaming and down rocket orientation specialist shirt. So, if you want to help support what I do, head on over to everydayastronaut.com/shop. Shop around. It really helps out a lot and funds all the crazy things we do here and down in Texas and things like that. So, again, $25 off of our model rockets today using coupon code launch day. All one word, all lowercase. So, thank you everybody. Let me answer a few more questions and then get on the road. Uh, let's answer this question. What would happen if lightning hit it? That happened to Apollo 12. It took out a bunch of stuff. It took out a bunch of stuff. Wasn't great, and they had to reset the signal conditioning equipment. But yeah, a lot of stuff got like frazzled, basically. So, um, yeah, definitely definitely not good. You don't want to fly through lightning. It, nothing good will happen from lightning strikes. We'll just put it that way. Uh, this is thank you for the $10 donation from John M. Doesn't SpaceX use methane for engines? Not on Falcon 9. Nope. Falcon 9 still uses KeroLOX. That always will use KeroLOX. The Raptor engine is powered by methane. So, methalox is what's on, is what's on the, which is on Starship. And actually, we should probably, I feel like I never remember to show you guys this, and I feel like no one knows about them, but I wear them almost every day, and you don't get to see it because they're on my feet. But, uh, Hyd have socks that are of the different propellants, our hydrolock socks, methalox, KeroLOX, and hydrolocks. All representing the similar colors to the actual flames that come out of the rocket. So, yeah, these are hilarious. So, get those if you want some socks that are custom dyed. Like they're hand-dyed. They're ridiculous. It's merch is actually really hard to make. Trying to find a company that that can do like, yeah, I don't know. Oh, what was that? Yeah, great call out right there. Dragon top is all good news. And that's what we were waiting for there was that call out to crew. Looking forward in the timeline, you have your first burn up on your forward view. That's the phase burn in approximately 25 minutes. Cool. So, that's just phasing to get lined up. So, they will start to eventually raise the orbits. Uh, so, yeah. So, no methane in Falcon 9, methane only in Starship. Dra, really loved your last video, Tim. Thanks. Well, thank you so much for your super chat and thank you for saying that. I love those kind of videos. I know some of us veteran space people, you know, those of us that are frequent watchers of everything, of every Scott Manley video, of every NSF update, and all these things, we probably know the questions of why you're not, why you don't see like launch assist systems and yeeting rockets off the ground and using the chopsticks. Oh my gosh, I just realized I actually had in my dream last night. Oh my gosh, that's bad. I dreamt that we were watching Flight 9, and that they did literally use the chopsticks as an assist. And I'm sitting there going, "No, don't do that." But I like videos where you run the numbers because it's one thing to like answer it and say, like, you know, it's not really worth it. And then someone go, "But how could it not be worth it? Like it's free, you know, you can just use a catapult. It's right there. You know, you can build up that energy over time using some diesel generators or who cares?" You know, like it seems way more efficient. And then when you run the numbers and you're like, "Yeah, all this extra stuff for like a 3% gain." When 3% can be made up in other ways, that's a lot easier and less complicated and less risky than that. I like videos like that. And I know that it again, it might not always be for all of you veteran aerospace enthusiasts. But I do like making videos like that. The next video will be one for all of us, though. It'll definitely be for the nerdy ones. It would have been perfect for today. I'm making a video about the range. What's the range? I actually am working directly with Space Force on this. So, I'm going inside of the range, which is really weird because the range is like a lot of things. And it kind of confuses me like what is the range? You know, the range is weather. The range is clear of personnel, you know, traffic, marine and air traffic. It's also making sure the rocket's safe and the mission directors that you have the range control officer, you have launch director, mission director, kind of trying to help because even in my head, that stuff is confusing. I've been around this for 10 years now. You know, I've been listening and watching this stuff for 11 years now, actually. And the range, it's like the range is clear. And what? Who says that? What is that? Why? Why are they scrubbing? What are the conditions? So, I'm diving into that. It's a deep dive on the range. And it's actually with, yeah. So, it's actually with the people at the range in Vandenberg. So, it's really cool because I actually talk to like the people that literally push buttons, you know, if something goes wrong and stuff like that. So, um, yeah, the who who pushes the big red button, and that should be the title, like, but sadly that's going away because we have automatic flight termination system, but it's still really fascinating to see how that all works and kind of the decision-making processes. Um, let's see, what is the tin foil like stuff on the second stage? So the tin foil stuff there is a thermal insulator that basically makes it so the heat, because don't forget, the nozzle of this second stage of the vacuum Merlin is niobium, and it actually uses almost every form of cooling you can do. It's not really necessarily heat sink. I mean, there's inherently heat sink to it, but it radiates heat by being a thin metal that literally just radiates heat away. The upper, you know, the chamber is regeneratively cooled. It also has some film cooling where they use the exhaust from the gas generator. You kind of see this snail-looking thing that wraps around the nozzle and pumps what's cooler air or cooler gas into the nozzle. It's cooler than at least what's coming out of the combustion chamber. So, it helps keep the nozzle from melting. Now, anyway, that heat is radiating in all directions. That's why it's glowing red. It's literally radiating heat out there. Even though there's no air, don't forget there's three forms of heat. There's radiation transfer, which is how we get heat from the sun. There's convection, which is the heat you feel in the air, and there's conduction, the heat you feel like when you physically touch something. So, it's just radiating heat, but that could go back and warm up all of the turbo pump machinery. And you have the liquid oxygen inside the turbo pumps that could boil off. And I think that's the biggest concern. I don't think it's necessarily about it going the other way. I don't think you're worried about cold stuff getting out there. I think it's more keeping the heat from the engine, specifically from the nozzle extension, from reaching the turbo machinery. So, um, yeah, hopefully that answers that question. Um, to the best of my knowledge, at least. Um, Javier, our current weather conditions fed into Falcon 9 computers, so it's able to scrub itself. I don't think so. I think it's a manual scrub process. At least, at least it is like with some of the rockets we talked about at Vandenberg. It's a manual scrub process. The computer, I think there's an opportunity with Falcon 9 for the director to confirm go, basically. So, if they don't do anything, I don't think the rocket launches would be my guess. I think there still needs to be a person in the loop to confirm it's good to go. I don't think it would automatically go. I don't know actually, I'll try to get the answer on that. Actually, that's a good question. Um, Mitch, awesome. Good to hear from you. And I'm sadly I'm not at the press site. I am in Iowa. So, don't look for me too hard there. You will not find me, sadly. Very jealous though. Looked like it would have been a really fun launch to watch. Questionable. I, it would have been stressful. I would have been like, I would have thought it was not going to go. Um, Brett Little says, "Thank you for what you do. Here's some tacos and beer money. $50." Thank you so much, Brett. I really appreciate that. I will, I will use that this weekend because, yeah, this weekend I, we planned it like six months ago. I tried to get together with my elementary school friends, even literally some of my best friends since second and first grade. We try to get together once a year, and this year we chose August 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. So, we're getting together. We all fly from wherever we live and wherever we're at and pick a place. This weekend it's actually, we're going to Chicago, close to me. We're all, most of us are in the Midwest now, so it's not a big deal, but really excited. So, I will actually do, I'll buy a round for my friends because it's going to be really fun to hang out with them, and I really appreciate that. That's very, very generous. Uh, let's see from Michael. How do they make sure they don't hit the second stage on their way back? On their way back. So, the second stage deorbits itself. So, once once the stages, so they'll do a phasing burn and they'll actually accelerate the Dragon capsule to get it on a different orbit, like to get it higher up and closer to the International Space Station. Meanwhile, the second stage will actually turn around and it's going to slow itself down and de-orbit. So, it'll de-orbit here in the next orbit, basically. And that way, there's no chance of the second stage and first stage ever coming in contact again. Um, let's see here. NB3, what is your turnaround time between starting a video, pre-production, filming a video, editing, and releasing? I mean, I know people are going to think this sounds crazy, but when I do a short video, like last year, I think I was, you know, when I was working on the moon video, I was putting out really short videos in between, and people I feel like people didn't even notice them. Like I did videos about, you know, what's the difference between Starship version one and Starship version two. I did one on the Navajo missile. It's which the Navajo missile video I thought was super fun. I produced that in about two days. I shot it in one day total from like, I guess I shot some of it down in Florida at the Navajo missile. So besides that, I also did some voiceover. I also did, you know, B-roll and all that stuff. It was really about probably 72 hours, like three days worth of work. So I can produce videos really quickly. It's just that the videos that I choose to make most of the time just take forever. And I've tried to change that about myself. I don't get pleasure out of those quick little videos like that. They don't perform well either. I know that's stupid because I could probably if I could do one every week like that, it would probably financially work out better. I just don't get pleasure out of that. I don't, I don't, I feel like I burn through those topics. I don't put as much care into them. So, I really, I love diving into something that I'm unfamiliar with. I love diving into a topic that takes a lot of research and takes a lot of effort for me to actually learn it and absorb it. And I really like topics where they're visually hard to grasp. You know, that's why when I made the videos about the rocket, you know, rocket propulsion, like how to power a rocket engine, why don't rocket engines melt, all that stuff. Having the visual elements of stuff that's kind of hard to grasp is where I think my efforts best put. Um, that's why also like with the last video I did about the launch assist system, I spent a full month animating all the numbers. And I know like that sounds like that's really stupid and a waste of time, but I'm not good at math, and I need to see these numbers spelled out when someone's talking about any number, especially if they're like, "If you take this times this, it equals this." If they just say it, I will not comprehend it. If they say it and I see it, I can comprehend it. That's just me. And like, I know there's probably other people out there. And if you see things changing and going through the motions of how you calculate something, I learn a lot better. And again, I know that's not everybody. Probably a lot of people probably like, why do you need that? Doesn't make sense, but for me, I just, I want to make videos that I would want to watch, right? Um, and so for that video, like I could have had that video done in May, like literally early May, if I didn't do all the, if it was just me reading the script and then doing, you know, some simple, you know, maybe including those 3D animations that I hired Casper Stanley for, and Teen also did the Starship renders on, like, you know, that could have been done really quickly. But for me, when it's number heavy like that, and then when you find out you make errors and have to fix all those numbers, when it's number heavy though, I think it's really important to show that. I think it's important to animate that. I think it's important to make it something that you can grasp from start to finish without needing prior knowledge. A lot of us have inherent prior knowledge. A lot of us watching this, we know this stuff. We watch this stuff. We care about this stuff. We maybe a lot of you are in the air, like are studying aerospace engineering or in the aerospace. Like it's a large percentage of people actually are way more qualified to talk about this stuff than me, which is, you know, always very, very humbling because I'm aware of my audience. It's absolutely ridiculous, but at the same time, like I love because I'm learning this stuff from new and because I'm always trying to learn and grow my own vocabulary, my own knowledge base, my own understanding. I want to walk other people through that process. So, it videos for me take a lot longer and I, yeah. Yeah. That's just my, that's just my rant there. So, if you're ever wondering, um, the next video though, I think we'll have that one out hopefully in September. I know that seems like a pretty long turnaround time still, but it's a long, it's there's dozens.

Of hours of footage though that we're going through for this, so it's it's a it's a big deal. It's a big deal.

Uh let's see here. Uh this is I'll answer two more from uh Cornell. Why does the tin foil on the on the second stage we're talking about that tin foil wrapped around the the Merlin? Why does it pulse? So there's a couple things. There's there's venting going on to to keep the you know to keep the tanks maintaining the proper pressure. There's also some RCS roll thrusters because a single engine like this can't control roll. So if the rocket started to induce a tiny bit of roll, it would continue to do that without any correction. So you are seeing some RCS they're just nitrogen cold gas thrusters that keep the rocket in the proper orientation anytime those fire because it's in the Scott Mainly just did a video about this actually uh how the gas from you know when you're in space like that technically the molecules are going everywhere you're trying to direct them as much as possible opposite of you know where you're trying to go. Um but in space they inherently kind of go everywhere. So, uh, even though the the thrusters have, you know, a nozzle and that directs flow, as soon as it gets out of that nozzle, they're still going to kind of go all over. And so, you do have gas that hits the tin foil and reacts against it. Even though it's in space, even though there's no air, those molecules are still spitting out there. You still have nitrogen literally shooting out. You know, there's nothing to stop it from shooting out. That's the funny thing about in space and in a vacuum is if you have a gas that's spewing, you know, shooting out at at, you know, thousands of meters per second, uh, when it hits something, it's still it it reacts against it, right? It's it it's we like it's producing it's basically it's producing wind for a second, you know, if you think about it. Um, but just in a in a vacuum. So, um, that's why there's there's different reactions and there's vents and different things that are that are going on that that make it pulse.

And let's see here. Um Andy Burns, you have felt a launch as near to the site as anyone can. How would you write describe that feeling for the record? Um so actually and the closest I've been to a launch to be clear actually was uh was in Ros Cosmos was actually for a Soy use launch. We are 1.5 miles away, 2.5 km. Um it was crazy. That is definitely close enough to go. Is this too close? And I have a funny story about I probably need to I I should take all my footage from that now that Dear Moon's all over and everything. I probably should take the footage I shot from that and make like a my secret trip to Russia because I actually, you know, went to to Russia and went to uh uh the Cosmosphere and not Cosmosphere. Geez, the Bikinor Cosmo drone. There we go. Didn't go to Kansas. Well, I have been. Um but yeah, the went to Bikenor. didn't tell anyone about it because it was before the announcement of Dear Moon and uh I mean I I my family and friends knew obviously but like I couldn't talk about it publicly. Went there watched a Soyuse launch watched Yusaku fly uh to the International Space Station on Soyos. Uh and ironically they tried to take us even closer. Someone pulled up in a van and said, "Do you want to get closer?" And even though I'm already like this is kind of too close. I have footage of us literally driving past the rocket like 400 feet from the rocket. It's a crazy story. I should make a video about it because it is really funny actually. Just more than anything, it's crazy. Um, but yeah, I I should I should release that at some point.

But, um, the feeling of a rocket launch, sorry, I think Starship still takes the cake. Um, just cuz it's you're so close. Uh, within you're about where I'm standing is about 8 kilometers. You can get even a little closer, more like, you know, four miles is where some public people can be. Um, and people even at Starbase are like two and a half miles, but they're now inside of a a blast proof building. Um, but yeah, the feeling is is it's very low rumbling. So, it's it's like it's almost like, you know, when a really big truck, like if you're right next to the highway and a semi drove by, you know, like the feeling of a and you're on a a bridge and you just feel like you can feel that energy of that truck, you know, that low rumble. But the other weird part is the crackling you hear when you hear recordings. People always think like, why is your mic distorting and you're like, that's actually what it sounds like. It's this high-pitched crackle. And that's literally all these little sonic booms happening um from the exhaust. The exhaust is absolutely disrupting the air. And it's at supersonic speeds. And so you hear these crackles and these pops and these really high-pitched snaps almost like mini little thunder. And that's literally what it is. So you hear this low rumble that you feel, but then you also have this really high crackle that you're not expecting, I don't think. And some days it's depending on like the humidity and where the clouds are, you hear it and feel it way differently. So it's uh how would I describe it? I would say it's it's consuming would be a good word. Like it's while of uh especially Starship uh but even almost any launch when you're close to it and you feel it, it's consuming. you kind of forget about everything else and and it just sort of takes over. So, um yeah, that that'd be how to describe it.

So, all right. Um let's see here. I uh I think that's it. I I don't think I'll be I probably won't be at New Glenn, depending on when it is. If it's way later in the year, maybe, but not this summer, um or early fall, I will not be available. But, um, thank you all so much for all of you guys for hanging out. Really sincerely, I I really appreciate it. uh they're wrapping up the stream, too. So, this is actually perfect for me, and it's perfect time for me to go. So, thank you so much for tuning in with me and hanging out. Uh congrats again to Crew 11, to to NASA, to SpaceX, uh to Jackson, to Ros Cosmos, uh and to the four crew members who are now in orbit on their way to the International Space Station.

I should say, uh if you want to see the coolest docking footage, by the way, uh I should probably try to pull this up. Uh, I I need to remember to to do this myself. This is why I'm telling you this because I I was planning to watch it. Um, if you go on YouTube, the little website called YouTube, um, and you go to Come on, how can I not find it right now? Here we go. Okay, I'm going to show you this. This is a pro tip. If you want to see the best footage of docking, I probably I won't be able to stream docking and I typically don't because it's not actually that exciting. The first ones are exciting and then after that that's like Yeah. Uh Sen, go to SEN. If you're if you're one of the 2500 people watching this right now, these guys only and I'm not signed in otherwise I'm subscribed to Sen. Um but you should be they only have two 29,000 subscribers. They have an actual they have multiple 4K cameras up on the International Space Station with the best views of docking and the best views of Earth. Like look at this. This is real time. And they have wide angle. They have tight I think they have four cameras if I remember right. But I just we need to I need to remember to to shot them out because this is like the coolest footage. And in fact, if this is facing the right way, it's not. I don't think right now. you'd actually literally be able to see uh Dragon already probably approaching, but it it's it'll be a while before you can actually see that. Uh but how cool is that? Little pro tip there that you can actually go to send on YouTube and watch um Oh, this is actually a replay during loss of signal. So, they do have, you know, loss of signal uh but they let you know about it um with with replays, but um most of the time it's live, which is awesome. But yeah, you can see right now where they're at. right over. They're literally like that's the place where you de-orbit rockets because there's no one around. It's uh yeah, so that that's why. Anyway, that was my shout out to send because I I love those guys and and I think that's awesome and I put this up sometimes when I'm just working and I think it's beautiful footage so you should know about it, too.

All right, that's going to do it for me. I'm Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, bringing space down to Earth for everyday people. Goodbye, everybody.

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