It's really neat because it can work with an iPhone or an iPad or just any tablet device. It's really portable and you can take it anywhere, even to space. We've been using it for a whole bunch of different experiments, measuring our different veins. We've been measuring our bladder. We've been measuring our kidneys and liver and a lot of different pieces of the body. So it's been really interesting and we're excited to see what we learned from all the data.

This was created by the US Air Force Academy, which is near and dear to my heart. I was assigned there many moons ago as one of the commanders of the cadets. And what these cadets have created is a casing that holds different plants. And we've been imaging these plants on a daily basis to see what the impact of zero gravity is on this plant. One of the big concerns is the fluid shift up here at zero gravity. We can really feel the effect as soon as we on orbit, and you can see it in our faces. So one of the concerns with long-duration space flight is to be able to triage in case of an emergency. And one of the first basic steps is airway assessment. So we volunteered to do some imaging of our airway. We did this experiment before flight, during flight, and we'll do it post-flight. And what this requires is us to numb up the nasal passage and then insert this endoscopic camera all the way through the nasal passage and back of the throat to take these different images. And then post-flight, we'll be able to assess what happened to the airway passage as that fluid shifts.

This is a Tempest Pro, also called our Ambulance in a Box. So if you believe in SpaceX's vision of making life multi It's planetary that we're going to have thousands of starships in space someday, tens of thousands of people. We're on Mars and we're exploring our Solar System. It's pretty cool, but those are some pretty long journeys, and hospitals aren't very close by. So we have to be able to bring diagnostic tools into space with us and then be able to beam that information back home to the flight surgeons. So just yesterday, we hooked up all sorts of cables to this. So blood pressure, SPO2, respiration, EKG leads. And basically, we're able to capture a number of vital signs and test it out. And then today, we actually did a full-blown medical simulation of what could be a very likely medical situation that could develop after an EVA. And then was able to beam a lot of this information home via Starlink to the flight surgeons in mission control. So I really am excited about it because it's this technology that's going to be needed to further humankind's ambitions to explore among the stars.

We've been collecting data every day, looking at the changes in our vision over time in space. We also have an experiment from C. U. Boulder that we did shortly after arriving on orbit, where you actually put a contact lens into your eye to monitor the pressure change every time. There's a picture of Jared. He has the contact lens in his eye that's sending pressure data over 12, 24 hours to a sensor. But he really looked like a rogue space pirate with his eye patch covering it so he didn't have to have some vision changes from that lens. But it was quite a look up here for the face pirate.

So cool to see them talk about their different science experiments. If you noticed, they were letting go of some of the stuff that they were holding. It was just floating there. Chaos. But in addition to their science experiments and research experiments that they did on September 12th, while traveling in a 184 by 732 km orbit around the Earth, the crew performed the first ever commercial spacewalk. Extravehicular activities or EBAs or activities performed by spacesuited astronauts outside of their spacecraft in orbit of the Earth. They are generally performed for service, maintenance, repair, or replacement of space equipment.

Yeah, it was so incredible to see this live and see them going through and testing going through their test matrix for the suits. Now, an extra vehicular activity usually begins with depressurization of the airlock or space module and then ends with repressurization of that space module or airlock after crew member ingress. But because Crew Dragon doesn't have an airlock, the entire cabin was actually depressurized, and all four astronauts on board participated in the spacewalk. It was Sarah- SpaceX Dragon.

Our tablets are secure, restraints are tightened, and our visors are down.

Spacex copies for crew entry prep.

All right, good news there. That was Jared letting us know that their tablets are secured and the visors are down, which then creates that complete system for the spacesuit, for them to basically be ready for the more dynamic parts of the re-entry phase, which is coming up soon. We are about seven minutes away from the anticipated loss of signal. But getting back to the incredible spacewalk that Sarah and Jared and Kid and Anna performed, it was actually Sarah and Jared that took turns actually exiting the spacecraft while Kid and Anna supported from the inside. Overall, the spacewalk lasted 1 hour and 46 minutes from the time that the cabin air was vented to when it was repressurized once again. So it was incredible. And The first commercial spacewalk is certainly a moment to remember. Now, some dragon facts in terms of the dragon capsule overall. Like I said earlier, it's designed from the beginning to enable human space flight, even though we started just with cargo space flight. It can carry up to seven passengers, but for today, we've got four crew members on board, and it is the first private spacecraft to take humans to the International Space Station.

It's also the first a private spacecraft to take an all-civilian crew to orbit. And that was this exact dragon capsule, Dragon Resilience. That, of course, was the inspiration for mission. This dragon mission, this Polaris Dawn dragon mission, flew further than any dragon to date and reached the highest Earth orbit ever flown with an apoge of 1,408.1 kilometers. Dragon has performed 47 total launches, including Polaris Dawn, 14 crew missions, including Polaris, five of those being private astronaut missions, and nine being NASA missions. We've had 42 visits to the International Space Station, 25 missions utilizing a reflown or a refurbished dragon capsule, including Polaris Dawn. And like we mentioned earlier, this is the exact same dragon flown on the Inspiration 4 mission.

Dragon SpaceX. Five minutes until predicted comm blackout.

See on the other Copy that, space X. We're tracking the same. Talk to you soon.

We just heard some calms from the core to the crew, letting them know we're just about five minutes away from that blackout period, which is very exciting. That means that the crew is almost going to get through the portion of passing reentering through the atmosphere, reentering the atmosphere, coming back down to Earth. Ironically, today is actually the three-year anniversary, three years ago today, on September 15th, 2021. Mission, the Inspiration 4 mission actually launched. We got to hear some thoughts. We don't get to hear the Polaristan crew. They haven't gone through this re-entry period. We got to hear some thoughts from the Inspiration 4 crew on their thoughts of this re-entry period.

It's now time to come home. We've been floating in space for three days. What did it feel like to you guys to all of a sudden experience a 10th of a G as we came back?

Okay, you said that lift off was your favorite part. Coming back was actually mine. I loved hitting the atmosphere and the dynamics of it and having the G load come on quick, and you're like, Okay, gravity is heavy. You Sorry. I know it was different for you.

I much preferred launch over splash down.

But yeah, because we were in space for three days, and this is something I didn't think about beforehand, but whenever we started entering the atmosphere and started feeling the gravity again, I remember saying out loud, Oh, my gosh, this is so intense. How many Gs are we at? And Jared said, 0.3. I know. So we were at a third of Earth's gravity. And I was like, How are we going to get to four and a half? But you just get through it.

Yeah, just keep breathing, right?

And then you We just pray the parachutes will open. And then whenever they do, and then you hear from SpaceX, four healthy mains, I remember screaming, Thank God.

Well, that's the most intense. When they talk about the dragon being autonomous and stuff, on Ascend going up, the launch escape system will probably catch an error before Jared and I could react. We could do stuff, but you've got that. But coming back-You can't abort coming back. You can't. You can't. But But the most intense moment, I think, for the commander and the pilot is making sure that the drogues in the mains come out because we have a short window where we can manually fire them if they don't. I just remember we're counting down, and then I'm like, Green, yellow. If I had gotten to red, then that wouldn't have been good. But every time green happened, the pyros went, and Jared and I were just like, There's the drogues. We could see on our monitor. I don't know if you could, but we're like, Oh, yes, drogs.

Then we go through- I had to rip off my iPad to hand it to you so you could take a picture of the screen.

Oh, yeah, because once we got off the four healthy mains, Jared was like, That's the best thing I've ever seen.

I was like, Yes. Yeah. Then it was like, at that point, it was so peaceful because re-entry was very dynamic. The G forces were so intense. It was more shaky than launch was. Then when the parachutes deploy, they lift you up and shake you all around. And then whenever after they're out, then you're just falling down. I remember it sounded like a summer breeze outside, and we were in one G and just drifting down. And then we hit the water. We knew it.

It was-Well, that was one thing, too, when you said you're looking at the screens, you and I had a pretty good view, Haley, of sweet. We could actually look out the windows at that point. And I remember seeing the dragon capsule reorient, and as it's making those S curves to the atmosphere and seeing the clouds move very dynamically.

So See, I love that. To me, hearing the Dracos firing and it was like, as we're doing these giant S curves. That's exactly what it sounded like. Yeah. It's ingrained in my memory. I remember just being there and being like, This is so cool. Just the technology of what SpaceX has done and being able to have a capsule that will dial itself in and slow down your descent. It's just amazing. It's such a great experience. But splash down was awesome because when we hit the water, it was just like, we did it.

It was a very emotional moment more than I expected.

I love what Dr. Proctor said there. We did it.

I love it. I literally love seeing all the reactions because we don't get to experience these events with them, and every single one is very unique to each person's experience. I love that all three of them have just a different view of how each event went.

Yeah, it's It's so great to be able to hear their reactions. I look forward to hearing the Polaristan crew's reactions once they get back on Earth and share their experience with us. Now, the Polaristan crew, we are coming up to our anticipated loss of signal. This is the point in time in which the amount of plasma building up on the exterior of the vehicle becomes significant, and that we are unable to command the vehicle or receive telemetry or communicate with the crew. So this happens every time a dragon capsule comes back through the Earth's atmosphere, and we're anticipating about a seven-minute loss of signal for today's re-entry. But it's a period in which we, a couple of minutes before it ends, we'll hear the Corps call out, the Corps being the crew operations and Resources Engineer. And that person is the voice to the crew, and they're sitting right there in that room on your screen. That is Mission Control here at SpaceX in Hawthorn, California. And a couple of minutes before the blackout period ends, we'll start to hear the core hail the Dragon capsule because sometimes They get through it quicker and we're able to communicate earlier than anticipated.

So, yeah, it's an expected period where basically no vehicle telemetry is received by Mission Control or the recovery team, and we're unable to command the vehicle. So as a reminder, though, the Dragon capsule is programmed and designed to fly itself. So as we heard from the Inspiration 4 crew earlier, it is a period of great anticipation, but coming out on the other side is a moment of a lot of joy.

Yeah, it's super exciting. We are expected to be in the blackout period at this moment. We did hear the CORE call that out about five minutes ago, so we should be in that blackout period. Again, it should last about six, seven minutes. What's expected to come next is going to be once we get through that blackout period, we will confirm we have It calms with the crew once again, and then we will be expecting the drogue parachutes to deploy. Again, that helps slow the vehicle down. They've been flying very fast in space at 17,500 miles per hour. Those droves are going to slow down the to about 350 miles per hour. Then the four main parachutes will deploy and slow the vehicle down as it's making its way back down to Earth and should touch down at around 15, 16 miles per hour. These shoots are very, very important to help keep the vehicle slowly moving towards the Earth, scrubbing that velocity as they've been moving very quickly. But they should have a very light touch down back on Earth in the ocean?

You can hear a little bit of a crowd here forming outside of Mission Control. You can see there on your screen as some of our fellow employees are gathering in anticipation of the splashdown. It's always the best place to stand for these types of events, although it is pretty late on a Saturday night, so perhaps not the normal size crowd.

This is a pretty good event for a Saturday Friday night, I think. This is where I'd want to be.

So once again, we are in the blackout period, anticipated loss of communications. We do anticipate to regain those communications around 12:30 AM Pacific Time or 3:30 AM Eastern Time. Just after that, as Jessie was saying, we'll see the drogue parachutes deploy about two minutes after, and then About two minutes after coming back from the blackout period, we'll see those droves deploy, and then just a minute later, we'll see the main parachutes deploy. As we said earlier, this is a series of events that when you start, it seems like, Oh, man, it's going to take a while, but they do happen in rapid succession. I just noticed there's a turtle inflatable down in front of Mission Control in celebration of our new Our landing location at Droid tortugas.

Yeah, I love that. Celebrating our new splashdown zone, welcoming the Polaristan crew home. We are a little over halfway through that blackout period. We are expecting to hopefully gain comms back in about a couple of minutes from now, again. This, you could see on your screen, is the first ground view of the dragon capsule making its way back entering the Earth's atmosphere.

I love this view. It's so fun to watch this. I can only imagine what it would be like to watch it with our own eyes. This thermal view in particular is really cool because you can see the trail behind it.

That is so awesome. There's four humans inside of that capsule right now.

But once again, we are in the anticipated communications blackout period. Basically, there is an envelope of ionized air around the spacecraft, and it blocks radio signals from reaching Dragon. So this basically plasma field around it prohibits us from commanding the vehicle or from communicating with the crew. So this anticipated blackout period lasts about seven minutes, so we should be coming out of it here in about the next minute or so. We will probably start to hear the SpaceX core begin to reach out to the dragon capsule, just trying to hail them. Or we might even hear from the Polaristan crew first. That's an incredible view from the recovery ship stationed out in the water.

That is a sight to see for the people that are watching this live. It's not a comet. It is just the Polaristan crew coming back to Earth. Wow, that is an amazing view.

Once again, we expect this blackout period to end in about a minute. Another view of the...

Dragon, SpaceX, comm check.

Dragon has you loud and clear. How do you say, next?

Loud and clear, Jared. Expect automated shoot deployment.

Incredible views, incredible comms. We have regained communications. With the Polaristan crew, this is a drone circling the recovery vessel. And that little white dot, I should start the big white dot on the right, obviously the moon, the little white dot there in the center of your screen is the Dragon Resilience vehicle making its way its final few kilometers back down to planet Earth after spending five days in orbit.

Wow, just some epic views tonight. You can hear the crowd here in Hawthorn getting excited. We've confirmed that we have comms with the crew.

Dragon, SpaceX. Gps converged. Expect nominal altitude for drogue shoot deploy.

Copy, that's SpaceX. We show the same in tracking.

The crew is still traveling very quickly right now as they're coming back through the Earth's atmosphere. But as you heard, the drogue shoots should be deploying here shortly, and that's going to slow them down significantly.

Yeah, we expect those to deploy in about 90 seconds. And as we heard in those comms, it's triggered by GPS. So the dragon capsule using that GPS will automatically know exactly when to deploy it, and that happens around 40 kilometers. Once the drogue parachutes deploy, about a minute after that, we'll see the main parachutes.

It's pretty incredible that we only...

We can see sea rotation now underway. This helps put the crew in a more ergonomic position in anticipation of slash down. Brake for drogue window.

Copy. We're bracing.

Should see those shoots deploy here shortly. And you could see the crew bracing, (laughter) as instructed for the change in velocity.

Standing by for deployment of the drogue parachutes. These will help bring the vehicle down from about 350 miles per hour when they deploy down to about 119 miles per hour when the main parachutes deploy. There we can see that the drogue shoots have successfully deployed. It's a great thermal image. And that view is from the actual basin where those drogue parachutes are located.

Dragon Space A visual on two healthy drogues.

Having that SpaceX, we show the same.

These drogue parachutes help to stabilize the dragon capsule and get it into the right orientation before those main parachutes pop out, as well as providing that initial deceleration.

This is such a great thermal shot of the dragon capsule. You can see it turning a little bit with the drone parachutes. And There are the four main shoots now deployed. They'll slowly open up to their full deployment here in just a few seconds.

Incredible views of the Polaris Dawn crew returning to Earth after five days in Earth's orbit. The crowd here at Mission Control in Hawkorn cheering.

It's a beautiful site to see.

Copy. That's the face-to-face show.

The same, 1,000.

Copy. Cee, 1,000.

Beautiful sight to see those four healthy Maine parachutes.

Great.

In about two minutes, we expect our splashdown to occur.

You may hear the crew and the corps talking. They're communicating about their altitude as they make their way back down to Earth.

We should start...800? Yeah, there it is. So we should start to hear our...

Copy, 8.

Our hearing our commander, Jared Isaacman, call out the altitude as they descend to the ocean's surface. We can see the Polaris Dawn crew nestled in their seats. They're on the left-hand side of your screen as they anticipate their splash down.

Copy, six.

You could see the difference in velocity. This is a lot gentler than just a few minutes ago. That dragon is coming back down to Earth. Absolutely.

These main parachutes deploy at about 119 miles per hour and help slow the dragon capsule down to about 15 10 miles per hour when it makes contact with the ocean.

You can also see that the capsule is now... The capsule is now stabilized. It's no longer spinning like we saw it with the drogue parachutes.

200. We're bracing.

Copy. 200, embraced.

Bracing for splash down.

That will be the final call we hear from Jared until contact with the ocean surface. Standing by for a splashdown of the Polaris Dawn crew. And there you can see.

They just got this easy splash.

As you can see on your screen, and by the cheers behind us, the Polaris Dawn crew has successfully splashed down.

Welcome back to planet Earth, Polaris Dawn.

Spacex The recovery team now moving into place to begin the process of strapping the dragon capsule up with the necessary rigging in order to lift it onto the recovery vessel. Dragon capsule appears to be in a pretty stable position after...

Phase six, dragon. Vehicle code one, print code Space X copies code 1.

Now, the recovery teams have been ready and waiting about three nautical miles away, so it's going to take them just about 30 minutes to make their way to Jared, Kid, Sarah, and Anna, who are currently inside of the dragon capsule that you see there on your screen, back here, Home on Earth.

That call out that we heard earlier, confirmation of what I had said a little bit prior to in terms of that stable configuration, that code one call out is the reflection of the crew's reporting of that landing position. We can see the dragon capsule bobbing in the distance. Like Jessie said, the recovery team is a little ways away from the splash on location, obviously to ensure their safety, as well as the safety of the Polaristan crew. So it takes a little while for the large recovery vessel to make its way over to the Dragon capsule. But there are a couple of fast boats that we will likely see come into screen sooner than later. And those fast boats carry... Great. Thanks, Dragon.

We're stable one.

Those fast boats carry...

Copy, stable one.

Those fast boats carry the recovery team members that will scoop up the parachutes from the water, excuse me, as well as perform the initial safety checks to make sure that there are no hypergolic fuel vapors or any basically potentially harmful vapors remaining around the dragon capsule following the de-orbit sequence. We'll see a crew with some personal protective equipment on around the... Wearing that personal protective equipment around the capsule, performing those safety checks before allowing anyone to get too close to the capsule.

I love that we have those fast boats. Instead of waiting for the recovery vessel to make it with crew members on board there, we have the to get there while the recovery vessel is making its way towards the capsule, and we can do all that work in advance. And they are very fast, as you can see.

Spacex, on behalf of the entire team of SpaceX, welcome home. We have pulled go for recovery personnel to approach. Except expect personnel alongside in approximately one minute.

Copy that, SpaceX. And Lara Stone, we are mission complete. Thanks for all the big help pulling this mission together.

Now, we did see a jet ski pass by. That jet ski has a couple of recovery folks on board. They've got the go to do those gas and hazardous checks to make sure that Dragon is safe for the recovery vessel to approach.

Yeah, and this view here is actually from a drone hovering near the Dragon capsule, so it gives you a little bit better perspective of how close the fastboats are Like I mentioned before, some of them are scouring the water, looking for the parachutes that were released after dragon splash down. We'll try to retrieve those. And another fast boat will approach and begin those safety checks for any hypergolic vapors. And we can see them getting... Oh, actually, you can see one of those parachutes there floating in the water to the right-hand side. And then the moon in the distance. What a great view.

Some great lighting from the moon, this light, this night splash down tonight.

I'm pretty sure this is the first time we've had these views on our recovery webcast. So it's pretty cool to see I love that we get this view right here where we can see the lights on inside Dragon capsule through the windows.

Almost looks like the eyes of Dragon.

Yeah, that's pretty cool. So the fast boat that is closest to the dragon capsule, that is the crew that will begin. Yeah, you can see with the stick there, that is basically a hypergolic detection device. And they will attach to the dragon capsule to get a little closer. And we can see that they have respirators on. This helps ensure that if there are any lingering vapors, that they will not be exposed to those. Now, the recovery team, just like the Polaris Dawn crew, they perform quite a bit of training in order to be able to perform these activities safely. In fact, for those of you that have never watched our recovery shows before, but there will actually be someone that jumps into the water and begins climbing on Dragon Capsule in order to secure the straps that are necessary to lift the Dragon Capsule out of the water. Oh, there's a cool shot there because you can actually see the basin where the main parachutes were located. That's where the... Oh, here's a thermal view now. But yeah, that lower, larger basin is where the main parachutes were located. That dragon capsule definitely looks toasty having come back through the Earth's atmosphere.

A little bit toasty there. It was a little hot coming back. Yeah. Again, right now, the recovery team is ensuring the safety of the crew, making sure there's no hazardous gasses around the vehicle. They're pulling the shoots out of the water.

Which is what that thing is below the dragon capsule there on the bottom right-hand side of your screen. It is not a giant squid. I love how there are lights on these boats. Maybe not. Actually, I take that back. I don't think it's lights on the boats. I think it's lights with some of…

Dragon SpaceX, Hypergolf sweeps, and unfired ordnance checks nominal, rigging in progress, approximately Two, five minutes until capsule lift. Standby for PMC.

Copy that. Two, five minutes for capsule lift, and glad all the checkouts are good.

All right, great news there. Letting us know, and we can see that the crew members have basically taken off their respirators, allows them to work a little bit more efficiently. Also heard that the crew will have their...

Dragon SpaceX for PMC.

Pmc, standing for Private Medical Conference. So this is an opportunity to check in with...

I would like to try and do the PMC in 10 minutes, one zero minutes, looking for crew to be okay with that wait.

The crew's good. We'll call you if we need to pull it in, but right now, one zero minute seems good. Copy.

All right.

So that PMC, Private medical conference. That's just an opportunity for the crew to chat with the flight surgeon, check in, make sure everybody's feeling good. So it sounds like the crew is on board to have that occur in 10 minutes. Meanwhile, the recovery team's here on your screen, scurrying. Oh, there, our first view of the individual on top of the capsule. I have said this in many splash-down webcasts before. Not enough money in the world to convince me to do that job. I have so much admiration and respect for the people that can. Just doing that in dark water would be terrifying to me. And I love how efficient and well-trained all of these individuals are. We can see it in action here. They function as a really strong unit altogether. I mean, these waters are pretty calm, but you can see the capsule and the boats moving around, and it's not like they're on land.

Yeah. Yeah, Kate. I mean, at least they are near the Florida Keys, They probably got some pretty clear water, even though it is night time. I wouldn't mind jumping on top of the capsule and trying to rig up the dragon capsule there. It looks like a pretty fun job, actually.

Yeah, I think night time would be a hard mile. Day time, maybe.

Dragon SpaceX for PMC.

Go, SpaceX.

All right, we're actually ready to do a PMC now, so I'm We're going to be privatizing Dragon to Ground. You'll next hear from the ship surgeon.

Copy, not a problem.

So cool to see this happening live with the various recovery team members working to install the straps and the rigging that is necessary in order to safely lift the dragon capsule out of the water. I want to give a special shout out to the SpaceX weather team and the recovery team for unlocking this location and adding it to our sites of availability for dragon recovery opportunities and options, because as we saw, trying to launch this mission, originally when we originally When we were... Just kidding. Fake, Quindar. When we were trying to launch this, weather was really problematic, and it wasn't just the weather at the launch site, which is what most people think of.

Dragon and Ground is no longer privatized.

Copy that, space site.

The weather at the launch site is what most people think of. But when we have a shorter duration, basically a free flyer type mission like this, where the Dragon capsule is only in orbit for a few days, not only do we have to look at the immediate weather around the launch site and the weather during the ascent abort phases like we always do. But at the time of launch, we also have to be really confident that there will be good weather in at least a couple of landing locations available to us at the time of launch. And that wasn't an option for any of our existing sites. And the recovery team and the weather team worked really hard to identify this new location and just look how calm the waters are.

Wow. It was perfect. For this splash down today. And yeah, Kate, for the last few weeks, weather in Florida is... That time of year. It's the hurricane season, so it's a little bit tough. And like you said, five days trying to make sure that weather is good from start to finish is really, really difficult with that type of weather there in Florida, where typically other missions, we've gone to the International Space Station, where we can wait out weather if we need to. For a mission like the free flyer, like you said, That's a little bit harder. We don't have as much cargo space to keep food and supplies much longer than the planned duration of the mission. Obviously, there's some extra in there in case they did need to stay out in space, but we got some excellent weather for this. And a big shout out to Starlink. We've got this view here brought to you by Starlink, and we're now seeing the recovery vessel getting closer and closer to the dragon capsule. This is where the dragon capsule is going to be lifted out of the water onto this recovery vessel.

A great shot.

A helicopter is going to come once the crew is on board. Once the capsule is on board, once the capsule is on board, the crew is on board and has exited the dragon capsule. A helicopter is going to come land on the recovery vessel and actually fly the crew. That's a lot faster path than waiting on the recovery vessel to get back to land. That's important to make sure that the crew is safe, healthy, and they can get into, hopefully, get some sleep, maybe.

I did make a note that the crew, while they are on orbit, everything is scheduled, including their sleep periods. And they actually had their wake-up call at 6:25 PM Pacific Time or 9:25 PM Eastern Time. So it's right now almost 1:00 AM Pacific Time. So, yeah, they've been awake for a while and they had quite a day, honestly. And I'm sure that they are most excited to see their families again, and also probably pretty excited to get a good night's sleep.

In a bed instead of floating around.

Now, if you've recently joined us, unfortunately, you missed quite a bit of action already, but we still have a bit to go. So far, we as you can see, have had a successful splashdown of the Dragon capsule carrying the Polaris Dawn crew. They splash down about 12:36 AM Pacific Time. Unfortunately, I was too excited, and I didn't catch the exact splashdown time, but I think it was right around then. And that is now the recovery of the capsule is now underway. This view is of the recovery team. In one of those fast boats, we can see some of the recovery crew members working to place the straps and the rigging around the capsule. That will be used, excuse me, to lift the dragon capsule out of the water and onto the recovery vessel. And And from there, the crew members will... Excuse me, the recovery team members will open up the side hatch, and that will be the first breath of fresh air that this crew has had since they lift it off. Let's see, five days ago, man, this week has been such a blur. I guess that was Monday night, I think.

A Monday night for us, yes. Yeah. Okay.

Thank you. So, yeah, it's been quite a few days. And once that hatch is open, we will then bring each crew member out one at a time. They will then head up to the medical deck and have an in-person checkout with the flight surgeon, the flight surgeon that is on the ship, so the ship surgeon. From there, they'll get to get on that helicopter that you mentioned.

Yeah, and the flight surgeon will be the first to greet the crew once that hatch is open. The recovery team and crew will help them exit the dragon capsule if they need to. We actually, again, three years ago today, the Inspiration 4 crew lifted off and did their three-day mission in space. We'll get to hear some of their thoughts on what that was like exiting the capsule for the first time coming back down to Earth.

It was a really a bittersweet time. We knew we had just completed all these different milestones. We had done all that research. I know Polaristan, they have so much more research they're going to get through. But we had just gotten down into the water, and now we're just sitting there waiting and waiting to come out and then go on to the next thing, right? And how do we take this story? How do we take this experience and share it with everybody that's been experiencing it with us? Which they were. They were watching us the entire time, which I think was amazing. We had so many people donate to St. Jude during our flight. That was one of the most incredible things to about.

Yeah. Later that night after Splashdown, when we found out we surpassed our $200 million fundraising goal, I remember I just couldn't stop crying. I was just so happy.

I love the fact that our families heard the Sonic Boom of us coming home. It's like we announced, Here we come.

I'm glad they knew that was a good thing. That's right. That's true. But my brother, Hayden, is an aerospace engineer. He was like, Yeah. He was so excited to hear that. He knew exactly what it was.

We were the first SpaceX crew to splash down in the Atlantic. We were the first crew to cause a Sonic boom back over Florida since the shuttle stopped flying.

Yeah, I know. That's a special moment, you know? And I just remember getting back onto the boat and then working on opening up the side hatch for the first time, and Aneel being there to welcome us. And I just- Welcome home, Earthling. I'll never forget that. And I just, I think about the fact that Aneel is got to greet us, and now he's a NASA astronaut, and the fact that Anna gets to go and have that experience.

And during all of this, she was with our families. She was supporting them, and all of them were supporting our mission. So Sarah was in mission control. She was chatting with us for launch and in space, and she had trained us to that point. And then Kid was one of the first faces that we saw back on Earth. He had been there every step of the way. With fried chicken.

With Yeah, I was ready for some Earth food when I got back.

I thought that was funny because you were like, Fried chicken. I just remember you.

You were like, hanging out of our mouths as we were diving.

There's this photo, and I'm still I feel like getting used to gravity again, which we had been there three days. I didn't think it'd be such a readjustment. But I'm laying on this stretcher. I've been eating fried chicken, and it's all over me. I didn't even sit up. I was like, I don't care. I'm so happy.

I remember Aneel coming in and being like, to help us get out of our seats and thinking, I've got this. I've got to be like, this is going to be my Phoenix rising moment coming off of the spacecraft. What were you thinking when you first got up on the land? And well, it was onto the boat, and the camera's there, and you're standing.

I know. I felt like I wanted to have a good show as well, but the problem I had was that the boat started rocking, and now all of a sudden, I'm unsteady, and so I look like this elephant who's learning how to walk for the first time. But I was really excited to be back and to go see everyone and share the story. I felt great. I felt awesome. I looked at you guys coming out, too, and you were strutting your way onto the next section. Then Jared, of course, followed behind me.

Oh, yeah. Jared was last out. Jared always let us go first.

Yeah. Ladies first.

Love hearing the Inspiration 4. Memories, really, of their own space flight mission. I'm sure that the second time around for Jared will feel a little bit different. He had flown on the Inspiration 4 mission, as they were mentioning. And this is a cool view because we can start to see how close the recovery vessel is to the dragon capsule. We still We have the fast boat there working to install the straps that are required to lift the vehicle into that nest that you see there on your screen. So that arm will actually extend out over the water, and that is what will lift the dragon capsule up and into that nest there at the end. That nest will then translate to the forward end of the boat, the recovery vessel, and that's where we'll let them hang out while we open up the side hatch.

Oh, wow. That is just an incredible view. Some great lights, some clear water.Clear.

Skies, we got the moon.

Yeah, the moon in the background, and all brought to you by Starlink. I love to I'm wondering that Haley's first thing coming out of the capsule was eating fried chicken.

Dragon, SpaceX, be advised. Transitioning forward, link. Comm will be unavailable for a little less than five minutes.

Copy that, SpaceX.

Yeah, getting some fried chicken fresh off the dragon capsule. Also another cool full circle moment with Anil, that is Anna Mennon's husband, was the flight surgeon that greeted the Inspiration Four crew, which is really cool. And now Anna has completed her mission in space. Just so cool to see that full circle moment. Again, I can't believe this is all happening on the The same day that the Inspiration Four launched three years ago.

That's pretty cool. Yeah, so we can start to see the recovery team getting closer to the dragon capsule, one of the fast boats there in the background. As well as the capsule itself coming into view. This arm, or excuse me, this arch, rather, that you see in a perfectly vertical position, that will actually extend out to a about 45 degrees or so, and it will happen quite quickly. Basically, once all of the straps are in place and secure and tight, that arm will extend. You can see a protective Bowie there at the end of the vessel to help make sure that nothing comes into contact with the dragon capsule. But once those straps are attached and that arm, that hydraulic arch is extended out, the dragon capsule actually be lifted up and out of the water pretty efficiently and placed into that circular basket-looking thing, or we call it a nest. And that is basically the landing point for the dragon capsule. You can see it has a bit of a concave shape to help support the similarly concave-shaped heat shield at the bottom of the dragon capsule.

And once the dragon capsule is in the dragon nest, it will translate and move forward towards the front of the boat, actually more towards the middle of the boat, to a platform. As you probably can see on the dragon capsule, the hatch is about in the middle of the dragon capsule. So there is a platform for when they open up that hatch that it is very easy to exit the capsule to the platform.

Now, while we can't see the crew themselves, they are They're remaining in their seats and strapped in with their safety harnesses. But at this point in time, they have opened up their visor, excuse me, as the dynamic portion of flight has concluded. We do continue to flow some cool nitrox or nitrogen-oxygen air mixture in through their suits to help keep them comfortable during this phase, but they are also, at this point in time, allowed to retrieve their water bottles, which had previously been stored for re-entry. So So, yeah, they're able to stay cool and hydrated and just hang out and enjoy the last few minutes within their home for the last five days.

They've done a lot of great work this week, so they, They're going to get a little bit of time to relax and patiently wait as they wait for that hatch to open and get that first fresh breath of air. Again, just some great views here. This is the recovery vessel with the helipad on top of it. Again, a helicopter is going to land on that pad there, board the crew, and take them back to land very quickly, back to their families and friends that will hopefully be there to greet them back to Earth.

I love this drone shot that we have. First time we've had a view like this for our recovery operations, and it's...

Dragon, SpaceX, comm check.

Dragon, as you land there, how many?

Bottom clear.

Forward link transition complete. Copy, that's SpaceX.

All right, we can see the recovery team continuing to pull the dragon capsule a little bit closer. There's still one individual there in the bucket where the main parachutes are stored during flight. You can also see at the top of... Basically, at the top of what is the side hatch, there's another bucket, and that's where the drogue parachutes are located.

Dragon SpaceX, rigging complete approximately five minutes until capsule lift.

Copy that, five minutes until capsule lift.

Again, the corps communicating to the crew as they can't see outside of the capsule. So there's a lot of movements going on. There's a lot of sounds that they're going to be hearing. And there you can see the hydraulic lift mechanism lowering into position in preparation for lifting the Dragon capsule out of the water.

We'll see the recovery team individual who's there placing those attachment straps onto the straps that he's already basically put around the circumference of the dragon capsule. That individual will climb up a little bit higher on the capsule and then jump off into the dark water. And here's a cool view from above that helicopter pad. That is where the helicopter will land and take the four crew members back to land. So about five minutes, well, at this point, four minutes until the capsule is lifted out of the water.

Dragon SpaceX, brace for capsule lift.

There they go.

It's probably warm water, Kate.

Yeah. You know what?

Sea creatures love warm water, too, in my head.

They're not going to hurt you.

We can see the dragon capsule now coming out of the water. Our first view of that well-loved heat shield at the bottom of the dragon resilience vehicle. Dragon now completely out of the water and will be lowered onto that cradle there. Once the dragon capsule is lowered, we will see the recovery team who are obviously out of the way for safety reasons at this point in time. But once As the capsule is translated and secured, we'll see them begin to hose it down with fresh water. As we reuse these capsules, we want to try and minimize the effects of corrosion which, of course, happened due to saltwater. So we will actually begin to see not only that basin where the main parachutes were located, that will get rinsed out as well as the overall capsule.

The crew is now on the recovery vessel, probably their first moment of a little bit more stability being back on Earth. Again, what will happen next is once the dragon capsule is fully seated in the nest and we'll remove all the rigging from the capsule that will then translate that capsule and move it forward to a platform.

Dragon, SpaceX, welcome aboard the recovery vessel. Recovery personnel are completing final checks. Standby for translation to the egress platform.

Copy that, SpaceX, anyway.

All right, great news there. And it looks like actually the estimation for lift was we completed it two minutes early. So like I said, it's a pretty efficient operation. The recovery team, not only have they performed this on numerous actual human space flight missions, but also in rehearsals and training procedures of their own. So it looks like the crew members that you see there have dawned some PPE once again. These are respirators that help to ensure that if there are any lingering hypergolic fumes, that they will not be exposed to it. So they are actually installing plugs into basically the outlet of those Draco thrusters and performing additional hypergolic sniffs to ensure that there are no residual fumes. Once they install all of the necessary Draco plugs, they will continue with a final round of detection checks and...

Dragon, SpaceX, looking for your okay to come on board with cameras.

Spacex, Dragon, you're welcome on board with the cams.

Spacex copies.

The recovery team continuing with the installation of those safety plugs to help prevent any fumes from the Draco thrusters. Our Draco engines utilize hypergolic propellants, and those are toxic to humans, of course. And so we want to ensure the safety of our recovery team, as well as the Polaris Dawn crew. So we're going to close up those thrusters and perform some additional fume checks before allowing anyone to approach. Oh, our first view inside the capsule post, splash down. Got some happy faces, visors up, and then seatbelts on. Yeah. The classic kid thumbs up.

Yes, I love it.

I've actually been following along with the procedures that they have on their tablets there located on their legs, and it's actually written into their procedure to remain seated and restrained, just in case if anybody inside was feeling daring, they are still required to keep all hands inside the ride at all times.

Yeah, that is actually very important. They have been out in space for five days. They don't have gravity forcing their muscles to be working the way that we utilize them here on Earth. So it is important that when they do take their first steps, that we have some of the crew and the medical team there to support them in case they need any help.

Absolutely.

Again, it's only been five days. The Inspiration 4 crew did three days, and they were able to pretty easily walk out of the capsule, but we'll see how this crew does back on gravity. Yeah.

Everyone, It seems to be pretty calm and collected and just chilling out as they wait for the dragon capsule to be translated. Looks like that should be happening just in the next couple of minutes as the recovery team completes their safety installations and removing some harnessing connections. That nest that the dragon capsule is in will move toward the forward end of the vessel, where there is basically in the central part of the vessel, there is a deck where SpaceX crew members are standing by And as Jessie said, we'll be able to assist the astronauts, if necessary, to get out of the capsule or egress, as we say.

A cool view here. Just looking from behind the seats, on your left-hand side is Commander Jared Isaacman, and your right-hand side is our pilot, Kid Poteet.

You can get a feel for the difference in seat position in terms of the position that it's in now and the position that the seats were in while the crew was still in space. The warning and the 1.21 gigawatts stickers were a little bit closer to us, I feel like. So it gives you a feel for the amount of rotation in those seats. Pretty cool to be able to see the same displays that the crew utilizes while they were in flight. Once again, Dragon Resilience The experience has been successful. Well, first of all, it made an on time splash down in the... I guess this would be considered in the Florida Quays down near at dry tortugas, and they had a pretty quick recovery out of the water. They are now on the recovery vessel and standing by for the final preparations performed by the recovery team prior to basically opening that side hatch. Once again, this will be the first time that the Polaris Dawn crew will have fresh air. It'll be fresh, salty, fishy air, but fresh air nonetheless. And there we can see the dragon capsule now being moved toward the central part of the ship.

You can see there. There are some SpaceX crew members also wearing respirators, once again, as we will perform the final hypergolic safety sniffing tests. As I mentioned earlier, beginning to spray the dragon capsule down with fresh water to try and rinse that saltwater off of the metallic components.

This is very exciting. We're just a few minutes away. There's still some more procedures that they have to go through in order to open that hatch, but just a few minutes away from hatch opening. Again, the first person that will meet them will be the flight surgeon who will enter the capsule and make sure that the crew is feeling good and ready to exit their seats.

For those of you that have joined just recently, the dragon capsule carrying the Polaris Dawn crew splashed down just 41 minutes ago at 12:36 AM Pacific Time, 3:36 AM East Coast Time. And here we are, 40 minutes later, pretty quick operations by the recovery teams in terms of getting over to where the capsule landed, getting the parachutes out of the water, and adhering the required straps, and ultimately lifting the dragon capsule up onto the recovery vessel as we just saw a few minutes ago. Right now, the recovery team outside of the dragon capsule, like I said before, spraying down the capsule with some fresh water.

Dragon, SpaceX, standby for side hatch opening and egress.

All right, good news there.

Copy that, SpaceX. We're standing by.

Looks like those safety checks were quick and successful as everyone has doffed their respirators.

And there you can see, officially, the hatch is open.

I just heard cheering from a distant part of I have a feeling that came from the dragon teams at their computers. That was pretty cool. That is the flight surgeon doing initial medical checks, making sure that everybody is feeling good. I have a feeling by his smiling face, he's getting four smiling faces in return.

The Polaristan crew has now officially taken their first breath of Earth air in the last five days.

We can see the recovery team in the background basically putting up some protective fixtures around the side hatch in order to ensure that as the crew egresses and it gets assisted as they come out of the capsule, that they don't hurt the side hatch seals or themselves. Obviously, want to protect the individuals as well.

Super exciting. We can see that the crew is now prepping the dragon capsule for the crew egress. They're going to be removing their harnesses, removing any equipment out of the way to ensure that they are safe to step out of their seats and egress the dragon capsule.

Even the flight surgeon has to be assisted. It's some tough maneuvering. So we'll start to see the footrests. The recovery team will come in, and there is our Polaris Dawn crew, our first live view with the side hatch open. Fist pumps, thumbs up. I'm sure if we had audio, there would be some cheers as well.

I'm sure the crew is so excited to be home, mission complete, like they said, after five days of some historic milestones.

That smiling face there in the side hatch taking pictures, I'm sure that is John Kraus, also known as Snap. He is the, I believe, the content director for the Polaris Dawn program. I'm sure it's an exciting moment to be able to capture both with video and photo, the smiling faces of the crew members. Now we can see some SpaceX crew members, recovery team. They'll come in, they will start to remove the footrests at the bottoms of each seat. That will help give a little bit more moving room, or I should say, area for folks to get in and help our four Polaristan astronauts get out a little a bit easier.

There's a footrest being removed there, as Kate mentioned.

Fun fact about those footrests, they are custom-sized for each astronaut, as well as the armrests. So Each armrest and footrest basically comes in a small, medium, or large option. And depending on the foot length and the arm length of each individual, they get their appropriate size for their body measurements.

Yeah, that goes with the seats themselves, the suits themselves are all customized to each individual astronaut and crew member. Basically, they get a customized version just for themselves for these missions.

Now we can see that... Pardon me. The crew members are now able to undo their safety harnesses, their five-point safety straps. I guess that would be the last step before being able to get out. Now, it seems as So the first person to come out will be Anna Mennon, who is on the far right side as we are looking at it. She is in seat four. Yeah. So Anna is now making her way with this assisted egress. Mission Specialist Anna Mennon.

There she is.

Some spaceexer. Some big ways.

Yes.

So happy. I love this. So excited.

Welcome back to Earth, Anna.

We heard Haley Arsenault, who was one of the mission specialists for the Inspiration for Mission. We heard her say that Jared always let the ladies go first. And so I have a feeling that Sarah might be the next one to egress here. Yep, we can see her now getting out of her seat. She and Anna had the two window seats. Spacex team assisting her to make sure that she doesn't hit the side hatch in any way.

I I'll give you some thumbs up once the kid exits.

It's pretty cool to see that they are coming out, standing up on their own two feet and walking off.

They're like, dragging This is the final call. Sign up.

Some dance moves.

That's pretty great. I think that move should be added to the required choreography for human space flight missions. We have the astronaut lean back when they approach their rocket on launch day. The kid shuffle, I think, should be the next one for post-egress. We heard Jared get one last call out on the loops before egressing himself And the final Polaris Dawn crew member egressing Dragon Resilience, Commander Jared Isaacman.

Our second frequent flyer in Dragon, completing his second mission in space.

For a second, I thought... For a second, I thought he was saying goodbye to his spacecraft, but it turns out he was saying goodbye to the people still in there assisting him with his egress. So incredible to see. What a day.

What a week. What a week.

And now with our Polaristan crew safely back home on Earth and getting checked out by our medical team, what an incredible and exciting mission this this.