Hello guys you’ll be very pleased to know we’re closest to mention in thirty-five seconds find her on board drive and Falcon nine but ours at new heights and a woman was every nominal and throttling down and in preparation for March two. It should have sounded much longer. Thumbs left from the pilot they’re back where the throttles are hello power is a problem and we heard that it just tells the crew if they need to start anything. But right now everybody is nominal collapse on south and nine. Well, we’ve reasoned it to fly to Falcon Nine it comes on the path nation that there’s the mission commander you were talking about.
Can you see on the left-hand side of the screen that the crew members are wearing those new spacesuits that we were talking about so far? A night launch is always a lot of fun if you’re there in person to see it because you can see the rocket. Because it propels itself into space but one thing I’m thinking about as we watch this. One of the crew members, one of the SpaceX employees who has spent years, Sarah Gillis, is the lead astronaut instructor. So she’s spent years training astronaut crew NASA astronauts, and private astronauts, but she’s never had this experience. The same loyal men in one of the other SpaceX engineers on board and so these folks have played an intimate role in the development of this program.
But they’ve never had the chance to fly. They were finally getting a chance to do so here. Let me remind us that certain milestones are related to how far this is going into orbit what is the importance of doing a really specific test of these spacesuits and that’s right there what you’re seeing shows the moment when the Falcon Nine booster below separates from the Dragon capsule where the astronauts are, which is a really important milestone in terms of safety there comes a moment where things can go wrong so far it seems like everything went fine there but to answer your question, the other big thing that they’re doing on this mission is they’re taking the spacecraft through what’s known as the radiation belts it’s a part of space where different particles from the signal collect and so it’s a dangerous place to travel. But to get to Mars and the moon you have to travel through it and so no human has done that since the end of the Apollo programs in the nineteen seventies. So not only are they testing their bodies, but to see how this radiation affects their bodies. They’re also testing the Dragon spacecraft and to make sure that the spacecraft and the avionics will survive this intense radiation we we have the Bronx SpaceX engineers strap them in.
Strap the avionics to a gurney and into a lab outside of college just like you would take somebody who’s getting radiation for chemo and just throw this thing around until it breaks down, so they were able to say hey colorist on pro you guys are going to be safe out there. going through the radiation belts, what happened half an hour ago and we’ve all seen it with us because the NASA editor has seen our comms. who’s a former NASA space biologist shot funnel is always amazing, when we saw a program just hoping you could talk about what Kristin was talking about.
NASA has been using it for quite a few decades, how did we get to this point where we have this private company taking over these leagues? You know it’s the kind of thing these days like you have Craig Venter, he’d be the guy who would walk you guys through really silly at least human genome sequences on a ship they shouldn’t be on around the world looking for water.