Watch Live: Crew-1 overview briefing
@JimBridenstine notes that this mission will allow for 3x as much science on the Space Station due to increased crew capacity.
@KathyLueders: A culmination of a lot of work to get to this point. Excited for a Halloween launch.
@HansKoenigsmann thanks NASA for all of their support throughout SpaceX's history. Goes on to note all of the milestones that led to this point and plays a Demo-2 recap video.
SpaceX just published the video on its YouTube channel.
Bob and Doug with the SpaceX team post-mission.
@HansKoenigsmann on the lesson's learned from Demo-2: Saw slightly more erosion on the heat shield in one area than we would have wanted too. Also deployed parachutes slightly lower than they would have preferred. Design changes have been made.
(Note that those issues may sound serious, but Hans stressed that they were nothing too major.)
Also, more security boats for Crew-1.
@KathyLueders on Crew Dragon's capacity: Only plan to use up to four seats, because we also have cargo requirements for these missions.
@HansKoenigsmann on potentially flying more than four crew members on other missions: Will evaluate in the future after we get more data flying four crew members.
@KathyLueders says that the operational status of Crew Dragon will be made official at the Crew-1 Flight Readiness Review.
@KathyLueders says that the Loss of Crew (LOC) number for Crew Dragon in the Commercial Crew program is 1 out of 276.
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