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they're ready to take their step out of Orion
and onto that large raft, the front porch

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folks will be ready

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And as there are mission audio loops in mission
control in Houston, there is a mission audio

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loop here on the ship. And it was just
reported out that the side hatch is open

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Side hatch of integrity is open. You're getting
these beautiful shots from our aerial assets

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The ship itself where I'm on just 3,000 yards away. Again plenty of
people on the boat here, glued to the side, closest to where they can see

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all this action and again with just 3,000 yards
separating us, great views from the bow here

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You can see now that side hatch is open. One of
the Navy personnel is about to get inside there

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In they go. In total, four will go into Orion. So it'll be a
little bit of a tight squeeze, but the goal is to have a recovery

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personnel with each astronaut
assessing them Boats getting closer now

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Again, that one that's right up against Orion,
those are the divers that will go in to the

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spacecraft to check on each of the astronauts.
These other boats will begin doing a number of

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things, putting on that stabilization collar
onto Orion, building that front porch

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Eventually, they will retrieve the parachutes, as well as
tow Orion back to the well deck of the recovery ship here

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And so as we wait for the Navy and NASA personnel
to get their assessment of the crew inside

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of Orion, why don't we toss it back to Rob for an update.
Rob McClendon, Director of the United States of America

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Thank you, Megan. and Mission Control, Flight Director
Rick Henfling and the entry team of flight controllers

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still on duty. The vehicle has been powered down
for some time now. There are no hazardous gases

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emanating from integrity. That, of course, allowed
the recovery personnel to approach the vehicle and

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then open the hatch to begin the initial medical
assessment of the crew, as you just indicated

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Now we're standing by for the erection of that inflatable raft, the front porch alongside
of the vehicle that will enable the crew to be extracted one by one onto the raft

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have a moment or two to get their land legs back before they hoisted into two hovering Navy helicopters
two crew members for each helicopter for a short flight back to the deck of the USS John P Murtha

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All of Integrity's systems operated flawlessly
throughout the course of the approach to the Earth

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the entry into the Earth's atmosphere,
and all of the key milestones

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that followed in this high-speed return to Earth for Integrity. a mission that spanned
more than 694,000 miles from the vehicle's launch from the Kennedy Space Center

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atop the space launch system
back on April 1st. Thank you

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Thank you

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As we mentioned at the top of the broadcast the last time that the Apollo
program saw a splashdown in the Pacific was Apollo 17 back on December 19th 1972

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So for the first time in
54, some 53 and a half years

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we have reenacted that with the arrival of Integrity's astronauts
as they flew around the moon in that historic lunar flyby

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that began with a translunar injection
burn that took them out of Earth orbit

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following 24 hours of a high Earth orbit trajectory. The
high Earth orbit trajectory enabled flight controllers here

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to have a full 24 hours to
evaluate the systems on integrity

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and the condition of the crew before
they would commit to flying to the moon

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Thank you

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Thank you

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Thank you