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going to rig up some harnessing to the exterior of the spacecraft, and then they will be checked out through the windows to, to make sure everyone's okay. they will then get the other boat to come by, and they will winch them up onto the ship within about 20 minutes, which is pretty quick amount of time knowing that they've splashed down in the middle of the ocean and they are just doing all the last final checks as they are getting ready to exit the spacecraft. it's pretty exciting time where you get to see the flashing blue lights of the fast boats come out to meet you. they will collect the parachutes that are floating in the water, and they might feel a little extra rocking as that one. spacex spacex ninja climbs on board and we call them the spacex spider monkey, because that's what he looks like he's doing when he climbs on top of the spacecraft to hook up that harnessing. and one of my favorite moments, favorite moments that will

happen probably just, you know, tens of minutes from now is where he takes a giant flying leap off of this spacecraft and into the ocean. after he's completed his rigging. >> chris sembroski, thank you for spending time with us today for your describing this to us and your and your profound comments. and judge esther salas, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> you change everything we do around here for the better. thank you. thank you, and thanks to all of you for letting us into your homes tonight. we're so grateful to all of you. our coverage continues now on the beatitari melber. hi, ari. >> hi, nicole. >> thank you so much. this is. >> to. >> be with ari melber. i'm going to bring in adam. >> frank, an. >> astrophysicist with the university of rochester, the author of light of the stars. as we look at this. >> ongoing mission here. >> tell us. >> what you see and. what folks should keep in mind to make sense of what is a truly unusual and historic nasa event here.

>> yeah, i think, first. >> of all. >> the thing is, you. >> know. >> this is a. >> triumph of. >> american science. >> you know, to. >> see the ongoing. development of commercial space program. >> right? having a commercial space enterprise. >> which is so important for. >> the future of humanity, right. >> if we're really. >> going to become. a spacefaring. >> civilization. >> which, you know, if you want. >> to think about. >> the next 300. >> 500 years of humanity, that's what we're going to. >> do if. >> we make it past climate change. >> yeah. >> what are we seeing right here? >> literally, though. >> with them driving up? >> yeah. >> well, what's happening. >> here is that they, you know, the astronauts. >> have successfully. >> successfully navigated. plunging through the atmosphere. >> like a meteor. >> and now what we're happening. >> here is they're going to come up to, you know. >> open up the doors and give the astronauts some room. and then i'm not sure really if whether what we're picking up here, whether they're taken here or whether they're taken later on. >> but it's. you know. >> making sure that the astronauts are safe. and, you know, the final parts of the touchdown. >> walk us through the

difficulty. >> level of something like this. >> the plight. >> and delay for these astronauts got a lot of attention. >> i think. >> most people follow the news, are aware of the history. but what did it mean to get this done to this point here where they've made this this splash landing today? >> well, you. >> know. i want to. >> say i'd. >> like to. >> talk to that a little bit. you know, this idea that the astronauts were stranded up there if you're an astronaut, right? this is what you live for. you pray to be able to be chosen for a mission and going up into space. and there was the problem with the spaceliner, with the with the, the boeing. but they could have at any time. nasa could have done something to, to try and retrieve them. and they didn't need to. right. because there's a cycle of there were already astronauts, two astronauts up there that had come up on this capsule. that capsule was still attached to the mission, and nasa decided it would be better just for the normal logistics to leave them up there for longer. and as the

astronauts themselves said, it's like they loved being up there. so, you know, it's like if you're a space nerd, as they are and i am, it's like being sent to hawaii for a one week vacation and finding out, no, actually, you're going to be able to spend, you know, eight months here or ten months there. so this idea of them being stranded, i really felt was kind of the politics getting involved. and, you know, nasa has contingency plans. nasa has, you know, nasa understands what it takes and what the problems are. and so the decision to, you know, leave them up there was not one of desperation, but was one of scheduling and logistics, which is very hard when it comes to space. so this in many ways, this was very routine. getting them down was not something special. this capsule was always up there waiting to bring the two astronauts who'd been there already and were scheduled to come down, but this one had four seats. that was part of the plan so they could get them all done. >> and we're looking at the footage here. >> this is.

>> off the coast of. >> florida. viewers who can see it, this. >> is live. it is as dramatic as a highlight reel that. >> you might see on the. >> internet or later. >> but this is happening right now. we're told, adam, that this process. >> will unfold over roughly. >> the following hour. so to be. >> clear, we're we're. >> not expecting, according to the nasa guidance, that we would see a human astronaut pop out of here in the next couple of moments. this is the process. but as a final question. >> to you, what. >> else will be happening in the minutes ahead as as they complete what looks like a successful operation? >> yeah, i think now it's really all about the systems. it's about the astronaut safety. you know, these capsules that spacex has built are phenomenal pieces of engineering, right. like i said, it's a triumph of american science to see them be able to do this. but the other point i want to make, it's actually this is the amazing thing. it's now routine, right? there's a certain way in which we are passing one era where, like

every spacex launch was the most amazing thing and the astronauts were always in danger. and now we're moving into a place where, you know, it will be. it's always going to be dangerous, but it's becoming more routine as we have more commercial space operators, more private companies. so to me, that's really what's amazing about this is you have these astronauts who were scheduled to come earlier, didn't work out okay. no problem. you know, we'll bring them back a few months later. the astronauts were fine with it and they got to do more science. and so really the important thing here is not the drama, but the lack of drama, because that's where we're heading. we're heading over the next 50 years, 100 years to the place where we're going to have a lot of people in space. we're going to have jobs in space, we're going to have tourism in space. and so that's the real beauty of what we're seeing here today. >> yeah. >> i'll tell you, adam, frank. first of all, you're giving us a broader context and almost a bit of a aeronautical. >> fact check. >> about some of the discourse about this as we're watching them after the splash landing

here. some of the nasa officials right there on the on the, on the vehicle. but second, you're reminding us that when it comes to space travel, the. >> less drama. >> the better. i think that's. >> something we could all. >> get behind. i want to thank adam frank on this breaking news story. as i mentioned to viewers, what you see here is dramatic. it's historic. it is a good thing for the astronauts. and we are told it's going to continue. over the coming hour. so again, my thanks to you, mr. frank. to viewers, i will say we're going to keep an eye on this. >> we had. >> the successful splash landing, everyone saying that's a positive. we cover a lot of breaking news. >> we love. >> it when there is positive good news. >> as there. >> was here. and if there are further developments on this with the nasa splashdown, we of. course will. >> bring that to you over the course of this hour. >> there's a. >> lot. >> of other news going on right now, including the story. >> that we. >> brought you last night, which has a major development. i am going to explain it like this. the country is following a

mounting clash between the trump administration's effort to declare wartime powers, powers to deport when there is no war now, that was ruled unlawful by a federal judge. then there were reports that trump officials deliberately defied that. >> judge's order. >> president trump then unloading on that same judge, demanding his ousting through impeachment. all of this coming through in the past 24 hours on this story that we've been bringing you. now, the court process part will take time. but as this clash escalated, legal experts wondered if and how the supreme court would view these blatant efforts to test or defy. >> court orders. >> and would they weigh in in some manner. or more quickly? because trump is accused here of not only obviously violating the law full stop saying i have wartime powers when there's no war. but then, furthermore, allegations and evidence that he would abuse power and try to intimidate that judge pushing for the impeachment, which is usually reserved, of course, for bribery or misconduct. nothing like this, but that might be a

ploy to put pressure on judges or to oust them. trump's doj also taking related measures, asking that this judge be removed from the case, while legal experts see no grounds for that. so tonight, as we return to this ongoing story, that was one of the big questions. how would the supreme court or chief justice roberts respond? and the news is an extraordinary public rebuke of president trump from the supreme court, chief justice himself, from the famous leader of this court, a republican appointee. by the way, this is and i'm about to read it to you. it's brief and clear, a striking and rare development. justices rarely comment on pending government disputes outside of the court rulings they issue. when it's time for them to rule, and the supreme court is nowhere near ruling on this case, it's at the district level in a very early posture if you want to get into it. indeed, most justices go many years without saying

anything out of court that could be seen as criticizing or disagreeing with the sitting president. all of that is the context for this. this is the first time chief justice roberts has spoken this way in president trump's second term with all of these legal issues, the statement reads. for more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision, and he refers to the normal review process that exists for that purpose. this is new. it's a big deal. it is a direct rebuttal, a legal fact check and a line in the sand. right now, while it matters, chief justice roberts knows how even lawless and precedent busting requests by donald trump can quickly be embraced by parts of the republican party, or all of it can pick up steam in a maga congress. and so he's using his power right now to hold the line against a president who would abuse the process, to intimidate

judges, to try to get them removed, to try to end the very real checks and balances we have in our system. this is one of those stories where a day ago or a week ago, people were saying, when are we going to hear from the supreme court in a more direct way, if these things are as bad as we are hearing they are. and tonight the news is we have now heard from the chief justice. now some context. if you could remove judges when you disagreed with them, then we wouldn't have checks and balances. i mean, the president's really usually the most powerful politician in the country and usually the world. if he could just oust the judges that disagree with his power, then the judiciary wouldn't mean anything. and chief justice roberts, i want to be clear, is not concerned that this really extreme radical impeachment idea would work. he's not concerned that donald trump could actually get this or any other federal judge removed because they disagree on a ruling. i'll

remind you why the house can start an impeachment process so you could get it going, and you could try to intimidate and harass judges this way, but it would still take 67 votes in the united states senate to ever remove any judge through impeachment. and even a united republican party doesn't have those votes right now. they're far shy of 60 some votes. many republican senators have also said they oppose these tactics. so real talk. it is not like roberts had to act to keep these judges in office. he could have let this all play out. but he acted today on apparent principle, summoning his authority, pushing back on this attempted creeping normalization of the tactics we've been reporting on that are clearly against the rule of law, and some are even authoritarian. that's the constitutional part. then there's the deportation, these issues, the clash over this weekend's ruling, which held that any trump administration plane holding these detainees needed to be

returned to the us, to trump officials telling axios they defied that order directly out of the white house, coordinated with dhs and stephen miller, the deputy chief of staff, landing the planes in el salvador. while trump's doj lawyers looked quite suspicious in a new hearing. because when they were pressed on this, they told this same judge that trump is attacking, that they wouldn't provide any more information. pretty defian. hiding the available information from a judge also could be a rookie move if the information is already out there. this is the map of the flights that suggests the judicial order was violated. you don't have to absorb this all. we're putting it on the screen for you to understand that they could have shared some of these facts with the judge, and they're hiding it. but the new york times put this breakdown together with two planes in the air. when the ruling came, the third hadn't even left yet. so to review tonight, the judge ordered those deportations stopped because the president claimed war powers and

peacetime. very simple. i only get to do this because we're at war, but we're not at war. the judge says. you don't get to do it. trump officials then went forward with these deportations. anyway, across those three plane trips, some officials even openly mocking the idea that they would have to follow a court ruling. and then trump doubled down, attacking this judge and floating what would be a futile bid to impeach him. there's no evidence that you would get a bunch of democratic senators to join in that effort. d.o.j. and then the highest court in the lands, chief justice, made this rare move to enter this very live conflict, to rebut and fact check the sitting president. so it's not going well for the trump administration on this issue, even if they seem to welcome some of these clashes, as we've reported, that they sometimes want to lose, test the courts or get it up to the supreme court, they seem to think they will expand their powers in the supreme court. well, let's be clear. chief justice roberts did

not and is not supposed to say how he might rule on such a case as this one. he's clearly pushing back against this overall move, the overall energy coming out of a sometimes lawless white house. and now we're seeing wider concerns about what trump is doing. maga allies like the rupert murdoch owned wall street journal saying it is clearly troubling to see trump officials appear to disdain the law while they claim to uphold it. here's how some of those trump officials respond. >> to this. >> one federal judge again thinks he can control foreign policy for the entire country, and he cannot. >> he didn't care about the lives of those officers. he didn't care about the national security of this country. >> the administration may continue doing these flights. absolutely. >> i don't care what the judges think. i don't care what the left thinks. we're coming. >> he doesn't care. and they'll keep doing the flights. and they are projecting very clearly.

they want to defy court orders. those people you saw there are not just random political figures. we've tolyo give you ly and say that was false or you lied, but it was out of court. we just showed you a border official and the current attorney general of the united states. and this strategy and this lawlessness has now brought a rebuke from the highest court in the land. we are not yet at a constitutional crisis, but the supreme court is listening. and the president, at a minimum, is getting fact checked. the very next hearing on the actual substance. the heart of this case is friday, and i'm joined by a top former federal prosecutor on this live story. prosecutor on this live story. when we're back in upset stomach iberogast indigestion iberogast bloating iberogast thanks to a unique combination of herbs, iberogast helps relieve six digestive symptoms to help you feel better.

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>> times that we are in. >> if president. >> trump's administration ignores a judicial. >> order. >> what he's saying is he is. >> above the law. >> so this is not about whether one judge can tell the president or the administration what to do. it is about whether one branch, the judicial branch, can weigh in on what is legal or whether the president gets to decide what's legal without. >> any recourse. >> but i think what's important. >> here is. to put. >> the supreme court, or specifically justice roberts statement in context. this same supreme court found that president trump has immunity. so i think when you talk about the rule of law, we have to put in context that we have the president trump, who's been. told he is above the law effectively by the supreme court, and now he's acting in accordance with that very decree. so i think in some ways we. >> have to i would i would quibble with the leap there. the criminal immunity issue, however controversial, is about whether he can be prosecuted and sent to prison, which gets you up to the

nixonian level or a rarity in our history. whereas here we're talking about carrying out his duties, not whether there is a new crime committed per se, but rather whether all federal officials acting under the color of law have to abide by court rulings. and so what the what the roberts statement today says is you're not going to oust these judges and overturn that. it would seem to be helpful whatever one thinks of their past immunity ruling. well, here's. >> what i would say, though. >> ari. is that. >> you have to have some kind of recourse. so let's say we have to play this out. if you have federal officials who are obeying a direct order from the president or disobeying court orders, right. that's a constitutional crisis. and the next step already there is if you have the president who decides it doesn't matter what courts say, the rule of law is, i am the rule of law. i get to act in contravention to what you say the law is. i get to do what i think is illegal. i think under the supreme court's ruling, i don't know that we

have a basis for a court to then interfere and say in judging his official actions, whether or not anyone else can weigh in. and yes, i understand that there's a criminal distinction here, but i think more broadly it undermines the rule of law as a as a principle in our society. >> do you think it's good that the chief justice spoke out? >> i think. >> in the effort to anyone speaking out, i think it is it is welcome. i think anyone who's standing on the side of the rule of law should do so. and that goes across all of civil society. i think it's always welcome. i think what we want, though, is that as we speak out, as we act, all of our actions are consistent with that protection and defense of the rule of law, not just statements, but actions and use of our official power or as citizens across the spectrum. >> but it's the case isn't before the supreme court. so the chief justice can either wait or do this extraordinary thing, which i think i can't remember. you tell me if you do. i don't remember any other president being fact checked like this in

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propose some sort of deal. we have separate statements from the white house and the kremlin that say there was an agreement for a, quote, limited cease fire on energy facilities and other infrastructure, the kremlin stating it would last 30 days. as always, we are showing you what two different governments are saying. that doesn't necessarily mean it is the whole truth or it will hold. ukrainian leader zelenskyy was not on this call. he says he hopes to receive more details about this, and the ongoing talks have functioned at times without ukraine. today's call comes after, of course, not only the contentious lead up, but the now infamous oval office meeting. >> today i heard. >> oh well, we weren't invited. well, you've been there for. >> three years. you should. >> have ended it. >> three years. >> you should have never started it. you could have made a deal. >> we had a meeting today, as you know, with. >> president zelensky. >> and i. >> would say it didn't work out exactly great from his standpoint. >> i think he.

>> very much overplayed his hand. >> i think it takes two. >> to tango. >> and you're going to have to make. >> a deal with russia. >> i can do. >> things financially. >> that would. >> be very. >> bad for russia. i don't. >> want to do that because i want to get peace. >> we're joined by ambassador michael mcfaul, who served as the u.s. ambassador to russia under president obama and has had high level contacts in the russia and ukraine sphere. welcome back. >> great to be back. >> let's do the facts first. then your take. walk us through the specific facts of what you can glean from these two statements and what's happened today. >> well, the first fact is that the president of the united states is trying to negotiate the end of the war in ukraine, and i applaud that fact. by the way, he's trying. the second fact, they agreed to a limited part of the cease fire today with putin, which was. supposed to be on energy infrastructure. what they didn't agree to is what the ukrainians agreed to in saudi arabia just a week ago,

ukrainians agreed to an unconditional 30 day cease fire. putin rejected that categorically today, and in the statement that he released, wasn't in our statement the american statement. but in the statement he released, he put some very specific conditions on what would lead to a 30 day cease fire, including no more mobilization for the ukrainian army. second, no more importing of weapons to ukraine from the west. and third, no intelligence sharing between the united states and ukraine. and my prediction is that those are conditions that president zelensky will not accept. >> so i hate to lessen or dirty your sophisticated diplomatic analysis with our grubby american politics, but in the us congress, what you just described is what they call a poison pill. you gives you cover, but you get it into the bill and then it poisons it

enough that other people won't vote for it. so you claim you got a need or a want, but really, you're trying to kill the thing with apologies for bringing it down to this level when i know how high operate, how high you operate. is this a putin poison pill? >> yes. so you asked me for the. >> facts first, and now you're going to. you ask me for the opinion. >> go ahead, sir. >> and the. opinion is exactly. >> you just. well, you. >> just stole my thunder. that's a great metaphor, actually. and people should be using it because what i heard reading that statement was that putin's not interested in a cease fire. and moreover, literally just hours after he got off the phone with president trump, he launched an attack against energy infrastructure, the very thing that he said he was going to do, a cease fire. so maybe the cease fire is not, you know, in place. maybe he hasn't negotiated that with the ukrainians. but in diplomacy, it's called confidence building measures. right. you would think

that if he wanted to show that he was serious about it, he might have refrained from that attack. but i think he did it on purpose. i think he did it deliberately. and i think now president trump and his team might have to reconsider their strategy, because so far, all they've been doing is providing concessions to putin, thinking that these sweeteners, these carrots, they'll they'll convince him to do the right thing. and by the way, for the ukrainians, it's all been sticks and coercion and pressure, cutting off military assistance, cutting off intelligence assistance to force them to negotiate. while the ukrainians signed the deal and putin didn't. and so i think the trump team now has to think about maybe they have to have a more coercive strategy if they really want to get a settlement. and let's be clear, ceasefire is only the baby step to a long term negotiated settlement. there's been many ceasefires before and they've been abrogated. putin has broken them

before, but he wasn't even ready to do that today. >> what does coercive entail? >> first thing, announce you're giving new military assistance to ukraine, not threatening to cut it off. that would send a signal to putin that we're serious, that we're going to we're going to keep supporting the ukrainians until we get a just peace. number two, and president trump has hinted at this, he did, including one of the clips you just played, but increased sanctions against russia. if you increase sanctions, you can take them away during negotiations. there's nothing lost. and that very concretely, we have several billions of dollars of russian central bank assets sitting in american bank accounts right now. the president tomorrow could say, we're going to take that money and use it to pay for the military assistance that we are providing to ukraine. that would get president putin's attention, that trump is not just going to keep giving and

giving and giving, but that he's going to play hardball, just like putin is playing hardball, by the way, i think that's the right strategy. if you want to get the kremlin's attention. >> before i lose you, ambassador, you've worked in state. you've worked for secretary of state. obviously, you have all this experience. do you have any view of how marco rubio has been operating in his shift from politician to secretary of state and on the deportation issue, which we've been covering? he was sharing a sort of a foreign leader's very disrespectful trolling of our own judicial system. i'm just curious if you had any thoughts on any of that. >> yeah. >> i have two thoughts. >> one, i worked at the state department. i worked as ambassador, but i also worked three years at the national security council for president obama. and there's always a tension between the white house and the national security team and the state department. and what i see so far is elon musk

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>> anden there you have it. the side hatch is open for the first time since september. a >> we can see some of the protective equipment there, that was brought into frame, that will help protect the edge of the side hatch. one from any potential damage. oh, we can s the recovery crew member there taking photos of the side hatch seal. this is part of the standard operation for recovery. these photos will get savedded into our procedure. so they've e for a while, for months. and the interesting thing is, is that, the edges of it en cure no damage while crewmembers are am cooing out from the spacecraft. are coming out from the spacecraft. can

so there are now five people onboard the dragon spacecraft. r a long time. so the thing that r they really want to be careful of here is that, you know, the as they bring them out, that they're >> if you are just joining us, it has not been an hour since crew-9 splashed down off the coast of tallahassee, florida at 2:57 p.m. pacific time. the crew is now onboard the recovery vessel megan and the hatch is opens. the next major smiletone is when the crew will actually egress or exit the spacecraft, but before that, they will continue to 6:00, the recovery personnel will continue to install that protective area around the hatch

and then remove the foot rests so we are a couple of minutes away from seeing the crew egress but not too too long away. that, you know, when you're in sp >> we will probably see the foot rests being handed out here in the future. as i mentioned before. of course, we got to get a well documented photo of the moment. i know we can't see it from here. i am pretty sure there are four smiles onboard right now. >> we did hear that report following splashdown, there were four smiles as far as he could see. yeah. capsule full of grins. now generally speaking -- >> and there we do see crew. some happy waves, smiles all around, back on earth. what we

sometimes call proof of life. if you gn rally speaking, we, we have the individuals in the two center seats of the spacecraft exit first. you might hear us refer to this as exit process as egress. it is just another term for exiting the spacecraft. generally speaking, we most of the time have the two center seats egress first as it majors moving around inside of the capsule a little bit easier. no. we can see the tablets that were previously located on the upper leg of the crewmembers. we can see those being handed

out of the recovery team. those were taken off prior to the entry phase, to the spacecraft re-entry and those had to be stored and secured. pray to dynamic operations? amount of that looks like we are starting to see the foot rests also be removed. i just saw one there on the screen. there are four, of course, one for each crew member. spacecraft, where you were like, you know, you were press >> those foot rests are made out of carbon fiber and actually sized appropriately for each crew member as everybody has different measurements and different leg lengths. same goes for the arm rest and the bucket length of each seat.

we size those appropriately for the crewmembers and to ensure their comfort and safety. >> i believe we just saw the little ramp that is used to help slide the crewmembers out from inside the spacecraft. >> once the crew does ex xis dragon freedom. they will be placed on as stretcher to go to a medical bay for medical checkout. this is standard procedure for all dragon spacecraft flights that splashdown crewed as well as soyuz spacecraft that land in kazakhstan. but you want to be really careful about, you know, you don't want to assume that. and especially there's >> we can seeter,ier of dragon freedom quite clearly in the

shot ain't is such a beautiful sight. i personally prefer the capsule when it has some of that charring from atmospheric re-entry. it is the signature sign of a capsule that has returned to earth. cause for alarm, given the nine months in zero gravity. again, we're living this together. this is how live news works. so you can't quite tel >> continuing to standby for the first crew member to egress or exit for dragon freedom following the splashdown at 2:57 p.m. pacific time. dragon undocked from the international space station at 10:05 pacific just yesterday so it was about 17 hours ever phasing. if

they do come out, i'll flag you. >> sure, sure. i mean, so, you know, what happened is, is there was the boeing that the two of the astronauts were already up there and had traveled up there on this capsule. the other two astr and while onboard, crew contributed to00 hours of science over 150 research experiments and investigations. making great use of the microgravity lab of think international space station which celebrates 25 years of continuous human presence this november. and very aisle looks like we are about to get the first crew member hereupon egress of the dragon spacecraft. listen in to the

actual combined broadcast of the nasa space x mission. here we are using, as i mentioned, their >> so we are standing bay for that egress outside of dragon. do you see one of those stretchers. this is the expected procedure as the crew will be taken to medical facilities following their exit from dragon. >> now i.t from dragon. >> we can see folks on board clapping as our first crew. >> member. >> and that is. >> nasa astronaut. >> nick hague. >> commander. >> of crew >> we can see folk ons board. that is nasa astronaut nick hague, commander of crew-9. now out of crew dragon freedom. some smiles, thumbs up and wave. can't get any better than that.

yeah. ing that is one happy camper, that is for sure. >> as we said before, it is standard procedure for all of the long duration crewmembers to receive assistance upon egressing from the spacecraft. we basically helped them move off of the recovery the deck and into the private medical quarters for their initial consultation with the space spacex flight surgeon so we see that take place for all four of the crewmembers today. the willd wilmore still inside. and iwilld believe, as they just alluded to, we're now going to watch this process safely play out for the other three. coming up next, tell us your thoughts, adam, as a as an expert here as we watch this play out. >> well. >> first of and we are star are standing by for the next crew member to exit

freedom. have this capacity to send people up there, right. for the entire history of earth's origin or earth's existence, stuff has only fallen down, right? meteors fall down. and now we've reached a point where we can blow stuff back out, including us. so just watching this happen safely and watching those astronauts come out, i think my main emotion is jealousy, right? like, why. not me? i want to go. so i'm very i'm very >> next step out of the capsule, we expect roscosmos cosmo out from alex anger gorbunov's first spaceflight. he spent 171 days in space alongside of nasa astronaut nick hague. >> it looks like we are getting some cheers and clapping onboard

as aleksandr gorbunov is slid down the little ramp and placed into the mobility aid. once again a big smile. much ine coming out next. adam.. much ine >> right. and so that brings us now the two crewmembers are nas as stroh naut suni williams and butch wilmore. they completed 286 days in space. >> one of the remanning foot restings being removed from the dragon spacecraft. earth. and, you know, the astronauts end up gathering there at the space

station because it's almost a spiritual as i said before, we generally try to have the crew members that are located in the two center seats aboard dragon and first if possible as it creates a little bit more movable working room inside of the spacecraft and the crew member inside that is helping all of the crew-9 crew egress or exit from the spacecraft. disembarkif williams and wilmore, these twof astronauts who've been up there for a long time, and your enthusiasm and your, your sort of scientific passion is coming through because you're reminding everyone the power of this technology and the interest i'm going to bring in wayne hale, a retired nasa flight director and they are standing by for the next crew mememem to exit the

crew dragon freedom following the splashdown not even an hour ago at 2:57 p.m. pacific time. here in a moment. let'sc time. really are the recovery operations down pretty quick at this point. yeah. it is incredible toll think that you know, just five years ago when we were doing this initial demonstration missions and crew dragon that now we are under about 30 minutes for you know, to retrieve the spacecraft are the water and just several minutes here while it has been onboard and to get everyone really to get that side hatch open. for those that have recently

joined the dragon had an on-time splashdown or looks like we are getting the next crew member here. that isen in other than suni williams. big smile. big waves. she, like the other crewmembers, now will be assisted ton the mobility aid ton the moke aid. now will be assisted on to the mobility aid. and there we have it. some waves , some thumbs up and some smiles. >> def enly seems to be a theme among all recovery operations. >> absolutely. of course that leaves nasa astronaut butch wilmore inside of dragon and seat 4. exits the spacecraft.

we are getting views of him now as he egresses or exits the spacecraft. >> elation and. >> cheers there from butch wilmore. as we mentioned before, returning. >> to once again some elation and cheers there from butch wilmore as we mentioned before. and wreak havoc on the body so it is customary and standard procedure for all the long term space residents to get assistance once they are back onboard the recovery vessel. williams and butch wilmore,. >> well, now, that nick, butch,

suni and alexander are safely back home on earth and getting checked out by theism's medical team, we are going to wrap up our live coverage of their return. the crew mission began a great a very successful expedition tot a the international space station. it's good to have butch and sonny back. we are really pleased that they were able to come back as part of the expedition nine crew. you know, sonny has served as the commander of the space station during this period of time. and she also did at least two spacewalks. or was it three now? and my mind forgets. but it has been an extremely productive time for butch and sonny, as well as the rest of the crew, nine on board the international space station. and now that crew ten has taken over, they have

even more exciting research to do. >> wayne hale from nasa and adam frankel, who has been our copilot, if i may, on on that rare thing in the news world, positive breaking news, a moment that we share as a nation and that both of you helped us understand better. thanks to both of you. as we approach the end of the hour, i will be handing coverage off really a striking development there as we saw all four of those astronauts safely disembark tonight. thanks for watching the beat. ayman mohyeldin is up next. >> life doesn't come with an owner's manual. freedom is getting to write your own. >> so get 10%. >> off a jeep wrangler or get into a jeep. grand cherokee with freedom is on road or. >> off where. >> it's a front row seat to the city, or a second row seat, maybe even a third. >> life doesn't. >> come with an owner's manual, so get out there and write.

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