Watch the Polaris Dawn Astronauts Egress from Crew Dragon Capsule

[Music] now we did see a jet ski pass by that jet ski has a couple uh recovery folks on board I'm pretty sure this is uh the first time we've had these views on our recovery webcasts so it's pretty cool to see I love I love that we get this this view right here where we can see the the lights on inside Dragon capsule Through the Windows almost looks like the eyes of dragon yeah that's pretty cool where the main parachutes were located that's where uh the the oh here's a thermal view now but yeah that lower larger Basin is where the main parachutes were located eles they are remaining in their seats and strapped in with their safety harnesses but at this point in time they are they have opened up their visor excuse me as the dynamic portion of flight has concluded we do continue to flow some cooled nitrox or nitrogen oxygen air mixture in through their suits to help keep them uh comfortable during this phase but they are also at this point in time allowed to retrieve uh their water bottles which had previously been stored for re-entry so uh yeah they're able to stay cool and hydrated and just hang out and uh and enjoy um the the last few minutes within their their their home for the last 5 days that individual will climb up a little bit higher on the capsule and then jump off into the dark water and oh here's a cool view uh from uh above the uh that helicopter pad uh that is where the helicopter will land and take the four crew members back to land so about 5 minutes well at this point four minutes until uh the capsule is lifted out of the water Dragon SpaceX brace for capsule lift there they go for bracing 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 the capsule is um translated and secured we'll see them begin to hose it down with fresh water uh as we reuse these capsules um 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 uh that will get rinsed out as well as the the overall capsule and perform some additional uh 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 seat bels on yeah H the classic kid thumbs up yes I love it yep uh I've actually been following along and there you can see officially the hatch is open I just heard cheering From A Distant part of the building I have a feeling that came from the dragon teams at their computers that that was pretty cool so we'll start to see the foot rests um the recovery team will come in and there is our Polaris on 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 [Laughter] well Mission specialist Anna Menan there she is fellow space yes so happy I love this so excited welcome back to Earth Anna SpaceX team assisting her to make sure that she doesn't hit the side hatch in any way so much excitement our second space xer to fly in space mission specialist Sarah Gillis back on Earth so cool to see her now egressing is our pilot kid potit I would bet good money that we're going to see some thumbs up once kid exits it's pretty cool to see that uh they are coming out standing up on their own two feet and walking offex dragon this is the final call signning up some dance moves that's pretty great I think that move should be added to the required choreography for human space flight missions you know we have the astronaut lean back when they approach their rocket on launch day 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 for a second I thought he was saying goodbye to his spacecraft uh but it turns out he was saying goodbye to the people still in there assisting him with his egress so uh incredible to see um what what a day what a week what a week and now with our polaron crew safely back home on Earth and getting checked out by our medical team what an incredible and exciting Mission this has been next up the crew will actually catch a helicopter flight back to shore where they will rejoin their families

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