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We left Hawthorne yesterday, and then we all reconvened with the Jets in Pensacola,

and then this morning we had a beautiful sunrise flight out.

So we just arrived to Kennedy Space Center, and this is

the place where we're going to launch in just a few days.

I know that we're going to be really busy in the next six days leading up to launch.

We've got some medical checkouts, we're doing some

research, we're doing some media, and studying.

I thought launch week I'd be nervous, but I'm really not at all.

I think we're just, we're just ready.

I'm still into today, and today's a great day.

I know looking ahead in six days I'm going to feel very differently, but right now

I'm not thinking about anything else but how exciting it is.

Some of the biggest milestones that we're going to have coming up is like there's

dry dress, which is basically the dress rehearsal.

Everybody's involved.

Mission control, launch directors, the crew, the families, like everybody is

going through a simulation of exactly what it

would be, including us getting strapped in Dragon.

And then you get your L-1, the last day before launch.

We'll brief the public as to a little bit more specifics on our mission,

last moment to spend with family, and then we wake up the next day and we go to space.

The goal for right now is to talk through what the week will look like.

We did decide a 8 p.m.

start, a 12-hour launch window on the 15th is kind of what we're targeting right now.

Here's your launch time right there, and so we're going to do the sleep shifts.

So that you guys are fully optimized.

Going to sleep at 5 a.m.

and waking up at 1.

All your hormone levels plus the circadian will line up

so that you guys are in a perfect state for that launch.

So today we're just going to walk through all these choreography

steps so there's nothing that pops up and surprises us.

My name is Maddie Kothi.

I'm 26 years old and I am a Dragon integration engineer at SpaceX.

Haley and Cyan, you guys are going to go into the elevator first.

For the I4 crew, I'm also the closeout lead.

What the closeout lead means is I am in charge of the day of launch operations.

Basically having everything scheduled minute by minute

to make sure that we're going to hit our T0 time.

So if you guys want to go to each of your stations, we're going to go through crew

warn, which is like what is in your tablet and what you're wearing in your pocket.

And then we ultimately close the hatch on them.

So we're the last people to say good luck on this amazing adventure.

Everything's awesome.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks so much.

Everything's incredible.

Thank you.

Everything's good.

Oh yeah.

You're welcome.

We are at the weather decision point for the upcoming Instauration 4 mission.

So today we'll be stepping in to look at the

weather forecast across ascent and return.

So we have the evening forecast.

The thing we've been tracking is that tropical

development off to the east overall pretty good for that.

Really not much difference in the window as you can see.

Thanks everyone.

Currently right now the weather is trending great for not

only the launch but also for the splashdown and recovery.

We have to not only look at launch weather but also ensure that we'll have good

weather for landing basically three days from now.

Our launch window is on the 15th Wednesday between 9 and 10.

8 o'clock at night and 1 in the morning.

And all the weather models and everything looks like we're trending towards the

front side of that model as being the best.

Right now here we're getting ready for what we call dry dress.

Essentially it's a rehearsal for what's going to happen on launch day.

It's a great kind of end to end for not only the crew

but also for the team that's supporting the crew.

Okay we're a few minutes late.

And all of mission control.

All stations Cora and Dragon for awareness we are

a few minutes behind on side hatch leak checks.

Copy mosquito is in the capsule understood.

We went through all those different things that you need to

do to make sure you're going to be safe and ready for flight.

What are you physically doing in that moment?

This is your last chance to visualize it before you actually go and do this.

Dry dress was absolutely necessary to have walked through all those steps and it gave

us a really good indication of the timing of everything.

We got to put on our spacesuits and sit in our spacecraft

and it just made us even more hyped for launch day.

Everyone's phones are on silent.

Except mine.

Yeah don't miss that call.

As I'm about to go and inspire others you know there's a lot of people who have been

a big influence in my life even though they don't know it.

And Michelle Obama is one of them.

And so I just casually said oh I wish I could talk to her.

And Kidd was like we can make that happen.

You want us to all keep staring at you?

Hello?

Good afternoon this is Michelle Obama calling

for Dr. Proctor and the Inspiration4 crew.

Am I on the right line?

You are on the right line.

Hi Mrs. Obama.

This is Cyan Proctor.

Oh my goodness it's so good to hear your voice.

My goodness.

I can't tell you how much it means to be able to join you

guys on this call the day before this exciting mission.

I can't imagine what's going through your minds.

Well I have my entire crew here right now with me but I'm just

saying I'm thinking about how I'm talking to you right now.

And how amazing that is.

You are making history and I just want to thank all of

you for your courage and your curiosity and your bravery.

You have everything you need.

You have each other.

You guys are representing what it means to be America.

It is all of us.

Showing courage, taking risks on behalf of

everyone else and you all are doing just that.

Right now I want to thank the crew of Inspiration4 for joining us.

In just a little over 24 hours they will be blasting

off on the first all civilian mission to space.

We had a very special call today.

I was very fortunate that I could help me

and my crew speak with Michelle Obama today.

And so we had a very nice conversation that will stay with me the rest of my life.

I'm grateful to you all.

I'm proud of you all.

I wish you all the very best.

I want you to be safe and know that we'll be here praying for you all.

So thank you.

Thank you for allowing me to spend this time with you.

Isn't that amazing?

Oh, for real.

It really is.

Look at that.

Under the moon.

Amazing.

Tomorrow.

Oh my God.

Only took a decade for that to come true.

Yeah, well...

I'll be fine too.

So don't worry.

I might worry a little.

Then I'll be back.

When?

In like three days.

Daddy?

Is that how you get in there?

That's right.

That's how you get into the spacecraft.

You're so smart.

You want to look?

It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

Like it is absolutely gorgeous.

Isn't it scary, Daddy?

No, it seems like a lot of fun to me.

That's from before...

They told me... Yeah, in 24 hours.

I think more of my emotions hit that night before actual launch day just because you

were seeing this giant rocket and the dragon on top

and it was just different to witness it so close.

Are you getting emotional?

Yeah.

It's going to be different.

Mommy.

I know.

It's just... it's weird.

Shall we?

Yep.

Let's do it.

Come on.

We're walking.

Oh my goodness.

You want me to help you up on your bed?

What about her tucking in?

You got to get up early in the morning to go to space.

I love you guys.

Have a good night.

Sleep well.

Okay.

I will.

I'll probably run a little bit.

It is finally September 15th.

3 a.m.

I'm about to go to sleep.

And when I wake up, I'm going to go to space.

I wrote letters to my family that as soon as I get

to orbit, Avalon's going to give them to my family.

They don't know that yet though.

And I also wrote letters that things didn't go well.

I started with the easy, yay, I made it to space letters.

But then, I mean, other astronauts gave us the advice to write letters to your family.

Because what we're doing, it doesn't come with a zero risk.

I feel like people ask us, do you understand the risk?

Of course we do.

In the letters that if things don't go well, I told my family to not blame

themselves because I would have done this anyway.

And have no regret because I have no regrets.

And then I just told them how much they mean to me.

And to keep, you know, keep me around.

I've been through a lot in the last 20 years.

You know, from when I was going through treatment, I never

would have imagined that something like this would come about.

I just wanted to get through the next couple years.

I just wanted to be able to go to high school and

learn how to drive and go to prom and go to college.

I had this really special moment tonight with Leif.

And he said, look up.

Tomorrow you're going to be looking down.

All

right, game plan.

Chairfly run through.

This is the last time you're going to get an opportunity to imagine yourself going

through these motions before you're actually going to be doing it.

All right, ready?

Dragon SpaceX ready for comm checks.

Rook loud and clear.

Leo loud and clear.

Nova loud and clear.

Hanks loud and clear.

Hanks loud and clear.

Retrieve location 8, battens 114, 115, 116, 117, and distribute.

Cognition test, go.

1, 2, 3, 4.

Crew check for suit leak checks, go.

1, 2, 3, 4.

Final crew check for launch, go.

1, 2, 3, 4.

SpaceX Dragon, inspiration 4.

264 is go for launch.

E motrastangles od o h son o mat to b t i mam ler

al ur We are back!

Thank you.

Just black.

Yeah, that's right.

One hour.

One hour to walk out.

I've got plenty of room.

I know how lucky I am.

We were all going into this eyes wide open, right?

As Elon said, the risk is not zero.

I couldn't help but think about that when I was saying goodbye to my kids.

Enjoy the show.

Be safe.

Absolutely.

You, get over here.

I was like, oh, you too.

I will.

Love you.

Yep, love you too, man.

See you out there.

Good.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Don't leave her behind.

You are brave.

Really.

Thank you.

Thanks for supporting everyone.

Sweet.

Okay, guys, we can start walking.

And right now, we are currently awaiting walkout of the Inspiration4 crew.

And there they are pulling off from Hangar X.

There is a lot of procedures that will happen over the next couple of hours.

At T minus three hours and 20 minutes, the crew

will begin suiting up for the mission to space.

Oh, craziness.

The astronaut that you see standing there on

your screen, that is Commander Jared Isaacson.

Once they are suited up, the crew will make that short drive to the launch pad.

And once they arrive, the crew will ascend the fixed

service structure in an elevator up to the 255-foot level.

The crew will then head through the crew access arm where they will make a final

phone call before climbing into the spacecraft, a process known as crew ingress.

My husband.

Is that like Chris in an astrophysicist?

Just for awareness, we are about ten minutes ahead of schedule.

And the advance team is ready for us.

As well as the first ever Saturn V rocket launch from there.

This is also a launch pad where the last Apollo mission launched from, Apollo 70.

And they are now passing the gates at pad 39A.

These are, this is the safety perimeter.

And once again, we are four minutes ahead of schedule.

All right.

This is awesome.

We're running.

Woo hoo.

So they're going to take this elevator up to the 255-foot level.

Hello.

Yay.

Great.

So excited.

I am so excited for you.

I just... Thank you.

And so proud of you.

I'll talk to you tomorrow.

All right.

Love you.

Love you too.

Bye.

Bye.

Aw, sweet girl.

I'm so happy.

Happiest I've ever been in my life.

And a lot of it is because you all have... Helped me and supported me all the way.

Thanks for everything.

Mom and Dad are coming with me.

Mom and Dad are with you.

They're with you, Cyan.

We're all here.

Okay, you all.

Have fun.

See you in three days.

Love you all.

Bye.

Okay.

How are you doing?

Feel good?

Good.

You're the girls.

I love you.

All right.

Here they are.

Say, love you, Daddy.

Real loud.

Love you, Daddy.

Love you, little people.

See you.

Love you, Daddy.

See you soon.

Okay.

Love you.

Safe travels.

Love you.

Okay, goodbye.

Okay, bye.

Nervous.

Nervous?

Why are you nervous?

You don't miss Daddy.

What a sight to see with them hugging as they're walking.

Good morning, Dragon.

I have you loud and clear.

How me?

Good morning, sorry.

We can hear you loud and clear.

Is that her?

Dragon, SpaceX.

Seats are in the launch position.

We are in go for launch.

And copy that, Dragon.

Crew are go for launch.

Craxis armor traction has started.

Craxis armor traction complete.

Dragon, SpaceX.

You are go for section seven off four decimal 100.

Have the checklist packed.

Close visors and on the launch escape system.

Closing visors and arm the aliens.

Propellant load has started.

You know what?

It's going to light up the sky.

The sound is going to come across, but it's going to be amazingly beautiful.

Hi!

SpaceX Dragon, our displays are configured for launch.

Copy that, Dragon.

And

it has been an absolute honor to prepare you for this historic flight.

Today you are truly inspiring the world.

We wish you a great mission, good luck, Godspeed, and enjoy the ride.

Dragon, SpaceX, go for launch.

Inspiration 4, go for launch.

Punch it, SpaceX.

T-minus 15 seconds.

8,

7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0.

T-minus 30 seconds.

Pull-outs indicate nominal.

Historic mission, flying the Inspiration 4 crew.

Looks like a smooth ride for the crew.

Major event coming up.

We'll be main engine cutoff, followed by stage

separation, and then ignition of the second stage.

And MECO.

First stage booster is making its way back down to Earth.

It will be making a landing attempt on our drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

See it light up again?

Yeah.

That's the second stage lighting up.

So they've separated stages.

And now second stage is taking them into orbit.

Whoa!

Can you help me, sir?

I just need to see what we're up against here.

Seiko.

Seiko, come on, guys.

We are expecting an event called second engine cutoff,

and then we'll wait for the confirmation of good orbit.

Separation.

On behalf of the crew of Inspiration 4, we just want to

thank everyone back at home for making this mission possible.

We were just carried right to the doorstep of an exciting and unexplored frontier.

Since you have come before and many are about to follow,

the door is opening now, and it's pretty incredible.

Come here, man.

She's up there.

Look at that.

She is up there giving the thumbs up.

Here we go.

Thank you for taking care of my body.

Absolutely.

Thank you so much.

It is a happy, happy day.

I'm so happy to get my hands on you.

Do you need anything?

Yeah.

A stiff fucking drink.

No.

Hell, we can see the zero-g in your hair floating around.

There it is.

Dragon, our environments are looking good in the cabin.

At this time, I can give you a go for suit doffing.

Cabin at SpaceX, we are go for 4.300.

And the views are incredible.

Cabin configuration procedure is complete, and

seats one and three are transitioning out of suits.

Copy.

Cabin configuration is complete, and seats

one and three are transitioning out of suits.

One and three went first.

They're going to be slow.

I'm pretty sure that they all get out of their seats and started floating around in

space and taking pictures if I had to guess what happened.

Sy, we needed to have lunch.

Oh, my God, it was the best ever.

I love it.

Lunch was amazing.

Wow.

You're going to have to reflect on that one for a bit.

I am loving every minute of it.

How's your meal?

Look at this.

Oh, that's great.

I'm just having some veggie sticks and pellets right now.

Nope.

Coming in.

Is that the car with you?

The crew

members all had very special things they wanted to accomplish on orbit.

You know, Cyan doing her art and poetry.

Look at how it shimmers!

Chris had his ukulele out.

But to me, it was everything.

It was the mission.

Like, you know, we started this.

Let's see it through.

Hey, everyone.

We were doing some research.

Taking swabs to see how microgravity affects the microbiome.

I won't tell you where this one was.

Hey, Hank.

Hey, just ringing the dinner bell here.

Ringing the dinner bell.

Yeah.

They gave us an hour for meals because they know

how much we're going to be playing with the food.

Oh, shit.

Oh, no.

Oh, shit.

Don't tell SpaceX.

It's right there.

Drag in SpaceX for end of day briefing.

Currently, the distance that you guys have traveled today is 218,016 kilometers or

just approximately under five and a half circumnavigations of the globe.

So, excellent work by you all.

Thank you.

Bye.

Bye.

Bye.

You are, go for four decimal zero five zero for those crew sleep preparations.

That's the joke.

So quiet.

Whenever we would get results of HaleY scans or anything.

The doctor knew the first thing she needed to say was the results, like clear scans.

And so we look for that.

And then we would listen to anything else she had to say.

But so.

If you can just start off with, Have you got the可是 action?

Everything's great.

Everything's great.

Your family members are so happy.

Everything's great.

Your family members are so happy.

They've been floating in space, enjoying life, healthy and happy,

and in really good spirits.

My name is Anna Menon, and I'm the technical

advisor for the families here for Inspiration Forum.

And so my job here is to basically translate what's happening in the mission

for the families, answer any technical questions they have.

At the time they went to bed, they had completed five and a half orbits already.

So now they're getting that constant, amazing view of

that spherical Earth that I'll show you in a minute.

Just taking you back over what has transpired

in your life over the past 12 or so hours.

There are tremendous emotions when going through this.

We are trying to make sure that every person is cared for.

Oh hey, she's trying to eat.

Is that like cheese?

We do have access to some of the internal video.

I know we got to watch a little last night.

We'll make sure that you guys kind of get the access to that as we can.

Right now when they're sleeping, we don't get that as much.

But it is only for you.

You know, we're not showing this publicly.

It's a matter of crew privacy, especially if they're not feeling great.

But I think it's important that you get to see your loved ones floating around.

So the cupola has not been opened yet.

So they elected to not open it last night.

So we would highly expect that they open it when they wake up.

Dragon SpaceX.

SpaceX.

Good morning.

Com check.

Dragon has you laden here.

Good morning everybody.

Hi.

Hello.

Hello.

Just hanging around.

Nothing new here.

How's your coffee, Hanks?

It's the best.

It's making my day get started so well.

Dragon SpaceX.

We're go to open the forward hatch for cupola use per four decimal zero three zero.

And please enjoy the best view off the planet.

And top of that SpaceX, we are in procedure four decimal zero three zero.

And we have a go for opening the forward hatch.

All right guys, we are going to open forward hatch.

All right, opening the hatch.

The cupola is a giant glass dome that is mounted on the top of the spacecraft.

It's concealed under the nose cone.

And it's just amazing engineering.

Continuity.

Like, why don't we just put the biggest window that's ever been designed in space

in it because the views are going to probably be pretty incredible.

The moment I saw the Earth from the cupola...

was indescribable.

It is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life.

You know, I wasn't expecting to get up there

and then see the entire sphere of the Earth.

It's so big, it takes up the entire cupola's view.

And then you can see just the blackness of space around you.

And it's just mesmerizing.

There's very few that have seen the Earth

from the altitude that we've been at before.

I mean, it's much higher than the space station.

So, we could see like... I mean, it felt like the entirety of it.

You can see someone's head.

They're waving now.

It was so impactful, I couldn't believe it.

It was overwhelming.

From the cupola, you can see the entire perimeter of the planet.

From where we started, we can see it all from here.

Get that hair down here.

You ready?

I wanted to have the zero-G hair.

Like, I didn't want to hide it.

I wanted it to be as big as possible.

Just showing off my space hair.

I've kept my hair pretty long, ever since I had cancer.

And it felt like such a celebration.

I was really like this all the time.

Hair

all big and crazy.

And I took a picture of me holding a bald photo from when I was in treatment.

It felt very indicative of this almost 20-year journey.

Full circle.

For the

years, since I was 10 years old, I've lost friends to cancer.

And I wanted to make sure they were never forgotten.

And so I reached out to all their families before launch.

And said, you know, I want to take the picture to space.

It

just brought back such good memories of those friendships.

And just feeling like I had those friends with me.

I feel so fortunate to be able to represent all the kids with cancer.

Inverted.

You're looking pretty good.

Dragon, you are now live with St. Jude Children's Hospital.

Hello Miss Haley.

Hi guys.

I actually had my patients on the call who I've

gotten to treat and gotten to know really well.

Hello everyone and welcome to our Dragon capsule.

I work at St.

Jude.

I have the best job ever in cancer.

And I spent a year at St. Jude.

I had some chemo.

And surgery.

Which might sound familiar to some of y 'all.

Getting to hear their voices from space was just the best feeling.

So I'm not going to delay it any longer.

We're going to get right to some questions from our patients.

So Ava, take it away.

Go ahead Ava.

What kind of sleeping bag do you have?

Hey Miss Ava.

Thank you for that question.

So if you've ever been camping, we pretty much have those same kind of sleeping bags.

And we had a seatbelt on our way when we were sleeping.

Hello Inspiration4.

What were you feeling right before you launched?

Yeah, that's a really good question.

So when we first got strapped into the rocket,

it felt like time was moving really slowly.

And then when you got down for like the last five minutes, it was racing.

And before you knew it, you heard liftoff.

Hola, yo soy Luna.

Mi primera pregunta es... Estamos

haciendo muchas cosas muy divertidas.

Como ahora.

Y estamos comiendo.

Estamos haciendo quehaceres.

Y estamos viendo por la ventana el mundo.

All the kids asked such sweet questions.

And they were so engaged.

Speak up really loud so she can hear you.

Oh no!

I

was on the moon.

Well I did not think there were until we opened up our big beautiful cupola window.

And next thing you know, who comes flying by?

Don't worry, he's a friendly alien as we discovered.

He just likes to take our dog for walks.

I was thinking about the kids on the call, but also all the kids that weren't asking

questions, but that were there and watching.

And, you know, I just really wanted to emphasize to them that they can do this too.

So what we're looking at is the Earth from our perspective.

So we are flying this huge window, the biggest

window that's ever been flown in space.

That is really cool.

And looking through the window, we can see the entire...

Which is passing over some really beautiful water, beautiful land and lots of clouds.

Haley, she told me repeatedly that she was looking

forward to the phone call with the St. Jude patients.

At one point it looked like that might be kind of hard to accomplish.

And she insisted that that take place.

Because floating is awesome!

All the way fast forward.

She's looking forward to how she has really dedicated

herself to this mission for the kids of St. Jude.

And I just want you all to know that we're...

So for the launch, we sat on Mission Control at Kennedy Space Center.

As soon as they were on orbit, we jumped in the jets, flew out here to Hawthorne.

SpaceX's Mission Control went straight to console to fulfill our roles and

responsibilities supporting this team to make sure

we execute a safe return here in a couple days.

Because last time I checked, everything was

still trending right around that 5-6 knot.

Which is amazing, because to have seven locations in Florida in September,

a line is just another testament to the stars aligning in our house of cards.

There's seven potential landing sites from the Gulf

side of Florida to the Atlantic side of Florida.

What is going to govern reentry is going to be the weather that

we're predicting at one of the seven potential landing sites.

24 hours prior to splash load.

Every time we pick a location.

And then you start what we call phasing the orbit.

You actually orbit the Earth a little bit quicker or a

little bit slower based on the altitude that you are.

And so you can kind of pick an altitude so that on that final orbit, the part of the

Earth that has that landing site in it is going to be aligned.

So you know what would be really cool, because they have not done this yet,

would be to land right off of the Cape, Cape North.

That would be another nice first for the mission.

Pretty ballsy parking in an Elan spot.

Is this Elan's?

Perfect.

He's not going to be here.

What

we're looking at is basically a mix of three different

things that are kind of impacting the splashdown time.

We basically have the remnants from Nicholas, the Gulf areas.

So you can see a lot of lightning in the southern Gulf or

central Gulf at that time, just south of most of the sites.

You know, this to me looks like it's a pretty good setup for the Elan.

The landing site is a little wetter low.

In summary, we're recommending the Cape North site.

This team has come to the consensus that is the decision.

We've chosen Cape North for the landing site, which is

just off of Cape Canaveral where they launched from.

It'll be the first time SpaceX has landed Dragon in the Atlantic Ocean.

All the previous ones have been in the Gulf of Mexico.

So everybody there in Florida will potentially have the opportunity to see

Dragon fly by before she deploys her parachutes and comes on down safely.

So it looks like we might have a video pass.

What we're going to do is try to pull up some video.

I can't promise anything, but we're going to try to pull up.

Hi, this is Erin.

Hi Erin, good evening.

This is SpaceX Mission Control.

How are you doing?

I'm doing well.

How are you?

Very well.

And we are ready to connect you with us now.

I will hand you over to Sarah, who will then connect you to Zion.

Dragon SpaceX, come check.

Connect?

With Monica.

Hi.

Hey guys, how's it going?

Oh my God!

How are you?

How are you?

I'm awesome.

Having the time of my life.

Hi, honey.

It's nice to see your face.

Well, hi there.

Yeah, I can't see yours, but that's cool.

Glad you still like my face.

Y'all, Earth looks so incredible from space.

But from the cupola window, you can see the entire perimeter of Earth.

Oh, wow.

Incredible.

We have the cupola open right now.

I mean, the view is spectacular.

And you can see the stars all out.

It's fantastic.

Um, Daddy, have you seen the Milky Way or the black hole?

Did you see any stars?

We had a few Milky Ways up here, but then we ate them all.

Nice.

Here we go, Hanks.

Hey.

Let's do it.

Ooh.

You're so good at this.

You are good at this.

You've never missed.

Haley, how are you doing?

How were you feeling before launch when y 'all

were just sitting there for all that time?

I was so calm.

I thought I was going to be, like, terrified, but I was just like, let's do this.

I got to say, Haley, I'm really digging the zero G hair you got going on.

Yeah.

Um, I don't know if I can remember as much

because there's been little pieces of Haley hair.

Oh, just give me some of that hair so I can have it.

It looks good on you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There you go.

But your hair is the best.

Aw, look at us.

I love seeing your smiling face.

I miss you.

I'm super excited to see you tomorrow.

Love you, babe.

I hope you, um, you're having a good time.

Here, say love you, daddy.

Love you, daddy.

Love you, little people.

All right.

It was great talking to you, Haley.

This has been wonderful.

Love you.

Yeah.

We love you, Haley.

Love you.

Cheers.

Bye.

Yeah.

To have the Neil Armstrong autograph and the medal, knowing how proud they would

be, especially my dad, about this moment, um, you know, there's nothing I would wish

more than my parents to have been able to see that.

You family, it's me and the Koopla, just trailing

around the earth, getting ready to come home tomorrow.

It's a big, beautiful earth.

Oh, we're just having some morning coffee.

Show us.

Here it is.

So this started off, uh, like our first day on orbit, pretty much frozen solid.

And it was like a coffee slushy.

And now it's like nice and lukewarm.

So it's getting a little bit closer to home and we're getting closer to home today.

So this is our last time in the Koopla.

Yep.

And I don't want to cry because the earth is so beautiful.

Oh, I'm already there.

It's been a real pleasure to go to space with you.

You too.

Yeah.

Just like getting to see something that so few people get to see, which is so lovely.

You make me cry.

Oh my God.

It's stunning.

Just so beautiful.

Hey, welcome back.

Your family is doing really, really, really

well and we're going to bring them home today.

Yay!

Oh my God.

I'm so happy.

I'm so happy.

The crew have gone approximately 38 circumnavigations of the globe as of the

time they went to bed which was around 5 30 a.m our time.

They did a lot yesterday.

Today will be basically wake up and get really into focus for return.

We will experience a short period of comp blackout.

It could be around seven minutes.

This is really normal.

This happens due to the heating experienced by the aircraft.

The spacecraft during re-entry.

During re-entry, there is risk involved.

You have a lot of energy, right?

So you lose some thermal protection on re-entry.

When you're ready to re-enter, you start firing your rockets to slow down.

Your altitude starts decaying.

Now the drag of the atmosphere starts slowing the vehicle down.

They're going to be seeing out the side windows

some flame or some heat as it's coming down.

At that point, you lose control of the spacecraft during re-entry.

You lose voice transmission for about seven minutes.

It's possible to lose the vehicle that way, kind of like we lost Columbia.

You can't put a, you know, a giant bubble around everything and call it safe.

You know, you have to step out and say, hey, there is this risk here.

I'm willing to accept it for the goal that I'm about to achieve.

Haley said that she's looking forward to my hug when she comes back.

But she said, but don't crush me, mom.

I made no promise.

You're up there!

I remember flying with you guys saying we can't climb a mountain.

Are you so surprised for this?

It was, uh, surreal.

Alright, Jared, everything's looking really good for your return to earth.

Continuing on to vehicle status, we are healthy

and looking good for the orbit and entry.

Landing will be approximately 7 minutes.

7.06 p.m.

Eastern Time, right before sunset.

Regarding the recovery team, they are in position and ready to support.

Currently launching fast boats.

And we copy all.

We're going to have a good sunset overflight of Florida.

We're looking forward to seeing all you guys soon.

I always think about, like, what is the worst thing that can happen in every phase?

And what am I going to do about it?

And what can I do about it?

Big one kind of on the way downhill is going to be,

we have a much, much higher risk of micrometeorite.

Orbital debris hits at the altitude we flew at than the space station.

It will be the highest risk for the mission.

So it was like, you wouldn't know if you took a

hit until you're entering the Earth's atmosphere.

And that's where you could have a situation like we saw in the past.

That's one of those where there's nothing we can do about this right now.

You just got to, you just got to hope.

Dragon, SpaceX says go for deorbit entry and landing.

And copy that, SpaceX.

Go for deorbit entry and landing.

And Jared, great to be back.

We're looking forward to bringing you home.

The waters are looking crystal clear, glassy flat, looking really good.

Crew have all passed their suit leak checks.

And they're getting ready to start this whole sequence very soon.

Splashdown is scary.

I know everyone's excited and like, I think we all are, but there's still the

possibility that something could still go wrong.

And that's scary too.

In the back of my mind, I mean, I'm not going there.

But I know what the risks were.

There's Splashdown and there's getting the capsule onto a boat.

And then getting in helicopter.

And so it will be a great relief that she's back.

Good afternoon and welcome to SpaceX's Splashdown coverage of

the world's first all-civilian astronaut mission to orbit...

...at 3.17pm BST.

In Pacific time, we'll have the beginning of the de-orbit burn, and that is what

will line up Dragon for re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

During re-entry, we will have an expected loss of communications with Dragon for

about seven minutes as Dragon passes back into the Earth's atmosphere.

A few minutes after we get communications back, we're going to start to deploy our

parachutes to bring vehicle velocity down to just

15 miles an hour, at which point we have splashdown.

Dragon, de-orbit sequence start in five minutes.

You are now live.

Copy that, SpaceX.

We show the same.

Go SpaceX.

Jared, you're looking good.

No deltas in timeline.

Vehicle's nominal, tracking no issues.

The de-orbit burn was right down the middle, with nominal landing site targeting.

No deltas on weather or recovery, and we're

looking forward to having you home shortly.

So at this point, we are entering Earth.

A communications blackout period, which lasts approximately seven minutes

due to plasma formation around the spacecraft.

We're

currently in progress of the blackout period of the Dragon spacecraft.

It'll see external temperatures of about 3,500 degrees,

preventing communication with the Dragon spacecraft.

So we should, in a couple minutes here, start hearing some comms from the core

checking in to regain that communication with Dragon.

Dragon, SpaceX.

Comm check.

Dragon, SpaceX.

Comm check.

Dragon, communication loud and clear?

We have you visual on the aircraft.

You're looking great.

Dragon, expect automated shoot deployment.

Copy that SpaceX, we're breaking.

Dragon, visual on two controls.

We are expecting for these to cut off and the main shoots to come shortly after this.

We do have confirmation that the main shoots have deployed.

Dragon, descent rate nominal.

You have visual from recovery forces.

Copy that SpaceX, good news.

Copy, 1000.

Copy, 600.

Dragon, SpaceX sees splashdown and bans release.

SpaceX, we have splashdown.

And,

uh, inspiration for our mission complete.

Inspiration 4, on behalf of SpaceX, welcome home to planet Earth.

Thank you for sharing your leadership, hope, generosity and prosperity.

And congratulations on your incredible journey.

Dragon, stand by for side hatch opening and egress.

This will be our last call from you.

Congratulations, Inspiration 4 crew, signing off.

Welcome home, Earthlings!

Thank you!

We're glad to have you.

Glad to have you back.

Glad to have you back.

You

feel like

a zero-g monster?

Like a zero-g monster.

Yes!

Alright.

We went to space for three days and successfully came back.

We're bonded for life.

Haley's my sister and Jared and Chris are my brothers.

We're a family.

It made me realize that there is so much to see here on

the Earth that I really want to go out and explore it.

Seeing it from above just gives you kind of that introduction

to the beginning of what life probably should be.

And that's where I am right now.

It's like it's just the beginning of a longer book.

Hey guys!

Thanks for everything!

Inspiration4 just set the bar very high.

I mean the best moment for me was when we got back down to Earth and we knew we

exceeded the $200 million goal for St. Jude.

We completed all of our on-orbit objectives.

It felt like a good mission complete and it also felt like it's game on.

There's going to be starships going around Mars in our lifetime.

There's going to be starships landing on Mars in our lifetime.

Humanity is just getting started.

I feel so fortunate every day just to be alive.

And whenever I get to do big things and this is the biggest

thing I've ever done I just feel especially fortunate.

It's been a great adventure.

And I'm going to miss these guys.