(19 Mar 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: MUST CREDIT NASA
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NASA – MUST CREDIT NASA
Houston – 18 March 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Joel Montalbanom, Deputy Associate Administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate:
"It is awesome to have Crew-9 home. Just a beautiful landing. I think many of you heard that back in January, the president asked SpaceX what it would take to bring this crew home. And I will tell you that at the time that, that question was asked, we are already looking at options of what to do with the crew ten, crew nine situation and how we’re going to set that up."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program:
"The missions, I think, sometimes seem easier than they are. If I just step back and think about all the challenges we had to to launch Crew-9 moving to a different launch pad, adjusting the seats and the crew training, and then, you know, over the weekend, once we docked, crew ten safely looking at the weather patterns, finding this great opportunity that we landed that today. Adjusting the timeline. You know, it’s never easy. Spaceflight is always dynamic. Sometimes it seems like things move from step two steps to step, but there’s usually different paths along the way so."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program:
"So overall, I would say it was a really clean undocking, re-entry and landing. The Dragon vehicle performed extremely well. Didn’t really have any issues to work. You know, little things, a GPS outage that we reset a filter on and things like that. Today the sequence went perfectly. Jettison the trunk. Executed the deorbit burn. Close the nosecone and did the entry. You could hear Nick call down when we finally got the vehicle back through the blackout. 4.6 G’s and you could tell they were doing well and then braced for the parachute, deploy the drogue and then the mains and then having splashdown. So parachutes performed well. The whole system worked just as planned."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program:
"The crew’s doing great. You know, they’ll spend a little time on the recovery ship, getting checked out, making sure that they’re healthy and ready to go, and then eventually they’ll make their way back to Houston. Again, I want to congratulate the entire NASA commercial crew program, the SpaceX team. You know, in many ways, if I step back to last year, this has been nine months in the making, and I couldn’t be prouder of our team’s versatility, our team’s ability to adapt and and really build for the future of human spaceflight and looking at different ways to do business. Taking advantage of one vehicle to launch a crew and then bring back the crew in a different vehicle."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program:
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program:
"We’ll celebrate for a while. We’re going to take some time and commercial crew to celebrate this one and and spend a little time with the crew, and then we’ll move on to crew 11. Crew-11 will be here before we know it. We’ll launch that vehicle as early as mid-July, so we’ll start preparing for that."
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STORYLINE:
It all started with a flawed Boeing test flight last spring.
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