Are you excited? Very excited.
Yeah, very excited. Are you ready? Feel pumped?
Oh yeah, I think we're ready, uh, I think
we're certainly ready.
Joining the SpaceX Demo-2 test,
he is a marine corps colonel and test
pilot he was selected as an astronaut in
2000,
he piloted Space Shuttle Endeavour and
Atlantis for STS-135
the final space shuttle mission.
Introducing NASA astronaut
Doug Hurley.
It's a life-changing process in so many
ways to fly into space.
It's just overwhelming in some some
respects.
Just the sensations, the rumbling the
shaking,
the acceleration.
My name is Doug Hurley and I'm the
Spacecraft Commander for the Demo-2
mission to the International Space
Station.
This will be the first time the Dragon
had a crew on board
and so there's a a myriad of objectives
we want to achieve for this mission,
what would work on orbit, what might not
work on orbit, what would definitely work.
To be able to just have the entire
integrated
team that's going to support us getting
to and from Space Station,
it was really neat being part of it. You
know we
are the lucky ones that get to fly it
but we
certainly not for one second take for
granted the
amount of effort that so many other
people had to put into this
to make it successful. For Doug
personally he's worked so hard i mean
through his entire life
to get to where we are right now. As a
test pilot, this would be the dream to fly a new vehicle.
So it makes me so happy to see that he
gets to be part of this mission the
Spacecraft Commander.
I'm just glad to see his hard work and
his dreams come true for that.
It's been a long road in a lot of ways
for not only us but
certainly for all the folks that work in
the Commercial Crew Program as well as
SpaceX in our case just working to get to this point.
