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So here we are in the front of the International Space Station where our spacecraft docked. Just to reorient to you a little bit, this is the GEM, the Japanese laboratory on the right hand side, or the starboard side, Navy term. This is the ISA module Columbus on the oh, I got that wrong, didn't I? I'm facing the wrong way. That's the starboard side, the right side, and the GEM is on the left side, the port side. But let's go forward into Starliner where there was a little bit of action the other day. So I'm going to lead you down through the PMAPMA two into Starliner, all right, going in through the Ida, the docking adapter and then into the spacecraft. Here we are. Looks like a lot of bags because there's a lot of packing. And also this big orange thing, which is our ventilation that we get from the space station while we are docked to the space station. Here we are in the front, sitting in the cockpit. So you're you actually have sort of the bird's eye view of where Butch's eyes were right now on the display. We actually have a tablet because while we're in the space station, we're doing some other activities on the tablet. But this is the control panels, one right here and one there. I'll move the tablet one right here. And we can operate all sorts of systems through the computer screens. We also have controls to fly the spacecraft. We have a rotational hand controller and actually behind the camera, might be a little bit hard, is a translational hand controller. And that's how we were able to fly the spacecraft. If you remember us coming in for a rendezvous or on the first day, actually, we did a bunch of test points where we both flew the spacecraft. And then on the second day, of course, Butch is a commander sitting in the commander. So you've got to do some manual piling on the docking axis. Actually, we are like 85 meters and we could see the huge solar arrays from the International Space Station. So it's pretty cool actually. What else do we want to say about it in here? It's it looks probably a little cramped and it's actually fairly roomy for just Sonny and myself with just the two of us. Obviously you don't need a large cockpit. So it's actually sized perfectly for us as far As for controlling the spacecraft. And of course all this other area down here earlier where you saw the baggage and whatnot, that's where the other couple of crew members would be. For the next time the Starliner flies Starlight or *1 mission, there'll be two crew members down here. And the orange bags is part of our emergency equipment. In case we there was a fire or depress event or an ammonia event on space station, we have all this equipment that we would use to clean up our atmosphere so we could depart and come back home. So all this is planned ahead of time and trained ahead of time and there's a lot of effort by a lot of folks to get us ready and get all this equipment here and get it prepared. That device on the left over there is on the bulkhead. That's where our hatch, that's where we came in and out. You can't see it very well because that's the device right there that would actually clean the air for us if we had some hazardous toxic atmosphere for whatever reason in here. These are also breathing masks that we have in here. We've got a big bottle we installed behind me down here full of nitrogen, oxygen, and this is where we would connect our breathing apparatus if we needed it as well. And of course, as Sunny said, these are not normally here. This is just bringing the fresh air down and it flows in and flows back out. And that's what the how all that works. All right, so this is Saturday. So as you see a vacuum cleaner here, like most people clean their homes, we have to clean the space station as well. So we've been scurrying around. A lot of the crew has been doing various things, vacuuming and taking care of stuff. And when it's all completed, of course, all this will be put away and be ready for the work week. Awesome, awesome. And thank you so much for paying attention. Thank you for being with us. And Butch and I are again, so honored to be part of this crew. Procedures for hatch opening, we're expecting that to come around 2:20 PM Central time. It will be followed shortly by a Welcome Sarah. Lots of cheering here in the room, big hugs, Sunny William coming through in her blue flight suit and followed shortly behind by commander of Starliner Butch Wilmore. Now back on the space station. The third visit for both astronauts and the first crude flight test of the Starliner spacecraft. Everyone looking very happy, like they had a great ride. We're glad to see them all here in International Space Station and we want to congratulate the whole team in different motion. Mission Control Centre for launch for Daikin and over the end. We are very happy indeed. Yeah, we are thrilled as well. I'm not sure we could have gotten a better welcome. I mean, we had music, we had Pojo, Matt was dancing. It was great. And what a wonderful place to be. Great to be back here. It feels like, I mean it Well, obviously suddenly I've been gone for a little while, but it's very familiar. There's only one problem, Matt is in my crew course, so I don't know what we're going to do about that. But hey, thank you all for the great welcome. Yeah. And I just want to say a big thanks to family and friends who've lived this for a long time. And I think you're glad we're not with you anymore. And we have another family up here, which is just awesome. Like Butch said, we was such a great welcome little dance party. And that's the way to get things going. And we're just, we're just happy as can be to be up in space One in Starliner on an Atlas Five, and then here on the International Space Station. It just doesn't get much better.