 Very excited. Yeah, very excited. Oh, yeah, I think we're ready. I think we're certainly ready. Joining the SpaceX demo to test He is a Marine Corps colonel and test pilot. He was selected as an astronaut in 2000 He piloted space shuttle endeavor 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 When the engine shut off and you go from in the case of the shuttle you go from three Gs to zero Gs instantaneously and things start floating and I remember distinctly just thinking what just happened To see a rocket launch in person is It's a pretty emotional event. I remember the first time I saw a shuttle launch and it's just it was amazing And then when I saw a shuttle launch with my wife on it That is that is quite the emotional experience My name is Doug Hurley and I'm the spacecraft commander for the demo to mission to the International Space Station We are doing the first crewed flight for NASA and for SpaceX So this is the test flight to prove end-to-end from launch to docking to ISS operations and then entry descent and landing This will be the first time the dragon that crew on board and so there's a myriad of objectives we want to achieve for this mission SpaceX has been responsible for design and And and essentially making this vehicle what it is What the astronauts bring to the table is the crew vehicle interface 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 Talking together working through the challenges that simulators typically throw at you It was really neat being part of it It's just been an incredible undertaking to See where we've come just in the last five years that Bob and I have been a part of this and to be you know shortly Flying to the International Space Station with the Crew Dragon It overwhelms you to think about how many people have in some way shape or form touched this program and this and this vehicle to get us to this point and 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 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 dream 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 It's been a huge amount of sacrifice and time away from home But the fruits of our labor are coming to fruition