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To reconcile. yes, there are still about two more hours left in this launch window, but they simply just dont think theyre going to have enough time to fix it. so, right now they are still kind of keeping the rocket in its current configuration because they want to trouble shoot this problem and figure out what exactly is going on. we still dont know how severe the problem is. is this something they can fix on the launch pad? do they have to roll it back to the vertical assembly building? that w...

Trouble shooting right now. im not ready to give up hope. we got a lot of smart people down there at nasa trying to figure this out and we still got time. that is an issue that needs to be resolved for launch. >> and being able to see a line of frost on the rocket, what does that mean or what could that mean? >> well, they were worried initially that that was some kind of a crack in the structure, in the intertanks area, which would be a very bad thing. you dont want your rocket -- trust me, fro...

Exactly two minutes at this point, this was supposed to lift off to launch and send a capsule around the moon and then back again, and a very long mission. six weeks long back here and land off the coast of san diego. what is it youre most excited to learn or see here, garrett? >> well, i think the most exciting thing is see this big, big rocket, again, the biggest thing we launched, 8.8 million pounds of thrust when it launches. and that is more than 1 million pounds greater than the saturn v. ...

And not down at the cape to see this with my own eyes. but as far as the problems go, its not surprising. this is a very complicated, very large rocket, getting everything to work perfectly the very first time to launch it is not something that usually happens on something this complicated. so, if its not today, it will be some day in the near future. hey, this is a test flight. thats why they do these things, to get it smooth and all the bugs worked out. >> one thing were hearing and we were li...

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Were about four minutes away from the two outer rocket boosters -- theyre falling down now. at some point well see the glow of their engines as they reverse thrust and land over at the landing zone. the center core will continue out towards the atlantic to try to land on the drone ship. never before in the history of space travel have three rockets blasted off from a launch pad delivering the pay load, what appears to be flawlessly and landing all three rockets back on land to then be recycled a...

Its going -- >> shepard: can the cameras see it? >> its going to be two sonic booms. you can hear the crowd and the electricity. theyre still going. its like the super bowl. this is a big deal for that company, a big deal for other space companies, this is proving that can be done. the fuel on board, kerosene, the liquid oxygen. it was loud, it was thunderous. as the rocket rose above earth and cape canaveral, the percussion was like seven drummers just -- it was incredible. the two rocket boost...

This is a live look at cape canaveral in florida. spacex is about to launch a new rocket and its a very big deal. this is a falcon heavy rocket. it is right now the most powerful rocket on the planet times two. this is set to be the biggest and brightest and most impressive rocket launch since the space shuttles retired and spacex reports it to be the future of human space travel. this rocket has 28 merlin engines, five million pounds of thrust. the equivalent of strapping 18 747s together and i...

For billions of years unless it blows up on as sent. phil keating. its a big day. >> humongous day, shep, for spacex and beyond spacex, for all human space travel in the future. if this rocket does successfully launch, heads off to space, deploys the tesla electric sports car, sending it out to the earth-mars orbit and all three rocket stages come back down to earth, two of them on the landing zone and the center score burning an additional minute and that would come down into the floating drone...

Theres the launch pad. those were live pictures coming from space, not from nasa, not from the government. from a private company that is planning to transform space travel and phil, again, transform the space coast, i suppose. >> absolutely. more companies are coming, more jobs are happening here. theyre all high-paying, high tech engineering-type jobs. the local economy has soon that boost over the past two years. this really opens the door, this launch proves to be a successful as it appears ...