First Crewed Launch News Today

breaking news hello everyone. >> thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. >> this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission...

Bleeding worry for life watchman, its one time for a lifetime even weekend in washington. and this is cnn we are minutes away from a rocket launch. >> were looking at live pictures ahead of boeings historic first crewed launch. with me now, for this historic mission, space and defense correspondent kristin fissures at the kennedy space center for us and former nasa administrator, charles bolden is back with us. okay kristen, were t-minus 14 as i like to say, im only going to use astronaut lingo ...

Breaking news hello everyone. >> thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. >> this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission was alrea...

Perfectly accurate, but itll give you an idea of what were talking about. >> so this is the bow, the boeing starliner capsule and spacecraft on top. >> this is where the two nasa astronauts are. whats below it is the atlas rocket. and this is whats going to propel the starliner spacecraft into orbit. this right here is called the rockets upper stage. its the center and there was an issue here during that first scrub back on may six. now, an issue again, but different. its an issue with a sensor ...

Mentioned back in may but now were go for launch. so what can we expect in about 22 minutes? hopefully, this spacecraft is going to launch from the cape canaveral cape canaveral cape, canaveral space force station up into orbit theyre going to spend about eight days up at the international space station. and the reason this is so important, allison, is because of the fact that nasa wants redundancy. they are pretty have the spacex crew dragon capsule, which can take nasa astronauts to the iss. >...

There will be some minor things that theyll have to do on the way up at charles. were gonna have you walk us through all of that in a few moments. >> kristinn charles, stay with us because were going to go live. obviously to this launch. but i want to bring in meteorologists, elisa rafah right now. okay. so at least tell us what the weather looks like. it sure. looked gusty when kristinn was just reporting yeah. >> weve had wins out fords of 20 miles per hour in cape canaveral. you can see the o...

Will that the propellant for this vehicle go they boil off and you want to make sure that the tanks are full, so they continue to replenish right up until just before liftoff. >> so they wanted to make sure that everything was stable and you may have heard, if you were listening, we had someone listening to the nasa net they were just trying to make sure that all the systems were staying people that everything was okay, and that there was nothing that they had to worry about or what take care of...

Were just everybody standing around and waiting. ill tell you one more sign. thats not a good sign. im all of the nasa press personnel, everybody theyre typically watching this from inside a press office. they walked out to see the actions full launch, and i just saw all of them walk back in. so typically when the nasa press team is walking back in, they tend to know things that maybe we dont know yet, which is why another reason why im so skeptical that this launch is now going to happen given ...

This. heres heres something else that might be nerve wracking for our viewers to hear so theres not a delay. this is the latest thing were hearing, but they are dealing with an issue in the fan that apparently controls the temperature of the space suits. tell us how serious that is as i understand it, i went i went to silent. i was trying to follow along with mission control, but they have a problem in the suit. they got up, butch got up pressure it looked like a pressure of caution light for hi...

Around in in time for a launch the next day in less than 24 hours. now dont quote me on that. that may not be 100% accurate. here it but typically thats the way it goes with these missions. you need more than 24 hours that backup date initially is like, lets say the the they were able to to decide that they wanted to scrub before they started loading the rocket with fuel, then they could have pushed the scrubbed the next day. so remains to be seen but i think it might be a tall order to turn thi...