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NASA pressed Sept. 1 to resolve the propellant loading issues that triggered the Aug. 29 scrub of the much-anticipated liftoff of the Artemis I mission.

The test was scrubbed at 5 p.m. EDT while the Mission Management Team and Launch Control Team assessed their options

Campaign. >> i dont know if youve caught that. jim has been hard-pressed the last few days. >> miles clearly deserves it more than me. chris hadfield, youve been on multiple space missions. for folks at home, were used to flight checks. every time you take off in a commercial airliner, the pilots are running through a flight check. they check for a warning light that is on, et cetera. i just imagine you might say that the flight checks are on steroids for a space flight because its, by its natur...

So that makes some significance to it. the crowd will take us back not quite to the sts-1 days and the earlier days of shuttle. but the international interest in this flight is absolutely incredible. and the fact that "endeavour" will be flying its last flight before we prepare to fly it to california is an understatement. >> youre exactly correct, the last time a sitting president attended a launch was clinton back in 1998. chas t what is the plan for the launch and do you want the president to...

Pretty normal for the launch control team and for the crew. >> and as we talk about the fact that weve seen postponements in the past, is there any pressure not to postpone this launch? >> is there any pressure not to? >> yeah. >> is that the question? >> yeah, to keep it on track, especially with the heightened, i guess, relevance with gabby giffords going to be attending, the president attending. >> thomas, there is -- in fact, i have emphasized this to the teams, both the houston mission cont...

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