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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...

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. >...

Thats never happened before shes done seven spacewalks. thats the second most log that the second most amount of cumulative spacewalk time of any female astronaut. and the first to finish a triathlon in space. >> the two of them have really bonded over. >> their many years in training. and i should just note alison, that they have been waiting for years to fly this thing. i mean, nasa first selected boeing and spacex to fly these commercial crew missions to the iss back in 2014, sonny was assign...

Nasas golden prime contract tractor for so many years during the shuttle program, was going to beat spacexs crew dragon to flying astronauts to the international space station. so many nasa astronauts back then wanted to be assigned the boeing missions, not spacex, that clearly turned out to be dead wrong. i mean, since then, spacexs flown 13 crewed missions to the international space hey, station, boeing starliner, still has yet to get off the ground. so yes not what boeing wanted, but this cou...

Thats reading the data wrong and thats what causes a scrub and that can lead to an automatic cold which may be what happened here. >> but again, we just dont know yet. and, you know, allison, i think big picture here. im sure some folks are wondering, you know? >> why is it so important to have a second spacecraft that can take nasa astronauts up to the international space station. >> a lot of people say, hey, we already have the spacex its crew dragon doing that reliably for four years now and ...

Scrapped with helium leak and a valve issue but they have since corrected. they retrofitted and made changes to the aircraft because they discovered other things. is set to go for a 12:30 p.m. launch from cape canaveral. if you are in that neck of the woods of the space coast between all of the other rocket launches you have seen from space x, dragon flights and others, it has been busy sometimes you can see a launch every other night. i may be exaggerating but more common than it used to be. bu...

Of technical issues and even today this capsule is launching with a very small helium link in the propulsion system and they think it is perfectly safe but itjust sort of speaks to the problem is that boeing have had in getting this system ready to fly, so they need a flawless ascent today and they need everything to go perfectly well and then the capsule, which is called starliner, canjoin a then the capsule, which is called starliner, can join a fleet of other vehicles which the space agency i...

We came so close and all the flight controllers, one afteranother, said go, go, go, but the computer said no. that was just less than four minutes before the launch and the ground launch system which is a piece of software, it didnt load and boeing and nasa dont know why that is and it could either be that it spotted something the flight controllers didnt and it could be a problem with one of the components on the system or it could just be a software fault and if it is the latter that will be e...

There is— the international space station and there is also the united launch alliance — there is also the united launch alliance who also have the rockets and spacecraft is a bit on top and of course — and spacecraft is a bit on top and of course there is nasa so between the three _ of course there is nasa so between the three of them, they wanted to .et the three of them, they wanted to get this— the three of them, they wanted to get this first grew to test right off the — get this f...

Space _ the international space station. space x— the international space station. space x got there in 2020. so they are still behind a bit but boeing will hope it can fix the _ problem and catch up as soon as they can. so, possibly a relaunch tomorrow, another attempt? tomorrow is the earliest but we will have to wait to see as to what the data says and why the computer said no. now lets talk football and look ahead to tonights champions league final. real madrid face borussia dortmund at we...