thing. i mean, for sunny williams, she was assigned to this flight nine years ago. she has been waiting nine years fly on this mission. and then we had all those recent scrubs first there was that scrub allison on may 6, which was caused by a faulty oxygen valve on the atlas five rocket here. but this scrub on saturday had nothing to do with the capsule or the rocket. it had to do with an issue with the ground cuter that instigates that automatic launch sequence. and so, so much past to go ripe for the launch that we just witnessed here, the weather has to cooperate upgrade, everything has to go perfect right up until the moment of liftoff. and so right now the center engine, i believe has united. so what we re seeing right now is these two stages still mounted together. so you have the bottom half of the atlas five rocket and these two solid rock rocket boosters that have separated from the rest of the spacecraft and we ll essentially never be used again. they re totally exp
fisher, you re our expert on this year, our space and defense corresponded. what was it like for you to actually observe the launch of this starliner? label? it was a long time coming. well, you know, we ve been down here for every failed launch attempt. first, it was several years here s a delays due to issues with boeing and the starliner spacecraft itself. then on may 6, there was an issue with a faulty oxygen valve on the atlas five rocket, which just propelled the boeing starliner spacecraft into space. and then just last saturday, there was an issue not with the starliner space kraft, not with the rocket, the hardware was fine. but the issue was with just