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An onboard clock failed and they dont know why and that burn happened prematurely and at same time nasa tried to send commands to starliner to power down and there was a communications issue and the spaceship lost fuel and decided to abort the main objective of this orbital test launch and put it into safe orbit and theyll be returning back to white sands -- or to white sands, new mexico, in two days. but what is really interesting is that nasa, the administrator, the astronauts and boeing sayin...

The immigration. nasa is working to bring the unmanned starliner safely back to earth. can they sort out the problems in time for a mission in early 2020 with crew aboard. my favorite space geek is rachel crave and so rachel, the launch itself wasnt the issue. so what happened? >> so the launch itself went off beautifully as did the separation from the atlas 5 rocket. this was completely different. so this was essentially a problem with automation. automation on board the starliner. >> what does...

Welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." today a timer error has prevented a new unmanned boeing astrona astronaut. the 100 star liner successfully launched this morning, the timer error meant that the capsule burned its fuel too soon from reaching the orbit that would have put on track to meet it at the international space station. the capsule is aimed to return to earth and it is estimated to land in new mexico on sunday. >> tom costello is with us. >> reporter: for boeing as a company is a big deal....

>> dr. patel, thank you. a new bill is sitting on president trumps desk, one thats puts millions of dollars on guns research. first, boeings new star liner, failed. what they are saying about that next and nasa, you are watching "velshi & ruhle," msnbc. you ar "velshi & ruhle," msnbc. to become part of our family. man: thats why our chevy employee discount is now available to everyone. the chevy price you pay is what we pay. not a cent more. family is important to us. and wed like you to be pa...

Max have been grounded now worldwide. give everybody something to cheer about on a positive note. they had a spectacular launch. 6:36 a.m. we saw starliner roaring off the sky and breaking from a 17,000 miles per hour run to the international space station. about 31 minutes into the flight as you are suggesting, they had a tiny problem and the mission timing clock, that suddenly caused the space capsule to burn too much fuel. what that means is the crew on board, the station will not be getting ...

Look how this company is preparing for this launch. large lightning that protects from a lightning strike. >> veteran astronaut last flew into space on the final space show emission on 2011 on atlanta. shoulders of the space shuttle, america will continue the dream. now onboard the starliner and gave us access to production facility where three star liners capsules are in various stages of development on veg of flying into space from this launch pad. >> everybody should be excited that theyre go...

Gave us access to production facility where three star liners capsules are in various stages of development on veg of flying into space from this launch pad. >> everybody should be excited that theyre going back to space again right here kennedy space center kay cape canaveral exciting. boeing both hustling to launch astronauts and spacex launched uncrew dragon capsule in march putting mannequin into space. boeing hopes to do the same on crew test flight in september. >> we have expertise we hav...

Production facility, an enormous building were space shuttles used to be serviced. three star liner capsules are in various stages of assembly you can clearly see the shape of the capsules that will eventually carry astronauts to space and then return to earth with parachutes and airbags on the bottom to soften the landing on land, not at sea. all of which boeing has tested. going is hoping to launch an empty capsule to the international space station by september and if all proves well, then la...

Refinery this month. more injuries reported, all minor. the race to send astronauts to space is heating up. boeing looking to beat out spacex and launch a crew to the space station by the end of the year. spacexs capsule exploded. phil keating got a look at boeings starliner mission. >> spacex has already done one test flight of their crew dragon and now its boeings attorney with their starliner. boeing is aiming to have this accomplished sending humans astronauts on board their capsule in to sp...

Such a big deal, nasas administrator and the first four astronauts that will fly the crew dragon came to kennedy to watch the future. >> i cant begin to explain how exciting it is for a test pilot to be on a first flight of a vehicle and, you know, well be ready when spacex and nasas ready for us to fly it. >> reporter: and once the spacex crew capsule is up and running and boeings starliner is doing the same, nasa can finally stop depending on russia to get our astronauts up to the space statio...