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Before launch just to get everybody sort of centered and calm and ready for the violent events that are just about to happen. >> by the way, who closed the hatch door? someone you might recognize, jeff bezos, the one with the wrench, tightening it up. we understand coming up is a pressure test. a lot of tests leading up to launch. wait, i just noticed something there. that h there and the clock counting up means another hold at 15 minutes. youll remember this is our second hold this morning now ...

Built-in holds along the way. they allowed us to make sure that the systems were correct, they were used for system checks. so this may be the reason why theyre having a hold. i dont know. i guess well find out in a few minutes. so all of this in rocketry and launches is sort of a normal process where you have the checks and balances along the way because you want to make sure that things go right. in our world when things go wrong, we call it a bad day. a bad day is one that you may or may not ...

"new shepard" mission said they hope to do if and when they finally get up into space, if this countdown clock ever starts going again. then theyll fall back down to earth with the assistance, of course, of gravity and the assistance of those three big parachutes. jim, one other very important thing to point out, in addition to a rocket launch which should be going in about 15 minutes if this hold ever stops, were also going to get to see a booster landing which was once described as one of the ...

The capsule is loaded. the crew is in including, of course, william shatner. there we see mission control essentially. weve been listening in a little bit to their communications as well, jim, as we await more information about that hold. >> back with us, chris hadfield, former commander of the international space station, miles oh brain cnn space analyst, as well as jonathan martin, astrophysicist. we have kristen fisher on the gr ground. the company seemed vague about the previous launch hold,...

I remember after i left cnn i was on the nasa advisory council for a little while, and i was pushing nasa to insist that spacex and elon musk opened the doors a little more to data and to the flight loops, as we call it, the communications among the team in advance of the launches because those launches, after all, are paid for by taxpayers. in this case today, theres no taxpayer money involved in this launch at all and jeff bezos can release as much or as little information as he likes. maybe r...

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...

Dream that really achieved for her, all of what she had done in her life was really something. we also heard from mark bezos, of course, brother of jeff who said you lucky bastards. clearly a little jealous this morning, jim, enjoyed his trip ten weeks ago. he wants them all to know that he thinks he should be there with them. those messages being sent, being read to this crew as they prepare and as they wait for that launch, jim. >> no question. again, that hold still in place coming up above e...

"rocket man." you have to imagine. miles obrien, t under six minutes to launch. describe what happens in the next less than six minutes here? >> were going to unleash a lot of power from the liquid hide engine and oxygen. the fuel is quite volatile. when you think about what rockets do, they take the coldest thing we know of which is liquid hydrogen, run it through a bunch of turbo pumps that are hyper fast, can fill up swimming pools in the blink of an eye and then turn that in to f fire. all o...

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Tennessee that jails children of color at a staggering rate for non-existent crimes

What happened on that Friday and in the days after, when police rounded up even more kids, would expose an ugly and unsettling culture in Rutherford County, one spanning decades. In the wake of these mass arrests, lawyers would see inside a secretive legal system that’s supposed to protect kids, but in this county did the opposite. Officials flouted the law by wrongfully arresting and jailing children.