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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 total ....
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Both navy test pilots for both of them. this is there third test flight and you know, for a test flight, sorry, they re third spaceflight. but their first test flight and a test flight is particularly important. and given sort of extra weight because of course it s the first time that any people have been inside. and so that s why these two astronauts were chosen. and you know, allison, this is also a big deal, but because it s only the sixth time in us history that there has been a first crewed test flight of a new spacecraft. you had mercury, gemini, apollo hello, the space shuttle, spacex s crew dragon. and now starliner. so this is a relatively rare event in the history of space light. and just listening to butch and sunny talk about how much being assigned to this mission has meant to them. but they ve also had to wait a really long time to fly this ....