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-you can kind of feel the air shift a little bit. -there s no space shuttle. i just got this incredible pit in my stomach of fear and of anxiety a rush of adrenaline that you know something s wrong. something s wrong. -the astronaut family escorts, all of their cellphones start simultaneously ringing. -we realized something s seriously wrong. and i said, let s get the families. let s get them back to crew quarters. -wow. oh, my goodness. oh. -it looks like we ve got a van, probably full of family members of the astronauts, being driven away. that s not good. -and i m standing at the runway. i m listening to the radio, and i m listening to the calls. ....
-we were told, we re gonna take you to crew quarters. and so we were just kind of taken to this huge boardroom. there s this big, long table, many chairs, and all of these tv screens. and all of the screens were off. everything was off. we re all together, waiting in this room. but as a kid i was just looking around to see if i could kind of figure out was what going down. -i remember going in the conference room. and. it was my job to tell the families. i can t remember exactly how i said it, that ....
News hello everyone. thanks for joining me. i m alison camera was triggered with less than four minutes until launch. the computer that launches the rocket stop the countdown clock now officials are racing to learn why both astronauts are now back at crew quarters after leaving the capsule, a short time ago joining us now from the kennedy space center is cnn space and defense correspondent kristin fisher so kristinn obviously this is not the news that nasa or boeing wanted today. what happened? we just don t know yet and we re going to find out hopefully quite a bit more during a press conference that nasa, boeing, and the united launch alliance have called, which is set to start in exactly one hour. now, all we ....
Restoration. how do you make? he never even happened serve never even happened the lead with jake tapper weekdays it for on cnn nasa officials just speaking about what s next after they scrub jays first launch of the boeing starliner, just three minutes before liftoff do astronauts aboard left their capsule and are now back at crew quarters. nasa says there is a window possible for tomorrow, but they ve not yet made it official. seen in space and events correspond. kristin fisher is joining us now from the kennedy space center kristen, you were watching and waiting as this all unfolded, what happened? happened jessica, it got so close just three minutes and 50 seconds before lifting off. but in the end the scrub was not caused by boeing and boeing, it s ....
Hold. a big part of the test flight was to dock at starlight of the international space station because the iss is a moving target you have to launch a very specific times to reach the proper trajectory. the next launch opportunity would be tomorrow at 12:03 p.m. eastern time for that is contingent upon engineers being able to resolve the cause of today s scrub. astronauts at busch wilmore and sunny williams both experience astronauts forming aviators are used to scrubs at a previous briefing sunny was philosophical about delays at saint we expect to find things that will help us make the spacecraft better to flight and launch vehicle. these are launch dates are not magical they are an opportunity for us to do our jobs. the astronauts are returning to their crew quarters but they will remain under quarantine until they get word on their next launch attempt. whether it is tomorrow where there are two later opt launch ....