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Okay. that it's holding stable, you want to make sure that the engines are going through all of their checks. they're going to be swiveling the engines and trying to make sure everything is working well. the flight surfaces. so it's this series of things that have to happen, particularly in a situation where you're automated and the crew has very little control. so mission control has to make sure everything is working well. >> and scott, you were talking about liftoff, as being one of the most impactful moments. how -- describe what that feels like. >> you know, i tried to describe it to my b...

Flammable. but it's very sparse as far as -- you know, it's not the flight deck of the starship enterprise, that's for sure. >> may i add something -- >> i want to bring morgan chesky in. morgan, do you have more information about this hold? >> reporter: yeah, steph. a blue origin spokesperson has said regarding this brief hold, it appears the astronaut loading portion of this process took a little bit longer than expected. they anticipate this to be a brief hold before resuming -- you can see there on your screen right now, that hold going at about eight minutes. hoping to resume that countdo...

0 >> i wouldn't say all of it is aimed towards that. of course, any commercial veteran needs to turn a profit in order to stay in business. so it's partially about that. it's partially about helping jeff bezos realize his big picture dream of colonizing what we call sis lunar space, the area between low earth orbit and the moon. this is a small first step for jeff bezos and blue origin, showing that they can launch people successfully into space and they have other rockets and bigger ambitions on the drawing board. if you want to take really big picture view of it, in jeff bezos' mind, this is...