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breaking news hello everyone. >> thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. >> this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission was already postponed a few times, veteran nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams are on ...

Bleeding worry for life watchman, it's one time for a lifetime even weekend in washington. and this is cnn we are minutes away from a rocket launch. >> we're looking at live pictures ahead of boeing's historic first crewed launch. with me now, for this historic mission, space and defense correspondent kristin fissures at the kennedy space center for us and former nasa administrator, charles bolden is back with us. okay kristen, we're t-minus 14 as i like to say, i'm only going to use astronaut lingo for here. for the rest of the morning but also tell us about these astronauts that we're lookin...

Breaking news hello everyone. >> thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. >> this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission was already postponed a few times, veteran nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams are on board. and...

Perfectly accurate, but it'll give you an idea of what we're talking about. >> so this is the bow, the boeing starliner capsule and spacecraft on top. >> this is where the two nasa astronauts are. what's below it is the atlas rocket. and this is what's going to propel the starliner spacecraft into orbit. this right here is called the rocket's upper stage. it's the center and there was an issue here during that first scrub back on may six. now, an issue again, but different. it's an issue with a sensor for a topping valve, essentially a valve that tops up the fuel inside this upper stage of the...

Mentioned back in may but now we're go for launch. so what can we expect in about 22 minutes? hopefully, this spacecraft is going to launch from the cape canaveral cape canaveral cape, canaveral space force station up into orbit they're going to spend about eight days up at the international space station. and the reason this is so important, allison, is because of the fact that nasa wants redundancy. they are pretty have the spacex crew dragon capsule, which can take nasa astronauts to the iss. >> they want a backup alternative that's what boeing's starliner is. >> an allison same. you should...