The vehicles are all-electric. the feeling is all mercedes. the choice is all yours. neil: a very interesting little story vignette, if you will, on the search of this submersible. a day before the oceangate expedition sub was launched, the renouned world explorer hamish harding had sent his friend, retired nasa astronaut colonel terry verson update on his voyage set to drop 12,500 feet over water to view the famous shipwreck the titanic shipwreck.
Quoting here, hey, we re headed out tomorrow. it looks good. the weather has been bad so they ve been waiting for this. that was then. the astronaut hasn t heard anything since. he s kind enough to join us. i think you know him, retired nasa astronaut and friend of hamish harding. furthermore, the international space station and commander good enough to share his reflections right now. and what he thinks has happened to these folks on that vessel. terry, very good to have you. he was obviously very close to you and you both understood the risk of your respective professions. what do you think? he definitely did, you know, thank you for having me and thank you for covering this story. it s an important story. hamish is a great man. he is the typical consummate british explorer. he s a pilot. we did a mission called one more orbit where we set a world record flying around earth in a
Has to be somewhere between the ship titanic itself. we re sure it wasn t at the bottom. i m going by the rumors. couldn t have gotten to the bottom in an hour and 45. so mid water between the ship. they don t go 50 miles away and drive. somewhere between the ship and the titanic, it s there. neil: and to your point, the currents could have taken it anyway. the deeper you go, you go another way. i d love to steal you back and get your expertise. we all need that especially going back to your days looking back at how the similarities, finding this and going through air france back then. thank you, doctor, very much. by the way, a little later, you ve heard this other fellow, hamish harding. he s a risky venturist. this did not seem to be one of them. his friend, terry bird a nasa
Just moments ago the spacex dragon spacecraft docked at the international space station. this marks the second ever privately crewed launch to the station. retired nasa astronaut peggy whitson is leading the mission and is the first woman to command a private spaceflight. plus there are three paying crew members, including the first woman from saudi arabia to travel to space. cnn s carlos suarez is live at the kennedy space center in morning. what s the goal here of this whole mission, carlos? reporter: john, well, the four-member crew is going to do a number of experiments over the next couple of days including taking a look at some cancer research when it comes to stem cells. as you mentioned coming out to me the docking process completed
The launch site, and they are now in the process of strapping into the drag can gone spacecraft which is perched atop a falcon 9 rocket, both of them made by spacex. they re scheduled to to lift off at 5:37 eastern time from launch complex 29a 39a. incidentally, that is the same launch site that sent off apollo 11 which sent the first humans to the moon 54 years ago. retired nasa astronaut peggy whitson, who has spent more time in space than any other american, is commanding ax-2 which is scheduled to dock with the international space station tomorrow morning at 9:30 eastern. she says astronaut training was adapted for what will be a relatively short 8-day mission. as a long duration flier, you re trained for everything that might if happen, but you re not really maybe trained up to the same level that we are trying to be trained up to for each individual thing we know is going to happen in a shorter
Duration flight. reporter: also onboard, two astronauts from saudi arabia including one who is about to become the first saudi woman in space. an american businessman and aviator will be piloting the pace craft. as nasa sets its sights on returning astronauts to the moon and landing the first humans on mars, it is the increasingly looking to private companies to take on more projects in low earth orbit. axiom plans to start building the world s first commercial space station in late 2025 the, so, ooh mike, this mission is really going to give this private company some much-needed practice in overseeing crewed missions to space. mike? mike: i find this fascinating. i m watching the american flag behind you with the wind gusting. a factor with these launches is what about the weather? reporter: yep, they are keeping an eye on some thunderstorms. behind me it s only clear skies, that s to the east.
One, engines full power. and lift off. [inaudible] together, we expand what is possible at astro and godspeed a x two. all right. you can see that falcon 9 no in the air. there was some audio delay, but we have the visual realtime. this as it heads off to the international space station, just for private citizens headed their. the passengers include saudi arabia s first astronaut in decades, as well as a tennessee businessman who started his own sports car racing team. they will be led by retired nasa astronaut who now works for the company that ranged this first 8 to 10-day trip. it is the second charter flight organized by axiom space
Lives. i heard that you re now doctors. like resident. reporter: a resident. yeah, in america it is called a resident. reporter: that s amazing. i don t know anyone who in the middle of a war manages to finish medical school. this is like not normal. it s ukraine! yeah. kharkiv. see more of clarissa s reporting. the see the special, the will to win. it airs tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. one thing we saw, the paramedics need. they need ambulances. my next guest is doing something about it and he needs your help. retired nasa astronaut scott kelly is here now. we talk about this incredible campaign. you were an ambassador for the official fundraising platform for ukraine and president zelenskyy. let s talk about this need. it bears repeating.
If this is something they can fix on the launchpad. if it s not something they can fix on the launchpad, then they ll have to roll it back to the vertical assembly building, which takes about three days. you re looking at a much longer delay there. we re awaiting a press conference likely later today at some point from nasa to walk us through what exactly went wrong and how quickly they think that they can fix it. but let me just kind of walk you through what exactly we know happened. first, there was a lightning strike issue this morning. lightning getting to the pad. they were able to move past that storm. then there was a hydrogen leak issue. they were able to fix that. then there was what they thought was a crack in the middle of the main tank or a line of frozen foam, essentially. they were able to clear that and continue with launch. but it was the fourth problem that we encountered this morning that proved to be the reason for the scrub today. and to explain exactly what the issue is, i m going to show you this model.
Today. specifically those engines need to be cooled to a very precise temperature in order for the rocket to lift off. and for whatever reason, nasa officials were not comfortable that that one rocket engine had hit the precise temperature that they needed for lift-off. so, that s why we re here today and that s why this first test flight has been scrubbed. jim and poppy, i think it s very important to point out that this is a test flight. nasa officials have been stressing this from day one. we knew this could be a very likely outcome today. they ve never gotten this far in the countdown. so, we know that they re going to try again hopefully on friday or monday, unless this is a very severe issue and then it becomes much longer after that. took them three days to get it back, you said, if they can t fix it on the launchpad. thanks very much. joining us to talk about all of this, a morning that has