Got a good throttle up. i ve got one. ..the spacecraft now safely in orbit. of course, you re seeing lots of happy faces - and cheers here in florida. it was third time lucky for the launch aborted twice in the past four weeks because of technical issues with the rocket, and this test flight has been delayed by almost a decade because of other technical problems in starliner s development. so, in the post launch debrief, the man in charge of the mission at boeing said today s success came as a relief. you know, a lot of people say, i need to smile more and i m smiling, believe me. laughter. but it s a little bit of controlled emotion because there s a lot of phases of this mission, and we just completed the first one. you know, pre launch and launch is just the first part of this. we now have to get to 155, we have to dock, we have to do docking ops, we have to undock, we have to do reentry and we have to land. starliner is a brand
Surface. the missiles are they they repurpose for firing at civilian targets in the cities. there. that they, they ve been doing with impunity. so it makes a big difference for zelenskyy putin has said that there will be consequences for the united states for this unspecified consequences, but but but consequences nonetheless, this is something of a threat from president putin is made plenty of threats in the past, they re not to be taken lightly, of course, but this is where zelenskyy feels he needs that additional edge that he wants to be able to target the missile, launches, the rocket launches the ammunition dumps, the things that is using their own indigenously made. attack drones for oil refineries deeper deeper inside russia, but to weaken russia s ability to take on and target ukrainian population. i think for when you look more broadly what is
it s coded created environment, weather conditions apparently are great again, live pictures, it s a 400 foot long rocket unmanned. let s get over to cnn s kristin fisher from one launch to the other. bring us up to speed i know guys, we are in terminal account right now. t minus 54321, engine ignition. you guys want to just watch this play out. let s listen. the most powerful rocket ever built, lifting off from boca chica, texas right now for flight attempt your goals, pitching downrange all. right 30 seconds into flight. the rumbles are still
And the other three had varying degrees of frankly, not success see those three center. well, two slight corrections there. if i may, john, this is actually called starship, sorry for the views of yesterday s loss details some slack right? starliner starship. i ve been making that mistake yesterday s launch was a boeing s starliner. this is spacex s starship. this is the rocket that is designed to land american nasa astronauts on the surface of the moon for the first time since the end of the apollo program back in 1972, someday, it is also hopefully going to be used to allow humanity to colonize mars. or that is at least elon musk s dream so what you re watching right now is the fourth flight test of this vehicle. the first two ended in rather early explosions, but the last flight test, flight test three, which we saw just about
Expecting those just also successful mds is saved what an incredible orbit insertion there s great news there to call out. we were hoping to hear amazing views. once again from starship. we have our second starship in space. these live views being right, we ll continue to watch these lives pictures. anyone board the ship. i m still just always florida every time you see that we can watch this stuff like crazy, crazy, crazy pants that we can kristin. thank you so much. we re going to continue watching this. and the same time, we have more breaking news coming in and do our scene a new central starts now cnn s breaking news or you re looking at live pictures from the normandy, france, president biden and the first lady langer week at the us cemetery.
Has gone missing while on holiday on the greek island of symi. and it s lift off as spacex launches its latest rocket, the biggest in the world. hello and a warm welcome. you are watching bbc news with me, frankie mccamley. world leaders and some of the last surviving veterans havejoined in france, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of d day. on 6june 1944, along sword, juno, gold, omaha and utah beaches, tens of thousands of troops took part in the largest ever seaborne invasion. it helped drive nazi forces from france ahead of germany s eventual defeat the following year.
I m glad it s done. happy to hang up my witness one hat after this whole thing. she was witness one in that original fbi affidavit and more than three years after all of this unfolded it s wrapped up in a bow with a six-year sentence here, chris. ryan reilly, thank you. up next, the world s most powerful rocket launches into orbit. why this mission is such a critical milestone in the space race. but first, honoring the 80th anniversary of d-day. my colleague peter alexander spoke with legendary actor tom hanks who of course starred in saving private ryan at the normandy smet cemetery there. we have a few men and women who i see as being 16, 17, 18, maybe 25 years old and they might be in wheelchairs now, but they are represented by everything that is here. were it not for their choice to come and do the right thing 80 years ago, you and i would not be standing here. years ago, yout be standing here
Suburban livonia kills a 3-year-old boy. powerful storm spawned the twister which toppled a tree on to his home. his mother was critically injured. a 2-year-old baby was not seriously hurt there. and this is a live look at san antonio, texas. one of the big stories there tonight from our affiliate fox 29. spacex rocket completes first full test flight after launching from texas, the ship returned to earth with no problems. the previous three test flights ended in explosions of the rocket and the spacecraft. so congratulations to spacex. that s it tonight. we re outside the beltway from special report. we ll be right backpa ce that s more like it. the three-row lexus tx. ( )
You see on your screen you see the flap, you see the flames and at some point you see the camera lens breaking. this was part of another major win for spacex which was eventually it did make its return to earth. so even though, you know, elon musk himself posted to x saying even though they lost some tiles, we don t know what exactly the shape of the rocket s but it did make its return to earth and nasa administrator bill nelson also celebrating this as a big success. even though part of it was loss and kind of came apart this was the first time we ve seen that. this was something we ve seen in previous tests starship exploded minutes after it lifted off. so this is all a part of this major mission that nasa has to return astronauts to the moon. spacex s starship has been tapped to be a part of that mission and eventually the mission to mars. but, chris, this is all coming during a busy week for spaceflight. remember yesterday we were talking about boeing s starliner that is a totally separate mission.
Station, delivering two astronauts to the iss. the operation went smoothly, despite earlier helium leaks affecting the craft s propulsion system, the mission is long delayed and has experienced several technical problems on the way. and elon musk s spacex rocket has completed its fourth test flight. it made it to space and then splashed down in the indian ocean although it was partly burnt as it re entered the earths atmosphere. let s return to our top story. events have taken place in the uk as well including a service of remembrance at the national memorial arboretum in staffordshire. 0ur correspondent duncan kennedy was there. a lament at the end of a day of reflection. a prelude of sound before the vision of fiery symbolism. the cricket pitch in the village