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4:00. and 3:45 right now is their scheduled go time. what's holding this up? we have beautiful weather here in florida, but they have heavy winds at altitude. and the wind shear at altitude could affect the trajectory of the rocket. so they want to make sure that the winds die down enough to give them that window to be able to fire off the falcon-heavy and head towards a solar orbit. it is an unmanned test mission, we should hasten to add. and my good friend, mark kelly, the astronaut, you know he's got a twin, scott kelly. mark e-mailed me and said we need to just ever so slightly change our ...

Favorite thing. but it was something that got me to college. >> football did more than that. he was drafted to play in the nfl, but even trying out for the dallas cowboys was a balancing act. >> by day i'm catching footballs for america's team and at night i'm watching science engineering videotapes. >> a hamstring injury ended his football career. melvin went back to school, got his masters, and became a research scientist at nasa. then in 1998, he applied to be an astronaut. >> only a few of us had been in the nfl and engineers and scientists at nasa. i think that kind of differentiated me f...

Wasn't something that was my favorite thing. but it was something that got me to college. >> football did more than that. he was drafted to play in the nfl, but even trying out for the dallas cowboys was a balancing act. >> by day i'm catching footballs for america's team and at night i'm watching science engineering videotapes. >> a hamstring injury ended his football career. melvin went back to school, got his masters, and became a research scientist at nasa. then in 1998, he applied to be an astronaut. >> only a few of us had been in the nfl and engineers and scientists at nasa. i think tha...

I was doing chemistry lab so it wasn't something that was my favorite thing. but it was something that got me to college. >> football did more than that. he was drafted to play in the nfl, but even trying out for the dallas cowboys was a balancing act. >> by day i'm catching footballs for america's team and at night i'm watching science engineering videotapes. >> a hamstring injury ended his football career. melvin went back to school, got his masters, and became a research scientist at nasa. then in 1998, he applied to be an astronaut. >> only a few of us had been in the nfl and engineers and...

>> reporter: well, good morning. a lot of excitement here. as you know, 13 seconds before ignition yesterday, there was a problem on the falcon 9 rocket and even though the computer system said that everything could be a go, elon musk hit the button and decided to stop everything to make sure that this act waiter that steers the rocket that showed a problem could be fixed because they knew they had a window today and we are in the countdown mode. space-x believes everything is on track for the launch here and this falcon 9x is departing from pad 39d-a, historically there's pressure here. this ...