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artemis mission was postponed. basically there was an engine malfunction. artemis one is the first in a series of missions that would return humans to the moon for the first time since 1972. >> the launch team discovered a bleed in one of the rocket's four engines. cnn's space correspondent joins us. explain more of what happened and then what happens next. >> reporter: yeah, so, victor, essentially we all thought that this was an engine issue. what we learned during the press conference, the first post-scrub press conference that just wrapped up, is that nasa officials believe it's ...

much for the latest. >> it's the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i'm alisyn camerota. >> i'm victor blackwell. we start this hour with the tears and the grief and the stories of terror from capitol hill today as people who have been deeply impacted by america's latest mass shootings testify to the house oversight committee. the youngest voice, just 11 years old, a 4th grader who survived the massacre in uvalde, texas. >> recounting the worst moments that she endured 77 minutes of living hell. she had to play dead. she had to smear her best friend's blood on her to hide from a gunman...

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 ...

Stable roger and lc, you can verify no indications of hazards blight lc lc starliner systems are stable. >> roger starliner last arm switch to off switches yeah. >> so folks, we're gonna bring in kristin fisher, who is live on the ground for us. our space correspondent, because they hear them saying everything's stable christian, but then we see the clock not moving yeah. >> so we don't know what the issue is, but there's some kind of issue because as you

Astronomers say they have detected a new series of rapid, unknown radio bursts in a galaxy far far away. >> 4 billion light years away. rachel crane is right next to us, cnn's business, innovation, and space correspondent. rachel, obviously this is outer space aliens trying to communicate with us, right? >> never say never. i'll leave it at that, but probably not this time. so these fast radio bursts, they were first discovered back in 2007, and they baffled scientists ever since then, and hundreds of them have been detected. but of those hundreds, only 5% of them ever repeat these burst of ra...