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Before launch just to get everybody sort of centered and calm and ready for the violent events that are just about to happen. >> by the way, who closed the hatch door? someone you might recognize, jeff bezos, the one with the wrench, tightening it up. we understand coming up is a pressure test. a lot of tests leading up to launch. wait, i just noticed something there. that h there and the clock counting up means another hold at 15 minutes. you'll remember this is our second hold this morning now in the last hour, held about a half hour or so as they dealt with a vehicle readiness issue. we don...

Built-in holds along the way. they allowed us to make sure that the systems were correct, they were used for system checks. so this may be the reason why they're having a hold. i don't know. i guess we'll find out in a few minutes. so all of this in rocketry and launches is sort of a normal process where you have the checks and balances along the way because you want to make sure that things go right. in our world when things go wrong, we call it a bad day. a bad day is one that you may or may not walk from. you want to make sure you get everything right. >> blue origin tweeting final checks a...

"new shepard" mission said they hope to do if and when they finally get up into space, if this countdown clock ever starts going again. then they'll fall back down to earth with the assistance, of course, of gravity and the assistance of those three big parachutes. jim, one other very important thing to point out, in addition to a rocket launch which should be going in about 15 minutes if this hold ever stops, we're also going to get to see a booster landing which was once described as one of the rarest of beasts, just until a few years ago, this is something that was truly the stuff of scienc...

The capsule is loaded. the crew is in including, of course, william shatner. there we see mission control essentially. we've been listening in a little bit to their communications as well, jim, as we await more information about that hold. >> back with us, chris hadfield, former commander of the international space station, miles oh brain cnn space analyst, as well as jonathan martin, astrophysicist. we have kristen fisher on the gr ground. the company seemed vague about the previous launch hold, stating the phrase, vehicle readiness. has the company provided any more information about this ho...

I remember after i left cnn i was on the nasa advisory council for a little while, and i was pushing nasa to insist that spacex and elon musk opened the doors a little more to data and to the flight loops, as we call it, the communications among the team in advance of the launches because those launches, after all, are paid for by taxpayers. in this case today, there's no taxpayer money involved in this launch at all and jeff bezos can release as much or as little information as he likes. maybe reporters need to get prime access to information for extra money? i don't know. >> that's a fair po...