near van horn, lindsey riser in our own mission control with a closer look at the new shepherd rocket, dr. may gemson, a former nasa astronaut and the first black woman in space and back with us, leroy chiou the former commander of the international space station, and garrett riseman and dr. jose hernandez. >> let's start with tom, good morning, tom, do we know anything about this delay, why the delay? >> reporter: hang on one second. i'm going to give you an answer. it looks like the -- it looks like we've resumed the countdown, guys. so they were going through the checklist, pardon me for listening to the voice of mission control, which is actually blue origin. this was a vehicle readiness issue. it was not weather-related. it was not atc-related. this was vehicle readiness, something on that checklist kind of had them pause for a while, but they just as you came to me, they were picking up the countdown again, so i think