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 board. and boeing is trying with this to compete with its rivals space x as nasa tries to collaborate with private industry partners. if successful, suni williams would become the first woman aboard any crewed test flight like this years of work has gone into this moment and it has not been without setbacks, as i ve mentioned. so let s bring in space and defense correspondent kristin fisher. she
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news hello everyone. thanks for joining me. i m alison camera was triggered with less than four minutes until launch. the computer that launches the rocket stop the countdown clock now officials are racing to learn why both astronauts are now back at crew quarters after leaving the capsule, a short time ago joining us now from the kennedy space center is cnn space and defense correspondent kristin fisher so kristinn obviously this is not the news that nasa or boeing wanted today. what happened? we just don t know yet and we re going to find out hopefully quite a bit more during a press conference that nasa, boeing, and the united launch alliance have called, which is set to start in exactly one hour. now, all we know right now is that there was an issue with the ground launch sequencer and that is the computer that s responsible for launching this rocket. it s essentially an automated process. once you get down that close to lift off and there was some kind of problem wit
seven odd cnn this is cnn breaking news. hello everyone. thanks for joining me today. i m alison chemla, erotic and for frederick a. whitfield, we have breaking news out of florida. nasa scrubbing its plan to launch boeing s starliner spacecraft today you re seeing the aftermath live right now on your screens apparently, and automatic hold was triggered by the ground launch sequencer. that s the computer that launches the rocket. it stopped the countdown clock with three minutes and 50 seconds left. to go. nasa says it is not clear what caused that automatic hold. space and defense correspondent kristin fisher is live at the kennedy space center for us, also with thus we have a colonel chris hadfield, astronaut and retired commander of the international space station. okay. so kristen, what s the latest where do learning on the ground? so right now everybody is focused on the two astronauts onboard this spacecraft, the commander boots hello more, and the pilot, sunny will
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