good srb. the fuel and the solid rocket boosters has been depleted. the atlas main booster will be continuing its burn for the next three minutes. good handle. good handle. that call good handle from capcom indicating the crew has the ability to initiate an abort manually if needed. all looking good so far. now two minutes into starliner s flight and coming up on the solid rocket booster jettison. we re going to keep watching this and we ll listen back in as they speak more, but there is a
-i do remember looking at the shuttle getting ready to take off. -he was adamant, now to me, that he didn t want his mom to go. and then he started crying. the whole the whole launch was him crying. it was awful. -i was 12 years old when the launch date came. i could see the shuttle from afar and be like, wow, my father is on that shuttle right now. he s strapped in, about to be launched into space. we were so excited. it was hard to contain. -for the first two-plus minutes of the mission, with the solid rocket boosters attached, there s no option for abort. you have to wait till they re done and burned out and cut away. that s a death zone. no matter what happens in that scenario, you cannot do anything.
so right now everybody is focused on the two astronauts onboard this spacecraft, the commander boots hello more, and the pilot, sunny williams. right now, you ve got the blue team going in and they ve got to get these astronauts off safely and they re essentially sitting on top of a bomb, right? a fully fueled rocket. this is highly flammable. it s dangerous work and so right now, everybody is focused on getting these astronauts off. it s something they trained to do. they did this dozens and dozens of times during space shuttle launches. but it s still risky. so that s the primary focus, right? right now. while they focused on that, engineers are going to be reviewing what triggered this automatic hold or an automatic abort by the computer that launches this rocket. that s the big question here. was it any of these issues that they were troubleshooting earlier that perhaps led to this hold. we just don t don t know what we re also trying to
For the first twoplus minutes of the mission, with the Solid Rocket Boosters attached, theres no option for abort. You have to wait till theyre done and burned out and cut away. Thats a death zone. No matter what happens in that scenario, you cannot do anything. That was when the challenger went down. 11, 10. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [ cheers and applause ] the weird thing is that you see that flash and you see that smoke coming up and its like, well well, that sucks. Theres no sound. And then its. [ rumbling ]. Baboom. [ Crowd Cheering ]
we were cleared to cross runway 4. reporter: after it was cleared to taxi across the runway. clear at four. takeoff. reporter: a jetblue plane was about to take off according to the faa. but then also suddenly told to abort. stop. stop! reporter: a source says the planes came less than 1,000 feet of each other. something went amiss causing one controller to clear the airplane to take off and another ground controller clearing the southwest airlines to cross that same active runway. so, to me, it looks like it s what the faa calls an operational air involving a air operational error involving an air traffic control issue. reporter: after a string of near misses, a safety review found overtime is at a historically high level for air traffic controllers. and challenges including staffing shortages have caused an erosion of safety margin that s must be urgently addressed.