It is my privilege to introduce jim bridenstine. Jim . Thank you, jim thank you bob, our highest priority is and has been bob and doug, and a couple of days ago we had too much electricity in the atmosphere, and the challenge there is not that we were in a lightning storm, the challenge is that a launchgood in fact trigger lightning could in fact trigger lightning and the rocket could become a lightning bolt. We had these parameters set ahead of time, both nasa and the spacex teams knew what the parameters were. There were limitations i should say. The limitations were exceeded and that put us in a position to delay the launch. Though,this is certain, we will launch american astronauts on american rockets, from american soil and we will priorityh the absolute being the safety of our astronauts. I am very proud of the nasa team, proud of the spacex team. A lot of the comments that i had in the interviews ahead of time where, are you going to feel undue pressure, because of all of the at
The Kennedy Space center for this Historic Mission as we once again prepared a launch bob and 309a from the crew dragon, an exciting time, but where was this weather wednesday afternoon . It is a challenge to compete with the weather in florida in the summer, but we will do what is right, so were moving ahead, and sounds like we have a 5050 chance with the weather again tomorrow, and we will see how it works out. It is my pleasure to introduce jim bridenstine. Thank you, bob. That is our highest priority is and always has been bob and doug , and of course, couple of days ago, we had too much electricity in the atmosphere, and the challenge is not that we were in a lightning storm. Launchllenge is that a could trigger lightning. The rocket could become a lightning bolt, and so we had these parameters set ahead of time. Nasa and the spacex team knew exactly what the parameters were. Those parameters were limitations and those limitations were exceeded, and that put us in a position to de
Cities across the United States over the last few days fueling protests went on following the killing of george Floyd Atlanta Los Angeles Chicago philadelphia minneapolis and washington d. C. Were among some of the cities that imposed curfews still protests continued protests that began peacefully ended in may 1 windows were smashed buildings were vandalized and Police Vehicles were set on fire stores and even Small Businesses were looted a number of retailers including target c. V. S. And walmart all temporarily closed some of its stores are cross the country nearly 5000 National Guard soldiers and airmen were deployed in 15 states and in washington d. C. And more than 4000 protests were arrested actually banks is reporting from minneapolis. My dear any of the people who are divorced lloyd was killed by her job in the boat a week ago today great. Well there are about 50 to 75 people who are looking down flour or something at all ready to leave for those who knew him and they feel that
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Toward the post racial era i think if you look historically at the Mainstream Media and other things that have happened they havent reacted this way and it makes you wonder just why are they giving this so much coverage in a way that if they are its the angle of the coverage and i think like many i believe that it may have a lot to do with elections and the political narrative right now and thats incredibly wrong turning the center something where were allowing people especially these extreme leftists to come in and start fires i think were actually feeding into a much darker narrative its not about this mans death and thats unfortunate its a battle actions while many are deeply concerned about the killing of an innocent man it seems that powerful forces are not afraid to push their own political agenda it will come up and artsy new york. Earlier on saturday a former new orleans mayor blamed for an actors for the riots while appearing on c. N. N. We need to understand and we need to kn