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
so there was an issue with the fan that essentially circulates air inside butch wilmore suit keep in mind, these are big heavy spacesuits. they ve gotten better than the big heavy clunky silver suits from the apollo holidays, but they re still hot this is florida in the summer time, right. so you have to have a fan, you have to have air circulating inside this suit or these astronauts can overheat so that seems to be the issue but i believe they have just gotten it resolved. the astronauts just put their advisers back down. so that s always a good sign, elson. okay. kristinn charles stick around with us. we will need did your help obviously, throughout this hour, everyone, we re going to take a very quick break and be right back for more coverage of this live and historic launch ignite the celebration. this memorial day with the outdoor fund and flavor that split on a blackstone and join them more than 11 million blackstone users know this is