trouble shooting right now. i m not ready to give up hope. we got a lot of smart people down there at nasa trying to figure this out and we still got time. that is an issue that needs to be resolved for launch. and being able to see a line of frost on the rocket, what does that mean or what could that mean? well, they were worried initially that that was some kind of a crack in the structure, in the intertanks area, which would be a very bad thing. you don t want your rocket trust me, from someone that s climbed in these things, you don t want cracks in your rockets. that s bad. but the thing is, we are very experienced with this type of insulation and this type of tank because it s very similar to the space shuttle main sorry, external tank on the shuttle. from that experience, we re able to know that, hey, yes, sometimes air freezes and makes these lines that look like cracks but it s really just frozen air and they were able to resolve that issue. so, what s supposed to ha
exactly two minutes at this point, this was supposed to lift off to launch and send a capsule around the moon and then back again, and a very long mission. six weeks long back here and land off the coast of san diego. what is it you re most excited to learn or see here, garrett? well, i think the most exciting thing is see this big, big rocket, again, the biggest thing we launched, 8.8 million pounds of thrust when it launches. and that is more than 1 million pounds greater than the saturn v. it s a beast. i m excited to see that. i m also excited to see orion perform and be put through its paces, especially coming back it comes back at 24,500 miles an hour, which is a lot faster than 17,500 miles an hour that the shuttle re-entered at. making sure that heat shield can take the heat with that kind of speed of re-entry, that s another thing i m looking forward to seeing proven. garrett, what is the benefit of going to the moon, of getting
and not down at the cape to see this with my own eyes. but as far as the problems go, it s not surprising. this is a very complicated, very large rocket, getting everything to work perfectly the very first time to launch it is not something that usually happens on something this complicated. so, if it s not today, it will be some day in the near future. hey, this is a test flight. that s why they do these things, to get it smooth and all the bugs worked out. one thing we re hearing and we were listening to engineers and flight directors talk about what the situation is, but it s a bleed in engine 3. you re looking at a close-up of the engines of this rocket down there. what does that mean to you, necessarily? the well, what that means is you want to flow a little of the super cold propellants into the engine before you light them up. it s called thermal conditioning. you want to get it to the right temperature. that s a if you can t get that to work, that s a problem. and i know
it as a jumping off point to mars. recently, i met her at johnson space center in houston to experience some of the training it s a big, big rocket you are going up on? absolutely. even bigger than the saturn 5 for the apollo missions. you got to get out there to kennedy space center and see it there. it really gives you perspective. reporter: inside the orion training simulator we strapped. into our seats, screens and switches over our heads. you can see the batteries, over here right now this is looking at the propulsion system. how exciting is the prospect of going to the moon for you personally it s incredibly exciting we haven t been there since the 70s and it s time to go back to me it s about exploration. it s an inherent part of all of us as humans we have this profound impact on society when we went to the moon the first time with all of this stimulation of resources and all the s.t.e.m. fields. we can expect that all when we go back to the moon again