so charles, what does this mean for the astronauts on board right now for, for, for bucha and sonny, what are they doing there? they re disappointed, but they have they have a board are not a board, but they have checks that they have to do so. there are systems that they have to save in the vehicle itself. as you go through the countdown if i can relate this to shuttle, because again, i want to make sure everybody understands. i don t nothing about starliner but it s a spacecraft and most spacecraft are similar in nature starliner is in many ways very similar to the shuttle in terms of systems the way the crew enter or exit. this is a pilots spacecraft. it s it s gotta hand controllers, it s not a, it s not a push button. do everything on the screen like like the like the crew dragon so my guess is there are a lot of systems, so they will have to safe systems that were set in the position of being ready to ready for a launch and that stuff that butch and sunny
will that the propellant for this vehicle go they boil off and you want to make sure that the tanks are full, so they continue to replenish right up until just before liftoff. so they wanted to make sure that everything was stable and you may have heard, if you were listening, we had someone listening to the nasa net they were just trying to make sure that all the systems were staying people that everything was okay, and that there was nothing that they had to worry about or what take care of right away they re always hoping that there may be something very minor that we could clear as kristen said, it s an instantaneous launch, but we ve all seen cases where okay. we re a few seconds behind the space behind the international space station. but we can make up that time and distance so they want to make sure that they re ready to go if if all of a sudden something it turns out to be really minor and they can reset that, can can pick up the countdown. but when they cycled back to t min
five rocket. the rocket s upper stage. there was an she with a faulty sensor that s used when fueling this upper stage. and they say that they fix that problem. unclear if it s another issue with that faulty sensor or if it s something else entirely, the other issue we ran into, of course, was with that flashing red light on which wilmore is console, which was an issue with his spacesuit specifically the fan inside his suit. it wasn t circulating and that s a problem because you don t want to overheat when you re inside this rocket and then the only other problem that we ve really been monitoring and so far it hasn t been a problem has just been the wind speeds. there, gusting a bit higher than nasa would like for launch, but still within the constraint when the kids constraints of what is considered to be accepted optimal for launch for the atlas five and the boeing starliner spacecraft, putting that model down there, it s not mine, so i don t want to break it but allison, right now,
we re just everybody standing around and waiting. i ll tell you one more sign. that s not a good sign. i m all of the nasa press personnel, everybody they re typically watching this from inside a press office. they walked out to see the actions full launch, and i just saw all of them walk back in. so typically when the nasa press team is walking back in, they tend to know things that maybe we don t know yet, which is why another reason why i m so skeptical that this launch is now going to happen given the fact that it s now it s now 12, 27 yeah it s 12, 27 we re now two minutes past that instantaneous launch window i can t officially call it, but i think it s highly unlikely see that this, that this launch happens today. allison, if impossible. and so what this would mean is there is a chance that they could try again tomorrow, allison? yeah. yeah. yep. okay. let s bring in former nasa administrator, charles bolden, who you see if you can shed new
this. here s here s something else that might be nerve wracking for our viewers to hear so there s not a delay. this is the latest thing we re hearing, but they are dealing with an issue in the fan that apparently controls the temperature of the space suits. tell us how serious that is as i understand it, i went i went to silent. i was trying to follow along with mission control, but they have a problem in the suit. they got up, butch got up pressure it looked like a pressure of caution light for his suits, so they had the crew to open their advisors to let them get just some fresh air. they have a backup system in my my understanding was the ground is troubleshooting and trying to find out whether they need to switch to the backup system to allow them to go ahead and launch. but it s not anything with the vehicle. this is actually in the suit itself. kristinn or anything you re hearing on the ground, there yes.