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
shuttle days, but in the shuttle days we got down to the t -31. second point in the count when everything shifted from the what we call the ground launch sequencer to onboard control. and so this was the ground launch sequence or something in the ground system software, the detected a problem. so that s what the team is off trying to do. tech determined now, what what was it, what signal i think i will i will say going back to what kristen said about sensors when when. now administrator, senator nelson and i were onboard columbia for both of our first laid in 1986 we got down to t -14 seconds and had this happened and we went into a hold and the hole was initiated by the onboard launch sequencer because it detected a problem with one of our hydraulic power units in the right-hand solid rocket booster it caused us to roll the vehicle go all the way back to