The SpaceX Super Heavy booster had five engines out as it flew. 4 engines were mostly on one side and this led to an imbalance which became critical during
just learned that the that spacex has scrapped the launch for today of their starship rocket this morning. we re getting just new details coming in as we speak right now, let s get back over to cnn s ed lavandera, who s live near the launch pad in south padre island . i feel like ed, is it something i said? what happened? i think we messed it up. it s got to be our fault to just moments after we finished talking a little while ago, spacex officials started announcing that they had pressuring pressurization issues on the booster. and this is that massive booster that 230 ft. tall heavy booster at the bottom of this rocket ship with 33 engines, and because of that, they will have to scrap the launch for today. they do have windows where they can relaunch here in the next 24 to 48 hours. but we ll have to wait for official word from spacex on exactly how all of this will be handled, but clearly a great disappointment for the thousands of people have been turned out here this morning to be
NASA and SpaceX are building two gigantic launch vehicles with massive thrust, which they hope will help humans set foot on the lunar surface again this decade