space center where the uncrewed artemis i mission is scheduled to lift off between 8:33 and 10:33 a.m. here s the thing, there are technical issues right now. a hydrogen leak and potentially an engine problem threatening this morning s launch. the plan is for artemis one to eventually fly around the moon with three mannequins, including one named commander moonequin. nearly 50 years ago apollo went to the moon. the artemis plans to land humans on the lunar south pole of the moon in the next few years and ultimately serve as a way to get to mars. lets get the very latest on where things stand right now at the kennedy space center. cnn s kristin fisher is there. what can you tell us? reporter: well, guys, i think it s important to remember that this is only a test flight. it is the very first time this artemis rocket, the sls rocket and the orion crew capsule on top, has ever flown. we knew there was a very good chance that they were going to run into issues today. knew the
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