seven odd cnn this is cnn breaking news. hello everyone. thanks for joining me today. i m alison chemla, erotic and for frederick a. whitfield, we have breaking news out of florida. nasa scrubbing its plan to launch boeing s starliner spacecraft today you re seeing the aftermath live right now on your screens apparently, and automatic hold was triggered by the ground launch sequencer. that s the computer that launches the rocket. it stopped the countdown clock with three minutes and 50 seconds left. to go. nasa says it is not clear what caused that automatic hold. space and defense correspondent kristin fisher is live at the kennedy space center for us, also with thus we have a colonel chris hadfield, astronaut and retired commander of the international space station. okay. so kristen, what s the latest where do learning on the ground? so right now everybody is focused on the two astronauts onboard this spacecraft, the commander boots hello more, and the pilot, sunny will
sequencer, an automatic computer, because there are thousands of things that you have to check to make sure the vehicles healthy and there s not enough people that could check them all fast enough. so you set up an automated system and if you go and check, check, check and one of them, if it s out of family or if it got bad data, it says, hey by our rules, we re not safe to launch today. we ve got to stop the launch count till we can figure out this problem. and i think it s not nearly what it seems. four astronauts, the way that kristen was describing it sunny and butch have been trading for years. the training is super realistic and today, they got closer than they ve ever gotten to launch. but it s just one more day of training. i had my launches delayed the first space shuttle launch it was delayed for years and years. so it s hard to launch a spaceship for the very first time with people on board, you want to get it right? and it d be nice if we go to lunch today, but it s far