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
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