thing. i mean, for sunny williams, she was assigned to this flight nine years ago. she has been waiting nine years fly on this mission. and then we had all those recent scrubs first there was that scrub allison on may 6, which was caused by a faulty oxygen valve on the atlas five rocket here. but this scrub on saturday had nothing to do with the capsule or the rocket. it had to do with an issue with the ground cuter that instigates that automatic launch sequence. and so, so much past to go ripe for the launch that we just witnessed here, the weather has to cooperate upgrade, everything has to go perfect right up until the moment of liftoff. and so right now the center engine, i believe has united. so what we re seeing right now is these two stages still mounted together. so you have the bottom half of the atlas five rocket and these two solid rock rocket boosters that have separated from the rest of the spacecraft and we ll essentially never be used again. they re totally exp
like jack sleeping z, knowing your finances are in order, go to facet.com to get your free score today like, it s hard good morning, everyone. you are alive and cnn newsroom on allison camera, radha in today for jim acosta, we are following several breaking stories of this our hunter biden is back in court and the, first witness in his federal gun trial is on the stand plus the new wall street journal article on president biden s fitness for office how the white house is responding and you are looking at live pictures from nasa. in this hour, boeing will make its third attempt to launch two astronauts aboard its first-ever starliner rocket to the international space station. we will bring you the launch live but first witness testimony is underway on de three of hunter biden s federal gun trial yesterday, prosecutors used biden s own words against him. they played portions of an audio book of his 2021 memoir i possessed a new superpower the ability to find crack in any to
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prelaunch speech speeches. their advisers have closed and they are now ready for liftoff. if all goes according to plan they will be spending eight days aboard the international space station and allison, the reason this is so critical is because nasa wants redundancy. nasa does not want to be dependent strictly on spacex to get its astronauts to the international space station, nor does it want to be reliant upon the russian soyuz rockets to get its astronauts up there. so this is about having thank more options for nasa and its astronauts to allow them to focus on bigger, loftier goals, like returning american astronauts to the moon for the first time since the polo program, allison so here we go 48 seconds away. okay. so first very bright quickly tell us about the astronauts, tell us about sunny in book they are as experienced of nasa astronauts as you can possibly get both to navy test pilots. butch spent his final day here on earth for
the line to be candid, butch willmore and sunny williams, two navy test pilots, and they are about to ride this as we just heard butch say a moment ago, let s put some fire on this rocket, and push it into space. so, they re ready to go, all eyes are on this mission because not only is it high stakes, it is also critical for boeing, which as you know,s had had a troubled few years in all of its divisions, not only commercial airliners, but space program and now we are about a minute and a half away from a critical test. and so, we see they are ready to go, we heard, it is a go for launch. moments from now, we ll see this rocket lift off. general, the two astronauts, they re calling sunny and butch, on board, are former navy test pilots. what kind of prep goes into a launch like this and talk about the sense of anticipation these two are likely experiencing. there is a lot of prep that