. this is the way space checks goes about. uh they test this stuff. they run it hard. sometimes it blows up. remember, they re very successful. falcon nine rocket that launches our astronauts to the international space station. several of them blew up to begin with, and now it s become a workhorse for commercial for government for nasa. so this is their motor sapporo nd people see this explosion. i mean, some might be discouraged to think it didn t work. they called it icing on the cake. after it cleared the launch pad. you called it encouraging, but just from your background in all of this is that you know, i almost called you, senator again. administrator what did you think? when you saw this? i ll take off this morning. well i was cheering as that rocket rose . uh naturally you want to see it continue. but as president,
that part, but i m told reliably it does, and it was supposed to take off already this morning for a big first, its first fully assembled test flight, but instead it remains grounded as we speak. cnn s ed lavandera is back with us now from near the launch site, and if you heard gotten any new word on when the next window for launch could be well, we re told by space checks, officials and it will take at least 48 hours to reschedule this launch, or at least the rocket won t be able to take off for at least another 48 hours, and that has to do because it has to go through the recycling process of essentially adding the propellant taking it out and then putting it back into that rocket ship. it takes about £10 million of liquid methane and liquid oxygen to propel. this massive heavy booster as it s called. it s 230 ft long and that will propel the spacecraft into orbit so they will have to try again. at least 48 hours from now. we don t have an exact time yet, but they continue to do tha