take off and kind of go out toward the east toward the gulf of mexico about three minutes into the launch. the booster will separate from the right the rocketing continue traveling eastern, it will not make a complete orbit around the earth . it will come up short, it will splash down somewhere in the pacific ocean. around hawaii, and the entire mission should take about an hour and a half. but that is best case scenario, so we ll see if this continues to play up so far this morning, everything seems to be on track . once again. we ll see if that holds for the for the next 30 minutes or so. absolutely very exciting. next 30 minutes. lavender is on the on the ground for us right near the launch pad. and sarah, we just had the countdown clock up. there it is right behind you. there that one s for monday, but they were 25 minutes out from that window to open. okay i want you to stick around because i need you to geek out with me a little bit. all right. here s what makes the starship rock
step in this process of trying to perfect the starship rocket system, but it was a spectacular scene here. as this rocket launched, clearing the launch pad, and for several minutes it was a thunderous and exhilarating experience as we saw that rocket fly for some time, but then about three minutes or so in the rockets started kind of spinning out of control. that was about the time that this massive booster with the 33 engines. was supposed to separate from the starship rocket. that did not happen. the rocket ship did not make it into orbit either exploded, coming apart, falling into the gulf of mexico. and what is interesting , brianna is that today here is a little known fact. but the first crew that will eventually ride in this starship rocket. six of those eight members have already been picked. and six of those eight we re here today. witnessing them. one of them is a man by the name of yemi mandela. here is a check
not something that has been dismissed. anyway this is something that is getting the full attention of the kansas city police department listening and i understand the concern that we are receiving from the community that right there is a lot of hate this right here is a lot of love. spacex eyeing a nine am testified at its most powerful rocket ever. starship rocket system is the centerpiece of must goal of commercial space travel to mars to think that humans will be walking on mars in 20 years is reasonable. can you imagine? we were just saying to think 20 years ago? no. but it s still amazing. i think i would seeing it at seven years old talks about living on mars one day. isn t that incredible that they re actually it? maybe it will happen in her lifetime. morning everyone. we re glad you re with us. future is now the future is now but we are focusing very closely and what
catastrophic failure. success is not what should be expected. that would be insane. this vehicle could make it all the way to orbit or or it may blow up on the pad million ways this rocket could fail. spacex has waited more than a year for the final government clearance to launch this rocket. starship rocket system is the centerpiece of must goal of commercial space travel to the moon and beyond to mars. it comes two weeks after nasa unveiled the four astronauts who will fly around the moon next year as part of the space agency s mission. nasa has awarded spacex contracts and options of more than $3 billion to use starship to ferry future astronauts to the moon. nasa artemis to commander reid. wiseman spoke with cnn about the importance of this partnership for humans to eventually reach mars. i think we will get there the amount of private public partnerships going on spacex s building our lander for the moon. they re working on starship right now we have
be? well so far, elon musk and spacex has only said that it was a pressurized valve somewhere in that starship rocket system that appears to have frozen, causing the pressure pressurization problems that the system was having. and all of this was happening just minutes before the scheduled lunch. there were thousands of people here on the southern edge of south padre island, looking about five miles south towards the launch pad there. the anticipation was really building up for this moment. the rocket should have rocket ship had £10 million of liquid methane and liquid oxygen that would propel the booster up into the sky. so everything was ready. and then that scrub announcement was made, and that came as a real letdown to many of the people. in fact, jim taylor, who we met drove from georgia 19 hours just to be here this morning. he was rather emotional. it ll happen. cnn been watching him for 2.5 years