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
taken them, so they re now four years behind spacex. i think now that they have gotten this flight off, i agree with derrick, this was a critical mission not just for nasa, but for boeing to demonstrate, to give them confidence to demonstrate they have the capability to do this. we re far from complete. we have got to get off the centar, do some tests on the cst 100 over the next day and tomorrow hopefully we ll have a perfect docking, spend eight days on the international space station and then undock and come home. the ultimate test is how does the spacecraft handle the intense heat and pressure of re-entry, and then as the landing out in the desert, does it go the way we want it to go. only once they have touched down out in the desert ten days from now or eight days from now will we be able to take our breath and say we had a successful flight. such a good point as we watch these live images and they continue their mission, their journey into space at this very moment.
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say that with the bromine caveat listen, he s he s just a blunt force trauma guy. he sees out he sees the absentees and i m sure he s looking at an universal absentee. he s just saying this is bad and i think everybody agrees universal absentee is bad. i come from california we have a very successful absentee program, but have also seen the flaws in universe apps and t. i mean, i ve gone to the post office where you see ballots in the trash because of voter has changed address. well, those ballots are being picked up by party officials on the republicans sayyed, and a democratic side, i can t see any place where that is good for our democracy brian and bennett, blunt force trauma politics. here we go. it s good to see you both. thank you very much. a new our of z to undo central starts now we are standing by for crucial emotional testimony in the federal gun case against hunter biden new executive action at the border, in effect as of now, what impact is it having on the bo
from that wall street journal reports claiming president biden is slipping. the white house and democrats pushing back hard and boeing s starliner successfully lifting off. now headed to the the international space station. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here the cnn news central some dramatic testimony in court today as former romantic partners of hunter biden take the stand in his federal gun trial. hunters former girlfriend so casten just finished testifying about hunters heavy drug use, including, she says, just weeks before he bought the gun that s at the center of this case? she also described hunters efforts to get sober, including how we moved to california to work on his recovery, but then ultimately relapsed. and this morning, hunter biden s ex-wife, kathleen buhle, told jurors about finding drugs and paraphernalia in his car on multiple occasions. including in 2018, when he bought the gun, cnn s paula reid is outs