that makes me scared, more scared than i would be if, let s say it was weather out of one s control. if it s a vehicle readiness issue, what could that look like? so not being absolutely familiar with the blue origin vehicle, i think that as leroy said earlier that there are always holds built in so you can check through things. it could be that someone needed to make sure that a monitoring system was working correctly. it could be any range of things. i think the difference is now because you don t have some of the same transparency that you have with a nasa launch where they come out and tell you specifically the piece, it makes it a little bit more worrisome, but usually there is a process to work through things, so there could be a number of items, not necessarily it s not going to be something like the engine, something s wrong with the engine because then you wouldn t expect it to be resolved so rapidly. so lindsey riser, give us a
near van horn, lindsey riser in our own mission control with a closer look at the new shepherd rocket, dr. may gemson, a former nasa astronaut and the first black woman in space and back with us, leroy chiou the former commander of the international space station, and garrett riseman and dr. jose hernandez. let s start with tom, good morning, tom, do we know anything about this delay, why the delay? reporter: hang on one second. i m going to give you an answer. it looks like the it looks like we ve resumed the countdown, guys. so they were going through the checklist, pardon me for listening to the voice of mission control, which is actually blue origin. this was a vehicle readiness issue. it was not weather-related. it was not atc-related. this was vehicle readiness, something on that checklist kind of had them pause for a while, but they just as you came to me, they were picking up the countdown again, so i think
before launch just to get everybody sort of centered and calm and ready for the violent events that are just about to happen. by the way, who closed the hatch door? someone you might recognize, jeff bezos, the one with the wrench, tightening it up. we understand coming up is a pressure test. a lot of tests leading up to launch. wait, i just noticed something there. that h there and the clock counting up means another hold at 15 minutes. you ll remember this is our second hold this morning now in the last hour, held about a half hour or so as they dealt with a vehicle readiness issue. we don t know what s causing this hold here. it s a short one so far. dr. harris, as you watch this, any significance to each of these holds? well, you know, i don t know the profile, launch profile of this vehicle, but in the shuttle program which i flew, we had