breaking news hello everyone. thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission was already postponed a few times, veteran nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams are on board. and boeing is trying with this to compete with its rivals space x as nasa tries to collaborate with private industry partners. if successful, suni williams would become the first woman aboard any crewed test flight like this years of work has gone into this moment and it has not been without setbacks, as i ve mentioned. so let s bring in space and defense correspondent kristin fisher. she
that wasn t i m gonna it s interesting he has that question because i was sitting here, i was okay until we had the whole and then once once i saw the clock go back, that s when my heart started beating because i knew we weren t going to launch. and i think i can t speak for bucha and sunny, but you know the potential for a scrub is always in their mind, but, but that s not not something they expect. and when it does occur, it takes it takes us a few seconds, if not minutes. for it to sink in that i m not going today. and that s an incredible incredible disappointment, especially we went to the vehicle five times. senator nelson and i did. and we finally launched on our fifth launch attempt. and the bad part is we got down to t -14, t -31, t -31 if you re going to if you re going to scrub want to go when you re not even close to go in today s not as bad as it is. it may be for the crew, not