seven odd cnn this is cnn breaking news. hello everyone. thanks for joining me today. i m alison chemla, erotic and for frederick a. whitfield, we have breaking news out of florida. nasa scrubbing its plan to launch boeing s starliner spacecraft today you re seeing the aftermath live right now on your screens apparently, and automatic hold was triggered by the ground launch sequencer. that s the computer that launches the rocket. it stopped the countdown clock with three minutes and 50 seconds left. to go. nasa says it is not clear what caused that automatic hold. space and defense correspondent kristin fisher is live at the kennedy space center for us, also with thus we have a colonel chris hadfield, astronaut and retired commander of the international space station. okay. so kristen, what s the latest where do learning on the ground? so right now everybody is focused on the two astronauts onboard this spacecraft, the commander boots hello more, and the pilot, sunny will
figure out now is when could they try to launch again as of now, they are going to prepare to try to launch tomorrow. that s the next backup date. a launch around noon. but it remains to be seen if they can fully recycle this rocket in time. because once you have a rocket that is fully fueled, it can take quite a bit of time to get it. all the fuel out. and then you gotta get it all the way fueled back up again. so that takes some time. but for now they re preparing for a launch tomorrow, future backup dates are june 5 and sixth of next week i know a lot of people are going to be thinking, wow boeing had another issue, but this may not be an issue with boeing at all. and here s why this is an outdated model. so bear with me to have to give you that caveat, but this is essentially what the rocket looks like on the launchpad, which is just about four or five miles behind me. on top is the boeing starliner spacecraft. that s what this crewed