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
probability of success. so, disappointing, but one more day and the life of two astronauts. yes, we all we all agree that it is better to be safe on the ground. do you think, commander, that there s a chance that this can launch again tomorrow or is that too soon of a turnaround? we yeah. i mean, it sounds like the ground-launched sequence or saw something that no one else had been tracking up until then none of all the flight controllers, all the people watching the data, they all thought, hey, everything looks okay the computer saw something and now we need to figure out exactly what it saw and it might just be like a a bad sensor. but you don t have time to troubleshoot it. part of the problem is the world is turning and florida comes underneath the orbit of the space station and so the only time you can launch is when florida is perfectly underneath the orbit. so as soon as the world turns a little more, it can t go today, got to wait until the world turns once more and maybe i