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of frost so that could just be frost, it could be the result of a crack, so the teams are looking into that, but also an engine issue. engine number 3 on the core stage, the core stage is that orange huge middle part of the rocket that you see. one of the four engines is not performing as expected right now. as you pointed out there is a two-hour launch window but all of these delays have added up so it s unclear right now if the teams will be able to troubleshoot these issues but also if they would be able if they are able to troubleshoot these issues if they will be able to make up that time and make up make this launch window today. if they are not able to make this launch window there is another potential launch date of september 2nd, also a backup to the backup of september 5th. i want to remind our viewers that this is a test launch here and that rocket behind me has never flown. so there have been several issues that nasa has dealt with over the years in term ....
space center where the uncrewed artemis i mission is scheduled to lift off between 8:33 and 10:33 a.m. here s the thing, there are technical issues right now. a hydrogen leak and potentially an engine problem threatening this morning s launch. the plan is for artemis one to eventually fly around the moon with three mannequins, including one named commander moonequin. nearly 50 years ago apollo went to the moon. the artemis plans to land humans on the lunar south pole of the moon in the next few years and ultimately serve as a way to get to mars. lets get the very latest on where things stand right now at the kennedy space center. cnn s kristin fisher is there. what can you tell us? reporter: well, guys, i think it s important to remember that this is only a test flight. it is the very first time this artemis rocket, the sls rocket and the orion crew capsule on top, has ever flown. we knew there was a very good chance that they were going to run into issues today. kn ....
the mission s ambitious agenda remains landing the first woman and first person of color on the moon. this by 2025. also going further afield, ultimately getting humans to land on the surface of mars. but before we get there, artemis 1 will need to fly around the moon using the most powerful rocket to launch since saturn 5 took astronauts to the moon for the last time back in 1972. space and defense correspondent kristin fisher is live from kennedy space center. you are ready to see it take off like we all were, so tell us what what the final issue really was here that led to this scrub. reporter: yeah, the nasa administrator, bill nelson, put it simply. he said, we don t launch until it s right. and today it wasn t right. the main issue, the final issue ended up being an issue with one of the main rocket engines, and i m going to show you what i m talking about with this model of the space shuttle, it s not the sls artemis rocket, but it s similar. essentia ....
the issue that came up was an engine bleed that couldn t be remedied, but the rocket is currently in a stable configuration. when it ultimately does take off, the artemis i will set the stage for nasa s goal to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon by 2025, and eventually tackle human exploration of mars. and a lot of new experiments for the moon. cnn s space and defense correspondent kristin fisher is live at the kennedy space center. a lot of stops and starts, questions if they could complete this and now the scrub. do we know the full scope? are rt we don t know the full scope. about 91 nasa engineers are trying to figure out if this is a few day delay or, perhaps, longer. we have a backup launch attempt on friday. a third attempt on monday. if this is something they can fix on the launchpad. if it s not something they can fix on the launchpad, then they ll have to roll it back to the vertical assembly building, which takes about three da ....
to review documents for attorney/client privilege. is this sort of telling us what they re finding now? exactly. this is the status report of what that team this team, this filter team, that s what they re called, was involved with from the beginning when the search warrant was executed at mar-a-lago. former president trump s lawyers want a special master, an independent person to conduct the review. the judge told doj tell us what you ve done so far, it s been three weeks since you ve had these documents. that s what the new filing says, it s identified a limited set of materials that could possibly be covered by attorney/client privilege. they said they completed this review and have begun the process of going over anything where there could be a dispute. the search warrant lays out different ways that they were planning to handle a dispute, possibly going to the judge in private and saying, judge, do you think this could be covered by attorney/client privilege? s ....