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It is my privilege to introduce jim bridenstine. Jim . Thank you, jim thank you bob, our highest priority is and has been bob and doug, and a couple of days ago we had too much electricity in the atmosphere, and the challenge there is not that we were in a lightning storm, the challenge is that a launchgood in fact trigger lightning could in fact trigger lightning and the rocket could become a lightning bolt. We had these parameters set ahead of time, both nasa and the spacex teams knew what the parameters were. There were limitations i should say. The limitations were exceeded and that put us in a position to delay the launch. Though,this is certain, we will launch american astronauts on american rockets, from american soil and we will priorityh the absolute being the safety of our astronauts. I am very proud of the nasa team, proud of the spacex team. A lot of the comments that i had in the interviews ahead of time where, are you going to feel undue pressure, because of all of the at ....
The Kennedy Space center for this Historic Mission as we once again prepared a launch bob and 309a from the crew dragon, an exciting time, but where was this weather wednesday afternoon . It is a challenge to compete with the weather in florida in the summer, but we will do what is right, so were moving ahead, and sounds like we have a 5050 chance with the weather again tomorrow, and we will see how it works out. It is my pleasure to introduce jim bridenstine. Thank you, bob. That is our highest priority is and always has been bob and doug , and of course, couple of days ago, we had too much electricity in the atmosphere, and the challenge is not that we were in a lightning storm. Launchllenge is that a could trigger lightning. The rocket could become a lightning bolt, and so we had these parameters set ahead of time. Nasa and the spacex team knew exactly what the parameters ....
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Truly, an exciting time, but where was this weather wednesday afternoon . [laughter] obviously, it is a challenge to compete with the weather in florida in the summer, but we will do what is right. We are moving ahead and it sounds like we have a 5050 chance with the weather again tomorrow and we will see how it works out. It is my privilege to introduce our administrator, jim bridenstine. Jim . Jim thank you, bob, our highest priority is and has been bob and doug, and a couple of days ago we had too much electricity in the atmosphere, and the challenge there is not that we were in a lightning storm, the challenge is that a launch could in fact trigger lightning and the rocket could become a lightning bolt. So, we had these parameters set ahead of time, both nasa and the spacex teams knew what the parameters were. They were limitations i should say. The limitations were exceeded and that put us in a position to delay the launch. I think this is certain, though, we will launch american ....