Important to remember is only responsible for the boeing starliner spacecraft, just the little capsule that the astronaut sit on top. there was no issues with that today, nor were there any issues with the atlas five rocket itself, which is built and operated by the united launch alliance, a different company. so no issue with the boeing starliner spacecraft? no issue with the rocket itself. the hardware performed just fine today. the issue jessica, frustratingly was with the company putin, on the ground, that essentially tell the rocket when to lift off and lunch, give it that final go for launch once it enters, what s known as terminal count, those final few minutes before lifting off. and what s even more frustrating is exactly what triggered that. so it s a little tough technical, but bear with me, jessica, at the base of the launchpad, there s a little shed light structure inside are three big computers. in order for this rocket to lift off all, three computers have to giv
It is spaceship confetti covering a car. cnn s add lavandera joins us now live from the launch site in texas, and now spacex is saying that they deliberately triggered the explosion. right we ve thought that that has been a possibility all morning since we witnessed this rocket system explode over the gulf of mexico this morning , and you saw the video there in the last moments of this flight several about three minutes or so into the flight. the rocket ship was clearly tumbling. spacex says it was losing altitude, and now the company is confirming. that it initiated what is called the quote flight termination system on board the booster part of the rocket as well as the rocket itself, and obviously this had to be done because it was spiraling out of control. they had clearly lost the ability to control the rocket system, and that becomes a much more dangerous situation . also remember effort. these rocket launches are done with
The rocket itself, and then the cumulus clouds billowing up and creating the potential for thunderstorms. so we re watching your future forecast rolling in with the chance for thunderstorms later on into the afternoon with the heat of the day. your sea breeze will set up. that strong easterly wind is going to push a lot of that further inland. the problem is these cumulo nimbus clouds build up. we get the anvil tops and lightning can strike up to ten miles from some of the east wind is expected to push the storm inland. but not just the winds at the surface. while they re starting to pick up, 10 to 20 miles per hour, that s still below the threshold. we re not just talking about surface winds, though. we re also talking about the winds aloft. we wind up with wind shear, wind direction and changing in height. that s one of the big concerns as we press on to monday afternoon, sara. thank you so much, britley
Off from kennedy space center as we heard from mission control, the first commercial space flight to be launched from the kennedy space center. i know we expect a portion of this falcon 9 rocket to touch back down on that touch pad in a matter of minutes. talk to us about that. reporter: it s really interesting. okay? of course, we know that the reason the shuttle was so successful to use it over and over. but when the system retired, what spacex and musk s team decided is rocket itself, the lower portion that takes the falcon 9 and the dragon, the capsule to the top, out there, bringing it back they could reuse it over and over and a short dais tans of 39-an is a landing zone and the lower portion redirected from outer space redirected from space back through the atmosphere and they will fire rockets and they will hand it upright almost as if it s a pencil on an eraser mean and land it and they have done