breaking news hello everyone. thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission was already postponed a few times, veteran nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams are on board. and boeing is trying with this to compete with its rivals space x as nasa tries to collaborate with private industry partners. if successful, suni williams would become the first woman aboard any crewed test flight like this years of work has gone into this moment and it has not been without setbacks, as i ve mentioned. so let s bring in space and defense correspondent kristin fisher. she
Actually test flight number three of a series of test flights we use the term operational flight but for us who are pilots, every flight to test flight until, till we feel the vehicle has certified? yes. thank you. i m so glad that you re here with me. prepare yourself for many moments of confusion from me while i ask you these questions here s the next one we ve just is not you re not unusual at all. we always want to make the public feel really good. so we stopped using the term tests. but for those of us who are flying, we actually realize that we re testing well into a program. and every time we change the config configuration of a vehicle, which will happen to starliner. just as it s already happened to the crew dragon. that s another test flight to verify that new who configuration. but i hear you, charles, i understand why test the word test is more anxiety provoking, than calling it something different. i guess. i understand why you re saying that about trying to make sur
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