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. knew the
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 days. yo
at last check, they ve tried a few different ways to troubleshoot it, to fix the problem. no word yet on whether they ve been able to stop it at this point. this follows monday s scrubbed launch which was largely due to an engine cooling problem. it was a tricky sensor that was off. but engineers remain optimistic that today there will be a launch. for now, the weather has been cooperating so that helps. nasa meteorologists predict about 60% favorable conditions, which increases to 80% as the day goes on. of course this historic mission marks the next chapter of lunar exploration and will land the first woman and first person of color on the moon in a matter of years. let s go now to cnn s space and defense correspondent kristin fisher live this morning from the kennedy space center. i don t think kristin has us. can you hear us? reporter: hey, guys, i m having a hard time with my earpiece so i can t quite hear what you said. let me bring you up to speed from the kenned
cnn s pete muntean and cnn aerospace analyst myles o brien joins me now. pete, let s start here. what is the latest on what is happened with the suspect and do we know anything new about what they were doing up there. reporter: sessentially the pilot lives to tell the tale, but likely in a courtroom. from two different government sources that the plane that was stolen earlier this morning, around 5:00 a.m., from the tupelo regional airport, according to the tupelo, police, crashed near ashland, mississippi. it flew around the area for about five hours. police in tupelo say they initially got a phone call at 5:00 a.m. central time from the person on board this airplane saying that they were threatening to crash the plane into one of the walmarts in tupelo, mississippi. according to flight aware, the plane flew around for about five hours, north west of the area and then over the holly springs national forest. we heard from sources that a king air like this, a beechcraft, sea
anyone else. and i believe that we had what you would think would be the best case scenario. it was the best case scenario, because nobody was injured. cnn s peteman team and nadia romero joins us now live, thank you both for joining me. pete, first to you, what more have we learned? there were quite a few details in that press conference. reporter: the tupelo mayor said something so interesting, that cory wayne patterson, the person piloting the plane, apparently changed his mind. he wanted to hurt people on the ground after he stole this beechcraft commuter plane. it seats six or eight people. he wanted to crash it into the local walmart. there are two there in tupelo. police negotiates were able to get in touch with him via phone. he initially called 911. nego negotiators were able to get in touch with him and were able to get a pilot to talk to patterson on the phone. at one point they tried to steer the plane back to the tupelo regional airport and get cory wayne pat