recovered from mar-a-lago last month, and it includes empty folders marked as classified. we re live in moscow as the nation bids farewell to the leading soviet who brought the cold war to a peaceful end. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. well, if at first you don t succeed, try again. it s 5:00 a.m. on florida s space coast and after last monday s scrubbed launch, nasa s artemis i rocket is ready for liftoff once more. have a look, this is the scene live right now from the kennedy space center. things go to plan, the unmanned mission will be able to launch this afternoon going beyond the moon and kicking off a new stage in space exploration. the artemis program could see humans return to the lunar surface and set their sights on mars and beyond. the vibe around the kennedy space center is electric right now. as nasa chief bill nelson explains, that could be one of the challenges. here he is. the launch team is very confiden
60% probability of favorable weather conditions at launch time, which is 2:17 this afternoon. but it actually increases those odds to 80% towards the second half of the launch window which is closer towards 4:17 in the afternoon as they believe that the weather conditions should improve through the course of that two-hour window. we ll see. wait and see, right? the next possible window would be monday september 5th, edging closer and closer to the peak of the atlantic hurricane season. not what we want. you can see a few popup showers and thunderstorms. what the meteorologists believe strong enough of an easterly wind to push the storms inland wards the central parts of florida peninsula. what they don t want to see is these weather violations known as what they highlighted here the lightning rule, for instance. you cannot have any lightning strikes within a 10 nautical mile launch pad within 30
earth. cnn s rachel crane give us the rundown on what they experienced in space. reporter: the mission to the international space station is now back to earth. they docked at the space station to begin its roughly 16 hour journey home. it distanced away from the international space station and orbited off the coast of florida. the four crew members will be able to take in whopping $55 million a seat for. the whole mission was only intended to be about ten days, but mother nature was on their side, because weather violations at the landing sights delays this turn added five days to simply enjoy the space above.