NASA cancels Boeing Starliner launch

so Lauren we just heard a couple of uh of our standard pre-launch announcements um during the countdown the individual teams so think of the atlas propulsion team and the cental propulsion team are off working on separate Nets as they uh as they perform their their functions uh all that work is complete and so essentially what that last announ announcement does is bring the entire team back to the primary command Channel n one Loop one as we we call it and the rest of the Cent will be now be conducted on net one and uh you know we'll all hear that um also um at this point our operat verification and so the only conversation in the LCC from this point forward is just going to be the uh working through the the launch procedures they'll be no other ancillary conversation whatsoever and we'll also be listening to some of those side channels that aren't public uh on your TV screen right now so we'll be listening um for a few polls one that's called the Starliner Readiness poll Poll for terminal count and um we that is one of the shorter polls and it will be uh coming from the Boeing Mission Control Center or we call it the BMCC here in Florida the spacecraft launch conductor Brian Gardner will pull people in that room in charge of the propulsion system and power and many other subsystems he will have three call outs to him um oh minus 17 minutes osm Place SRB ignition sna switch to the enabled position SRB ignition enabled and verify FCO rco and osm hold fire switches are in the proed position ready to proceed launch on time verified Roger and LCP any1 go ahead ahp charging reestablish and at flight Mass Roger so Lauren we're quickly coming to the end now of the uh of the launch vehicle pre-launch procedure and uh we're uh just about 7 minutes away from our our terminal count status check but uh we heard a couple call outs there uh that one of the uh range safety Representatives activated the uh SRB ignition enable so that allows us to uh fire the SRB ordinance circuits that uh ignite the srbs at t0 um those circuits are not enabled till um till just as we heard you know just a few moment 16 minutes and uh also another rain safety system is the hold fire system so there are remote switches at the uh space launch Delta 45 uh Morel operations center up the road and uh if any of the rain safety Representatives uh see an issue they can they can press a button and stop our countdown remotely so those switches have been enabled as well all right you are taking a live look at Atlas 5 and Starliner stacked on top with astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams inside ready to go to space we are just coming up on about 15 minutes from launch and we are going to send it over to NASA's Daryl n at Hanger AE Daryl thank you very much Lauren and uh you've heard the polls from Ula also polling AO the NASA operations manager Richard Jones checked with his team gave them the go as far as weather is concerned you heard it mentioned on the Nets there was an lus 30 we see your CM essential that's just to do with the internal 15es okay no action we got a s DP low it's back on now looking no issue there uh but again the weather 90% go no concern we're expected to be go 4 t0 we are go right now green across the board we do have some high serus clouds that you can see there up in the upper parts of the sky and and you can see the ground winds LC flight channel one and one are now mer going to air ground one Roger LC flight Air ground one ready for com check with Starliner on channel one Roger Starliner LC com check on channel one see we got you loud and clear looks like we got suit fan all suit fans failed the warning but will I copied your com check Starliner in Capcom did you C catch that message and uh Starliner and see Capcom a we see the messages we're working more to follow standby standing by Butch Wilmore has a warning light on his console he's talking it over with Capcom while they do that St visor open please while we work the suit fans viser open so I Canna have the astronauts open their visors all right visors are while they work in issue Houston but suit fan Bravo went down and switched to Alpha it had a low and then it course went off we still show Power to Alpha is on working in issue copies minus 13 minutes and starer we showed the same for your INF for we're swapping suit fans back to Bravo continue to stand by for us stand so the issue here is a problem with the primary suit fan uh operation um they got to have that soup fan to keep the air circulating inside their suits um with that having a warning they've asked Capcom to ask the astronauts to pop open their visors so they can get some fresh air and uh they'll work it uh into a redundant mode going into a redundant uh suit fan so they continue to work that as we get under tus 12 minutes and Counting the Boeing team working an issue in real time right now LC flight channel one go ahead yeah the condition we're in we in LT condition with both suit fans down we're trying to get these reactivated um but we're going to proceed Roger look good to the access arm all right the team continuing to work the suit fan issue again just a recap on weather we're go and now we're looking um looking to take the next steps so we'll send it back to Megan Mikus 11 minutes as you just heard there 11 minutes to lift off from only the six time NASA astronauts will launch on a new spacecraft designed for crew I want to ask you really quick before we toss it over for that terminal count the final moments of the countdown how are you guys feeling feeling great excited work making sure teams work troubleshoot the last little bit and hopefully we'll see liftoff today I'm very excited for Butch and sunny and uh as we' like to say go Atlas go Centaur go Starliner Bush and sunny that's right all right so let's send it over to the ASO where Lauren and Dylan will walk us through the final moments of the countdown all right thank you Megan so what we are looking for next here is that crew access arm to start making its way uh back over uh on our end we brought suit fan Bravo back on it looked good we need both we need to prove that a is also there so we're commanding Alpha on and then off at this time more to follow all right we see and we're still visor up so you know all right so you hear this troubleshooting happening in real time they are moving forward with everything else while they troubleshoot that verify CST 100 on internal power verified Starliner configure ordinance for launch Starliner on internal power now the spacecraft is running completely on its own ordinance has also been configured for launch that means the devices that initiate our separation reactivated suitan Bravo suitan Alpha is also working to we clear LCC condition and uh for the crew you can take visors down visor down and LC copies both all right it's got to feel good to put those visors down now so Lauren we were seeing that big visual cue the uh crew access arm retracting it takes about two minutes to uh retract and Stow 120 degrees away from Starliner back against the crew access Tower uh in the event of an emergency it can be uh redeployed in less than 15 seconds yeah it's pretty amazing we don't want to see it do that but we we're glad it can if it needs to and we have a couple of poles coming up here in about two minutes the launch vehicle pole launch Vehicle Management poll yeah Lauren that's right at the L minus 8 minutes uh next door to us in the mission director Center that's going to be the uh Mission management team uh Poll for launch um and uh at L minus 7 Minutes the final terminal count status check down in the LCC and uh that is where Chief launch conductor Doug Lebo will pull his team verify their Readiness and then the launch director next door to us will uh give him permission to uh launch today LC Arm Control go ahead Drew access arm stowed for launch Roger all right the crew access arm is stowed LC switch to ready position everything looking good all steps are complete prior to status check and Dylan and I will be a little more quiet as we get closer here to launch so we can listen in all of the actions as they're happening in real time again just under seven and a half minutes till Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams make history as the first crew headed to the International Space Station on Boeing Starliner lus 7 Minutes status check to proceed with terminal count Atlas system propulsion go Hydraulics go pneumatics go lo2 go water go Centaur systems propulsion go pneumatics go L2 go lh2 go has gas go electrical systems Airborne go ground go facility go rfts go go flight control go gcq go op support go Comm go umbilicals go Arm Control go ECS go Redline monitor go quality go up safety Manager Go Ula safety officer go vehicle system engineer go anomaly Chief go range coordinator clear to proceed flight director Houston flight is go Starliner starer go launch director you have permission to launch proceeding with the count ALC verify t0 is set 46 colon 25 colon 40 Zulu verified Starliner net is clear thank you LC all you sitting on Console whether you're in Houston BMCC ASO Atlas this is a great day to be proud of your nation and all of you listening as well whether you're at Banana Creek or the causeway or the rooftop of LCC or the asok and other places around our nation like the Bay Area building and other places where you are viewing what's taking place again for you it's a great day to be proud of your nation they there to be proud of Boeing they there to be proud of UA and NASA and we are one nation under God indivisible and we you together we together use the power of that combination we can do some pretty amazing things so LC with that we are ready to put some fire in this rocket and Propel this spacecraft to the International Space Station where all these fine Americans have designed and have prepared it to be fipo take up space and back H Roger star liner LC flight St configure to terminal count Roger all steps are complete prior to terminal count and with that we are ready to go to space Lauren hard not to be emotional listening to those words from Butch I'm sure we'll be playing that speech back for a long time be tus minutes and Counting 2 one Mark 355 ground pyro enabled launch pad ordinance circuits are now enabled hold hold hold like control rece to ccls hold it approximately T minus 350 LC switch not ready all Personnel turn to recycle section operation 80 LC switch is not ready clock stopped at T minus 3 minutes 50 seconds Starliner uh you should not hear a any event at this point St standing by ALC reset countdown clock to T minus 4 minutes in holding active LCP need to go ahead s our tank pressures are stable Roger LC P1 go ahead Atlas tank pressures are stable Roger osm Place SRB ignition sna switch to disabled position SRB ignition disabled okay okay consoles uh step 60 report launch vehicle status Atlas lead Alice tank pressures and healing bottles stable Alice propulsion system stable Roger Center lead centur tank pressur and helium bottle stable Centaur propulsion system stable has gas readings nominal Roger vehicle electrical V channel one aing system stable Roger and LC can verify no indications of Hazards flight LC LC star systems are stable Roger Starliner last arm switch to off last arm switch is off sccs in pre-flight mode SS vaps inactive ocu saf and EDS in test mode Roger Arm Control deploy the crew access arm Roger Starliner proceed with ordinance deactivation coordinates deconfigured all off rogerc go ahead ALC countown clock reset T 4 minutes and holding Roger flight verify CST 100 ordinance is safe verified okay all stations recycle systems back to T-minus 4 and holding configuration hold time occurred at T finish 3 minutes 50 seconds report status at completion and flight LC LC CST 100 power two external Cy we'll put it more LC one go aheadset Bravo continuing to Roger LC 2 go ahead substep Golf Center L2 continuing topping Roger LC fuel 2 go ahead Centaur lh2 continuing topping Roger LC one go ahead P1 Atlas pneumatics pressure stable Roger LC P2 go ahead substep Echo C active Roger and substep boxtrot sensor pneumatic system stable Roger LC one go ahead substep Charlie and substep Delta Al propulsion and stable Roger LC ECS go ahead substep November ECS set point stable Roger LC this flight control go ahead sub kilo flight control ready Roger if you're just joining us here at c conal space station uh true access arm is deployed Roger we did have a automatic hold of our our ground launch sequencer it's uh shortly after we began our terminal count for today's launch attempt uh no indication yet as to what caused that hold of the uh automatic ground launch sequencer team is still evaluating data in the meantime the uh the team is active uh recycling the vehicle to a uh um a good holding state so that we can prepare for our uh next steps but for now um we are uh holding at T-minus 4 minutes recycling the vehicle after a uh hold of our um ground launch sequencer shortly after picking up terminal count for today's launch opportunity LC has gas go has gas substep hotel has gas normal scan pattern including C Roger e and flight LC Channel One Roger secure CST 100 prop system last valve to remain open copies probably take us uh least five minutes here yeah copy we're going to send it over to NASA's Daryl nail over at Hangar AE for some continuing coverage FS darl thanks Dylan and I'm listening to the NASA operations recy status Roger sys LC uh yes LC gg3 is ready Roger as you mentioned the Ula team now safing the vehicle making sure all the high energy systems that were prepared to launch are now put into a safe configuration at 12:21 p.m. roughly tus 3 minutes and 39 seconds we got a hold launch director LC channel one ldm one uh yes sir um so we had a hold called at T minus 3 minutes and 50 seconds by the ccls launch sequencer uh so at this time we've completed our recycle back to uh T minus 4 and holding configuration and ready to uh proceed with a scrub crew egress operation yeah Roger that's standby Roger there you heard confirmation of the scrub call for this uh launch attempt to today again this was the ground launch sequencer essentially the computer that launches Roger this is the computer that is Personnel going to operation 85 osm LC osm establish the BDA roadblocks and open the flight Hazard area Roger and all Personnel ch 1 will be starting an approximate uh 65 minute hold at this time for flight crew egress all systems maintain tus 4 and holding configuration the whole time is is not relevant at this point the fact is they're getting it into a state where they can go through and get the crew out um of the spacecraft I was mentioning the computer this is the computer that uh when we go into terminal count um launches the rocket brings a number of systems and and a huge number of operations all at a rapid pace something with the GLS it's not understood at this time what it is caused the GLS to um throw an automatic hold out at T minus 3 minutes and 50 seconds I'm control yeah per step 40 can you give me that call out uh on the status of the cxis arm ACC arm deployed and latched Arm Control is terminated ready for personnel access Roger and FC go ahead start cat TVM system monitoring Roger rlm LC rm11 disable rlm line items for crew egress per Redline report Roger lcf go ahead cat TVM system enabled readings nominal Roger the NASA operations manager now conveying to his team that they are looking at possibly a 24hour turnaround go ahead yeah cstt 100's on ground power Roger of course there'll be a lot of data to look at but um and flight LC LC go ahead yeah just looking for um your estimate for prop system securing you know to support pad entry me five more minutes Roger thank you everything you're hearing now is about getting the crew which is the primary focus at this moment by the launch Team out of the spacecraft and back on the ground so configuring the crew access arm it's locked in they continue to do um the operations which are in their schedule for a launch scrub moving through those methodically the report out that we heard by the cgls um was that at the time of the scrub when the hold was listed uh it didn't appear to load into the proper configuration Ula will work to try to understand uh the cause behind that they don't know that at this time they'll be studying the data NASA's commercial crew team will be right there with them helping and assisting throughout this process so we can see on the views here inside Hangar AE that they have the crew access arm back um locked into the Starliner you can see that on your screen there essentially the team now working just a recap if you're just joining us at 12:21 p.m. eastern time T minus 3 minutes and 50 seconds until liftoff a hold was given by the Ula launch Team an automatic hold that was issued by the ground launch sequencer the computer that takes over terminal count the reason for that hold is not known at this time the focus now by the launch team is to make sure the rocket is in a good and safe configuration that's many of the calls that you're hearing out and also that they once it is safe enough that they get the crew of Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams have them exit the spacecraft come back down the elevators and head back to crew quarters e I want to bring in United launch Alliance uh commentator Dylan rice ass stable pneumatic and yeah darl the um Team continues to work through the uh process to establish a stable configuration so that we can start pulling the crew off of the the uh Starliner capsule um still no update yet in terms of what caused the ground launch sequencer abort but uh just like um loading the uh the crew we establish a a safe and stable configuration with the launch vehicle uh before before we uh begin the egress process and uh uh the the configurations are very very very close to the same actually um we'll be uh maintaining the uh propellant systems in a topping mode and uh not changing the state of the uh Atlas or Centaur as we um go through the approximate 1 hour process of uh egressing Butch and sunny from the uh the Starliner capsule but the teams are continuing to evaluate the data and uh looking in look into the um cause of the ground lock sequencer abort uh in the meantime we uh will start to see indications that the uh the team is re-entering the pad in fact the direction was just given to uh allow The Blue Team back into the pad so we will start to see that activity now and and uh teams come back into the uh back into the pad back up the tower and begin the process of opening up Starliner and um digressing Butch and sunny yeah so that's a good sign L there you mentioned with the blue team coming back to the path they are the ones uh that will pull the crew out of Starliner we heard that the pad area is cleared for them to come in it's a good sign um Dylan what's your time estimation on uh on the team going through the rest of their procedures to make sure uh that the crew can go ahead and get up the elevator uh actually I think that we're um you know we're there so it's been uh you know it's been just about 20 minutes since the uh since the hold was called and uh in that 20 minutes time we've established those uh those configurations in fact we we don't even let the pad team uh come back through the fence line until those uh safe and stable configurations have been established so uh you know once they uh the team of course be standing by at the fallback area and they were contacted via radio and uh told to proceed uh proceed back to the gate and they will proceed through the gate and uh right back up to the crew access Tower and uh on up to level 12 where they can begin configuring the white room so we are we are there at this point in terms of uh being ready to to uh redeploy the environmental seal which uh which uh kind of encloses the the Starliner door into the white room and uh and then we'll begin opening up Starliner so that we can um egress but and sunny yeah we can see from this shot here that that environmental seal um is not on of course this is the configuration right before you move the crew access arm either away or back to the capsule so you can see the open air between the white room and the crew capsule um that will take the blue blue team of course getting uh up to the white room to put that environmental seal in place uh which they are on the way I'm monitoring some of the camera feeds they haven't arrived yet but they are on their way as we've heard uh from the loops um Dylan just give us a a an idea of of the role the ground launch sequencer plays in the final 10 minutes of terminal count so essentially the uh the launch sequencer is is uh performing all the actions that are uh that occurring during the terminal count so you know you will hear uh our operators provide status throughout the terminal count but those operators are not actually performing manual actions they're just reporting on the actions of the ground launch sequencer so um you know for instance the the uh the vehicle propellant tanks will um will transition from a uh from a topping mode into um into a pressurization mode as they uh they are pressurized to their flight pressure uh once the tanks are pressurized um we'll start to configure the avionics systems as well for launch and and ultimately hand over to the uh from the ground computer to the flight computer uh which handles the actual final seconds of the countdown prior to prior to uh liftoff but uh but you know the again the ground launch sequencer is um is H securing propellant topping It's Beginning the uh the process of pressurizing the the vehicle for flight it will be uh transitioning the vehicle from the ground electrical systems to the onboard batteries and uh enabling uh the ordinance systems um ultimately leading to the uh the engine ignition sequence once the uh control has been handed over from the ground computer over to the flight computers and you've mentioned just some of the things that GLS does right it uh it is a very busy computer in the final uh 10 minutes as you mentioned um going through all of these very um timely high energy systems that are uh being configured at the last uh in the last minutes before liftoff to recap if you're just joining us uh the uh Mission the NASA boeings crew flight flight test of the Boeing Starliner was scrubbed at uh 12:21 p.m. eastern time when a hold was issued by the ground launch sequencer for the atlas 5 rocket it was at tus 3 minutes and 50 seconds just a little less than four minutes uh before liftoff when that abort was called the crew of Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams who are inside the capsule at the top of this rocket as you can see here are safe and are awaiting there you see a shot of them there's sunny on the left and Butch on the right they are awaiting the arrival of the blue team to come out to the Launchpad and help them egress which essentially means get out of the Starliner capsule and head back to crew quarters it's a process that requires uh that team to do some manual work to lock in the crew access arm to the Starliner capsule and so they will wait for those moments to arrive and if we've got Lauren breni on our Pao with the Boeing team okay we just heard a call that the blue team is entering the pad and I can see them on the closed circuit television they are in their van as you can see there the shot there arriving back this is the team that will head back up the launch Tower up into the white room they will uh secure the crew access arm to Boeing Starliner open up the hatch and get the astronauts out just prior to this 20 30 minutes or so uh we've been listening to the Ula team safe the atlas 5 vehicle basically going through a number of steps to make sure that uh you know the tanks for the liquid oxygen liquid hydrogen the rp1 propellant make sure everything is in a safe configuration before they allowed this crew uh to get on the pad and you see the van there with the 321 backing up uh to the launch Tower Lauren I want to ask you about uh you know you've spent a lot of time uh studying the uh the procedures for uh Starliner talk a little bit about uh the egress and this process that we're getting ready to uh to undergo yeah darl a lot of what they'll be doing is really what we've watched during this Countdown Just In Reverse um I'm listening on some of the side channels to the teams talking about um getting going through their checklist and this is something that we practiced many many times um in the simulator and uh the teams follow along during those Sims where a scrub is uh often the case in some of the different Sim scenarios they put together um and so they will go through this checklist that they know very well where they will go through the um everything that it takes to basically get the spacecraft back in um the shape that it needs to be in so that we can turn around and and do this again and go for it again um of course we have launch Windows tomorrow uh as well as the fifth and the sixth we don't yet know uh how quickly the turnaround would be for this if you know if it's something we can get um back in order for tomorrow or if we need to wait until the fifth or sixth but um you know Butch and sunny are veteran astronauts who are very used to the world of Scrubs um this during the last scrub we even talked about how sunny says that sometimes s the scrub just knocks the pressure off a little bit and um you know they're used to it so uh if you've heard Butch's voice on um the loops in the last 20 minutes or so uh you can tell that his um spirits still seem high of course it's disappointing but it is part of the business and the ultimate goal is just to make sure that our Precious Cargo Butch and sunny are safe absolutely well said Lauren and uh there you see the blue team at the base of the launch Tower getting ready to uh to head up the elevator to make their way to the crew access arm and then into the white room we did hear of course they wouldn't be there if this weren't the case but Starliner is also safed we talked about the rocket the atlas 5 and the procedures they had to go through to make sure it was safe for people to go back to the pad and to pull the crude out Starliner as you know was also safed and they are headed in the elevator getting ready to go up Dylan in you're a launch conductor and so you've you done a number of launches um in situations like this there can be a 24-hour recycle we don't know if that's going to be the case yet but tell me about what's involved when Ula recycles a launch 24 hours later well darl that's true and um you know even even in a situation like this where we're we're still working through the the uh details of the issue that caused the hold um you know by default we're going to set ourselves up to uh to come back at our at our next earliest opportunity which uh is tomorrow so we're our you our default position is going to be uh setting up for that uh that 24-hour turnaround and there are a number of things that go into to that coordination um the the first of which would be uh immediately um coordinating with the uh our our the space launch Delta 45 our Eastern range partner to uh let them know that we are intending to utilize that day which uh actually has already been scheduled as a backup launch day um so we'll be coordinating that with uh with their teams and you know all the support that we get from the from the uh s45 um and additionally we'll uh you know we'll be working to um establish our systems on Launchpad 41 in a uh in a state that is uh ready for another launch attempt tomorrow so even though we do still have some work to do this afternoon which will include uh DET tanking Atlas and Centaur uh at the at the end of the day um you know probably approximately four hours from now we'll have the uh the vehicle fully DET tanked and um we'll have the systems turned around and uh ready for another countdown opportunity tomorrow so that could uh could take a little bit longer if the if the anomaly team comes up with some troubleshooting steps that we need to run through but uh but have not U have not heard any anything like that just yet for now I think our team is still looking at looking at data but uh we're going to proceed as if we're going to make an attempt tomorrow until uh until such time as we learn that that wouldn't be possible but for now uh we are uh proceeding for a launch attempt tomorrow yeah that great point about the launch attempt is already there and available tomorrow if the NASA Ula and Boeing teams decide to uh to take it it's worth noting that t0 is already set uh for June 2nd and it's 1203 and roughly 07 seconds p.m. eastern time again 12035 p.m. eastern time as you're looking at The Blue Team configuring the crew access arm around the Starliner capsule where inside astronauts Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams are inside awaiting to be egressed or pulled out of the capsule you can see the tethers that the blue team are attached to for safety reasons they're 212 fet up in the air on level 12 and you see they've got their make sure their tethers are attached uh well as they work to bring that environmental seal down we'll see them doing that and uh you know darl in in situations like this you know we have the the rocket here on Launchpad 41 and and you know that does get most of our attention but it's uh it's easy to to sometimes lose track of the fact that we do really have a a large network of assets that support missions uh like this you know so for instance we you know we've we've heard from uh the Houston teams we've got the folks in Houston that will be uh taking actions as well uh we have support from the from the tedris satellite Network and will be coordinating that for support for tomorrow so it really is a a large team that supports these missions that uh is beyond the launch site and and Beyond what you can see um you know as the uh you know as the rocket lifts off the pad that that supports all these missions and so it does uh there's a little bit of effort that goes into uh coordinating all those assets and making sure that uh everyone is ready for a launch attempt the following day absolutely Dylan the number of teams involved as you mentioned the space force uh just one of them with the responsibility for the range of course your team United launch alliance with a great effort there with the United uh launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket Boeing with the Starliner spacecraft NASA with a commercial crew program and uh the engineers and managers Who oversee that program to make sure that America has access to one of its most cherished resources uh orbiting Laboratory 250 Mi above the surface of the Earth the International Space Station where astronauts there were hoping to get an arrival 24 hours later of this particular capsule but uh as Sunny Williams has said uh more than a couple of meetings that I've listened to there is nothing magical about this time or date to launch you want to launch when everything is ready and that is not today but teams will study whether or not that opportunity is tomorrow as you can see there now The Blue Team One member on his stomach making sure to seal up that uh environmental enclosure there in the white room and Lauren taking this hatch off is a process as well we saw them secure it and now they're getting ready to remove it yep exactly uh like I said earlier really it's just doing everything in reverse and uh you know they had practice doing this just a little under a month ago so um they are going through those procedures right now it's uh something they know very well and it just takes a little bit of time to make sure that um this is completely closed in you know it is obviously very important that we don't get anything from the outside into the spacecraft um keep that a very clean environment so U they'll have that sealed up here shortly and then we'll start to see them open the hatch to Starliner one of the benefits you know one of the silver because we can call a silver lining from the previous launch scrub is that all the teams are able to take a moment now and study um the data from what was essentially a wet dress that got down to just under four minutes the launch team will do this they'll look at the data they'll study and see how everything responded Starliner and the Boeing team will do the same thing and of course on the May 6th attempt uh that's when they discovered the helium leak and then uh studied that issue for uh a number of days and and came up with a plan to make sure that was accounted for should the Boeing Starliner go to the internationala space station and then need to deorbit so in this situation there will also be a benefit to looking at at this data Dylan and I wonder as a launch conductor um you've been involved in a number of those as well that's true and uh you know really we're just going to keep the team focused on the the tasks ahead of us and uh you know right now that that is the most important thing so we're uh we're focused on supporting the The Blue Team the team on the pad as they uh get the white room configured and uh prepare to uh uh ESS um sunny and Butch and then we'll move on to the uh the next step and we'll we'll proceed methodically until we're um you know we have the vehicle uh DET tanked and in in parallel to that the uh engineering teams will continue to pour over that that data that we collected uh today and uh come up with a troubleshooting and uh plan for uh for resolution as we always do like you said you know the um even with a successful launch there's a extensive data review that goes into every bit of data that was collected during that flight and um you know days like today with a launch scrub is no different so there's a lot of data collected a lot of data to review and we'll uh take advantage of of that in order to um uh put ourselves in a best position to uh continue with an opportunity at uh at the uh next earliest opportunity when it's when it's right to do so we just heard uh on the Nets I just heard uh our team here of commentators Dylan rice with United launch Alliance Lauren breni with Boeing Starliner and myself darl Nell here with NASA that the white room is now configured to begin hatch open operations again the white room is now configured for the team that you see in front of you to begin opening the hatch if you're just joining us we had a launch abort at T minus 3 minutes and 50 seconds happened at 12:21 p.m. eastern time we were counting down towards a 12:25 p.m. launch when the ground launch sequencer issued an abort command that stopped the launch of the atlas 5 rocket and Boeing Starliner spacecraft the reason that this uh ground computer called it is not known at this time though Ula is looking at the data and studying that immediately afterwards the Ula team be began to Safe what's called safe the rocket essentially making sure that all of those high energy systems are put into a configuration that is safe for people to be out there on the pad and for the astronauts Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams to come out of the capsule and head back to Astron astronaut crew quarters it ALS so signals a time where this team right here was able to re-enter what's called a blast danger area or BDA and that's the area around the pad because when this rocket is fully tanked should something happen to it there's an area in which it is considered dangerous that rocket has to be put into a safe configuration before they allowed The Blue Team to come on board that took about 20 or 30 minutes the UL Ula team working through their procedures and successfully so as you can see now and now we are just uh watching them as they work providing you with the transparency on this operation for e e e

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