INSERTION INTO ORBIT WAS NOT NORMAL. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US I’M
BRIDGETT HE ELLISON.
I’M JUSTIN WARMOTH.
>>> DESPITE ISSUES OF GETTING
STARLIGHT INTO ORBIT, BOEING
SAID THEY DID MANY THINGS RIGHT
THIS MORNING.
>> Reporter: THE MOST
IMPORTANT, NASA SAID THE
ASTRONAUTS HAD THEY BEEN ON
BOARD, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN
SAFE.
THE AS THOUGH TROUGH ASTRONAUTS
IF THEY WERE ON BOARD THIS
MISSION COULD HAVE BEEN TOTALLY
DIFFERENT.
LIFTOFF WAS ON SCHEDULE AT 6:36,
ONCE IN SPACE THINGS DID NOT GO
AS PLANNED FOR STAR LINER
ORBITAL FLIGHT TEST.
A 10 DAY MISSION A TWO DAY
MAIDEN FLIGHT.
AND ONE THAT NASA SAYS WILL NOT
INCLUDE DOCKING WITH THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
>> WE WERE DEBATING THAT AN HOUR
AGO.
IT’S SAFE TO TAKE OFF THE TABLE
AT THIS POINT.
>> NASA AND BOEING, WHEN THE
STAR LINER BLASTED FROM THE
ROCKET.
CONSEQUENTLY, NASA SAYS STAR
LINER WASTED A LOT OF ITS FUEL
REACHING A STABLE ORBIT AND
THERE ARE PRESSING ON WITH ONE
OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED MISSIONS
IN STATE FLIGHT ALL YEAR WAS NOT
WORTH THE RISK.
>> WE BURNED A SUFFICIENT FUEL
THAT IF WE ARE HAD DONE TO GET
TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN
ENOUGH.
>> THE ASTRONAUTS WHO WATCHED
FROM THE GROUND, SAID IF THEY
HAD BEEN ON BOARD, IT WAS
POSSIBLE THEY COULD VO TURNED
OFF THE SPACE MISSION
AUTOMATION, AND PILOTED THE STAR
FLIGHT.
>> THERE’S DIFFERENT LEVELS, TO
THE POINT WHERE WE’RE
CONTROLLING THE FIRING OF
THRUSTERS.
>> THESE ARE THE THINGS WE SPEND
TIME TRAINING ON FOR
SIMULATIONS.
WE SPEND AT TIMES FOR THINGS TO
GO RIGHT, BUT WE’RE LOOKING AT
WHAT IF THINGS GO WRONG.
>> BRINGING STAR LINER BACK TO
EARTH.
JUSTIN, BRIDGETT IT’S EXPECTED
TO TOUCH DOWN IN THE DESERTS OF
NEW MEXICO, THE SAME PLACE WHERE
THEY DID THE PADDLE BOARD TEST.
THAT COULD HAPPEN AS EARLY AS
SUNDAY MORNING.
THERE’S NO WORD ON HOW THIS
AFFECTS THE TIMEFRAME OF THE
ASTRONAUT MISSIONS.
LIVE IN NASA KENNEDY SPACE
CENTER.
GETTING RESULTS, NEWS 6.
>> Justin: GREAT COVERAGE,
JAMES.
BOEING SAYS THAT THE SPACECRAFT
WILL LAUNCH AT WHITE SANDS, NEW
MEXICO AS EARLY AS SUNDAY.
THIS IS VIDEO FROM LAST MONTH
WHEN HE THIS DID A TEST.
AND WHITE SANDS IS WHERE NASA
TESTS AND ANALYZED POTENTIALLY
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, AND ROCKET
PROPULSION SYSTEMS.
JIM BRIE DENSTEIN SAID IT’S
UNCLEAR IF WITH HAVE ANY NIM
PACT ON SPACE CREW DRAG DRAGON.
DURING A GROUND TEST, THE CROW
DRAGON BLUEUP SENDING RED TINTED
SMOKE UPON THE CAPE.
A LEAKING VALVE CAUSED THE
EXPLOSION.
LAST MONTH SPACE X DID ANOTHER
TEST OF FIRE OF THE BOARD
THRUSTERS, SENDING A BRIEF OF
CLOUD OF DUST.
NASA AND SPACE X PLAN TO PERFORM
AN IN-FLIGHT BOARD TEST OF THE
CREW, AND SPACECRAFT, BOTH
BOEING AND STAR LINER ARE SAID
TO BE KEY COMPONENT OF GETTING
ASTRONAUTS INTO SPACE AS SOON AS
NEXT YEAR.
>> IT HAS BEEN FOLLOWING FROM
THE BEGINNING, SHE JOINS US LIVE
FROM CAPE CANAVERAL.
YOU WERE THERE ALONG WITH THE
TEAM.
THIS WAS A TEST FLIGHT, EMILY,
EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF THE
TEST FLIGHT.
>> Reporter: HI, BRIDGETT,
THIS WAS A TEST FLIGHT AND IT’S
SO IMPORTANT THAT THEY TEST
BEFORE THEY FLY HUMANS, AND WE
DON’T KNOW WHEN THAT IS GOING TO
HAPPEN AT THIS POINT BECAUSE OF
THIS MISHAP.
ADMINISTER DID POINT OUT THAT
WITH THE SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM,
WITH THE HUMAN BUT WITHOUT
UNCRUDE FLIGHT.
THEY DIDN’T SOUND THAT
CONCERNED.
>> Justin: OFFICIALS SAID THERE
WERE TWO MAIN ISSUES WITH
TODAY’S MISSION, TIMING AND
SPACE TRAFFIC.
TAKE US THROUGH THAT?
>> Reporter: THAT’S RIGHT.
SO THE FIRST ONE WAS ESSENTIALLY
THERE WAS A CLOCK THAT WAS OFF
ON THE SPACECRAFT.
SO THE SPACECRAFT THOUGHT THAT
IT HAD ALREADY COMPLETED THE
ORBITAL BURN WHEN IT HASN’T.
THEN IT WAS ADJUSTING WITH THE
THURS TORS AND THEY WERE UNABLE
TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE THRURS
TERS.
IT WAS BECAUSE THE SPACECRAFT
WAS SEEING TWO SATELLITES AND
FLOCKING THAT COMMUNICATION.
SO THAT IS ALSO -- PRETTY
CROWDED UP THERE.
>> AND EMILY, WE HEARD FROM THE
NASA ADMINISTRATOR ABOUT THIS
BEING AN AUTOMATED ISSUE.
IF THE ASTRONAUTS HAD BEEN ON
BOARD THEY WOULD HAVE COME UP
WITH A SOLUTION, YOU CAN
EXPLAIN.
>> Reporter: YOU HEARD FROM
THE ASTRONAUT OF WHAT WE HAVE
HAPPENED, THEY WOULD TAKEN
MANUAL CONTROL OF THE SPACECRAFT
AND ESSENTIALLY BROUGHT IT TO
THE SPACE STATION OR BROUGHT IT
HOME.
THERE’S JUST -- THERE’S MORE
THINGS TO DO IF THE ASTRONAUTS
ARE ON BOARD, AND THEY TRAIN FOR
THESE SITUATIONS AND MORE FOR
WHAT IS GOING TO GO WRONG THAN
WHAT IS GOING TO GO RIGHT.