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good morning from cape canaveral air

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force station in florida where the

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spacex crew dragon

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poised on space launch complex 40 is set

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to take flight for the first time during

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what is called a pad abort test this

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test will not have any crew members

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aboard the spacecraft but it will

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simulate an emergency escape from the

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launch pad in the unlikely case of a

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booster failing at liftoff or another

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scenario that would threaten astronauts

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inside the spacecraft

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we're uh about 24 minutes 12 seconds

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away from the test

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everything is on schedule for a t-zero

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at 9 00 a.m eastern time

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this test will see the crew dragon

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spacecraft and trunk together about 20

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feet tall

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fly on the power of eight super draco

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engines

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these hyper golic fueled super dracos

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each produce fifteen thousand pounds of

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thrust and they're expected to burn for

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about six seconds and lift the

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spacecraft about 5000 feet above the

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launch pad before it parachutes into the

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atlantic ocean about a mile offshore

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from the launch pad

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and the test will last only about a

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minute and a half

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what you would expect because spacex is

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trying to show just how fast it can get

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astronauts away from a dangerous

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here's a video of a demonstration of a

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pad abort profile

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with two engines with two super draco

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engines that were fired recently at

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the texas mcgregor facility the rocket

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and that will give you some idea of what

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awaits us in about 22 minutes 40 seconds

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from now

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weather forecasters from the u.s air

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force 45th weather squadron continue to

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predict a 70 percent chance of favorable

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weather during the test

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right now there are no

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launch commit criteria

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issues everything is go

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there is a tropical low in the vicinity

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but it continues to move off to the

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north

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and uh as the day progresses should

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there be a need we expect that the uh

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that the low will pull away and all the

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weather will get even better than it is

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right now but again right now we're

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completely go no issues whatsoever

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we're at