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you're looking live at a united launch

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alliance atlas 5 rocket on the launch

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pad at space launch complex 41 where we

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are less than an hour away from the

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launch of boeing starliner to the

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international space station

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and welcome everyone to the kennedy

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space center here in florida it's a

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humid day it's a hot day around 83

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degrees but it's a wonderful day because

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we're launching a rocket and we've got

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coverage for you live coverage of boeing

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starliner orbital flight test two i'm

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daryl nail with nasa and i'm dee russell

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with boeing communications boeing crews

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worked throughout the day getting

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starliner ready from launch complex 41

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which is just a few miles away from us

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at the cape canaveral space force

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station the instantaneous launch window

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is scheduled for 6 54 pm eastern time

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this is an uncrewed mission that will

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test the starliner spacecraft and atlas

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5 rocket beginning with launch then

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going to docking and undocking and then

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of course a return to earth

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this test flight will provide valuable

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data toward nasa certifying starliner

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for regular flights with astronauts to

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and from the space station and the nasa

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astronauts are really looking forward to

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that we're going to talk to them a

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little bit later on the show but let's

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take you back to yesterday morning what

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a beautiful shot this is look at that

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this is the rollout of the rocket to the

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pad two rail cars pulling the 3.5

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million pound convoy

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to the mobile and the mobile launch

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platform along with the rocket and

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starliner spacecraft from the vertical

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integration facility out to the launch

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pad what a journey

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it takes about 20 minutes to travel that

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one third of a mile the atlas v rocket

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there what a great shot standing 172

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feet tall or about 52 meters and it

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weighs about 979 000 pounds or 444 000

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kilograms fully fueled that's a heavy

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rocket

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fast forward to today and you can see

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there from the live shot in preparation

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for launch both stages of the atlas v

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rocket were fueled up with propellant

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and that happened just a few hours ago

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and as you can see from some of our

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views provided from our launch cameras

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it is a beautiful day out we've got a

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low cloud deck in the area some clouds

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that have developed we'll talk to our

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weather officer about that in just a bit

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and earlier today another important

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pre-launch milestone was completed

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boeing's ground crews inside the white

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room closed the hatch to the starliner

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although there's no crew flying on this