if you listen to what nasa administrator bill nelson nelson said, he said nasa has made mistakes in the past. we've lost to space shuttles columbia and challenger. as a result of their not being a culture you're where people felt confident that they could raise their hands and say hey, there's a problem here. we think this is not safe so nasa really saying, look, we've learned from the lessons of the past challenger and columbia, and we don't care what the chance was that these astronauts could get back safe. there is a risk and it's just not risk that they're willing to take. fred in the end, they said that it all came down to the thrusters. those are these really tiny rocket motor engines that just move this spacecraft from side-to-side, help it with docking, but help with this really critical maneuver. it when the spacecraft is going to head back to earth and re-enter the earth's atmosphere those thrusters are what's used to orient the spacecraft in the right direction so that it is re-entering the earth's atmosphere ms fear, with the heat shield facing forward, if those thrusters ca

nasa administrator bill nelson.rebecca morelle told me more about how nasa reached this decision. it has been a really difficult decision for nasser to come to. they have spent months mulling this over. —— nasa to come to. i mean, the issues, really the problems with the boeing starliner system sort of started almost as soon as it lifted off. there were problems with its thrusters, there were helium leaks. and for the last few months, nasa and boeing engineers have been trying to understand exactly what was at the root of these problems. but they have decided today, they've announced their decision that they don't think it's safe enough for their astronauts to fly home on boeing's starliner system, so instead, they're going to be coming back on a spacex spacecraft instead, which has been, you know, shuttling astronauts to and from the the international space station since 2020. so they're going to come home next year, after a while. right, so there's a delay to that. that can'tjust happen overnight. no, i mean it's

let's listen to administrator bill nelson with the announcement nasa has decided that butch and sunny will return with crew-9. >> next february and that starliner will return uncrewed and the specifics in the schedule will be discussed momentarily i want you to know that boeing has worked very hard with nasa to get the necessary data to make this decision we want to further understand the root causes and understand the design improvements so that the boeing starliner will serve as an important part of our assured crew access to the iss i have just talked to the new boeing ceo, kelly ortberg i have expressed this to this to him. i told him how well boeing worked with our team to come to this decision and he expressed to me and intention that they will continue to work the problems once starliner is back safely and that we will have our redundancy and our crude access to the space station this whole discussion remember, is put in the context of we have had mistakes done in the past. we lost to space shuttles as a result of they're not being a culture and which information could come for

i'm glad that nasa is making that decision actually, bill nelson and steve stich, the manager of nasa commercial crew program, actually spoke earlier today about the riskiness inherent in spaceflight. >> let's take a listen spaceflight is risky even at its safety, safest and even at its most routine and a test flight by nature is neither safe nor routine. >> it was just too much risk, but the crew and so we decided to pursue the uncrewed tukey so if we accept the test flights are necessary and they are risky, does today's decision impact though the credibility of future boeing missions? well, i don't think so because, you know, as as director bill nelson you know, it's not a trivial thing to go off into space. and these are complex machines that get us up there. and nasa is committed to having to methods of getting humans, up into space. and this is why i think they're going to bring back the starliner. i'm sure it's going to come back safe and sound and we're going to learn a lot more and redesign the thrusters and fix those helium leaks. and it's going to take another test slight up

nasa administrator bill nelson, a member of the congressional committee that investigated the 2003 columbia986 challenger shuttle disasters -- two accidents that led to the deaths of 14 crew members aboard those shuttles. but despite the most recent setback to boeing's already massively over budget program -- >> how certain are you that boeing will ever launch starliner with a crew on board again? >> 100%. >> reporter: nasa administrator bill nelson says he has full confidence that boeing will eventually return to manned flights. >> ike joining us now. ike, what is nasa saying about the length of time those astronauts are spending in space? and how is boeing responding tonight? >> reporter: nasa saying there are no specific concerns about spending up to a year in space, and the crew will have enough food and supplies to last them until dmnext february. they say safety is first and foremost and they are executing the mission as determined by nasa. >> from eight days to eight months, a major change. >>> overseas, isis is now claiming responsibility for that horrific stabbing attack in germany

she said, quote, the administrator, bill nelson, is going to make the final decision.ity as always, is the safety of the crew and you know, john on this is really significant because bill nelson knows what happens when you can make the wrong decision in spaceflight. he was first assigned to the challenger crew. he later was put on a different crew. and then as a member of the house, a congressman, he sat on the committee that investigated the challenger accident. those seven astronauts that were killed were his friends and so he is going to be the person making that final decision and you know, john, it's something that he of course, is going to take very seriously no question about that. all alright. kristin fisher, thank you very much. and asked for butch and sunny. you said i just hope they brought a change of sox. sara at the top of the hour j.d. vance set to speak to the media in michigan, a state where kamala harris and tim walz are taking their campaign today as well also a dramatic win means team usa will be going for gold in women's soccer for the first time i

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and one thing that i will add, i asked administrator bill nelson himself, during this press conferencet he was whether or not boeings star liner would ever watch again with a crew on board. he told me he is 100% certain. so, of course, only time will tell on the timing of that, but he has full confidence in that, alex. >> well, that's great, but listen. safety first at all cost. understandable for the delay in all of it. melissa, thank you. >>> democrats were smitten by what they solid the dnc, but what about independence and those raging moderates? key takeaways from the big party in chicago next. why take 10 antacids throughout the day when you can take 1 prilosec. for easier heartburn relief, one beats ten. prilosec otc. one pill. 24 hours. zero heartburn. ellen pompeo >>> i've never really been offered a beauty campaign when i was in my twenties or my thirties or my forties. it wasn't until i was 48 years old, when i thought that was way behind me. here you come along and ask me to join you on this journey with meaningful beauty. announcer>>> no matter what your age, now is the per

and, you know, bill nelson, the nasa administrator, said they've made mistakes in the past.ght up the past two shuttle disasters. he said they're been reaching out to employees telling anyone within their reach to if they have objections, that they need to speak up. so, obviously, whoever had objections, whatever science, whatever tests they had run, whatever -- anything they came upon floated to the top and they realized this was just too race -- risky. this was a trip that started out as 8 days, it has now become 88 months. and we heard one of the officials say -- 8 months. normal expeditions go up to 8 months, some go up to12 months, so this 8 months still falls within the window that they're used to. it's not outside of it. however, griff, this is in the news anyone wanted to hear, especially their families who have been waiting and now we have two nasa astronauts who continue to be stuck in space. griff: they are. and the questions going forward about boeing's response. this is, by all a accounts, a catastrophic failure for boeing in their reputation. and now with elon

so during this press conference today, i asked the nasa administrator bill nelson, who was a member of the committee that investigated challenger. he was a senator during the columbia accident. i asked him how much did those tragedies and his role in investigating them impact the decision that he made here today with starliner? >> it has affected the decision today by this collective group and all of those that participated in the flight tests, readiness review this morning it is a trying to turn around the culture that first led to the loss of challenger and then lead to the loss of columbia where obvious mistakes were not being brought forth with that said the nasa administrator says he still remains 100% confident that at some point in the future, nasa astronauts will fly on a boeing starliner spacecraft. >> it's just not going to be now butch and sunny are going to stay up at the international space station until february of 2025 making what was an eight-day mission? they're now about eight months and they will return to earth on boeing's biggest competitor spacex's crew, dragon ca

and so i asked the nasa administrator bill nelson during that press conference, he was on the committee that wrote an investigated the challenger accident report. he was a senator during the columbia accident. and so i asked him how much of those past mistakes by nasa influenced his decision here today. here's what he said he had has affected the decision today by this collective group and all of those that participated in the flight tests, readiness review. >> this morning it is a trying to turn around the culture that first led to the loss of challenger and then led to the loss of columbia where obvious mistakes were not being brought forth now with that said, nasa administrator bill nelson also said that he still has 100% faith that at some point in the future, nasa astronauts will fly again on a boeing starliner spacecraft. >> but first, we got to get butch and sunny home and right now they are going to be up at the international space station and until february 2025, returning on boeing's big competitor, a spacex crew dragon. >> yeah, fred, a big trip and maybe even bigger. all rig

the second most since scientists started tracking them in 1980, nasa administrator bill nelson, a former astronaut, says he saw a hurricane from space. it's a powerful, powerful thing. >> when you observe earth from that standpoint and see what mother nature can do now, his agency tracks the changing climate. it doesn't take a climate scientist understand this. all you have to do is turn on your 6 o'clock news and get your weather report. researchers say climate change is contributing to these extreme weather events. 2023 was the hottest year on record and forecasters expect 2024 will surpass that. we're seeing. >> water temperatures longer and stronger. heatwaves. you're seeing heavier rainfall events leading the flooding in some places we're seeing not a lot of precipitation leading to drought. the nasa administrator says humans are contributing to the problem. the more that you put greenhouse gases in upper atmosphere, it creates a greenhouse. >> affect that traps the reflected heat from the sun hitting your. >> this year with near record. see temperatures. meteorologists expect to se

and this was a decision months in the making and right out of the gate, nasa's administrator bill nelson. >> i'm very serious tone, but saying that sunny and butch would be returning home to earth in february, citing safety and saying it wasn't worth the risk. here's nasa's top guy. >> we have had mistakes done in the past. we lost. 2 space shuttles as a result of they're not being a culture. and which information could come forward. the decision to keep butch and suni aboard the international space station and bring the boeing starliner home. uncrewed is result of a commitment to safety. so what started as an 8 day mission for astronaut suni williams and butch wilmore. >> has now turned into an 8 month mission after weeks of testing nasa and boeing making that very tough decision to keep the astronauts on the iss. officials say helium leaks and thruster issues in the proposed system where ultimately to blame for sunny and butch's extended stay in space. nasa ultimately calling on spacex during its crew launch in september. instead of sending 4 astronauts to the iss on its dragon capsule

nasa's administrator bill nelson. >> very serious tone, but saying that sunny and butch would be returning home to earth in february, citing worth the risk. here's nasa's top guy. >> we have had mistakes done in the past. we lost. 2 space shuttles as a result of they're not being a culture. and which information could come forward. the decision to keep butch in sunny aboard the international space station and bring the boeing starliner home. uncrewed is result of a commitment to safety. so what started as an 8 day mission for astronaut suni williams and butch wilmore. >> has now turned into an 8 month mission after weeks of testing nasa and boeing making that very tough decision to keep the astronauts on the iss. officials say helium leaks and thruster issues in the propulsion system where ultimately to blame for sunny and butch's extended stay in space. nasa ultimately calling on spacex during its crew launch in september. instead of sending 4 astronauts to the iss on its dragon capsule. spacex now only sending 2 astronauts making room for sunny and butch to hitch a ride home. >> we have

. >> nasa administrator bill nelson, a former astronaut, says he saw a hurricane from space. it's a powerful, powerful thing. >> when you observe earth from that standpoint and see what mother nature can do now, his agency tracks the changing climate. it doesn't take a climate scientist understand this. all you have to do is turn on your 6 o'clock news and get your weather report. researchers say climate change is contributing to these extreme weather events. 2023 was the hottest year on record and forecasters expect 2024 will surpass that. we're seeing water temperatures longer and stronger. heatwaves. you're seeing heavier rainfall events leading to flooding in some places we're seeing not a lot of precipitation leading to drought. the nasa administrator says humans are contributing to the problem. the more that you put. >> greenhouse gases in upper atmosphere, it creates a greenhouse. >> affect that traps the reflected heat from the sun hitting your. >> this year with near record. see temperatures. meteorologists expect to see 8 to 13 hurricanes in the atlantic in washingt

. >> nasa administrator bill nelson acknowledged the administration has made fatal mistakes in the pastthis time, their review of the situation included a widespread employee poll asking whether the starliner should return manned or unmanned. >> we have been very solicitous of all of our employees. space flight is risky, even at its safest. >> the crew will now return home on board a spacex spacecraft in february. as for the empty starliner capsule, it's expected to undock soon and attempt a return on autopilot. >> we need to get the vehicle back on deck, go through the data and once we've done that, we'll start thinking about our next steps. >> now, two leaders stressed today they will learn from this effort. boeing has at least five other crewed missions planned for the future in los angeles. christina coleman, fox news. >> the world bank has reportedly pulled all paid advertising from social media platform x, according to media reports. the decision came after some of the world bank ads showed up under an account that posts and white nationalist content. the world bank says it had pr

nasa administrator bill nelson stressed the decision has been made in the interest of safety.s decided that butch and sunny will return with crew nine next february, and that starliner will return uncrewed. space flight is risky, even at its safety, safest and even at its most routine, and a test flight by nature is neither safe nor routine. and so, the decision to keep butch and sunny aboard the international space station and bring the billionaire home uncrewed is the result of a commitment to safety. our core value is safety, and it is our north star. with me is our science editor, rebecca morelle. we had that to a tasty many times. this of course was a test flight. that is right and it has been a really difficult decision for nasa to come to. they have spent months mulling this over. the issue is really, the problem with the boeing starliner started almost as it lifted off. there were problems with his thrusters, they wear helium leaks. forthe his thrusters, they wear helium leaks. for the last few months, nasa and boeing engineers were trying to find out what was at the r

but these are the kinds of pictures that william rock bill nelson brought back for the nelson gallery, which was a two rooms on the second floor of the public library. and this, i believe, was harry first exposure to art was pictures like this. they're very realistic, right? i mean, you can really i mean, you can almost feel the breath when you're up close to them. and this is ginormous. it's like 12 feet across. so the nelson gallery was the first for ray that kansas city had into art and, really. i think the first experience harry truman with art. you know, harry hated modern art. he it. but i think of the reason was he just never really had any exposure to it because this was the prevailing the prevailing art at the time. it really was this way everywhere in the united states at the time. museums displayed old masters that was realistic that adhere to the long principles of perspective everything was exactly lifelike almost a photographic reproduction of a of what life is like now america in the early 20th century was finally awakening to some of the trends that were occurring in e

the second most in scientists started tracking them in 1980, nasa administrator bill nelson, a formersays he saw a hurricane from space. it's a powerful, powerful thing. >>when you observe earth from that standpoint and see what mother nature now his agency tracks the changing climate. it doesn't take a climate scientist understand this. all you have to do is turn on your 6 o'clock news and get your weather report. researchers say climate change is contributing to these extreme weather events. 2023 was the hottest year on record and forecasters expect 2024 will surpass that. we're water temperature is longer and stronger heat wave for seeing heavier rainfall events leading to flooding in some places we're seeing not a lot of precipitation leading to drought. the nasa administrator says humans are contributing to the problem. the more that you put. >>greenhouse gases in upper atmosphere, it creates a greenhouse. >>affect that traps the reflected heat from the sun hitting your. >>this year with near record. see temperatures. meteorologists expect to see 8 to 13 hurricanes in the atlanti

>> well, the way it sounds, bill nelson thinks, hes he is the person to make the final decision.ing, new ceo of boeing, i would take a leadership position and seeing how he has to really change culture at boeing, good way to do that is sit down with technical people, bring outside help and technical fellows and bring in the manager, mark nappi, and go over the data and understand why did boeing make these decisions and how did they make the decision? why did they decide to fly with a helium leak and why did they certify thrusters and find out they had over temperature conditions and were heating up and getting too hot. what was missing in the test sequence that now they see when they go back and do theest its, these are serious problems. >> carley: this is quite the story and something to follow. outside help is needed here. i'm sure their families will be happy to have them home, hopefully sooner rather than later. thank you for joining us. fox weather alert. tropical storm debby is drenching california after making second landfall this morning in south carolina. 20 miles northe

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the two astronauts will return home -- mike will not return home until february take a listen to bill nelsongain. th >> spaceflight is risky. even at its safest. even at its most routine. and a test flight by nature is neither safe nor routine. i'm so the decision to keep butch in sunny aboard the international space station and bring the boeing star liner home on crude is a result of a commitment to safety. >> this big decision comes after this space craft the two astronauts had issued with helium leaks and thruster problems this mission would've gone perfectly the starlight it would've been docked for just eight days. but that was not the case for the astronauts remained in space for nearly two months were at nasa and boeing officials gathered data to better understand the technical issues. >> when we looked at the data and thruster fires with a crew on board and then at getting getting intothis very tight seqf finishing the bird which which a vehicle on entry and immediately maneuvering from that into a subsequence to separate the service module and crew module was too much risk with the

. >> bret: this is bill nelson on the dangers of space travel. >> space flight is risky, even at its and even at its most routine. and a test flight by nature is neither safe nor routine. >> bret: you say that it is a positive thing that u.s. alternatives. is it embarrassing that boeing can't do it themselves? >> it's their first crew test flight in space. it is difficult and complex. we all make mistakes the first time. and it is how we recover from those mistakes that matter. so they have a lot of work to do to fix the problem and launch additional missions that are uncrewed first and then crewed. if you look at the spacex history and nasa's history there are mistakes along the way. the resilience and recovery that matters here. >> dana: it is a good thing they can help each other out. the rivally will continue with some heat. thank you, great to have you on the show. appreciate it. >> bret: thank you. >> when will you sit down for your first interview being the nominee? >> i want us to get an

bill nelson says the priority has to be safety of the astronauts. >> spaceflight is risky.n at its most routine. and a test flight by nature is neither safe nor routine. and so the decision to keep butch and sonny aboard the international space station and bring the boeing starliner home uncrewed is the result of a commitment to safety. amna: we have our science correspondent, miles o'brien. we know nasa has been weighing whether to bring sonny and butch home on the boeing craft or a spacex craft. why do we know about why they ultimately decided to go with spacex? >> they just could not be certain about the thrusters which are key. all of the people making these decisions we should point out lived through the searing tragedy of columbia in 2003 when the orbiter disintegrated on reentry. it is important that these thrusters work as advertised because it is a very unforgiving , risky portion of the flight. if they come into hot, that is a problem or if they come in without enough speed, they could skip off the atmosphere. they went through the testing and tried to understand

the second most since scientists started tracking them in 1980, nasa administrator bill nelson, a former astronaut, says he saw a hurricane from space. it's a powerful, powerful thing. >> when you observe earth from that standpoint and see what mother nature now his agency tracks the change in climate. it doesn't take a climate scientist understand this. all you have to do is turn on your 6 o'clock news and get your weather report. researchers say climate change is contributing to these extreme weather events. 2023 was the hottest year on record and forecasters expect 2024 will surpass that. we're seeing. >> water temperatures longer and stronger. heatwaves. you're seeing heavier rainfall events leading to flooding in some places we're seeing not a lot of precipitation leading to drought. the nasa administrator says humans are contributing to the problem. the more that you put greenhouse gases in upper atmosphere, it creates a greenhouse. >> affect that traps the reflected heat from the sun hitting your. >> this year with near record. see temperatures. meteorologists expect to see 8 to 1

the second most since scientists started tracking them in 1980, nasa administrator bill nelson, a former astronaut, says he saw a hurricane from space. it's a powerful, powerful thing. >> when you observe earth from that standpoint and see what mother nature can do now, his agency tracks the changing climate scientist understand this. all you have to do is turn on your 6 o'clock news and get your weather report. researchers say climate change is contributing to these extreme weather events. 2023 was the hottest year on record and forecasters expect 2024 will surpass that. we're seeing water temperature is longer and stronger. heatwaves. you're seeing heavier rainfall events leading the flooding in some places we're seeing not a lot of precipitation leading to drought. the nasa administrator says humans are contributing to the problem. the more that you put. >> greenhouse gases in upper atmosphere, it creates a greenhouse. >> affect that traps the reflected heat from the sun hitting your. >> this year with near record. see temperatures. meteorologists expect to see 8 to 13 hurricanes in t

it is shameful says the nasa administrator bill nelson with this. >> space flight is risky, even at its its most routine. and a test flight by nature is neither safe nor routine. >> sandra: dana marie mcnicholl has more on that. hello. >> hi, sandra. that eight day mission turns into eight months. after weeks of debate, nasa decided in the name of safety that it is just too risky to send those astronauts down in the boeing starliner after lingering concerns of multiple helium leaks and problems with their thrusters. astronauts have been stuck at the international space station since the beginning of june and will now come back in that spacex capsule in february. nasa awarded boeing with a $4.2 billion contract and musk spacex company with a 2.6 billion contact to help develop the human space flight serial. spacex has completed multiple crew flights. boeing this was their first-ever crewed mission. >> it is disappointing that they are not coming home on starliner. that's okay. it is a test flight. they knew the risks. >> as for butch and sunny, nasa says they support the decision fully a

press conferences and today at the press conference that we are waiting to start, the head of nasa, bill nelson -- before the press conference, for all we know it might be happening as we speak but alex, something that's been interesting is the timing here, they said they had time, they wanted to look at the data, they wanted to analyze as much as they could, they talk to scientists and it ground testing from the western part of the united states to really get a sense of what is the safest option. and they wanted to reach a consensus, alex. but at the most recent press conference, they said time is running out to reach a consensus, we prefer a consensus because it increases the likelihood of the safest possible decision but at a certain point, they said we are running out of time to reach a consensus and the time apparently is this weekend and apparently within the hour, so we will be here to find out what the decision is. >> okay my multitasking friend. thank you for saying all that and butch and suni, they have been pretty good-natured about this whole thing, they are conducting experiments ,

they had a flight readiness review then the head of nasa, bill nelson, announced as you said.have been stuck on month three, that is going to be extended to nearly nine months. they are not going down to earth the way they came up. they are not going on boeing starliner. instead, they'll be hitching a ride, if you will, with spacex. the dragon capsule is going to bring them down. that was previously scheduled. i can explain in a moment, but in terms of why that decision was made, because that's the big question here. safety has always been the top priority and nasa has made that very clear. not just here with boeing starliner but from the very beginning with every mission citing previous failures with previous missions saying they have learned from their mistakes. we know from the beginning, there have been issues with helium leaks and those thrusters. they did a lot of ground testing. scientists, engineers were coming together to try to assess whether or not it was safe enough to bring those astronauts back home and ultimately, they said it wasn't worth the risk. so they're g

the final decision is up to bill nelson. >> at least six more months? >> six more months on the space station. think about that. they have blown through july 4th. labor day. thanksgiving. christmas, new year and into february. >> tom, great to see you. thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the campaign script is flipped with vice president harris and her running mate tim walz drawing huge crowds across the battleground states. former president trump has been off the campaign trail in mar-a-lago but is expected to talk to reporters this afternoon. his running mate, j.d. vance, shadowing air force 2, trying to stalk harris on the tarmac in wisconsin. >> i just wanted to check out my future plane. i wanted to say hello to the vice president and ask her why does she refuse to answer questions from the media? >>> taylor swift cancelling her vienna tour after intelligenc

nasa's administrator bill nelson, very serious tone, but saying that sunny and butch would be returning home to earth in february, citing safety and saying it wasn't worth the risk. here's nasa's top guy. >> we have had mistakes done in the past. we lost. 2 space shuttles as a result of they're not being a culture. and which information could come forward. the decision to keep butch in sunny aboard the international space station and bring the boeing starliner home. uncrewed is result of a commitment to safety. so what started as an 8 day mission for astronaut suni williams and butch wilmore. >> has now turned into an 8 month mission after weeks of testing nasa and boeing making that very tough decision to keep the astronauts on the iss. officials say helium leaks and thruster issues in the propulsion system where ultimately to blame for sunny and butch's extended stay in space. nasa ultimately calling on spacex during its crew launch in september. instead of sending 4 astronauts to the iss on its dragon capsule. spacex now only sending 2 astronauts making room for sunny and butch to hi

that happened this past saturday with the head of nasa himself, we're talking about administrator bill nelsonhts of that. as you mentioned, butch wilmore, suni williams will not return on boeing's starliner. boeing's starliner is set to undock and return to earth without a crew on board sometime early september, they said. in terms of the reasons why. safety has been at the core of it. they said that they looked at the data. they analyzed the data. they spoke to engineers. they did those ground tests to really analyze how safe it was. how risky would it be to bring them back on starliner. between the helium leaks and thruster issues, they decided it was certainly not worth the risk, chris. as you just mentioned, there was a previously scheduled crew 9 mission, and now they're going to save two seats on board when that launches end of september, up to the international space station. those two seats will be for butch and suni to return home. this, again, previously scheduled was supposed to be a six month mission with crew nine. that is slated to return to earth sometime in february. everyone

page and this was a decision months in the making and right out of the gate, nasa's administrator bill nelson, i'm very serious tone, but saying that sunny and butch would be returning home to earth in february, citing safety and saying it wasn't worth the risk. here's nasa's top guy. >> we have had mistakes done in the past. we lost. 2 space shuttles as a result of they're not being a culture. and which information could come forward. the decision to keep butch and suni aboard the international space station and bring the boeing starliner home. uncrewed is result of a commitment to safety. so what started as an 8 day mission for astronaut suni williams and butch wilmore. >> has now turned into an 8 month mission after weeks of testing nasa and boeing making that very tough decision to keep the astronauts on the iss. officials say helium leaks and thruster issues in the proposed system where ultimately to blame for sunny and butch's extended stay in space. nasa ultimately calling on spacex during its crew launch in september. instead of sending 4 astronauts to the iss on its dragon capsule. s

but was bumped first by one politician and then by the second polish politician, senator bill nelson from florida who is now the administrator of earth itself. and of course, it's always referred to as an astronaut, though, you know, he is he has been in he he has been at the space suit. you at the beginning about how in some in some sense the whole point of the space shuttle was a pr right. that this was a right. i mean, i guess it was originally they were going to take satellites up and then, you know, pretty it seems like, oh, it's not that good at. it and we have better ways of doing satellite. well things like they to continue doing that they were delivering satellites up until the point of the challenger accident and then that was one of the first things to go from the program right. right. but but you this idea that that pr was behind this and i'm interested in you know the media right. we don't we don't cover the planes the length land safely is sort of like that's always joke about us and that literally true with the the shuttle for a while you talk a little bit about again

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nasa's administrator bill nelson, very serious tone, but saying that sunny and butch would be returningth in february, citing safety and saying it wasn't worth the risk. here's nasa's top guy. >> we have had mistakes done in the past. we lost. 2 space shuttles as a result of they're not being a culture. and which information could come forward. the decision to keep butch in sunny aboard the international space station and bring the boeing starliner home. uncrewed is result of a commitment to safety. so what started as an 8 day mission for astronaut suni williams and butch wilmore. >> has now turned into an 8 month mission after weeks of testing nasa and boeing making that very tough decision to keep the astronauts on the iss. officials say helium leaks and thruster issues in the propulsion system where ultimately to blame for sunny and butch's extended stay in space. nasa ultimately calling on spacex during its crew launch in september. instead of sending 4 astronauts to the iss on its dragon capsule. spacex now only sending 2 astronauts making room for sunny and butch to hitch a ride h

bill nelson said they worked with nasa to make this decision and the top priority has always been safetys risky and even edit safest. even at its most routine. and a test flight, by nature, is neither safe nor routine. and so the decision to keep them aboard the international space station and bring the starliner home is the result of a commitment to safety. and our core value is safety. and it is the north star. >> they have been stranded because of issues with the starliner and as you just heard that will return to earth without a crew. let's now talk about the race to the white house and a new assessment of the democratic national convention from trump campaign. his officials told us that her big moment will be a sugar high and claiming she will only get a temporary bump in the polls. the numbers show harris beating trump in the ratings but the vice president's acceptance speech drying 28.9 billion viewers more than donald trump's and they left voters and surrogates energized. >> it is our turn to stand up and preserve a democracy. i will tell you, there is a whole generation of leade

. >> nasa administrator bill nelson acknowledged the administration has made fatal mistakes in the past. he says this time, their review of the situation included a widespread employee poll asking whether the starliner should return manned or unmanned. >> we have been very solicitous of all of our employees. space flight is risky, even at its safest. >> the crew will now return home on board a spacex spacecraft in february. as for the empty starliner capsule, it's expected to undock soon and attempt a return on autopilot. >> we need to get the vehicle back on deck, go through the data, and once we've done that, we'll start thinking about our next steps. >> nasa stressed today they will learn from this effort. boeing has at least five other crewed missions planned for the future in los angeles. christina coleman, fox news. >> microsoft announced plans this week to host a summit on cybersecurity following last month's crowdstrike outage. the conference will be held on september 10th at microsoft's headquarters in redmond, washington. at the summit, there will be discussions about steps to

the second most since scientists started tracking them in 1980, nasa administrator bill nelson, a former a powerful, powerful thing. >> when you observe earth from that standpoint and see what mother nature now his agency tracks the change in climate. it doesn't take a climate scientist understand this. all you have to do is turn on your 6 o'clock news and get your weather report. researchers say climate change is contributing to these extreme weather events. 2023 was the hottest year on record and forecasters expect 2024 will surpass that. we're seeing. >> water temperatures longer and stronger. heatwaves. you're seeing heavier rainfall events leading the flooding in some places we're seeing not a lot of precipitation leading to drought. the nasa administrator says humans are contributing to the problem. the more that you put greenhouse gases in upper atmosphere, it creates a greenhouse affect that traps the reflected heat from the sun hitting your this year with near record. see temperatures. meteorologists expect to see 8 to 13 hurricanes in the atlantic. >> in washington and today, s

but was bumped first by one politician and then by the second polish politician, senator bill nelson from florida who is now the administrator of earth itself. and of course, it's always referred to as an astronaut, though, you know, he is he has been in he he has been at the space suit. you at the beginning about how in some in some sense the whole point of the space shuttle was a pr right. that this was a right. i mean, i guess it was originally they were going to take satellites up and then, you know, pretty it seems like, oh, it's not that good at. it and we have better ways of doing satellite. well things like they to continue doing that they were delivering satellites up until the point of the challenger accident and then that was one of the first things to go from the program right. right. but but you this idea that that pr was behind this and i'm interested in you know the media right. we don't we don't cover the planes the length land safely is sort of like that's always joke about us and that literally true with the the shuttle for a while you talk a little bit about again

nasa, which really is driving this conversation, and this decision as seen by the head of nasa, bill nelson, who's going to be leading this press conference tomorrow after that flight readiness review, the factors here, safety, safety and safety. if you look at the optics of this, it is preferable for the boeing starliner astronauts come down on boeing's starliner but if they do not feel absolutely comfortable that's the safest option they have made clear since the very beginning, zinhle, that safety is the number one priority. so even if the optics are not great for boeing, that the starliner astronauts have to come down through boeing's rival spacex, that is what they will do. if that is the option there's a lot they've got to do that's not slated to have its return because that's a separate mission. that wouldn't be until around february. of course, those are details that woe would find out tomorrow. but, if that is the case they would have to make totally new astronaut suits because the boeing starliner suits are not compatible with spacex. there's a lot to figure out. first, we've got

the final decision is up to bill nelson. >> at least six more months?they have blown through july 4th. labor day. thanksgiving. christmas, new year and into february. >> tom, great to see you. thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the campaign script is flipped with vice president harris and her running mate tim walz drawing huge