please welcome me in welcoming nasa administrator, jim bri bridenstine. jim. >> well, this is a great day for nasa. and it's a great day for america. i'm immensely grateful to ellen stofan, the national air and space board and the thousands of public contributors who graciously donated to help preserve neil armstrong's apollo 11 spacesuit for generations to come. it is also an honor to have us with neil's oldest son, rick armstrong. commander neil armstrong's name is synonymous with undaunted coura courage, the american spirit of exploration and the evidence that humanity's potential is limitless. 50 years ago this week armstrong, buzz aldrin and michael collins hurdled through the unforgiving blackness of space, aiming at the moon, not on a mission of conquest, but a mission of peace. their success expanded humanity's understanding of our celestial neighbor and, most importantly, it taught us something about ourselves. that together we can accomplish any goal and overcome any difficulty. among armstrong's personal effects aboard apollo 11 were pieces of t

i am joined by nasa administrator jim bridenstine to talk about what we've seen unfolding.nks nfor joining us. >> we had a successful launch of atlas 5 rocket center stage worked splendidly with two rl 10 engines that are new. the starliner on the way to international space station had a challenge. the challenge was it did not do the orbital insertion burn the way we were anticipating we made an effort to demand it to do that burn, but what it comes down to is automation. what we were trying to do is make sure we could do the mission end to end, completely automated, and that didn't work. then we started to try to give it command signals and seems like they did not get received by the spacecraft either here's what's important. the spacecraft is in orbit, is safe if we had astronauts on board, they would have been safe. and in fact, if we had had astronauts on board, they would probably have taken over manually and it would be flying to the international space station now. but there's a lot of testing to do the spacecraft is in order, we will bring it home to white sands, ne

with t time line for starliner set to slip further, nasa administrator jim bridenstine says there is no doubt there is financial impact i >> when the a setback obviously that can have a feedback when it comes to maybe ader not being able to win the next wcontract,ther nasa or another commercial company t that wants value for microgravity. that's up the commercial companies to figureout. >> starliner is part of the nas commercial crew program alongside spacex which has another safy test of its own before humans can ride in the crew cragi capsule. for spacex the first manned flight is expected early next year. as for starliner it's unclear what the next steps will , with the focus on bringing it back to earthnd as soon as . >> it's not a failure. i would say it's certainly that we wanted to see happen. but it's also true that we test for a ren. becausebe we want t able to learn these things that we need to learn so when we do put humans onboard they can be safe. >> for "nightly business report,"en morgan n at the kennedy space center in florida. >>> it's time to lookt some of today's u

and per president trump's space policy directive one, jim bridenstine who is a nasa administrator, has five goals. i'm not doing this right so far. the first is a transition to commercial and international operations in low-earth orbit that will support nasa and the needs of an emerging commercial economy. the second is to put in place capabilities that facilitate lunar surface operations and missions beyond the moon. the third is to foster scientific discovery and pin point lunar resources through a series of robotic missions. we want to have astronauts go forward to the service of the moon versus sustained presence and demonstrate on the moon the capabilities required for human missions to mars and beyond. the strategy now exists. it starts with the artemis program. artemis was a policy twin sister in greek mythology pictures also the goddess of the moon. the last time we left the moon, we let flags and footprints. this time we are going to prepare to explore other worlds. we intend to enable discovery, enable economic growth, and continue our american global leadership. the primary

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. >> jason: joining me now is a nasa administrator, jim bridenstine, who i served with when he was congressman. thank much for being here, administrator, ands the space force. excited about the future potential,ad what will it be abe to do that our current military branches canal do. -- don't do? >> it is about organizing and training and equipping a fight to win wars and space. he created the space command with a full authority to do under the act but this required an act of congress and i will say when we look back maybe 15 years from now, we look back to the administration, the most important thing that was done under president trump in office, i think we will look back and say that the space force is likely the most important thing that he has done and i will tell you why. he will hear the enemies of the united states, i would say the competitors of the united states mainly china, they call space the american t achilles' heel. i will tell you, president trump will not allow any competitors of the united states to have the advantage in the way that china has already declared. >> jason: admi

i asked nasa administrator jim bridenstine earlier where the financial hit would be felt if the timeline slips back even further. he said, there's no doubt there'll be an impact. >> if there is a setback, obviously, that can have feedback when it comes to maybe a provider not being able to win the next contract. whether it's nasa or some err commercial company that wants access to space for the value of microgravity that's up to those commercial companies to figure out. >> reporter: so star liner is part of nasa's commercial crew program. it's a multi-billion-dollar program alongside spacex, which has one more safety test of its own before humans can board its capsule, which is called the crew dragon. that first manned flight for spacex is expected in the first half of next year. as for star liner, a lot of questions marks and a lot of unknowns in terms of next steps, largely because right now, everyone is focused on getting that vehicle back to earth in a safe and successful landing, one that's expected to happen as early as sunday morning. >> morgan, thank you very much, for following

. >> jim bridenstine. >> we want to meet a schedule.last month, only two of its spacecrafts, three parachutes deployed. it was human error. one, was improperly connected. >> how is that not worrisome. >> one of the reasons we do the testings is make sure mistakes are not made. we are going to move forward. the delays have forced nasa to spend another billion dollars to spend seats for astronauts. russia will scale back that flight and putting nasa on a vine. the space station crew will drop from six to three, leaving only one american on the $100 billion lab. >> can you do significance science when the crew is dropped that low? >> we have one crew member on the station, most of their time is operating the international space station. >> space is hard and it will always will be. there is no pressure to launch. >> this is a very difficult process. it is going to take some time. when they find something here on the ground, something wrong with the vehicle, i feel a little bit relieved, i am glad they found that now and we are not finding t

nasa administrator jim bridenstine says it has to do with automation.ing if humans had been on board, perhaps they could have detected the problem and stopped the function. and landing at white sands in new mexico. to put this in context the u.s. space agency granted 4.2 billion, 2 1/2 to spacex to work initiatives. because the nasa program was critical to get to the space station from u.s. soil. and i want to bring to your attention that boeing stock was down this week, neil, after another banner week for the stock market. neil: nominally up on the year, and when the average is around 30. but just remarkable. thank you, very, very much. meanwhile we've got the 2020 presidential candidate andrew yang coming up and some say he scored the most points from the debate by not focusing on something. what that something was. it's happened yet again, another chinese national arrested for tresspassing over at mar-a-lago where the president is vacationing during the holiday. what happened again and why again? what'd we decide on the flyers again? uh, "fifteen min

it's not a coincidence that jim bridenstine, before he was nasa administrator, before he was a memberss, was the executive director of that error and space museum. and you see his passion when you talk to him about it. but like all administrations there's a finite time, at the time horizon that we talked about in terms of full avoiding the gap is going to exceed any, exceed the next administration whoever that is in the next administrative and probably the next administered after that. so what can we do as an susie is, as advocates, as boosters for the kind of exciting future of to maintain that level of enthusiasm so that we maintain this level of commitment and support to make sure we avoid they get gap and get the futurt you talk about? do you have any advice for us entered the one we can can do in that regard? >> number one, i do have a little strong interest in this. number one, when you do look at artemis, larger space ecosystem that is merging and a special artemis as something we all have to pull together and try to make happen. we alter self linking of different ways and we w

getting it looks like a tweet from jim bridenstine, the administrator of nasa. i'll pull that up.his an anomaly ahead of the press conference and saying starliner had a mission elapsed time anomaly causing the spacecraft to believe that it was in an orbital insertion burn when it was not. we are going to be getting more information here in just a short while. again, a developing story given what was an historic launch this morning for boeing's new starliner, part of nasa's commercial crew program. this final test or it was supposed to be this final test before astronauts are supposed to fly on the star liner early next year. unclear what this is going to do to the time line again, looking for more details on what happens next with starliner which is stable right now and under control with flight controllers >> morgan, thank you we'll continue to follow the story. in the meantime, more news for boeing this morning. phil lebeau has new numbers on max cancellations. what can you tell us >> reporter: you brought up is dennis muilenburg down in florida for this launch. he is down there