presenter halted the biggest stories of the day to issue a breaking news announcement.
During Monday’s show (January 13) with Susanna and Ed Balls, the duo discussed some of the top stories of the day, including the continued devastation caused by the wildfires in LA.
But the 54-year-old abruptly halted their reports to announce that the launch of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket had been postponed. The breaking news banner was seen flashing across the screen as Susanna shared the huge update.
The launch of the Amazon owner’s rocket was already delayed twice and has now been halted for a third time. Susanna revealed this is after years of “set backs”.
She continued: “Apparently this is a faze in the commercial space market. The hope is that the rocket will compete with ‘s SpaceX project.”
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The launch of Jeff Bezos’ rocket has been delayed (Image: ITV)
After issuing the update, a puzzled Susanna asked: “What’s the point in all these rockets?”
Ed, 57, began listing off the huge companies that Bezos and Musk own, declaring: “Both of them have massive rockets they like to fire.”
He added: “Macho-male billionaires fire their rockets, is that what it’s about?”
Susanna agreed, but claimed there is reportedly “presumably there is a long-term strategic benefit to having these rockets.”
Meteorologist Laura Tobin chimed in: “A lot of them help NASA, actually. At the moment, NASA are using ‘s rockets to get there. They’re reusable so they can come back down to earth and go time and time again.
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Susanna hosted with Ed Balls on Monday (Image: ITV)
“The technology that he has is something that NASA don’t have or aren’t using, so the space endeavours that the multi-billionaires are doing, they can trial things that NASA can’t because of the way they are funded and that is how they are hoping to get people into space.”
Susanna revealed that Bezos’s rocket was expected to launch in 12 minutes time, however, immediately changed it to 32 minutes, remarking: “Oh, it’s been delayed again.”
“The thing we’re most nervous about is the booster landing,” Bezos, who founded Blue Origin in 2000, said in a pre-launch interview. “Clearly on a first flight you could have an anomaly at any mission phase, so anything could happen.”